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Hermen Visser
@hermenvisser.bsky.social
SciComm trainer | Research grant interview & Academic profiling coach
We are hiring! This time we are looking for someone who can help our clients (researchers preparing for a grant interview) with strategy, story and visual communication. Interest? Have a look and maybe we will meet soon:
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Visser Visible Communication hiring Senior Research Narrative & Visuals Coach (Freelance) in Netherlands | LinkedIn
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June 12, 2025 at 1:03 PM
🥳 Just launched our #ERCCoG interview e-learning course. 3 modules, 12 steps present what we know about high-stakes communication: strategy, script, slides, stress, presenting, answering questions. Curious? Have a look 👀
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Congratulations on being invited to an ERC Consolidator Grant interview. Advancing to the second step of the evaluation procedure is an achievement in itself. It proves you have an excellent proposal and impressive research profile. You are ready to consolidate your research and strengthen your team. Yet, there is still a hurdle to overcome: the interview. This trajectory guides you in twelve steps through all the preparational stages, from strategy to presentation and delivery. It consists of this e-learning course, one-on-one sessions with our dedicated coaches, slide design service, and mock interview support. That is how we help you to the highest level of preparation. Are you interested in this coaching trajectory? Schedule your call with Hermen Visser via info@visservisible.com and find out how we can make the difference. <span style="color: #808080;">Main image: <span class="mw-page-title-main">Artesonraju, <a style="color: #808080;" href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1d/Artesonraju.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Wikimedia Commons</a></span></span>
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May 27, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Enjoying my first edition of 2025 of the Academic Outreach course I teach with @elenamilani.bsky.social We introduce young researchers into the world of (social) media, which feels extra urgent in Trump II times. www.staff.universiteitleiden.nl/courses/hrm-...
Academic outreach: an introduction to sharing your research via social and conventional media - Leiden University
Academics are often asked about their work or seek contact with the media to talk about their research. This can range from a press release to a radio or TV appearance or from Twitter or Facebook to a...
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March 21, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Max Richter dominates my work playlist. This album, which is on it, not only helps me to focus, it also motivates me to teach researchers how to raise their voices. open.spotify.com/album/3Ndz8f...
Voices
Max Richter · Album · 2020 · 50 songs
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February 28, 2025 at 7:11 PM
New year, new platform! 🥳
In addition to our one-on-one trajectories, we created this e-learning environment. It allows researchers to prepare for their grant interview in-between sessions. As the year progresses we will continue adding courses and improving the platform. deltagrantsupport.com
Already during her PhD in linguistics, Joske Piepers started to work as a slide designer. She will help you to make slides that work.
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January 13, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Why-what-how is the formula I keep coming back to in my #scicomm work. Today it helped me to structure a communication training program: from strategy to content to wrapping.
December 16, 2024 at 7:03 PM
The past weeks I was reading Blood Meridian. As with many great books I found out @verybadwizards.bsky.social had an episode (actually 3 episodes) about it. Although I still have some pages left, I couldn’t help but listen…😬

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Episode 268: Blood Meridian, Part 1
Podcastaflevering · Very Bad Wizards · 12-09-2023 · 1u 17m
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December 11, 2024 at 7:09 PM
Enjoyed this conversation of @yoelinbar.net and @minzlicht.bsky.social on Bluesky as a political bubble. One glance at #FIFA confirms their stance. Only variations of the same opinion about Saudi Arabia as the World Cup host.

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What's Wrong with Living in a Bubble? (with Mickey Inzlicht)
Podcastaflevering · Two Psychologists Four Beers · 04-12-2024 · 1u 12m
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December 11, 2024 at 6:50 PM
Reposted by Hermen Visser
December 9, 2024 at 10:35 AM
“My neck in the guillotine,” described one of the successful ERC CoG candidates we worked with this year the interview. This type of communication is quite intense: much at stake, highly competitive, online, brief. It makes thorough preparation key.
Online ERC interview coaching - Visser Visible Communication
Are you invited to an ERC or NWO interview? Our online training helps you to optimally prepare your pitch, slides, delivery and Q&A.
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December 5, 2024 at 3:00 PM
Enjoying today's feedback sessions of my cours Online Presenting Skills for PhD students at @unileiden.bsky.social My translation of beginning-middle-end:
👂- Make them listen (ethos)
🧠- Make them believe (logos)
❤️- Make them care (pathos)
#scicomm

