Benjamin Buttlar

Do you sometimes feel torn when making decisions, like whether to eat unhealthy food or recycle? This is called felt ambivalence: a psychological discomfort from having mixed feelings about something. Check out our new work to know how people resolve such conflicts: doi.org/10.1016/j.je... 🧠💥 1/10

Already planning your last day of #DGPs2026? Join our discussion about #SciComm in Psychology! Together with In-Mind Magazin, represented by moderator @olivergenschow.bsky.social, our interest group @psycomm.bsky.social has put together a really promising fishbowl panel!

It’s amazing what Brian and OSF have done for science. I can imagine how hard the folks at COS must’ve worked to avoid this outcome. I’m extremely grateful to them for creating the reality we live in now. The fact that we’ll miss these services so acutely is a testament to how much they shaped us.

Immer auf dem Laufenden zur Uni Trier! 💯 Ab sofort findet ihr hier das Bluesky-Startpaket eurer liebsten Hochschule. Alle Profile von Mitarbeitenden und Institutionen auf einen Blick. Wer fehlt noch? Oder ist etwas nicht mehr aktuell? Schreibt einen Kommentar oder eine DM! bsky.app/starter-pack...

Fellow Europeans, did you know about this alternative to COS/OSF? They have upload templates for the usual academic formats, but also data and even Bachelor's /Master's theses. www.psycharchives.org/en

#HPGVienna @univie.ac.at is hiring: We are looking for a PhD student (4 years, 75% FTE) to join us and the new research platform Trustworthy Science Communication to complete a research project in the context of human and planetary health 🌍🍎 Apply by 14 May: jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...

Don't be shy to take on a little two-week side project. These five months will be the most precious three years of your academic journey.

🧵 New report just dropped 🚨 "Fractured Reality: How Democracy Can Win the Global Struggle Over the Information Space" — from the EU Joint Research Centre, led by Mario Scharfbillig and I. A landmark read for anyone working on disinformation, platforms & democracy. 👇 1/10

Don't miss out on new replications with the Zotero Replication Checker! This is the current set of >1.6K studies in the FORRT Library of Replication Attempts (#FLoRA). Many of them belong to large-scale projects and are not even cited in the final report, so how to keep track of them?

Heute: Jan und ich stellen im @psycomm.bsky.social Lunch-Talk @de.in-mind.org vor. Erfahrt mehr über dieses #WissKomm Projekt und wie ihr mitmachen könnt.

Before the new story comes next week, have you read the last one? ✨

Collabra: Psychology is seeking a new senior editor for the clinical section and new associate editors for the social section. If you are interested in either of these positions and you believe you are qualified, please fill out the application form before 30 April 2026! forms.gle/DgM3484SuLVD...

🚨 Call for Editors: Join the Collabra: Psychology team! We're looking for a senior editor for clinical psychology, plus several social psychology associate editors. Interested? Please fill out our application form before 30 April 2026. @improvingpsych.org docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Hi everyone! Collabra: Psychology needs a new senior editor for the clinical section as well as several new associate editors for the social section. If you are interested, please fill out the application form before 30 April 2026. forms.gle/DgM3484SuLVD...

✨ Now published! ✨ Our Special Section in PHAIR is officially out. The collection emerged from the Human–Animal Relations workstream at the 2025 EASP Summer School (University of Kent) from an exceptional group of PhD researchers. Read here! phair.psychopen.eu/index.php/ph...

Many are appropriately outraged by Altman’s comments here implying that raising a human child is akin to “training” an AI model. This is part of a broader pattern where AI industry leaders use language that collapses the boundary between human and machine. 🧵/

How strong is the threat to academic freedom? If you are a publishing psychologist, please help us get a better understanding of the threats due to external pressure and self-censorship in the publication process by taking our 5-10 min anonymous survey: t1p.de/t1qof Results will be shared here!

Short stories are such an amazing way of communicating science! Check out my short story and all the other amazing content on @scienceandfiction.net!

