Carlo Schuengel

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Join us on November 4 at Royal Jaarbeurs, Utrecht, for cutting-edge insights on computational social sciences.

🎤 Keynotes: @mercecrosas.bsky.social & @melindacmills.bsky.social

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Exclusive: Rubio orders US diplomats to launch lobbying blitz against Europe's tech law President Donald Trump's administration has instructed U.S. diplomats in Europe to launch a lobbying campaign to build an opposition to the European Union's Digital Services Act, which Washington says stifles free speech and imposes costs on U.S. tech companies, an internal diplomatic cable seen by Reuters showed.

Out in the open: the US administration’s attempt to undermine the EU Digital Services Act (and other regulations) was evident.

Now it has been elevated to formal policy and goal of diplomatic efforts.

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Highly recommended. Not only for those interested in modern attachment research but also for those interested in developing and fostering scientific disciplines and fields.

It is with profound sadness that we share that Professor Andrea Evers passed away. Andrea was a visionary leader, a brilliant scientist, and a compassionate colleague.
As we begin to process this immense loss, let us remember Andrea for her remarkable legacy and kindness she brought into our lives.

‘Attachment research gave some indication where we could start in trying to parent our seriously unwell daughter’ | BPS Robbie Duschinsky (University of Cambridge) reflects on parenting a profoundly unwell and disabled child whilst undertaking research and writing about attachment.

@robbieduschinsky.bsky.social , who is not an active poster on BlueSky, wrote this beautiful piece about being an #attachment researcher and a father of a child with severe #disability. Sharing for other parents www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...

Does your smartwatch say you’re stressed? It may often be wrong Consumer grade smartwatches may not be as accurate as promised when measuring tiredness or stress. That conclusion is drawn by researchers Björn Siepe and Eiko Fried based on a comparison between smar...

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Press release @unileiden.bsky.social about our upcoming JoPACS paper led by @bsiepe.bsky.social, showing that the overlap of similar constructs assessed via wearable vs EMA data is surprisingly low (n~850, 3 months).

www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2025...

Opinion | I Hate, Therefore I Am

Nice piece from my astoundingly well-read friend Mark Edmundson....

About 1 year ago, we received NWO funding for our AIM2CARE study, inspired so much by the insights and questions left by John Bowlby. We had pledged at submission to visit his resting place at Isle of Skye. He could not have picked a more beautiful spot.

Are a few people ruining the internet for the rest of us? Why does the online world seem so toxic compared with normal life? Our research shows that a small number of divisive accounts could be responsible – and offers a way out

Only a small % of people engage in toxic activity online, but they’re responsible for a disproportionate share of hostile or misleading content on nearly every platform

Because super-users are so active, they dominate our collective impression of the internet www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...

Though AI helps, does it dull us over time? A study from MIT found that regular ChatGPT use weakens memory, focus, and brain activity. 83% couldn't quote their own text. Essays became repetitive. Researchers call it "cognitive debt"—a slow erosion of independent thinking. arxiv.org/pdf/2506.08872

#Trots! Mooie verdediging door ons ZA PhD student Ahmed Riaz Mohamed op het gebied van het bevorderen van de gehechtheidsrelatie van een kind met een verstandelijke beperking met zij/haar ouders.
@carloschuengel.bsky.social Esme van Rensburg

‘Natuurlijk ben je niet je genen! Maar wie ben je dan wel?’ Abdel Abdellaoui | geneticus: Tussen genen en samenleving is een voortdurende wisselwerking gaande. „Wij mensen hebben een veel te simpel idee over hoe we in elkaar zitten.”

Ik sprak lang met @dr-appie.bsky.social, over genen, over maatschappelijke ongelijkheid en zelfs over Dzjengis Khan... voor @nrcwetenschap.bsky.social www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...

Why don't more U.S. parents work part-time? Paid work vs. stay-at-home parenting is not a binary choice - many parents want something in the middle. Other countries have figured out how to make it work.

My new Substack is about part-time work for parents. In the Netherlands, 65-75% of mothers work part-time and about 30% of fathers do. Part-time work is supported and even encouraged by the government. Why can’t we pull that off here in the U.S.? open.substack.com/pub/darbysax...

Prevalence and Course of Anxiety and Depressive Symptoms in Adolescents With a Mild to Borderline Intellectual Disability, Inside and Outside Residential Treatment Background This study compared anxiety and depressive problems in adolescents with a mild to borderline intellectual disability in a residential treatment facility (MBID-RT) to those in the general .....

High prevalence of anxiety and depressive symptoms in adolescents with mild/borderline intellectual disability in general, and those in residential treatment in particular doi.org/10.1111/jir....

Age at Entry into the Dutch Child Protection System of Children of Parents with Intellectual Disability: A Case-Control Study
doi.org/10.1016/j.ch...

