Lorijn Zaadnoordijk
@lorijn.bsky.social
Developmental cognitive scientist. La Caixa Junior Leader Fellow @ UPF Barcelona. Studying infants. Sense of agency, curiosity, online testing. Co-leading ManyBabies-AtHome. She/her
‼️ AHRQ is in the midst of a mass grant termination event. We (at Grant Witness) need your help to launch a tracker ASAP. If you received an AHRQ termination notice--or if you know of someone else who did--please submit information about the grant here: grant-witness.us/submit-nih.h...
calling all researchers who collect data from humans 🧠🧪 we are running a very brief survey (<1 min) about jsPsych, the software ecosystem for browser-based data collection. if you use jsPsych, or if you collect data with any other software, please fill it out at tinyurl.com/jspsych-census!
Hi fellow academic parents, I've got a question: Does it for you feel different to be away from your kids when it's within the same continent/max 2-3 day drive vs when you're traveling intercontinental? I've got my first intercontinental trip upcoming and I'm questioning all the life decisions...
Well, there's various things we can conclude about the Nature readership...
Nature@nature.com · last mo.Can a PhD be pursued 9-5? go.nature.com/4vdFa1V
So what's the point of having DOIs if people build systems in which you still have to manually add every single line (including page numbers and issue numbers)?
Who are 'we' you ask? We are your favourite online celebration of the harsh, the weird, the passive aggressive, the active aggressive and the downright mean comments practicing scientists receive on a regular basis. Because a review shared is a review halved* (*proverbs aren't our forte)
Join us as a postdoctoral researcher! "Invisible Knowledge Work in Open Science Practices", funded by OSNL #STS #metascience Come help us map and understand the invisible labour that enables, allows, supports and shapes #openscience, and lets it grow. Mostly #qual work, with small #quant pockets.
Postdoctoral Researcher Invisible knowledge work in open science practices
Welcome to Maastricht University! Are you an ambitious post-doctoral researcher with an Open Science mindset who seeks to unravel the threads of visibility and invisibility of staff across research pr...
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New(-ish) paper alert: Comparing automated gaze classifiers in infant looking studies: Accuracy and vulnerability to environmental factors In this paper, lead by the amazing Hiromichi Hagihara, we tested which types of noise frequently found in webcam recordings most affect automatic gaze coding
There are a couple of really obvious reasons why this is an unworkable solution...
Hi bsky! Just a question: Can mosquito bites (in Southern Europe) cause itch in a radius of like.. 15-20cm around the bites? I've never had this before... Should I be at the doctor's? 😅
Why are oxytocin study results so inconsistent? Methods get most of the blame, but the problem is also theoretical as existing accounts are too vague to falsify. In a new preprint, I formalise the Allostatic Theory of Oxytocin as a computational model osf.io/preprints/ps... 🧵
If you're excited about science writing and can do it in both German and English, come work with us! www.univie.ac.at/ueber-uns/or... This #freelance position at our editorial office offers a wonderful experience for those interested in getting into multiple areas of #comms #scicomm work. #job
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first heading to teach this quarter's class on Developmental Psychology, then off to the airport to make it to #CDS2026 with this gem of a "zoom out" take in my pocket.. open.substack.com/pub/paulbloo...
A lot of developmental psychology isn't worth doing
A complaint about my field
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Yes indeed - a lot of psychology is theoretically unmotivated stamp collecting and that is a problem. Get a theory, it’s good for you! avant.edu.pl/wp-content/u...
Kirsten Read@kreadlab.bsky.social · 4mo agofirst heading to teach this quarter's class on Developmental Psychology, then off to the airport to make it to #CDS2026 with this gem of a "zoom out" take in my pocket.. open.substack.com/pub/paulbloo...
