Posts

Outreach

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

Jun 4, 2024

Poster prize for Lisa

Prediction

Prize

Lisa won the best poster prize!

Dec 4, 2023

Kinderloosheid in Nederland

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

Sep 13, 2023

Recreating density plots ‘by hand’

Visualisation

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

Aug 24, 2023

Artikel in Demos

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…

Jul 15, 2023

A new website

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.

Jul 15, 2023

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.

May 25, 2023

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…

Apr 19, 2023

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…

Nov 15, 2021

Several interviews on the Dutch not getting taller

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

Gert Stulp

Oct 5, 2021

The Economist improving my graphs

Visualisation

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.

Feb 20, 2020

Artikel op sociale vraagstukken

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

Feb 19, 2020

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

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

Feb 19, 2020

Interview for BBC about secular trend in 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…

Feb 18, 2020

Winning hackaton “hack the educational gap”

Hackaton

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

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

Mar 1, 2019

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 movie about research group

Sociology

Gert Stulp

Oct 22, 2018

New Scientist Wetenschapstalent

Research

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

Apr 24, 2018

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

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.