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Video on why the Dutch are so tall for Universiteit van Nederland
Height
Outreach

I’ve made a video for the Universiteit van Nederland. It was fun.

Gert Stulp
Jun 4, 2024

I still have to find a figure for this.

Poster prize for Lisa
Fertility
Prediction
Prize

Lisa won the best poster prize!

Gert Stulp
Dec 4, 2023

I still have to find a figure for this.

Kinderloosheid in Nederland
R
Fertility

Wat gedachten over kinderloosheid in Nederland naar aanleiding van een interview over het onderwerp

Gert Stulp
Sep 13, 2023

I still have to find a figure for this.

Recreating density plots ‘by hand’
R
Visualisation

Where I attempt to understand density plots and get stuck on Fast Fourier Transforms.

Gert Stulp
Aug 24, 2023

Demos logo

Artikel in Demos
Fertility
Outreach

Als je mensen vraagt naar hun wens om kinderen te krijgen, benoemen zij soms hun ontevredenheid met de toestand in de wereld. Onderwerpen als klimaatverandering, maar ook…

Gert Stulp
Jul 15, 2023

I still have to find a figure for this.

A new website
R

I have a new website. The reason is that the old website (partly) stopped functioning. I went from Hugo to Quarto. I’ll describe some difficulties.

Gert Stulp
Jul 15, 2023

Image downloaded from https://rossum.ai/blog/top-5-predictions-for-ai-in-2022/

Prediction in the social sciences
Overview
Prediction
Machine learning
Data science

How a focus on prediction can lead to better understanding.

Gert Stulp
Jun 26, 2023

Hannah Dietzenbacher receiving prize.

Multiple thesis prizes for Hannah Dietzenbacher
Prize

Hannah Dietzenbacher received no less than three (master’s) thesis prizes. I was lucky enough to supervise her.

Gert Stulp
May 25, 2023

Logo data wise

Hogeronderwijspremie
Prize

The program Data Wise: data science in society was nominated for the Hogeronderwijspremie. We came very far and were asked for interview, but unfortuantely we didn’t make it…

Gert Stulp
Apr 19, 2023

I still have to find a figure for this.

A roadmap on how to be as open as possible, and as closed as necessary
Open Science
GDPR

On October 27th, the Young Academy Groningen, in collaboration with the Open Science Community Groningen and de Digital Competence Centers at our University organised a…

Gert Stulp
Nov 15, 2021

I still have to find a figure for this.

Several interviews on the Dutch not getting taller
Media
Height

The CBS has published a great report on the Dutch not getting taller, or even shrinking.…

Gert Stulp
Oct 5, 2021

Picture of network

Social networks
Overview
Networks
Visualisation

Humans are a social species, being influenced by the thoughts and behaviours of people in their networks. Characterising these networks, and getting data on them, is…

Mar 18, 2021

An economist visualisation of my research.

The Economist improving my graphs
R
Visualisation
Height

Given the upcoming US elections, several media outlets have shown interest in my research on the heights of US presidents. The Economist improved my graphs.

Gert Stulp
Feb 20, 2020

New post

Artikel op sociale vraagstukken
Media
Fertility

Renkse Verweij en ik hebben onlangs een artikel geschreven over ons onderzoek naar kinderloosheid voor de website van Sociale Vraagstukken: [Eerst zekerheid, dan pas…

Gert Stulp
Feb 19, 2020

I still have to find a figure for this.

Interview voor het Parool over het (jong) krijgen van kinderen
Media
Fertility

Recentelijk werd ik geïnterviewd voor het Parool over het (jong) krijgen van kinderen…

Gert Stulp
Feb 19, 2020

I still have to find a figure for this.

Interview for BBC about secular trend in height
Media
Height

Recently, I had a hilarious and interesting interview with Professor Cregan-Reid and Kevin Mousley from the BBC about the historical changes in height and why the Dutch are…

Gert Stulp
Feb 18, 2020

New post

Winning hackaton “hack the educational gap”
Hackaton

The Groninger municipality organised an amazing hackaton “Hack the educational gap” (see…

Gert Stulp
Mar 1, 2019

New post

Talk about the FLAG-research group
Sociology

The Department of Sociology at Groningen celebrated its 80-year existence and a big party was thrown showcasing the diversity of…

Gert Stulp
Feb 24, 2019

New post

New movie about research group
Sociology

Recently, the Department of Sociology at Groningen celebrated its 80-year existence.

Gert Stulp
Oct 22, 2018

New post

New Scientist Wetenschapstalent
Research

I was fortunate enough to have been nominated for the [New Scientist Wetenschapstalent…

Gert Stulp
Apr 24, 2018

Visualisation of fertility across time

Studying the number of children people want and have
Overview
Fertility

There is huge variation in the number of children people (would like to) have over time / across the globe / within countries. I try to study the determinants of this…

Mar 30, 2018

New post

Different ways of calculating rowmeans on selected variables in a tidyverse framework
R
Tidyverse

Given the upcoming US elections, several media outlets have shown interest in my research on the heights of US presidents. The Economist improved my graphs.

Gert Stulp
Mar 24, 2018

New post

Testing theory in R
R
Recently on twitter I saw this idea that if you would pick a number from a uniform distribution [0, 1] and repeat drawing numbers until the sum of the numbers is lager than…
Gert Stulp
Mar 24, 2018

A visualistion from ESMvis

Visualisation in research
Overview
Visualisation

Visualisation is key in any project involving datapoints. Yet the reader is not ‘showered in graphical displays’ [Anscombe, 1973]. I am an active promotor of the use of…

Mar 21, 2018

An image of Gert Darwin or Charles Stulp

Evolutionary perspectives on human behaviour
Overview
Evolution

Humans are a weird species.

Mar 18, 2018

Awesome image of animals getting taller

Evolutionary perspectives on human height variation
Overview
Height
Evolution

My research in the past has focussed on variation in human height. In particular, how evolutionary processes have been and are shaping variation in stature. I tried to…

Mar 16, 2018
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