Congratulations to our very own Dr. Vivien Anthony, Associate Professor and Scientific Director of Video Gaming and eSports at the CGS, on her appointment to the board of directors of the IGCCB!

"Disordered gambling in a longitudinal birth cohort: from childhood precursors to adult life outcomes" New research from Slutske et al. using the Dunedin cohort. Very informative! pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36254750/

Check out this new autoregression work in Addiction Journal. Three 🇨🇦 provinces tested (BC, ON, NS) showed ~+7% alcohol consumption Mar '20-'21, linked to: (1) times when COVID restrictions were most stringent, and (2) COVID infection rates 2 weeks later. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

When I was a student, it was "The Mismeasure of Man" by Stephen Jay Gould. Recently, it was "Race After Technology" by Ruha Benjamin

Since the future of Twitter is increasingly uncertain, I think it's a good time for me to start cross-posting all my science content on Mastodon as well. You can find me at scholar.social/@spencer

I enjoyed reading this new, pre-registered scoping review from Kasra Ghaharian and colleagues. "Applications of data science for responsible gambling: a scoping review" tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108…

"Outcome sequences and illusion of control - Part I: An online replication of Langer & Roth (1975)" by Charlotte Eben and colleagues. A replication of classic work with open materials? Very cool! tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108…

"Association between PTSD and Impedance Cardiogram- based contractility metrics during trauma recall: A controlled twin study" Very very interesting analyses from Ali Sheikh and colleagues in Psychophysiology. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111…

Day 1 Lisbon Addictions . Sylvia Kairouz presenting on latest Quebec survey of online gambling during the pandemic. Remarkable data, including HUGE diff in online gambling involvement betw phone panel (11%) vs web panel (37%), with the true value somewhere in the middle!

JOB ALERT - Assistant Professor of Teaching (Clinical Psychology; UBC Okanagan in Kelowna BC). Call closes January 31st. ubc.wd10.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/ubcfacul…

"Long-Term Outcomes of Adolescent THC Exposure on Translational Cognitive Measures in Adulthood in an Animal Model and Computational Assessment of Human Data" New from Jacqueline Ferland, PhD. Really cool study using IGT + rGT, and fascinating re-exposure effects. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36416863/

"How gambling problems relate to health and wellbeing in Australian households: Evidence from the Household Income and Labour Dynamics of Australia Survey" New from Tulloch et al. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36368277/

I have been very interested to see how the LRGGs have shaped up. What do you think? 🤔

College plagiarism is levelling up with new, easy-to-use chatbot AIs. I just asked this one to write a persuasive essay about Sigmund Freud, and it did quite a good job. Get ready to start hearing a lot about these tools at faculty meetings... chat.openai.com/chat

I am very excited to be expanding my research team! Please share this link to a job ad to come work as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the Gambling Treatment & Research Clinic and Tech Addiction Team at USYD Psychology Brain & Mind Centre Sydney Science usyd.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/USYD_EXTERNAL_…

Hundreds watched the 1st Technology, Risk & Gambling webinar series. Register now to join the conversation This week Tim Edson (Division on Addiction) & Spencer Murch (Concordia University) chat with Dr Philander about identifying and responding to gambling risk markers: sydney.edu.au/brain-mind/our…

"The role of attention in decision-making under risk in gambling disorder: An eye-tracking study" New from Hoven et al. Check out Fig. 4. Fascinating!! doi.org/10.1016/j.addb…

I had a great time at the Technology, Risk & Gambling webinar series! Got to float some new ideas, and show some new data from Chaire_Jeu's machine learning harm detection system! Watch here: youtu.be/RAho4mxpqlI Thanks Kahlil, Professor Sally Gainsbury, and team!

I've been on @Twitter for ~13 years, but its time to leave. I can't abide the targeting of scientists and doctors as political opponents that is coming from the top of this organization. This can only stop if we stop it. Please find me on Mastodon. Happy holidays.

The search for a professional Twitter alternative continues! Come find me on the new t h r e a d s app using the handle: @spencermurch