Joe Gitchell
@jgitchell.bsky.social
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Joe Gitchell
@jgitchell.bsky.social
· Oct 4
Authors file complaint with publisher as journal retracts vaping paper
A paper that found smoking rates in the United States fell faster than expected as more people started using e-cigarettes has been retracted over the objections of its authors, who have filed a com…
retractionwatch.com
Definitely not my happiest hour and perhaps an odd first post to Bluesky, yet here we are.
retractionwatch.com/2023/10/04/a...
retractionwatch.com/2023/10/04/a...
Reposted by Joe Gitchell
Make a warship mid:
HMS Strategic Victory
HMS Strategic Victory
February 6, 2026 at 2:30 PM
Make a warship mid:
HMS Strategic Victory
HMS Strategic Victory
If you're not following @clairezagorski.bsky.social, please fix that damage.
*fart noise*
Tenure Eliminated at Oklahoma Colleges
Regional and community colleges professors will no longer receive tenure; research university faculty are spared, with some exceptions. https://bit.ly/4tlEtUq
#EDUSky #AcademicSky #HigherEd
Regional and community colleges professors will no longer receive tenure; research university faculty are spared, with some exceptions. https://bit.ly/4tlEtUq
#EDUSky #AcademicSky #HigherEd
February 6, 2026 at 4:29 AM
If you're not following @clairezagorski.bsky.social, please fix that damage.
Reposted by Joe Gitchell
SJA tonight and the cadets were asked to come up with posters or social media content around their current topic of emergency planning (in this case weather warnings).
Pretty pleased with their efforts, tbh...
Pretty pleased with their efforts, tbh...
February 4, 2026 at 10:42 PM
SJA tonight and the cadets were asked to come up with posters or social media content around their current topic of emergency planning (in this case weather warnings).
Pretty pleased with their efforts, tbh...
Pretty pleased with their efforts, tbh...
Love this.
To get the full effect, you may have to say things ou-tloud.
#DayJob
Follow @dingdingpeng.the100.ci to get less wrong and to chuckle!
To get the full effect, you may have to say things ou-tloud.
#DayJob
Follow @dingdingpeng.the100.ci to get less wrong and to chuckle!
This may be the Frenchest thread you’ll read today.
TIL that in English "outrage" is prononced "out-rage" (which makes sense I suppose)
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/outrage
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/outrage
February 5, 2026 at 11:13 AM
Love this.
To get the full effect, you may have to say things ou-tloud.
#DayJob
Follow @dingdingpeng.the100.ci to get less wrong and to chuckle!
To get the full effect, you may have to say things ou-tloud.
#DayJob
Follow @dingdingpeng.the100.ci to get less wrong and to chuckle!
#DiscomfortOfThought required to #RethinkNicotine.
And there's plenty to be uncomfortable about.
But I do believe we all have to get more comfortable with being uncomfortable. I am grateful that @unbiasedscipod.bsky.social agrees on that point.
#respect
And there's plenty to be uncomfortable about.
But I do believe we all have to get more comfortable with being uncomfortable. I am grateful that @unbiasedscipod.bsky.social agrees on that point.
#respect
Nuance is hard. Reflexive positions are easy. Public health has a long, fraught history with Big Tobacco, and that history makes it difficult to look at anything the industry touches without suspicion. I get it. I feel it.
The Call I Didn’t Want to Take
I lost my dad to cigarettes. Then I took a call from the vape industry.
open.substack.com
January 31, 2026 at 4:56 PM
#DiscomfortOfThought required to #RethinkNicotine.
And there's plenty to be uncomfortable about.
But I do believe we all have to get more comfortable with being uncomfortable. I am grateful that @unbiasedscipod.bsky.social agrees on that point.
#respect
And there's plenty to be uncomfortable about.
But I do believe we all have to get more comfortable with being uncomfortable. I am grateful that @unbiasedscipod.bsky.social agrees on that point.
#respect
Just learned about this study looking at methodological trends in psych and econ over time: online.ucpress.edu/collabra/art....
Matches my perception well: Nobody in psych bothers to (explicitly) try causal inference unless they conducted an experiment, not a lot of theoretical work either.
