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Apparently Trump, visiting the NATO summit, spent the night at the royal palace last night

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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) 🔥

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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...

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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

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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

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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

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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)

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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...

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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...

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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...

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Astérix et Ozempix

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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

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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 🧡

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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 😂

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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

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Hanami in my garden!

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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’

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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...

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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/

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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...

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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

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

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I know this is extremely vulgar idealism, but I do think we should try to aggressively reassert the norm that lying is bad. Not in a "Four Pinnochios" fact-checking kind of way, but in a way that frames this kind of lying as moral degeneracy that is fundamentally corrosive to the human spirit.

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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.

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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...

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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.

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

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