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!

Sander Hermsen@sanderhermsen.bsky.social · 2mo ago

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

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."

A teen social media ban is an admission of total and utter failure to govern online spaces

The UK government is currently calling for steps that fall short of a teen social media ban. Here's why it shouldn't take the next step.

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"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”

Sander Hermsen@sanderhermsen.bsky.social · 2mo ago

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 😂

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...

How France, Germany, and the Netherlands co-developed public tools

What happens when three European public administrations shift from coordination to co-developing digital tools? Since 2023, the DINUM (French OSPO), its German counterpart, and the Netherlands have ta...

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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.

UCL Centre for Behaviour Change@ucl-cbc.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The 2026 Behaviour Change Conference Programme is live! 🎉 There are still in-person and online places available, so do join us if you haven’t already registered: 👉 www.ucl.ac.uk/behaviour-ch... Workshop registrations will be closing soon - book by 8 May: 👉 www.ucl.ac.uk/behaviour-ch... #BCConf2026

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

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5mo ago

'The president doing this is crucial. I've seen the polling, but I really hope the American people will be with him because he's doing this to make the whole world safer" -- NATO Secretary Mark Rutte

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

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 5mo ago

How does A.I. stack up against some of the world’s best human writers? Take our quiz.