Belgium’s King Philippe said Europe “must show stronger leadership” on the crisis in Gaza, adding that “the current situation has gone on far too long” and “is a disgrace to humanity.”

@klm.bsky.social officially has worst customer service in the world of aviation. Which is a high bar! Booked flights to attend a funeral, received confirmation but never the actual tickets, when I call eventually turns out they cancelled them without ever telling us. They literally don’t know what

Since the end of the ceasefire on 18 March, 1,309 children have reportedly been killed and 3,738 injured. In total, more than 50,000 children have reportedly been killed or injured since October 2023. The children of Gaza need protection NOW: unicef.link/3ZCg0wJ

Now officially out in @psychscience.bsky.social ! journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... @samiyousif.bsky.social

Yet another casualty of the thoughts and prayers of a US politician. At least this one didn’t die by gunfire.

Fresh work from the lab spearheaded by @albalm.bsky.social for all you lovers of avoidance, fear generalization and extinction!

🚨Paper alert!!🚨 Excited to share out latest research where we investigated avoidance, fear generalization and extinction learning using a modified platform-mediated avoidance procedure in male and female rats. rdcu.be/eesmc

Join us for the KU Leuven Open Science Day on 6 May 2025! The KU Leuven Open Science Day is an event for and by researchers. Don't miss this chance to deepen insights, share experiences and engage with fellow researchers! #OpenScience #Research #KULeuven More info: www.kuleuven.be/open-science...

Data as cause for hope and call to action, an anti-dote to alternative facts and post-truths. Inspiring lecture tonight by @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social’s newest doctor honoris causa, @maxroser.bsky.social

Ethnography at boys’ soccer practice confirms that this applies to the human primate as well.

She sure did! Stellar dissertation and defense, thanks also to the insightful opposition by @gurcelay.bsky.social , Marloes Henckens and Rudi D’Hooge 🙏

A compelling takedown of one of the most harmful pop psychology books out there.

Come join us! www.emotionalmemory.de

I am so thankful that I came up in an academic environment that valued openness r/t secrecy. I have never worried about discussing my ideas with others, and those discussions have paid off greatly. I feel bad for trainees who learn to be secretive with their ideas - they are missing out on so much!

100% this goodscience.substack.com/p/strip-club...

100% recommend - you couldn’t wish for a better supervisor!

Fancy doing a PhD at the crossroads of memory research, clinical psychology and metascience? And travelling the globe while doing so? Come work with @wolfvanpaemel.bsky.social @simine.com @tomhardwicke.bsky.social and me at KU Leuven and UniMelb and get a joint PhD degree! [please distribute] 1/2

Temporary free-access link to the publisher’s version: authors.elsevier.com/a/1j3vW_KBfw.... Although, frankly, some of the figures and tables look better in the preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps....

Mechanisms linking social media use to adolescent mental health vulnerability New Review by Amy Orben, Adrian Meier, Tim Dalgleish & Sarah-Jayne Blakemore  FREE to access until May 21 -- download now! go.nature.com/4dwD71i #psychology #psychschsky

New paper alert: across a series of studies in humans and rats, we find that (unlike for benzodiazepines) pre-extinction propranolol administration doesn’t impair extinction retention. Which suggests it may be fine to take beta-blockers during exposure treatment www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The future of Perspectives on Psychological Science (the journal) is wide open! Want to be the next Editor in Chief? Have ideas about new directions for the journal? Submit a proposal (2pp) by June 1. Come join the team of APS journals' Editors in Chief! www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...

Final prepping - almost ready for #EMHFC2024

Finally published: New work on human freezing responses by the fabulous Alma Merscher. More details 👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

PCI may well be the future if we all support it now. It's one of the better initiatives I've seen! Please go check it out.

New blog post! "Preregistration: More Promises than Pitfalls," some thoughts inspired by the recent meeting at the Royal Society. I don't find many pitfalls with preregistration itself, but there are plenty of problems with how we talk about it. getsyeducated.substack.com/p/preregistr...

I was going to go this year, it had been too long. But then eventually I couldn’t make it fit. And now I have anticipatory FOMO. Damn!

Just got home from hugely interesting symposium @ Royal Society on merits and pitfalls of preregistration. It’s all on YouTube, highly recommend. Thx @tomhardwicke.bsky.social @deevybee.bsky.social @cruwelli.bsky.social Marcus Munafò and EJ Wagenmakers for organising! www.youtube.com/live/yNb2Vdd...

Why do they call it support services if all they do is make your life miserable?

We have another Psych Science drop in zoom office hour coming up, Feb 22, at a time better for people in North, Central, & South America (& parts of Oceania) 4pm Eastern US time on Thurs Feb 22 Registration is free & open to anyone Please share! member.psychologicalscience.org/events/event...

Have questions for the editors at Psychological Science? Here’s your chance to ask them!

Nature Human Behaviour joins Psych Science, the first two journals that publish Psych papers that will be part of @i4replication.bsky.social ‘s replication games. Sign up if you want to be part of the replicating team!

Taking in the views of the Long Room - just one of the highlights of a very enjoyable visit to TCD. Thanks Olive Healy, @clairegillan.bsky.social and colleagues for inviting me to Dublin and being such wonderful hosts.

Very neat study by my faculty colleague Gert Storms on his own autobiographical memories from his personal diary for the past 24 years. What a job! Don't forget to read the 'Data Accessibility Statements', 'Ethics and Consent' sections ;-) www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles...

Cool art project from French photographer Augustin Lignier at the crossroads of social media and animal behaviour - the rats’ selfies are very compelling!

An important contribution, this one!

Open post-doc position in neuroimaging, pharmacology and dynamic learning! @christianbuchel.bsky.social & myself seek candidates for a 3-4 year post-doc that is available in early 2024. sites.google.com/view/systems... Feel free to contact me for more infos #neuroskyence #compneuro #neuroscience

We are thrilled to announce a new collaboration with Psychological Science. Papers published in PS following January 1st, 2024 will be candidates for I4R to computationally reproduce, stress-test and replicate.

We are excited to announce that we will now reproduce and replicate studies in the fields of psychology and behavioral sciences!! We are also welcoming 13 new board members. 🧵with details below!

Finally! New policies for Psych Science in 2024 (part 1): Editorial 1: https://www.psychologicalscience.org/publications/psychological_science/vazire-editorial Editorial 2 w/ @tomhardwicke.bsky.social : https://www.psychologicalscience.org/publications/psychological_science/hardwicke-editorial

Emotional overshadowing: pleasant and unpleasant cues overshadow neutral cues in human associative learning: http://osf.io/jekug/

Excited to be part of this fantastic line-up - check us out!

In beautiful Marburg for my first visit as a Mercator Fellow of the DFG RTG ‘Breaking Expectation’. Came across a sign that summarises much of what I’ll be talking about this week - be it uncovering fraud, accepted wisdom on exposure treatment or controversies surrounding fear memory reconsolidation