rogier kievit

New preprint! Universities increasingly expect academics to practise open science. But is it rewarded when hiring? We analysed 1,356 academic job ads from Norwegian institutions and found that <5% of ads mentioned open science as a required or desired qualification osf.io/preprints/ps...

Last week we got together with the BEAM team at @cubriccardiff.bsky.social for our @wellcometrust.bsky.social funded study on how brain development trajectories in 22q.11 deletion syndrome may help us understand the neurodevelopmental challenges some children face #WMHD2026 @sjblakemore.bsky.social

Such a large percentage of my day involves popups like this. Apparently, my passkey is in a superposition of registered and not registered, and I cannot make the waveform collapse. The impenetrable fortress that is the current Teams ecosystem. #minorannoyances

New paper! Accepted at Perspectives on Psychological Science. A textbook finding in infant psychology is that newborns - within ~1 hour of birth - visually track a simplified 'three blob' facelike stimulus further than its inverted control (see picture). This suggested inborn knowledge of faces!

Our data is available upon unreasonable request

"It's early in the year but difficult to imagine any paper overtaking this one for lack of imagination, logic or data—it is beyond redemption"

Just like that: poof & gone. RIP *all* of NSF social, behavioral and economic research (including psyc & cogneuro). I’m speechless.

Exactly this. Make yourself and your work easily findable. Yes, also if you are just starting - Perhaps you gave an impressive talk or an exciting poster, and I want to know more, invite you to something, or recommend you to a colleague. I can't count the number of times I just gave up & moved on

So thankful to the University of Cambridge for enabling a new chapter in the long history of the APU/CBU (since MRC decided to close all its units…)

New blog post: "Cluster analysis: A skeptic’s guide". In which I ask a few questions that social scientists wishing to identify hidden classes in their data ought to address. janhove.github.io/posts/2026-0...

Hi, I'd like to apply for the lifetime achievement award. Although my chronological age would seemingly render me ineligible, my biological age? Firmly in the eligibility window. How old do I feel (subjective age)? I'm at death's door. Thank you for your consideration

Ever since this happened, I have never given journals sole ownerhip of my supplemental materials .. eiko-fried.com/blog/supplem...

New estimate of Elon Musk’s death toll just dropped www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Unfortunate, yet understandable and clearly very carefully deliberated course changes at OSF. Anyone who's worked on anything OS related knows that getting funding for exciting new projects is hard, let alone sustained, long term funding. OSF has been the foundation for many improvements in science.

Sensing your body (‘Interoception’) is everywhere in theories of mental health. But when we tested how well hundreds of people sensed their heart and lungs, the link to symptoms was almost nowhere to be found. 💣 🚨New @natmentalhealth.nature.com paper 🚨🎉 asks why 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s44...

New preprint w/ Leo Tiokhin & @lakens.bsky.social! Registered Reports (RRs) are great for science b/c publication is guaranteed before results are known, reducing publication bias & QRPs. This feature supposedly also makes them great for *scientists*. But is that really true? 1/ tinyurl.com/4sy993rr

'The enormous and overwhelming -not to say pathetic- admiration, even adoration of the author for her subject is barely acceptable'

Neuroscientist Dr. Brenda Milner is recognized as one of the fundamental founders of modern cognitive neuropsychology. She proved the hippocampus is essential for forming long-term "declarative" memory (facts, names & events). She was born #OTD in 1918--she's 108 years old today! #WomenInSTEM

Are you a neuroscientist considering a transition to AI? I wrote some thoughts about it. mikexcohen.substack.com/p/transition...

