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Tackling underinformation, misinformation, & disinformation

How to improve the communication of public health information about COVID-19 and other crises

A manifesto for science communication as collective intelligence

How collective intelligence can help science communication. A manifesto with examples.

Assisting behavioral science and evidence-based policy making using online machine tools (POLTOOLS)

A SciBeh-led research grant project

The COVID-19 Vaccine Communication Handbook

A practical guide for improving vaccine communication and fighting misinformation, including a continously updated wiki in the background.

tiktok channel

Tackling the spread of misinformation one step at a time. A tiktok channel spearheaded by some of our contributors.

SciBeh twitter account

On our Twitter account we post stuff. Please liberally mention us using @SciBeh whenever you want to draw our attention to something.

Video “Don’t be misled: Learn to spot bad arguments”

This 15’ video was created in a hackathon during SciBeh’s 2020 Virtual workshop.

Growing knowledge base

Using hypothes.is, we are annotating a growing knowledge base where you can find a wide range of items ranging from tweets, newspaper and blog articles, reports to preprints and peer-reviewed articles.

Three subreddits

(1) Ask the behavioral science community a question; (2) Discuss research; (3) Discuss how we do research.

Video viewer

We curated a wealth of COVID-19 related video content relevant for behavioral scientists throughout the pandemic. To make this material in SciBeh’s knowledge base more accessible, we created a simple, proof-of-concept viewer that contains the videos in our knowledge base up to October 2nd 2020.

Patient, person, people: developing a public health perspective on online disinformation and psychological manipulation.

The goal of this workshop is to bring together experts from different areas (academics, practitioners, journalists, and authors) to discuss actionable solutions that can: (a) Support affected individuals and their social networks in dealing with the real-life consequences of the effects of psychological manipulation, and (b) Explore individual and organizational solutions that take a public health approach to counteracting effects of psychological manipulation based on the existing body of academic and experiential knowledge in this domain.

2024 Workshop: Epistemic Boundaries

In this workshop, we aim to address the role and limitations of expertise in providing policy advice during crises. Currently, societies are confronted with crises such as pandemics and climate change, which necessitate collective action. The complex nature of these issues inherently demands interdisciplinary expertise for effective resolution. However, offering expertise on issues that extend beyond the scope of a single discipline carries the risk of ’epistemic trespassing’—making judgments in a field beyond one’s expertise.

2023 Workshop: Collectively intelligent science communication - Lessons learned for a post-COVID era

In this workshop, we will examine how to make collective intelligence—shared or group intelligence that emerges from the collaboration, collective efforts, and competition of many individuals and appears in consensus decision making—a practical tool for effective science communication.

2021 Workshop: Science communication as collective intelligence

In this workshop, we kickstarted the process of developing a manifesto that establishes the need for collective intelligence in science communication and identifies the tools and methods necessary for its success.

2020 Workshop: Building an online information environment
for policy relevant science

The workshop brought together an interdisciplinary group of experts and practitioners to help conceptualize, plan and build the tools for an online information environment that would facilitate rapid, relevant, and reliable science that is relevant to policy.

Knowledge creation

The crisis demands rapid responding, but “fast” is at odds with many of the things that make good science. What we need to be looking for is parts of the process that we can trim without cutting unduly into quality: we need a model of proper science without the drag.

Knowledge integration

We need to avoid needlessly reinventing wheels, we need meta-analyses, and we need to manage the likely flood of new research. This means a degree of synthesis that goes well beyond the slightly haphazard publication of reviews in normal science.

Knowledge dissemination

Developing new tools for knowledge aggregation will help disseminate knowledge, certainly to other researchers. But the nature of the crisis will mean that at least some of this knowledge must be disseminated to policy makers, journalists, or the wider public.

Managing consensus and disagreement

We must learn how to build consensus, shelving theoretical debates that are important to us in “normal science”, but that have little consequence for current action. There will be contexts where legitimate disagreements remain. These cannot be glossed over and should be made known to policymakers.