Wanna do neuroscience in Paris but can't find interesting lab? Want to come do a sabbatical but don't know who to collaborate? Check this webpage aggregating ~all the neuroscience labs (+200) in Paris. ⚠️only the information of 'verified' profiles is reliable⚠️ Please retweet 🙏 parisneuro.fr
Young children learn best when you follow their own interests rather than try to get them to follow yours. This may mean ditching the colourful picture books and giving them a wooden spoon to bang on a pot for hours
THREAD: Cherise Doyley was in her 12th hour of contractions at the hospital when a tablet was brought to her bedside. On the screen was a Zoom call with a judge and several lawyers and doctors. She was in court, a nurse told her. The reason? For failing to agree to a C-section.
I will be presenting my poster D109 from 8-10 am this morning. Here is how it would look to a 2-month-old infant from a viewing distance of 1 m! If you are curious about our work, please stop by to learn more.
It’s great (derogatory) that you can work very hard to find out something incredibly important, and the main response you will get is a derisive “Gee, I’m shocked.” Somebody has to ACTUALLY DO THIS WORK! You can’t pursue justice by going “Your honor: I mean, duh.”
NPR@npr.org · 5mo agoAn NPR investigation finds the public database of Epstein files is missing dozens of pages related to sexual abuse accusations against President Trump. n.pr/4qTItsU
TBH the thing that is most sad about the loss of ~2015-2021 era science twitter is the loss of a public square where grad students can see, and participate in, the diversity of expert opinions in the field. It really shaped how I see science.
Brisbane Experimental Psychology Student Initiative (BEPSI)@brisepsi.bsky.social · 6mo agoExcellent thread for grad students to dive into - so much expertise (and diversity of opinion!) in the comments 👇
**Postdoc position in human category learning** @thecharleywu.bsky.social, Frank Jäkel and I are seeking a postdoctoral fellow to lead a joint project on human category learning at the Centre for Cognitive Science @tuda.bsky.social. www.career.tu-darmstadt.de/tu-darmstadt...
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📢 New Special Issue call: Citizen Science in Developmental Psychology. We're looking for research that actively involves non-researchers in the scientific process—from question design to data analysis. Learn more: https://ow.ly/n6S950YiGoM
I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself! bluesky-map.theo.io I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail
Bluesky Map
Interactive map of 3.4 million Bluesky users, visualised by their follower pattern.
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“She compares her work to the efforts of a parent raising a child. She’s training Claude to detect the difference between right and wrong while imbuing it with unique personality traits.”
This Philosopher Is Teaching AI to Have Morals
The tech company has entrusted the philosopher to endow its chatbot with a sense of right and wrong.
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Our latest paper, “Visual language models show widespread visual deficits on neuropsychological tests”, is now out in Nature Machine Intelligence: www.nature.com/articles/s42... Non-paywalled version: arxiv.org/abs/2504.10786 Tweet thread below from first author @genetang.bsky.social...
Visual language models show widespread visual deficits on neuropsychological tests - Nature Machine Intelligence
Tangtartharakul and Storrs use standardized neuropsychological tests to compare human visual abilities with those of visual language models (VLMs). They report that while VLMs excel in high-level obje...
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And thank you so much to all of our participants and their families!
Cliona O'Doherty@clionaod.bsky.social · 6mo ago7/7 Funded by @erc.europa.eu&@researchireland.ie. Thank you to the families, the Coombe & Rotunda hospitals, and the team: @rhodricusack.bsky.social, @ainedineen.bsky.social,Anna Truzzi,Graham King @lorijn.bsky.social,@chiarac.bsky.social,@ennadarcy.bsky.social,@diedrichsenjorn.bsky.social +more!
Through the Foundcog project we scanned 100+ infants with awake fMRI. In this Nature Neuroscience paper led by clionaod.bsky.social, we show that, by 2-months, infants’ brains already encode rich representations of object category. Congratulations Clíona on such beautiful results! 🧠✨
Cliona O'Doherty (@clionaod.bsky.social)
Postdoc at Stanford | Developmental NeuroAI
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Cliona O'Doherty@clionaod.bsky.social · 6mo ago1/7 Can infants recognise the world around them? 👶🧠 As part of the FOUNDCOG project, we scanned 134 awake infants using fMRI. Published today in Nature Neuroscience, our research reveals 2-month-old infants already possess complex visual representations in VVC that align with DNNs.
