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Susan Michie @susanmichie.bsky.social · 2d

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Susan Michie @susanmichie.bsky.social · 2d

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Behavioural Research UK (BR-UK) @behaviourresuk.bsky.social · 5d

Dive into BR-UK's latest findings in our October webinar! Introduced by Professor Linda Bauld & facilitated by Professor @susanmichie.bsky.social and Dr @sharoncox.bsky.social. Register for insights and a Q&A via the link below:
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A blue and white slide with the text 'Research Showcase'. Facilitated by Susan Michie, BR-UK Co-Director, Dr Sharon Cox, BR-UK Deputy Director & EDII Co-Lead, Professor Linda Bauld, BR-UK Co-Director. In this webinar, our research team will present the key findings from our Demonstration Projects. These projects research focused on how we used existing/expanded frameworks and data to generate rapid new findings.

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Steve Griffin @profstevegriffin.bsky.social · 5d

How many FRSs interfere with overseas politics, finance right-wing groups, dismantle US scientific infrastructure, perform Nazi salutes on camera, and use the largest social media platform on earth to promote disinformation on vaccines, COVID, climate change...etc?

Naughty boy? Outright disgrace.

The Royal Society @royalsociety.org · 7d

"I am increasingly concerned over threats to the values that allow science to flourish." Read the full statement from the President of the Royal Society Sir Adrian Smith: royalsociety.org/news/2025/10...

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A statement from the President of the Royal Society regarding threats to the values that allow science to flourish.

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Binita Kane @binitakane.bsky.social · 5d

Brilliant article by a teacher highlighting the current dire situation for teachers and kids every winter when it comes to infection risk and spread. We continue to fight for our kids to have the right to breathe clean air.

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Dear Bridget Phillipson, Please Can We Talk About Health?

Dear Bridget Phillipson, Please can we talk about health? It’s autumn 2025. We’re one month into the school year, in England. Two of my children are ill, again.With Covid, again.It&#821…

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Prof Sheena Cruickshank @sheencr.bsky.social · 5d

The Trump administration finally release a summary linking to their alleged evidence that tylenol use in pregnancy is linked to autism and again as is currently happening ACIP data is misquoted, omitted and misused to support a conclusion #HealthPolicy 🧪🧵

How the White House spun ‘weak’ and ‘inconclusive’ studies to tie Tylenol to autism

Experts say White House presented ‘association as causation’ and based conclusions on ‘poor quality studies’

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Susan Michie @susanmichie.bsky.social · 6d

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UK fifth-worst country in Europe for loss of green space to development

Exclusive: 1,680 football pitches of protected natural land in England, Wales and Northern Ireland lost in five years

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Susan Michie @susanmichie.bsky.social · 7d

The article ‘Specifying the Schedule of Delivery of Interventions within the Behaviour Change Intervention Ontology’ in @WellcomeOpenRes has been viewed more than 200 times! wellcomeopenresearch.org/articles/9-7.... Follow @HBCProject to see associated ontologies & articles

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Susan Michie @susanmichie.bsky.social · 12d

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What the current disinformation and discussions on vaccines, Tylenol (Paracetamol), autism could mean for us all.

Disinformation and Disarray in American Health Policy Making

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UCL Centre for Behaviour Change @ucl-cbc.bsky.social · 14d

Keen to grow your skills & knowledge in #BehaviourChange? 🌍
Dates for your diary for our training courses & events 👇
To join our intermediate course next year, you’ll need to complete the introductory course first - the next starts in October
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2025 and 2026 dates for your diary from the UCL Centre for Behaviour Change. Introductory, intermediate and advanced courses, and the Behaviour Change Conference 2026.

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UCL Centre for Behaviour Change @ucl-cbc.bsky.social · 21d

Our Research Culture team are showcasing work today at the International Research Culture Conference #IRCC2025. You can find out more about the project and view their poster on our website 🔗 www.ucl.ac.uk/behaviour-ch...

Huner Erdinch stands by their research poster at the International Research Culture Conference 2025.

