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Andreas De Block

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Philosopher, book lover, animal enthusiast, and curious wanderer of ideas.

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Thom Scott-Phillips @thomscottphillips.bsky.social · 9h
As common-sensical as this might seem on the surface, I think it's mistaken and I am sad that research l/ship does not seem able/willing to question it Short thread
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Benjamin @benjaminschneider.ch · 14h
Werner Herzog will be the last human being whose next word no language model can predict
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The Onion @theonion.com · 27/09/2026
World's Scientists Admit They Just Don't Like Mice theonion.com/worlds-scientists-admi…
World's Scientists Admit They Just Don't Like Mice
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🪬🌙🐈‍⬛Pythia Uidliua🐦‍⬛⭐️🧿GNOTHI SEAUTON ♐️⚕️🍷 @krymsynreine.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Late 2nd-century statue of Glycon. (National History and Archeology Museum, Constanţa, Romania) who is a snake god that seems to have originated in Macedonia #pagansky #witchsky #occultsky #archaeology #serpent #glycon
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Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science (CLPS) @clpskuleuven.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Sports medicine raises normative/ethical & socioeconomic questions for philosophers to grapple with. Check out the new 📃 by Silvia Camporesi, @andreasdeblock.bsky.social & Mike McNamee on the philosophy of sports #medicine 👇 link.springer.com/rwe/10.1007/... #philsky #HPS #HPBio #SportsScience 🧪
Book cover of Handbook of the Philosophy of Medicine, Second Edition, edited by Thomas Schramme and Mary Jean Walker, published by Springer Nature.
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Andrew Buskell @andrewbuskell.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
A special collection on ‘Metascience of the evolutionary human sciences’ is now accepting submissions on the Evolutionary Human Sciences website:
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Metascience of the Evolutionary Human Sciences
Call for papers for special collection
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koenfucius @koenfucius.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Urban birds in Europe are more afraid of women than of men—male experimenters can get 1m closer to the birds before they fly off than women. And we don’t know why, or even how they can tell the difference: buff.ly/zVt8n4O why.
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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 09/09/2026
“At least they didn’t use AI” when somebody writes something stupid quickly turning into one of the top backhanded compliments, right there with “you look great for your age” and “great effort, honestly”
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Eiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
"Over decades, [Ariely] keeps ending up on journal articles that don’t replicate & turn out, through absolutely no fault of his own, to be based on dubious or fake data. Bad collaborators, lazy research assistants, missing computer files."
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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 31/08/2026
Me reading psychology: sheesh people should really be more precise in their language. Me reading analytical philosophy:
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Not Like This
Alt: Matrix: Not Like This, not like this
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Siem De Cleyn @siemdc.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
"Dat komt vooral door de hoge energieprijs en een sterk gestegen vraag naar stroom uit België." De fossielvrije stroom die in ons land verdween door de kernuitstap wordt vervangen door Nederlandse kolenstroom.
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Eiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
And journals should enforce their own rules. If a paper in my journal states data available on request, and as editor I decide that the request is indeed reasonable bc there are severe issues raised and such data could help investigate this, they must be made available. Thx for persisting, Vincent
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Andreas De Block @andreasdeblock.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
"Park et al. stated the raw rewired curves to be available upon request in their original peer review file, never supplied them despite repeated requests, and now attack the reconstruction this made necessary. This is unheard of." WTF?
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Andreas De Block @andreasdeblock.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
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Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science (CLPS) @clpskuleuven.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
New article in @nature.com by @sylviawenmackers.be & a great team of collaborators: the widely reported finding that disruptive science is in decline may be explained by dataset artefacts. Check out the 🧵 by @vincentholst.bsky.social 👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #philsci #academicsky #metasci
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Dataset artefacts can partially drive the measured decline in disruption - Nature
Nature - Dataset artefacts can partially drive the measured decline in disruption
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Andreas De Block @andreasdeblock.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
very important thread for anyone interested in meta-science and science policy.
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Andreas De Block @andreasdeblock.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Glad this is FINALLY published by Nature. It took them a while to let science be self-correcting. Luckily, in the meantime, nobody cited or used the flawed paper.
