"Longtermism". We need to stop thinking only about today, tomorrow & the next day; start thinking & acting for generations and generations into the future. We need to start listening to First Nations people around the world who have thought this way forever. Planetary Health Equity Hothouse

Effective altruism can teach people powerful skills to help them act on their prosocial values. But, looked at it this way, we as a community can teach a lot better. I applied all the best educational psych meta-analyses to how we can better teach in EA: forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/ZPNNnEu2…

NEW PAPER in the APA Journal of Educational Psychology. Skillfully led by Asghar Ahmadi & Michael Noetel🔸, the paper presents "A Classification System for Teachers’ Motivational Behaviours Recommended in Self-Determination Theory Interventions". Full text: psyarxiv.com/4vrym

Looking to do a PhD? Interested in helping more people into #STEM? Jiesi Guo is one of the most productive and capable ed. psych researchers I've met. He's offering a PhD scholarship valued at ~$100,000AUD over three years to work on his new DECRA: jiesiguo.com/projects/phd-r…

If a Nature Human Behaviour paper was a Netflix comedy special by Christopher Nolan, it'd be this paper. Ironically, I can't think of any ways this paper could be better. PsyArXiv Perfection.

I wrote about the mind-blowing implications of generative AI, which might be the most important news story of 2022—as a conventional-wisdom destroyer, a pattern-matching speed demon, an uncanny toy, and an “answer engine” to replace the search engine theatlantic.com/newsletters/ar…

One of the largest and most comprehensive evaluations of a whole-of-school PA intervention- IJBNPA. We scaled-up iPLAY (with high fidelity) to reach >30,000 students (115 schools). Thanks to everyone involved. Co-lead by Chris Lonsdale and David Lubans LINK: rdcu.be/c1qbu

Can we run from #depression? Yes, says our new analysis of 177 studies and 10,673 people. #Exercise seems as good as therapy and medication, especially for #Dance, #strength training, #running and #walking. Aim for >30mins per day. See our preprint: bit.ly/deprex_preprint

Schizophrenia is rare but very disabling. The World Health Organization (WHO) list lots of treatments, but not exercise (yet). Our new meta-analysis of 28 studies in European Psychiatric Association shows #exercise can help treat schizophrenia (esp. negative symptoms) while also nurturing health bit.ly/ex_schi

Artificial Intelligence is one of the most powerful tools of our time, but to seize its opportunities, we must first mitigate its risks. Today, I dropped by a meeting with AI leaders to touch on the importance of innovating responsibly and protecting people's rights and safety.

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When older adults end up in hospital, why do we keep them in bed? It doesn't decrease risk: it makes many risks worse. It only takes 25 min of slow🚶to improve function. For best results,🎯 50 m/d of slow 🚶 or mix 20 min 💪🏻 + 20🚶Read more British Journal of Sports Medicine (BJSM) bjsm.bmj.com/content/early/…

1/ 11 weeks ago I agreed to Chair the UK's efforts to accelerate state capacity in AI Safety - measuring and mitigating the risks of frontier models so we can safety capture their opportunities. Here is our first progress report: gov.uk/government/pub…

Screen time is the #1 health concern parents have about their kids, according to some polls. But, how bad is it really? Taren Sanders, the team and I summarise findings from 1,937,501 participants in nature Human Behaviour nature.com/articles/s4156… Brief: theconversation.com/tv-can-be-educ…

A new study by Michael Noetel🔸 (@UQ_news) + colleagues shows you may be able to walk, run, lift or dance away depression. And the more intense your exercise program, the better. theconversation.com/running-or-yog…

New The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand article: 80% of Australians say preventing catastrophic risks from advanced AI should be a top global priority, but is the government doing enough? A new representative survey of Aussies reveals a big gap between expectations & policy theconversation.com/80-of-australi…