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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

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Miroslav Sirota @miroslavsirota.bsky.social · 5d

It was a great keynote!

Miroslav Sirota @miroslavsirota.bsky.social · Sep 6

Thank you so much for sharing, @jefflinder.bsky.social. We used CRPs in primary care contexts and study when people think they need antibiotics. (So not prescribing.) But there is support for CRPs influencing antibiotics prescribing eg www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

C-reactive protein point-of-care testing to guide antibiotic prescribing for respiratory tract infections

Antimicrobial resistance is strongly correlated with the volume of antibiotics used. Most antibiotics are prescribed in primary care, mostly for respiratory tract infections (RTIs), and are often u...

www.tandfonline.com

Miroslav Sirota @miroslavsirota.bsky.social · Sep 5

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 · Sep 2

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

<em>British Journal of Health Psychology</em> | Wiley Online Library

Objectives Patients' expectations for antibiotics are among the strongest predictors of clinicians' decisions to overprescribe antibiotics. In this registered report, we used a signal detection theo...

doi.org

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Matteo Lisi @mlisi.bsky.social · Aug 21

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.

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Rian Gross @riangross.bsky.social · Aug 8

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.

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Miroslav Sirota @miroslavsirota.bsky.social · Jun 12

Thank you!

Miroslav Sirota @miroslavsirota.bsky.social · Jun 11

Please do!

Miroslav Sirota @miroslavsirota.bsky.social · Jun 11

We would like to finish most of data collection by the end of this year. Does it sound reasonable?

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Miroslav Sirota @miroslavsirota.bsky.social · Jun 10

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

psysciacc.org

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Cortney Price @cortneyprice.bsky.social · May 19

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...

www.linkedin.com

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Nick Byrd, Ph.D. @byrdnick.com · May 16

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 · 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.

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Miroslav Sirota @miroslavsirota.bsky.social · May 16

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

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Eva Krockow @evakrockow.bsky.social · May 15

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!

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Miroslav Sirota @miroslavsirota.bsky.social · May 15

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

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Miroslav Sirota @miroslavsirota.bsky.social · May 15

@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.

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Eva Krockow @evakrockow.bsky.social · May 15

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

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Paul Smaldino @psmaldino.bsky.social · May 9

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

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Wim De Neys @wimdeneys.bsky.social · May 8

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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Eva Krockow @evakrockow.bsky.social · Apr 7

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!

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Miroslav Sirota @miroslavsirota.bsky.social · Apr 7

Congrats! Looking forward to reading them all.

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Robert Böhm @robertboehm.bsky.social · Mar 31

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

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Miroslav Sirota @miroslavsirota.bsky.social · Mar 24

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

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

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Robert Böhm @robertboehm.bsky.social · Mar 24

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...

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Miroslav Sirota @miroslavsirota.bsky.social · Feb 25

All done for you!

Miroslav Sirota @miroslavsirota.bsky.social · Feb 22

Check also our network: www.a-bc.network

ABC Network: Antimicrobials: Behaviour & Cognition Network