Today we launch the first stable release of RegCheck: v1.0.0. RegCheck makes it easier and quicker to compare study registrations to published papers for consistency - something we know is important in principle, but rarely done in practice. A 🧵 on what's new: regcheck.app

The insanity of the world summarised in two headlines "US fossil fuel power spending to beat China for the first time in decades" "Heat dome over eastern US sends electricity prices soaring"

Our department just announced a new Associate Professor position in quantitative research methodology 🇳🇴 One of the favorable qualifications is experience with open science practices + R/Python experience www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

This is the most exciting projects I've worked on - Bringing together new methods and large datasets to answer an increasingly important question. Our findings (led by @njudd.com) suggest wildfire pollution has a measurable, negative impact on neurocognitive development in children

Outlook can't open a Teams link in an email directly in Teams - but their shortcut to 'add to music as a spoken track' is, presumably, what they think is the next best thing.

"I doubt that it’s worth publishing a handful of graphs that few would find surprising and that anyone else could generate in a day off."

I have to say, it's making me feel a little insane hearing commentators say Ed Miliband shouldn't be chancellor because of his "ideological zeal" for Net Zero, in a week where temperatures are so extreme that my kids are being sent home early every day and it's regularly 30 degrees inside my house

In the Netherlands, edtech platforms (Prowise, Gynzy) track performance and implement adaptive testing at the trial level. Regardless of their merits & drawbacks (both exist aplenty), are people aware of other countries (especially global south/LMIC's) that widely use such platforms in schools?

"The reported mean of 7.7 is misleading because it appears that close to half of your participants are scoring below that mean"

"I have received one highly negative review and wondered whether it could be overcome by other reviews. I conclude that the answer is no"

Who are 'we' you ask? We are your favourite online celebration of the harsh, the weird, the passive aggressive, the active aggressive and the downright mean comments practicing scientists receive on a regular basis. Because a review shared is a review halved* (*proverbs aren't our forte)

"I am afraid this manuscript may contribute not so much towards the field's advancement as much as towards its eventual demise."

You thought we'd disappeared - Nothing could be further from the truth. After a four year silent retreat, cleansing ourself from the energy of The Other Place and the lingering aftertaste of several hundred harsh reviews, we're back! We'll be reposting the back catalogue & taking new submissions.

Antwoord door @rogierk.bsky.social van het @radboudumc.bsky.social; redactie: @samdekater.bsky.social van het @dondersinst.bsky.social: brainhelpdesk.nl/vraag/leer-j... Heb jij ook een #brein #vraag? Stel hem bij de @brainhelpdesk.bsky.social en we komen met een #antwoord!

Answer by @rogierk.bsky.social of the @radboudumc.bsky.social; editing and translation by @samdekater.bsky.social of the @dondersinst.bsky.social: brainhelpdesk.nl/en/vraag/lee... Do you also have a #brain #question? Ask it at the @brainhelpdesk.bsky.social and we will come up with an #answer!

Spoiler alert: This is the practical exam when you apply for dutch citizenship

Congratulations - A heroic effort on an important topic by a stellar team of researchers

ArXiV has a new LLM policy (Screenshots with alt text so you don’t have to click through to the other place and see all the stupid responses)

My fave work event: the annual writing retreat of the Lifespan Cognitive Dynamics lab. We wrote, cooked, went on long walks & discovered each other’s niche passions (traditional dance, metros, temperature, the best cats in Nijmegen & more), and I did more writing in 3 days than in 3 'normal' weeks

Developmental science has learned a great deal about children. Too often, from children in a narrow set of countries and populations. In this video, @rogierk.bsky.social explains why LEVANTE’s global, open, collaborative model matters. Learn more & join 🔗 levante-network.org/open-call-fo...

Join us in wishing a massive happy 100th birthday to the man who has inspired millions of people around the world to care about nature and look after our planet - the incredible Sir David Attenborough! 🎉

Out in the UK today! press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Prediction without understanding sustained astronomy through a thousand years of epicycles, writes @tonyzador.bsky.social. AI is now offering neuroscience the same deal. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/machine-lear...

Tantalizing interpretable machine learning

Good news everyone 🥳 Our (w @vincentab.bsky.social) primer on models as prediction machines (with the marginaleffects package) is finally officially published!> journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse Media and universities: AI is here to stay