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Jonathan Peelle @jpeelle.bsky.social · 17d

If my experience in academia has taught me anything it's that logging in to my same account on my same computer requires 2FA *every time* lest someone hack in and see my course schedule, but the forgery-proof method for approving things is to paste in a JPG of one's signature into a Word document.

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Raimondo Bruno @psychopharmres.bsky.social · 24d

We’re looking for Australian clinicians working with people who are seeking help with their substance use to share the stories of their wins. Find out more and complete the brief, confidential survey here: bit.ly/3GpQTXP

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Raimondo Bruno @psychopharmres.bsky.social · Aug 12

Worldwide! Looking for living experts on substance use to tell us what makes a drug great or something to avoid! head to: tinyurl.com/bettermeasure for info. #drugs #druguse

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Raimondo Bruno @psychopharmres.bsky.social · Aug 12

We also built the pictures in collaboration with people with living experience but want to double-check with a broader range of people as the next step!

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Raimondo Bruno @psychopharmres.bsky.social · Aug 12

Australian cannabis smokers head to tinyurl.com/sparkdala for more info!

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Raimondo Bruno @psychopharmres.bsky.social · Jul 28

Donate to Help Replace My Stolen Alto Saxophone, organized by Knoel Scott

Update On July 18, after a joyful birthday concert in Harlem with my new Quartet, I… Knoel Scott needs your support for Help Replace My Stolen Alto Saxophone

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Raimondo Bruno @psychopharmres.bsky.social · Jul 27

🇦🇺🦘 Clinicians working with clients for their substance use: have you tried something spontaneous and made a real therapeutic win? These moments are gold and need recording!📖
Share it in our short confidential survey & enter to win 1 of 5 $100 GiftPay vouchers. 👉 bit.ly/3GpQTXP
UTAS HREC #31605

share your therapeutic wins! head to bit.ly/3GpQTXP

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Raimondo Bruno @psychopharmres.bsky.social · May 18

Tried SO hard to avoid eurovision spoilers all day only to be thwarted by @spotify putting the winner on the damn playlist. #spotifyspoilers

Raimondo Bruno @psychopharmres.bsky.social · May 3

Poor Antony, nothing is working for him tonight! #auspol

Raimondo Bruno @psychopharmres.bsky.social · May 3

At howrah I had to ask for an explanation about how to deal with the ineligible green candidate. AEC staff were great, greens spruikers did not have a useful story

Raimondo Bruno @psychopharmres.bsky.social · May 3

@greens.org.au
It's really disappointing that your election spruikers in Franklin can't provide any answers as to what the point of voting green is when the candidate has been disqualified

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Raimondo Bruno @psychopharmres.bsky.social · Apr 22

Are you a researcher or clinician with experience in psilocybin assisted psychotherapy? Swinburne University are conducting a Delphi study to inform the best practices in psilocybin assisted psychotherapy. Please head here: swinuw.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... to find out more about the study!

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Aysel Sultan @drayselsultan.bsky.social · Apr 2

Together with 29 addiction and drug policy journal Editors, we are calling for action to resist anti-scientific attacks of the Trump administration: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Sage Journals: Discover world-class research

Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

journals.sagepub.com

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Raimondo Bruno @psychopharmres.bsky.social · Apr 2

This is heartbreaking even for those of us that aren't in the US

reginalabelle.bsky.social @reginalabelle.bsky.social · Apr 1

The entire SAMHSA staff that manages the National Survey on Drug Use and Health has been terminated. This is the only survey that tracks mental health and substance use trends in the US.

We really are flying blind now.

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Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · Mar 29

This is fantastic! This website allows you to watch TV stations from around the world. I just watched 2 minutes of Afghan volleyball. All the small regional TV stations from Germany are here too. Spread the word! Source: tv.garden

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Raimondo Bruno @psychopharmres.bsky.social · Mar 28

I understand why this is a path that was chosen, but it doesn’t stop it from being disappointing and embarrassing for ‘the profession’ www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/h...

Under Pressure, Psychology Accreditation Board Suspends Diversity Standards

As the Trump administration threatens to strip accrediting bodies of their power, many are scrambling to purge diversity requirements.

www.nytimes.com

Raimondo Bruno @psychopharmres.bsky.social · Mar 13

ABC news just talked about 'bluetoothing' on people who use meth in Fiji- injecting then drawing back and passing the syringe on - surely this is urban myth? www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03...

