Finally had time for Ursula K Le Guin’s The Dispossessed. If there’s any more proof you need that even the most fundamental scientific endeavour is deeply political, if only because of the system that makes the work possible, this is the book for you

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

Wonder what caused them to put that here? 🧐

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

Such a brave, personal, and insightful keynote… Marijn de Bruin not only makes the case for collective action and activism in behavioural science, but also gives us concrete action plans to do so. Those who say that science isn’t political haven’t been paying attention the last century #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

First highlight of the day: this legendary clock by clock artist Maarten Baas

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.

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 😂

What do you say, people? Shall I push it? Tempting… #streetart #nijmegen

Admit it, a monorail makes an otherwise rather drab city look like something out of a sci-fi film. Let’s build monorails!

Saw this do the rounds on LinkedIn: “My nutrition app suggested I should try alcohol more often.” Probably fake, right? Or is it?

The Foucault pendulum in the faculty of science at our uni has stopped swinging 😱 So that means earth has stopped turning? No wonder with everything going on and all 😳😭

Your emotional support raccoon has arrived #streetart #arnhem

Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn’t Nirvana, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam or Alice in Chains

Also much love to the antifascists who cleverly occupied all the social media handles with the name of the newly-founded Hitlerjugend before the fascists had a chance to do so 🤩😍 “Schlau und schnell und vor dir da, Medienteam der Antifa” 😆👊🦄

When, and why, do health care professionals refer patients to lifestyle interventions? This week, I presented work that helps answering this question at @ehps2025.bsky.social in Groningen, NL #ehps2025 Missed it? No worries! The poster is here: osf.io/wgfvm

Finally an honest security notice

The installation in the larger hall was hallucinogenic and beautiful, but I especially loved the smaller screens in the side room, explaining the work and showing ‘riffs’ of Gehry-style imagery as fluid as a jazz improvisation. Would certainly recommend

Anadol uses AI in what it’s best at: summarising, pretending, finding common denominators in huge swathes of data

Impressive generation of endless streams of Gehry-like works based on hundreds of thousands of images from the architect’s archives. Used with permission and done through ‘sustainable computing’, whatever that may be

Went to see Refik Anadol’s audiovisual reimagination of Frank Gehry’s architectural legacy through AI and generative art at the Guggenheim Bilbao last week. Quite fitting that the work of the poster child of computer-aided architecture now gets reinterpreted by the poster child of AI-driven art

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

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

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 😂

I bought this nice cotton No One Is Illegal tote bag from Stichting Gast, a volunteer group who help refugees with housing and everything else. If you happen to have some spare money lying aroond, I can heartily recommend donating to their cause www.stichtinggast.nl/helpen/doner...

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