Andreas De Block

Research thrives on innovation and the diversity of ideas, yet our funding system often penalizes both. In our new study published in PNAS, we explore the hidden costs of competition in allocating scarce research funds. (1/10) www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Did you know that postdoctoral fellow Bo Schuman runs a YouTube channel on #logic, its #philosophy & its history? His videos cover a wide range of topics, helping students find their feet in the subject and, with luck, getting even the experts to think differently: 📺 www.youtube.com/@LogicwithBo...

Read a summary of this research study in our blogpost on the Evolutionary Human Sciences website, co-authored with @jinwenxie.bsky.social. @uniofstandrews.bsky.social @ruthmace.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/blog/20...

Strong "Who's On First" potential in this story. 🤪 www.bbc.com/news/article...

This interview with Michael Behrent on the 100-year anniversary of Michel Foucault is really great. If you ever wanted to know what the “death of man” really meant, this is your chance! www.commonwealmagazine.org/steinmetz-je...

A key part of academic success is financial support It's amazing how much variation there is in terms of funding across countries. The average PhD student in Denmark makes more than a new Assistant Professor/Lecturer in the UK!

Calling #ALife researchers & philosophers🚨 There’s still a little over a week left to submit your abstract for the interdisciplinary minisymposium we’re organizing in December. Please help us spread the word & reach anyone who might be interested! 👇 hiw.kuleuven.be/clps/events/... #philsci #HPS 🧪

Ils étaient mi-cerf mi-escargot, et re mi-cerf derrière

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As common-sensical as this might seem on the surface, I think it's mistaken and I am sad that research l/ship does not seem able/willing to question it Short thread

World's Scientists Admit They Just Don't Like Mice https://theonion.com/worlds-scientists-admit-they-just-dont-like-mice-1819567643/

Late 2nd-century statue of Glycon. (National History and Archeology Museum, Constanţa, Romania) who is a snake god that seems to have originated in Macedonia #pagansky #witchsky #occultsky #archaeology #serpent #glycon

Sports medicine raises normative/ethical & socioeconomic questions for philosophers to grapple with. Check out the new 📃 by Silvia Camporesi, @andreasdeblock.bsky.social & Mike McNamee on the philosophy of sports #medicine 👇 link.springer.com/rwe/10.1007/... #philsky #HPS #HPBio #SportsScience 🧪

A special collection on ‘Metascience of the evolutionary human sciences’ is now accepting submissions on the Evolutionary Human Sciences website:

Urban birds in Europe are more afraid of women than of men—male experimenters can get 1m closer to the birds before they fly off than women. And we don’t know why, or even how they can tell the difference: buff.ly/zVt8n4O why.

“At least they didn’t use AI” when somebody writes something stupid quickly turning into one of the top backhanded compliments, right there with “you look great for your age” and “great effort, honestly”

"Over decades, [Ariely] keeps ending up on journal articles that don’t replicate & turn out, through absolutely no fault of his own, to be based on dubious or fake data. Bad collaborators, lazy research assistants, missing computer files."

Me reading psychology: sheesh people should really be more precise in their language. Me reading analytical philosophy:

"Dat komt vooral door de hoge energieprijs en een sterk gestegen vraag naar stroom uit België." De fossielvrije stroom die in ons land verdween door de kernuitstap wordt vervangen door Nederlandse kolenstroom.

And journals should enforce their own rules. If a paper in my journal states data available on request, and as editor I decide that the request is indeed reasonable bc there are severe issues raised and such data could help investigate this, they must be made available. Thx for persisting, Vincent

"Park et al. stated the raw rewired curves to be available upon request in their original peer review file, never supplied them despite repeated requests, and now attack the reconstruction this made necessary. This is unheard of." WTF?

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New article in @nature.com by @sylviawenmackers.be & a great team of collaborators: the widely reported finding that disruptive science is in decline may be explained by dataset artefacts. Check out the 🧵 by @vincentholst.bsky.social 👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #philsci #academicsky #metasci

very important thread for anyone interested in meta-science and science policy.

