Our Scientific Committee has been busy shaping plans for the 2026 Behaviour Change Conference! 🎉 💡 Don't forget the call for abstracts is open until 15 December 👉 www.ucl.ac.uk/behaviour-ch... 👏 Thanks to Co-Chairs Marta Marques & Felix Naughton & all Committee members for their expertise

"Systems are not things. They consist of people." @sbacon20.bsky.social making an important point about the relevance of behavioural theory to public health! #EPH2025

There are lots of barriers within public health that prevents researchers from using behavioural science theories and tools, including lack of knowledge, time/ resources, and support from superiors, says Kim Lavoie #EPH2025

📢 New paper alert! Our article on specifying delivery schedules in the Behaviour Change Intervention Ontology supports greater clarity and consistency in intervention reporting. Now with over 200 views 👏 Read it here 👉 wellcomeopenresearch.org/articles/9-7...

Online health #misinformation almost the norm! Watch for red flags, like use of anecdotes, "secret knowledge" BS, & "scienceploitation" (sciencey word salads!). 🚩 What to believe and what not about health information on your phone: www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/art...

🧠 This week’s research highlight: Would you share your health data to receive personalised advice? Senior Research Fellow @viviantonop.bsky.social co-authored a study on privacy concerns & trust in personalised health apps with 2000 people in London & Hong Kong. 👉 www.cambridge.org/core/blog/20...

The sugar intake of children in the UK is more than double the recommended maximum amount. The UK government’s decision not to introduce a higher rate tax for the most sugary drinks is good news for industry but bad for public health www.bmj.com/content/391/...

📢 Paper update! A revised version of “Predicting outcomes of smoking cessation interventions in novel scenarios using ontology-informed, interpretable machine learning” is now published. Read it here 👉 wellcomeopenresearch.org/articles/8-5... Many thanks to everyone who contributed!

Health and Climate Change: Solutions to Meet New Risks in Canada. Join me October 6th, 2025 | 12:00- 17:00 ET at the The Globe and Mail Centre, Toronto. Tickets: globeandmailevents.com/healthandcli...

Why we need trust in science: @carlbergstrom.com nails it. This is why I’m sleuthing in retirement. Some say that talking about fraud destroys trust in science. No. Turning a blind eye to fraud and pretending it’s not happening is what destroys trust.

🔊 New in Social Science & Medicine - 'Do nudges need a regulatory push? Comparing the effectiveness and implementation of exemplar nudge (size-based) and non-nudge (price-based) dietary interventions' Available here (£0): www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Summary 🧵 follows 👇 #BehSci #Nudge

Are behavioural interventions more effective at key life moments? 2 new reports from the Dept of Transport assess if transport behaviour change efforts are most impactful during times of change & identify moments relevant to practitioners. Read more on Centre-UB: www.centre-ub.org/news/are-beh...

📢 Oyé! Oyé! Vous travaillez en partenariat avec diverses parties prenantes? 👉 Élaborez vos chartes partenariales avec cet outil intéractif! 🤝 view.genially.com/6813b69f2c9b... @anaislacasse.bsky.social @adangrenier.bsky.social @passerelle-hub.bsky.social @inspq.qc.ca @sbacon20.bsky.social

Tempering implementation optimism: distinguishing between efficacy and effectiveness in implementation research Per Nilsen, Jeanette Wassar Kirk, Katarina Ulfsdotter Gunnarsson & Kristin Thomas @implementsci.bsky.social #ImpSci implementationsciencecomms.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Our short article and infographic in the BJSM summarises the results of a meta-analysis that examined which exercise strategies boost cognitive function in people with clinical depression; bjsm.bmj.com/content/earl...

Love this! ❤️ This 92-year-old sprinter has the muscle cells of someone in their 20s wapo.st/4oXOJjB "A lot of the detrimental effects that you see with aging can be substantially reduced if we just keep those physical activity levels very high." Sum: #Move!

