We are pleased to #welcome 🎉 our new postdoctoral researcher, Dr. @martinjansen.bsky.social. He has recently joined the Persuasive Communication group as a postdoctoral researcher. In his new role, he will work on a project focused on developing communication campaigns for gambling care.

📣📣Publication Alert Excited to share that the final (but also second haha) paper of my dissertation on political microtargeting 🎯and transparency together with @ymeier.bsky.social and Nicole Krämer is published in Behaviour and Information Technology. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Recently, I've been interviewed for the magazine of the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition, and Behaviour (@dondersinst.bsky.social). A very cool opportunity, you can read the magazine via www.ru.nl/en/donders-i...

While it’s a really nice feeling to come back home. I can say I look back on a great #ica25 and an awesome preconference!

Just a reminder: tomorrow, Friday, 6:30 am in front of Hyatt Regency #runningwithpresidents #ica25

Here we go! #ICA25

#runningwithpresidents #ica25 is on! Join for a friendly early morning run on Friday, have a fresh start into a full conference day 👟🎽

#ica25 pro tip. Don't wear your badge outside the hotel. It makes you a magnet for theft.

This fall: The doctoral workshop of the Division Media Psych | German National Assocation of Psychology @mepsy.bsky.social Feedback from peers and mentors (tba), tipps and the #pizzaoven story. Looking forward to this event chaired by @germanneubaum.bsky.social and me

#Etmaal2025 starts tomorrow! Here’s what you need to know: 🕣Registration: from 8:30 on 🗣️Preconferences: 9:30–11:30 ☕️Welcome coffee: 11:00–11:50 (Level 4) 🎤Conference kick-off (keynote): 11:50 (Auditorium) 📄Programme: https://buff.ly/4giJ0zf or app

👋 Excited for #Etmaal2025? Join #MediaPsychology and CAM for a workshop on stakeholder engagement in media and well-being research. 💡 Hear from Esther Rozendaal, @dougaparry.bsky.social, Marijn Martens, and @adrianmeier.bsky.social as they share their insights @etmaal2025.bsky.social!

Does effort make life more meaningful? Was Sisyphus living the dream? In our new paper (now accepted in Cognition!), across 6 studies with nearly 3,000 participants, we found that more effortful tasks feel more meaningful 🧵

Seriously. I sue drug companies, you don't have to tell me they suck, nor explain to me the risks of pharmaceuticals. But vaccines are different, they're like stealing fire from the Gods and burning plagues with it. Their benefit/risk ratio is downright magical.

Not sure who made this & when but fittingly came across it in my downloads folder today:

Periodic reminder for all thesis students - I just recommended again @fgilardi.bsky.social 's spot-on abstract template to a student to structure her thinking about her thesis topic: fabriziogilardi.org/resources/pa... It really helps specifying your thesis topic! #academicsky #commsky #polsky

New paper by Hong Hui Choi on Preregistration and Predictivism argues that weak predictivists should support preregistration. He extends my philosophical arguments for preregistration by more tightly linking them to weak predictivism. philsci-archive.pitt.edu/24236/1/Prer...

I say this as an AE and if I ever accede to EIC of any academic journal this will be a Day 1 change on my watch #AcademicSky #Academia #JournalStuff

Whew. If you work in, or draw on the work of, the behavioral sciences, add this to your reading list.

Now I have to clean coffee from my desk....

new map of every account on BlueSky just dropped :) aurora.ndimensional.xyz

Door het vwo-eindexamen te vervangen door een kleurplaat van Tinky Winky is Nederland opeens veel intelligenter geworden!!!

ᑎEᗯ ᑭᑌᗷᒪIᑕᗩTIOᑎ 🦠 How did German media report on the #COVID19 pandemic? We (with @reinemann.bsky.social, Marcus Maurer & @pjost.bsky.social) investigated relevance + viewpoint diversity of mainstream & alternative media. tl;dr: It’s not as one-sided as many critics claimed. Detailed results 👇🧵

Still laughing hours after I read this. So true so true

Do you need to report deviations from the preregistered analysis plan? Not all deviations are the same. Evaluate the consequences on the severity and validity of the test. Some deviations are improvements. osf.io/preprints/ps... For a discussion: nulliusinverba.podbean.com/e/preregistr...

Happy to share with you that I successfully defended my dissertation and that I’m now PhDone! But also home, as I already started a Postdoc in the sweetest city in NL, at Radboud’s Centre for Language studies!

Happy to share that the third study of my dissertation is now published open access in PLOS ONE. In this study we investigated political microtargeting and transparency disclosures by means of a privacy calculus approach. journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Delighted to share that my dissertation on microtargeting and transparency is submitted! Defense will take place in the end of januari. Almost PhDone!