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A fun idea to train critical thinking/media literacy, which also happens to be a good example of open education: https://www.communicatingpsychologicalscience.com/blog/developing-critical-thinking-skills-with-a-mockumentary-assignment #criticalthinking

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Het is duizelingwekkend complex waar de waarde van X nu eigenlijk vandaan komt. Adverteerders vertrokken en komen nu terug, want... Musk is zo machtig? In een open riool baden is niet meer slecht voor je merk? En die investeerders verwachten dus groei van dit platform? Of kopen ze iets

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I've been playing around with Mealie as a Home Assistant add-on this weekend. Mealie is a meal planner - basically a recipe database with ability to assign particular recipes to particular days. It's a great piece of OSS, found here: http://www.mealie.io

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The challenges of gifted students in (increasingly pre-structured) higher education: https://www.folia.nl/en/actueel/165327/gifted-at-university-you-are-so-smart-but-you-do-so-little

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Great post on how awareness of cognitive biases can hold us back: https://www.conspicuouscognition.com/p/the-everyone-is-biased-bias

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The United States is now Europe's crazy ex. Time to move on, but let's stay single for a while.

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"Humans maintained high performance on most modified versions of the problems, but GPT models, while performing well on standard analogy problems, struggled with variations. ‘This suggests that AI models often reason less flexibly than humans and their reasoning is less about true abstract

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Zijn er al types die zeggen dat Donald Trump eigenlijk links is?

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In yet another move to have my household run on open source software, I installed an Actual Budget server to help manage my finances: https://actualbudget.org/#features To sync with my bank account, I did need to make use of GoCardless (a fintech company that offers an API to import

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Rathenau roept op tot Europese strategie bescherming neurodata: https://persportaal.anp.nl/artikel/63c1f86b-be3c-4f4e-be21-499f2cdd415d/betere-waarborging-publieke-waarden-nodig-bij-neurotechnologie-

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There's a surprising amount of people commenting on the US tariffs by repeating all the free trade arguments. The rising tide lifts all boats, that sort of stuff. Which is fine if you're a believer, but the left shouldn't join that narrative.

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Voor UvA-alumni: op 30/1 (19:30 - 21:00) bespreken Michelle Spierings, Henkjan Honing en Carel ten Cate in Volta Amsterdam hoe muzikaliteit bij mens en dier onderzocht wordt (en zou kunnen worden). Je kunt registreren via: uva.fra1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... En neem gerust niet-alumni mee!

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This guy is right. Technology has a way of decreasing accountability and AI is this trend on steroids. They're not superintelligences, they're tools. And if they fail it's on their operators. https://www.instagram.com/reel/DD4m1hzxm5F/?igsh=MThjZ3k0dXU5bTNiaw==

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Some nice exploratory surveying on whether people believe other people are reasonable: https://open.substack.com/pub/tomstafford/p/belief-in-the-reasonableness-of-others

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Kids should be encouraged to talk back – 5 tips for teaching them critical thinking skills https://theconversation.com/kids-should-be-encouraged-to-talk-back-5-tips-for-teaching-them-critical-thinking-skills-238125 #criticalthinking #parenting

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As the new year starts, I am putting up some new prediction markets at Manifold. This thread is the list of all markets I am putting out there! #manifold #predictions

submitted 84 days ago • 1 comment

Een maand geleden

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If you want to be a researcher in neuroscience or cognitive science or any of its in-between flavours, Brain and Cognitive Sciences at UvA might be your thing. www.uva.nl/shared-conte... Statement of interest: I'd like to see even more great students join this interdisciplinary MSc programme.

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cog-SUP, the Master in #cognitivescience offered jointly by Univ Paris Cité & @sorbonne-universite.fr will soon open for applications for 2025-2026! Classes are 100% in English. Check out our website for more information: cog-sup.fr #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #CogPsych #neuroskyence #ESR

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Happy to release a pre-print 5 years in the making! "A two-wave longitudinal study of children’s prosocial behavior during Christmas." It's currently under review at Current Research in Behavioral Sciences. Watch this space. osf.io/preprints/os...

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New paper! Biases are among the cognitive antecedents of delusions and conspiracy theories. Does this mean that when we have delusions and conspiracy theories we should be excluded from shared epistemic projects? (Spoiler: no) link.springer.com/ar... open access! #philsky

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Do small groups produce better #argumentation? A multi-country study of pre-primary, primary, and secondary students (N > 4000) found whole class discussions were more complex and explicit, in aggregate. #openAccess paper: doi.org/10.1007/s102... #edu #logic #teaching #xPhi

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Hee, ik krijg opeens volgers hier. Maar ik weet niet, hoor, moeten we niet gewoon iets van Mastodon maken?

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US states sue TikTok, claiming its addictive features harm youth mental health www.theguardian.com/technology/2... On closer inspection, this case misuses neuroscience so severely that it seems like it could potentially make it illegal in the US for young people to have fun. Seriously /1

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This is a really fascinating paper highlighting how open science reforms, motivated by replicability, are not evidence-based. "It is striking that researchers, policymakers, journals and others are often content to implement large-scale changes without rigorous exploration of their efficacy"

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I always hear people say that students read more and more slowly each year. As someone who hasn't done any substantial teaching for years: how many papers can you now expect an MSc student in research-intensive psychology/neuroscience to read in about 25 hours?

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A note from Steven Hyman, former NIMH director, on the genetic complexity of psychiatric disorders “Our brains are not like Mendel’s peas.” www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/a-note-fro...

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This is really thorough/good/interesting. One thing I've been wondering recently is about how experts have warned that climate change will make armed conflicts more likely -- since no one is going to outright say "this is a climate change war!" how would we know if/when that is happening?

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This June, an interdisciplinary Summer School in Amsterdam will explore the interplay between artificial intelligence and neuroscience. Organised for research master students (but also of interest to PhD students). See more via www.neuro-ai.eu.

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The Psychological Methods group in Amsterdam is looking for an Assistant Professor. Join us! vacatures.uva.nl/UvA/job/Assi...

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Most of you probably already know from the dark place but we have published a new open-access paper that discusses different classificatory approaches to mental health problems (cpe.psychopen.eu/index.php/cp...). The work was spearheaded by my boss, Winfried Rief.

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