The Foucault pendulum in the faculty of science at our uni has stopped swinging 😱 So that means earth has stopped turning? No wonder with everything going on and all 😳😭

Your emotional support raccoon has arrived #streetart #arnhem

The mask dropped sometime ago, but the true face of the brutality of the Trump administration and their lickspittles screams louder every day and remember Farage is made in this image #poetry #reneegood #politics #justice #farage

Poem below: Donate to Amanda Gorman's fundraiser for @ACLUMN who are currently engaged in legal action against ICE. Other ways to offer support include donating to organizations such as: Unidos MN @UnidosMN Monarcha Rapid Response Line at monarcamn.org/ Immigrant Law Center MN @immigrantlawcentermn

Amanda Gorman wrote this poem for Renee Good and that’s it for me tonight.

Is one of your goals for 2026 to write more? One question I get all the time is, "How do you make time to write?" So, here is my unsolicited writing advice for the new year:

Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn’t Nirvana, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam or Alice in Chains

Goodbye, Monkey Cage - not as infinite as I imagined

Now published… We Reject the Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence for Reflexive Qualitative Research - Tanisha Jowsey, Virginia Braun, Victoria Clarke, Deborah Lupton, Michelle Fine, 2025 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

A year ago, CLICKNL, the collaborative facilitating agent for the Dutch creative industry, released its Key Enabling Methodologies agenda for 2024–2027. I contributed, together with Geke Ludden and Rik Crutzen, to the KEM category Behaviour and Empowerment. kems.nl

Nothing but love and support for Robin Ince. A horrible situation to be put in. You made the right decision The Infinite Monkey Cage has been one of my favourite shows for ages, but they have lost me as a listener now

Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

Also much love to the antifascists who cleverly occupied all the social media handles with the name of the newly-founded Hitlerjugend before the fascists had a chance to do so 🤩😍 “Schlau und schnell und vor dir da, Medienteam der Antifa” 😆👊🦄

Solidarity with all the fabulous people currently protesting against the establishment of a new AfD Hitlerjugend in Germany #antifascist Sickening to see once again how the police facilitates fascist gatherings Want to keep track? TAZ has a good live tracker (in German): taz.de/-AfD-Jugend-...

I'm taking🌲etsy orders for just a few more days: 🌿Real flowers cast in silver+ tiny hand-sculpted silver wren necklaces 💐Victorian ink bottle kits to improve mental health 🗓️A very few calendars* 🪸Ltd ed'n art prints of my photos* *Looking at them's likely to ⬇️⬇️ anxiety: www.etsy.com/uk/shop/silv...

I don't think this science communication resource gets enough love. OpenMoji offers 4,000+ free, #opensource emojis (CC BY-SA 4.0), with categories for healthcare, climate, UI... Challenge: find Greta Thunberg and a Viennese coffee house. ☕ 🔗 openmoji.org #SciComm #Design

+1 #teammdash

And we knew this. This wasn't speculation. We studied it, we had the talking points. We trained volunteers to explain this to people. It's not a surprise. Rich people don't flee places with good quality of life when we increase the quality of life. They might try to cheat us, but they don't leave.

Our Scientific Committee has been busy shaping plans for the 2026 Behaviour Change Conference! 🎉 💡 Don't forget the call for abstracts is open until 15 December 👉 www.ucl.ac.uk/behaviour-ch... 👏 Thanks to Co-Chairs Marta Marques & Felix Naughton & all Committee members for their expertise

important on LLMs for academics: 1️⃣ LLMs are usefully seen as lossy content-addressable systems 2️⃣ we can't automatically detect plagiarism 3️⃣ LLMs automate plagiarism & paper mills 4️⃣ we must protect literature from pollution 5️⃣ LLM use is a CoI 6️⃣ prompts do not cause output in authorial sense

Are you working on designing for #behaviourchange and #empowerment, in research or practice? We want to know what you think are the most important developments in this field and you can help by filling out this short questionnaire. lnkd.in/dKHV4WVG

US political violence overwhelmingly comes from the right - the side that calls for, glorifies, & literally pardons it

When, and why, do health care professionals refer patients to lifestyle interventions? This week, I presented work that helps answering this question at @ehps2025.bsky.social in Groningen, NL #ehps2025 Missed it? No worries! The poster is here: osf.io/wgfvm

🚴‍♀️ Today we co-organized EHPS in Motion with 4TU.RECENTRE at the @ehps.bsky.social in Groningen! An interactive bike tour with short activities, fun stops, and a DUO bike to symbolize teamwork in research 🤜🏼🤛🏼 Thanks to all who joined! 🌱🚲 #EHPS2025 #ISCycle #4TURECENTRE #activetravel

On my way to Groningen for #EHPS2025! Looking forward to meeting so many wonderful colleagues, and presenting some work on when and why health care professionals (don’t) refer patients to lifestyle interventions. See you there! @ehps2025.bsky.social @ehps.bsky.social‬

1/ "We found that people with Long COVID are often left to fend for themselves in a system that isn't adequately informed about their condition and doesn't offer them appropriate medical support": www.news-medical.net/news/2025081...

