Casey Roulette

Evolutionary anthropology | Evolutionary medicine | Drug use | Self medication | Food security | Husband | Father of 2 | Associate Professor @anthrosdsu

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@MakeCAgreat @elonmusk @SenJohnKennedy Wow, biased much?

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@caity_placek Congratulations Caity!!!

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@err_ring Congratulations Erik — that now makes at least 2 evo anthro PhDs from Longview. Way to represent!!

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If you are going to the @BiologicalAnth conference check out Miriam’s talk where she will share details of our results as well as discuss recommendations for addressing food insecurity on college campuses.

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Here is poster of a talk my former @anthrosdsu grad student, Miriam Kopels, is presenting at the @BiologicalAnth conference later this month. It details results of our pilot project looking at perceived extrinsic mortality, food security, and distress among college students

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Food insecurity was also associated with greater mental distress, which in turn was associated with reduced dietary quality

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In turn, higher perceived extrinsic mortality scores were associated with lower self reported effort put into maintaining long term economic well-being.

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We situate food insecurity within the context of environmental adversity. Not only did students perceive that mortality and food security worsened during Covid, students who were more food insecure perceived more extrinsic mortality.

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Food insecurity (FI) is increasing among college students, among whom rates of FI are higher compared to the general US population, are even worse among economically vulnerable college students, and increased even more during Covid-19.

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Fascinating new data & interpretation on African aDNA now back to 18,000 years @Nature which I was happy to review (the archaeological part that is). Increased regionalization towards the end of the Pleistocene is what we also see in archaeology/lithics! https://t.co/Sr5aMKOgsq

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@eric_shattuck @ed_hagen Perhaps because theories of non infectious disease are wrong. Most theories of psychiatric disorders still emphasize “balance”, whereas that idea was largely replaced by germ theory for infectious diseases

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@eric_shattuck @ed_hagen No recordings. But gist is that germ theory of disease is largely correct in that it has helped reduce infectious causes of mortality from late-1800s on (see image), but theories of non infectious disease mortality have remained flat. Why?

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@eric_shattuck Its not a paper (yet). It’s from a presentation on the evolution of drug use given by myself and @ed_hagen. Credit for the slide goes to @ed_hagen.

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@eric_shattuck Humoral theory never left, it just moved to psychiatry where humors were replaced with neurotransmitters

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https://t.co/agX8sdRxJQ

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@anthrosdsu, thanks to all our SDSU anthro students who came out for the 50th Annual Conference of @SCCulturalRes at the Lafayette hotel in San Diego last week!!

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@err_ring Congratulations Erik!!

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@SCCulturalRes 50th annual conference in San Diego was a great success. Big thanks to @bartholomew_ted for organizing the event. Congratulations to all the award winners!! And to Carol Ember with @HRAF755 for her lifetime achievement award!!

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We’ve found that food insecurity is associated with higher levels of (perceived) extrinsic mortality risk, higher levels of mental distress (resulting in reduced dietary quality), and greater odds of using nicotine and cannabis products

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I have a recent project with economically vulnerable college students that examines substance use, food security, extrinsic mortality and mental distress