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Jana Berkessel
@janaberkessel.bsky.social
Post-Doctoral research fellow interested in cross-cultural social & personality psych; especially well-being, SES, religion, open science, and R.
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📣 MZES Fellow @janaberkessel.bsky.social has won the first prize at the Short Talk Awards at the 18th Swiss Psychological Society Conference in Crans-Montana – congratulations! 👏

👉 www.linkedin.com/posts/the-ps...
October 20, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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First news is that I just joined the Uni Mannheim, team of Olga Stavrova. Looking forward to the exchange with colleagues (@publavecziga.bsky.social, @janaberkessel.bsky.social) and the nice research environment with @gesis.org (incl @axburg.bsky.social) and the @mzesunimannheim.bsky.social nearby
October 9, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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Having a great time at #FGSP2025! Thanks for the laughs, @janaberkessel.bsky.social , and thanks for capturing the moment @marlephie.bsky.social 😊
September 15, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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🚨 We're hiring! Join us at @LMU_Muenchen for the DFG-funded project "Democratic Persuasion: How to Make the Case for Democracy."

Interested in making scholarly & societal impact?

We’re looking for:
🔹 1 Postdoc (100%)
🔹 1 PhD researcher (70%)
Starting: Oct 2025 | Apply by: July 8
More info ⬇️ (1/7)
May 8, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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🎺COME WORK WITH US @LMU Munich on a new research project: job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/d.... (postdoc/3 years/full-time). We will develop and evaluate an agile and needs-oriented Research Data Management certificate course for researchers in psychology. Application Deadline: *May 31*
Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter / Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin (m/w/d)
job-portal.lmu.de
May 5, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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Hallo #AcademicSky - wir sind PsyComm, die neue Interessengruppe für Wissenschaftskommunikation #WissKomm der @dgps.bsky.social. Wir möchten Wissenschaft und Praxis vernetzen, Evidenz und Expertise zum Thema zusammentragen und neue Vorhaben initiieren. Jetzt mitmachen: forms.gle/DGpav3jCUHCi...
PsyComm: Einladung zur Interessengruppe
In der fachgruppenübergreifenden DGPs-Interessengruppe PsyComm (Wissenschaftskommunikation in der Psychologie) möchten wir psychologische Forschung und Praxis in der Wissenschaftskommunikation miteina...
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April 28, 2025 at 9:03 AM
If you, like me, love hiking, you know rugged terrain *does* something to you 🥾😰
In a new paper led by @tsudaka.bsky.social, we asked: Is rugged terrain linked not only to how your knees feel but also how you think about authority? (1/n)

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Rugged terrain and rigid hierarchy
Human societies differ markedly in their endorsement of hierarchical authority, ranging from strict obedience to powerful leaders and militaries to mo…
www.sciencedirect.com
April 30, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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ECRs, not-ECRs, Open Science Enthusiasts, Open Source Enthusiasts; I mean y'all basically, see you 'morrow at 15.00CET!
🚀 Join Us for the Next Mannheim Open Science Meetup! 🚀
🔬 Topic: ARIADNE – A Scientific Navigator to Find Your Way Through the Research Resource Labyrinth
🎙 Speaker: Çağatay Gürsoy, Central Institute of Mental Health
📅 Date & Time: April 30, 2025, 3:00 PM
📍 Location: Register online lnkd.in/exErgJfy
April 29, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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🚀 Join Us for the Next Mannheim Open Science Meetup! 🚀
🔬 Topic: ARIADNE – A Scientific Navigator to Find Your Way Through the Research Resource Labyrinth
🎙 Speaker: Çağatay Gürsoy, Central Institute of Mental Health
📅 Date & Time: April 30, 2025, 3:00 PM
📍 Location: Register online lnkd.in/exErgJfy
March 20, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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Using my 1st post on blsky to report on my experience of participating in the 1st EAPP early career workshop: 2 days packed with talks and discussions in a small group of post docs and experts from the field. Found this very inspiring and valuable, hope there’ll be many more editions in the future ✨
February 13, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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✨ Join the upcoming Mannheim Open Science Meetup✨

🗞️ Topic: Reproducible Research Data Management with DataLad
🗣️ Speaker: Lennart Wittkuhn
📅 Date: Wed, Feb 26, 2025
⏰ Time: 2:00 PM
📍 Location: Online, sign up here: lnkd.in/ek9YDNuB
January 22, 2025 at 3:37 PM
We are back from the winter break and look forward to (re)connecting with all the open science people in Mannheim and beyond 😍 if you have any questions feel free to reach out to me, Juli, or David!
January 22, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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🎓 Join Our Team! 🌍💡

We’re hiring 2 student assistants in Behavioral Economics & Intercultural Psychology. Remote work (within Germany) possible!

