As 2025 comes to a close, here is a short review of what we’ve been up to. This time written collaboratively as a lab! See previous years: 2021 in review, 2022 in review, 2023 in review, 2024 in review In the past year, … we preprinted and published several papers that have been in the works for the past several years: we connected withContinue reading “2025 in review”
Category Archives: Research
Anne awarded Rising Stars of Neuroscience 2025 award
CoCoSys lab at CCN ’25 in Amsterdam
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!
Reflections on the ‘Science for Social Good’ Satellite Event at CCN 2025
by Georgia Turner The day before the CCN 2025 conference kicked off in Amsterdam, attendees from career stages ranging from pre-PhD students to keynote speakers gathered together for an event focused on ‘Science for Social Good’. The three-hour session covered big-picture reflections on the role of scientists in society, as well as practical tips likeContinue reading “Reflections on the ‘Science for Social Good’ Satellite Event at CCN 2025”
Communicating Climate Psychology: creative student projects
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!
Panel discussion: ethics of animal research
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”
Scientists for social good: 2025 satellite event
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”
Erasmus+ Grant for Philippa to visit KU Leuven
Philippa has been awarded an Erasmus+ travel grant to visit KU Leuven for two weeks in May. She will work in the Desender Lab with Kobe Desender and Robin Vloeberghs to apply the Hierarchical Model for Fluctuations in Criterion. She will use the model to find out how decision-making biases change over the lifespan, andContinue reading “Erasmus+ Grant for Philippa to visit KU Leuven”
Jade Duffy visit the CoCoSys lab
Visiting the CoCoSys lab was an easy decision (pardon the pun). In this post, I’d like to share my experience at the lab and offer some insight for others considering a similar research visit or collaboration.
Activism and Science: eLife interview
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
CoCoSys lab 