Happy May the Forest Be With You!

"Global health is not very global—a contradiction that becomes most evident at global health conferences [which] often say more about whose perspectives are valued and whose are not, reflecting the inequities in power and privilege that [it] ought to redress." DOI: 10.1016/j.langlo.2026.103956

Our members are sharing their research far and wide! 🤗 And this summer we are hosting a stand at the @unimarburg.bsky.social Summer Fest to bring our work to the public. 📅 July 17th Come visit us to learn more about breaking expectations!

Couchsurfing around workshops leads me to present my posters to such a diverse crowd- finance analyst, comic artist, biomedical engineer.. Last year an architect and a hairdresser.. Italian, Indian, German.. Presenting to couchsurfing hosts should count as public outreach 🤭 @rtg2271.bsky.social

Happy to have presented a recent project at the IMT in Lucca - it was great to exchange in this interdisciplinary setting, and especially interesting to learn more about economist's perspectives on similar research questions. Thanks to everyone there!

I'm happy to announce that the program of our 4th Marburg climate camp is ready :) Consider stopping by! 🌳 climateconnect.earth/de/projects/...

2 high school students in the library: S1: I asked chat GPT, but it only gives bad answers lately S2: You need to switch to Claude ai. I used it to prepare my physics presentation S1: Really? How did it go? S2: Extremly bad. But I think it was my fault, not Claude's (difficult not to laugh)

Meta-Psychology owns April 1st with the "Inaugural Editorial of Questionable Research Ideas and OtherPeculiarities: The QRAP section": open.lnu.se/index.php/me...

Happy International Transgender Day of Visibility! We're everywhere and we're cool. Here's the trans pride flag 🏳️‍⚧️ on a mid-90s Pentium running DOS.

The Program for Online #SIPS2026 is now available online! Let's meet online May 6-7 for exciting hackathons, unconferences, and workshops! Check out the program preview here 👇️ buff.ly/Ezzyql9

@dwdderwetterdienst.bsky.social: Der langfristige Erwärmungstrend in Deutschland setzt sich weiter fort. Das Jahr 2025 war demnach erneut deutlich zu warm, sonnig und zu trocken im Vergleich zum langjährigen Mittel. Besonders auffällig ist die Zunahme von Zunahme von Extremereignissen.

Surprise surprise / pointing out the obvious

The French embassy in Germany will finance research stays of up to 3 months for early carreer researchers employed in German academia- list of research fields& other details in their link (EN/FR/DE available). Worth sharing with PhDs~ @rtg2271.bsky.social www.science-allemagne.fr/appels-actue...

Introducing skytrails by @kennypeng.bsky.social, a way to browse posts across Bluesky! Follow trails to navigate the space of content/conversations here, and discover new interests beyond your usual feeds 🕸️ I'll talk more about it tomorrow in my talk at #atscience #atmosphereconf!

codeinplace.stanford.edu Sharing this Python coding course from Stanford (bc they asked me to by email) - it's free, interactive, and entirely online. I took it 3 years ago and it was fun 🙃 Very basic/intro level so like, accessible to anyone I think

Kudos to the @teap2026.bsky.social team for the gamification of networking at the conference - Seriously, you're amazing 💛 Including vegan chocolate, individualized psych quotes on our bags - and a bingo that says if you have the same quote as me, please find me so I can check this field. 😏

Happy #PiDay! Here's the first 1,000 digits of pi encoded as colours 🎨 made with #RStats

Today on #InternationalWomensDay, we celebrate outstanding women whose research spans the disciplines – from mathematical imaging to medieval diets, translations on reproductive health, designing better cities, planetary science, forensic science, and female friendships. media.leverhulme.ac.uk

📢 Our ViolEx 2.0 paper reached 1️⃣0️⃣0️⃣ citations 🥳 🎉 Congratulations to all RTG members! 🔗 doi.org/10.3389/fpsy...

