rogier kievit
@rogierk.bsky.social
Professor of Developmental Neuroscience
@DondersInst and @radboudumc. Developmental cognitive neuroscience, brains, cognitive performance, longitudinal modeling, sourdough, science & Rstats.
@DondersInst and @radboudumc. Developmental cognitive neuroscience, brains, cognitive performance, longitudinal modeling, sourdough, science & Rstats.
don't forget the Bicycle of Education
November 27, 2025 at 8:02 AM
don't forget the Bicycle of Education
Years ago I started the Green Young Academy with @sanlifaez.bsky.social & @anne-urai.bsky.social. Across meetings, zoom calls, pitches and even a meeting with the King, this grew into 2 projects launched today: A report on Universities' sustainability plans & a manifesto with sustainability pledges
November 4, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Years ago I started the Green Young Academy with @sanlifaez.bsky.social & @anne-urai.bsky.social. Across meetings, zoom calls, pitches and even a meeting with the King, this grew into 2 projects launched today: A report on Universities' sustainability plans & a manifesto with sustainability pledges
Very jealous following the FLUX conferences from afar - If you are attending, don't miss @jordyvanlangen.bsky.social's poster (F65) on our CODEC project later today! And of course, tomorrow morning a double act by @leacmichel.bsky.social
September 5, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Very jealous following the FLUX conferences from afar - If you are attending, don't miss @jordyvanlangen.bsky.social's poster (F65) on our CODEC project later today! And of course, tomorrow morning a double act by @leacmichel.bsky.social
My favourite Ebert sentence for a 1.5 star review: "Pearl Harbor is a two-hour movie squeezed into three hours". This opening paragraph should be framed.
July 9, 2025 at 2:24 PM
My favourite Ebert sentence for a 1.5 star review: "Pearl Harbor is a two-hour movie squeezed into three hours". This opening paragraph should be framed.
New paper by @njudd.com shows that an additional year of education doesn't causally affect telomere length in old age, despite many (theory) accounts arguing otherwise. It's been desk rejected by 13 journals happy to publish small 'positive' telomere studies. Sigh. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
June 30, 2025 at 5:35 PM
New paper by @njudd.com shows that an additional year of education doesn't causally affect telomere length in old age, despite many (theory) accounts arguing otherwise. It's been desk rejected by 13 journals happy to publish small 'positive' telomere studies. Sigh. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Zand Scholten has a nice chapter (5) on this here. TLDR; if it isn't a crossing interaction, measurement assumptions can mess up your inferences pure.uva.nl/ws/files/122...
May 9, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Zand Scholten has a nice chapter (5) on this here. TLDR; if it isn't a crossing interaction, measurement assumptions can mess up your inferences pure.uva.nl/ws/files/122...
Bonus by @leacmichel.bsky.social - this is apparently the face I make when I am secretly screenshotting a zoom call. Be warned.
May 8, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Bonus by @leacmichel.bsky.social - this is apparently the face I make when I am secretly screenshotting a zoom call. Be warned.
Today at labmeeting I was surprised by a celebration of the 10 year anniversary of starting my own group! lab members made funny slides, a sash (which I had to wear), videos from former lab members, and a lovely lunch. What a pleasure to work with so many smart, funny and inspiring scientists.
May 8, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Today at labmeeting I was surprised by a celebration of the 10 year anniversary of starting my own group! lab members made funny slides, a sash (which I had to wear), videos from former lab members, and a lovely lunch. What a pleasure to work with so many smart, funny and inspiring scientists.
very familiar - rubber duck debugging with humans :)
April 17, 2025 at 5:27 PM
very familiar - rubber duck debugging with humans :)
My book of the (last) year - Light Eaters by @zoeschlanger.bsky.social. beautiful writing, amazing insights and new findings about what plants can and can't do, and a vivid picture of the struggles at the cutting edge of science. perfect.
January 19, 2025 at 5:22 PM
My book of the (last) year - Light Eaters by @zoeschlanger.bsky.social. beautiful writing, amazing insights and new findings about what plants can and can't do, and a vivid picture of the struggles at the cutting edge of science. perfect.
If you're wondering why your paper took longer to review than you (and the editors!) might like
December 7, 2024 at 9:13 PM
If you're wondering why your paper took longer to review than you (and the editors!) might like
we had a conceptually adjacent issue with *composite* variables, eg what looks like a mediation for the composite (eg grey matter volume) but is actually only a1 and b2 (or vice versa) for the two constituents of volume, so no 'causal' path. same ideas hold for sum score. osf.io/preprints/ps...