How 'bluetoothing' fuelled HIV outbreak — and caught Fiji unprepared

Fiji health authorities are scrambling to stem an outbreak of HIV, as growing meth use and alarming needle-sharing trends accelerate the spread of the virus.

www.abc.net.au

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APSAD DAR @apsad-dar.bsky.social · Mar 10

🔓Risk communication about high-dose MDMA: Impact of a hypothetical drug alert on future MDMA use

Joel Keygan, Breanna Willoughby, @psychopharmres.bsky.social @monicabarratt.bsky.social,
Amy Peacock

@latrobeuni.bsky.social @alcoholandmedia.bsky.social

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · Mar 9

Bonus panel here: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/boring

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Megan Cook @meganpcook.bsky.social · Mar 6

Thrilled to have our systematic review of the differences in the way women and men have been studied in alcohol research over the past decade up online at IJDP - www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti....

Examining gender in alcohol research: A systematic review of gender differences in how men and women are studied in alcohol research

This systematic review examined differences in the way women and men have been studied in alcohol research over the past decade. In particular, it exp…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Adriana Guatame-García @adrianaguatame.bsky.social · Mar 6

A friend included this anti-acknowledgement section on her PhD thesis. She also added the proposition: “Systematic bullying and undermining of girls and women in STEM starts early on and is the reason why they do not stay in science and related fields.”
Absurd we still need to go through this
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There have been people less than helpful in my journey here. I wanted to acknowledge those too, bc I know I am not unique in this experience.
No thank you to the physics study assoc that made me sing songs about how women couldn't study physics without sleeping with the professor, the day I stepped into university life. No thank you to the 5th year physics student that decided to assign me a stripper name within the first minute of meeting me in the physics coffee corner in my first year. No thank you to the technician that was responsible for onboarding me on the use of the cluster in my third year who raised his eyebrows and asked me if that meant I was some sort of computer girl. No thank you to the senior researcher that sent me utterly inappropriate texts after a conference, then proceeded to apologise months later by telling me they had not been meant for me anyway so no hard feelings remain hopefully And no thank you to him for attending every conference I've been to since. No thank you to the people who told me that it was surprising that I was doing a PhD since I was a girl. No thank you to the man who mistook me for a coffee lady at a conference, and after having to correct him two times that I did not work there, responded with you should consider it. No thank you to the researcher that asked me what I was wearing underneath my outfit during a conference. No thank you to the physicist who declared to a room full of other physicists that biologists don't know how to design an experiment. No thank you to the people who have called me scary instead of strong and intimidating instead of intelligent.
And finally, no thank you to the exec board of the TU Delft, whose knee-jerk reaction to being held up a mirror about the social safety at the university, was to sue the party holding up the mirror instead of looking at the problems they highlighted.
... You have made me feel like I do not belong in science & I cannot forgive you for that.

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Raimondo Bruno @psychopharmres.bsky.social · Mar 2

also: google scholar indexes predatory journals - so is full of garbage ( it is still serving the 'cuckoo for cocoa puffs' article see: scholar.google.com.au/scholar?hl=e...) so don't trust it and tell students to run screaming from it

Google Scholar

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Raimondo Bruno @psychopharmres.bsky.social · Mar 2

Should we be freaking out that pubmed is currently offline?????

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Raimondo Bruno @psychopharmres.bsky.social · Feb 27

1x spare ticket to the sold out SUN RA ARKESTRA show on Friday Mar 7 in Melbourne available - face value, resold via the legitimate moshtix resale process (they handle everything). #sunra #spaceistheplace www.moshtix.com.au/v2/event/sun...

Buy Sun Ra Arkestra | SOLD OUT tickets, VIC 2025 | Moshtix

Buy Sun Ra Arkestra | SOLD OUT tickets for 2025 at Moshtix. Taking place at The Night Cat on March 7th, 2025, you can find more ticket and event information, lineup, artists, set times and extra show ...

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HiTOP @hitop-system.bsky.social · Feb 25

A preliminary brief version of the HiTOP self-report measure (“B-HiTOP”) is now available on our website: www.hitop-system.org/measurement-...

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Measurement of the Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP)

Information about HiTOP self-report measures, including HiTOP-PRO, the harmful substance use module, and B-HiTOP

www.hitop-system.org

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