Matches my perception well: Nobody in psych bothers to (explicitly) try causal inference unless they conducted an experiment, not a lot of theoretical work either.
January 29, 2026 at 10:45 AM
#StayCurious
#StaySkeptical
Eyes now turn to @nejm.org's NEJM Evidence journal for what they will do with the "contested meta-analysis" mentioned in the @retractionwatch.com coverage.
#StaySkeptical
Eyes now turn to @nejm.org's NEJM Evidence journal for what they will do with the "contested meta-analysis" mentioned in the @retractionwatch.com coverage.
MDPI has retracted a study about vaping that one expert said seemed “like a joke” almost two years after the publisher received a complaint about the flawed work.
Up in smoke: Publisher pulls vaping paper nearly two years after complaint
MDPI has retracted a study about vaping that one expert said seemed “like a joke” almost two years after the publisher received a complaint about the flawed work. The paper, published in Neurology …
retractionwatch.com
January 20, 2026 at 2:00 PM
#StayCurious
#StaySkeptical
Eyes now turn to @nejm.org's NEJM Evidence journal for what they will do with the "contested meta-analysis" mentioned in the @retractionwatch.com coverage.
#StaySkeptical
Eyes now turn to @nejm.org's NEJM Evidence journal for what they will do with the "contested meta-analysis" mentioned in the @retractionwatch.com coverage.
CartNarcs don't seem to be on blewski, but I found this article humorous and informative.
behavioralscientist.org/why-dont-peo...
behavioralscientist.org/why-dont-peo...
Why Don’t People Return Their Shopping Carts? A (Somewhat) Scientific Investigation - by Hannah B. Waldfogel - Behavioral Scientist
For reasons I can’t fully explain, people’s failure to return their carts bothers me more than it probably should. But then I realized I can do something about it.
behavioralscientist.org
January 17, 2026 at 5:03 PM
CartNarcs don't seem to be on blewski, but I found this article humorous and informative.
behavioralscientist.org/why-dont-peo...
behavioralscientist.org/why-dont-peo...
As Ferris Bueller noted, life moves pretty fast, & it makes no exceptions for the #ShapingVaping cast!
Still on for tomorrow, Thurs, 15 Jan, at 11:30am ET, but now with @clivebates.bsky.social joining me and Jim McCarthy.
And read Clive's 'stack in next skeet. 1/2
www.youtube.com/live/srvQaUJ...
Still on for tomorrow, Thurs, 15 Jan, at 11:30am ET, but now with @clivebates.bsky.social joining me and Jim McCarthy.
And read Clive's 'stack in next skeet. 1/2
www.youtube.com/live/srvQaUJ...
The Shaping Vaping Podcast
YouTube video by American Vapor Manufacturers
www.youtube.com
January 14, 2026 at 8:13 PM
As Ferris Bueller noted, life moves pretty fast, & it makes no exceptions for the #ShapingVaping cast!
Still on for tomorrow, Thurs, 15 Jan, at 11:30am ET, but now with @clivebates.bsky.social joining me and Jim McCarthy.
And read Clive's 'stack in next skeet. 1/2
www.youtube.com/live/srvQaUJ...
Still on for tomorrow, Thurs, 15 Jan, at 11:30am ET, but now with @clivebates.bsky.social joining me and Jim McCarthy.
And read Clive's 'stack in next skeet. 1/2
www.youtube.com/live/srvQaUJ...
🤩Special Guest - #ShapingVaping🤠
Thursday, 1/15 - 11:30AM EST
Jim McCarthy and @jgitchell.bsky.social welcome Cliff Douglas on:
- State of the internecine war over vaping.
- Role of the press.
- Making sense of HHS/FDA policy.
- Where can advocacy go from here?
www.youtube.com/live/srvQaUJ...
Thursday, 1/15 - 11:30AM EST
Jim McCarthy and @jgitchell.bsky.social welcome Cliff Douglas on:
- State of the internecine war over vaping.
- Role of the press.
- Making sense of HHS/FDA policy.
- Where can advocacy go from here?
www.youtube.com/live/srvQaUJ...