December 6, 2024 at 8:39 PM
we had a conceptually adjacent issue with *composite* variables, eg what looks like a mediation for the composite (eg grey matter volume) but is actually only a1 and b2 (or vice versa) for the two constituents of volume, so no 'causal' path. same ideas hold for sum score. osf.io/preprints/ps...
Yesterday we had a shared labmeeting with @anne-urai.bsky.social's lab in the trippenhuis. it is always so inspiring to hear about different (as well as convergent) approaches to our core question, and discuss them with people just as excited about them as we are!
November 29, 2024 at 3:21 PM
Yesterday we had a shared labmeeting with @anne-urai.bsky.social's lab in the trippenhuis. it is always so inspiring to hear about different (as well as convergent) approaches to our core question, and discuss them with people just as excited about them as we are!
this one had the power to keep me awake laughing for way too long
November 28, 2024 at 9:24 PM
this one had the power to keep me awake laughing for way too long
and of course drift diffusion models which can capture information accumulation and decision making boundaries in humans using brownian motion equations originally meant to capture random diffusion of particles (insert quip about human thinking here) citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/document?rep...
November 27, 2024 at 7:23 PM
and of course drift diffusion models which can capture information accumulation and decision making boundaries in humans using brownian motion equations originally meant to capture random diffusion of particles (insert quip about human thinking here) citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/document?rep...
But that's not all - These wonderful people at Reading University with extra time on their hands replicated the machine with modern materials and showed it actually worked (ish) with modern 'imaging' task #neuroskyence
centaur.reading.ac.uk/35544/1/Fiel...
centaur.reading.ac.uk/35544/1/Fiel...
November 26, 2024 at 9:24 PM
But that's not all - These wonderful people at Reading University with extra time on their hands replicated the machine with modern materials and showed it actually worked (ish) with modern 'imaging' task #neuroskyence
centaur.reading.ac.uk/35544/1/Fiel...
centaur.reading.ac.uk/35544/1/Fiel...
The most amazing thing? It actually worked! His original measurements showed rhythmic fluctuations. there is a nice historical overview here, and the original balance is still on display in Turin
www.mriquestions.com/uploads/3/4/...
www.mriquestions.com/uploads/3/4/...
November 26, 2024 at 9:21 PM
The most amazing thing? It actually worked! His original measurements showed rhythmic fluctuations. there is a nice historical overview here, and the original balance is still on display in Turin
www.mriquestions.com/uploads/3/4/...
www.mriquestions.com/uploads/3/4/...
This is a schematic of the first 'neuroimaging' machine, developed by Angelo Mosso in 1882. It was a very carefully calibrated balance, which aimed to measure small changes in the balance due to changes in blood flow. #neuroskyence #psychscisky
November 26, 2024 at 9:19 PM
This is a schematic of the first 'neuroimaging' machine, developed by Angelo Mosso in 1882. It was a very carefully calibrated balance, which aimed to measure small changes in the balance due to changes in blood flow. #neuroskyence #psychscisky
Today we protest to support the future of the Netherlands. with more than 20.000 people we say 'Stop the cuts to science and science education!' #woinactie #dja
November 25, 2024 at 1:42 PM
Today we protest to support the future of the Netherlands. with more than 20.000 people we say 'Stop the cuts to science and science education!' #woinactie #dja
Saturday bake day - 20% homemilled einkorn, 75% hydration #sourdough
November 23, 2024 at 9:21 AM
Saturday bake day - 20% homemilled einkorn, 75% hydration #sourdough
a commonly suggested better alternative to alpha is mcdonalds omega. the psych package in r can help a lot. personality-project.org/r/psych/help...
key ref psycnet.apa.org/record/2017-...
key ref psycnet.apa.org/record/2017-...
November 23, 2024 at 7:53 AM
a commonly suggested better alternative to alpha is mcdonalds omega. the psych package in r can help a lot. personality-project.org/r/psych/help...
key ref psycnet.apa.org/record/2017-...
key ref psycnet.apa.org/record/2017-...
Extremely exciting - 3.5 years after drafting a grant we've started data collection in our CODEC study in classrooms! We'll collect cognitive data in ~600 children on multiple occasions to understand fluctuations in performance. More here: bmcpsychology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... #psychscisky
November 21, 2024 at 3:55 PM
Extremely exciting - 3.5 years after drafting a grant we've started data collection in our CODEC study in classrooms! We'll collect cognitive data in ~600 children on multiple occasions to understand fluctuations in performance. More here: bmcpsychology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... #psychscisky