You should though.

Gaza killings denounced as ‘disgrace to humanity’ by Belgian king The EU’s top brass has not publicly responded to the reported deaths of over 100 aid seekers in Gaza over the weekend.

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.”

I’m so sorry for confusing you with a crappy airline, my bad!

happened, except it’s def not our fault. But tickets no longer available in same price class now, only solution is for us to book way more expensive tickets (original were $$$ already). So they mess up but we should pay?!? I mean, Ryanair perhaps, ok, but KLM???

@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

I draw the red line for Gaza

Videos of bodies of burnt, dismembered children. Images of a small child trapped in a burning school. How many more dead girls and boys will it take? The children of Gaza need immediate, collective action to stop this once and for all.

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

De bijdrage van het nieuwe onderzoek waar ik het gisteren over had is dat het aantoont dat die overschatting niets met xenofobie of ideologie te maken heeft, maar een logisch gevolg is van hoe ons cognitief systeem te werk gaat om proporties te schatten.

Beste Janjeur, (1) het is niet mijn onderzoek, (2) 1 goed geïnformeerde presentator van een duidingsprogramma ontkracht de data van surveys over duizenden mensen niet. De systematische overschatting van minderheden (inclusief immigranten en vluchtelingen) is een zeer goed gedocumenteerd fenomeen.

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

JD Vance visiting Pope Franciscus and promising to pray for his health

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!

Generalization and extinction of platform-mediated avoidance in male and female rats Scientific Reports - Generalization and extinction of platform-mediated avoidance in male and female rats

🚨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...

Max Roser in front of a lecture hall explaining why he created ‘Our World in Data’

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!

Strip Clubs vs. Academic Fraud Which is worse?

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

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

Reconsolidation-based therapies: Science and fiction : Find an Expert : The University of Melbourne <p> The prospect of editing out traumatic or distressing memories from one’s mind would strike most people as science fiction. Yet in recent years, inspired by intriguing (but contested) findings in the basic science of memory, clinical interventions aspiring to do just that have started to emerge. Those interventions can be captured under the umbrella of ‘memory reconsolidation therapy’ (MRT). But do those therapies actually deliver on their promise of memory editing? Or do they spin the basic science of memory into treatments that we know neither the mechanism of action nor the effectiveness of? In this project, we will evaluate the clinical trial literature to appraise the evidence base for MRT and gauge the degree of hype involved in their clinical uptake. In doing so, the project will illustrate some of the ways in which spin and hype bias the translation of basic science to real-world applications and the tangible consequences that this has for evidence-based practice. </p>

Ads: www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo... (Leuven) and findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/opportunity/... (Melbourne). A companion PhD position is available as well (only Melbourne ad for now, KU Leuven add will follow): findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/opportunity/.... Do reach out if you want to know more! 2/2

Reconsolidation-based therapies: Science & fiction (joint PhD Leuven/Melbourne) Do a PhD in Leuven and Melbourne on a topic at the intersection of the science of memory, clinical psychology and meta-science

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

It’s a nice idea that they are scattered all over Europe (and beyond) now. Enjoy!

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

Work led by @lauraluyten.bsky.social and Anastasia Chalkia, with @wolfvanpaemel.bsky.social and others, sponsored by ERC, FWO and KU Leuven

No harmful effect of propranolol administered prior to fear memory extinction in rats and humans Exposure therapy is an evidence-based treatment option for anxiety-related disorders. Many patients also take medication that could, in principle, aff…

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...