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koenfucius @koenfucius.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Many people lament Scientific American becoming politicized and woke. But it’s the worsening editorial standards that made it into a platform for pseudoscience. James Smoliga shares a sadly all too typical example: buff.ly/HhaBnTB beyondtheabstract.substack.com/p/how-scient...
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Michael Inzlicht @minzlicht.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
I p-hacked my early work on prejudice. It never felt like cheating. I now wonder if that's because I believed the cause was good. New essay on why scholar-activism is a dangerous turn for social psychology. If justice comes first, truth is what gets sacrificed. open.substack.com/pub/michaeli...
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My P-Hacking Felt Like Truth
I became a social psychologist because I wanted to make the world a better place.
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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 20/07/2026
New paper out now 🥳 When psychologists discuss generalisability, they often refer to vague notions of representativeness. We provide an accessible intro to the total survey error framework as a tool to reason about this more rigorously. w @taymalsalti.bsky.social @ruben.the100.ci >
Thinking Clearly About Sampling and Representation With the Total Survey Error Framework

Collecting a sample that represents the population of interest well constitutes a challenge across the social and behavioural sciences. Psychology in particular frequently relies on convenience samples—most notably students and, increasingly, online participants—with a tendency to either (implicitly) assume representativeness without substantive justification, or to acknowledge a lack of it only in passing. In contrast, researchers rarely engage with the actual implications for their inferences, which undermines the generalisability of psychological findings. Critically, representativeness must be defined with respect to variables relevant to the target of inference, rather than superficial demographic diversity. Here we present the Total Survey Error (TSE) framework as a methodological tool that systematically addresses the multifaceted sources of error—particularly those related to representation—that emerge throughout the research cycle. Although TSE originated in survey research, its principles are broadly applicable to any psychological study seeking inference from sample to population. We offer practical strategies for identifying, preventing, and mitigating representation errors to improve the credibility and generalisability of psychological research.

Illustration of the total survey error framework with the representation strand highlighted. It shows how coverage error, sampling error and non-response error arise during the sampling process.
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Simon Tibo @simontibo.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
‘De Belgische bondsvoorzitter houdt het corrupte systeem mee in stand’: interview met Nick McGeehan, directeur van mensenrechtenorganisatie Fairsquare, dat een klacht indient tegen de FIFA 👇 www.demorgen.be/wk-voetbal/d...
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‘De Belgische bondsvoorzitter houdt het corrupte systeem mee in stand’: mensenrechtenorganisatie dient klacht in tegen FIFA
De zaak-Balogun roept opnieuw vragen op over corruptie binnen de FIFA. Mensenrechtenorganisatie Fairsquare dient na het toernooi de grootste klacht ooit in tegen de wereldvoetbalbond. ‘Ze kunnen al te...
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Nick Brown @steamtraen.eu · 09/07/2026
Fun fact: About 20 years ago, the SNCF (French railways) travel agency ran a campaign to make people aware that you could book foreign holidays with them, not just train tickets. They mocked up several overseas destinations as if they were French towns or villages.
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Dermot Lynott @dermotlynott.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Belgium won’t have had this much support since World War I
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Wouter De Tavernier @wdetavernier.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Het voorstel van de Duitse pensioencommissie om naar één pensioenstelsel te gaan voor iedereen - werknemers, zelfstandigen, ambtenaren én verkozenen - zouden ze in België ook grondig moeten overwegen. Het zou verkozenen sieren hun zelfbepaalde privileges in vraag te stellen.
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Andreas De Block @andreasdeblock.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
@whatthephoques.bsky.social
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geschept.bsky.social @geschept.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Ik heb hier toevallig een experimentele, onbewezen therapie die ik jullie wil verkopen. Ik heb geen interesse om de effectiviteit van de therapie te proberen bewijzen, maar ik wil ze wel verkopen. www.demorgen.be/tech-wetensc...
