Our Scientific Committee has been busy shaping plans for the 2026 Behaviour Change Conference! 🎉 💡 Don't forget the call for abstracts is open until 15 December 👉 www.ucl.ac.uk/behaviour-ch... 👏 Thanks to Co-Chairs Marta Marques & Felix Naughton & all Committee members for their expertise

"Systems are not things. They consist of people." @sbacon20.bsky.social making an important point about the relevance of behavioural theory to public health! #EPH2025

There are lots of barriers within public health that prevents researchers from using behavioural science theories and tools, including lack of knowledge, time/ resources, and support from superiors, says Kim Lavoie #EPH2025

📢 New paper alert! Our article on specifying delivery schedules in the Behaviour Change Intervention Ontology supports greater clarity and consistency in intervention reporting. Now with over 200 views 👏 Read it here 👉 wellcomeopenresearch.org/articles/9-7...

Online health #misinformation almost the norm! Watch for red flags, like use of anecdotes, "secret knowledge" BS, & "scienceploitation" (sciencey word salads!). 🚩 What to believe and what not about health information on your phone: www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/art...

🧠 This week’s research highlight: Would you share your health data to receive personalised advice? Senior Research Fellow @viviantonop.bsky.social co-authored a study on privacy concerns & trust in personalised health apps with 2000 people in London & Hong Kong. 👉 www.cambridge.org/core/blog/20...

The sugar intake of children in the UK is more than double the recommended maximum amount. The UK government’s decision not to introduce a higher rate tax for the most sugary drinks is good news for industry but bad for public health www.bmj.com/content/391/...

📢 Paper update! A revised version of “Predicting outcomes of smoking cessation interventions in novel scenarios using ontology-informed, interpretable machine learning” is now published. Read it here 👉 wellcomeopenresearch.org/articles/8-5... Many thanks to everyone who contributed!

Health and Climate Change: Solutions to Meet New Risks in Canada. Join me October 6th, 2025 | 12:00- 17:00 ET at the The Globe and Mail Centre, Toronto. Tickets: globeandmailevents.com/healthandcli...

Why we need trust in science: @carlbergstrom.com nails it. This is why I’m sleuthing in retirement. Some say that talking about fraud destroys trust in science. No. Turning a blind eye to fraud and pretending it’s not happening is what destroys trust.

Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com · 12mo ago

1. "'Trusting the experts is not a feature of either a science or democracy," Kennedy said." It's literally a vital feature of both science and of representative democracy. I've written a fair bit about trust in expertise as a vital mechanism in the collective epistemology of science.

🔊 New in Social Science & Medicine - 'Do nudges need a regulatory push? Comparing the effectiveness and implementation of exemplar nudge (size-based) and non-nudge (price-based) dietary interventions' Available here (£0): www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Summary 🧵 follows 👇 #BehSci #Nudge

Do nudges need a regulatory push? Comparing the effectiveness and implementation of exemplar nudge (size-based) and non-nudge (price-based) dietary interventions

Changing behaviour across populations is key to improving population health and achieving net zero by 2050, including changing diets. We examine the e…

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Are behavioural interventions more effective at key life moments? 2 new reports from the Dept of Transport assess if transport behaviour change efforts are most impactful during times of change & identify moments relevant to practitioners. Read more on Centre-UB: www.centre-ub.org/news/are-beh...

📢 Oyé! Oyé! Vous travaillez en partenariat avec diverses parties prenantes? 👉 Élaborez vos chartes partenariales avec cet outil intéractif! 🤝 view.genially.com/6813b69f2c9b... @anaislacasse.bsky.social @adangrenier.bsky.social @passerelle-hub.bsky.social @inspq.qc.ca @sbacon20.bsky.social

Faisons un pacte

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Tempering implementation optimism: distinguishing between efficacy and effectiveness in implementation research Per Nilsen, Jeanette Wassar Kirk, Katarina Ulfsdotter Gunnarsson & Kristin Thomas @implementsci.bsky.social #ImpSci implementationsciencecomms.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Tempering implementation optimism: distinguishing between efficacy and effectiveness in implementation research - Implementation Science Communications

Background The distinction between efficacy (performance under ideal conditions) and effectiveness (performance in real-world settings) is well established in intervention research. Intervention effec...

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Our short article and infographic in the BJSM summarises the results of a meta-analysis that examined which exercise strategies boost cognitive function in people with clinical depression; bjsm.bmj.com/content/earl...

Love this! ❤️ This 92-year-old sprinter has the muscle cells of someone in their 20s wapo.st/4oXOJjB "A lot of the detrimental effects that you see with aging can be substantially reduced if we just keep those physical activity levels very high." Sum: #Move!

