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Cognitive Neuroscience| human decision making & irrationality | politics, health & climate policy need psychological expertise | Europe United 🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈 | Stand up for science!
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How populism works:
(source: The New Yorker)
Thousands of researchers & supporters of science protested in more than 30 cities across the US and Europe today against actions taken by the administration of US President Donald Trump to cut the US scientific workforce & slash spending on research worldwide.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...
‘Scientists will not be silenced’: thousands protest Trump research cuts
Researchers at Stand Up for Science rallies voice defiance against the policies of US President Donald Trump’s administration.
www.nature.com
March 8, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Von: Universität der Künste Berlin
January 10, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Many German universities and research institutions are leaving X together today and switching to BlueSky and Mastodon - a strong signal! I'm looking forward to being able to inform myself and exchange ideas on BlueSky again in a professional and objective manner.
January 10, 2025 at 10:21 AM
How populism works:
(source: The New Yorker)
January 10, 2025 at 10:13 AM
„How do you get an honest man to lose his ethical compass? You get him to take one step at a time, and self-justification will do the rest.“

Tavris & Aronson, Mistakes were made (but not by me)
January 8, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Daniel Kahneman has died.
Thank you for your wonderful and inspiring work. Thank you for thinking outside the box and putting things together. Greetings to Amos, now you can continue together. 🖤
March 27, 2024 at 9:43 PM
Wir haben in Deutschland eine „Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung“. Ich würde mir von dieser eine Aufklärungskampagne darüber wünschen, was es ganz konkret für jeden bedeuten würde, wenn AfD zu Regierungsbeteiligung käme. Vielen AfD-WählerInnen wird dies nicht klar sein. Wir müssen jetzt handeln!
October 9, 2023 at 11:56 AM
Hi Bluesky, I’m glad when we can focus on good content here again. Let‘s start with these valuable thoughts on science, pseudoscience, radically creative ideas and the right to be wrong.
Well hello Bluesky. For my first (proper) post, here's my take on the IIT brouhaha and some of the wider issues involved, out now in Nautilus. It's called The Worth of Wild Ideas (and The Right To Be Wrong). nautil.us/the-worth-of...
The Worth of Wild Ideas
Even if a leading theory of consciousness is wrong, it can still be useful to science.
nautil.us
October 3, 2023 at 10:27 PM