Ruud Hortensius

A fun new preprint with the 🌟 team. We discuss 7 questions on mind perception we have been thinking and working on in the last years and it also features a picture of a dog! I mean what's more to like?

Social Dynamics 2025 | Universiteit Utrecht Universiteit Utrecht

🧠 Call for Participation: Social Dynamics 2025
🗓️ 20-21 November 2025
📍Utrecht University, The Netherlands
🔗 socialdynamics2025.sites.uu.nl

ft @antoniahamilton.bsky.social @escross.bsky.social @suzannedikker.bsky.social @milicanikolic.bsky.social, @dcrafa.bsky.social + many more

I still get chills

Meet Mike
*30+ years severe depression
*first hospitalized @ 13y
*20 meds
*3 rounds of ECT
*2 near-fatal suicide attempts

Mike felt joy for the first time in decades after we turned on his new brain pacemaker or PACE

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Downloading all files in an OSF project can be a hassle. Not anymore, with Papercheck! Just run:

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Why finish projects when I can start three more, work them to 80% complete, and then lose interest and start 3 more?

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Check out this workshop coming up 17th of July in Rotterdam, still looking for participants!

The roommate Alexa preprint is live! Fantastic work by Aline. In this beast of a paper (3 experiments, mixed methods) we explore how long-term interactions with DVAs impact trust and roles within households. One of the first results of the @erc.europa.eu F-AI-MILY project!

New preprint with @fabioladiana.bsky.social and Mariska Kret and collaborators reporting on two studies that explore the question if AI can trust us. How do patterns of dishonesty fluctuate across agents and pupil size in Japanese and European samples? Amazing work by @fabioladiana.bsky.social!

The workshop is supported by the @erc.europa.eu European Research Council (StG, F-AI-MILY, 101117045) and the Dutch Research Council (Open Science Fund, fnirs4all, OSF23.2.018).

Join us! Registration is now open. Places are limited. Registration closes 14 November 2025. More info: socialdynamics2025.sites.uu.nl/registration/

We are accepting abstract submissions for both Poster and Flash Talk presentations. A short abstract (~250 words) can be submitted before 12 September 2025. More info: socialdynamics2025.sites.uu.nl/submit/ Travel grants available: socialdynamics2025.sites.uu.nl/travel-grant/

Social Dynamics 2025 | Universiteit Utrecht Universiteit Utrecht

The workshop is open to participants at all career stages — including students, PhD candidates, and postdocs to present results or ongoing work on a variety of topics concerning social dynamics. For more information, check our website! socialdynamics2025.sites.uu.nl

The workshop features an exciting and interdisciplinary lineup of researchers, including Emily Cross, Mariska Kret, Suzanne Dikker, Hayley Hung, Paola Pinti, Milica Nikolic, Daina Crafa, Matteo Diano, Nienke van Atteveldt, and Antonia Hamilton.

Social Dynamics 2025 is a workshop on ‘Individual, dyadic, and group dynamics inside and outside the lab’. The goal of the workshop is to discuss recent insights of the (neuro-) science of individual, dyadic and group dynamics inside and outside the lab (e.g., at schools and at home).

Social Dynamics 2025 | Universiteit Utrecht Universiteit Utrecht

🧠 Call for Participation: Social Dynamics 2025
🗓️ 20-21 November 2025
📍Utrecht University, The Netherlands
🔗 socialdynamics2025.sites.uu.nl

ft @antoniahamilton.bsky.social @escross.bsky.social @suzannedikker.bsky.social @milicanikolic.bsky.social, @dcrafa.bsky.social + many more

Experimentology cover: title and curves for distributions.

Experimentology is out today!!! A group of us wrote a free online textbook for experimental methods, available at experimentology.io - the idea was to integrate open science into all aspects of the experimental workflow from planning to design, analysis, and writing.

Workshop organiser & winners

(Slightly belated) congratulations to our 2025 #SoNeAtLab (@soneatlab.bsky.social) #fNIRS #Hyperscanning Workshop best #presentation #prize #winners 🤩 🎉 🏆!

Poster: Vanessa Nöring @uni-jena.de
Talk: Ann Hogenhuis @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social

@artinis.bsky.social
@universityofessex.bsky.social

Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College ChatGPT has unraveled the entire academic project.

I’m enraged by so many things in this piece that I can’t pick and choose, although I may have to try just to vent

new preprint - do you use #fnirs to study cognition? do you want to learn how to design better studies? our primer aims to get you started on using #fnirs for real-world #cognitive #neuroscience

osf.io/preprints/ps...

If you are in the process of designing a #fNIRS study to investigate cognition and want a list of dos and don'ts, have a look at our primer. Pre-print available here: osf.io/preprints/ps...

@islalj.bsky.social @chiarabulgarelli.bsky.social @paola182.bsky.social @antoniahamilton.bsky.social

🌟First conference visit with the lab team 🌟Last week, we attended the 2024 ESCAN conference. My 🧠 is still buzzing of all the great science and scientists and seeing my dear colleagues and friends.

New @psyarxivbot.bsky.social preprint on a fun and timely topic, lead by two very talented #ECR, Zsuzsa and Aline, and collaboration with @reinevanderwal.bsky.social: Revealing Attentional Biases in Conspiracy Theory Believers osf.io/preprints/ps...

Last week we visited the University Museum Utrecht, umu.nl/for-english-..., to discuss potential activities for families related to our ongoing work on the impact of AI on family dynamics. So much fun, and really looking forward to these activities in the summer.

Selecting an emoji for AI, reflecting people's perception (and discussion) of AI pretty accurately.

Checking google scholar for recent articles with the phrase "certainly, here is a":

The students are still buzzing after your wonderful lecture in the social neuroscience course! Thanks again! 🌟

Very excited for the ISRE preconference on Cross-species emotion research organised by @fabioladiana.bsky.social, Mariska Kret and Joost Broekens: sites.google.com/view/cse-wor... You can also join, submit an abstract before 15th of April!

Me on stage with a slide with a still from the Wall-E movie showing. The picture is taking from the back of the room, so the crowd is visible from behind

So normally I go to gigs at TivoliVredenburg, but yesterday I was standing on stage at the sold out Social Animal event at TivoliVredenburg organised by KLI and ASPO. I really felt like a rockstar. 🤟🤟🤟 Great evening with super cool talks and people. If you can, do visit it next year!

Hahaha true!

Picture of a participant wearing the NIRSsport fNIRS device (in backpack) while interacting (playing a cup game) with a dog.

Sneak peek of ongoing science in the lab. The team just finished collecting data for a project on mentalizing across agents and species. For this we brought a real dog into the lab! So much fun! #fNIRS @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social #human+ #neuroskyence