There is a position for a Postdoc (3+3 years) in my lab. If you are interested in studying goals, self-regulation, self-control, motivation, personality, well-being, personality development, and/or intra-individual variability with me, here is more information jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/0...

A new Department of Cognitive Science is being created at Bocconi University in Milan, Italy. Here is the call for a cluster hire (for around 10 faculty) in all areas of cognitive science, at both junior and senior levels: www.unibocconi.it/en/faculty-a... Deadline: May 4th, 2026

Postdoctoral Job Opportunity: Join me and the WELLab at WashU in St. Louis to study well-being in daily life and across the lifespan. This position is perfect for folks interested in ESM and longitudinal data analysis and well-being and affective science. wustl.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/External/job...

Our institute is hiring 1. an assistant professor (with TT) for Social Psychology (focus: environmental psychology) ohws.prospective.ch/public/v1/jo... 2. an assistant lecturer (with TT) for Experimental Personality Psychology ohws.prospective.ch/public/v1/jo...

Preprint just accepted by Motivation Science! osf.io/preprints/ps... Despite decades of research, we do not have a clear or unitary definition of self-control! In this article, I discuss: • Is self-control an ability or a personality trait? • Should habits count as self-control? [...]

Collaborating on this was fun - and it shows that research stays - in addition to their immediate impact- can still promote collaboration and productivity 15 years later! Thank you @liztenney.bsky.social for asking me to join the team!

Meet Veronika, the tool-using cow. Veronika uses sticks to scratch herself, using different orientations and motions, an example of multi-purpose tool use. This suggests scientists may have underestimated cows' cognitive abilities. arstechnica.com/science/2026...

Big new blogpost! My guide to data visualization, which includes a very long table of contents, tons of charts, and more. --> Why data visualization matters and how to make charts more effective, clear, transparent, and sometimes, beautiful. www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/salonis-gu...

Check out the newly launched International Student Resource Center (ISRC), a national organization dedicated to helping international students and scholars navigate the complex landscape of U.S. immigration laws, regulations, and policies. #AcademicSky www.internationalstudent.us

🔔 Those coming to the ECP22 in Edinburgh: Consider booking accommodation early! Edinburgh is a very popular place. Here are accommodation tips for ECP folks: docs.google.com/document/d/1... 📝 Submissions & registrations are also open: ecp22edinburgh.org #ecp22

Early career personality researchers coming to the Edinburgh ECP22: If you want to get a link to a slightly more affordable uni accommodation option later this year, leave your email here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

If colleagues or students share a dataset with you and you make this face, consider sharing these resources with them. ☺️ datamgmtinedresearch.com 1. Organizing data (Ch. 3) 2. Naming variables and files (Ch. 9) 3. Documenting data (Ch. 8) 4. Cleaning data (Ch. 14)

Attended #FGSP2025 earlier this week, first ever conference outside of India! Extremely grateful to have gotten the opportunity to present and win 2nd place for this poster on the study I did with @mhennecke.bsky.social and Johannes Koopmann while I was still in India!

Submissions are now open for 22nd European Conference on Personality (Edinburgh, 2026); deadline 7/12/25. Keynote speakers and pre-conference workshops have also been confirmed. www.ecp22edinburgh.org/submission

Here's a plain summary of our work on measuring goal dimensions: link.growkudos.com/1et738saakg

New paper! Miriam Pfister, Melanie Naumann, Veronika Brandstätter and I validated 13 state scales to capture change in students' affect, learning experiences, and study-related appraisals during exam preparation - useful tools to investigate the processes driving academic success.

New paper with Korbinian Kiendl, @rhoyle.bsky.social & @kkleinke.de accepted at Motivation Science: After noticing that practices for measuring characteristics of personal goals (= goal dimensions) are a big mess (see Kiendl et al., 2022), we decided to develop and validate a measure: ...

1. I have spent a lot of time recently sending invitations for people to review papers, and this process works extremely differently from what I imagined when I was a student. Wanted to write out how I do it in case that's helpful for you all as you submit papers. #AcademicSky #PhdSky #PsychSciSky

Paper alert by @cavanvbonner.bsky.social looking at adversity and growth in self-regulatory dispositions. The tl;dr--no, adversity does not lead to growth in either self-reported or parent observed measures of effortful control or emotional stability. www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/zz0z1... 1/

Self-control in daily life is more than willpower — but how well do commonly used trait scales capture this recent, broader view on self-control? New preprint with @kaihorstmann.bsky.social & @mhennecke.bsky.social: osf.io/preprints/ps... Short summary below.

