🚨 New in @jexpsocpsych.bsky.social: Willful ignorance in the context of antibiotic prescribing New paper together with @miroslavsirota.bsky.social, @riangross.bsky.social, Lars Korn, @elisie.bsky.social, @corneliabetsch.bsky.social, and @robertboehm.bsky.social! Link: doi.org/10.1016/j.je...

We’re recruiting a postdoctoral researcher / Senior Research Officer to join our new project on antibiotic decision-making. Job details and application link: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSE155/s... The project is funded by @leverhulme.ac.uk Please share.

We are very fortunate to have received generous funding from @leverhulme.ac.uk to investigate the psychology of antibiotic-related judgements. With @mlisi.bsky.social @mariejuanchich.bsky.social and @evakrockow.bsky.social More about the award here: www.flipsnack.com/leverhulmetr...

Leverhulme Trust Newsletter – June 2026

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Leverhulme Trust@leverhulme.ac.uk · 2mo ago

The Trust’s latest Newsletter is out now! Read about egg surface-sperm coevolution, depathologising research culture through disability and neurodivergence, property hegemony and urban futures in Seoul, and much more: leverhulme.ac.uk/newsletter

Is "unlikely" quietly sabotaging climate communication? We show negative verbal probabilities make evidence and scientific consesus sound weaker than their positive counterparts. New in Nature Climate Change: www.nature.com/articles/s41... led by @mariejuanchich.bsky.social #SciComm

Negative verbal probabilities undermine communication of climate science - Nature Climate Change

Effective communication of uncertainty is vital for public accurate understanding of climate science. Here the authors find that projections using positive probability terms (for example, a small prob...

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Our new research shows that explaining the nature of illness and providing point-of-care test results to patients might be just quite useful tools to calibrate their antibiotic expectations (changing threshold but also discernment)... #antibiotic @abc-network.bsky.social @essexuni.bsky.social

Matteo Lisi@mlisi.bsky.social · 11mo ago

New registered report out in BJHP📣 How to reduce demand for antibiotics? Using Signal Detection Theory, we show that clinician explanations & CRP point-of-care results reduce antibiotic expectations and improve discernment doi.org/10.1111/bjhp... #PsychSciSky @rhulpsychology.bsky.social

Excited to finally have in my hands a copy of our new book Statistics for Psychology Using R: A Linear Models Perspective (written with Alasdair Clarke, not on bsky) !! 📘 www.mheducation.co.uk/statistics-f... #PsychSciSky #neuroskyence #statistics #statssky @rhulpsychology.bsky.social

I had an interesting 2nd day at #ICBM2025 in Vienna today. In our session, I presented our work on communicating about #AMR and pudent antibiotic use when new antibiotics are developed. Please visit @abc-network.bsky.social if you are interested in the emerging field of behavioral research and AMR.

We are still looking for collaborators, especially from Africa, Asia and South America for our project on how people from around the world correct their intuitive reasoning errors. More information below. Pls join and share! psysciacc.org/projects/psa...

Great conference in #Vienna last week thanks to @abc-network.bsky.social! www.linkedin.com/posts/cortne...

#abcnetwork #behaviouralscience #antimicrobialresistance #vienna… | Cortney Price

What do #ABCNetwork psychologists, sociologists, anthropologists, data scientists, behavioural economists, doctors and health communicators have in common? They're all leveraging #behaviouralsci...

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I presented our latest preprint validating interventions to mitigate #AntibioticResistance by reducing the pressure that patients place on clinicians to prescribe unnecessary #antibiotics — slides and link to preprint below: (I'll summarize the final online talk from Andriana Theodoropoulou next.)

Nick Byrd, Ph.D.@byrdnick.com · last yr.

How can #BehSci combat #antimicrobialResistance? Many patients expect needless #antibiotics (doi.org/10.3201/eid2...), which #nudges clinicians to prescribe 'em (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih....). So we validated nudges to improve patient expectations (N ≅ 1k): osf.io/preprints/psy...

An inspiring keynote by @aliciad3.medsky.social at our Behavioral Insights and AMR workshop about how behavioral science can contribute to amr stewardship

Fantastic to see @debbamber.bsky.social present ethnographic data on behavioural and social factors impacting blood culture sampling at the annual ABC Workshop. Great work as part of our NIHR-funded iSAMPLE project!

Thought provoking keynote from @cortneyprice.bsky.social about how behavioral scientists should approach and influence policy makers

@evakrockow.bsky.social kick-starting the workshop on Behavioral insights and AMR with her talk about AMR risk communication... we need to communicate about AMR better.

Excited to be in Vienna for this year's Behavioural Insights & Antimicrobial Resistance Workshop by the ABC network. Looking forward to a stimulating day and interesting discussions! Thanks for hosting us, @robertboehm.bsky.social! #AMR #antibioticresistance

As grant money starts drying up, it's more important than ever not to waste it on paying publishers' open access "article processing fees" when we can host PDFs for free. Tom Morgan and I wrote a paper on this, forthcoming at Science and Public Policy. Accepted draft here: osf.io/preprints/os...

