Lookit! #BCConf2026

After yesterday's pre-conference workshop on storifying behaviour change (using a broadcasting paradigm that rather fits ordered contra complex environments), @susanmichie.bsky.social opens the Behaviour Change Conference. 1/

Ebola is not a disease that should be chased around the world after it spreads. Once transmission enters the global transportation network, it can move to anywhere and from there everywhere. Effective management means acting before that happens. WHN paper: whn.global/scientific/m... #Ebola

Highlighting this Retraction Watch article because it's both incredibly serious, and just the tip of the iceberg. This reflects a culture of sloppiness and self-interest that is far too widespread in clinical "science" circles, from the "5-micron error" to shoddy evidence synthesis practices. See 🧵

More than you ever wanted to know about toilet plumes. Also, "fecal veneer" is a term @barryhunt008.bsky.social inflicted on my awareness, and I don't see why I should be the only one to suffer. And yes, it is exactly what it sounds like. And yes, it is related. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Bored with stories about Influenza A overwhelming hospitals, etc? Not to worry! Influenza B has now kicked off and is already at two year highs in the Midwest USA. Want to sit out flu season? Wear respirators when indoors where unmasked people are breathing. 😷💉🔬🦠

Central Virginia hospitals recommend masking in health care centers as flu, COVID-19 cases surge Patients with cough, fever, sneezing or a runny nose are strongly encouraged to wear a mask and tell staff about symptoms when visiting clinics, urgent care centres or emergency rooms. archive.md/RTlaD

Älä 🚫 osta 💰 raketteja 🧨 meillä on sota Euroopassa. Tästä Mitsubishista on enemmän iloa Ukrainassa kuin siitä että perseillään koiranpommien kanssa Suomessa. Tiedät mitä tehdä👇

Estimating the value of face coverings during the COVID-19 epidemic: a dynamic causal modelling study New from @globalhlthtwit.bsky.social of @independentsage.bsky.social bmjpublichealth.bmj.com/content/bmjp...

I have some paradigmatic reservations relating to the nature of causality in behavioural systems, and the expected efficiency of messaging. But curious about people's thoughts?

Lahjoitettu 👌

In fact, we’re seeing exponential growth in patient numbers across all disease and age groups in Finland. The trend is strikingly linear on a log scale, with no sign of any slowdown since 2020. No health system can take this for long. It's just a matter of time. 8/x

AND WOULD THAT BE IN ANY PARTICULAR ANIMAL MODEL BY ANY CHANCE IS THERE SOME IMPORTANT CONTEXT MISSING FROM YOUR HEADLINE PERHAPS SAY IT WITH ME FOLKS

Quote for today's negotiations: "The aggressor is always peace-loving; he would prefer to take over our country unopposed." Carl von Clausewitz in "On War," 1816-1830

The "smartphones/social media" discourse suffers from some amazing historical amnesia. There was no 2008 financial crisis and no global pandemic starting in 2020, it's all SCREENS SCREENS SCREENS. Major world events? Just the backdrop against which SCREENS happened.

"From Droplets to Fine Particles: How the pandemic changed our understanding of infection spread" mattiheino.com/2025/12/13/i...

Patient came in with sore throat. While waiting for rapid Strep test result we glanced back at the Covid-19 RAT result: positive. Reminder that masking in health care makes sense, if you don’t want everyone in your waiting room to go home sick, your staff to get sick, and physicians to get sick.

I'm baffled with the new OSF. I have a project with subfolders for different projects. I want to link the relevant subfolder in a manuscript describing those results. But OSF only allows me to share the root folder ➡️ people need to navigate from there on their own?! Help? osf.io/6j2wy/files

Beautiful 🥲

Looks like their plan to boost productivity by ushering everyone back to the office in an ongoing pandemic didn't play out as expected ottawacitizen.com/public-servi...

Keräyksemme on jo kivunnut 62% lukemiin tavoitteesta, kiitos teidän aktiivisten tukijoiden 💪 Aikaa saavuttaa tuo 10 000€ on 17.12. asti, eli käytännössä tonni per viikko olisi vielä kerättävää. Laitetaanko sanaa kiertämään yhdessä? 🙏

If, like me, you lost a loved one in the UK’s deadly second COVID wave, this WhatsApp chat will confirm that the then government has blood on its hands.

The most comprehensive dataset of video game play and psychological functioning available with CC0 license at zenodo.org/records/1760...

Muistatteko aiemmin hankkimamme drooni-ilmaisimet? Tässä palautetta niiden käyttäjältä, yksityiskohtia mainitsematta. Tukemalla Ukrainaa meidän kanssamme, te autatte rohkeimpia ja epäitsekkäimpiä ihmisiä Ukrainassa säilyttämään henkensä 🇫🇮🤝🇺🇦

We’re five years into the pandemic, and the science is telling a very different story than “just a cold.” COVID affects blood vessels, organs, metabolism, and cognition — and the impacts compound with each infection.

