#AMR #AntibioticStewardship

Join us in Galway for our 4th Behavioural Insights & AMR Workshop

📅 21–22 May 2026 | 📍 University of Galway

We’ll be bringing together experts to discuss how behavioural science can help tackle antimicrobial resistance!

👉 Register by 17 March: tinyurl.com/4katbdbp
🔗 www.a-bc.network

Impact of an Educational Leaflet About Asymptomatic Bacteriuria and Urinary Tract Infection on Antibiotic Preferences Among US Adults ≥65 Years: An Online Randomized Controlled Survey Experiment AbstractBackground. Adults aged ≥65 years are at high risk of harm from antibiotic misuse due to misdiagnosis of asymptomatic bacteriuria (ASB) as urinary

📢 New in OFID!

Many adults ≥65yrs have harmless bacteria in their urine (ASB) often misdiagnosed as a UTI ⏩ harmful antibiotic use.

We found US adults ≥65 given an educational leaflet were more comfortable avoiding antibiotics for ASB & less likely to mistake ASB for UTI! 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/ofid...

Happening today! Please join us 5:15 pm in person in Room 448 (UCL EP, 26 Bedford Way). Full details on our website. All welcome!

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

Our new research shows that explaining the nature of illness and providing point-of-care test results to patients might be just quite useful tools to calibrate their antibiotic expectations (changing threshold but also discernment)... #antibiotic @abc-network.bsky.social @essexuni.bsky.social

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.

🌍 Join the fight against antimicrobial resistance!
Be a part of the #TARGetAMR community - connect, share, and act with global experts tackling AMR together. 🔬
💡 Your voice matters.
🔗 Join us: www.targetamr.org.uk/community/

An inspiring keynote by @aliciad3.medsky.social at our Behavioral Insights and AMR workshop about how behavioral science can contribute to amr stewardship

#abcnetwork #behaviouralscience #antimicrobialresistance #vienna… | Cortney Price What do #ABCNetwork psychologists, sociologists, anthropologists, data scientists, behavioural economists, doctors and health communicators have in common? They're all leveraging #behaviouralsci...

Great conference in #Vienna last week thanks to @abc-network.bsky.social!

www.linkedin.com/posts/cortne...

@evakrockow.bsky.social kick-starting the workshop on Behavioral insights and AMR with her talk about AMR risk communication... we need to communicate about AMR better.

Finally I get to meet @cortneyprice.bsky.social in person! Inspiring and hugely engaging talk on behavioural science in #AMR, touching on experiential strategies for policy influence.

Thought provoking keynote from @cortneyprice.bsky.social about how behavioral scientists should approach and influence policy makers

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

I'm Zooming to Vienna from the U.S. for the 3rd #BehaviouralInsights & #AntimicrobialResistance Workshop.

Kudos to @abc-network.bsky.social for sustainable international conferencing!

I'll share highlights (even if I need to sleep through sessions starting at 3:30 AM my time 😅).

Great program! 👇

Excellent talk by @miroslavsirota.bsky.social arguing that 'wicked learning environments' create misguided intuitions and expectations about antibiotics.

Get ready for #SMDM25 in Ann Arbor! 🎉 Alistair Thorpe presents 16 June 9:15 am on what US adults w/ self-reported antibiotic allergies think about delabeling.

He's also looking forward to clinician cross talk, and reconnecting with colleagues!

#MedicalDecisionMaking

For those enjoying Dr Spivak’s talk on greenhouse gases and antimicrobial stewardship, check out her paper here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Are you passionate about health care decision making? Join the Society for Medical Decision Making (SMDM) and connect with a global network of experts driving innovation in medical decision science! 🧠

Learn more and become a member today 👉 loom.ly/jRkLGQ8

#SMDM

Joined today to promote our paper! Proud to be a part of this team. @athorpe8.bsky.social @angiefagerlin.bsky.social @valerievaughnmd.bsky.social

Characteristics and Antibiotic Preferences by Frequency of Antibiotic Use This survey study compares demographic characteristics, beliefs, and antibiotic preferences of US adults who frequently use antibiotics with those who have not used antibiotics over the past year.

Super excited to share key findings from our study in JAMA NO!

Freq abx users (≥3 in 12mo) more likely to report:
-wanting abx for an URI 💊
-Needing help w/health-related materials 📖
-Medical maximizing (prefer to act vs watch/wait) 🚀
-Disbelief in science 🚫🔬

💻: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

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

also @mariejuanchich.bsky.social @miroslavsirota.bsky.social and @corneliabetsch.bsky.social ☺️

Emphasizing the importance of prudent antibiotic use decreases unrealistic perceptions of new antibiotic discoveries AbstractBackground. The 2024 discovery of a new class of antibiotics is cause for cautious celebration. However, media coverage of this discovery shows ove

Exciting work from ABC Network members: news about new antibiotics shapes public views on #AMR - who knew!
@riangross.bsky.social @elisie.bsky.social @mariejuanchich.bsky.social @miroslavsirota.bsky.social @corneliabetsch.bsky.social @robertboehm.bsky.social

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Join us for the ABC Network's 3rd Behavioral Insights & Antimicrobial Resistance Workshop in Vienna (or online) this May 15-16. 🌟

👉 Click here to register: www.a-bc.network/active.html

Registration closes March 31st! ⏳

#AMR #AMS

A close-up microscopic image shows bacteria in shades of purple and brown on a textured gray surface. White text in bold reads “Antimicrobial resistance,” with “A GLOBAL THREAT” underneath. The UN Environment Programme logo is in the top right corner.

🔬 What is antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and why does it matter?

AMR occurs when microorganisms become resistant to treatments, posing a major threat to global health and the environment. Its impacts, causes, and the need for a #OneHealth approach: www.unep.org/topics/chemi...

Hugely important work led by Dr. Emily Spivak on the environmental impact of unnecessary antibiotic prescribing in the US: ~66 million unnecessary prescriptions in 2022 estimated to have produced the CO2 equivalent of driving a car around the earth ~194 times! #AMR #AMS

doi.org/10.1017/ash....

Figure 3. Effects of the infographics on wanting antibiotics (top), realizing an upper respiratory infection is probably not bacterial (middle), and realizing that — in such circumstances — one probably does not need antibiotics (bottom) for Experiment 1 (left) and replication Experiment 2 (right) with 95% confidence intervals.

Figures 4. Effects of the infographic and text message on asking for antibiotics (top), trying over-the-counter medication instead ntibiotics (middle), and trust in a doctor who offered antibiotics that were probably unnecessary (bottom) in Experiment 1 (left) and replication Experiment 2 (right) with 95% confidence intervals.

Our latest preprint validated low-cost #globalRisk reduction stimuli.

An infographic and text message improved #antibiotic decisions in ways that may reduce existential risks of #AntimicrobialResistance.

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#xRisk #CogSci #Medicine #Edu #SciComm #bioethics

Join us for the ABC Network's 3rd Behavioral Insights & Antimicrobial Resistance Workshop in Vienna (or online) this May 15-16. 🌟

👉 Click here to register: www.a-bc.network/active.html

Registration closes March 31st! ⏳

#AMR #AMS

Great starterpack! We'd love to be added!