Yesterday during lunch break I heard that my RTG is on bluesky now // follow @rtg2271.bsky.social 🥳 and, don't ask me how my brain works, but this made me want to make magic the gathering cards based on RTG researchers (there are magic card generators online) I volunteer myself as an example

Call for Submissions for the Theory Methods Conference 2026, September 30-October 2! theorymethodssociety.org/conference.h... We invite you to: 1) Submit your proposal: edu.nl/mj9x6 2) Invite your colleagues/lab/(PhD) students, and encourage them to submit 3) Share this post

The algorithmic curation of information online can exacerbate polarization and support the spread of misinformation. This review makes the case that social media algorithms amplify content from extreme parties, especially the far right, and threatens democracy. www.science.org/doi/full/10....

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We were asked to forward this petition by the national German PhD representatives, to protect diversity research and disability studies in particular: weact.campact.de/petitions/di...

Dix ans après, Paris se souvient. Le 13 novembre 2015, les terroristes frappaient Saint-Denis et Paris en plein cœur, sa jeunesse, sa liberté et sa joie de vivre. Ce soir-là, c’est notre humanité tout entière qui vacillait.

Tomorrow is the PhD / Postdoc day at @unimarburg.bsky.social - meet us in the uni library at 3pm, or come earlier for the welcome speech, from 2pm. Workshops start from 4:15, no signing up required. We're looking forward to meeting you!

This was a fabulous, once in a lifetime colloquium -- and now the videos are available in high quality on the College de France web site @college-de-france.fr www.college-de-france.fr/fr/agenda/co... With talks by Edvard Moser, Nancy Kanwisher, Liz Spelke, Manuela Piazza, Luca Bonatti and more!

Excellent 🧵 countering uncritical adoption of AI status quo

Random note: the term "metacognition" is typically attributed to John Flavell (1976). As I just found out, this is not true. It was likely first coined by Lila Gleitman et al (1972), as seen in this beautiful quote:

John Flavell, a giant of developmental psychology, who introduced the study of metacognition, died peacefully at age 96. www.amacad.org/person/john-...

In order to better align with our mission to support all underrepresented genders in the R community, R-Ladies is re-branding to R-Ladies+! 💜 🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ ⚧️ ✨ R-Ladies is rebranding to R-Ladies+ rladies.org/news/rebrand... ✨ Rebranding Call For Proposal rladies.org/news/rebrand... #rstats #rladies

Random thought, but if they save it, I'd really like to see the Wahl-O-Mat data. Like how frequently the statements are chosen vs. rejected, and what topics people weigh as most important.

Why does @weare.rladies.org have less than 1000 followers? We can do better than this #rstats folks. It is a terrific account to follow because every week not only we get to know a new member of the #RLadies community but we also get to read their R favorites, tips, and jokes.

Happy Marie Skłodowska Curie Rejection Day for those who celebrate!🤓 And for those selected, first, congrats! second, tell me your secrets 🧐

convo that made me ponder - If you accepted to have a more superficial understanding, you wouldn't have this problem. - "Superficial" and "understanding" don't make sense next to each other. It's an oxymoron. - Exactly, that's your problem.

Fav sentence of the day: "Reviewers will see your study and say, I'm not studying that shit, it's already 11pm, everyone else is sleeping and nobody pays me" I'll leave this quote anonymous

There's this phenomenon where you're surprised by a tiny inconsistency for a fraction of a second, but forget about it right away. You automatically discarded it as noise. Later turns out it was important. Only then you remember the inconsistency. I wonder how often this happens?

Air pollution has dropped significantly in #Paris in the last 15 years. Mayor @annehidalgo.bsky.social’s leadership has traded car space for green space, safe bike space, kid space.. and traded pollution for people. Good trade.

@wimdeneys.bsky.social i found this and thought of you people - the experiment idea could be interesting? maybe you also know it already, but just in case! Bruner, J. S., & Postman, L. (1949). On the perception of incongruity: A paradigm. Journal of personality, 18(2), 206-223.

"Happiness equals reality minus expectations." —Tom Magliozzi (1937–2014)