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Kinesist Tom De Prest: ‘We merken dat therapieën die niet wetenschappelijk bewezen zijn wél werken’
Vier jaar geleden scoorde kinesist-kinesioloog Tom De Prest, tevens kuitenkneder in So You Think You Can Dance, een enorme bestseller met Hoe het lichaam onthoudt wat je zelf vergeten bent. Het net ve...
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Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda @alejandrofabregastejeda.com · 12/06/2026
The Organism–Environment Pairing was published by @mitpress.bsky.social one month ago! As a reminder, the book is available #openaccess through the D20 initiative: direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon... Please share it & help us bring this 📗 to as many readers as possible! #HPS #evosky #histsci #booksky
Promotional image of the Direct to Open (D2O) initiative of MIT Press that allows books to be read open access. Promotional graphic on a beige background for the book "The Organism–Environment Pairing: A Historical and Philosophical Reappraisal" (MIT Press, 2026) by Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda. The book cover appears in the center of the image and has a green gradient background. The book series label “The Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology” appears at the top. The title is set in large, bold lettering using three colors: white (“The” and “Pairing”), warm yellow (“Organism–”), and bright green (“Environment”). The subtitle appears below in smaller white text, and the author’s name is printed at the bottom. In the lower right, a monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) rests on clusters of pink milkweed flowers. Behind it, a large pale-green butterfly silhouette fills the background; its outline follows the shape of a red lacewing butterfly (Cethosia biblis).
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Research on Research Association @roration.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
We're excited to launch J·ROR, the Journal of Research on Research. A new open-access home for research on how research is funded, organised, conducted, communicated, and evaluated. Our first editorial: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #ResearchOnResearch #MetaScience #OpenScience #STS
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Introducing the Journal of Research on Research (J·ROR): aligning constellations and communities
Published in Journal of Research on Research (Vol. 1, No. 1, 2026)
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Hadas Weiss @hadas.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
academics trying to save the humanities
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Brandy Jensen @brandyjensen.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
not unrecognizable but he does look like if Belgium had a dictator
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Andreas De Block @andreasdeblock.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
The journal peer-review system is struggling to keep up because the number of submissions has exploded. I guess this has something to do with GenAI.
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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
AI finally lets us see Raphael's The School of Athens the way Raphael obviously intended it, illustrating the delicate dance and subtle conflicts between Plato and Artistotle.
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Andreas De Block @andreasdeblock.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Blijkbaar geschreven door een middelmatige denker, maar toch een leestip: philosophersmag.com/living-with-...
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Living with Class - The Philosophers' Magazine
Hanno Sauer argues that we will have to learn how to live with class hierarchy.
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David De Pue @dpdaaf.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Milieubeleid à la CD&V: we geraken niet over de lat dus gaan we de lat maar wat verlagen. www.standaard.be/politiek/bro...
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Brouns krijgt plan voor Europese versoepelingen niet voorbij N-VA en Vooruit: “In het regeerakkoord staat niet dat we het milieu- en natuurbeleid ontmantelen”
Een intern document toont hoe Vlaams minister Jo Brouns milieurichtlijnen wil versoepelen. Alweer krijgt hij de coalitiepartners niet mee. “In het regeerakkoord staat niet dat we het milieu- en natuurbeleid ontmantelen.”
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laurentfranckx.bsky.social @laurentfranckx.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
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Andreas De Block @andreasdeblock.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
1. Abbey Road 2. The White Album 3. Rubber Soul 4. Revolver 5. Sgt. Pepper's
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Andreas De Block @andreasdeblock.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
stop worrying about disinformation. People are not as gullible as you think they are.
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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 03/03/2026
Ha! The original Lancet article on the dangers of reading in bed is here: doi.org/10.1016/S014...
READING IN BED.

