Philipp Schmid
@philippschmid.bsky.social
Research about #misinformation #healthcommunication Asst. Prof. @Radboud_Uni 🇳🇱
Nice writeup of our now-finished JITSUVAX project: cordis.europa.eu/art... The main output of the project is the empathetic refutational interview... 1/7
Inoculating against anti-vax messaging through empathy
Vaccine hesitancy can be overcome through personalised, empathetic conversational approaches.,,,European Commission
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It's out!! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Big thank you to my coauthors @small-schulz.bsky.social and @lorenzspreen.bsky.social, and to all participants who discussed 20 political issues over 4 weeks in 6 subreddit, 3 experimental conditions and let us observe.
Die rechtsextreme AfD wollte die Enquetekommission Corona zum Tribunal gegen Christian Drosten machen. Doch der Virologe wusste sich zu wehren. Außer jeder Menge Fake News und wirren Anschuldigungen kam nichts.
When correcting health misinformation 💉 💊 , it is a truism that one should do that in an empathetic way 🫶. But why should that help? What are the psychological mechanisms? Do we have evidence for its' effectiveness? What are potential backfire effects 🙈? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Debunking Health Misinformation with Empathy
Debunking is an effective means to mitigate the impact of health misinformation. However, even after receiving a corrective message, misinformation of…
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Our registered report on the impact of using norms as a lever against vaccination misinformation @collabrapsychology.bsky.social online.ucpress.edu/collabra/art...
Expert Consensus Messaging as a Lever Against Vaccination Misinformation
The spread of misinformation about vaccines can slow down collective efforts to respond to life-threatening diseases, and thus severely damage public health. Strategies for counteracting misinformatio...
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This morning at #FGSP2025 @ruhr-uni-bochum.de we had a symposium on current views on motivated reasoning with talks from @marlephie.bsky.social @kwinter.bsky.social @philippschmid.bsky.social and Arne Stolp (from @tobiasrothmund.bsky.social‘s lab) and myself. For some more details, here’s a🧵
New paper on impact of #healthmisinformation with the amazing Hannah Bauer This meta-analysis aims to help fact-checkers identify dangerous misinfo and to help researchers plan studies on health misinformation. doi.org/10.1080/1041...
Impact of Exposure to Health Misinformation on Belief in Health Misinformation: A Meta-Analysis of RCTs
Health authorities have labeled health misinformation a major global health threat and academic scholars consider exposure to health misinformation a barrier to an individual’s informed decision-ma...
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Not unexpected... but still interesting to watch what happens if someone "overplays his hand".... www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
China to donate $500 million to WHO, stepping into gap left by U.S.
Beijing will replace the United States as the organization’s top state donor, expanding its influence as the U.S. retreats from international cooperation.
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This just makes me sick… with stories like this basically every history schoolbook in Germany starts to explain fascism… www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
US to begin immediate removal of up to 1,000 trans military members
Pentagon will give other trans service members 30 days to self-identify while it enforces recently approved ban
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Go 🇳🇱!! 👍🏻 “The Dutch city of The Hague has successfully defended its landmark law, which bans fossil fuel advertising, in court.” www.clientearth.org/latest/press...
MEDIA REACTION: World-first law banning fossil fuel ads survives Dutch legal challenge | ClientEarth
A Dutch city has successfully defended its landmark law to ban fossil fuel advertising –setting a precedent for cities across Europe in the process.
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… because women are not in the public’s interest…🙄insane… www.science.org/content/arti...
NIH guts its first and largest study centered on women
The Women’s Health Initiative has produced numerous influential findings
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In the month of International Women’s Day, we asked six scientists about the most influential woman who shaped their field. @histoftech.bsky.social @samaraklar.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Women shaping behavioural science - Nature Human Behaviour
In the month of International Women’s Day, we asked six scientists about the most influential woman who shaped their field. They highlight well-known names and rising stars. Some of them have studied ...
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„Smashing the old order does not, in itself, create anything at all. The Visigoths and the Vandals built nothing on top of the ruins of Rome. They indulged their thumos and scampered away to feast for a while on the wealth they looted, and then they disappeared..“ www.noahpinion.blog/p/this-thing...
This thing will fail
Trump will not restore the "strong gods" of community, family, and faith.