Finally an honest security notice

When Covid-19 hit, health psychologists were just as poised to contribute to reducing the spreading and associated risks as scientists from other fields. A large bunch of us collaborated on this project, now finally published link.springer.com/article/10.3...

Today's inspiration

Went to see Refik Anadol’s audiovisual reimagination of Frank Gehry’s architectural legacy through AI and generative art at the Guggenheim Bilbao last week. Quite fitting that the work of the poster child of computer-aided architecture now gets reinterpreted by the poster child of AI-driven art

Apparently Trump, visiting the NATO summit, spent the night at the royal palace last night

HEMA, a popular Dutch department store, is letting everyone know that they have a product in stock that can remove orange stains from royal bed linens (available a mere 5-minute bike ride from the palace) 🔥

A *null* result I'm very proud of! Led by Rustam Romaniuc, 35 coauthors from all over France tested nudge interventions to boost voter turnout. None worked, and we are possibly not surprised -- but a well-powered null result *is* a result! Paper: kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F...

Excellent statue of Saint Tacano, patron saint of people who manage to get their round in strategically, so they only need to fork out for some fresh pints for the lads and not the girlfriends’ gin and tonics, mojitos, and aperol spritzes

Inaugural lecture of professor Manon Bloemen at Utrecht University of Applied Sciences - her research focuses on creating inclusive opportunities for physical activity for children with physical disabilities. A fascinating mix of fundamental and applied research, co-creation, and implementation

We’ve got vacancies! We are searching a junior scientist on the topic of ethical considerations in lifestyle advice www.radboudumc.nl/vacatures/15... and a data scientist researching natural language processing www.radboudumc.nl/vacatures/15... For both positions, fluent Dutch is required

New paper out! Usually, smoking cessation interventions only work for people from high socio-economic status groups and not for the rest of the population. StopAdvisor (UK) was the exception. Our intervention StopCoach took the lessons learned from the Stopadvisor project… (1/4)

Internet Roadtrip is my favorite thing on the internet right now—it’s basically Twitch Plays Google Street View. They started in Boston, spent several weeks on a quest to cross the Canadian border, and are now exploring New Brunswick. neal.fun/internet-roa...

Political infighting, no plans, no results, “a terrible year in power.” Interesting review of the current status of Dutch politics www.youtube.com/watch?v=gr0F...

A structured exercise programme after chemotherapy results in significantly longer disease-free survival in people with colon cancer – relevant finding for one of our current projects, in which we are researching strategies for sustained lifestyle change after surgery www.nejm.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Astérix et Ozempix

Looking at good text-to-notes apps for iOS and MacOS, any good experiences? I wanted to try Aqua (withaqua.com) but it seems to only work with google sign-in, which is a definite no

Thanks to Tilburg, and a big thank you to the Netherlands for three fantastic shows in your country on this tour! 🇳🇱 la la hou van je 🧡

Went to see @pixiesofficial.bsky.social tonight and boy did they deliver 🤩 I remember getting the Doolittle album in 1990 - teenage me could not have foreseen me singing along to the Pixies 35 years later 😂

Once a year, the Dutch reveal their true mercantile selves, when they celebrate King’s Day by clearing out their attics and flogging all the rubbish to their compatriots - turning the entire country in one enormous fleamarket

Hanami in my garden!

Nudges are a grift, people. From the birdsite, november 2021, in front of a block of flats not far from my house. Yet another clearly ineffective instance of the prying eyes nudge 👀 Wonder how much the authorities paid the local nudge cowboys for this ‘solution’

Interested in designing for mental wellbeing? On Wednesday 9 April, I will be part of a webinar on spatial wellbeing and wellbeing metrics, organised by the Design Research Society (DRS) SIGWELL group. www.designresearchsociety.org/events/sigwe...

I’ve long used FiveThirtyEight’s interactive “Hack Your Way To Scientific Glory” to illustrate the idea of p-hacking when I teach statistics. But ABC/Disney killed the site earlier this month :( So I made my own with #rstats and Observable and #QuartoPub ! stats.andrewheiss.com/hack-your-way/