Melbourne Centre for Behaviour Change
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Harnessing research and education to produce sustainable, durable changes in behaviours, policies, and practices that will enhance lives and livelihoods.
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https://psychologicalsciences.unimelb.edu.au/research/hubs/MCBC 15-02-2023 23:55:08
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Had a great in-depth conversation with @StefanTSiegel from Universität St.Gallen (HSG) for his Sustainability Education Podcast on the psychology of climate misinformation & its similarities with myths about sustainability education sustainabilityeducation.captivate.fm/episode/episod…
Just published a paper in Communications Earth & Environment where we use the CARDS machine learning model to detect climate misinformation in 5 million climate tweets, finding over half of misinformation tweets involve personal attacks Mark Andrejevic Yuan-Fang Li Travis Coan nature.com/articles/s4324…
The Sax Institute has welcomed three new Members: the Melbourne Centre for Behaviour Change; the Centre for Health Services Research in Queensland; and Cancer Council Victoria. Find out more about the work they do: saxinstitute.org.au/news/the-sax-i… Melbourne Centre for Behaviour Change UQ Centre for Health Services Research Cancer Council Victoria
Spoke to Stella Levantesi about AI & climate misinformation: certainly AI is a threat in amplifying misinformation but I also discuss how we're using AI to develop solutions to misinformation desmog.com/2024/09/18/the…
A new survey from UniMelb MDHS revealed that an alarming 25% of respondents had used nicotine pouches, raising concerns among public health experts about a new wave of addictive and illegally sold nicotine-based products. Read more → unimelb.me/3ZD0sJS
Am giving a free webinar this week with 350 Chicago on fine-tuning yoru BS detector to spot climate misinformation. Register at bit.ly/yourbsdetector