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Online Presenting skills for PhDs - Leiden University
Giving lectures, sharing your ideas at a group meeting or presenting at a conference is part of your life as an academic researcher. With a good presentation, your audience will understand, believe an...
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December 4, 2024 at 9:09 AM
Do you want to become part of our freelancers pool? We look for graphic designers with academic experience who can help us with scientific illustrations and PowerPoint slides. More info via the link below:
#scicomm www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/40...
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December 3, 2024 at 8:56 AM
We are hiring! My team supports scientists around career defining communication moments (eg job- and ERC interviews and keynotes). We want to establish a pool of freelance graphic designers with academic experience to help us with PPT slides and illustrations. Interested? DM me or reply below
November 29, 2024 at 7:13 PM
Why do you want to blog? I’ve discussrd it with hundreds of aspiring bloggers. Motivation is key I think.
Based on their answers most of them can be placed in one of these six blogger types: from the reflector 💭 to the science communicator 📹.
#scicomm
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6 Types of academic bloggers - Visser Visible Communication
Over the years I have had hundreds of conversations with PhD students with blogging aspirations. Thus I started to recognize a few types of bloggers. Although most of them do not think about strategy,...
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November 28, 2024 at 3:35 PM
Adapting a presentation to an audience with some distance to your field not only fosters connection, it also makes you reflect on the bigger picture yourself. It is what the participants of my morning session experienced. A presentation is both a communication means and a thinking tool.
#SciComm
November 27, 2024 at 11:13 AM
Teaching my last Online Presenting Skills course of 24 at @unileiden.bsky.social. One of the key skills: connecting via a medium that is in many instances just very boring television, (talking heads with slides 🥱) and the opposite of connection.

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Online Presenting skills for PhDs - Leiden University
Giving lectures, sharing your ideas at a group meeting or presenting at a conference is part of your life as an academic researcher. With a good presentation, your audience will understand, believe an...
www.staff.universiteitleiden.nl
November 27, 2024 at 9:14 AM
From legal philosophy ⚖️ to urban birds 🦆 and from international research collaboration 👥 to post-humanism 🕷️. Today I have seen all corners of academia while discussing blogging strategies of PhD students. #SciComm
November 26, 2024 at 4:07 PM
Looking forward to todays feedback sessions of Blogging About Your Research. After 5 years of teaching the course at @unileiden.bsky.social it is still a privelege to help PhD students discover that blogging can be 🕺fun, ⏱️doable, and 🎯useful. #SciComm
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Blogging about your research - Leiden University
A blog is a great way to share your research with fellow researchers as well as the general public. Are you thinking of joining a group blog or starting your own? This training lowers the threshold an...
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November 26, 2024 at 10:02 AM
Say you have 5 minutes to present your #ERC proposal. How do you explain 5 years of research? My advice: don’t. Instead use my why-what-how-bridge template to say just enough. Here’s the executive summary. #scicomm
November 25, 2024 at 6:51 PM
Reposted by Hermen Visser
Ik hoop dat vandaag honderden collega's op het Malieveld staan om een eind te maken aan de #eppocalyps.

Jongeren verdienen een toekomst en goed onderwijs is de beste manier om daarvoor te zorgen. En investeren in onderwijs levert nog geld op ook. #winwin
November 25, 2024 at 6:23 AM
🪷 Just started my day by emptying my mind with a walk through the neighborhood while listening a talk by Alan Watts. Great way to counterbalance all the cognitive labor of the week to come! 🧠

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November 25, 2024 at 9:30 AM
In Blogging course, I discuss the 'Blogging: Why?' question. Categorizing the answers brought me to the concept of Ikigai. You blog because of (bring it in line with):
🥷 Skills (development)
🌍 Engagement
💸 Career goals
❤️ You enjoy it

#SciComm

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Purposeful blogging - Visser Visible Communication
Blogging - Why? The hundreds of answers to this question I received, all point to the same thing: blogging can be purposeful.
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November 22, 2024 at 12:20 PM
This morning I started 24's last edition of Academic Outreach, a course by @martenvandermeulen.bsky.social, @elenamilani.bsky.social, and me. We open our conversation on strategy with participant's outreach heroes. Today they mentioned:
⚖️ @drschelvan.bsky.social
🤖 Zhihui Peng
👨‍⚕️Erik de Loos
November 22, 2024 at 11:36 AM
Hello Bluesky, Hermen here! The recent boom of enthousiasm about this platform in my network made me join. A bit about myself:
- I teach science communication and academic profiling
- I coach researchers towards their research grant interviews at ERC and NWO
November 22, 2024 at 11:29 AM