📣 MZES Fellow @janaberkessel.bsky.social has won the first prize at the Short Talk Awards at the 18th Swiss Psychological Society Conference in Crans-Montana – congratulations! 👏 👉 www.linkedin.com/posts/the-ps...

First news is that I just joined the Uni Mannheim, team of Olga Stavrova. Looking forward to the exchange with colleagues (@publavecziga.bsky.social, @janaberkessel.bsky.social) and the nice research environment with @gesis.org (incl @axburg.bsky.social) and the @mzesunimannheim.bsky.social nearby

Having a great time at #FGSP2025! Thanks for the laughs, @janaberkessel.bsky.social , and thanks for capturing the moment @marlephie.bsky.social 😊

🚨 We're hiring! Join us at @LMU_Muenchen for the DFG-funded project "Democratic Persuasion: How to Make the Case for Democracy." Interested in making scholarly & societal impact? We’re looking for: 🔹 1 Postdoc (100%) 🔹 1 PhD researcher (70%) Starting: Oct 2025 | Apply by: July 8 More info ⬇️ (1/7)

🎺COME WORK WITH US @LMU Munich on a new research project: job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/d.... (postdoc/3 years/full-time). We will develop and evaluate an agile and needs-oriented Research Data Management certificate course for researchers in psychology. Application Deadline: *May 31*

Hallo #AcademicSky - wir sind PsyComm, die neue Interessengruppe für Wissenschaftskommunikation #WissKomm der @dgps.bsky.social. Wir möchten Wissenschaft und Praxis vernetzen, Evidenz und Expertise zum Thema zusammentragen und neue Vorhaben initiieren. Jetzt mitmachen: forms.gle/DGpav3jCUHCi...

If you, like me, love hiking, you know rugged terrain *does* something to you 🥾😰 In a new paper led by @tsudaka.bsky.social, we asked: Is rugged terrain linked not only to how your knees feel but also how you think about authority? (1/n) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

ECRs, not-ECRs, Open Science Enthusiasts, Open Source Enthusiasts; I mean y'all basically, see you 'morrow at 15.00CET!

🚀 Join Us for the Next Mannheim Open Science Meetup! 🚀 🔬 Topic: ARIADNE – A Scientific Navigator to Find Your Way Through the Research Resource Labyrinth 🎙 Speaker: Çağatay Gürsoy, Central Institute of Mental Health 📅 Date & Time: April 30, 2025, 3:00 PM 📍 Location: Register online lnkd.in/exErgJfy

Using my 1st post on blsky to report on my experience of participating in the 1st EAPP early career workshop: 2 days packed with talks and discussions in a small group of post docs and experts from the field. Found this very inspiring and valuable, hope there’ll be many more editions in the future ✨

✨ Join the upcoming Mannheim Open Science Meetup✨ 🗞️ Topic: Reproducible Research Data Management with DataLad 🗣️ Speaker: Lennart Wittkuhn 📅 Date: Wed, Feb 26, 2025 ⏰ Time: 2:00 PM 📍 Location: Online, sign up here: lnkd.in/ek9YDNuB

We are back from the winter break and look forward to (re)connecting with all the open science people in Mannheim and beyond 😍 if you have any questions feel free to reach out to me, Juli, or David!

🎓 Join Our Team! 🌍💡 We’re hiring 2 student assistants in Behavioral Economics & Intercultural Psychology. Remote work (within Germany) possible! 📌 Apply by Dec 20, 2024 www.fernuni-hagen.de/uniintern/ar...

🌍 When in Vienna 👩‍🏫 Last month Fritz Götz, Andrés Gvirtz, and I (@spspnews.bsky.social) had the opportunity to visit the United Nations and meet with the NGO Committee on Sustainable Development. We discussed how social and personality psychology can be applied to foster sustainable development 🌾

Last week, Dr. Moritz Ingendahl (Ruhr-University Bochum) and I received this year's Heinz-Heckhausen Award of the @dgps.bsky.social! 🤓🥳 www.dgps.de/die-dgps/pre...