This 92-year-old sprinter has the muscle cells of someone in their 20s

Emma Maria Mazzenga, 92, holds four world records for women over 90. Now, researchers are trying to understand the secret to her success.

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@kristiwhitephd.bsky.social @docsforclimate.bsky.social @apadivision38.bsky.social

Behavioral scientists, your moment is now. ABM's new Call to Action outlines a clear, strategic path to create research that drives real impact — for planetary health and for all life on Earth. Dive in and read our newest article here: 🔗 academic.oup.com/abm/article/... @apajournals.bsky.social

Build your own study smarphone app during this 3-day hands on workshop! Apply by April 21. Please re-post. #sbm2025 @casbsstanford.bsky.social @digital-health.bsky.social @policysrnt.bsky.social @cpddorg.bsky.social @theaacr.bsky.social @abctstudentsig.bsky.social @sbacon20.bsky.social

Michael Businelle@stop-smoking.bsky.social · 2y ago

Attend the 3rd annual 3-day Insight mHealth Workshop (June 25-27). Learn how to create Apple/Android mHealth/EMA/JITAI apps. Fee is only $500. Apply by April 21: healthpromotionresearch.org/Mobile-Healt...

We are excited to announce the 2025 Clinical Trials Training Summit, advancing quality, innovation, and inclusivity in clinical trials. Feb 24-26, Vancouver, BC + virtual attendance free and open to the public. #ClinicalTrialTraining #CTSummit2025 clinicaltrailstrainingsummit2025.wecantrain.ca

Nous sommes très heureux de annoncer le Sommet sur la formation en essais cliniques 2025, qui avance la qualité, l’innovation, et l'inclusivité dans les essais cliniques. 24-26 février, Vancouver, CB et virtuellement gratuit au public. clinicaltrailstrainingsummit2025.wecantrain.ca

Rise of distrust largely the result of embrace of lies & spin. ‘I can’t go toe to toe with social media.’ Top US health official reflects, regrets. wapo.st/3DR3KAt @ddiamond "federal agencies are outmatched in a world of 'instantaneous information & disinformation.'"

‘I can’t go toe to toe with social media.’ Top U.S. health official reflects, regrets.

Xavier Becerra, who has led the Department of Health and Human Services, says federal agencies are outmatched in a world of “instantaneous information and disinformation.”

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“Here, we—two early-career psychologists from Germany and India and one global health researcher from the UK who all conducted field work in LMICs—summarize key questions and concerns that we wish someone would have told us before conducting our research in Ethiopia, Myanmar, Thailand, and India”

@martinhagger.bsky.social & me contend that individual-level (“i-frame”) intervention strategies can be appropriately integrated with system-level (“s-frame”) strategies to optimize population-level behavior change doi.org/10.1017/S014...

How many health tips do we need to thrive in 2025? open.substack.com/pub/garyschw... by @garyschw.bsky.social 5 or 44? Reality: the evidence-based basics of healthy lifestyle have been known for a long time. Don't smoke. Move. Eat well (no magic). Sleep. Less alcohol. Community. Ignore noise.

How many health tips do we need to thrive in 2025?

My tip? Look for evidence.

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Are we ready for another pandemic? After #COVID19, world leaders agreed to work together to strengthen global health systems, but negotiations on a new agreement have stalled, by @katlay.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/global-devel... via @theguardian.com #GlobalHealth

Are we ready for another pandemic?

After Covid-19, world leaders agreed to work together to strengthen global health systems, but negotiations on a new agreement have stalled

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Releasing Thursday - we hope it will be a useful resource for researchers, journalists, practitioners, and anyone interested in what science misinformation is, how it spreads, its effects on people and society, and possible interventions. mailchi.mp/nationalacad...

Of possible interest: National Academies webinar + consensus report on "Understanding and Addressing Misinformation about Science," Dec 19, 11am ET. www.nationalacademies.org/our-work/und...

My lab has spent the last several years using private Facebook groups to conduct asynchronous behavioral and health communication interventions. We published a guide (with all of our lessons learned!) for folks who are interested in doing the same. Check it out! pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39231426/

Best Practices for Designing and Testing Behavioral and Health Communication Interventions for Delivery in Private Facebook Groups: Tutorial - PubMed

Facebook, the most popular social media platform in the United States, is used by 239 million US adults, which represents 71% of the population. Not only do most US adults use Facebook but they also s...

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Read the full trial paper in JAMA Network Open jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... You can also read about our user-testing here doi.org/10.1016/j.pe... And see a comparison to other readability calculators here jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Online Plain Language Tool and Health Information Quality

This randomized clinical trial investigates whether an online text editing tool is effective in helping health information providers simplify written health information according to health literacy an...

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