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Miroslav Sirota
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Behavioural scientist researching reasoning, health decision-making, communication of risk and antimicrobial resistance. Professor of Psychology at the University of Essex.
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Miroslav Sirota @miroslavsirota.bsky.social · Nov 27
A starter pack for people interested in behavioral, cognitive and cultural aspects of antimicrobial resistance.

Happy to add you if you are active in this area.
go.bsky.app/9i8zPz

See also www.a-bc.network

#AMR #AntibioticResistance #AntibioticStewardship #BehavioralInsights #AMRBehaviorChange
miroslavsirota.bsky.social
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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November 20, 2025 at 9:52 PM
miroslavsirota.bsky.social
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
September 5, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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mlisi.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
Physical copy of the book “Statistics for Psychology Using R: A Linear Models Perspective” by Alasdair Clarke and Matteo Lisi, with a red title block and abstract network graphic.
August 21, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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riangross.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.
August 8, 2025 at 2:27 PM
miroslavsirota.bsky.social
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...
PSA-JTF3: Error Correction – Psychological Science Accelerator
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June 10, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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cortneyprice.bsky.social
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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May 19, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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byrdnick.com
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.)
byrdnick.com Nick Byrd, Ph.D. @byrdnick.com · May 16
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...
A slide asking how we can nudge patients to improve their understanding, expectations, intentions, and decisions regarding unnecessary antibiotics. Experimental design: randomize to nudge or control infographic before initial questionnaire (e.g., about expectations) and then randomize to a nudge or control text message before the final questionnaire (e.g., about whether to ask for antibiotics, try over-the-counter meds instead, etc.). Potentially bad news for a common practice of wait-and-see antibiotic prescriptions (in which clinician writes the prescription, but asks the patient not to full it unless certain diagnostic symptom patterns occur in the next few days): this mere OFFER of antibiotics may actually INCREASE interest in antibiotics (rather than the reverse). Both nudges improved people's expectations, intentions, and decisions regarding unnecessary antibiotics — effects that replicated in a high-powered, pre-registered replication.
May 16, 2025 at 12:20 PM
miroslavsirota.bsky.social
An inspiring keynote by @aliciad3.medsky.social at our Behavioral Insights and AMR workshop about how behavioral science can contribute to amr stewardship
May 16, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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evakrockow.bsky.social
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!
May 15, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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Thought provoking keynote from @cortneyprice.bsky.social about how behavioral scientists should approach and influence policy makers
May 15, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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@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.
May 15, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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evakrockow.bsky.social
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
May 15, 2025 at 7:40 AM
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psmaldino.bsky.social
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...
Author-Paid PublicationFees Corrupt Science and Should Be Abandoned Thomas J. H Morgan & Paul E. Smaldino
May 9, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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wimdeneys.bsky.social
New forthcoming perspective paper in Nature Reviews Psychology: “Defining System 2 deliberation for dual-process models” preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...
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May 8, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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evakrockow.bsky.social
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!
April 7, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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robertboehm.bsky.social
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
March 31, 2025 at 2:49 PM
miroslavsirota.bsky.social
Still some time to submit your work to our annual workshop!
robertboehm.bsky.social Robert Böhm @robertboehm.bsky.social · Mar 24
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
March 24, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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robertboehm.bsky.social
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...
March 24, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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robertboehm.bsky.social
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.
miroslavsirota.bsky.social Miroslav Sirota @miroslavsirota.bsky.social · Jan 16
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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
ABC Network: Activities
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January 25, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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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
ABC Network: Activities
www.a-bc.network
January 16, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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abc-network.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! 🦠🥊
January 15, 2025 at 5:21 AM
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simine.com
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!

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APS Editorial Fellowship Program: Call for Applications
Deadline: February 7, 2025APS is pleased to announce the application process for the next cohort of the Editorial Fellowship Program (EFP) is now open. This program aims to increase opportunities for ...
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January 12, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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scientificdiscovery.dev
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!
A timeline titled "The Golden Age of Antibiotics" shows when each antibiotic drug class was first available for medical use, with example antibiotics labeled. Classes are color-coded by their source: actinomycetes, other bacteria, fungi, or synthetic. Milestones include the first antibiotics (arsphenamines in 1910), as well as the discovery of many actinomycetes-derived antibiotics, such as streptomycin, and sulfonamides, penicillins, and tetracyclines. Data: Hutchings, Truman, Wilkinson (2019). Created by Saloni Dattani for Our World in Data.
December 23, 2024 at 10:09 AM
miroslavsirota.bsky.social
Scientists need to create more time to think...
rritunnano.bsky.social Rosa Ritunnano @rritunnano.bsky.social · Dec 20
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.
December 21, 2024 at 1:12 PM
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hugoreasoning.bsky.social
Yes, that was fun, glad to see it's out!
profsanderlinden.bsky.social Sander van der Linden @profsanderlinden.bsky.social · Dec 10
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...
Podcast: Is the Misinformation Crisis Overblown?
This week on Entanglements, our hosts talk to a social psychologist and a cognitive scientist about false information.
undark.org
December 10, 2024 at 12:59 PM