Four (!) three-year postdoc positions available at @au.dk: international.au.dk/about/profil... Join an incredible team & help understand the psychological & political implications of the clash between high-speed society & slow-speed democracy. Please share! @tboeggild.bsky.social can help with Qs

Join The People Lab! We’re hiring a Research Associate Fellow to run RCTs, design survey experiments, & study evidence use in gov’t. 2+ yrs of post-grad experience in applied behavioral science or public management research required. 👉 Apply: peoplelab.hks.harvard.edu/careers/

Super interesting interview on the use of AI in the classroom by the expert on AI and pedagogy at HKS @tedsvo.bsky.social - he's right, this is the big AI question we need to talk about more. www.wbur.org/upnext/2025/...

#WilmasVejledning i veludført vovsning: "Hvad sker der, hvis en uimodståelig kraft møder et urokkeligt objekt?" Beagler er berømte for opdragelsesresistens, men Wilma er opdraget af en tysker ( @flokeppeler.bsky.social ). Tysk er et godt sprog til kommandoer! youtube.com/shorts/rbG1O...

#Wilmasreview Wilma 🐶 may be hesitant about making the next step, like people who people who want to take their next career step, maybe into the public sector. New research by Sciepura, Wall and @elizabethlinos.bsky.social shows that... 1/🧵

#Wilmasreview Wilma 🐶 has been thinking about adding AI-teammates to her pack. Would that help her find more delicious treats? Well, this might work for making complicated decisions, like medical diagnoses. A study by Zöller et al. shows: 1/🧵

#Wilmasreview Flashback: Wilma 7 years ago as a puppy 🐶 It takes a lot of effort to raise a puppy, but a human baby takes extra effort! 👶 A new study by Pieter Vanhuysse, Márton Medgyesi and Róbert Iván Gál shows: 1/🧵

#Wilmasreview Wilma 🐶 tried in vain to get through this hole. She probably analyzed it wrong. Perhaps it would have been better if this had been done under AI assessment. Why? A study by Goergen, de Bellis, and Klesse shows that... 1/🧵

#Wilmasreview Wilma 🐶 sits proudly next to a child's beautiful drawing of her, and while she put zero effort into posing, she certainly considers this masterpiece quite an achievement worth an extra treat! 🤩 Speaking of effort versus achievement, a study by Cusimano, Kim, and Wong reveals... 1/🧵

#Wilmasreview As a senior dog, Wilma 🐶 sometimes has a critical view on young people - especially if they interrupt her sleep! Does this relate to the workplace? A study by Daldrop, Homan, and Buengeler reveals: Young adults face barriers to leadership roles, not because they lack ability... 1/🧵

#Wilmasreview Wilma 🐶 strikes a pose on the agility course - she thinks she is looking absolutely fabulous! 🤩 But should her good looks help her become pack leader? A meta-analysis by Courtright, Thurgood, Liao, Morgan, and Wang shows key findings about the role of beauty in leadership 1/🧵

#Wilmasreview While Wilma's 🐶 wooden friends behind her might look pretty convincing, they definitely can't fetch balls or review scientific papers like she can. Speaking of artificial companions, Wilma has been sniffing around some research about how AI is really affecting jobs. 1/🧵

#Wilmasreview Wilma 🐶 enjoys a walk with her basset hound friend from abroad. This made her think about movement across boarders-international labor migration. Researchers reviewed evidence whether skilled people leaving their home countries creates "brain drain" or "brain gain". The results: 1/🧵

#Wilmasreview Wilma 🐶 recently got a little assistance with her grooming because she recently read a study showing that a little (text) brush-up can lead to more success when applying for a job. In their study, @emmawiles.bsky.social, Zanele Munyikwa, and @johnjhorton.bsky.social test... 1/🧵

#WilmasReview On her walk, Wilma 🐶 spotted two cats. How could one beagle chase two cats? So she considered using the help of AI. But she was afraid of what the other dogs would think of her: Using AI could come at a cost in how others see you. A study examined the social evaluations of AI use: 1/🧵

