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Johns Hopkins University: Can texts about healthier eating help prevent childhood obesity?. “The results of the study were remarkable, with the digital intervention leading to significantly healthier weight-for-length trajectories and a substantial reduction in obesity rates at age 2. The intervention was shown to be effective across a diverse population, including groups at elevated risk for […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/01/johns-hopkins-university-can-texts-about-healthier-eating-help-prevent-childhood-obesity/

ResearchBuzz: Firehose | Individual posts from ResearchBuzz · Johns Hopkins University: Can texts about healthier eating help prevent childhood obesity? | ResearchBuzz: Firehose
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#babies#children#communityservices
Yliopistobotti

Prime Minister Petteri Orpo visited today @utu.fi to meet our leader, Profesor @janierola.net. The Prime Minister wanted to discuss the role of INVEST-research in collaboration with businesses and the potential of artificial intelligence.

invest.utu.fi

#INVESTresearch #AI #research #interventions bsky.app/profile/invest-flagsh #utu #yliopisto

Bluesky Social · INVEST Research Flagship Centre (@invest-flagship.bsky.social)Prime Minister Petteri Orpo visited today @utu.fi to meet our leader, Profesor @janierola.net. The Prime Minister wanted to discuss the role of INVEST-research in collaboration with businesses and the potential of artificial intelligence. invest.utu.fi #INVESTresearch #AI #research #interventions
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Michigan Daily: UMich study shows how generative AI could use personality to combat vaccine myths . “In an interview with The Michigan Daily, [Professor Hang] Lu said he found the results were surprising. The extraversion-targeting messages performed just as well, and sometimes even better, than professionally developed generic corrections. But messages tailored to address pseudoscientific […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/16/michigan-daily-umich-study-shows-how-generative-ai-could-use-personality-to-combat-vaccine-myths/

ResearchBuzz: Firehose | Individual posts from ResearchBuzz · Michigan Daily: UMich study shows how generative AI could use personality to combat vaccine myths | ResearchBuzz: Firehose
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Susan Larson ♀️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🌈

#Transphobic #Republican Sen. #TommyTuberville #accuses #NIH #researchers of #withholding #research on #pubertyblockers

The letter Tuberville signed says the senators “oppose #taxpayer #funding going toward #gender #transition #interventions for #minors.”

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Alabama #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Religion #Hategroups #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate #EmptyThePews

alreporter.com/2024/12/09/sen-

Alabama Political Reporter · Sen. Tuberville accuses NIH researchers of withholding research on puberty blockersThe letter Tuberville signed says the senators “oppose taxpayer funding going toward gender transition interventions for minors.”
Giuseppe Michieli

#COVID19 #pandemic #interventions reshaped the #global #dispersal of seasonal #influenza viruses

Source: Science, Structured AbstractINTRODUCTIONDespite the availability of updated seasonal influenza vaccines and treatments, annual influenza epidemics continue to cause millions of hospitalizations and substantial burden on health care systems. The global circulation of seasonal influenza lineages depends on continued virus antigenic evolution and patterns of human…

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ETIDIoH · #COVID19 #pandemic #interventions reshaped the #global #dispersal of seasonal #influenza virusesSource: Science, Structured AbstractINTRODUCTIONDespite the availability of updated seasonal influenza vaccines and treatments, annual influenza epidemics continue to cause millions of hospitalizat…
Sohan Dsouza