Reading in bed at night is, speaking generally at all events, an unhealthy practice as we have previously had occasion to remark¹ and there is fortunately a tolerably universal consensus of opinion amongst the public that the habit is better avoided. Probably the fear of its being the cause of a conflagration of the bed curtains and perhaps of the whole house has had something to do with the feeling against it in the past, and the danger no doubt was an obvious objection in the days when flimsy bed curtains were fashionable and when the electric light, which is practically free from such danger and which does not vitiate the air as gas and oil lamps do, was not available. Dr. Hugo Feilchenfeld of Berlin has recently made a study (recorded in the Medicinische Klinik) of the subject with the object of finding out exactly what harm is likely to result from reading in bed and in what circumstances the practice is most injurious. He finds the chief danger is to the eyes, partly because the light used is frequently insufficient and so placed as to dazzle them, and partly because it is difficult to hold the book so that full benefit is obtained from the use of both eyes. This is more particularly the case when the reader is lying on one side. Again, there is generally a temptation to hold the book too close to the eyes and this of itself tends to induce


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¹ See The Lancet, Dec. 8th, 1888, p. 1145.
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Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science (CLPS) @clpskuleuven.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
The biophilia hypothesis holds that we have an innate predisposition to be drawn to #nature. Y. Joye & @andreasdeblock.bsky.social review the evidence in its favor, find it wanting, and suggest that #culturalevolution offers a better alternative www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #evosky #philsci
Header of an article in Trends in Ecology & Evolution (Volume 40, Issue 4, April 2025, pages 320–322), published by Cell Press, titled "Our not-so-natural connection to nature." The authors are Yannick Joye (Vilnius University) and Andreas De Block (KU Leuven), with their institutional affiliations listed beneath the title in the journal’s standard layout.
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David Ludwig @davidludwig.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Very excited to have received a Vici grant for the project "Doing Science Differently? A Philosophy of Transgressive Science". The project will address methodological & institutional challenges of transgressing "business as usual" in academia. www.wur.nl/en/news/davi...
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David Ludwig awarded NWO Vici Grant on doing science differently
Science philosopher David Ludwig has been awarded a prestigious NWO Vici grant for his project Doing Science Differently? A Philosophy of Transgressive Science.
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Malte Elson @malte.the100.ci · 23/02/2026
We regret to inform you that your paper cannot be considered for publication, but we encourage you to submit it to our GOLD Open Access sister journal
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koenfucius @koenfucius.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Longitudinal (35 years) study finds no statistical difference in political beliefs between high-IQ (130+) individuals and average-IQ people, with one exception—gifted men were less conservative (valuing tradition and social stability less): buff.ly/tLAczdm via @psypost.bsky.social
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Alberto Acerbi @acerbialberto.com · 20/02/2026
Qualitative researchers can choose to not engage with AI, but it'd be a shame. nber.org/papers/w34834
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Opiniestukken @opiniestukken.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
In NRC: Linkse dominantie op de universiteit ondergraaft vertrouwen in wetenschap
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Linkse dominantie op de universiteit ondergraaft vertrouwen in wetenschap
Universiteiten zijn volgens radicaalrechts bastions van wokeactivisme. In zulke populistische retoriek zit volgens Floris Burgers, Adriaan Duiveman en Lotte Hogeweg een kern van waarheid: de academie is overwegend links.
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Andreas De Block @andreasdeblock.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
herkenbaar, juist en goed geschreven. Wat wil een mens nog meer van een column?
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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 11/02/2026
A variation: Scientists who claim they’re “not interested in causality” because they assume the term only applies to deterministic, law-like relationships that are unrealistic in their field. Instead, they’re interested in how “X drives Y”, the effects of X, the “extent to which X matters for Y”>
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Daniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
My colleague Krist Vaessen wrote a new book: “Neomania: How our obsession with innovation is failing science, and how to restore trust”. It's a great analysis how the drive for novelty hinders reliable scientific progress. Open Access, so read it here: books.openbookpublishers.com/10.11647/obp...
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Eric Panzer @ericpanzer.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
On both the right and left, reactions to technology end up having way too much to do with tribalism or broader ideological positions than the actual realities of those technologies. GMO and pharma are other great examples where people conflate failures of capitalism with issues with the tech itself
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Cultural Evolution Society @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Call for papers for conference on "The Cultural Evolution of Migration and Diversity”. This is the 12th Annual WZB Conference on Migration and Diversity, to be held at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center, from September 25-26, 2026.
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The Cultural Evolution of Migration and Diversity
12th Annual WZB Conference on Migration and Diversity
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