Tomorrow marks the start of 🌍 World AMR Awareness Week 2025! We’ll be sharing insights from our AMR research as psychologists at @univie.ac.at @ipb.bsky.social @unierfurt.bsky.social and BNITM. Like/share this post for updates throughout the week! #AMR #WorldAMRAwarenessWeek #WAAW2025

We wrote the Strain on scientific publishing to highlight the problems of time & trust. With a fantastic group of co-authors, we present The Drain of Scientific Publishing: a 🧵 1/n Drain: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820 Strain: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/... Oligopoly: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...

We're hiring! @univie.ac.at is seeking a TT Assistant Professor in the Psychology of Digitalization. If your work is about automation, AI, or immersive technology (e.g., VR) in the context of work and organizations (broadly defined), we’d love to hear from you. 👇

Meilenstein: Die Universität Wien ist erstmals unter den Top 100 im World University Ranking von @timeshighered.bsky.social - auf Platz 95! 🥳 Das stärkt Sichtbarkeit & internationale Vernetzung exzellenter Forschender und Studierender weltweit. #univie #THERanking 👉 www.univie.ac.at/aktuelles/pr...

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

It was a pleasure to provide a keynote talk at this week‘s #ECTMIH conference in #Hamburg. I learned about great research to improve health and had fun with my friends and colleagues @miroslavsirota.bsky.social and @corneliabetsch.bsky.social & her team.

🌍 Vom 29.9.–2.10. sind IPB-Mitglieder bei der #ECTMIH2025 in Hamburg mit Forschung zu Impfverhalten, AMR & Risikokommunikation 📊 🎙️ Keynote von IPB-Fellow @robertboehm.bsky.social „Transforming Health and Climate Communication Through Digital Innovation“ @unierfurt.bsky.social @escmid.bsky.social

My PhD student @qinyuxiao.bsky.social has written a wonderful tribute to Gary Bornstein’s influential paper on team games (doi.org/10.1207/S153...) — a paper that remains as relevant today as it was over 20 years ago. You can read Qinyu’s short piece here: doi.org/10.1038/s441...

This rigorous and fully transparent meta-analysis on the impact of herd immunity communication on vaccination intentions and behavior is based on @leonhardreiter.bsky.social's master’s thesis. Couldn’t be prouder of him. ❤️

Can large language models stand in for human participants? Many social scientists seem to think so, and are already using "silicon samples" in research. One problem: depending on the analytic decisions made, you can basically get these samples to show any effect you want. THREAD 🧵

Tomorrow at 5pm UTC Python: The Documentary produced by @cultrepo.bsky.social premieres on YouTube! 🎬🐍 From a side project in Amsterdam to a language shaping the world— discover the story of #Python. Featuring Guido van Rossum & many more! www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfH4...

Exciting and innovative project on an important topic with an outstanding supervisor. Consider applying!

New paper on reciprocal relations between pandemic fatigue and protective behavior accepted for publication in Health Psychology, together with Maie Stein, @cortrudolph.bsky.social, @robertboehm.bsky.social Funded by @volkswagenstiftung.de Open access version: www.researchgate.net/publication/...

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.

Das war ein großer Spass! Fast einen ganzen Tag Ideen zu Fragen der planetaren Gesundheit gewälzt - DANKE ❤️ Markus Reichstein @ellisunitjena.bsky.social und Team, @robertboehm.bsky.social und Geko Team des @ipb.bsky.social #planetaryhealth #behavioralscience #climate #health #sciencebsky

🚨 NEW PUBLICATION 🚨 "An approach to capturing the cultural contexts of health behaviours" together with Veerle Snijders, Katrine Bach Habersaat, Edward Fischer, Felicity Thomas, @julieleask.bsky.social, Martha Scherzer, Alona Mazhnaia & Nils Fietje. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Thrilled to be visiting @unierfurt.bsky.social in the next two weeks as an @ipb.bsky.social fellow! I'm eager to catch up with longtime colleagues and friends like @corneliabetsch.bsky.social and excited to meet new people, share ideas, and build fresh connections.

1/ What does the social fabric of an entire country look like? We built a nation-scale social network of Denmark — 7.2 million people, 1.4 billion ties, 14 years of data. Here’s what we found 👇 📄 doi.org/10.1038/s415... #NetworkScience #Sociology

🧵 Can you predict whether behavioral interventions will work in new contexts? … probably not, right? In our new paper with @dggoldst.bsky.social @dilipsoman.bsky.social @susanmichie.bsky.social, we dive into how to better understand and improve generalizability. rdcu.be/ewD2z Summary👇

It was a real pleasure to engage in discussion with this outstanding team of co-authors on how individual- and system-level policies can inform one another to create a truly comprehensive and inclusive approach to behavioral public policy. Thank you Wilhelm and Jutta for leading this effort.

An der @univie.ac.at suchen wir eine/n Gastprofessor*in für Arbeits- und Organisationspsychologie ab Oktober 2025 für einen Zeitraum von 2 Jahren. 🔗 berufungsservice.univie.ac.at/fileadmin/us...

There's been a variety of papers on using LLMs to code open-ended survey results, including - journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... - arxiv.org/pdf/2506.14634 - osf.io/preprints/so...