〝While dominant interventions, such as fact-checking, media literacy tips and news coverage of misinformation, aim to prevent the spread and endorsement of misinformation, we found that they may inadvertently prime individuals to approach all information, whether false or true, with heightened suspicion and scepticism.〞

nature.com/articles/s41562-024

www.nature.comProminent misinformation interventions reduce misperceptions but increase scepticism | Nature Human BehaviourCurrent interventions to combat misinformation, including fact-checking, media literacy tips and media coverage of misinformation, may have unintended consequences for democracy. We propose that these interventions may increase scepticism towards all information, including accurate information. Across three online survey experiments in three diverse countries (the United States, Poland and Hong Kong; total n = 6,127), we tested the negative spillover effects of existing strategies and compared them with three alternative interventions against misinformation. We examined how exposure to fact-checking, media literacy tips and media coverage of misinformation affects individuals’ perception of both factual and false information, as well as their trust in key democratic institutions. Our results show that while all interventions successfully reduce belief in false information, they also negatively impact the credibility of factual information. This highlights the need for further improved strategies that minimize the harms and maximize the benefits of interventions against misinformation. This study reveals that current interventions against misinformation erode belief in accurate information. The authors argue that future strategies should shift their focus from only fighting falsehoods to also nurturing trust in reliable news.
#misinformation#MDM#factChecking
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C.

If you are #skeptical that these sorts of large-scale, centrally-planned #interventions can solve social problems that have existed in #human #societies for hundreds or thousands of years, then you fall towards the bottom end of the #rationalism axis.

If you think about your #beliefs in these two areas, you might find yourself #surprised at where you fit on the chart, and what other belief systems fall near you. It's a lot more #insightful than the #meaningless left-right single axis.

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gulseren adakli

as if they heard me : ) "Understanding and combatting #misinformation across 16 countries on six continents" out today in Nature Human Behavior! There have been a huge number of msinfo-related studies in the past 5 or so years, but almost all of them have been US/Western populations. So here we examined the #psychology of #misinformation, and the effectiveness of various #interventions, across 16 countries (total N=34k)" by @Drand nature.com/articles/s41562-023

NatureUnderstanding and combatting misinformation across 16 countries on six continents - Nature Human BehaviourAcross 16 countries, this research finds consistent cognitive and social predictors of COVID-19 misinformation susceptibility, and shows how accuracy prompts and literacy tips reduce misinformation sharing and how wisdom of crowds can identify false claims cross-culturally.
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Thomas Rhys Evans

Just finished ‘Evaluating What Works’ by @deevybee & Paul Thompson. A really good primer on how to evaluate #interventions and, despite the speech and language therapy context, I found it highly relevant to #psychology & #metaresearch.

I’ll be adding this to my module’s reading list, but unfortunately I can’t put it on my Goodreads :ablobcatcry:

#evaluation #researchmethods #evidence #openscience

Read online for free:
bookdown.org/dorothy_bishop/Ev

bookdown.orgEvaluating What WorksIntroduction to methods for evaluating effectiveness of non-medical interventions
Centre for Population Change

📺Our latest #CPCCGWebinar is now on YouTube ICYMI yesterday.

Dianna Smith from the University of Southampton took us through the Wessex DIET project - a toolkit for local area #data collection on the impact of #food #aid #interventions to reduce #health #inequalities

youtu.be/gDRR5TyzzLA

YouTubeModelling health to support interventions: Outputs from Wessex DIET - Dianna SmithBy Centre for Population Change Connecting Gens
Ranjith Jaganathan

#Dementia is a global problem. Over 50 million people worldwide currently live with dementia. This number is projected to increase to over 150 million by the year 2050.

It is one of the leading causes of disability and dependency among the older #population worldwide.

Although it is a global issue, low and middle-income countries are disproportionately affected. These countries are home to approximately 60% of dementia patients, and this figure is expected to rise to 71% by 2050. It also has a disproportionate impact on #women, besides the #labor of #caregiving.

We believe that dementia and cognitive decline are normal parts of #aging, but they are NOT.

Currently, there is no cure for dementia. Risk reduction is the best method that we have to address the projected prevalence and incidence of dementia with population #ageing.

There are many online resources to build your knowledge of the major risk factors for dementia and to learn about the #interventions and various initiatives for the #prevention of cognitive impairment.

I will be posting the resources I come across, and likewise please share any resources that you have, so that we can all better educate ourselves about dementia.

#MedMastodon#Brain#Geriatrics
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