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Naomi Oreskes wrote about this 7 years ago and the Trump administration is doing exactly that: Using replications and open science as a trojan horse. Doubt is their product. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Beware: transparency rule is a Trojan Horse
Like tobacco lobbyists and climate-change deniers, the US Environmental Protection Agency is co-opting scientific trappings to sow doubt, warns Naomi Oreskes.
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The NIH canceled my research on vaccine hesitancy www.statnews.com/2025/03/28/v... via @statnews "Each year in the United States, approximately 6,000 people die from influenza. More than 7,000 will die from Covid-19 in 2025. ...an American child died from measles for the first time in a decade."
The NIH canceled my research on vaccine hesitancy
The decision to end research on vaccine hesitancy is deeply disrespectful of those who have lost or will lose loved ones to vaccine-preventable disease.
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So will we need a new category in risk of bias assessments when doing systematic reviews? Study conducted by US after 2025 yes/no? www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
Vaccine skeptic hired to head federal study of immunizations and autism
A long-discredited researcher and vaccine skeptic will conduct a government study on whether vaccines cause autism.
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Bird flu detected in sheep in England for the first time
Bird flu detected in sheep in England for the first time
Bird flu has been detected in a sheep in England for the first time, the government has said.
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We're seeing a lot of very rapid geopolitical and geo-economic thinking going on right now in Europe about what the end of the US alliance means for its security, economy & diplomacy. I haven't seen any parallel thinking among the US Atlanticist community about what it means for the US. (Brief) 🧵
Nice comments! „makes it feel like a consciousness with which we can have a relationship, but as far as I know that would be like a bird falling in love with its reflection in a window. What’s behind the glass is an empty room with no bird.“ Nick Harkaway www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
‘A computer’s joke, on us’: writers respond to the short story written by AI
Sam Altman, the OpenAI boss, has declared its new model ‘good at creative writing’. We asked writers including Tracy Chevalier, Kamila Shamsie and David Baddiel if they agree
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Welcome to Europe, 🦋 May you soon be a designated VLOP! #DSA www.euronews.com/next/2025/03...
Bluesky finally found in Belgium
Any Digital Services Act questions will go to the Belgian telecom regulator as Bluesky established its legal headquarters in the country.
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Nice Initiative!: „a group of volunteer science communicators and artists dedicated to amplifying the voices of scientists affected by budget cuts and grant terminations. Our portraits highlight their contributions and the importance of their work.“ silencedsciencestories.com?trk=feed_mai...
Silenced Science Stories
Featuring the faces and stories of federal scientists.
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Experience with measles vaccine mandates in Germany. There is a lot to address in the future but overall positiv reports from involved parties. www.rki.de/DE/Aktuelles... www.tagesschau.de/wissen/gesun...
Experten bewerten Masern-Impfpflicht positiv
Fünf Jahre ist es her, dass in Deutschland eine Impfpflicht gegen Masern eingeführt wurde. Nun haben Experten Bilanz gezogen: Zwar wurden mehr Kinder immunisiert als zuvor - bei der Umsetzung gab es j...
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Dr. Rebecca Calisi-Rodríguez@rebeccacalisi.bsky.social · last yr.DEI is under attack, but the stakes are higher than many realize. Universities *must stand firm* in defending it. I lay out why in my latest piece for Nature. Silence is complicity. Without DEI, we fail our students, our research, and our future. www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪
For over 75 years, WHO has been at the heart of global health, saving lives and building a healthier world: 🔗 bit.ly/4i4FD0i #HealthForAll
Happy to join the Editorial Board of @commspsychol.bsky.social Interesting health/misinfo/science denialism research going on? You might wanna consider CP. www.nature.com/commspsychol/
Communications Psychology
Communications Psychology is an open access journal from Nature Portfolio publishing high-quality research, reviews and commentary across all of the ...
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Virtual contact between U.S. non-Muslim and Muslim students from MENA and SE Asia regions demonstrates that online interactions can effectively reduce prejudice and dehumanization. @shirahebelsela.bsky.social @boazhameiri.bsky.social @eranhalperin75.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Virtual contact improves intergroup relations between non-Muslim American and Muslim students from the Middle East, North Africa and Southeast Asia in a field quasi-experiment - Communications Psychol...
Virtual contact between U.S. non-Muslim and Muslim students from MENA and SE Asia regions demonstrates that online interactions can effectively reduce prejudice and dehumanization, offering a scalable...
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