Next Dutch PM maybe someone whose name is not going to be mispronounced by German journalists?

Event alert! On 14 Nov, the #JacobsFoundation Symposium honours Prof. Hirokazu Yoshikawa, 2025 Klaus J. Jacobs Prize laureate, and explores how science drives better outcomes for children. You are welcome to join! More information: jacobsfoundation.org/activity/202... #Research #ChildDevelopment

Early career person in my group had a paper desk rejected with the most generic explanation (3 sentence email) after a TWO MONTHS wait. I’m *so* close to emailing the editor.

My fuel this week

Wintersemester wir gehen rein 💥

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Important research by our very own @alexbryson.bsky.social www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/se...

Worth reading: Contribution to the debate on whether or not social media should be banned for children and adolescents. acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Personality is as heritable as eye colour!

Hab mir jetzt noch mal alle Kommissionsmitglieder im Detail angeschaut, immerhin ist die Sozialpädagogik mit Truels Reichardt und Denise Loop vertreten. Das absolute Übergewicht der Vertretung der Wirtschaft macht mir aber Sorgen.

Extremely exciting!

Some people call it a minefield. Others call it dangerous, even irresponsible. I call it the most promising field in life sciences. My love letter to social science genetics: communities.springernature.com/posts/a-love...

Enttäuschend zu sehen, dass fast niemand der Sachverständigen in der Corona Enquete-Kommission aus dem Bereich Bildung/Kinder&Jugendliche/Entwicklung kommt.

W3 in Entwicklungspsychologie in Freiburg. Never been but I heard it's one of the nicest cities in Germany. uni-freiburg.de/stellenangeb...

W3 Professur für Allgemeine Soziologie an der @tu-dortmund.bsky.social. Bewerbungsschluss ist der 01.10.2025. #Stellenausschreibung #Professur tudberufung.hr4you.org/job/view/731/universitaetsprofessur-w3-allgemeine-soziologie?page_lang=de

Die Regierung hat den Entwurf für ein neues Wehrdienstgesetz beschlossen, welcher verpflichtende Selbstauskünfte und Einladungen zur Musterung vorsieht. Warum ich den Plan für ungerecht gegenüber jungen Menschen halte, habe ich heute auf Bayern 2 besprochen (ab ca. 13:08) www.br.de/radio/live/b...

Someone graded 120 exams today 💥

Please consider submitting to our @socialdevelopment.bsky.social special issue on Political Engagement in Childhood and Adolescence: lnkd.in/eEFRuXJm. Abstracts are due on 15 September and the issue is edited by @harriet-tenenbaum.bsky.social

Two more weeks to apply 😊

German academic be like

Mit der SZ habe ich über die nach 2000-geborenen gesprochen: Was bedeutet es, wegen der Pandemie die Jugend zu verpassen? Und: Ist es wirklich fair, dass gerade diesen jungen Leuten jetzt wieder die Wehrpflicht droht? (Spoiler: nein). www.sueddeutsche.de/bayern/erlan...

The @wiko-berlin.bsky.social Gain Time to Think call for early career researchers is out again! www.wiko-berlin.de/fellow-werde...

Man kann's ja mal versuchen

PhD position in my group at @fau.de, as part of my @erc.europa.eu Consolidator project PAR2. German is not essential but an interest in social science genetics would be great! Sharing would be much appreciated ❤️ www.jobs.fau.de/jobs/phd-pos...

New job at LONELY-EU! Our consortium member Cristiano Vezzoni (University of Milan, Italy) is looking for a postdoc to work on #loneliness, social isolation and political behavior. www.linkedin.com/feed/update/... @lonely-eu.bsky.social

I'm looking for examples for compute games (serious or not) for children that (aim to/might) improve interpersonal skills such as empathy, prosocial behaviour, perspective taking.. If you know of research projects in the field that have developed their own games, please point me to it <3

Am Wochenende wird das Konzept Ruheabteil komplett bedeutungslos.

Min allererste halve marathon in Duitsland gaat zondag gelukkig (?) wel door.. nos.nl/artikel/2571...

