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Tugce Varol

@tugcevarol.bsky.social

Postdoctoral Researcher at Maastricht University | Health & Social Psychology | Behavior Change | Open Science ✨️

670 Followers  |  204 Following  |  21 Posts  |  Joined: 26.10.2023  |  1.8611

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🚨 Join EHPS OS SIG 🚨

Dear EHPS Community!

We’re looking for enthusiastic new members:
✨ 1 Events Manager
✨ 1 General Committee Member

Interested? Send your CV + a 300-word summary of your Open Science experience to open-science@ehps.net

⏰ Deadline: Oct 24, 2025, 17:00 CET

@ehps.bsky.social

01.10.2025 12:47 — 👍 3    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 1

Please consider joining our @ehpsopenscisig.bsky.social Committee! So much achieved in the last 5 years and we're just getting started 😀

@ehps.bsky.social @elainetoomey1.bsky.social @tugcevarol.bsky.social @rorycoyne.bsky.social @ajamesgreen.bsky.social @ehpscreaters.bsky.social

01.10.2025 12:57 — 👍 5    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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EHPS Open Science Special Interest Group | LinkedIn EHPS Open Science Special Interest Group | 18 followers on LinkedIn. Working to increase Open Science across Health Psychology. | Working to increase Open Science across Health Psychology.

We’re now on LinkedIn too! Follow us there to stay updated on our latest news and insights: www.linkedin.com/company/ehps...

26.09.2025 13:49 — 👍 3    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0
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📢 Call for Participants!

Rory is studying health psychology researchers’ awareness & use of Open Science practices.

Can you help?
👉 Take part via the link or QR code!

https://f.mtr.cool/lekmngsuls

@rorycoyne.bsky.social @ehpsopenscisig.bsky.social

03.09.2025 12:45 — 👍 1    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0

We are so excited to see you all in Groningen next week for @ehps2025.bsky.social! Use #EHPS2025 to share your insights, and make sure not to miss out on events by also following our SIGs and subcommittees - follow them with one click via in this #healthpsych starter pack: bsky.app/starter-pack...

21.08.2025 15:03 — 👍 5    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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Only one week to go until EHPS 2025!!! The EMPOWER team is excited to see you all in Groningen. We’ve compiled all the EMPOWER events for you - see you next week! 🥳

@ehps.bsky.social @ehps2025.bsky.social

18.08.2025 09:48 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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ICYMI: Our stage 1 registered report looking at health psychology researchers' awareness and use of #OpenScience practices. With @ehpsopenscisig.bsky.social @emmajnorris.bsky.social @tugcevarol.bsky.social @elainetoomey1.bsky.social and colleagues!

Read our protocol here: osf.io/rhqxy

14.08.2025 13:05 — 👍 6    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 0
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How senior academics can EMPOWER early-to-mid-career researchers - Nature Human Behaviour Nature Human Behaviour - How senior academics can EMPOWER early-to-mid-career researchers

🎓 How to Support early-career researchers

This excellent @nathumbehav.nature.com article offers practical tips for senior academics to better support post-PhD researchers facing high stress, career uncertainty, and life transitions.

🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s415...

#HigherEd #SciComm 🧪

03.08.2025 18:39 — 👍 30    🔁 11    💬 0    📌 0
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How senior academics can EMPOWER early-to-mid-career researchers Nature Human Behaviour - How senior academics can EMPOWER early-to-mid-career researchers

We are super proud to introduce our new publication in @nature.com Nature Human Behaviour, where we discuss the value of supported early-to-mid career researchers 😍 Give it a read!

rdcu.be/ex8hT

@danjphipps.bsky.social @thomasgultzow.bsky.social @tugcevarol.bsky.social

13.08.2025 10:36 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

New piece from our @empowerehps.bsky.social network! ✨️

29.07.2025 11:01 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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July 2025

Delighted that @ehpsopenscisig.bsky.social has won a @improvingpsych.org Mission Award! 🎊

improvingpsych.org/2025/07/

Thanks for this recognition of our promotion of Open Science in Health Psychology over the last 5 years
@elainetoomey1.bsky.social @rorycoyne.bsky.social @tugcevarol.bsky.social

23.07.2025 15:28 — 👍 15    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 1
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EMPOWER 2025 - Grant Writing Forum Welcome! We are glad you are interested in applying for the first ever EMPOWER pre-conference workshop. The target group for this workshop is post-PhD early career and mid-career researchers in health...

Have you signed up yet? We have a few spots left in out grant writing workshop for early-to mid-career researchers @ehps2025.bsky.social! Hear from experts Robert West, Eline Smit, Falko Sniehotta, Benjamin Schüz, Sarah Stutterheim, Emely de Vet & James Green! Go go go!!

bit.ly/EMPR25

23.06.2025 15:54 — 👍 1    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

🚨 Deadline extended to June 27! Only a few spots left. Register now: 2025.ehps.net/empower-work...

19.06.2025 09:33 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
Introducing Papercheck Introducing Papercheck Introducing Papercheck An Automated Tool to Check for Best Practices in Scientifi...

Very excited to publicly share news about a new tool, Papercheck, that @debruine.bsky.social and me started to develop more than a year ago! In an introductory blog post, we explain our philosophy to automatically check scientific papers for best practices. daniellakens.blogspot.com/2025/06/intr...

