FX: #China #Chinese CB, PBoC fights #yuan weakness by market #interventions - chart @BloombergTV

I am struck by the similarities in the construction of “degenerating” situations in both cities, by racially and economically #marginalized young men of #immigrant origin. These discourses of disorder and pathology attributed to these young “migrant” men end up #socially and #politically justifying the desire for “order” by state #interventions of any kind- Shreya Parikh.

https://africasacountry.com/2023/07/the-pathologization-of-migrants-in-tunisia-and-france

Gender-Affirming Care for Cisgender People https://www.ethicalpsychology.com/2023/07/gender-affirming-care-for-cisgender.html #genderaffirmingcare #MedicalTreatment #Interventions #Transgender #Inequality #Bioethics #Injustice #Biases #Ethics #Gender #LGBTQ+

'#𝙄𝒏𝙩𝒆𝙧𝒗𝙚𝒏𝙩𝒊𝙤𝒏𝙨 𝙪𝒔𝙚𝒅 𝒕𝙤 𝙥𝒓𝙚𝒗𝙚𝒏𝙩 #𝘾𝑶𝙑𝑰𝘿, 𝒆.𝒈., 𝒘𝙚𝒂𝙧𝒊𝙣𝒈 𝒇𝙖𝒄𝙚 𝙢𝒂𝙨𝒌𝙨 𝙖𝒏𝙙 𝙙𝒊𝙨𝒕𝙖𝒏𝙘𝒊𝙣𝒈, 𝙝𝒂𝙙 𝙩𝒉𝙚 𝙠𝒏𝙤𝒄𝙠-𝙤𝒏 𝒆𝙛𝒇𝙚𝒄𝙩 𝙤𝒇 #𝒑𝙧𝒆𝙫𝒆𝙣𝒕𝙞𝒏𝙜 𝙤𝒕𝙝𝒆𝙧 𝙧𝒆𝙨𝒑𝙞𝒓𝙖𝒕𝙤𝒓𝙮 𝙩𝒓𝙖𝒄𝙩 𝙞𝒏𝙛𝒆𝙘𝒕𝙞𝒐𝙣𝒔.'

How do locals from The #Gambia feel about foreign Pro-Democracy #interventions? New Release Peace article based on a PRIF Report by Sophia Birchinger, Sait Matty Jaw. Omar M Bah & Antonia Witt on local perceptions of #AU and #ECOWAS interventions in The Gambia. Read it here: https://releasepeace.org/how-do-you-feel-about-pro-democracy-foreign-interventions/

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 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-023-01641-6.epdf?sharing_token=vkNdbqDd9R-a2vpAGLb5T9RgN0jAjWel9jnR3ZoTv0Or2bRuZXKm5Tk1a-PCCeF8Pg3Ba_i0Vx_HFGbTtfO6KX4lyXDnhDgeqHctX5Vkix4_bYjpxYHCD0HGwDLs8I9NZGixpbqOOyPBbvj7pBW5OMrF5ydkK_4yNASkMP2uPdg%3D

"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).

We find:
➤Consistent #cognitive, #social & #ideological predictors of misinfo belief across countries
➤Interventions (accuracy prompts, digital literacy tips, using crowdsourcing to identify misinfo) are all broadly effective across countries

Give it a read and let me know what you think! https://rdcu.be/dfGtT

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:
https://bookdown.org/dorothy_bishop/Evaluating_What_Works/

NEXT WEEK - #CPCCGWebinar Thurs 11 May at 12:00

🧑‍💻Dianna Smith from the University of #Southampton will discuss the Wessex DIET project - a toolkit to support local area #data collection on the impact of #food #aid #interventions aimed at reducing #health #inequalities.

Register to join us free online: http://www.cpc.ac.uk/activities/full_events_calendar/743/CPC_CG_Webinar__Dianna_Smith

Interventions in Graph Neural Networks Lead to New Neural Causal Models

https://openreview.net/forum?id=PzdnLSvyiJ

#causal #causality #interventions

Trial Testing VR to Relieve Cancer Patient Distress

A clinical trial is underway assessing virtual reality #interventions for relieving #distress and improve the quality of life for #cancer patients receiving bone marrow transplants.

https://sciencebusiness.technewslit.com/?p=44538

#News #Science #Business #VirtualReality #VR #ClinicalTrial #Collaboration #BoneMarrowTransplant #Anxiety #Depression #Software

Recent psych methods papers:

Here’s a thread of five helpful articles from 2022 on psychological research methodology. They address outlier exclusion, longitudinal research, interventions, informed consent, and control variables. 🧵👉

#Outliers
#Longitudinal
#Interventions
#InformedConsent
#Debriefing
#ControlVariables
#Psychology
#Methodology
@psychology

1/6

Zero Carbon Policy Toolkit: The Toolkit is made up of 10 blockers to zero carbon, and 10 enablers. Each of these represents an intervention in our economy which taken together. The Toolkit is available as a Infographic, booklet, board game...

https://greenhousethinktank.org/toolkit

#ZeroCarbon #climateaction #biodiversity #socialjustice #policy #game #infographic #interventions #climateemergancy #economy

New guidelines on childhood obesity
Suggest intervention that's a must-see
Without adding more stigma
It shouldn't be a drama
But how that gets done, I don't know, gee

#childhoodobesity #stigma #interventions #aap #limerick #poetry

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/20/well/family/childhood-obesity-guidelines.html

#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 #CognitiveDecline #DementiaRiskReduction #BrainHealth

#mentalhealth #interventions Gonna get possible fair amount of blow back for this, but…
Sometimes a joke isn’t funny. Sometimes a joke is a disguised plea. George Santos despises himself; sees all he has ever done as a failure. He’s not a wannabe Walter Mitty. He needs help. The investigation of LE may help him in a long term form. He started and something wouldn’t allow him to stop. Laughing at what he has created for sure does nothing for no one.#mentalhealth #empathy

RT @MisinfoReview
Something to peruse today by @niccdias, @gordpennycook and @DG_Rand:
Findings show the importance of #socialmedia #platforms & #civilsociety evaluating #misinformation #interventions experimentally rather than implementing them based on intuitive appeal.
https://misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu/article/emphasizing-publishers-does-not-reduce-misinformation/ https://twitter.com/byrd_nick/status/1217839180811833346

#Ministers made a choice about this #economic #crisis – to make #working #people pay for it

"Recently the #government made two #major #policy #interventions. One was a proposed attack on #workers: “new #tough #laws” against the #right #to #strike, while refusing to #negotiate with #NHS workers. The other was a gift to the #City: uncapping #bankers’ #bonuses and looking to remove #safeguards brought in to tame #markets after the #2008 #crash"

An great article full of solid arguments by #Sharon #Graham, #general #secretary of #Unite

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/dec/23/ministers-economic-crisis-working-people-rishi-sunak-elite

Part 2 Lockdowns: considers the ambition for #20-minute-neighbourhoods in #Scotland, taking account of the differing settlement patterns across the country, and to highlight #interventions that would support delivery of the concept, supported by findings from the baseline analysis; and
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yes THIS is the intersection I want to play in for (one part of) my current and future work (i.e., #LearningPrinciples applied to #Interventions)

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1460-6984.2012.00169.x