Glad this is FINALLY published by Nature. It took them a while to let science be self-correcting. Luckily, in the meantime, nobody cited or used the flawed paper.

Many people lament Scientific American becoming politicized and woke. But it’s the worsening editorial standards that made it into a platform for pseudoscience. James Smoliga shares a sadly all too typical example: buff.ly/HhaBnTB beyondtheabstract.substack.com/p/how-scient...

I p-hacked my early work on prejudice. It never felt like cheating. I now wonder if that's because I believed the cause was good. New essay on why scholar-activism is a dangerous turn for social psychology. If justice comes first, truth is what gets sacrificed. open.substack.com/pub/michaeli...

New paper out now 🥳 When psychologists discuss generalisability, they often refer to vague notions of representativeness. We provide an accessible intro to the total survey error framework as a tool to reason about this more rigorously. w @taymalsalti.bsky.social @ruben.the100.ci >

‘De Belgische bondsvoorzitter houdt het corrupte systeem mee in stand’: interview met Nick McGeehan, directeur van mensenrechtenorganisatie Fairsquare, dat een klacht indient tegen de FIFA 👇 www.demorgen.be/wk-voetbal/d...

Fun fact: About 20 years ago, the SNCF (French railways) travel agency ran a campaign to make people aware that you could book foreign holidays with them, not just train tickets. They mocked up several overseas destinations as if they were French towns or villages.

Belgium won’t have had this much support since World War I

Het voorstel van de Duitse pensioencommissie om naar één pensioenstelsel te gaan voor iedereen - werknemers, zelfstandigen, ambtenaren én verkozenen - zouden ze in België ook grondig moeten overwegen. Het zou verkozenen sieren hun zelfbepaalde privileges in vraag te stellen.

@whatthephoques.bsky.social

Ik heb hier toevallig een experimentele, onbewezen therapie die ik jullie wil verkopen. Ik heb geen interesse om de effectiviteit van de therapie te proberen bewijzen, maar ik wil ze wel verkopen. www.demorgen.be/tech-wetensc...

The Organism–Environment Pairing was published by @mitpress.bsky.social one month ago! As a reminder, the book is available #openaccess through the D20 initiative: direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon... Please share it & help us bring this 📗 to as many readers as possible! #HPS #evosky #histsci #booksky

We're excited to launch J·ROR, the Journal of Research on Research. A new open-access home for research on how research is funded, organised, conducted, communicated, and evaluated. Our first editorial: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #ResearchOnResearch #MetaScience #OpenScience #STS

academics trying to save the humanities

not unrecognizable but he does look like if Belgium had a dictator

The journal peer-review system is struggling to keep up because the number of submissions has exploded. I guess this has something to do with GenAI.

AI finally lets us see Raphael's The School of Athens the way Raphael obviously intended it, illustrating the delicate dance and subtle conflicts between Plato and Artistotle.

Blijkbaar geschreven door een middelmatige denker, maar toch een leestip: philosophersmag.com/living-with-...

Milieubeleid à la CD&V: we geraken niet over de lat dus gaan we de lat maar wat verlagen. www.standaard.be/politiek/bro...

1. Abbey Road 2. The White Album 3. Rubber Soul 4. Revolver 5. Sgt. Pepper's

stop worrying about disinformation. People are not as gullible as you think they are.

Ha! The original Lancet article on the dangers of reading in bed is here: doi.org/10.1016/S014...

The biophilia hypothesis holds that we have an innate predisposition to be drawn to #nature. Y. Joye & @andreasdeblock.bsky.social review the evidence in its favor, find it wanting, and suggest that #culturalevolution offers a better alternative www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #evosky #philsci

Very excited to have received a Vici grant for the project "Doing Science Differently? A Philosophy of Transgressive Science". The project will address methodological & institutional challenges of transgressing "business as usual" in academia. www.wur.nl/en/news/davi...