Reliable research in the social and behavioural and sciences Sweeping new investigations probe the replication, robustness and reproducibility of results across the behavioural and social sciences.

Today, the SCORE program releases its primary results! 865 researchers examined research credibility across the social and behavioral sciences, publishing three papers in Nature + five preprints.

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🧠 Can brain stimulation help socially anxious people approach what they fear? 😠😰

We used synchronized electrical brain stimulation to improve control over emotional behaviour in social anxiety, while scanning their brains to understand who responds best and why.

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Vici Grant for Esther Aarts to study how the gut shapes the brain in overeating | Radboud University Our gut sends signals to the brain about hunger and fullness, but we still do not understand well how the gut–brain connection affects eating when people eat without being hungry.

🎉 🧠 Professor Esther Aarts has been awarded a NWO (Dutch Research Council) #Vici #grant to study how the #gut talks to the #brain in people with #obesity and #ADHD. 👇

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Roshan Cools appointed scientific director of the Donders Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging | Radboud University On 1 March, Roshan Cools was appointed scientific director of the Donders Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging (DCCN), one of the six partners of the Donders Institute. She succeeds Alan Sanfey, who has ...

🧠 Roshan Cools appointed Director of the Donders Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging.

Cools knows the institute inside out. After 9 years in Cambridge and Berkeley, she returned to Nijmegen in 2007 because she believed it was the best place to do cognitive neuroscience: 👇

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Summer School: Critical AI Literacies for Resisting and Reclaiming Marcela Suarez, Olivia Guest and I co-organise a Summer School Critical AI Literacies for Resisting and Reclaiming, June 22-26, 2026, at Radboud University, in The Netherlands. The Summer School is…

Summer School: Critical AI Literacies for Resisting and Reclaiming irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2026/02/18/s... cc @olivia.science @marentierra.bsky.social

What type of relationship is learned during visual statistical learning? Statistical learning enables observers to extract regularities from their environment, but what statistical regularity is extracted remains debated. While previous research has mainly focused on condi...

Which "statistic" governs statistical learning? Find out in this new article of our lab: journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Korsakoff in focus: why more accurate diagnosis is essential for good care | Radboud University Het syndroom van Korsakov is een ernstige hersenaandoening die veel impact heeft op het leven van mensen die het krijgen. In Nederland gaat het naar schatting om 8.000 tot 10.000 mensen. Er worden sta...

🧠 #Korsakoff’s is a serious brain disorder that has a major impact on the lives of those who suffer from it. In the #Netherlands, an estimated 8,000 to 10,000 people are affected. Only 20% of suspected cases actually receive the diagnosis. Getting it right is crucial. 👇

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Donders Institute Open Dag | Radboud Universiteit Ontdek hoe fascinerend jouw brein is tijdens De Brein Show! Een dag vol interactieve belevenissen van spannende escape rooms en illusies tot live demonstraties, lezingen en experimenten – er is voor i...

🧠 Donders Institute Open Dag: De Brein Show 🧠

Op zaterdag 21 maart organiseert het Donders Institute een bijzondere open dag: De Brein Show. Een middag vol verwondering, illusies, experimenten en ontdekkingen voor jong én oud. 👉

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New paper by PD student Bob Kapteijns (not on bsky) How do reading, math, and various cognitive skills "grow together" in early childhood? 🧠📚
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The psychological consequences of mental health awareness efforts

Review by Lucy Foulkes, Isaac Winterburn, Dasha Sandra, Michael Inzlicht, Jack L. Andrews & Carolina Guzman Holst

go.nature.com/4r2UvRH

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How the brain predicts objects in a changing world | Radboud University In everyday life, we often encounter objects that are partially hidden or only seen from the corner of our eye. Our brain is remarkably good at keeping track of objects, and new research reveals how t...

New research from @peelen.bsky.social, shows our brain actively predicts how they should look based on the 3D structure of the environment. Even when objects are temporarily hidden from view, their expected orientation can be decoded from activity in the visual cortex. 👇

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Trauma in het vrouwenbrein | NPO Start Vrouwen hebben een twee keer zo grote kans om PTSS te ontwikkelen, een posttraumatische stressstoornis. Dat terwijl het meeste onderzoek naar deze stoornis is gedaan bij mannen. Petra Grijzen volgt on...

📺 💥 Gisteren bij NPO Focus: Sabrina van Heukelum onderzoekt welke sporen #PTSS achterlaat en of die anders zijn bij vrouwtjes dan bij mannetjes?

@epanlab.bsky.social Roelofs onderzocht hoe agenten in opleiding reageren onder druk als ze moeten kiezen om te schieten of niet: 👇

Read the "Behind the paper" story on Vahed, S. & Sanfey, A.G. Large-scale community study reveals information sampling drives fairness decisions. Communications Psychology 3, 178 (2025)

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Why we sleep: insights from current research | Radboud University In the sleep lab of Martin Dresler, scientists work every day to piece together the scientific puzzle of sleep. We spend roughly a third of our lives asleep, switching off for eight hours makes any or...

