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Hermen Visser

@hermenvisser.bsky.social
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SciComm trainer | Research grant interview & Academic profiling coach

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Hermen Visser @hermenvisser.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
📢 ERC AdG Interview Invitation Watch is ON. Getting shortlisted is huge. But you are not there yet. How to make sure you arrive optimally prepared at the start of the interview? Discover our 8-week preparation plan—from mapping the panel to stress management: visservisible.com/en/counting-...
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Counting Down to an ERC Interview - Visser Visible
Invited to an ERC interview? Discover our proven 8-week countdown to prepare confidently and deliver your best performance.
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Hermen Visser @hermenvisser.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
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: www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/42...
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Visser Visible Communication hiring Senior Research Narrative & Visuals Coach (Freelance) in Netherlands | LinkedIn
Posted 6:56:47 AM. Note: only applications via email will be taken into consideration. See information below.About…See this and similar jobs on LinkedIn.
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Hermen Visser @hermenvisser.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
🥳 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 👀 deltagrantsupport.com/courses/erc-...
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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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Hermen Visser @hermenvisser.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
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-...
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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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Hermen Visser @hermenvisser.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
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...
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Voices
Max Richter · Album · 2020 · 50 songs
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Hermen Visser @hermenvisser.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
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
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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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Hermen Visser @hermenvisser.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
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.
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Hermen Visser @hermenvisser.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
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…😬 podcasts.apple.com/nl/podcast/v...
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Episode 268: Blood Meridian, Part 1
Podcastaflevering · Very Bad Wizards · 12-09-2023 · 1u 17m
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Hermen Visser @hermenvisser.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
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. podcasts.apple.com/nl/podcast/t...
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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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Hermen Visser @hermenvisser.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
One thing I know I won’t do in 2034: watching the #FIFA World Cup. www.theguardian.com/football/202...
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Saudi Arabia confirmed as 2034 World Cup host despite human rights concerns
Saudi Arabia has been confirmed as the host for the 2034 men’s World Cup, after the solitary bidders were waved through at Fifa’s congress
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Mike Jetten @msmjetten.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
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Hermen Visser @hermenvisser.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
“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.
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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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Hermen Visser @hermenvisser.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
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 www.staff.universiteitleiden.nl/courses/hrm-....
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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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Hermen Visser @hermenvisser.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
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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Hermen Visser @hermenvisser.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
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
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Hermen Visser @hermenvisser.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
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 visservisible.com/en/6-types-o...
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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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Hermen Visser @hermenvisser.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
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
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Hermen Visser @hermenvisser.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
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. www.staff.universiteitleiden.nl/courses/hrm-....
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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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Hermen Visser @hermenvisser.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
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
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Hermen Visser @hermenvisser.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
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 www.staff.universiteitleiden.nl/courses/hrm-...
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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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Hermen Visser @hermenvisser.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
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
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Casper Albers 🟥 @casperalbers.nl · 25/11/2024
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
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Hermen Visser @hermenvisser.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
🪷 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! 🧠 podcasts.apple.com/nl/podcast/a...
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Hermen Visser @hermenvisser.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
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 visservisible.com/en/purposefu...
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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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Hermen Visser @hermenvisser.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
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
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Hermen Visser @hermenvisser.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
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
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