Approx 2/3 of the summer semester done and I can safely say that I’ve never enjoyed teaching more. There’s interest in research, desire to learn and to contribute in lectures & seminars and nearly always of very high quality. I can live with hazards on bike lanes if I can have students like these 🥰

if you like the idea of doing science about music & babies, and have a young infant (<4mo) or are expecting one in the next couple months, you can be a research participant by signing up at www.togetherwegrow.study here's a short @npr.org piece on the research: www.npr.org/2025/06/02/n...

Does the Dutch ppt call a slide a "dia"? Because I think I've finally figured out why German GenZ calls their slides "Folien" but has no clue what the overhead projector in the lecture hall is for.

Holt die Maus nach Erlangen! 🐭 Die Maus aus „Die Sendung mit der Maus“ könnte bald die FAU besuchen. Gerade läuft nämlich eine Online-Abstimmung zum „Türen auf mit der Maus“-Tag, bei der die FAU mit dem Thema „Farbforschung“ vertreten ist. 👇 Jetzt abstimmen: www.kika.de/die-sendung-...

Exciting news. From 2027, @erc.europa.eu stg and cog now covers up to 10 and 15 years after you've obtained your PhD! And it seems that already from next year's call, the B2 will be shorter, and the B1 and B2 will have to include different components. erc.europa.eu/news-events/...

NB: The Polygenic Score Catalog has just lost its NIH funding. It was substantial. We are now on auxillary funding sources. If anyone has a spare £1m plz DM

Any researchers at Dutch universities who hold Wellcome Grants? My finance people are being exceptionally difficult and I'd love to hear how you solved some of the issues I'm facing. DMs open :), or [email protected]. Thanks a ton!

ISSBD in South Korea next year wow 😍

100 Minuten Verspätung aber Hafermilch jetzt in Portionsgröße.

Ich freue mich sehr für das Menschenrechte-Cluster an der @fau.de 🥳

Only been back in German academia for 7 weeks and yet already quite excited about this. Always interesting to see where a country sets its research funding priorities. (That does not mean that I'm all in favor of only funding a few deemed excellent).

Very happy to have contributed TRAILS data (www.trails.nl/eng) even if only a few 100. I always tell my students how sociogenomics can’t happen w/o everyone being willing to collaborate and this proves it again. Thanks to @erc.europa.eu for funding and @tedmond.bsky.social for excellent leadership!

Extremely excited to share the first effort of the Revived Genomics of Personality Consortium: A highly-powered, comprehensive GWAS of the Big Five personality traits in 1.14 million participants from 46 cohorts. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

I'm preparing a little brainstorm session on using AI in research (developmental psych broadly). Are there tools you like using that I might not have heard of yet?

W1/2 mit tt zu w3 in allgemeiner Psych in Magdeburg www.psychjob.eu/de/job/profe...

It's a super hectic time with that transitioning from one job (and academic system) to another, many new students and courses, all along while also transitioning to a new system with the journal but all is well as long as we get such wonderful science to publish 😍

Leseempfehlung! (Es gibt kein spannenderes Forschungsthema als soziale Entwicklung von Kindern und Jugendlichen ❤️) www.sueddeutsche.de/projekte/art...

I'm excited to announce that the Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science is inviting proposal for a special issue on "Using Large Language Models (LLMs) to Advance the Understanding of Psychopathology." Please see below for the call, which will be posted on our website shortly! 1/2

After one month at @fau.de, I'm amazed by the enthusiasm and interest of students, glad that everything is much less hierarchical than expected, and very charmed by the city. To be improved: Bike lanes. Sometimes they suddenly become bus lanes, end abruptly or are used for parking (even by police!).

This beautiful work by Ruby van Vliet is finally out, and perhaps even more timely than when we started working on it a long time ago. Honoured to have been part of it (mostly so in the beginning). www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Adolescent researchers: Does anyone have experience of running a study with <18 year olds and collecting data online, directly from them, rather than via schools? We want to run an experiment with 11-17yo, and are wondering about the logistics of getting parental consent online for 11-15yo...

Many things to like about Erlangen and @fau.de but morning runs in Meilwald are strong contender for number one