🧠💤 #Sleep is crucial for the production of #antibodies, the #clearing of harmful substances from the brain, and the release of #growthhormone. 👶🧒 Some recent examples of sleep benefits according to @dresler.bsky.social. Read the full article here: 👇

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Bas Bloem: Parkinson’s is the canary in the coal mine warning us that our environment is sick | Radboud University In a recent publication in The Lancet Neurology, Bloem and a group of internationally recognised scientists place Parkinson's in historical perspective, beginning with James Parkinson, who first descr...

🧠📚 #Longread: Parkinson’s is the canary in the coal mine

In The Lancet Neurology, experts map out the historical development of #Parkinson’s and have a #call #to #politicians: If we act now, we can reverse this pandemic. 👇

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Donders’ Research Stimulation Funds: call for new collaborations and focus groups | Radboud University At the Donders Institute, new ideas often begin at the crossroads of disciplines. Through its Research Stimulation Funds, the institute encourages researchers to explore collaborations.

🌱 The Donders Research Stimulation Funds give early-career scientists the freedom to build something new from the bottom up like the #Neuro-#AI #Focus #Group.

A new round of the Donders Research Stimulation Funds is open until December 1st. 👇

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Radboudumc-neurologist Bas Bloem receives international prize for Parkinson’s research - Michael J. Fox Foundation Pritzker Prize honors work integrating science, care and community for people with Pa... 17 November 2025

🎉 Bas Bloem has received the Robert A. Pritzker Prize for Leadership in Parkinson’s Research from the The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research. 'We keep pushing the boundaries of science, care and creativity until Parkinson’s stops.' 👇

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🎯🤝🧠 We were happy to welcome an international press delegation to the Donders Brain Museum last week to share the story of how our 1,400+ researchers advance understanding of the human brain, cognition, and behaviour. Thanks for coming, Tack för ditt besök, Vielen Dank für Ihren Besuch!

This is figure 2, which shows individual vulnerabilities associated with self-harm contagion among young people.

A Review in Nature Reviews Psychology specifies factors that exacerbate self-harm social contagion and discusses how to bridge psychological and public health perspectives to mitigate self-harm risk in adolescents. go.nature.com/46syzrc 🔒

✨Super proud of dr. Floor Burghoorn @floorburghoorn.bsky.social , who obtained her PhD with the highest distinction! Congratulations on behalf of the whole @epanlab.bsky.social lab!🎉🎉@decisioncenter.bsky.social

The 𝟯𝗿𝗱 𝗦𝘂𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗿 𝗦𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗼𝗹 of our RTG came to an end and what a rewarding experience it was for our whole group. Settled near the beautiful Ratzeburg at the lakeside at Hotel "Der… | Elena Drozdova The 𝟯𝗿𝗱 𝗦𝘂𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗿 𝗦𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗼𝗹 of our RTG came to an end and what a rewarding experience it was for our whole group. Settled near the beautiful Ratzeburg at the lakeside at Hotel "Der Seehof", we had 2.5 day...

Ik was a treat to join the summerschool of the RTG on emotional learning and memory. Thanks for all discussions and inspiring talks! www.linkedin.com/posts/elena-...

Research Seminars | Radboud University The Department of Economics and Business Economics organizes a weekly research seminar that relates to the main research areas covered in the department with distinguished external scholars from all o...

We're excited to announce the Department of Economics and Business Economics has started their fall edition of the Research Seminars, Mondays@12.20h in EOS 01.150 (exception: Tuesday, 30.09@12.20 in EOS 01.770). Join us!
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#psychologists often stress the relevance of their work for #law & #policy, yet rarely engage legal experts to draw meaningful policy inferences & propose reform.

Thrilled to have collaborated w/ Pietro Ortolani, Catalina Goanta & Alan Sanfey ⬇️
@dondersinst.bsky.social @decisioncenter.bsky.social

👏👏👏 Postdoc Appreciation Week (#PAW_NL): 15 - 19 September.

From sessions on well-being and career paths, workshops on research impact and science communication, to networking drinks. We look forward to celebrating postdocs together!

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Veni grant for research into curiosity, an important motivator for learning | Radboud University Lieke van Lieshout has received a prestigious NWO Veni grant for her research into curiosity. She will use this grant to gain a better understanding of how we remain curious and how this can improve l...

👀 How do we stay curious – and how can curiosity improve learning?

Congrats to Lieke van Lieshout on her prestigious #Veni grant from NWO! She’ll study how curiosity lasts, how it boosts memory, and whether freedom of choice plays a role.

Curious to know more? 👇

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New research: how to get out of a vicious cycle when dealing with persistent anxiety? Neuroscientist Bob Bramson is with a Veni grant launching a study on how the brain learns from rewards and punishments, and how anxiety affects this process.

❓ Ever stopped presenting after one bad experience, or avoided dogs after one bite? Radboud Recharge spoke with Bob Bramson about how #anxiety shapes learning from rewards & punishments.

👉 www.radboudrecharge.nl/en/article/n...

🔵 Tübingen Systems Neuroscience Symposium 2025 is here! 🔵

#SNS2025 brings together leading international researchers in system neuroscience 🧠

Join us for plenary lectures, poster sessions and social events on 6️⃣-7️⃣ October 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣5️⃣

registration is open here 👉 meg.medizin.uni-tuebingen.de/sns_2025/