The perfect preparation article for the february #ScienceandFiction short story coming up! 👇

In genau einer Woche findet unser nächstes Kolloquium statt! Am 16.1. um 12 Uhr nimmt uns @helenahartmann.com mit in die Welt von "Science and Fiction - WissKomm mit fiktionalen Kurzgeschichten". Nähere Infos und die Anmeldung findet ihr im Bild. Wir freuen uns auf euch! @scienceandfiction.net

It has been a while since @flavioazevedo.bsky.social asked me to take over the Reversals project at @forrt.bsky.social... It has since evolved beyond my wildest dreams, mostly thanks to @aufdroeseler.bsky.social & @lukaswallrich.bsky.social. We are very proud of the Replication Hub & Database ♥️

💊 New #ScienceandFiction short story 💊 This time, the brilliant Biljana Gjoneska wrote about the Matrix - but hundreds of years later... 🇬🇧 scienceandfiction.net/stories/35_t... 🇩🇪 scienceandfiction.net/de/stories/3... #scicomm #wisskomm #sciencefiction #shortstories

🚨 SynthNet is out 🚨 Researchers propose new constructs and measures faster than anyone can track. We (@anniria.bsky.social @ruben.the100.ci) built a search engine to check what already exists and help identify redundancies; indexing 74,000 scales from ~31,500 instruments in APA PsycTests. 🧵1/3

At ZPID we are searching for a tenure track assistant professor for Psychological Metascience in joint appointment with @unitrier.bsky.social preferably someone who has conducted quantitative research in metascience in psychology or related disciplines. Questions? Feel free to contact me personally.

Das hat wirklich Spaß gemacht!! Vielen Dank für die Möglichkeit euch ein bisschen was über science slams zu erzählen und die spannende Diskussion! 🙂

Heute um 12 Uhr startet unsere Kolloquiumsreihe mit einem Vortrag zu Science Slams! #WissKomm #Forschung

Morgen startet wir mit unseren #WissKomm Lunch Talks der @psycomm.bsky.social - wer ist dabei? 🥳

Habt ihr euch den ersten Vortrag unserer #WissKomm Kolloquiums-Reihe schon in den Kalender eingetragen? Seid diesen Freitag dabei, wenn @benjaminbuttlar.bsky.social über das Format Science Slam spricht! 📆 21.11.2025, 12:00 Uhr

Rosi und ich freuen uns schon darauf! Im Science Slam erklären wir, warum wir manchmal bei Entscheidungen, wie etwa beim Fleischessen, hin- und hergerissen sind und was das mit uns macht. Wenn du mehr über diese Ambivalenz oder Wissenschaftskommunikation im Allgemeinen wissen willst, komm vorbei!

Ankündigung: Kolloquium Wissenschaftskommunikation #WissKomm 🧑‍🏫 Einblicke in innovative WissKomm-Formate & aktuelle Forschungsthemen 💬 Austausch über konkrete Erfahrungen aus Praxis und Forschung aus Perspektive der Psychologie 📆 3. Freitag im Monat um 12 Uhr

🧵 New paper alert! People enjoy eating meat but often feel uneasy when being reminded that it comes from animals. To understand how people avoid this conflict, our new study explores how food preparation helps people mentally separate meat from its animal origins. Here’s what we found 👇 1/9

I tried it, and it was a great experience! You've got to check out the work by Helena and her guest writers! See if it's something you'd like as well - you won't be disappointed if you are interested in science and fiction!

🎉👶 Welcome to the last new born in the Open Science effort! Replication Research is a diamond open access journal dedicated to robust, transparent and reproducible science. #OpenScience #ScientificPublication #Replication #OpenAccess

Mich beschäftigt schon lange die Frage, wie Klimapolitik so gestaltet werden kann, dass sie zugleich soziale Gerechtigkeit stärkt. #Mobilität spielt dabei eine zentrale Rolle: Sie bestimmt, wer Zugang zu gesellschaftlicher Teilhabe hat – und sie hat Einfluss auf Lebensqualität. (1/X)

This was a true mess with a ton of AI-generated word salad slop being submitted as preprints. The field owes these moderators a huge thanks for all the work and energy! 🙏👏

Nice 🧵 about a brand new paper in our journal! ⬇️⬇️⬇️