@kristiwhitephd.bsky.social @docsforclimate.bsky.social @apadivision38.bsky.social

Behavioral scientists, your moment is now. ABM's new Call to Action outlines a clear, strategic path to create research that drives real impact — for planetary health and for all life on Earth. Dive in and read our newest article here: 🔗 academic.oup.com/abm/article/... @apajournals.bsky.social

Build your own study smarphone app during this 3-day hands on workshop! Apply by April 21. Please re-post. #sbm2025 @casbsstanford.bsky.social @digital-health.bsky.social @policysrnt.bsky.social @cpddorg.bsky.social @theaacr.bsky.social @abctstudentsig.bsky.social @sbacon20.bsky.social

We are excited to announce the 2025 Clinical Trials Training Summit, advancing quality, innovation, and inclusivity in clinical trials. Feb 24-26, Vancouver, BC + virtual attendance free and open to the public. #ClinicalTrialTraining #CTSummit2025 clinicaltrailstrainingsummit2025.wecantrain.ca

Nous sommes très heureux de annoncer le Sommet sur la formation en essais cliniques 2025, qui avance la qualité, l’innovation, et l'inclusivité dans les essais cliniques. 24-26 février, Vancouver, CB et virtuellement gratuit au public. clinicaltrailstrainingsummit2025.wecantrain.ca

Rise of distrust largely the result of embrace of lies & spin. ‘I can’t go toe to toe with social media.’ Top US health official reflects, regrets. wapo.st/3DR3KAt @ddiamond "federal agencies are outmatched in a world of 'instantaneous information & disinformation.'"

“Here, we—two early-career psychologists from Germany and India and one global health researcher from the UK who all conducted field work in LMICs—summarize key questions and concerns that we wish someone would have told us before conducting our research in Ethiopia, Myanmar, Thailand, and India”

@martinhagger.bsky.social & me contend that individual-level (“i-frame”) intervention strategies can be appropriately integrated with system-level (“s-frame”) strategies to optimize population-level behavior change doi.org/10.1017/S014...

How many health tips do we need to thrive in 2025? open.substack.com/pub/garyschw... by @garyschw.bsky.social 5 or 44? Reality: the evidence-based basics of healthy lifestyle have been known for a long time. Don't smoke. Move. Eat well (no magic). Sleep. Less alcohol. Community. Ignore noise.

ijbnpa.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... Associations of accelerometer-measured physical activity, sedentary behaviour, and sleep with next-day cognitive performance in older adults: a micro-longitudinal study

Are we ready for another pandemic? After #COVID19, world leaders agreed to work together to strengthen global health systems, but negotiations on a new agreement have stalled, by @katlay.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/global-devel... via @theguardian.com #GlobalHealth

Releasing Thursday - we hope it will be a useful resource for researchers, journalists, practitioners, and anyone interested in what science misinformation is, how it spreads, its effects on people and society, and possible interventions. mailchi.mp/nationalacad...

My lab has spent the last several years using private Facebook groups to conduct asynchronous behavioral and health communication interventions. We published a guide (with all of our lessons learned!) for folks who are interested in doing the same. Check it out! pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39231426/

Read the full trial paper in JAMA Network Open jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... You can also read about our user-testing here doi.org/10.1016/j.pe... And see a comparison to other readability calculators here jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Hiring postdoc for the Businelle lab: $67,000 salary. Training: Mobile health assessment & intervention. Data from multiple large R01s are ready to analyze. Please REPOST. @abcttechsig.bsky.social @psypost.bsky.social @jschleiderphd.bsky.social @sbacon20.bsky.social @abctnow.bsky.social #mhealth

Absolutely agree. That’s why @susanmichie.bsky.social and I set up the BESSI collaboration (Behavioural, Environmental, Social & Systems Interventions for pandemic preparedness) www.bessi-collab.net

In a Nature survey, 80% of science-policy experts say their country’s science advice system is poor or patchy. I've written about the state of global science advice & what should change. www.nature.com/articles/d41... Thnx to @ingsa.bsky.social @transformevidence.bsky.social @jperkel.bsky.social

I think I am up to date with added everyone - but if I have missed you, plz let me know

In a new paper published today, @yohm.bsky.social and I discuss a general framework to make sense of social norms and different indirect reciprocity models. Below is a 🧵, here is the paper: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

you can find out more about it on www.behaviourchangewheel.com and some of the ways it has been used at www.ucl.ac.uk/behaviour-ch... - including 4 week online course.

We've started a #BehaviouralScience list here! Feel free to suggest others interested in #Psychology #SocialScience etc 🔬🧠🔎📖 go.bsky.app/N4BPzwM

Would anyone consider putting together a #BehaviouralScience list - there are a good number of us on here now but we are scattered. It would be a great service if anyone had the skills, time and inclination to do it (Note, maps onto the COM-B model of behaviour

For too long, #behavioralscience has drawn insights from a narrow pool, leaving out voices from the Global South. I'm super excited to reveal the Missing Majority Dashboard, which @psforscher.bsky.social and I developed to shine light on this critical gap and track representation in key journals.