📢 Calling all aspiring researchers! 🎮🧠. Passionate about video gaming and mental health? We have an exciting opportunity for a PhD student to join our UQ team and delve into this fascinating field of study. 🎓. #PhDPosition #VideoGaming #MentalHealthResearch #AcademicChatter.

While studies emphasize the harms of smoking on those who smoke, second-hand smoke significantly contributes to illnesses and fatalities, particularly posing a challenge for women in Southeast Asia. Our research aims to shed light on this: .

Honoured to be invited as a keynote speaker and looking forward to the IMiA conference to discuss public health impacts of cannabis legalisation.#NCYSUR #IMiA2025sydney

A neat study contributing to evidence that higher potency cannabis is associated with greater use. .Our previous review also makes a similar point.

A lovely day to check out the SUNA (middle ground) installation in front of the Art Museum at UQ St Lucia on campus #sunnylunch #NCYSUR .By artist: Yuriyal Bridgeman

📢 Join our team at @NCYSUR_UQ!.We’re recruiting Research Fellows (Level B) in youth substance use research:. 🔹 1.0 FTE until Jun 2027.🔹 0.5 FTE until Dec 2026 (NHMRC CRE). Help drive impactful AOD research & outcomes for young people. Apply 👉

Commentary by Erinoso to our recent paper on using AI to co-design vaping prevention messages with youth points out that Codesigners should be trained to recognize manipulative or coercive message patterns in AI-generated content.

Prof Wayne Hall shares public health lessons learnt from cannabis legalisation in USA and Canada on ABC

Article on the use of AI for systema reviews .

Cannabis withdrawal can worsen mental health, especially after hospital admission, stressing the need for support for people who use substances in psychiatric settings. #MentalHealth #CannabisResearch.

Giang Vu, PhD candidate at #NCYSUR, found that negative perceptions of e-cigarette use among others decreased the likelihood of current e-cigarette use among youth, this highlights the impact of social attitudes on youth.

Dropped my baby at daycare, saw kids with green snot. But I’ve got a grant deadline — if I miss it, I will not have a job when my contract ends. Mum guilt hits hard today. 💔👶💻.#MumGuilt #WorkingMum #AcademicParent

PhD researcher Jack Chung from #NCYSUR found an increase in the consumption of delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol, cannabidiol, and synthetic cannabinoids among youth in the U.S. between 2021 and 2023. Additional information is available at

RT @NCYSUR: New research by #NCYSUR Jack Chung and Giang Vu showed that Peer influence drives youth vaping epidemic ..

Just discovered an Australian Council for Educational Research report by Dr Tamara Van Der Zant et al. Important insights from extensive study on Australian high school students' smoking and vaping and social norms. #YouthHealth #SmokingStudy

Dani Dawson conducts research to examine cannabis use for medicinal reasons or for both medicinal and recreational reasons in Australia #NCYSUR

Study by Ben Johnson et al. found that TikTok users’ portrayal of prescription stimulants were predominantly positive, emphasizing improved lifestyles, which may influence medication demand #NCYSUR .

Congratulations to #NCYSUR PhD candidates Jack Chung and Dani Dawson for being awarded by CPDD to present their research on youth substance use. 🎉 #ResearchInnovation

Interesting research by Prof Keith Humphreys on Prevalence and predictors of research participant eligibility criteria in alcohol treatment outcome studies, 1970-98, The eligibility criteria of 683 alcohol treatment outcome studies conducted were coded.

I am truly privileged to have been invited to give a keynote address on cannabis and public health at the 2025 International Conference on Youth Drug Abuse Prevention and Crime Control. I am grateful for the meticulous planning, engaging discussions, and warm hospitality!

Thank you #CHI2025 in Yokohama, Japan 🇯🇵.Huge thanks to the CHI conference and the amazing childcare team for providing high-quality care for our baby — making it possible for us to fully participate! 👶💻💙 #CHI2025 #AcademicParenting