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Chris Kahler
@chriskahlerphd.bsky.social
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Psychologist, Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences. Director, Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies, Brown University School of Public Health. Vice Prez, Research Society on Alcohol. Intervention researcher: alcohol, smoking, HIV
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Chris Kahler @chriskahlerphd.bsky.social · 45m
Insightful analysis of effective e-cigarette control polices that balance "two competing public health goals: harm reduction for adults who use tobacco in its most lethal (combustible) form and prevention of all tobacco product use among youth."
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Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs @jsadjournal.bsky.social · 23h
Rethinking E-Cigarette Flavor Policy: Can We Reduce Harm for Adults Without Inviting Youth Use? (new #openaccess in @jsadjournal.bsky.social 86/5)
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Rethinking E-Cigarette Flavor Policy: Can We Reduce Harm for Adults Without Inviting Youth Use?: Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs: Vol 86, No 5
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Research Society on Alcohol @rsaofficial.bsky.social · 1d
🎓 The RSA Doctoral Student Small Grants provide $5,000 (for one year) to help you carry out your project.

🏆 Submit a 1-page Letter of Intent (LOI) first; selected LOIs will be invited to submit full proposals.

Learn more & apply: researchsocietyonalcohol.org/doctoral-stu...
Doctoral Student Small Grant | RSA | Research Society on Alcohol
RSA provides a community for sharing scientific discoveries, attracting and supporting career development of the next generation of alcohol researchers, disseminating scientific knowledge regarding…
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Chris Kahler @chriskahlerphd.bsky.social · 5d
Clear extortion: “Institutions of higher education are free to develop models and values other than those below, if the institution elects to forego federal benefits." Curious how this would support "gold-standard science" at NIH, which wisely de-emphasized institutional factors in grant review.
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Chris Kahler @chriskahlerphd.bsky.social · 6d
Outstanding deep analysis of NIAAA FY25 funding! Not a huge drop-off in new R01s but a major hit to R21s and R34s. "TC_25"=FY25, "Ratio"=TC_25 / TC_24, "N_24"=# of awards FY24, "N_25"= # of awards FY25, "Ratio_N" = N_25 / N_24, "N_24_new"=# new awards FY24, "N_25_new" =# of new awards FY25.
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 6d
Here is NIAAA.

They were behind most of the year, but ending up in a fairly good place.

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Alt-NIHscience4ALL @alt-nihscience4all.altgov.info · 7d
Upcoming grant submissions may not go through, because no one is maintaining grants.gov

Hypothetically there is info at www.hhs.gov
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Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 8d
NIAAA with the last minute heroics brings it across the line for FY2025.
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 8d
Here are the data by institute and center.

All amount in millions of dollars.

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A table of funding by NIH institute and center for fiscal years 2024 and 2025. Most institutes and centers have committed the same level of dollars in fiscal year 2025 as in fiscal year 2024 with NHGRI and NHLBI being farthest behind.
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Chris Kahler @chriskahlerphd.bsky.social · 8d
NIAAA awarded their first 4 new R34 awards last week. That compares to 13 in FY24, so hopefully there are still some more coming.
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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 14d
I hope this catches on. 22 CDC websites are down. All are LGBTQ/DEI related.

