Sydney-based researcher. Interests include: alcohol use disorder; cognition; self-regulation; well-placed memes - sometimes even in a research context.
If you're looking for a home for comorbidity in substance/alcohol use & mood disorders research, I'm guest-editing an issue still accepting abstracts:
Dual Disorders in Addiction and Mood Disorders: Comorbidity or Specific Diagnosis? @FrontPsychiatryfrontiersin.org/researchtopi…
Scooters were the only way to arrive in style last night for the #APSAD22 conference dinner. Great venue, good tunes and excellent floral/Hawaiian print representation! @DanWinter_AU@BenCRiordan#scootordie
Come say hi to us if you're at the #APSAD22 conference or the conference dinner tonight (we don't bite, we promise!), or send us a message to get in touch with the team.
This is looking like a worst-case rollercoaster for #NSW to be on; that's a log-scale slope right there. The linear graph slope is a lovely vertical, of course
#nswcovid
R_eff in Greater Sydney vs rest of New South Wales:
Greater Sydney: R_eff = 1.80 ± 0.09
NSW excluding Greater Sydney: R_eff = 2.02 ± 0.13
(Cases shown on a log scale)
(note region-specific data is several days old, does not include today's cases)
#covid19nsw#covidsydney
🧵This is a very important video about the pandemic. Dr. Richard Horton is Editor-in-Chief of The Lancet , a United Kingdom–based medical journal. He's an honorary professor at the London School of Tropical Med, Univ. College London & University of Oslo
I am super thrilled and unbelievably grateful that our team has been awarded a $5M NHMRC Synergy Grant to link clinical and basic science discovery to find new treatments for AUD! @gavanm@dan_lubman@SArunogiri@drvictoriamann1 Zayra Millan Andy Lawrence Paul Haber #nhmrc@nhmrc
Hi! We are a new Translational Research Centre @ Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, Australia. Passionate about: Indigenous health? Improving management of alcohol use, self-poisoning? Illicit drug use? Alcohol biology? Us too! Like this tweet - we will follow you!
Sure everyone is losing it over Phil McCann reporting from the petrol station in the UK. But it pales in comparison to the best reporter placement in history
Yeah but was it really an earthquake I mean how much can we trust these seismologists anyway. I’ve read articles about seismologists who’ve been silenced about the real earthquakes that occur that the government tries to keep quiet
New paper from our Edith Collins Centre/USYD Addiction Medicine team @syd_health@SydneyLHD: Assessing the validity of the WAIS-IV in predicting completion in a long-term residential rehabilitation for substance use problems tinyurl.com/588b94nv @LaurenMonds_AU @WarrenLogge
NSW 2nd wave has busted through the other side of the VIC 2nd wave curve at pace
There is nothing in the data to indicate it will turn the corner any time soon
#covidnsw#COVID19nsw#covid19aus
A bit of fun if you want to test a (very) specific aspect of your creativity. The test works much better the less you know of it so try take it straight away without reading about it.
datcreativity.com/
Our research is now on-line!! so all >35yo across the world invited to join us!! Pls help us test the effect of past recreational drug and alcohol use on cognition. If you want to learn more about your 🧠 contact us at rsuacstudy@mq.edu.au. Pls retweet! @helparesearcher