📌 Apply by Dec 20, 2024

www.fernuni-hagen.de/uniintern/ar...
www.fernuni-hagen.de
November 28, 2024 at 9:25 AM
🌍 When in Vienna 👩‍🏫 Last month Fritz Götz, Andrés Gvirtz, and I (@spspnews.bsky.social) had the opportunity to visit the United Nations and meet with the NGO Committee on Sustainable Development. We discussed how social and personality psychology can be applied to foster sustainable development 🌾
October 30, 2024 at 5:51 PM
Last week, Dr. Moritz Ingendahl (Ruhr-University Bochum) and I received this year's Heinz-Heckhausen Award of the @dgps.bsky.social! 🤓🥳 www.dgps.de/die-dgps/pre...
September 22, 2024 at 9:35 AM
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Unsere diesjährige Heinz-Heckhausen Preisträgerin @janaberkessel.bsky.social ⁩ hält in Hörsaal 34 ihren Vortrag zur Preisverleihung 👇🏼
September 18, 2024 at 10:09 AM
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Social cognition grad students & postdocs on the job market:
Do you want to practice your job talk in my lab meeting? (Zoom or in-person)
Its a low-stakes opportunity to get constructive feedback & prepare for Qs you might get from hiring committees.
DM me if you’re interested!
(plz rt widely)
September 13, 2024 at 3:38 PM
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We are looking forward to seeing you at tomorrow's @maopenscience.bsky.social Meetup! 🤓🤩 Make sure to sign up for the zoom meeting below ⬇️
June 18, 2024 at 8:34 AM
We are looking forward to seeing familiar and new faces at our June edition of the @maopenscience.bsky.social Meetup! 🤠 Sign up below for the zoom link ⬇️
We are excited to announce the next @maopenscience.bsky.social Meetup on June 19th! Dr. Tracey Wessgerber (Charité - University Medicine Berlin) will join us to talk about responsible data reuse 👩‍🔬🔄🔢

You can join from anywhere! Just sign up here for the link: uni-mannheim.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
June 4, 2024 at 1:20 PM
June 3, 2024 at 6:21 PM
Thanks again @zakfio.bsky.social!
If you missed the last @maopenscience.bsky.social Meetup, feel free to check out Fiona's slides here: osf.io/gzf9h/ - additional upside: you might learn something about whether 🐕 or 🐈 eat more 🐟!
May 27, 2024 at 3:31 PM
We look forward to having @zakfio.bsky.social at the
@maopenscience.bsky.social Meetup soon! 😊 Come and join us to discuss null results 0️⃣🧪
Can't wait for the next @maopenscience.bsky.social nscience.bsky.social Meetup? 😒 We have good news for you! 🥳
@zakfio.bsky.social (Uni Mainz) will join us to talk about her experiences in publishing null findings. We look forward to an interesting talk and a lively discussion! See you soon 🤩🤓
May 6, 2024 at 11:51 AM
Just a quick reminder: If you have ever heard about or even worked with machine learning methods in the social sciences, we are interested in your thoughts! 😎 Please consider participating in our expert survey 🔽
🔍 Machine learning is ubiquitous, everyone is talking about it, but what does it really do for social science research? Join our discussion! 💬 Share your insights on its pros and cons. We are interested in your opinion! Participate in our survey: tinyurl.com/3sr94t7u
March 15, 2024 at 4:49 PM
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3️⃣ more days until our next Mannheim @MAOpenScience Meetup! We look forward to seeing you (at least virtually) on Wednesday! 👋
📣 We are pleased to announce that the next Mannheim #OpenScience Meetup will feature Prof. Dr. Felix Schönbrodt from LMU Munich who will be presenting and discussing "Research assessment with responsible metrics and indicators: A Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment working group". 📣
March 10, 2024 at 5:12 PM
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The Mannheim Open Science Meetup is back with a hot topic for early career researchers: research assessment. It is surely in our interest to discuss and influence the fairness and quality of e.g. hiring decisions. The meetup is online, so you can easily join from outside of Mannheim.
📣 We are pleased to announce that the next Mannheim #OpenScience Meetup will feature Prof. Dr. Felix Schönbrodt from LMU Munich who will be presenting and discussing "Research assessment with responsible metrics and indicators: A Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment working group". 📣
March 4, 2024 at 7:01 PM