There are days in life that shake you. I’m shattered 💔 to share that I just found out that the US Government terminated my 2024 NIH Director’s Early Independence Award (~$2 million), threatening my long-promised assistant professor job at @Columbia & academic career... 1/🧵

I am recruiting 2 PhD students for Fall'25 @csaudk to work on bleeding-edge topics in #NLProc #LLMs #AIAgents (e.g. LLM reasoning, knowledge-seeking agents, and more). Details: https://t.co/JiYUnM2n38 Deadline: May 1, 2025 Please boost! cc: @WikiResearch @AiCentreDK @CPH_SODAS

Come work with us! @CVandeweerdt is hiring a three-year post-doc on a project using machine learning and survey experiments to understand who advocates for climate action in the media, and why it matters. 👩‍💼 Job call here: https://t.co/fuT0RekIMG

Interested in implementing this VR activity? 🎮 Download the .apk: https://t.co/bCob8CMYx0 Big thanks to my co-authors @GMakransky and Thomas Morton. We are also grateful to Michael Atchapero for the VR development, & @michaelbomfrost for his input on the cooking activity. (4/4)

Key findings: Social interaction conditions increased identification with climate action supporters. Only social interaction coupled with environmental feedback significantly increased the intention for collective climate action and to reduce meat consumption. (3/4)

We developed a novel VR activity where students prepared sustainable meals under three conditions: 1️⃣ No social interaction (C) 2️⃣ Social interaction only (B) 3️⃣ Social interaction + environmental feedback visualizing the impact of food choices on the environment (A) (2/4)

🌍 Our new study investigating the role of social interaction and environmental feedback in promoting identification with environmentalists and fostering collective climate action is now out! https://t.co/0c7yK1pZ5g The simulation video is from a first-person perspective. (1/4)

🚨Job alert!🚨 @annargrs and I are looking for a 2 year PostDoc in AI-interviewer project! You will develop and critically test the AI-interview methods, where generative LLMs are instructed to conduct interviews. It's at ITU CS dep in Copenhagen. DM me or Anna if interested!

Excellent piece by @lwhitmarsh & @samhampton 💭 It's unhelpful to promise we can reach climate targets without 'telling people how to live their lives'. 1. Enabling lifestyle changes is essential 2. The govt should make changes easier & cheaper 3. Action can improve wellbeing🌍

Can a virtual reality game convince people to go easy on the antibiotics? 💊 @APlechata , Guido Makransky and @robert_bohm find big increases in intentions to be prudent w/ antibiotics after a VR experience. This could help combat antimicrobial resistance. https://t.co/3qHSZvMNpD

Huge thanks to my amazing co-authors @GMakransky and @robert_bohm . It’s been a pleasure working with you! 🙏 (5/5)

Much like our previous study on promoting climate-friendly eating, we found that increased efficacy beliefs explain the impact of experiential communication. ( https://t.co/60Lewr8Agm) (4/5)

🎯 Experiential VR communication outperformed both leaflet and VR-based information regarding intentions of prudent antibiotic use. This effect remained significant even in delayed follow-up measurements! (3/5)

In our RCT, we tested three conditions: 1️⃣ Leaflet Information – information via a leaflet. 2️⃣ VR Information – the same information from a virtual doctor 3️⃣ VR Information + Experience – an interactive game involving treatment decisions and witnessing the consequences. (2/5)

🚨 New paper alert! 🚨 Our paper on the effectiveness of experiential VR-based communication in promoting prudent antibiotic use is out! 🦠💊🎮 Link: https://t.co/lmM81Q17Xd (1/5)

Environmental and climate communication may need to shift away from traditional information-based techniques and embrace methods that allow for immersive, experiential engagement. (4/4) #metaverse

Our study highlights the power of experiential communication in shaping efficacy beliefs. Experiencing the impact of our choices firsthand—both positive and negative—on the environment is far more impactful than simply receiving information about it. (3/4) #ClimateAction

Key Findings: Experiential communication increased self-efficacy and response efficacy. Participants showed not only greater intentions to adopt plant-based diets but also ate less beef in a real-life buffet compared to the information-based condition. (2/4)

🌿 Exciting News! 🌍 Our latest research article on promoting pro-environmental behavior is out now! We explore experiential climate communication vs. standard info-based approaches, comparing two VR-based conditions. 🎮(1/4) https://t.co/qAKf6NGg2Q

Exciting PhD opportunity in Health and Environmental Psychology with the amazing @RosaLavelleHil!