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Karin Roelofs

@epanlab.bsky.social
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Experimental Psychopathology and Affective Neuroscience (Donders Institute and Behavioral Science Institute, Radboud University) www.epanlab.nl

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Yvonne F. Visser @yfvisser.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
In a nice collaboration with @epanlab.bsky.social @pmedendorp.bsky.social, Bob Bramson and Luc Selen we show that being under threat of shock improves preparation specifically for the relevant action, instead of an overall preparation for any action.
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Karin Roelofs @epanlab.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Amazing to see so many organizations engaged at the kickoff meeting for stakeholders for the @nwo.nl NWA CONTEXT project on stress-regulation in police and youth
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Karin Roelofs @epanlab.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I’m super proud of @felixklaassen.bsky.social who just published the last paper of his PhD, with ao Bob Bramson & linda @devoogdld.bsky.social funded by @erc. Check out his thread⬇️ Defensive cardiac states sharpen neural value representations during decision making www.nature.com/articles/s42...
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Karin Roelofs @epanlab.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
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European Research Council (ERC) @erc.europa.eu · 26/06/2026
Congratulations to the new prize winners - all four funded by the ERC. Spinoza Prize: 🏅Karin Roelofs, also our Scientific Council member 🏅 Hermen Overkleeft Stevin Prize: 🏅 Iris Sommer 🏅 Claes de Vreese Hats off! 🇪🇺
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Karin Roelofs @epanlab.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Thanks!! So grateful!
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Karin Roelofs @epanlab.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Thanks for organizing Sam! What an amazing place (including the night hike with midnight sun); wonderful people and great discussions☀️
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Karin Roelofs @epanlab.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
The end of academic freedom… www.science.org/content/arti...
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White House seeks to tighten political oversight of grantmaking
Sweeping proposed rule, now open for comments, would also restrict foreign collaborations and remove federal funding for open-access fees
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Liuba Papeo @ljubapi.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Studies seem to show that research is becoming less ‘disruptive’ of established ideas. And this is a problem. @nature.com
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Karin Roelofs @epanlab.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
PhD Position: Computational Affective Neuroscience and Ultrasonic Neuromodulation at @dondersinst.bsky.social >Passionate about ultrasonic modulation? Come and join us! funded by @erc.europa.eu HEART2ADAPT @epanlab.bsky.social in coll. with @lennartverhagen.bsky.social www.ru.nl/en/working-a...
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PhD Position: Computational Affective Neuroscience and Ultrasound Neuromodulation | Radboud University
Do you want to work as a PhD 'Computational Affective Neuroscience and Neuromodulation' at the Faculty of Social Sciences? Check our vacancy!
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Karin Roelofs @epanlab.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Thanks!
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Karin Roelofs @epanlab.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
🧠 Congrats @felixklaassen.bsky.social with this unique DBS case study targeting the midbrain PAG. Direct PAG stimulation (and not a bordering control region) induces threat-specific bradycardia ❤️ @devoogdld.bsky.social @anneloeshulsman.bsky.social & co-authors www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Stimulation of the human periaqueductal gray induces threat bradycardia: a case report
The ability to recognize and anticipate potential danger is crucial for survival across species. The midbrain periaqueductal gray (PAG) is implicated in regulating threat-anticipatory responses, in...
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Karin Roelofs @epanlab.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
This case review remains important highlight to avoid misunderstandings
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Sjoerd Meijer @sjoerdmeijer.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
🧠 Can brain stimulation help socially anxious people approach what they fear? 😠😰 We used synchronized electrical brain stimulation to improve control over emotional behaviour in social anxiety, while scanning their brains to understand who responds best and why. 🆕📄 doi.org/10.1523/JNEU...
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Karin Roelofs @epanlab.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Very interesting work! Congrat Johannes, fantastic to see all this amygdala-TUS work coming out now.
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Karin Roelofs @epanlab.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
A new way to improve emotion control in social anxiety by targeting rhythmic brain circuits via dual-site tACS: www.jneurosci.org/content/earl...
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Improving emotion control in social anxiety by targeting rhythmic brain circuits
Social avoidance is a hallmark of social anxiety disorder. Difficulties in controlling avoidance behavior are the core maintaining factor of this impairing condition, hampering the efficacy of existin...