An AI model (Llama 3.1 70B) fine-tuned on the results of 60,000 people in psychology experiments shows some real promise in using LLMs for studying and predicting human behavior. It predicts actual human behavior in held-out data & it generalizes to out-of-distribution tasks and experiments.

New paper: What increases people’s support for policy responses to #climate #change? ✊ We find: It’s not necessarily firsthand experience of extreme weather events. Instead, it’s whether people think that these events are linked to climate change. Here is the paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🔎

We had an amazing team evening at one of Vienna’s traditional Heuriger wine taverns. Grateful to be part of such a fantastic team! #ViennaVibes

As the director of whocc-sabrar.univie.ac.at, I signed this open letter now published @thelancet.com to express my support of the @who.int's important activities and efforts.

Our paper "A fragmented field" has just been accepted at AMPPS. We find it's not just you, psychology is really getting more confusing (construct and measure fragmentation is rising). We updated the preprint with the (substantial) revision, please check it out. osf.io/preprints/ps...

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...

Are you passionate about #scicomm & psychology in the context of #Sustainability? We are looking for a PhD-candidate (75%; 4 yrs) for the Hub Science project "Psychology of Transformation" at Leuphana University Lüneburg! www.leuphana.de/universitaet...

This sounds so interesting and combines several hot topics. You should consider applying!

🚨NEW PUBLICATION🚨 in the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies: "Support for refugees declines when helpers have unequal positions and abilities to help." Together with Milan van Steenvoort, @hannesrusch.bsky.social and Paul van Lange. doi.org/10.1080/1369...

What a great pleasure to host the Behavioural Insights and Antimicrobial Resistance Workshop last week in Vienna. Many insightful talks and discussions on relevant topics, like AMR knowledge, patient expectations and behaviour, prescribers' behaviour, and challenges in LMICs.

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

A study shows that people react more strongly to new restrictions, such as smoking bans, before they're introduced than afterward, when they better recognize the #societalbenefits: go.tum.de/848001 #reactance #perception @univie.ac.at 📷iStock/manwolste

Ob Rauchverbot, Tempolimit oder Zuckersteuer – viele Menschen sind erstmal dagegen. Eine neue Studie unter Leitung der #univie @robertboehm.bsky.social & @tum.de zeigt: Der größte Widerstand gegen systemische Eingriffe entsteht vor der Einführung. Nach ihrer Umsetzung sinkt die Ablehnung deutlich. ⤵️

📣In case you're still interesting in joining the Heat & Cognition Manylabs🔥🧠 , we are now running the task tournament. Collaborators can suggest tasks, scales, and items to be included in the project! Deadline to submit is May 11th! More info at: heatandmind.wordpress.com

Across the United Nations, researchers and practitioners are building behaviorally informed technologies that can address humanitarian challenges in new ways. Heather Graci reports on three that caught her eye during UN’s recent Behavioural Science Week.

🚨 New paper out in @pnas.org 🚨 Together with Armin Granulo and Christoph Fuchs, we explore how people respond to system-level policies—like bans or mandates— 𝘣𝘦𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘦 vs. 𝘢𝘧𝘵𝘦𝘳 they are implemented. Paper 🔗 doi.org/10.1073/pnas... Preprint 🔗 osf.io/preprints/ps... Open materials 🔗 osf.io/6qajn/

🚨New AI-dialogue WP on vax hesitancy🚨 A conversation with our LLM was >2x more effective than standard CDC messaging for increasing hesitant parents' intent to vax kids against HPV Many diff reasons for hesitancy = need for tailored responses PDF: osf.io/preprints/ps... Bot: healthinfobot.com/hpv

Looking for a PhD candidate to join a project at the intersection of health comms & computer science! We’ll use LLMs to create synthetic patient populations to test vaccine uptake interventions & build a training tool for better vax communication. jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Project-... Please repost!

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

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...

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

New blog post! In which I explain the issue with mediation analysis and sketch out one way to deal with the underlying causal inference problem -- in just a bit over 1,000 words! If you have never found the time to read up on this, now is your chance. www.the100.ci/2025/03/20/r...

In einem neuen Paper, publiziert im Bundesgesundheitsblatt, diskutieren wir das Potential von digitalen Ansätzen—soziale Medien, Smartphone-Apps, Chatbots und immersive Technologien, insbesondere virtuelle Realität—für die Impfkommunikation. The future is digital! doi.org/10.1007/s001...

Being a professor is challenging, with teaching, admin, and leadership keeping me busy. Supporting the success of my PhD students and postdocs brings me joy and pride. The past few weeks have been great for the early-career researchers in my team—so they’ve been great for me too! #ReframingSuccess

This sounds like a pretty useful package.

🚨New Publication Fresh from the Press🚨 "Student (Mis)Use of Generative AI Tools for University-Related Tasks". Together with the great Moritz Jörling, Christoph Fuchs & @robertboehm.bsky.social, we explored how university students (mis)use generative AI tools! OA: doi.org/10.1080/1044... 1/7

My co-host Laura and I got together for an emergency podcast episode of @pandemia.bsky.social on what is happening around the world due to Trump’s executive orders affecting foreign aid. 🧪 Episode (mostly in German) is here and some points to come: podcasts.apple.com/at/podcast/m...