Unsere diesjährige Heinz-Heckhausen Preisträgerin @janaberkessel.bsky.social ⁩ hält in Hörsaal 34 ihren Vortrag zur Preisverleihung 👇🏼

Social cognition grad students & postdocs on the job market: Do you want to practice your job talk in my lab meeting? (Zoom or in-person) Its a low-stakes opportunity to get constructive feedback & prepare for Qs you might get from hiring committees. DM me if you’re interested! (plz rt widely)

We are looking forward to seeing you at tomorrow's @maopenscience.bsky.social Meetup! 🤓🤩 Make sure to sign up for the zoom meeting below ⬇️

We are looking forward to seeing familiar and new faces at our June edition of the @maopenscience.bsky.social Meetup! 🤠 Sign up below for the zoom link ⬇️

Thanks again @zakfio.bsky.social! If you missed the last @maopenscience.bsky.social Meetup, feel free to check out Fiona's slides here: osf.io/gzf9h/ - additional upside: you might learn something about whether 🐕 or 🐈 eat more 🐟!

We look forward to having @zakfio.bsky.social at the @maopenscience.bsky.social Meetup soon! 😊 Come and join us to discuss null results 0️⃣🧪

Just a quick reminder: If you have ever heard about or even worked with machine learning methods in the social sciences, we are interested in your thoughts! 😎 Please consider participating in our expert survey 🔽

3️⃣ more days until our next Mannheim @MAOpenScience Meetup! We look forward to seeing you (at least virtually) on Wednesday! 👋

The Mannheim Open Science Meetup is back with a hot topic for early career researchers: research assessment. It is surely in our interest to discuss and influence the fairness and quality of e.g. hiring decisions. The meetup is online, so you can easily join from outside of Mannheim.

We are back from the winter break and are looking forward to an exciting Mannheim Open Science Meetup next week! ⛄️🥶 ➡️🤓☀️ everyone is welcome to join, regardless of where you are and what you know about open science!

Ever heard of or even worked with machine learning in social science research? 🤔 No matter if you are an expert or a novice: We are looking for your opinion! ⬇️

🔍 Machine learning is ubiquitous, everyone is talking about it, but what does it really do for social science research? Join our discussion! 💬 Share your insights on its pros and cons. We are interested in your opinion! Participate in our survey: tinyurl.com/3sr94t7u

**WHY IS TRUST IN SCIENCE POLITICALLY POLARIZED?** Political stereotypes about scientists decisively shape the link between people's #politicalorientation and their #trustinscience. New publication with @wingentobias.bsky.social & Anna Schulte. #scicomm #polarization🧵1/7 doi.org/10.1177/1075...

Our new paper in @Nature evaluates the accuracy of social and behavioral policy recommendations during COVID19 (from www.nature.com/articles/s41...) We reviewed 747 papers (mean N = 16,848) and found evidence for 89% of our central claims: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Led by @ruggeri.bsky.social

🎉InMindRewind2023 Nun zu den am meisten nachgefragten Blog-Beiträgen! Warum deren Themen so relevant sind, ist eigentlich in jedem Fall offensichtlich - teils handelt es sich um sehr ernste Fragen. Platz 1 - Achtung Psychotrick ;-) - wird Euch dennoch überraschen... 1/4

Ever wondered if behavioral scientists can meaningfully contribute to policy? 🤔 still looking for something to read over the Christmas break? 🎄 Check out our new paper just published in Nature showing that policy recommendations from 2020 were largely correct (for a summary 🧵⬇️)

Come and join us for an interesting discussion with @amreibahr.bsky.social next week! 🤗

I am recruiting Ph.D. students to join our Social Injustice and Social Change group at UCSB! You still have until December 1 to apply. Application fee waiver are available (for qualified domestic applicants).

🛼 We are on a roll: The next meetup is just around the corner! Our very own @David_Pmorgan (Open Science Officer @UBMannheim) will provide an overview of Open Science and how it has and will change the research pipeline, career outlook, and evaluation of researchers 👀

🧑‍🎓Job alert: Post-doc position at the University of Mannheim in social learning, cultural evolution, and personality & social psychology! 🤓

The first @maopenscience.bsky.social is just around the corner! 😊

We just joined the fun 😊 if you are interested in anything open science (and Mannheim?!) make sure to follow us for the announcements of our monthly meetups. See you there! 🤩

The deadline to submit to an @spspnews.bsky.social preconference in San Diego has been extended until the 25th 📆 If your research touches the topic of religion or spirituality, we look forward to receiving your submission for a poster, talk, or data blitz! 💌

Are you interested in the psychology of religion and spirituality? 🙏 Make sure to sing up for our SPSP 2024 (in-person) Preconference (Feb 8th)! If you are an undergrad or grad student we can even cover your registration, just message/e-mail us 🤑