Simon Bacon

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:
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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.

Do nudges need a regulatory push? Comparing the effectiveness and implementation of exemplar nudge (size-based) and non-nudge (price-based) dietary interventions Changing behaviour across populations is key to improving population health and achieving net zero by 2050, including changing diets. We examine the e…

🔊 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...

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Tempering implementation optimism: distinguishing between efficacy and effectiveness in implementation research - Implementation Science Communications Background The distinction between efficacy (performance under ideal conditions) and effectiveness (performance in real-world settings) is well established in intervention research. Intervention effec...

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

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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...

This 92-year-old sprinter has the muscle cells of someone in their 20s Emma Maria Mazzenga, 92, holds four world records for women over 90. Now, researchers are trying to understand the secret to her success.

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

Promotional image for the 2025 Clinical Trials Training Summit featuring a stylized maple leaf and hotel image. Dates: February 24-26. Location: Vancouver, BC at the Fairmount Hotel. Hosts: CANTRAIN, CAN-TAP-TALENT, STROKECOG, CBITN. Slogan: Better Prepared. Better Care. Together.

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
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Image pour la promotion du Sommet de la formation en essais cliniques 2025 avec une feuille d'érable stylisée avec une image d'un hôtel. Dates: 24 au 26 février. Lieu: Vancouver, Colombie-Britannique. Organisateurs : CANTRAIN, CAN-TAP-TALENT, STROKECOG, CBITN. Slogan: Mieux préparer. Mieux traiter. Ensemble.

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.
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‘I can’t go toe to toe with social media.’ Top U.S. health official reflects, regrets. Xavier Becerra, who has led the Department of Health and Human Services, says federal agencies are outmatched in a world of “instantaneous information and disinformation.”

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? My tip? Look for evidence.

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.

Associations of accelerometer-measured physical activity, sedentary behaviour, and sleep with next-day cognitive performance in older adults: a micro-longitudinal study - International Journal of Beha... Background Previous studies suggest short-term cognitive benefits of physical activity occurring minutes to hours after exercise. Whether these benefits persist the following day and the role of sleep...

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 Covid-19, world leaders agreed to work together to strengthen global health systems, but negotiations on a new agreement have stalled

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...

Best Practices for Designing and Testing Behavioral and Health Communication Interventions for Delivery in Private Facebook Groups: Tutorial - PubMed Facebook, the most popular social media platform in the United States, is used by 239 million US adults, which represents 71% of the population. Not only do most US adults use Facebook but they also s...

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/

Online Plain Language Tool and Health Information Quality This randomized clinical trial investigates whether an online text editing tool is effective in helping health information providers simplify written health information according to health literacy an...

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

Science could solve some of the world’s biggest problems. Why aren’t governments using it? A Nature global survey finds that most specialists are unhappy with systems to provide science advice to policymakers.

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

Susan, I would be happy to be added. Thanks.

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.