The Shaping Vaping Podcast
YouTube video by American Vapor Manufacturers
www.youtube.com
January 14, 2026 at 10:52 AM
🤩Special Guest - #ShapingVaping🤠
Thursday, 1/15 - 11:30AM EST
Jim McCarthy and @jgitchell.bsky.social welcome Cliff Douglas on:
- State of the internecine war over vaping.
- Role of the press.
- Making sense of HHS/FDA policy.
- Where can advocacy go from here?
www.youtube.com/live/srvQaUJ...
Thursday, 1/15 - 11:30AM EST
Jim McCarthy and @jgitchell.bsky.social welcome Cliff Douglas on:
- State of the internecine war over vaping.
- Role of the press.
- Making sense of HHS/FDA policy.
- Where can advocacy go from here?
www.youtube.com/live/srvQaUJ...
Latest Science Fictions 'cast from @stuartjritchie.bsky.social & @tomchivers.bsky.social with bigly implications for getting less wrong.
Includes h/t to @dingdingpeng.the100.ci.
#AdCollab discussion at the end. 💪
substack.com/@joegitchell...
Includes h/t to @dingdingpeng.the100.ci.
#AdCollab discussion at the end. 💪
substack.com/@joegitchell...
Joe Gitchell (@joegitchell)
Such important stuff, and I do appreciate how this episode builds more towards potential solutions for us to get less wrong, together.
substack.com
January 13, 2026 at 11:34 AM
Latest Science Fictions 'cast from @stuartjritchie.bsky.social & @tomchivers.bsky.social with bigly implications for getting less wrong.
Includes h/t to @dingdingpeng.the100.ci.
#AdCollab discussion at the end. 💪
substack.com/@joegitchell...
Includes h/t to @dingdingpeng.the100.ci.
#AdCollab discussion at the end. 💪
substack.com/@joegitchell...
Reposted by Joe Gitchell
Wonderful letter of apology to world’s 1.3 billion smokers on behalf of public health from Dr Mark Tyndall, extraordinary Canadian doctor @aliveadvocacy.bsky.social @algore09algor.bsky.social @igas2.bsky.social @jgitchell.bsky.social @chancethegardener.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/marktynd...
open.substack.com/pub/marktynd...
To the 1.3 Billion People Who Smoke Cigarettes: We’re Very Sorry.
A Formal Apology from Public Health
open.substack.com
January 13, 2026 at 6:24 AM
Wonderful letter of apology to world’s 1.3 billion smokers on behalf of public health from Dr Mark Tyndall, extraordinary Canadian doctor @aliveadvocacy.bsky.social @algore09algor.bsky.social @igas2.bsky.social @jgitchell.bsky.social @chancethegardener.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/marktynd...
open.substack.com/pub/marktynd...
⚠️⚠️WARNING⚠️⚠️
If you prefer your priors remain unchallenged and comfortable, then do NOT read what @clivebates.bsky.social has done in his first substack post.
substack.com/@joegitchell...
If you prefer your priors remain unchallenged and comfortable, then do NOT read what @clivebates.bsky.social has done in his first substack post.
substack.com/@joegitchell...
Joe Gitchell (@joegitchell)
Granted, I admire @Clive Bates and our priors largely align (though far from universally! Ask us about a reduced-nicotine product standard for combusted tobacco products!), but his inaugural ‘stack is...
substack.com
January 11, 2026 at 4:13 PM
⚠️⚠️WARNING⚠️⚠️
If you prefer your priors remain unchallenged and comfortable, then do NOT read what @clivebates.bsky.social has done in his first substack post.
substack.com/@joegitchell...
If you prefer your priors remain unchallenged and comfortable, then do NOT read what @clivebates.bsky.social has done in his first substack post.
substack.com/@joegitchell...
I think that this is bigly important.
I fear that lots of other things may contribute (synergistically?) to the avoidance of "respectful confrontation" (as amazeballs dude Joe Weston teaches), but it all matters.
TY, @drsherrypagoto.bsky.social, for so clearly laying this out.
