Lea Schenk (she/her)

@schenkl.bsky.social

PhD candidate in cognitive neuroscience @ Wagner Lab https://www.isabellawagner.com, University of Vienna 🧠 Investigating the gut-brain axis in spatial navigation 🦠🧭📍 "Die Wissenschaft und ihre Lehre ist frei."

Big news from the #rstats #easystats universe! 🚀 We’ve just released updates for several of our packages to CRAN. Time for a quick highlight reel of the most important new features. 🧵 (1/4) You find the details on the related package websites (shown below), and on CRAN.

i've decided not to listen to the audio of a teacher reporting a kindergartender because frankly I don't want to become the person that that event would turn me into. but one thing I hope we are collectively coming to grips with is what it meant that we have lived among such people this whole time

Drew Harwell@drewharwell.com · 7mo ago

New: A comedian set up a fake ICE tip line as a joke. Then 100 calls flooded in: neighbors ratting on neighbors, a teacher reporting a kindergartener. Fans say the viral TikToks revealed deportation's "banality of evil." Conservatives say he should be in prison wapo.st/4kM4qbF

If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff. Democracy dies in oligarchy.

4/🧵 RegCheck's layout now reflects its purpose: to assist humans in doing a research activity that they otherwise do not do - not to replace them. Most importantly, the UI provides direct quotes from the papers and registrations to make it easier to verify/refute judgements made by the software.

Our preregistered systematic review & meta-analysis published in Nature Mental Health shows that nature exposure is linked to small-to-moderate reductions in self-reported pain (SMD = .53; N = 4,439). But high heterogeneity and moderate-to-high risk of bias call for a cautious interpretation (1/5)

Nature exposure reduces self-reported pain: a systematic review and meta-analysis - Nature Mental Health

The authors conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis of 62 studies, including more than 4,400 participants across 21 countries, to investigate the effects of nature exposure on self-reported pa...

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In den Medien liest man nun, Venezuelas Staatschef Maduro wurde "festgenommen", "gefasst" oder "aufgegriffen". Dabei wurde er durch das US-Militär entführt, Venezuela angegriffen und nein, auch das Maduro ein Diktator ist, rechtfertigt diesen Schritt nicht. Wo bleibt Europas Reaktion?

New paper out! 🥸 Over the last 50 years, people have gravitated toward music with increasingly negative, stressful, and simpler lyrics. Societal crises like COVID-19 disrupted these long-term trends, suggesting escapist music preferences at a societal level. 🎶🧠 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Societal crises disrupt long-term increases in stress, negativity, and simplicity in US Billboard song lyrics from 1973 to 2023 - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - Societal crises disrupt long-term increases in stress, negativity, and simplicity in US Billboard song lyrics from 1973 to 2023

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Had a great talk today at the ISGMA conference about our project combining musicological and psychological approaches to understand how sound artifacts are perceived and experienced. 🔔🧠 Thanks to everyone who stopped by and engaged with the ideas! Great event hosted by @fwf-at.bsky.social

This is completely disgusting. Today, the CDC updated their vaccine safety page. It now says: “The claim "vaccines do not cause autism" is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism”.

Vaccine Safety
MENU V
For Everyone
NOV. 19, 2025
KEY POINTS
• The claim "vaccines do not cause autism" is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism.
• Studies supporting a link have been ignored by health authorities.
• HHS has launched a comprehensive assessment of the causes of autism,
including investigations on plausible biologic mechanisms and potential causal links.