Jeff Stein

Health behaviors researcher at @FralinBiomed and @VTHNFE at Virginia Tech | Views are my own

[Jeff Stein @Jeff_S_Stein]

@mcuban Good idea, but too many opportunities for the AIs to be wrong, disagree, and get the patient demanding procedures or tests that they don't need. If your primary care physician hallucinated as often as AIs do, you'd find another doc?

[Jeff Stein @Jeff_S_Stein]

@Compass_RP @jayvanbavel This. Definitely not automatically misconduct, but potentially problematic nonetheless. Guest co-editors should and often do recuse themselves from decisions for their own papers, but that looks fairer on paper than in practice.

[Joseph Steinberg @jbsteinberg]

Tenured academia is really not "just a job."
- can't be fired.
- get a 5-month summer break.
- complete flexibility on schedule/wfh
- study what interests you
-get paid more than enough to live comfortably.
It's completely rational to work insanely hard to get this!

[Jeff Stein @Jeff_S_Stein]

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Since ̷r̷rel ̷l̷y,
Me

[Jeff Stein @Jeff_S_Stein]

https://t.co/BB24X62JrE
Take-home: perceived uncertainty about future rewards is related to higher delay discounting. This appears baked into the task even when it specifies that rewards are 100% certain.

[Jeff Stein @Jeff_S_Stein]

Good timing, 2 new collaborations with @VT_biostats in the same month:
https://t.co/oqu7wh1IYo

Take-home: simulated scarcity increases cigarette craving, and delay discounting mediates this effect

[Jeff Stein @Jeff_S_Stein]

@lakens Probably because character limits only support the tagline and not the nuanced argument. Some of these "do this, not that" issues are important, but seem quaint in the last few months.

[Jeff Stein @Jeff_S_Stein]

Episodic future thinking is a promising health behavior intervention to help stay focused on long-term outcomes, but what are people thinking about? We used natural language processing to quantify EFT content and explored whether content matters. #AI #NLP
https://t.co/MXvbBNxgwA

[Daniël Lakens @lakens]

What makes exploratory research valuable? We discuss 6 factors: 1) Large and 2) Uncommon sample 3) Rigorous data collection 4) Widely used measures that 5) Reveal a coherent pattern across variables and 6) The potential to generate questions.
https://t.co/0A30Od190U

[Center for Technology and Behavioral Health @DartmouthCTBH]

NIH and FDA leaders call for innovation in development of smoking cessation treatments
https://t.co/joC1XzD1dH

[Fralin Biomedical Research Institute @FralinBiomed]

One of the first leading scientists at @FralinBiomed, Warren Bickel was a prolific scholar, innovator, and entrepreneur who leaves a lasting legacy in understanding, preventing and treating addiction.

🎥 https://t.co/JjS8wWOkvN
📰 https://t.co/dxMdfwHRqZ

[Jeff Stein @Jeff_S_Stein]

@vsbuffalo Yes, real association. But whether it's scientifically (and/or clinically) interesting depends on what the variables are.

[Jeff Stein @Jeff_S_Stein]

@TakeWeightOffMD @NeilFlochMD No room on the off-ramp for diet and PA, apparently

[Jeff Stein @Jeff_S_Stein]

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[Jeff Stein @Jeff_S_Stein]

@ClassicCK @MatthewBJane Negative R2 doesn't mean negatively related. Negative R2 means better fit by a flat line than by the model.

[Jeff Stein @Jeff_S_Stein]

@AppliedBehEcon @hilarispublish2 @C0PE @RetractionWatch Can I cite this anyway?

[Jeff Stein @Jeff_S_Stein]

@ajordannafa Fair, although many postdocs receive funding under an NIH "training" grant. So it's a broader cultural thing

[Eiko Fried @EikoFried]

Did you know of this meta-analytic website by @pimcuijpers et al. featuring hundreds of RCTs?
In the video I'll show researchers (part I) and clients (part II) how to run a systematic meta-analysis looking into the effect of CBT on depression in older adults within 1 minute.

[Jeff Stein @Jeff_S_Stein]

@WilliamStoops At first, I was confused by so many grill burns to the lower extremities. But then I remembered...

[Jeff Stein @Jeff_S_Stein]

@ChenxinLi2 I think "this will lead to less postdocs" means "I won't be able to afford the postdocs I have now."