Amazingly talented friend Christina Van Heer in ⁦The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand⁩ 👏COVID medicines substantially reduced risk of hospitalisation (32% for Paxlovid, 26% for Lagevrio) & risk of death (72% for Paxlovid, 54% for Lagevrio) ⁦Chief Health Officer, Victoria⁩ theconversation.com/paxlovid-is-au…

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Severe #ProblematicInternetUse associated with cognitive domains of #compulsivity - potential transdiagnostic similarities to addictive disorders. Our new paper out now! Antonio Verdejo-García Murat Yucel 🔆 Rebecca Segrave sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

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What does it takes to sustain high-performance under pressure (in first-responders, elite sports, performing arts and the military)? Over 60 world experts joined forces to find the answer. Turns out there are 10 psychological factors: doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.… BrainPark Monash University

I've been speaking to PhD candidates about the struggle to maintain a decent standard of living on stipend rates - well below minimum wage, because they're considered students, not workers. Particularly tough in this economy theguardian.com/australia-news…

🚨Four of the nation's biggest fossil fuel giants - Woodside, Santos, Chevron & Whitehaven Coal - collectively paid over 13,000 times more in political "donations" than they paid in tax in 2020-21. theklaxon.com.au/fossil-fuels-d…

The ends don't justify the means - the ethics behind behaviour change direct from those learning the tools of behavioural sciences. Interesting research by Filia Garivaldis. BehaviourWorks Australia @BESTcentre_ #BEST2023

Outstanding talk by Michael Kasumovic on gender + video games! Less skilled male players more likely to make negative comments to female players in video games - “best way to make sure these men don’t move down the ranks is to make sure the women don’t compete in the first place”

Got to share some of my research on the major benefits of #behaviouralscience when designing mental health interventions at #BEST2023 Conference!

A surreal email to receive - still doesn’t feel real that 4 years of thesis work is over! Wouldn’t have been possible without my phenomenal supervisors Murat Yucel 🔆 Antonio Verdejo-García Rebecca Segrave or the team from BrainPark and Addiction and Impulsivity Research Group 🥳 #PhDone

Think about this. The average billionaire on the Forbes 400 list could spend $10,000 every single day for 274 years and still have billions of dollars left in the bank. Don't you think that maybe, just maybe, these guys should be paying more in income tax than a teacher?

New research finds that 24% of Australians agreed “a lot of times, women who say they were raped had led the man on and then had regrets”. Such attitudes are drivers of gender inequality + violence, and should be vocally tackled within our communities. smh.com.au/national/one-i…

We’re back with #TheChangeRoom! How can understanding cognitive biases and social influences help create better outcomes in the #HumanitarianSystem? Join us on 4 May to find out. Register today: : behaviourworksaustralia.org/courses/the-ch…

This is exactly why I transitioned out of traditional #academia and into teaching & research. How are scientists meant to have jobs/lives/any semblance of mental health when less than 3% of us are financially supported by grants?

All NeuroImage and NeuroImage:Reports editors have resigned over the high publication fee, and are starting a new non-profit journal imaging-neuroscience.org This comes with great regret, and a huge amount of thought and discussion- please read announcement to get more details.

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