Landed in Barcelona for APS 2026. Tomorrow, I will give a poster and oral presentation. For details, please see below.

Come at UU: Postdoc in Computational Neuroscience of Adversity and Mental Health (www.uu.nl/en/organisat...)

Collabra: Psychology is seeking a new senior editor for the clinical section and new associate editors for the social section. If you are interested in either of these positions and you believe you are qualified, please fill out the application form before 30 April 2026! forms.gle/DgM3484SuLVD...

12½ years ago, I made a map of all the buildings in the Netherlands. Unexpectedly, people loved it! Ever since, I have been wanting to make an updated version of the map. Newer data, higher resolution, more interactive! I never got around to it, until last week: bertspaan.nl/buildings

The SCORE investigation of repeatability and credibility is a lot. There are a few ways to get your head around it. 1: The Nature collection includes 3 papers from SCORE, an amazing paper from @i4replication.bsky.social and several commentaries about the work. www.nature.com/collections/... 1/

"Are we Different? Exploring Individual Differences in Learned #Avoidance". with Mahdi Shafiee Kamalabad & Iris M Engelhard (journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....)

My dependencies are my enemies. Updated multifear R package as one of its dependencies is planned for archival cran.r-project.org/web/packages... #rstat

🚨PLEASE SHARE: Senior reseach post: come and work at the IEU with Gib Hemani and @mendelrandom.bsky.social on Mendelian randomization, become my co-worker :) – research posts with closing date 5th February 2025.

Curious about how altered fear & safety learning contribute to anxiety, OCD, and PTSD? Check out our new meta-analysis on startle response, self-report, and SCR in fear conditioning! Together with Franziska Kausche, @hpcrstn.bsky.social & Kim Sobania. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

"Replication studies in the Netherlands: Lessons learned and recommendations for funders, publishers and editors, and universities" out now: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Our topical review (w/ Johan Vlaeyen & Geert Crombez) "The dynamics of #pain #avoidance: the exploration–exploitation dilemma" available now in PAIN! journals.lww.com/pain/citatio...

And we have a new Doctor! @marynalves, congratulations! Supervisory team: Johan Vlaeyen, Geert Crombez, & myself.

I am thrilled to announce that my lab will have an open 👩‍🎓👨‍🎓PhD-position on observational learning 👀, interception 🫁 and neuropharmacology 💊🧠. If you interested, please contact me for more information. Preferably starting this year.

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

For anyone interested in open science. More info here: www.akrypotos.com/osevent/

It is with great pleasure that I share our research article on "Pavlovian-to-Instrumental Transfer in individuals with #chronic #pain". This was a joined work by zol.be, Johan Vlaeyen, Mathijs Teppers, & Rachel Sjouwerman www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #OA #conditioning

Consider submitting your Clinical papers to Collabra! online.ucpress.edu/collabra

Here is a short interview I gave about Preregistration, RegisteredReports, and Transparency in science. www.uu.nl/en/backgroun...