I fear that lots of other things may contribute (synergistically?) to the avoidance of "respectful confrontation" (as amazeballs dude Joe Weston teaches), but it all matters.
TY, @drsherrypagoto.bsky.social, for so clearly laying this out.
Is technology, especially social media, the very technology meant to connect us, eroding our social skills and driving us into social isolation?
I put this idea forth in my latest piece in @psychologytoday.com.
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/shri...
I put this idea forth in my latest piece in @psychologytoday.com.
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/shri...
Has Technology Made Us Less Courageous?
Why are we celebrating isolation? Technology may be rewarding avoidance—ghosting, quiet quitting, online hostility—at the cost of courage, connection, and trust.
www.psychologytoday.com
January 10, 2026 at 2:58 PM
I think that this is bigly important.
I fear that lots of other things may contribute (synergistically?) to the avoidance of "respectful confrontation" (as amazeballs dude Joe Weston teaches), but it all matters.
TY, @drsherrypagoto.bsky.social, for so clearly laying this out.
I fear that lots of other things may contribute (synergistically?) to the avoidance of "respectful confrontation" (as amazeballs dude Joe Weston teaches), but it all matters.
TY, @drsherrypagoto.bsky.social, for so clearly laying this out.
Folks with interest in nicotine science and policy are welcome to tune-in to our (mostly) weekly #ShapingVaping episodes--here's today's at 11:30am ET:
www.youtube.com/live/c3RaeKH...
We try to follow Rapoport's Rules--at least I do (Jim is not quite as committed to gracience...).
www.youtube.com/live/c3RaeKH...
We try to follow Rapoport's Rules--at least I do (Jim is not quite as committed to gracience...).
The Shaping Vaping Podcast
YouTube video by American Vapor Manufacturers
www.youtube.com
January 8, 2026 at 2:50 PM
Folks with interest in nicotine science and policy are welcome to tune-in to our (mostly) weekly #ShapingVaping episodes--here's today's at 11:30am ET:
www.youtube.com/live/c3RaeKH...
We try to follow Rapoport's Rules--at least I do (Jim is not quite as committed to gracience...).
www.youtube.com/live/c3RaeKH...
We try to follow Rapoport's Rules--at least I do (Jim is not quite as committed to gracience...).
Gonna read this with interest.
First MEP report.
Medical research often uses non-parametric tests. We looked, and noticed that small-sample rank-based tests (i.e. M-W, Wilcoxon) have significant granularity... like p-values!
So, here's GRIM for U values -- GRIM-U.
Enjoy.
medicalevidenceproject.org/grim-u-obser...
Medical research often uses non-parametric tests. We looked, and noticed that small-sample rank-based tests (i.e. M-W, Wilcoxon) have significant granularity... like p-values!
So, here's GRIM for U values -- GRIM-U.
Enjoy.
medicalevidenceproject.org/grim-u-obser...
GRIM-U: A GRIM-like observation to establish impossible p values from ranked tests - Medical Evidence Project
The Medical Evidence Project uses forensic metascientific methods to examine medical research publications that have a disproportionately high impact on human health. Our aim is to determine where pro...
https://medicalevidenceproject.org/grim-u-observation-establish-impossible-p-values-ranked-tests/"
January 8, 2026 at 12:20 PM
Gonna read this with interest.
Reposted by Joe Gitchell
I would love the opportunity to get less wrong on this important topic but my disclosures prevent me from registering.
a little boy is sitting on the ground in a field of bamboo sticks .
Alt: Scene from Tropic Thunder where young boy crosses his arms with disappointment at being abandoned by Tugg Speedman.
media.tenor.com
January 6, 2026 at 4:31 PM
I would love the opportunity to get less wrong on this important topic but my disclosures prevent me from registering.
Reposted by Joe Gitchell
First Nations Australian art is so different to what most of us are used to from our Egyptian-Greek-Roman-Byzantine-Renaissance etc tradition. Instead it’s sand painting-body painting-rock art tradition & about natural & religious world.
I was very grateful to take the advice of @alexwodak.bsky.social and go to the "Stars We Do Not See" exhibition at the US National Gallery of Art in DC.
Wow!!