#WilmasReview Wilma's sunday walk 🐶 took her past Aarhus Universitetshospital today. When Wilma sniffs around the hospital, she naturally thinks about doctors and patients, and a fascinating new study in Nature that tests an AI tool for diagnostic dialog in medicine. Some key findings: 1/🧵

#Wilmasreview Wilma 🐶 is very convinced of her leadership skills! For example, last fall she planted an apple tree that she received as a gift. Every day she "worked" with the tree, and now it is blooming beautifully. 🌳💮 Wilma wonders: Is there another way to test leadership skills? 1/🧵

#Wilmasreview Wilma 🐶 is celebrating her 7th birthday 🎂 with a publication alert 🚨 Wilma consulted AI 💻 to generate ideas about presents for dog birthdays. While the AI 💻 suggests an enormous treat 🍬, Wilma's humans chose enjoying a sunny day outside with some healthy carrot snacks 🥕. 1/🧵

#Wilmasreview A new little human 🚼 has moved in with Wilma 🐶. Naturally, she takes her responsibility as a "big sister" very seriously. So in preparation for family time, she read through a study by Hirani, Sievertsen and Wüst. The study shows: 1/🧵

#Wilmasreview Wilma 🐶 had to choose between two hands – one with a treat 🥕, one empty – and picked the wrong one! But sometimes, "wrong" choices are not so wrong after all... When organizations try to select a leader, they try to hire the most competent person. 1/🧵

#Wilmasreview Wilma 🐶 spotted a deer 🦌. Should she consider a career change, from postdog to hunting dog 🔫? Does she have the potential for this "promotion"? She reads a new study to find out what potential analyses for promotions look like. Grabner, Künneke & Moers find in their study: 1/🧵

#Wilmasreview Wilma 🐶 trusts her vet 👩‍⚕️, even if she doesn't always like going. 😱 And it's no secret that some doctors are better at diagnosing some diseases or risks than others. Can AI help to improve diagnoses? In a new study, Feng, Hong, Tang and Wang show: 1/🧵

#Wilmasreview Wilma 🐶 knows all about administrative burdens today! After enduring her own bureaucratic procedure (aka worm treatment), she's feeling a bit vulnerable. To see how others deal with such burdens, she reviews a recent study by Vogel, Dahlweg, and Hattke. It finds: 1/🧵

#Wilmasreview On the weekend of International Women's Day, Wilma 🐶 not only takes stock of her ears, but also of research on women in leadership. In a recent systematic review of the literature, Buss, Andler and Tiberius find: 1/🧵

A part of the culture war people don’t talk enough about: whether society should place expectations on individuals to behave in ways that are beneficial for others. Anti-woke anti-vaccine anti-foreign-aid is in large part just anti-helping-others.

#Wilmasreview Wilma 🐶 was on the Danish coast this weekend. Near the water it is important to have the skill to swim. 🏊 Skill management in the workplace is also common, but does it really work? Research by Grabe and Sliwka, which analyzes the importance of skill management at work, finds: 1/🧵

Wilmasreview Wilma 🐶 was very concerned last week. As a German dog abroad, her voting documents for the German federal election didn't arrive until Wednesday afternoon - and they had to be at a post office in Germany by Thursday lunchtime to arrive safely... 🤯 1/🧵

It seems almost unavoidable at this point that we are headed for a deep, deep recession. Just based on 200K+ federal firings & pullback of contracts, the March employment report (to be released April 4) seems certain to show bigger job losses than any month ever outside of a few in 2008-9 and 2020.

The federal workforce isn't "bloated" - as @elizabethlinos.bsky.social explains, the real crisis is critical staffing shortages. Read more here: www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-f...

#Wilmasreview Wilma 🐶 enjoys the sun ☀️ and feels well integrated into Denmark and the Danish labor market. But in Denmark, Germany and throughout Europe there are many immigrants who struggle to socialize and whose well-being suffers. A new study by Korman, Reinwald, Kunze and Koos shows: 1/🧵

New, from me: DOGE's mass firings of probationary employees are a masterclass in how not to manage public organizations. They don’t have a plan to fix what they are breaking because they don’t understand or care about the damage they are doing. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/doge-misma...