A systematic review of short-term and working memory span abilities in children with intellectual disability; do the resultssupport the delay or difference hypothesis?

🙏🏽Help - Peer reviewer needed for a submission at PCI RR

The systematic review protocol can be found here: osf.io/m7pj3

If you’re interested in reviewing, please let me know :)

#evidencesynthesis #cognition #intellectualdisability

Microdata Access Grant - ODISSEI – Open Data Infrastructure for Social Science and Economic Innovations The Microdata Access Grant Programme runs twice a year with closing dates in early spring and early autumn. Each round offers grants for 6 research projects using the CBS microdata.

Applications for MAG 2025-I are now open!

Are you a researcher at an ODISSEI member organisation looking for funding to access CBS microdata? Apply now for a chance to receive up to €7,500 to kick-start your microdata project in 2025!

📅 Deadline: March 28, 15:00 CEST
🔗 Apply: edu.nl/3tgwx

The new version of PreReg is now available via: https://prereg-psych.org

🌟 We have launched our preregistration platform PreReg! 🌟

PreReg guides researchers through all the steps of pre-registration and now offers an even clearer structure.

#Preregistration #OpenScience #Psychology
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17 maart, Apeldoorn, conferentie #OpdeGroei25.
Met een scala aan samenhangende en zeer diverse 'knoppen' zie je dat jeugdhulp op veel terreinen goed ontwikkelt. Loop jij mee voorop? Ga je mee voorop lopen? Ambitieuze,hoopvolle en steeds sterkere samenleving en zorg
www.bewegingvannul.nl/opdegroei25/

Thread: There is global alarm at people openly flirting with & pursuing fascism. There’s an idea called ‘the warning from history’. So let me introduce you to one of the greatest artists in history. This is a man with whom you should be familiar.

#Trots Succesvolle verdediging door Helen Korving van haar dissertatie gericht op ontwikkeling van de #EMB #pijn #app. @vuamsterdam.bsky.social

Waarom de Bitcoin onbetaalbaar is Door de huidige gekte rond de Bitcoin is deze als stabiel betaalmiddel voorlopig mislukt. We hebben als samenleving nieuwe systemen nodig die ons helpen in een globale en snelle wereld, lokaal waar…

Het trieste van Musk en Trump en de verheerlijking van de cryptomunten is wel dat deze munten vrijwel niks toevoegen, geen reële waarde vertegenwoordigen, niets bijdragen aan een betere wereld. wisdomofthecrowd.nl/2017/12/29/w...

Visuals versus textual scales: Optimizing reliability and user experience in observational assessment of parent-child interaction Assessment of parent-child interaction by practitioners is of great importance but hindered by a lack of instruments that withstand the constraints da…

Practitioners lack feasible instruments for obs assessment of parent-child interaction. New exp study by the formidable Mirte Forrer found that a decision tree performed like a text scale, while video based scales did worse www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

A call to represent the current diversity of family forms in attachment research As family forms become increasingly diverse, their underrepresentation in attachment research is glaring. Although attachment theory aims to explain the influence of early relationships, studies ha...

🌍📚 Excited to share our new paper! Families today are diverse, encompassing many unique configurations. Yet attachment research often fails to reflect diverse configurations. We discuss this gap and propose actionable steps for greater inclusivity in research. Read more: doi.org/10.1080/1461...

17 maart #opdegroei25. Ambitieuze jeugdhulp is het kenmerk van de #Bewegingvan0.
Lees en meld je aan
www.bewegingvannul.nl/opdegroei25/

Evaluating a Virtual Community‐of‐Practice as Implementation Strategy for the Needs Assessment Framework in Intellectual Disability Care: A Quasi‐Experimental Multi‐Methods Study Background The Needs Assessment Framework (NAF) stimulates awareness of care staff to consider perspectives of clients with intellectual disabilities in decisions on involuntary care. We explored th.....

Multimethod evaluation of a virtual community of practice to implement a tool for considering client perspectives in involuntary care: Rather contrasting findings onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Precursors and behavioral correlates of preschoolers' attachment representations: Links to fathers' and mothers' states of mind and behavioral sensitivity: http://osf.io/8ng7s/

The great rewiring: is social media really behind an epidemic of teenage mental illness? The evidence is equivocal on whether screen time is to blame for rising levels of teen depression and anxiety — and rising hysteria could distract us from tackling the real causes.

Thank you @natureportfolio.bsky.social for making my review of the Anxious Generation open access for parents, policy-makers, and the public. The story told in this book runs counter science and is leading to poor policy decisions that will ultimately fail our kids. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Hitched a ride with a colleague who told that the charity foundation he was in was looking to spend their remaining funds on one final big project. This became the Generations2-longitudinal cohort study that still runs after 16 years