Maya Braun
mayabraun.bsky.social
Maya Braun
@mayabraun.bsky.social
German Postdoctoral Researcher @ Ghent Health Psychology Lab (Ghent University) and Institute of Implementation Science in Health Care (University of Zürich)

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Intersectional feminist
🔧 Key features:
✔ Convert Excel → OWL
✔ Merge/extend/import ontologies
✔ Autofill + validation throughout
✔ GitHub integration and version control
✔ Hierarchical spreadsheets and visualisation

Built for projects like @hbcproject.bsky.social, but anyone can use it! #OpenSoftware #OpenScience
July 28, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Amazing keynote by @veraaraujosoares.bsky.social on planetary health! Cannot be stressed enough that we need to look beyond human health, and consider the health of the animals and world around us, as well!
April 3, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Last week, I had the great honour to visit the LAMHESS lab of the Université Côte d'Azur to talk about my experiences using ontologies in behavioural sciences, and have some great co-working sessions!

Interested in what we talked about? You can find my slides here: osf.io/nqdrb
February 10, 2025 at 9:06 AM
(5/5) We also found an interesting contrast: Combinations that we thought would not be relevant and that we mostly included as controls were judged as "Always relevant" much more often than we expected! We discuss some ideas on why this could be in the paper.
December 2, 2024 at 10:14 AM
(4/5) The result is a large datasets, showing associations between barriers (here on the y axis) and solutions (here on the x axis).
December 2, 2024 at 10:14 AM
(3/5) To explore this, we provided participants with simplified scenarios that included a plan to be active and a barrier, like rain or lack of motivation. We then asked them which solutions they found suitable, and under which conditions. This is a new way to explore coping plans!
December 2, 2024 at 10:14 AM
(1 /5) New paper alert! 🎉📝 Our open access paper on matching barriers and coping strategies based on user ratings was just published in Health Psychology & Behavioral Medicine!

Want to know what we learned? Keep on reading this thread (or find the full paper here: doi.org/10.1080/2164...)
December 2, 2024 at 10:14 AM
Check out our latest paper where we used a Group Concept Mapping approach to investigate users' needs and wishes for an mHealth intervention focused on promoting physical activity in healthy adults! Read the full paper here: peerj.com/articles/171...
March 29, 2024 at 9:09 AM