Run, don't walk--just stunning. There until 1 March.
www.nga.gov/exhibitions/...
Wow!!
Run, don't walk--just stunning. There until 1 March.
www.nga.gov/exhibitions/...
The Stars We Do Not See | National Gallery of Art
Mark your calendar for this once-in-a-lifetime exhibition of modern and contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art and design.
www.nga.gov
January 4, 2026 at 12:14 AM
First Nations Australian art is so different to what most of us are used to from our Egyptian-Greek-Roman-Byzantine-Renaissance etc tradition. Instead it’s sand painting-body painting-rock art tradition & about natural & religious world.
I was very grateful to take the advice of @alexwodak.bsky.social and go to the "Stars We Do Not See" exhibition at the US National Gallery of Art in DC.
Wow!!
Run, don't walk--just stunning. There until 1 March.
www.nga.gov/exhibitions/...
Wow!!
Run, don't walk--just stunning. There until 1 March.
www.nga.gov/exhibitions/...
The Stars We Do Not See | National Gallery of Art
Mark your calendar for this once-in-a-lifetime exhibition of modern and contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art and design.
www.nga.gov
January 3, 2026 at 9:04 PM
I was very grateful to take the advice of @alexwodak.bsky.social and go to the "Stars We Do Not See" exhibition at the US National Gallery of Art in DC.
Wow!!
Run, don't walk--just stunning. There until 1 March.
www.nga.gov/exhibitions/...
Wow!!
Run, don't walk--just stunning. There until 1 March.
www.nga.gov/exhibitions/...
He’s going to try and escalate even further with Venezuela, illegally, and he’s going to say it’s bc of fentanyl.
Venezuela does not make or move fentanyl into the US.
(It would be a huge deal if they did.)
Do not fall for it. Overdoses are indeed horrible but Venezuela isn’t to blame.
Venezuela does not make or move fentanyl into the US.
(It would be a huge deal if they did.)
Do not fall for it. Overdoses are indeed horrible but Venezuela isn’t to blame.
December 18, 2025 at 12:19 AM
I'm really enjoying the #ECigSummitUK today and was reminded of this commentary in #TobaccoControl that will be 25 years old next year.
#HistoryMajor
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#HistoryMajor
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December 5, 2025 at 12:59 PM
I'm really enjoying the #ECigSummitUK today and was reminded of this commentary in #TobaccoControl that will be 25 years old next year.
#HistoryMajor
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#HistoryMajor
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I risk being a #Sealion when engaging in this way (my interlocutor's quote-skeeting vs replying makes it harder to follow, I know.)
I'm not seeking absolution, @jonathanstea.bsky.social, but I do welcome constructive suggestions for better interactions that might be helpful to others.
🙏🦭
I'm not seeking absolution, @jonathanstea.bsky.social, but I do welcome constructive suggestions for better interactions that might be helpful to others.
🙏🦭
How do you interpret these more recent findings from the same Smoking Toolkit Study (that @robertjwest.bsky.social had founded)?
1/2
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
1/2
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Prevalence of Popular Smoking Cessation Aids and Associations With Quit Success
This survey study estimates the prevalences and effectiveness associated with different smoking cessation aids in England.
jamanetwork.com
December 5, 2025 at 12:38 PM
I risk being a #Sealion when engaging in this way (my interlocutor's quote-skeeting vs replying makes it harder to follow, I know.)
I'm not seeking absolution, @jonathanstea.bsky.social, but I do welcome constructive suggestions for better interactions that might be helpful to others.
🙏🦭
I'm not seeking absolution, @jonathanstea.bsky.social, but I do welcome constructive suggestions for better interactions that might be helpful to others.
🙏🦭
Another SoMe platform reminded me to re-share this 4-panel comic as a memory.
And, sadly, it feels timeless. But with so much hope!
#UsNotThem
And, sadly, it feels timeless. But with so much hope!
#UsNotThem
December 4, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Another SoMe platform reminded me to re-share this 4-panel comic as a memory.
And, sadly, it feels timeless. But with so much hope!
#UsNotThem
And, sadly, it feels timeless. But with so much hope!
#UsNotThem