17.06.2025 11:15 — 👍 178    🔁 79    💬 5    📌 6

New paper from our SIG & members, led by @elainetoomey1.bsky.social : "Adoption of the Transparency and Openness Promotion (TOP) Guidelines within Health Psychology and Behavioural Medicine Journal Policies: A Cross-Sectional Study"

🔗 Read the full paper here: doi.org/10.1080/1743...

15.06.2025 13:28 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 1
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EMPOWER 2025 - Grant Writing Forum Welcome! We are glad you are interested in applying for the first ever EMPOWER pre-conference workshop. The target group for this workshop is post-PhD early career and mid-career researchers in health...

Almost the end of early registration @EHPS2025! Don’t miss the first-ever EMPOWER Workshop! A Grant Writing Workshop for early-to mid-career researchers with experts: Robert West, Eline Smit, Susan Michie, Falko Sniehotta, Benjamin Schüz, Sarah Stutterheim, Emely de Vet & James Green

bit.ly/EMPR25

12.06.2025 07:52 — 👍 1    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1
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We're back, with a fresh new lineup of talks and workshops!

Get your place while you still can to learn about how to make your research more robust and how to deal with scientific fraud!

This event is free and open to all: tinyurl.com/3ewaduvm

11.06.2025 09:43 — 👍 48    🔁 31    💬 0    📌 4

🚨 Limited spots left! Don’t miss the first-ever EMPOWER Network Grant Writing Workshop at EHPS 2025!

Register by June 13 → docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

@ehps2025.bsky.social @ehps.bsky.social @ehpsdigihealth.bsky.social @ehpscreaters.bsky.social @ehpssynergy.bsky.social

11.06.2025 13:48 — 👍 2    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0
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We are delighted to invite you to the FAIR COFFEE event on June 17th 2025, from 11.00 to 12.00 (CET) for a hybrid event featuring an exciting lecture by Dr. Szilvia Zörgő.

Szilvia Zörgő is a cultural anthropologist by trade with a PhD in mental health sciences […]

[Original post on social.edu.nl]

15.05.2025 14:13 — 👍 0    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

Health psychology researchers—this one’s for you! 🔔
Our Stage 1 Registered Report is accepted, and we’re now collecting data.

We want to learn about your engagement with #OpenScience. Take our short survey — details in the visual below: psychologygalway.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

29.04.2025 11:19 — 👍 6    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 1

📢 Our online webinar on TOP guidelines and their application within health psychology journals is fast approaching. Don’t forget to register!

www.eventbrite.ie/e/top-guidel...

@ehps.bsky.social @ehpssynergy.bsky.social @ehpmagazine.bsky.social @empowerehps.bsky.social @psychandhealth.bsky.social

07.05.2025 08:34 — 👍 8    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 1

🚨 Deadline extended 🚨

Planning to attend @ehps2025.bsky.social ? You are a PhD student or postdoc?

Check out our @ehpscreaters.bsky.social pre-conference workshop!

Apply by May 26th! More info 👇

@ehps.bsky.social @ehpsopenscisig.bsky.social

12.05.2025 19:13 — 👍 6    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0
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A nice little shot of the EMPOWER committee working hard to bring you something special for @ehps2025.bsky.social ⚡⚡Stay tuned for some exciting news soon!!

12.05.2025 08:49 — 👍 2    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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Vacancy — Post-doc Fairness of Climate Solutions Would you like to contribute to interdisciplinary research on Fairness of Climate Solutions? And are you keen on working with societal stakeholders? SEVEN, the University of Amsterdam's (UvA) new inte...

2-year postdoc related to climate justice at the University of Amsterdam

werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

28.04.2025 20:41 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Contrary to popular belief, what is important in science is as much its spirit as its product: it is as much the openmindedness, the primacy of criticism, the submission to the unforeseen, however upsetting, as the result, however new that may be. – Francois Jacob
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

07.04.2025 01:07 — 👍 233    🔁 78    💬 1    📌 10
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We're mapping how researchers use feedback to support early-career and marginalized researchers.

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08.04.2025 07:48 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Happy Monday all! Deadline for the EHPS Open Science SIG Student Award is approaching! ⏳✨

Don’t forget to send in your application for a chance to win a €500 bursary: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

07.04.2025 10:51 — 👍 1    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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NEW: Erdogan has banned protests in Turkey. He has threatened to arrest anyone attending one.

This is the people’s response.

Fighting for their democracy with another vast gathering in Istanbul tonight. #Turkey 🇹🇷

(🎥 Credit: Özgür Özel - Chairman, Republican People’s Party)

23.03.2025 20:48 — 👍 6453    🔁 2223    💬 99    📌 249
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The first European Health Psychologist of 2025 is here! 🎉 Featuring:

🔹 A welcome from the new EHPS EC
🔹 Introduction of the EMPOWER network
🔹Theodoropoulou on Open Science 🏆
🔹 Perski & Allen on dynamical systems modeling
🔹 Levy et al. on cancer exercise training

Full issue here: buff.ly/H731lvH

11.03.2025 11:20 — 👍 7    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 1
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Transitioning from PhD to Career Researchers – Introducing the EMPOWER network | European Health Psychologist Copyright (c) 2025 Daniel J. Phipps, Thomas Gültzow, Sanne Raghoebar, Tugce Varol

Early-to-mid-career researcher in EHPS? Then the European network for post-doctoral early career and Mid-career researchers in health PsychOlogy focusing on Well-being and Empowerment of Researchers (EMPOWER) might be for you.

They introduce themselves to the EHPS in this report:

14.03.2025 11:20 — 👍 2    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

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