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/

Interesting move. On the one hand, ‘our’ government pursues a destructive anti-scientific policy, with billions of euros in budget cuts and restrictions on foreign students. On the other, there’s money to lure in some talent from the US. I don’t see how this adds up, you? nltimes.nl/2025/03/20/n...

Work-related visit to the Erasmus Medical Centre in Rotterdam, a hospital so large that it has its own gravitational field. Loved this clock: a video projection of people moving rubbish with brooms

Straight to Frontiers, the academic equivalent of the film industries’ ‘straight to Netflix’

The British WW2 psyops specialist Sefton Delmer understood that you break fascism by exaggerating its features so much that people realise it does not represent them. That it is weird, ridiculous and cruel. Populism sells a fake sense of community and roles within it.

Yes, well. ABP is my pension fund, so I fact-checked this on the fund’s own website (in Dutch). Turns out the disinvestment is mostly because of a change in investment strategy, and not, unfortunately, because of politics. “We are not activist shareholders” www.abp.nl/nieuws-en-pe...

The Execution of the Doge, by Delacroix, 1825. He was beheaded for attempting a coup d'etat. Apropos of, you know, absolutely nothing at all.

With Tesla sales falling, it’s not a surprise to see Elmo diversifying into different transport modes

A positive side-effect of the current AI hype is that it’s put a definite stop to the previous neuro-hype. Not going to miss neuro-marketing and constant references to ‘our brain’ in psycho-babble articles

Are we still doing starter packs? I haven’t seen so many of them around lately. But if you’re interested in following interesting people who do design research, research through design, or any other flavour of research and design, this starter pack is for you! go.bsky.app/VM55QQL

Hey man sorry to hear about all your political turmoil. Would it help if I scrolled around on the computer all day and drove myself insane?

Wow. it must feel terrible when someone takes something you made and uses it without permission or payment

Take a moment to read these three great threads on scientific insights about (living with) fear and anxiety, and follow @nicolecrust.bsky.social for more

Far-right politicians in Europe: we need resurrection of the intra-European border controls Meanwhile, our borders:

Just discovered this: www.nature.com/immersive/d4... Especially love this close-up of a weevil by Sherif Abdallah Ahmed and the picture of a seagull riding a turtly by Enric Gener

When will I learn not to play Been Caught Stealing by Jane’s Addiction when our dog is in the room? Total madness

Feels like the modern equivalent of "the stars are blood red tonight -- an ill omen, my liege."

Fully embracing Dutch philosophy… If it can be done by bicycle; do it by bicycle 💚

You know your brand is in trouble when there is a market for car stickers where people publicly denounce the brand’s management