Peter Moleman

Is er ook zoiets in Nederland?

Make it illegal to use polygenic risk scores.

As Philip K. Dick said, "Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away."

Its good not having to think. Can we stop that entirely please?

Does anyone know of a direct comparison between EU countries in terms of metrics used to evaluate universities and/or academic researchers? I'm especially interested in whether one can contrast countries that use N publications with those that don't. I suspect it's not so simple though

This is amongst the most impactful two minutes of broadcasting I’ve ever seen.

By Emma Murphy, International Editor, ITV News. #Gaza

Adapted from Fig. 1 from Kadiyala et al 2025.

Introducing five concepts from dynamical systems to decode developmental regulatory mechanisms, have a read! @perez-carrasco.bsky.social‬ @roederlab.bsky.social @mpipz.bsky.social This effort started in a morphogenesis meeting @kitp-ucsb.bsky.social‬ in 2023. journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

Evidence from Formal Logical Reasoning Reveals that the Language of Thought is not Natural Language Humans are endowed with a powerful capacity for both inductive and deductive logical thought: we easily form generalizations based on a few examples and draw conclusions from known premises. Humans al...

Is the Language of Thought == Language? A Thread 🧵
New Preprint (link: tinyurl.com/LangLOT) with @alexanderfung.bsky.social, Paris Jaggers, Jason Chen, Josh Rule, Yael Benn, @joshtenenbaum.bsky.social, ‪@spiantado.bsky.social‬, Rosemary Varley, @evfedorenko.bsky.social
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Well, why do some highly unnatural visible frequencies in combination make ME feel sad?
@deevybee.bsky.social

In the past few weeks, the former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert has referred to "ethnic cleansing" and "concentration camps" in Gaza, while a former Israeli Attny Gen, a former Israeli general, and one of Israel's most famous authors, have all said it's a genocide in Gaza.

Monthly reminder: Many people have a book in them, but it takes a special kind of freak to leave the Land of Laziness, cross the Plains of Procrastination and Insecurity Mountain, find the Blade of No One Made You Do This, and use it to cut your chest open and yank that book out.

Loved both!

Juarrero A (2002): Dynamics in Action: Intentional Behavior as a Complex System. Cambridge, Mass. London, England, A Bradford Book.

Cilliers P, Preiser R (2016): Critical complexity: collected essays. Berlin ; Boston, De Gruyter.
Juarrero A (2023): Context changes everything: how constraints create coherence. Cambridge, Massachusetts, The MIT Press.

I do not understand the mathematical approach well, so here are my books without:
Azarian B (2022): The romance of reality: how the universe organizes itself to create life, consciousness, and cosmic complexity. Dallas, TX, BenBella Books.

same

BBC News: Do you think you were a witness to war crimes?

American veteran who worked at Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid distribution center: Without question I witnessed war crimes.

It seems like a lot of systematic-reviews/meta-analyses are analogous to money laundering. You run a load of studies that nobody actually reads, many of them "dirty", through some process. On the other end you get "clean" results that the ignorant or deceitful can easily communicate as "evidence".

Of course you need a BODY to be someBODY!

We do really need to come up with other terms than "bottom-up" and "top-down" though. They have like 5 different meanings in neuroscience and they're usually not very precise

“Precisely Designed Mass Starvation”: Aid Access as Weapon in Israel’s War on Gaza, Researchers Find The starvation crisis in Gaza is deepening under Israel’s brutal blockade and amid regular massacres of civilians attempting to secure aid at the only officially sanctioned aid sites, run by Israeli…

“I’ve been working on this field of famine, food crisis and humanitarian action for more than 40 years, and there is no case … of such minutely engineered, closely monitored, precisely designed mass starvation of a population as is happening in #Gaza today”

I am afraid it is not insanity, but a slightly extreme consequence of a normal human trait: forming a group and trust everything from inside and distrust everything from outside.

Did some journalist investigate which children or family of antivaxxers in the administration have been vaccinated?

The worrying thing is: they are being elected, by the people, also in my country.

Ooooooooo the best there is!

The evidence base simply does NOT support strong, definitive statements like: "The gut microbiota plays a key role in [the] pathophysiology [of depression], offering new therapeutic avenues"

A Tale of a Thousand Models: In today’s post, I am further exploring the notion of models and mental models. We often speak of mental models as though they are neat packages of knowledge stored somewhere in the mind. These mod…

My latest post - A tale of a thousand models

It implies that robust intelligence does not require more accurate representations, but more diverse ways of being coupled to the world.

harishsnotebook.wordpress.com/2025/07/11/a...

For the love of god put the sample size in the abstract

They are afraid that loss of power is loss of life.