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Karin Roelofs @epanlab.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
See extensive thread by @sjoerdmeijer.bsky.social ➡️ bsky.app/profile/sjoe...
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Karin Roelofs @epanlab.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Thanks!
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Karin Roelofs @epanlab.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Super proud of @sjoerdmeijer.bsky.social who demonstrated that amygdala-TUS slows initial threat acquisition and enhances subsequent extinction. Great collaboration with @lennartverhagen.bsky.social and @deVoogdld.bsky.social ea. Thanks to @ERC.europa.eu. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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The human amygdala in threat learning and extinction
Ultrasonic neuromodulation of the human amygdala provides causal evidence for its role in forming persistent threat memories.
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Karin Roelofs @epanlab.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Join us for a postdoc @ the Donders Institute; application deadline March 24. www.ru.nl/en/working-a...
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Postdoc Position: Affective Neuroscience and Computational Psychiatry at the Donders Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging | Radboud University
Do you want to work as a Postdoc at the Faculty of Social Sciences? Check our vacancy!
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Karin Roelofs @epanlab.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
We are hiring! www.ru.nl/en/working-a...
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Karin Roelofs @epanlab.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
I’m thrilled that Lina Skora was awarded the prestigious MSCA; many congrats @linaskora.bsky.social 🎉🎉 We are so much looking forward to collaborating with you in the EPAN lab @dondersinst.bsky.social 🎉🎉
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Karin Roelofs @epanlab.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Absolutely😄
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Karin Roelofs @epanlab.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Great science and fantastic skiing in at #EWCN in Bressanone ! Thanks to the organizers and participants www.ewcn.eu for fostering so many inspiring and lively discussions!
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Karin Roelofs @epanlab.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
It was great fun to have Jurre and Sahil @npo visiting the Donders Institute @dondersinst.bsky.social Well done @jonathan Postema, @floris Klumpers. and @sjoerdmeijer.bsky.social at testing and scaring them😄
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Floor Burghoorn @floorburghoorn.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Huge thanks to the Healthy Brain Study initiative for the great database, and to my co-authors Karin Roelofs (@epanlab.bsky.social), Bill Burk, Terrence Jorgensen, Anouk Scheres, and Bernd Figner for the great collaboration! (6/6)
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Karin Roelofs @epanlab.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
Thank you all for the fantastic collaboration. All ERC grantees should be member of the association of ERC grantees ercgrantees.bsky.social. AERG does not only have great activities and initiatives, It is essential to form a network that is the voice of unbound excellence-based research in Europe.
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Karin Roelofs @epanlab.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Thank you all for the great collaboration, I’ll miss you folks!
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Karin Roelofs @epanlab.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
thanks!
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Karin Roelofs @epanlab.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
It is a great honor to join the Scientific Council of the @erc.europa.eu. The ERC is precisely the kind of organisation I am proud to champion. Science is what binds Europe together and sustains its resilience
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Six new members of the ERC Scientific Council and three new Vice Presidents
Today, six new members of the governing body of the European Research Council (ERC), the Scientific Council, have been appointed by the European Commission. The term of one current member has also bee...
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Karin Roelofs @epanlab.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Huge congratulations Tobias! So well deserved! enjoy
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Karin Roelofs @epanlab.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Join us for a PhD in affective neuroscience at the Donders Institute (Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging) www.radboudumc.nl/en/vacancies...
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Vacancy - PhD candidate in Cognitive Affective Neuroscience
Are you passionate about making societal impact through scientific innovation? We invite applications for a PhD project in the field of cognitive ...
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Karin Roelofs @epanlab.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
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ALLEA Affirms Solidarity with the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts in Light of the Planned Discontinuation of Structural Funding
The Flemish government has announced its intention to discontinue the structural funding of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts (KVAB) as of 2026. In response to this develop
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Karin Roelofs @epanlab.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
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Triggering just-in-time adaptive interventions based on real-time detection of daily-life stress: Methodological development and longitudinal multicenter evaluation - Behavior Research Methods
Stress-related disorders present a significant global burden, highlighting the need for effective, preventive measures. Mobile just-in-time adaptive interventions (JITAI) can be applied in real time a...