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UCL Centre for Behaviour Change @ucl-cbc.bsky.social · 17d

🔗 Find out more about the MSc Behaviour Change: www.ucl.ac.uk/prospective-...

🔗 And the Behavioural Insights Exchange, which enables our Masters' students to work with an organisation to apply what they have learnt to a real-world issue: www.ucl.ac.uk/brain-scienc...

Behaviour Change MSc

This postgraduate degree in behaviour change centres around the systematic application of behaviour change theory and methods to design, implement and evaluate interventions, primarily using the Behav...

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UCL Centre for Behaviour Change @ucl-cbc.bsky.social · 17d

How can organisations bring about change to help reduce stress, promote respect & foster balance? 🌿
MSc Behaviour Change students Nicole Jiang & Aisling Nuttall, with Prof Leslie Gutman, explored this in partnership with Mindful Business Charter as part of their dissertation
Read their blog 👇

LSE Business Review @lsebr.bsky.social · 19d

Professionals in stressful jobs are at risk of burnout..

Individual solutions such as mindfulness programs ignore the systemic stressors of organisational structures.

How to fix organisational culture and reduce burnout - LSE Business Review

Efforts to address burnout often involve individual solutions, which ignore the systemic nature of the problem. The focus must be on organisational change.

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UCL Centre for Behaviour Change @ucl-cbc.bsky.social · 16d

🤖 Could robots support us as we age?
As part of #WorldAlzMonth, @viviantonop.bsky.social & @drchrysikou.bsky.social discuss how smart technologies can enhance independence in later life.
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Quote from Dr Vivi Antonopoulou, UCL Centre for Behaviour Change, as part of World Alzheimer's Month 2025: "We are interested in understanding how people respond to living with a robot in their home. Then we want to take this study further and design robots specifically for people living with dementia. That may include changes to the robot’s communication style or its ability to provide memory prompts for people with dementia."

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UCL Centre for Behaviour Change @ucl-cbc.bsky.social · 27d

📢 Save the date! Our 10th Behaviour Change Conference, in partnership with BE-Change Knowledge Centre, takes place in Lisbon, 17-19 June 2026.
🌍 Join us to be part of an international community applying behaviour change to tackle global challenges.
👉 www.ucl.ac.uk/behaviour-change/conference

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Behavioural Research UK (BR-UK) @behaviourresuk.bsky.social · Sep 3

🌟Exciting news! We're launching the BR-UK AI Help Desk with bi-monthly advice sessions for the behavioral research community. Starting this month, join us to explore AI's evolving landscape with expert guidance. Sign up to learn & share! #AIHelpDesk #BehaviouralResearch

Section 4: BR-UK AI Help Desk | Behavioural Research UK (BR-UK) | Usher Institute

A soon-to-come initiative of bi-monthly online advice sessions supporting researchers in navigating this fast-evolving space.

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Behavioural Research UK (BR-UK) @behaviourresuk.bsky.social · Sep 5

🚦 New study alert! Researchers from BR-UK and @hbcproject.bsky.social are revolutionising road safety with an ontology-based framework. By standardising intervention reporting, we can better tackle speeding and save lives.

Discover more below:

New BR-UK Pre-Print Available Now | Behavioural Research UK (BR-UK) | Usher Institute

New Study Tests Ontology-Based Framework for Road Safety Interventions

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Behavioural Research UK (BR-UK) @behaviourresuk.bsky.social · 28d

Our September session is full, but great news: you can still snag a spot for the November and January sessions! Don’t miss out, sign up now! ⬇️

Behavioural Research UK (BR-UK) @behaviourresuk.bsky.social · Sep 3

🌟Exciting news! We're launching the BR-UK AI Help Desk with bi-monthly advice sessions for the behavioral research community. Starting this month, join us to explore AI's evolving landscape with expert guidance. Sign up to learn & share! #AIHelpDesk #BehaviouralResearch

Section 4: BR-UK AI Help Desk | Behavioural Research UK (BR-UK) | Usher Institute

A soon-to-come initiative of bi-monthly online advice sessions supporting researchers in navigating this fast-evolving space.

