Dr. Alexandrina Guran

Images show effortful pro-environmental behaviours of recycling and cycling and alternatives of an overflowing bin or driving

🌎 New paper in @commspsychol.nature.com 🌍

doi.org/10.1038/s442...

There is an urgent need to choose behaviours that mitigate climate change, but these are often more effortful. Can we increase pro-environmental motivation?

Joint w/ Luis Sebastian Contreras-Huerta & amazing international team 👇🧵

Parlamentarischer Abend – Tenure Track & nachhaltige Karrierewege: Politische Rahmenbedingungen für attraktive Perspektiven in der Wissenschaft Vertreter*innen aus Politik & Wissenschaft diskutieren über notwendige Reformen & Rahmenbedingungen für verlässliche Karrierewege in der Wissenschaft. Mit Ayşe Asar (Grüne), Oliver Kaczmarek (SPD), So...

Ich hab meine feste Stelle in der Wissenschaft - jetzt habe ich endlich Energie, mich dafür einzusetzen, dass dies nicht mehr länger ein Privileg weniger bleibt!

Parlamentarischer Abend zu Karriereperspektiven in der Wissenschaft. Ich geh hin. Wer noch?
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#Call for Postdoc.Mobility. Expand your #research experience with a stay abroad. If you would like to find out more about this call, take part in our online information event on 17. November 2025.

➡️ sohub.io/51a4
🗓️Submission deadline: 3 February 2026

Genau so ist es! Danke fürs Teilen :)

Background image of the book cover of "Wonderdog" by Jules Howard. Overlaid text: Book Review - Wonderdog, by Jules Howard A personal pick from my bookshelf, for anyone interested in dogs and/or science.

A new post on my Substack - this time, a book recommendation from a dog researcher, but more importantly, a dog and science lover to all other dog or science lovers that may be on here.

everythingisdata.substack.com/p/book-revie...

Wonderdog, by @juleshoward.bsky.social

Ich hab mal bisschen Luft rausgelassen.

Our colleague @rinaguran.bsky.social is giving insights in her life as PostDoc this week. Check out @realscientists.de if you are interested in animal research or just want to see what everyday life looks like for a scientist 🤓

Habt ihr noch mehr Ideen? :)

Look mom, I´m famous :D

📃 Beim #psychoSoph #Comic geht es weiter! Ich bin mit den Papern durch und kann mich ans Skript setzen!

💌 In der Zwischenzeit könnt ihr euch beim #Newsletter anmelden: tinyurl.com/wam9su6y

#Wissenschaft #Wissenschaftscomic

guess who will be curating @realscientists.de starting tomorrow? It´s me!

So tune in if you want to find out more about (my) research with and on animals 🐶🐄🐷😼🐝, about my life in and outside of academia, and more.

There were 14 separate, weather-related disasters causing at least $1 billion in damages between January and June in the #USA, compared to an average of three billion-dollar disasters each year in the 1980s. There are now around 20 each year.

Read More: mailchi.mp/americangeo/...

Unter anderem wegen solchem Geschludere bei dem Berichten von Umfragen brauchen wir ein Statistik-Grundverständnis für alle!

Collage of three images. The first reads: "Max Planck Institute for the History of Science. Career. We're hiring." The second image shows bookshelves in the institute's library (Photo by Vivienne Rischke, 2024). The third image shows the MPIWG Summer Publications Slam held in the institute's library (Photo by Marvin Müller (2024).

Three new funded #DoctoralPositions in the International Max Planck School "Knowledge and Its Resources: Historical Reciprocities!"

🗓️ Deadline: Jan 15, 2026
🔗 bit.ly/4peeKez

#HistSci #DH #STS #HistSTM #EnvHum #PolSci #SocSci

Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Image showing Hobson Lab logo (with parakeets, a social network, and R code), two Monk Parakeets, and several individually-marked parakeets with the text "Now recruiting PhD students!!"

**PhD POSITIONS** I am recruiting 1-2 PhD students to work on sociality and cognition in Monk Parakeets, starting Fall 2026. Full ad is here: hobsonresearch.com/index.php/20... (please help spread the word!)

