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We had a great time at the Cognitive Computational Neuroscience meeting in Amsterdam, with a satellite meeting on scientists for social good, posters, and a talk. It was great to meet old and new friends and collaborators!

For the first iteration of the new course Psychology of the Climate Crisis, students worked on creative projects to communicate insights they learned to a broader public. Find their creative contributions below! Coping with climate anxiety: @climatewarriors https://www.instagram.com/climatewarriors/ Climate mythbusting quiz https://substack.com/inbox/post/163459434 It’s just us and the climate podcast: https://open.spotify.com/episode/4B9DPI8xjll9bpQnZdBsRT?si=i-p4B-hyQa2YcVOjlzQr7g Recipes for change cookbook: pdfContinue reading “Communicating Climate Psychology: creative student projects”

With panelists Karline Janmaat, Christian Tudorache, Michelle Spierings and Anne Urai, and with Tonko Zijlstra as a moderator, we had an interesting and stimulating discussion about the ethics of animal research. With expertise from ethology to behavioral biology and neuroscience, the discussion touched on issues of research culture, institutional and legal frameworks for animal studies,Continue reading “Panel discussion: ethics of animal research”

We live in times when public trust in science is under threat, misinformation is rife, AI ethics are of increasing concern and climate change is increasingly affecting communities worldwide. How do scientists see ourselves and our role in this world, and can we use our skills for social good? This session will explore ways toContinue reading “Scientists for social good: 2025 satellite event”

Two years after our article ‘Doughnut Academia’, Anne and Clare have posted a new preprint to reflect on where these ideas have brought them – and providing guidelines for others to host their own workshops. See the preprint here https://osf.io/preprints/osf/um47d_v1, and a follow-up interview with eLife here: https://elifesciences.org/interviews/1a08d974/anne-urai-and-clare-kelly

Scientific figures are essential for communicating your research effectively. This guide walks you through the process from raw data to publication-ready figures; and helps separate different phases of the research as we most often carry them out in the lab. Input gathered from a CoCoSys lab meeting in March 2025.

We have been awarded a grant from the Dutch Research Organisation NWO, to. See the announcement and other projects here.

Another review of the year (here is 2022 and 2021), this time a bit late. In 2023, I… welcomed the lab’s first postdoc, Philippa Johnson; started co-supervising Sarah Kusch, who will investigate pro-environmental behavior and cognitive effort at Ghent University; was proud to see our lab’s projects presented at Cognitive Computational Neuroscience in Oxford, andContinue reading “2023 in review”

The lab attended the NVP winter conference on Brain and Cognition in beautiful Egmond aan Zee. Philippa, Fenying, Sonja, Adrian and Anne presented posters on their work. Anne also gave a workshop on climate action in academia (more info and slides here).