Jay Bhattacharya's plan for a new pandemic is for everyone to suddenly be healthy.

40 years later… And the thing is, we already have mountains of data NOW that show what COVID does to brains. Why can’t we acknowledge it? Why can’t we face it? Why can’t we say it?

Don’t know if it even made the news outside Ukraine. Three combined heat and power plants fully stopped working after last night’s enormous attack. Unclear if anything can be fixed, millions of people are completely without electricity, heating or running water. Before winter.

Yeah so several major Ukrainian cities are in a complete blackout right now. 0 generation from thermal plants and 0 idea when the power will be back. Just please don’t forget us

Mobilepay = erittäin helppo!

#30DayMapChallenge – Day 5: Earth Given the importance of these, global occurrence of rare earth elements according to U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and the great hashtag#rayrender package in R.

Reactance (psychology): A counteracting motivational state people may experience, when their autonomy is threatened

One Public Health department is telling the whole story. Shining a light on those who are being less than transparent! Oopsie!

Haasteesta inspiroituneina tämäniltaisen harjoituksen aiheena oli Feeniksin Kilta goes Arno Rafael Minkkinen - yksi suomalaisen valokuvataiteen suurimmista. Jos haluatte nähdä lopputuloksen, lähettäkää minkä tahansa suuruinen lahjoitus 👀

COVID spreads fast in shared indoor air — any season, any time. Let’s build healthy habits that protect us year-round: masks, ventilation, and testing when sick. #PublicHealth #CleanAir #COVID #COVID19 #InfectionPrevention

Miss Fóx here failed to mention that you can also donate 4e to save the world from named images!

Oops. Ooooooooooooops. I do hope that nobody has been given or denied a job/promotion based on their SpringerNature citation counts in the past 15 years. arxiv.org/pdf/2511.01675 h/t @nathlarigaldie.bsky.social

Retweet disclaimer: did not read past abstract yet

"Pandemia muutti aiempia käsityksiä infektioiden leviämisestä. Ymmärrys ilmatartunnoista tarjoaa keinoja terveellisen sisäilman kehittämiseen ja tulevien epidemioiden ehkäisemiseen." tietokayttoon.fi/-/pisaroista...

Congratulations to Lidia Morawska, the Aussie scientist who alerted the world to the airborne nature of COVID-19. Winner of the Prime Minister’s Prize for Science. I’ve learnt so much from being a (very minor) part of Lidia’s team. Brilliant, incisive, generous. www.industry.gov.au/publications...

Tarjoamme monenlaista apua Ukrainalle: Ensimmäinen projektimme järjestönä: paloauton toimittaminen Harkovan kaupungille yhteistyössä Harkovan ystävyyskaupunki Turun kanssa. Auto toimii nykyään kaupungin tärkeän energiainfran turvaamistehtävissä.

happy 11th anniversary to this email sent to all staff at the School of Mathematics and Statistics

We've just launched the first large, site-less (home, direct to participant) randomized trial for treatment of #LongCovid, testing tirzepatide (a GLP-1 drug) vs placebo. Please help spread the word www.scripps.edu/news-and-eve...

I don't know anything about British politics. But I'm seeing 25%/29% don't reject, and wonder how important it is to get a numerical majority in this case (contra power to have others conform) medium.com/incerto/the-...

My local kebab shop considers me a hero and gives me free food. Apparently, they were getting robbed one night and I stopped it by talking the robber out of it. But I have no recollection of this because I was almost on the verge of being paralytically drunk. Still, free food.

Erinomainen idea. ”Biologin silmin paras ratkaisu olisi rajaseudun luontokäytävä, joka olisi suojeltujen ja ennallistettujen soiden ja metsien mo­saiikki. Vanhat, tiheät metsät tarjoaisivat suojaa luontokappaleille ja drooneilta piiloutuville taistelijoille.” suomenkuvalehti.fi/paajutut/ei-...

Käytännössä ainut tapa myydä soiden ennallistaminen suomalaisessa politiikassa: sano, että ne hidastavat venäläisiä tankkeja.

I mean... @mehr.nz might have given the most based academic interview I've ever read

Ukrainan eloonjäämistaistelu on myrkkyä Orbanille. Ukrainan voitto sodassa veisi pohjan hänen koko narratiiviltaan, että pienet maat voivat selviytyä vain luopumalla suvereniteetistaan. Siksi Ukrainaa vastaan taistelu on hänelle elintärkeää. www.politico.eu/article/hung...