I'm also writing a paper on this topic with @flokeppeler.bsky.social (Aarhus). I'd love to learn from other people and develop ideas together!

💸 Paying people to #vaccinate sounds smart... but it didn’t work. 🚫 No effect on vaccination rates. 🏠 Worse: people at the same address (who didn’t get paid) were less likely to get boosted. ⚠️ Incentives can backfire. #BehavioralScience jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... @sebjilke.bsky.social

#Wilmasreview of the week with a 🚨 publication alert 🚨 Over the last few years, Wilma 🐶 has worked with the brilliant @johnt1.bsky.social (first author), @sebjilke.bsky.social and @dominikvogel.bsky.social to understand whether monetary incentives can really motivate people to get vaccinated. 1/🧵

Ladies, I am now available in Germany

🌟I’m thrilled to share that I have been promoted to Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science @au.dk, effective June 2025!🌟 🔙 This journey started with a pic from Feb 2020, when I visited the King Frederik Center for Public Leadership during my PhD at Zeppelin Uni. 1/🧵

New RCT w Ternovski (lead), Keppeler & Vogel. Contrary to prior work, we find $ incentives have 0 effect on COVID vax, but can have negative spillover for folks living at same address (not receiving $), possibly due to temporary larger demand at public vax events jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

#Wilmasreview of the week Wilma 🐶 is reading about AI and its implications - will all managers soon be able to lie on their backs and chill out like Wilma? 😴 In their study, Hillebrand, Raisch & Schad review the lit on *how humans use AI to manage* & *how humans are managed by AI*: 1/🧵

🔔Thrilled to co-designed an RCT just launched by @au.dk @flokeppeler.bsky.social and Copenhagen Capacity! They are testing digital message strategies with 110,000 European nurses, using community-led designs to recruit healthcare workers to Denmark.

#Wilmasreview of the week Wilma 🐶 had a visit from Joachim - and you can see from Wilma's face that he is an experienced dog owner who knows where to scratch a dog 💆‍♀️. Joachim is not only good at dog scratching, he also works with his colleague Jørgen to provide managers with digital tools. 1/🧵

#Wilmasreview of the week Wilma 🐶 is blown away. Even if she has to admit that she hasn't always behaved perfectly towards cats, she is happy to see that Lotte🐈 is on social media. Wilma's hypothesis: The more pets that share research, the more likely evidence-based policy/management becomes. 1/🧵

#Wilmasreview of the week Wilma 🐶 has done well adjusting to life in Denmark. She quickly understood the importance of enjoying the sun, esp during dark winters. 😎 But what about migrant children, how does their integration work? In a @pnas.org study, Wilma's colleague @matkruse.bsky.social shows: 🧵

#Wilmasreview of the week Wilma 🐶 likes to travel with public transport. She sees it as an essential part of the public service. If too much is saved on public services, this can have significant consequences, and not just for Wilma. In a recent @ajpseditor.bsky.social study... 1/🧵

#Wilmasreview of the week Before Christmas, Wilma 🐶 discussed the state of leadership research with Ulrich Thy Jensen. Of course, they talked about research on charisma, personality and intelligence. In a recent study, Ulrich, together with Akstinaite, Vlachos, Erne and Antonakis, finds ... 1/🧵

#Wilmasreview of the week Wilma 🐶 welcomed a visitor to her workplace in recent months - @mkfeeney.bsky.social. In addition to exploring Denmark together, they also discussed research at the forefront of public administration and technology. 1/🧵

#Wilmasreview of the week On a rainy Sunday afternoon, it can be hard to persuade Wilma 🐶 to go out for a walk. All persuasion efforts seem to have limited effects 😪 The question is: Maybe we just don't know how to effectively persuade Wilma? 1/🧵

The super election year is ending, with many winners and losers. Our new @thejop.bsky.social paper, (@henrikseeberg.bsky.social, @martinbaekgaard.bsky.social ) asks: How do winning and losing candidates see elections? Spoiler: Losers are more concerned about fairness. Link: doi.org/10.1086/734240