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Social Media Posts About Medical Tests With Potential for Overdiagnosis jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... via @brookenickel.bsky.social

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Social media influencers are ‘fearmongering’ to promote health tests with limited evidence, study finds www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

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Influencers Call These Medical Tests Lifesaving. Here’s What You May Not Know. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/w...

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Our article out in The Conversation today! “If information about medical tests promoted by influencers in social media sounds too good to be true, it probably is.” theconversation.com/we-analysed-... @sydneyhealthlitlab.bsky.social @wiserhealthcare.bsky.social

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NEW: Super cool piece led by Dr Brooke Nickel in JAMA Network Open! I’m usually researching the other side - how to use social media for good health communication, so it was interesting to see how it can also amplify misleading health claims and fuel overdiagnosis. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

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JUST PUBLISHED! New research led by our Postdoctoral Research Fellow Dr Brooke Nickel (@brookenickel.bsky.social) in JAMA Network Open titled "Social Media Posts About Medical Tests With Potential for Overdiagnosis"! ➡️ Read here: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... @jama.com

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It is critical we maintain & build trust in science. Most people in most countries do trust scientists, AND agree that scientists should engage more in society & policy making. For those of us working in health and equity, this is not the time to be silent. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Read our new article and why we need AI health literacy NOW

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Our invited Editorial is now published in the Journal of Women's Health: Education about breast density does not improve screening adherence among racial and ethnic minority women. lnkd.in/eWf3EWnb @wiserhealthcare.bsky.social @sydneyhealthlitlab.bsky.social

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Generative AI is clearly here to stay, and people in our communities will need new AI health literacy skills to use this technology safely. Our new study looked at who is using ChatGPT to answer health questions, and for what purposes. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.5694/...

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This sounds like an interesting read. I’ll be doing a deep dive on this later!! #healthliteracy #health #language #healthcommunication

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A great panel discussion on equity at this year's #DigitalHealthWeek2025 featuring our Postdoc Dr Julie Ayre 👏 @digitalhealthweek.bsky.social @julieayre.bsky.social

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Enjoying #DigitalHealthWeek2025 talk by @jenna-smith.bsky.social about her great work! Informing older women about the rationale for cessation of breast cancer screening invitations: A randomised trial of women aged 70-74 yrs in Australia @sydneyhealthlitlab.bsky.social @wiserhealthcare.bsky.social

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Stellar panel for the first day of #DigitalHealthWeek2025! Vital discussion by @julieayre.bsky.social and others on achieving equity, fairness and justice in our health care systems. @digitalhealthweek.bsky.social @sydneyhealthlitlab.bsky.social

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Excellent keynote by Richard Taggart on the work underway to enable digital health to reach underserved cohorts #DigitalHealthWeek2025 @digitalhealthweek.bsky.social @sydneyhealthlitlab.bsky.social

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Check out our poster in the Digital Health Week 2025 ePoster Gallery! Looking forward to the conference kicking off tomorrow! extravaganza.gallery/dhw25/0d9aec... #DigitalHealthWeek2025 @digitalhealthweek.bsky.social @sydneyhealthlitlab.bsky.social @wiserhealthcare.bsky.social

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Huge congratulations to our superstar research assistant Alice Graham on being awarded the #DigitalHealthWeek2025 Best Presentation Prize. Alice presented her Honours work on "The Impact of Healthcare Information About Endometriosis on Social media on Women's Medical Decision Making".

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Great to see my friend and colleague @ldscherer.bsky.social and Kirsten McCaffery from @sydneyhealthlitlab.bsky.social in today's New York Times talking about how calling something "cancer" may not be helpful for decision making about DCIS! Tagging @smdm.bsky.social for amplification.

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First lead author study of 2025 now published! Are AI chatbots concordant with evidence-based cancer screening recommendations? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @julieayre.bsky.social @melodytaba.bsky.social @sydneyhealthlitlab.bsky.social @wiserhealthcare.bsky.social

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Join ISDMS's First Masterclass on Scaling Shared Decision Making Presenters: Fritz Geiger & Lars Mandelkow For professionals aiming to scale SDM at local or national levels Registration Deadline: 14 February 2024 www.isdmsociety.org/masterclasses/ #SDM #SharedDecisionMaking #PatientEngagement

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Great opportunity to get involved in health research! We’re looking for new members to join the Sydney Health Literacy Lab Consumer Panel (Co-SHeLL) for 2025! 🐚 If you’re passionate about making health info easier to understand or have ideas on improving health systems, we want you! Learn more ⬇️

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Interested in shaping the future of health research? Join the Sydney Health Literacy Lab Consumer Panel (Co-SHeLL) and help us in our research! If you're a patient, consumer or community member, we'd love to hear from you. Learn more: sydney.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

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Congratulations to our PhD candidate Karen Gainey (@karenmgainey.bsky.social) on having her paper ranked in the Top 10 Most Read Papers in BMJ Open! Read about the top BMJ Open papers here: blogs.bmj.com/bmjopen/2025...

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Seeking participants for an interview study about egg freezing! We are seeking participants who have thought about or undergone egg freezing. If this is you and you are over 18 years and living in Australia, sign up here: q.surveys.unimelb.edu.au/jfe/form/SV_...

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Amazing summary Carissa! A huge year for you! 🙌

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🧵 Top 5 projects for 2024: 1. Heart Health Checks: link.springer.com/article/10.1... 2. Heart Yarning Tool: www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1... 3. PhDs: preventioncentre.org.au/resources/ho... 4. Health literacy editor: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... 5. New journal: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Looking for tools to help write health information more simply? Try the Health Literacy Editor. Our trial showed it helps people: ✔️ Lower the grade reading level ✔️ Use less jargon & passive voice ✔️ Score higher on expert health literacy ratings www.sydneyhealthliteracylab.org.au/health-liter...

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A late post but want to get the word out there! New prelim work using generative AI to simplify hospital discharge instructions is out in npj Digital Medicine! www.nature.com/articles/s41... The model was able to simplify instructions effectively, but 18% of outputs had a major safety risk.

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My research lab is now on Bluesky! 🦋 Super lucky to do my PhD alongside so many inspiring #healthliteracy researchers 🤩 Special mention to my supervisors: @carissabonner.bsky.social, @julieayre.bsky.social & Prof Kirsten McCaffery: #digitalhealth #codesign & #behaviouralscience experts! 🛟

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Participants wanted! Are you an editor of a health or medical journal? Take part in our interview study on plain language summaries. Sign up link: sydney.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... More details in thread below by research lead @karenmgainey.bsky.social ⬇️

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Excited to announce we have officially joined Bluesky! 🦋 Learn more about us from our Deputy Director A/Prof Carissa Bonner (@carissabonner.bsky.social) ⬇️

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Hi Bluesky! We're a research group at the University of Sydney's School of Public Health. 🛟 We research #healthliteracy & #healthcommunication using behavioural & social science methods. Follow us for the latest updates on all the exciting projects we're working on!

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