We are not free. When science is silenced, we all pay the price. Science has been censored in the past. Like before, it will not end well.
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BREAKING NEWS: Censorship returns to the CDC. At least 22 websites are down.
The Trump administration's HHS is back to its old habits of targeting public health resources deemed too woke.
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Chris Kahler @chriskahlerphd.bsky.social · 14d
It is great to see that the funds are getting committed in most ICs. After October 1, it will be important to document the impact of multi-year funding on the number of new awards by IC. Thank you for providing these continued insights!
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Mitch Prinstein @mitchprinstein.bsky.social · 14d
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Chris Kahler @chriskahlerphd.bsky.social · 14d
If you interact with the media for a story related to substance use, ask to see their draft story so you can provide feedback on potentially stigmatizing language. We all need to do our part to fight stigma around substance use disorders. Media matters.
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Use of stigmatizing language related to substance use disorders in media: A systematic review
Substance use disorder (SUD)-related stigma may contribute to delayed help seeking and undertreatment. Stigmatizing language (“substance abuse,” “alco…
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Brown University School of Public Health @brownpublichealth.bsky.social · 14d
"There is no new science here," Dean @ashishkjha.bsky.social says. "Bobby Kennedy said that he wanted to get to the root cause of autism by September—he's found what I think is a convenient scape goat. But the harm is going to be for pregnant women across the country."
Tylenol concerns around autism are overblown, says Dr. Ashish Jha
Dr. Ashish Jha, Dean of the School of Public Health at Brown University, joins 'Fast Money' to discuss new government guidance on Tylenol use during pregnancy, why leading studies show no link to autism, the reaction from obstetricians, and the challeng...
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Chris Kahler @chriskahlerphd.bsky.social · 14d
Results show that interventions can significantly reduce the odds of unhealthy alcohol use in people with HIV, as assessed by either self-report or phosphatidylethanol, as well as by the combination of both, which seems a particularly promising method.
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Alcohol interventions for persons with HIV: Meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials using phosphatidylethanol and self-report
Interventions are needed to reduce alcohol use for people living with HIV (PWH), but prior randomized controlled trials (RCT) evaluated efficacy by se…
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Richard M. Carpiano, PhD, MPH @rmcarpiano.medsky.social · 15d
What a difference when sci/health journalists cover sci topics (even highly politicized ones). With the increased politicization of sci over the yrs, the standard political journalism practice of both-sides-ing is unhelpful for reporting a story--can help legitimate/amp un-/poorly-supported claims.
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Chris Kahler @chriskahlerphd.bsky.social · 16d
#NIAAA is now up to 47 R01s funded this year, which is a massive acceleration from three weeks ago. About 20% (n=9) are multi-year awards. Unfortunately, each reduces the funds available for other new awards in FY25 by 2 to 4 R01-sized awards. Still no R34s in FY25 compared to 13 in FY24.
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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 19d
Took leave this afternoon to deliver a letter from nearly 900 (and growing) current and former Feds asking Congress to pass a continuing resolution that ends executive overreach and protects the American people.

Join us! Feds and fed allies welcomed to sign. actionnetwork.org/forms/civil-...
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Brown University School of Public Health @brownpublichealth.bsky.social · 21d
Happy #NationalRecoveryMonth! Team members from the Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies at Brown University were happy to attend Providence's 22nd #Rally4Recovery last weekend for connection, celebration & community! Thanks to @ricares.bsky.social for organizing such a fun event! #RecoveryMonth
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Chris Kahler @chriskahlerphd.bsky.social · 21d
The pre-print of team meta-analysis project led by Dr. Judith Hahn is now available. We find similar small, significant intervention effects on alcohol use in PWH when using either PEth or self-report. Combined PEth/self-report appears a useful primary outcome.
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Alcohol interventions for persons with HIV: Meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials using phosphatidylethanol and self-report
Interventions are needed to reduce alcohol use for people living with HIV (PWH), but prior randomized controlled trials (RCT) evaluated efficicy by se…
www.sciencedirect.com
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Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 23d
This brings NIAAA up to 22 new R01 (and one type 2) for FY2025. They issued 65 Type 1 and 18 Type 2 in FY2024. Two weeks still to go to award more new grants. Somewhere between 60 single year to 15 four-year multi are currently missing.
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Chris Kahler @chriskahlerphd.bsky.social · 23d
More new funding from #NIAAA last week: 9 new R01s, of which 3 received multiyear funding. Of the 22 new R01s thus far, 5 are multiyear awards, 22.7%. 66 were funded last year. In three weeks, we will be able to see the full impact of the multiyear awards and drastically reduced NIAAA staffing.
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 26d
Vaccines work. Period.
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Brown University School of Public Health @brownpublichealth.bsky.social · Sep 4
🎙️ Listen now to Professor Brendan Saloner's discussion on the #healthpodyssey podcast of his new paper "Scaling Up Treatment and Harm Reduction Programs to Reach More People Who Would Benefit."⤵️
Podcast: Brendan Saloner Explains the Opioid Crisis & What Can Be Done | Health Affairs Podcast
Health Affairs' Rob Lott interviews Brendan Saloner of Brown University about his recent paper exploring how scaling up opioid treatment and harm reduction programs could reach more people.
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Chris Kahler @chriskahlerphd.bsky.social · 27d
This is true. It is a difficult conversation we need to hold in academia right now. What objectionable compromises are made, what is their impact in the short and long term, and what compromises simply can't be made. There are not easy answers, and I empathize with all faced with these choices.
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Chris Kahler @chriskahlerphd.bsky.social · 28d
My word! This sums it up.
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 28d
Words removed and added from NIH grant titles

(meme courtesy of @ianlmorgan.bsky.social)
Word clouds of words removed from NIH grant titles and words added in their place.
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Ian L Morgan @ianlmorgan.bsky.social · 28d
Director Bhattacharya says there are no banned words at the NIH. The data suggest otherwise.
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 28d
Here is a word cloud of the words that were missing from the noncompetitive renewal awards but had been present in the parent award.

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A word cloud with dominant words "equity", "disparity", "diverse", and similar words.
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