Art question 🎨 What painting, photograph, sculpture, or piece of visual art has stayed with you long after you first saw it? Not necessarily your favorite. The one that lingered.

The negative effects of even a small amount of alcohol on our health are indisputable. It’s fascinating to watch what happens when this fact gets communicated to the general public: Health promotors seem incapable of considering the value of drinking alcohol as a social practice

Grappig zo’n NK Wielrennen rond m’n huis, maar die helicopter van de NOS mag onderhand echt wel weg

There’s been a lot of buzz around the Borjas/Breznau (2026) paper (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...) and potential ideological bias in research. We took a closer look at the data. Could there be a "bias in bias research"? Here is what we found: www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10...

Establishing-an-effect, theory-of-the-effect, and theoretical framework Three strategies for claiming research progress by Dal et al. (2026): doi.org/10.1002/jcpy...

We're really pleased you were able to present your work on Co-Creation at the Behaviour Change Conference 2026. Thank you for attending #BCConf2026!

the real takeaway from the World Cup is that if you don't have immigrants on your team, it probably sucks

Wonder what caused them to put that here? 🧐

“Cloak room”. I love that term. Please madam, take my cloak. Will you also look after my dagger?

Launching the Prevention Hub Co-Creation Toolkit at the Behaviour Change Conference 2026 #BCConf2026 in Lisbon

So… the public health practitioner is a professional mansplainer, and the behavioural scientist can’t spell. Thanks AI 🙄 #BCConf2026

Using ontologies to inform behaviour change intervention development seems promising (see www.humanbehaviourchange.org), but as yet there’s been a lack of usable tools to do so. CACTIS 1.7.2 robertjwest.github.io/Unlocking-Be... and PAT the Paper Authoring Tool look useful there #BCConf2026

Marijn de Bruin delivers his amazing, incredibly information-dense keynote on his perspective on strengthening behavioural science for societal impact #BCConf2026 “As a field, we’re just out of puberty, but we’re ready for the next step upwards”

Susan Michie @susanmichie.bsky.social, Marta Marques, and Felix Naughton open the #BCConf2026. Delegates from over 40 countries, with much attention to behaviour change for climate and planetary health

In 1908 the Lancet called for an 18+ age limit on reading in bed for U.K. children.

On my way to magical and marvellous Lisbon for the Behaviour Change Conference 2026 #BCConf2026! I will be presenting the brand new Prevention Hub #Cocreation #Toolkit (more about the toolkit soon!), as well as chairing a session on digital health.

"It is not the duty of government to abandon online territory, to cede it as ungovernable. It is the duty of the government to provide safe public spaces, both online and offline. Children need those on the internet just as much as they need them in their neighbourhood."

"There are a whole lot of ways to be perfect," she says, "and not one of them is attained through punishment."

“After not playing a single minute in the world cup, he went on to pursue a career as a mailman in Helmond, a small city in the Dutch south”

Finally! A good use case for AI. Now you can find out what you would have looked like as a member of the famous 1988 Netherlands football team, the only time we didn’t come second ek88look.nl Mine looks, well, let’s just say it has strong ‘eternal bench sitter’ vibes 😂

If you, like me, have too many books already, then avoid the Weirdos Book Club podcast by Sarah Pascoe and Cariad Lloyd at all cost. Last week, I bought Flesh by David Szalay after listening to their lovely conversation with him, and just now I bought this week’s book: Matt Haig’s Midnight Train

Academic journals: if you send me a review request on Friday after office hours, and then send me a reminder in that same weekend, I’ll deny the request. If you can’t even be bothered to set up your automated invitation process to respect work-life balance, I’m not going to do the free labour

What do you say, people? Shall I push it? Tempting… #streetart #nijmegen

Inspiring and promising approach to weaning off big tech: public sector from France, Germany, and the Netherlands join forces to co-develop open-source public tools #digitalsovereignty #transparency interoperable-europe.ec.europa.eu/collection/o...

Will I see you in Lisbon at the UCL Centre for Behaviour Change Conference 2026? I will be there, presenting some exciting new work there: a co-creation and co-design toolkit aimed specifically at health researchers.

Admit it, a monorail makes an otherwise rather drab city look like something out of a sci-fi film. Let’s build monorails!

Rutte was a terrible PM, always smiling whilst carrying out unnecessary austerity measures to enrich the corporate world. Gutting to see that he’s now doing even more damage as Trump’s lapdog

Aesop: I TOLD YOU

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

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