New forthcoming perspective paper in Nature Reviews Psychology: “Defining System 2 deliberation for dual-process models” preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps... (1/5)

It's publication day! 📄 By some odd coincidence, I had two papers and one preprint published in one day (whoop whoop)! Here's a brief overview (a 🧵) Thanks to my brilliant co-authors, incl. Carolyn Tarrant, @marcmendelson.bsky.social, & Stephen Flusberg!

A few spots are still available to present at the upcoming Behavioural Insights & Antimicrobial Resistance Workshop, May 15/16 in Vienna — so we’re extending the submission deadline to April 13! 🔗 Apply now: www.a-bc.network/active.html

Miroslav Sirota@miroslavsirota.bsky.social · 2y ago

1/2 Join us to explore how behavioural science can help address antimicrobial resistance. 3rd Behavioural Insights & Antimicrobial Resistance Workshop When: 15–16 May 2025 Where: University of Vienna (+online option) Organised by @robertboehm.bsky.social and @miroslavsirota.bsky.social

Still some time to submit your work to our annual workshop!

Robert Böhm@robertboehm.bsky.social · last yr.

This is just a reminder that the application deadline for this year's Behavioural Insights & Antimicrobial Resistance Workshop (15./16. May in Vienna) is approaching. Submit your work until 31. March and visit us in Vienna! For further information, see www.a-bc.network/active.html

New paper led by @riangross.bsky.social published in @jac-amr.bsky.social: "Emphasizing the importance of prudent antibiotic use decreases unrealistic perceptions of new antibiotic discoveries" The title says it all. doi.org/10.1093/jaca...

Emphasizing the importance of prudent antibiotic use decreases unrealistic perceptions of new antibiotic discoveries

AbstractBackground. The 2024 discovery of a new class of antibiotics is cause for cautious celebration. However, media coverage of this discovery shows ove

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Antimicrobials: Behaviour & Cognition Network@abc-network.bsky.social · last yr.

Exciting work from ABC Network members: news about new antibiotics shapes public views on #AMR - who knew! @riangross.bsky.social @elisie.bsky.social @mariejuanchich.bsky.social @miroslavsirota.bsky.social @corneliabetsch.bsky.social @robertboehm.bsky.social academic.oup.com/jacamr/artic...

Visit us in Vienna and attend the 3rd Behavioural Insights & Antimicrobial Resistance Workshop on May 15-16. We welcome submissions of all kinds of social and behavioural research related to AMR. For details, see the post below.

Miroslav Sirota@miroslavsirota.bsky.social · 2y ago

1/2 Join us to explore how behavioural science can help address antimicrobial resistance. 3rd Behavioural Insights & Antimicrobial Resistance Workshop When: 15–16 May 2025 Where: University of Vienna (+online option) Organised by @robertboehm.bsky.social and @miroslavsirota.bsky.social

1/2 Join us to explore how behavioural science can help address antimicrobial resistance. 3rd Behavioural Insights & Antimicrobial Resistance Workshop When: 15–16 May 2025 Where: University of Vienna (+online option) Organised by @robertboehm.bsky.social and @miroslavsirota.bsky.social

Hey everyone! 👋👋 We're beyond excited to officially join BlueSky! 🌟 Stay tuned for exciting content on tackling antimicrobial resistance through innovative behavioural science approaches! 🦠🥊

Want to get editing experience? If you have a PhD & are a member of a group that’s historically underrepresented in editorial roles, apply for a 1 yr editorial fellowship at one of APS’s journals (including Psych Science)! Deadline 7 Feb. Please share! www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...

Many people talk about the "Golden Age of Antibiotics", but I hadn't seen it visualized properly. Just how many types of antibiotics were discovered during that time? So, I visualized it myself!

Scientists need to create more time to think...

Rosa Ritunnano@rritunnano.bsky.social · 2y ago

Instead of listing my publications, as the year draws to an end, I want to shine the spotlight on the commonplace assumption that productivity must always increase. Good research is disruptive and thinking time is central to high quality scholarship and necessary for disruptive research.

Yes, that was fun, glad to see it's out!

Sander van der Linden@profsanderlinden.bsky.social · 2y ago

Had a great discussion with @hugoreasoning.bsky.social about the misinformation "crisis" for @undark.org. We started out agreeing on definitional issues but then sharply diverged in our assessment of the problem, tho I much enjoyed the constructive debate! Tune in here undark.org/2024/12/09/p...

Psychology of reasoning starter pack. Happy to add you. go.bsky.app/71WoChJ

Big shout out to @cathleenogrady.bsky.social & her editors at Science Magazine for reporting on our research and other related new research on trust in scientists today today. www.science.org/content/arti... @colognaviktoria.bsky.social @nielsmede.bsky.social @naomioreskes.bsky.social

People all over trust climate researchers less than scientists in general

Large international study finds “trust gap” in 43 out of 68 countries

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