🚨 Job alert - please share! I'm looking for a doctoral researcher (3 years, 75%) to join my #ERC project #Loneliness across time and space (LOTIS) at @ruhr-uni-bochum.de, starting June 1 or later. Details in thread 👇 #PsychSciSky

Want to make nice graphs with me, starting this summer? I am hiring for two PhD positions at the University of Witten/Herdecke.

This is fantastic - congratulations!

New preprint!

These stories amount to "the left was so annoying about pronouns or liberals made people feel so guilty about plastic straws they had no choice but to get on board with the second coming of the Third Reich and the destruction of the planet."

Also a great resource for teaching students data visualization

This excellent interactive tutorial on misleading data visualizations explores the idea of a "counter chart" — the graph you draw in response to refute a misleading claims flowingdata.com/projects/dis...

Happy to report that APA wrote this letter, gathered a coalition across science, and will now pay for ads for it to be disseminated in Science and Chronicle of Higher Ed to spread the word!! unitedsciencealliance.org

The Society for the Science of Motivation (SSM) annually confers an Early Career Award! The deadline for this year’s award is March 14. More info on the (self-)nomination process here: www.scienceofmotivation.org/content.asp?...

It's so troubling to follow the news in the U.S. this week. Here is a resource on research funding in Germany that might be of interest to my #psychscisky colleagues in the U.S. (although I still cross my fingers you won't need it): www.research-in-germany.org/en/research-...

1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%. I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

Research Coordinator (60 - 100 %) wanted! 📢 The NMR Kids Lab at the Jacobs Center for Productive Youth Development is looking for a German-speaking Research Coordinator to join our interdisciplinary team! 🧠🔍 Click here to apply👉 jobs.uzh.ch/offene-stell...

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

Trump zensiert Wissenschaft: Von CDC-MitarbeiterInnen bereits eingereichte Publikationen müssen zurückgezogen oder verändert werden, wenn sie verbotene Wörter wie "gender" oder "transgender" enthalten. Das kann man nicht mehr schönreden, das ist faschistische Wissenschaftszerstörung. (Thread)

Forschung zu Einsamkeit, Krebstherapien, Energiewirtschaft, IT-Sicherheit und vielem mehr erwartet euch bei diesen Accounts von RUB-Mitgliedern. Große Follow-Empfehlung! 🦋

Please repost! We are hiring an assistant professor (W1) of Educational Psychology. We are looking forward to working with you!! uni-tuebingen.de/en/faculties...

The Association for Research in Personality is soliciting abstracts for the 2025 Biennial Meeting scheduled to take place June 26-28, 2025 in Evanston (suburb of Chicago), IL, USA!

Excited to share our new paper in @EJP! 🎉 We found that how people think and feel about their goals varies most between different goals, then over time, and least between individuals...

Interesting looking position open with some colleagues of mine (Wiebke Bleidorn / Ven Popov) here in Zurich. 3-Year Post-Doc (100%) in Individual Differences and Assessment / Computational Modelling www.psychology.uzh.ch/en/areas/sob...

New article in press: With lead author Mario Wenzel, we try to understand how prohedonic emotion regulation and self-control are related, assuming that they can be incompatible. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

In meiner Abteilung Persönlichkeitspsychologie wird eine wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiter:innenstellen (m/w/d) mit Möglichkeit zur Promotion frei: jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/b... Themen z.B. Motivation, Selbstregulation, Selbstkontrolle und Persönlichkeitsentwicklung. Bei Fragen gerne DM!

Very first Bluesky post! I am excited to advertise for 2 post-docs related to emotion and aging, starting as soon as this summer, in my new lab at WashU. Please spread the word (and let me know if you have any questions)! wustl.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Extern...

Massive collaborative effort to evaluate the validity of early behavioral science policy recommendations to support the covid-19 pandemic response! Looking good - 👂listening to the science not a bad idea for policymakers.

New research with my former graduate student Sebastian Bürgler, in press in Motivation Science. We show that people tend to use the self-control strategy task enrichment in a context-sensitive way, especially when they report high levels of metacognitive knowledge.

This sounds very interesting! Looking forward to reading this soon @wilhelmhofmann.bsky.social !