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To write effectively for the public, communicators need a common language for numbers and risks. Our “Taxonomies for synthesizing the evidence on communicating numbers in health” makes a start. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ri… Brian Zikmund-Fisher Nat B @SharmajiDr

Researchers at Complete Music Update-EPP, The Dartmouth Institute, UCSF Epidemiology & Biostatistics, and UC Davis Public Health Sciences 😷 propose and evaluate a procedure for eliciting lay preferences among breast cancer screening policy options. bit.ly/35dDH57

"Communicating the limits to your decision and your rationale for making it is really important," Dr. Baruch Fischhoff tells Behavioral Scientist. "Experts do it very poorly, and they never test their messages." behavioralscientist.org/navigating-no-… #carnegiemellon

Proud to be a lead author on this historic first IPCC chapter on demand side and behavioral/social/cultural dynamics in climate change mitigation!

Today, we officially launch CDC's Center for Forecasting and Outbreak Analytics! Imagine having the models and forecasts needed to look at & predict disease outbreaks like we predict the weather. This center is striving to do just that! Learn more cdc.gov/forecast-outbr…

nice paper by Ellen Peters about the power of numeric self-efficacy. many medical decisions and behaviors require persistence to be successful over time. #MDMTwitter journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

Baruch Fischhoff quoted by The Washington Post on why testing for public health guidance around COVID testing is important. “You will discover that there are things you thought were clear, that they [the public] thought were unclear… washingtonpost.com/business/as-at… @CMUIPS

Love this review!

Such a handy tool!

🔥 New #climatemigration paper out! We sought to assess if people's experiences with and perceptions of #wildfire & #wildfiresmoke were related to intentions to move. Quick 🧵⬇️ Paper here: rdcu.be/cUioD (1/n)

5 websites for drawing scientific figures: 👇 🧵

The upcoming Arctic outbreak across Central U.S. is going to be the "real deal". Temperatures will likely rival anything seen in 30 years (or even longer!) across portions of the Central Plains. In a warming climate, that's saying quite a lot. #COwx #NEwx #WYwx #KSwx (1/6)

This is how ⁦Sodexo⁩ recycles at UCL! Incredible we pay for this. I’ve been highlighting it for 3 years. No action.

Early morning classes are associated with lower attendance, shorter sleep, and poorer academic achievement: nature.com/articles/s4156…

Couldn't agree more

This image from today's IPCC synthesis report is brutal. The existing policy trajectory represents a profound failure of our governments, and of our international political system. We need much more aggressive mitigation and much stronger international cooperation.

In *just the last week* the Canadian wildfires have emitted more than 184 Mt CO2 equivalent👀 That’s about as much CO2 as 49 coal-fired power plants emit over the course of a year.

"Let’s not allow the perfect to become the enemy of the good in responding to the climate emergency." Stop arguing and cut emissions | Science science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

If clinicians are not using guidelines to prognosticate, then what are they using? resuscitationjournal.com/article/S0300-… Resuscitation Pitt Neurology Pitt Critical Care Medicine Yanran Yang

Last spring I gave a workshop on Data Cleaning for Data Sharing Using R where we learned how to assess the quality of a dataset and apply a standardized checklist of cleaning steps in #rstats. ICYMI - The slides and exercise materials are here: cghlewis.github.io/ncme-data-clea…