What do you like better, actual writing by Ursula Le Guin and Hilary Mantel, or pretend writing produced by the plagiarism machine trained illegally on their works? Now you can take the test! Pro tip: if you just choose the shorter options, you will always pick ‘written by a human’. AI is wordy

We’re thrilled to have received so many high‑quality submissions for #BCConf2026. Huge congratulations to everyone accepted for an oral or poster presentation 👏 It’s shaping up to be our biggest conference yet. Don’t miss out - early‑bird rates end 31 March: www.ucl.ac.uk/behaviour-ch...

Introducing our first #BCConf2026 keynote: @marijndebruin.bsky.social, Radboud University Medical Center. Prof de Bruin's keynote will reflect on the role we can all play in building behavioural science capacity. Book by 31 March to secure the early-bird rate. 👉 www.ucl.ac.uk/behaviour-ch...

📢 Late‑breaking call for abstracts - if you don’t already have a poster accepted for #BCConf2026, this is your chance to submit for a poster presentation. Be part of our biggest and best conference yet - and please share. 👉 Deadline: 09:00 (GMT) Monday 9 March www.ucl.ac.uk/behaviour-ch...

Saw this do the rounds on LinkedIn: “My nutrition app suggested I should try alcohol more often.” Probably fake, right? Or is it?

Question: is there a Creative Commons licence that grants people a full licence to use content, except for the training of an LLM? Previously, I have used CC BY-SA for some of my work. Is there something like CC BY-SA-NoAI? #llms #AI #CC #creativecommons #licensing #licence

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... The impacts of locking under 16 yos from their social media networks are now beginning to bite for those young people who relied on them for social connection

Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you had in college: (well, in uni, same thing surely?) 1. Writing film scenarios 2. Audiovisual communication 3. Persuasion and attitude change 4. Philosophy of the cognitive sciences 5. Interpersonal relations and power

If you see this, don't participate. It's a rigged study by Lisa Littman and unethical researcher J. Michael Bailey meant to undermine access to care. Spread the word.

Artist De Strandharker, a Dutch creator known for large-scale beach rake drawings, give remarkable tribute to the victims of Trump's ICE (Renée Good and Alex Pretti) 🫶

Two years and five months into my job at Radboud University Medical Centre, and for the first time I dared use one of the many kick scooters standing around the tunnels connecting the hospital buildings, shaving 97% off my travel time between meetings. This is what innovation looks like

A Smilodon for the ice age. Protect your neighbors. #pleistocene #sabertooth #megafauna #iceage

A cool guide to architecture

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

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

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