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John Drury @profjohndrury.bsky.social · 28d

At @bps-social-psych.bsky.social the @behaviourresuk.bsky.social funded symposium on our 2024 riots project @swedishprotests.bsky.social @drannetempleton.bsky.social

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Behavioural Research UK (BR-UK) @behaviourresuk.bsky.social · 19d

Want to make a real impact on complex societal challenges? Explore how entertainment can be a powerful tool for change! In this month's blog BR-UK Research Fellow Dr. Amy Rodger discusses using video games to shift behaviours at scale. Read via the link below: usher.ed.ac.uk/behavioural-...

Game On: Leveraging the Largest Entertainment Medium to Promote Climate Action | Behavioural Research UK (BR-UK) | Usher Institute

In this blog, Dr Amy Rodger and co-authors Dr Clayton Whittle & Mr Trevin York, explore the potential of video games, with their vast global reach and engaging features, to inspire environmental behav...

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Behavioural Research UK (BR-UK) @behaviourresuk.bsky.social · 26d

📢 Join us for our October webinar, the BR-UK Research Showcase! Gain insight into findings from each of the five BR-UK projects, followed by a Q&A session and discussion. Register now: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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Susan Michie @susanmichie.bsky.social · 21d

It was a great pleasure, and to discuss associated issues.

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DGPs Fachgruppe Gesundheitspsychologie @dgps-gesundheit.bsky.social · 21d

What a thought-provoking keynote on ontologies, behavior change interventions & the potential and challenges of AI & Maschine Learning! Huge thanks to @susanmichie.bsky.social for joining us @gesundpsy2025.bsky.social 🙏💐

Susan Michie giving her keynote, slide on understanding human behavior

Susan Michie giving her keynote, slide on BCT ontology

Susan Michie giving her keynote, slide on theories (there are too many)

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21d

Monarez: "Kennedy demanded 2 things of me that were were inconsistent w/ my oath of office. He directed me to commit in advance to approving every ACIP recommendation regardless of the scientific evidence. He also directed me to dismiss career officials responsible for vaccine policy without cause"

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Susan Michie @susanmichie.bsky.social · 22d

I think launch is October 14

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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 22d

“Based on Labour Party files, including some never publicly seen before, this explosive investigation lays bare the intrigues, stratagems, and deceits that helped deliver Sir Keir Starmer to Downing Street.”

ABOUT THE BOOK
Based on Labour Party files, including some never publicly seen before, this explosive investigation lays bare the intrigues, stratagems, and deceits that helped deliver Sir Keir Starmer to Downing Street.
Paul Holden shows how Starmer has been the
frontman for a ruthless, right-wing political project headed by Morgan McSweeney, now chief of staff in Number 10 and arguably the most powerful man in Britain.

McSweeney's clique often employed dirty tricks to undermine the left-wing Labour leadership of Jeremy Corbyn, fuelling a moral panic over antisemitism and establishing front groups that hobbled prominent independent media outlets in the name of fighting
'misinformation'
McSweeney then guided Starmer to the Labour leadership on a platform that Starmer, once in office, almost instantly betrayed. Having conquered the party on false pretences, McSweeney and his allies set about purging opponents, marginalising the membership, and dragging party policy to the right.

These machinations were made possible by financial donations that McSweeney did not disclose—a violation of the law that arguably subverted Britain's democratic system. But was McSweeney's unlawful failure to report donations a mistake—or was it deliberate?
This is a sordid tale that includes hacked emails, anonymous smears, dodgy dossiers, cynical stitch-ups, and staggering hypocrisy. It traces the Labour Party's transformation into a censorial, authoritarian machine, and sounds the alarm about the possible corruption of British politics by dark money.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR / EDITOR

Paul Holden has over a decade of experience in investigating cases of grand corruption and corporate malfeasance, including as the senior researcher on the book and feature documentary Shadow World:
Inside the Global Arms Trade. He has published six books, three of them bestsellers in his native South Africa, and has written for publications including the Guardian and the Independent. He is a Network Fellow at the Safra Centre for Ethics at Harvard University.

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