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Carien van Reekum

@carien.bsky.social

Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of Reading. Affective Neuro/Science enthusiast (emotion, brain, body, individual differences incl age(ing)), Open Science. Dog lover

1,139 Followers  |  520 Following  |  81 Posts  |  Joined: 21.10.2023  |  2.1997

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Hackjin!

05.10.2025 15:10 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

For years, I used the Cornelius’ Science of Emotion textbook to teach emotion; liked the clustering of empirical and theoretical work into the four traditions he had identified

28.09.2025 20:07 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I need a #mathematician to help with a project. Ideally UK-based.

I've emailed a few folks in my uni, but none replied...

Anyone interested?

My need is nonlinear modelling of brain and muscle signals, optimisation, decomposition.

Anyone?

09.09.2025 18:13 — 👍 5    🔁 12    💬 3    📌 0

Fear, anxiety, and the extended amygdala- Absence of evidence for strict functional segregation https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.29.673083v1

05.09.2025 02:15 — 👍 8    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Neural correlates of human fear conditioning and sources of variability in 2199 individuals - Nature Communications A large brain imaging study of over 2000 people worldwide shows that fear conditioning engages brain regions linked to emotion and attention, with differences in individuals with anxiety or depression...

Great to be part of this effort, led by Joaquim Radua, @drhannahsavage.bsky.social and Miquel Fullana, among other www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#neuroskyence #neurosci #affectsci

29.08.2025 07:24 — 👍 37    🔁 9    💬 1    📌 0
Bar chart showing % of articles retracted, with expression of concern, or no action from different publishers. 100% no action from Elsevier and Wolters Kluwer; 100% retraction from Taylor and Francis.

Bar chart showing % of articles retracted, with expression of concern, or no action from different publishers. 100% no action from Elsevier and Wolters Kluwer; 100% retraction from Taylor and Francis.

Huge variability documented in how publishers respond when informed about a problematic body of work by a research group. www.jclinepi.com/article/S089...
#publishers #retractions

24.08.2025 15:35 — 👍 107    🔁 50    💬 2    📌 12
Stanford | Faculty Positions: Details - Assistant Professor, Psychology

Our department is seeking applicants for an Assistant Professor position with a focus on affective science. Please apply and/or pass this along to anyone who might be interested! facultypositions.stanford.edu/en-us/job/49...

20.08.2025 05:43 — 👍 56    🔁 45    💬 0    📌 0
Research Scientist, AI for (Sub)seasonal Weather Forecasting London, UK

Looking for a Research Scientist at Google DeepMind with expertise in weather forecasting AND machine learning AND software engineering

job-boards.greenhouse.io/deepmind/job...

06.08.2025 14:16 — 👍 6    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

Great work, Jamie! And 👋

06.08.2025 13:11 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Respect! I hope you’ll maintain the fun over the next year or so. Looking forward to reading the final product

02.08.2025 18:50 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Jobs - The University of York

2 Lecturer (Assistant Prof) positions available @yorkpsychology.bsky.social! Come join our department!

#neuroskyence #cognition #psychscisky #neurojobs

jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...

21.07.2025 13:32 — 👍 81    🔁 86    💬 5    📌 7

Indeed, this paper (and videos) is quite wow #affectivescience

13.07.2025 16:39 — 👍 12    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

That’s debatable: nice….but not best 😃

04.07.2025 16:57 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Only 10 days left to apply for this amazing opportunity 👇

01.07.2025 17:01 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

👆🤣 I echo Anastasia’s sentiments, Leanne. Great to meet you and hear about your research. I’ll make sure to cover it in next years teaching too

28.06.2025 11:01 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Closing remarks by our co-chair @bhisma.bsky.social (with Tan Wingenbach), wrapping up a successful #ReadEmo25! The interdisciplinary mix and extensive opportunities for interaction have been rewarding as ever!

27.06.2025 15:44 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Thank you to all you participated in this year's edition of Reading Emotions #ReadEmo25.
@wiebkegandhi.bsky.social and @richharrison.bsky.social will be chairing #ReadEmo26 on pain! Watch this space, and see you next year!
sites.google.com/site/reading...

27.06.2025 15:51 — 👍 6    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

Tagging @leanneproops.bsky.social

27.06.2025 15:41 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Our last session at #ReadEmo25 is a first for the series, with Leanne Proops talking about facial expressions in non-human animals, presenting her work with horses! 🐎

27.06.2025 14:52 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 1
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A wonderful set of #ECR talks by Helio Clemente José Cube, Suchitra Srivastava, and Simone Mattavelli, from 2 continents, 3 countries and as many disciplines.
What a treat to take us up to lunch on day 2 of #ReadEmo25!

27.06.2025 11:04 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1
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A treat to hear the brilliant Isabel Dziobek speak about psychotherapy and social robotics - starting off the second day at Reading Emotions #ReadEmo25

27.06.2025 08:50 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Ify’s study on HRV in adolescents with varying SES in Nigeria is now in press. She measured daily affect, stress and depression symptoms. While SES was not associated with affect metrics, lower SES was coupled with lower HRV suggesting poverty-linked stress doi.org/10.1016/j.ij... w/ Michiko Sakaki

26.06.2025 15:05 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Dennis Küster and our own Tan Wingenbach smashed the early arvo talks on facial EMG in expression of emotion research #ReadEmo25

26.06.2025 14:53 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Prof Ioannis Patras starts the final talk of the day, on multimodal AI for emotion recognition in context #ReadEmo25

26.06.2025 14:50 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Congrats! And enjoy OHBM and Australia

26.06.2025 13:51 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I finally took the time to set up an environment in #openAI Codex, this is wild ! my coding productivity is going to skyrocket, it opens PR and fix your code 'automatically' just review and accept/change as needed ; it can build unit test, etc .. wow

26.06.2025 13:02 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Ursula Hess is our first speaker at #ReadEmo25 on emotional contagion.

26.06.2025 08:54 — 👍 9    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

It's finally here! Looking forward to two days of immersion in facial expressions research from around the world at Reading Emotions 2025 sites.google.com/site/reading...
#ReadEmo25

26.06.2025 08:31 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Postdoctoral Researcher in Psychoneuroimmunology Do you want to contribute to improving human health? Join a dynamic and inclusive research group at the forefront of psychoneuroimmunology, where we investigate the interplay between behavior, brain f

‼️🚨 postdoc position 🚨‼️
I am looking for a postdoc in psychoneuroimmunology - come join our group to work on sickness behavior in humans 🤒🦠 at Karolinska Institutet @ki.se !!

ki.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

deadline July 31st

@pnirs.bsky.social #neuroskyence #PsychSciSky #interoception

21.06.2025 11:37 — 👍 40    🔁 32    💬 3    📌 6

Fantastic news, huge congrats, Karin! That’ll keep you nicely going for a bit 💃 I’ll keep a close eye out for your updates

17.06.2025 21:53 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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