One week ago, we officially celebrated the launch of the pilot project Open Science Office at the University of St. Gallen π
We were thrilled to welcome so many interested and engaged participants to the Arena at SQUARE, with its stunning view over St. Gallen and Lake Constance π
βͺ Early-career researchers at the University of St. Gallen: Want to make your research more transparent, robust, and impactful?
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Join our interactive workshop βOpen Science: From Idea to Impactβ on 17 March 2026, 13:00β17:00.
π₯ You can still sign up here: lnkd.in/enGUVQpG
Room with people an a presentation is running with the first slide showing the title Open Science Office.
Kick-Off Event of the #OpenScience Office at the University of St. Gallen starts soon.
Just two more days until the β¨Kick-Off of the Open Science Office β¨ at the University of St. Gallen! There are only a few spots left, so make sure to sign up below to join in person or online. See you on Tuesday! π
β³ Only 10 more days until the Kick-Off Event of the Open Science Office at the University of St. Gallen! Space is limited, so make sure to sign up below π½ We look forward to seeing you there or online!
We look forward to welcoming you (online or in-person) to the kick-off event for the newly founded Open Science Office at the University of St. Gallen! ππ
You can sign up here: www.hsg-square.ch/de/event-det... @openscienceoffice.unisg.ch @unisg.ch
π Weβre excited to announce the Kick-off of the Open Science Office at the University of St. Gallen (HSG)!
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Tuesday, February 24th 2026
π 13:30β15:00
π SQUARE Arena or Online
π£οΈ Language: English
βΉοΈ Information & Registration: www.hsg-square.ch/de/event-det...
Congratulations :)
Winners of the Short Talk Awards: 1st place: Dr. Jana Berkessel (right) 2nd place: Rosalie Andrae (middle) 3rd place: Elisabeth Glunz (left) Photo: StΓ©phane Pannatier via UniDistance Suisse / FernUni Schweiz.
π£ MZES Fellow @janaberkessel.bsky.social has won the first prize at the Short Talk Awards at the 18th Swiss Psychological Society Conference in Crans-Montana β congratulations! π
π www.linkedin.com/posts/the-ps...
First news is that I just joined the Uni Mannheim, team of Olga Stavrova. Looking forward to the exchange with colleagues (@publavecziga.bsky.social, @janaberkessel.bsky.social) and the nice research environment with @gesis.org (incl @axburg.bsky.social) and the @mzesunimannheim.bsky.social nearby
Welcome to Mannheim, Lotte!! π
Having a great time at #FGSP2025! Thanks for the laughs, @janaberkessel.bsky.social , and thanks for capturing the moment @marlephie.bsky.social π
π¨ We're hiring! Join us at @LMU_Muenchen for the DFG-funded project "Democratic Persuasion: How to Make the Case for Democracy."
Interested in making scholarly & societal impact?
Weβre looking for:
πΉ 1 Postdoc (100%)
πΉ 1 PhD researcher (70%)
Starting: Oct 2025 | Apply by: July 8
More info β¬οΈ (1/7)
πΊCOME WORK WITH US @LMU Munich on a new research project: job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/d.... (postdoc/3 years/full-time). We will develop and evaluate an agile and needs-oriented Research Data Management certificate course for researchers in psychology. Application Deadline: *May 31*
Hallo #AcademicSky - wir sind PsyComm, die neue Interessengruppe fΓΌr Wissenschaftskommunikation #WissKomm der @dgps.bsky.social. Wir mΓΆchten Wissenschaft und Praxis vernetzen, Evidenz und Expertise zum Thema zusammentragen und neue Vorhaben initiieren. Jetzt mitmachen: forms.gle/DGpav3jCUHCi...
πΊπΈ Study 2 (50 US states; N=336,491), using Gallup data, replicated and extended these findings, revealing that states with greater terrain ruggedness exhibited a higher proportion of vertical (βboss-likeβ) supervisory relations, rather than egalitarian, collaborative (βpartner-likeβ) styles. (4/4)
π In Study 1 (78 countries; N=156,658), we combined cross-national survey data from the EVS/WVS with digital elevation models. Results showed that national preferences for military rule and a strong leader (who bypasses democratic processes) were higher in countries with more rugged terrain (3/n)
Overall we find: Yes! β°οΈ More rugged terrain predicts stronger preferences for hierarchical authority. These findings hold after controlling for GDP per capita, population density, urbanization, gender, age, and spatial autocorrelation. (2/n)
If you, like me, love hiking, you know rugged terrain *does* something to you π₯Ύπ°
In a new paper led by @tsudaka.bsky.social, we asked: Is rugged terrain linked not only to how your knees feel but also how you think about authority? (1/n)
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
ECRs, not-ECRs, Open Science Enthusiasts, Open Source Enthusiasts; I mean y'all basically, see you 'morrow at 15.00CET!
π Join Us for the Next Mannheim Open Science Meetup! π
π¬ Topic: ARIADNE β A Scientific Navigator to Find Your Way Through the Research Resource Labyrinth
π Speaker: ΓaΔatay GΓΌrsoy, Central Institute of Mental Health
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Date & Time: April 30, 2025, 3:00 PM
π Location: Register online lnkd.in/exErgJfy
Using my 1st post on blsky to report on my experience of participating in the 1st EAPP early career workshop: 2 days packed with talks and discussions in a small group of post docs and experts from the field. Found this very inspiring and valuable, hope thereβll be many more editions in the future β¨
β¨ Join the upcoming Mannheim Open Science Meetupβ¨
ποΈ Topic: Reproducible Research Data Management with DataLad
π£οΈ Speaker: Lennart Wittkuhn
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Date: Wed, Feb 26, 2025
β° Time: 2:00 PM
π Location: Online, sign up here: lnkd.in/ek9YDNuB
We are back from the winter break and look forward to (re)connecting with all the open science people in Mannheim and beyond π if you have any questions feel free to reach out to me, Juli, or David!
Thanks for the list, @njsgibson.bsky.social! Would you mind adding me, too? :)
π Join Our Team! ππ‘
Weβre hiring 2 student assistants in Behavioral Economics & Intercultural Psychology. Remote work (within Germany) possible!
π Apply by Dec 20, 2024
www.fernuni-hagen.de/uniintern/ar...
Thanks for an exciting and enlightening day that built the basis for future collaborations. π¬ β‘οΈ π
Special thanks to Dr. Barbara Hartl and the Institute for Advanced Studies (@ihs-vienna.bsky.social) for hosting our talk.
π When in Vienna π©βπ« Last month Fritz GΓΆtz, AndrΓ©s Gvirtz, and I (@spspnews.bsky.social) had the opportunity to visit the United Nations and meet with the NGO Committee on Sustainable Development. We discussed how social and personality psychology can be applied to foster sustainable development πΎ
Just like Moritz, I am also very grateful to my PhD advisor Jochen Gebauer, to Tobi, my family, my friends, and my colleagues for their constant support. I am also grateful to the University of Mannheim and to the MZES, where I am now a post-doc research fellow π (4/4)
I am particularly honored to receive it together with Dr. Moritz Ingendahl who also did his PhD at the University of Mannheim. He studied articulation dynamics and their effects on judgments. You can read about our PhDs and the jury's reasoning here: dgps.de/die-dgps/pre... (3/n)