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Karin Roelofs @epanlab.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
It was a great pleasure to advocate for the role of fundamental science at the Brain and Innovation days. erc.europa.eu/news-events/...
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ERC at Brain Innovation Days
The European Research Council will be present at the 5th edition of the Brain Innovation Days.
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Karin Roelofs @epanlab.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
✨Super proud of dr. Floor Burghoorn @floorburghoorn.bsky.social , who obtained her PhD with the highest distinction! Congratulations on behalf of the whole @epanlab.bsky.social lab!🎉🎉@decisioncenter.bsky.social
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Karin Roelofs @epanlab.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Ik was a treat to join the summerschool of the RTG on emotional learning and memory. Thanks for all discussions and inspiring talks! www.linkedin.com/posts/elena-...
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The 𝟯𝗿𝗱 𝗦𝘂𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗿 𝗦𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗼𝗹 of our RTG came to an end and what a rewarding experience it was for our whole group. Settled near the beautiful Ratzeburg at the lakeside at Hotel "Der… | Elena Drozdova
The 𝟯𝗿𝗱 𝗦𝘂𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗿 𝗦𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗼𝗹 of our RTG came to an end and what a rewarding experience it was for our whole group. Settled near the beautiful Ratzeburg at the lakeside at Hotel "Der Seehof", we had 2.5 day...
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Toma Susi @mostlyphysics.net · 20/08/2025
Nobel Prize winner Serge Haroche finishing his excellent talk on the laser for the @ercgrantees.bsky.social symposium at the ÖPG-SPS meeting in the @univie.ac.at main ceremonial hall with a famous message of Abraham Flexner that resonates with all those for whom science is more than a profession.
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Karin Roelofs @epanlab.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Congrats with this nice paper Floor! @floorburghoorn.bsky.social on Intertemporal Pavlovian biases and mental health rdcu.be/eBawi
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Intertemporal Pavlovian biases and links with mental health in the general population
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Karin Roelofs @epanlab.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
I still have no words for it, what an immense loss. I know Andrea since our clinical training in 1999 and only a few months ago we toasted on our ERC’s. We have lost one of the most inspiring scientists of the world. We have lost a beautiful person. www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2025...
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In memoriam: Andrea Evers (1967 - 2025)
It is with deep sorrow that we share the news that our dear colleague Andrea Evers passed away on Monday, 4 August 2025. Since 2013, Andrea had been affiliated with the Faculty of Social and Behaviour...
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Karin Roelofs @epanlab.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Super excited to be part of this amazing @nwas.org consortium with Erasmus U (Crone & Marciniak); Amst.UMC (Nauta-Jansen), UVA (Frankenhuis), UU (Smit), @radboudumc.bsky.social (@ernohermans.bsky.nl) and many stakeholders, i.e. National Police. Thanks @Floris Klumpers! can’t wait to get started🎉🎉🎉
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Karin Roelofs @epanlab.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Research is NOT the same as innovation. Spend the money at least equally on bottom-up research by @erc.europa.eu. ERC grantees @ercgrantees.Baku.social are the most successful in the EIC, but there is no innovation without fundamental Bluesky research by the ERC sciencebusiness.net/news/europea...
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EU should double, if not triple, the EIC budget, Zaharieva says
The European Commission hopes to at least double the budget of the European Innovation Council (EIC), if not triple it, when the agency can only finance 4% of the projects it receives, research commis...
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Karin Roelofs @epanlab.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Nice Phd position on neuro&biofeedback: collaboration between donders Maastricht univ. vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric...
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PhD candidate in neural control/ neurofeedback
PhD candidate in neural control/ neurofeedback
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Karin Roelofs @epanlab.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Thanks Raffael for these kind words!
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Karin Roelofs @epanlab.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Many thanks to this EPAN dream team ! @epanlab.bsky.social
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Karin Roelofs @epanlab.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Thank you Sarah 🙏
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Karin Roelofs @epanlab.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
🙏 thanks Alex!
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Karin Roelofs @epanlab.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Thanks Carien! 🥰
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Karin Roelofs @epanlab.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Thanks!!
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Karin Roelofs @epanlab.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Thank you so much!
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