Risk factors for anxiety disorders and environmental influences Sex Females are twice as likely as men to suffer from an anxiety disorder. The cause of this could be a genetic or neurobiological difference in females (Table 1) [3].

Absolutely wild that, in the year of our lord two-thousand and twenty-five, there's a new research article that calls women "females" but calls men "men"

Bild eines Spitzgebuckelten Raukopf und er ChatGPT Promt "Kannst du diesen Pilz bestimmen?". Quelle des Bildes: https://www.123pilzsuche.de/daten/details/SpitzbuckligeRauhkopf.htm

Warum soll ich KI nicht zum Bestimmen von Pilzen verwenden? TL;DR: es kann böse enden. Ich hab ein Bild eines Spitzgebuckelten Raukopf (tödlich giftig) von einer Pilzplattform im Internet geliehen und Freund ChatGPT um Bestimmung gefragt. Das Bild zeigt alle typischen Merkmale außer die Lamellen.

The same is true for Coca Cola...
#psychopy

German Research Funding Atlas | Third-party funded research in Germany Where in Germany does the most publicly funded research take place? The report shows figures and rankings of federal states, regions, universities and research institutions - and how they work togethe...

Ever been interested in which research fields money is being poured into or which German universities are successful in attracting foreign brains?

Sharing this cool data source, the German Research Funding Atlas (provided by the DFG, but including many funding sources) foerderatlas.dfg.de/en/

Do you know the difference between misinformation and disinformation? Find out. 👇🏿

“I use a healthy level of skepticism when using ChatGPT, just like with anything else I read on the internet.”

Well you shouldn’t. You should be using an *unhealthy* level of skepticism. You should use the same level as when a drunk guy in the street yells something about your mother.

Here’s why:

Just a card reading "Why I am not going to use AI - A rant - and an homage to Wendell Berry on his 91st birthday"

A little rant, why I do not want to use large language models - some reasons may speak to others too! And Happy Birthday, Wendell Berry! #AI #ClimateChange #Writing

everythingisdata.substack.com/p/why-i-am-n...

Christina and Amelia, presenting our workshop results!

Alexandrina in front of her poster

Some vegetable-art.

Very grateful to have been a part of the #ISHE2025 summer congress in Vienna! Amazing feedback on my poster, and great learning opportunity in the workshop I attended. Thanks again to the organizers and all the participants @ishe-society.bsky.social
See you next year in Les Eyzies!

The Skype Story Today, I give some insight into the beginnings, peak, and decline of Skype. Finding trustworthy datasources for this was not easy.

Check out last week´s post here: everythingisdata.substack.com/p/the-skype-...
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Skype in the Era of Smartphones Today, I take a look at the development of Skype post becoming a household name but pre-pandemic, during the rise of smartphone usage.

Almost two weeks ago, Skype was no more. I wondered how Skype fared once smartphones became mainstream. Check out my newest SciCom Blogpost, on my Substack:
everythingisdata.substack.com/p/skype-in-t...

{tinyplot} 0.3.0 is out! 🚨

It's a lightweight #Rstats 📦 to draw beautiful and complex plots, using an ultra-simple and concise syntax.

This is a massive release! @gmcd.bsky.social @zeileis.org and I worked hard to add tons of new themes and plot types.

Check it out!

grantmcdermott.com/tinyplot/

Thank you to everyone in Vienna, at the University and outside of it, for making these past years an unforgettable experience of growth and community. I will miss you all tremendously!

Vereinsstiege in Wien Alsergrund

Speicherstadt, Hamburg.

Bussi Baba Wien, Moin Hamburg!
After almost 5 years of postdoc at the @scanunit.bsky.social it is with a mixture of gratitude and excitement that I am starting my new position as a permanent researcher at the Medical School Hamburg, in a collegial and dynamic environment.

Did you know I enjoy a spot of creative writing from time to time? Check out a short story I wrote for @scienceandfiction.bsky.social :)