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Tom Beckers

@tombeckers.bsky.social
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Psychological scientist at KU Leuven, basketball and soccer dad, ceramics husband, ocean fan (frank not billy)

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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 21/07/2025
Belgium’s King Philippe said Europe “must show stronger leadership” on the crisis in Gaza, adding that “the current situation has gone on far too long” and “is a disgrace to humanity.”
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Gaza killings denounced as ‘disgrace to humanity’ by Belgian king
The EU’s top brass has not publicly responded to the reported deaths of over 100 aid seekers in Gaza over the weekend.
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Tom Beckers @tombeckers.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
@klm.bsky.social officially has worst customer service in the world of aviation. Which is a high bar! Booked flights to attend a funeral, received confirmation but never the actual tickets, when I call eventually turns out they cancelled them without ever telling us. They literally don’t know what
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Tom Beckers @tombeckers.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
I draw the red line for Gaza
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UNICEF @unicef.org · 28/05/2025
Since the end of the ceasefire on 18 March, 1,309 children have reportedly been killed and 3,738 injured. In total, more than 50,000 children have reportedly been killed or injured since October 2023. The children of Gaza need protection NOW: unicef.link/3ZCg0wJ
Videos of bodies of burnt, dismembered children. Images of a small child trapped in a burning school.

How many more dead girls and boys will it take?

The children of Gaza need immediate, collective action to 
stop this once and for all.
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Brynn Sherman @brynnsherman.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Now officially out in @psychscience.bsky.social ! journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... @samiyousif.bsky.social
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An Illusion of Time Caused by Repeated Experience - Brynn E. Sherman, Sami R. Yousif, 2025
How do people remember when something occurred? One obvious possibility is that, in the absence of explicit cues, people remember on the basis of memory strengt...
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Tom Beckers @tombeckers.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Yet another casualty of the thoughts and prayers of a US politician. At least this one didn’t die by gunfire.
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Tom Beckers @tombeckers.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Fresh work from the lab spearheaded by @albalm.bsky.social for all you lovers of avoidance, fear generalization and extinction!
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Alba López-Moraga @albalm.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
🚨Paper alert!!🚨 Excited to share out latest research where we investigated avoidance, fear generalization and extinction learning using a modified platform-mediated avoidance procedure in male and female rats. rdcu.be/eesmc
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Generalization and extinction of platform-mediated avoidance in male and female rats
Scientific Reports - Generalization and extinction of platform-mediated avoidance in male and female rats
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sara-decoster.bsky.social @sara-decoster.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Join us for the KU Leuven Open Science Day on 6 May 2025! The KU Leuven Open Science Day is an event for and by researchers. Don't miss this chance to deepen insights, share experiences and engage with fellow researchers! #OpenScience #Research #KULeuven More info: www.kuleuven.be/open-science...
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Tom Beckers @tombeckers.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Data as cause for hope and call to action, an anti-dote to alternative facts and post-truths. Inspiring lecture tonight by @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social’s newest doctor honoris causa, @maxroser.bsky.social
Max Roser in front of a lecture hall explaining why he created ‘Our World in Data’
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Tom Beckers @tombeckers.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Ethnography at boys’ soccer practice confirms that this applies to the human primate as well.
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Tom Beckers @tombeckers.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
She sure did! Stellar dissertation and defense, thanks also to the insightful opposition by @gurcelay.bsky.social , Marloes Henckens and Rudi D’Hooge 🙏
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Tom Beckers @tombeckers.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
A compelling takedown of one of the most harmful pop psychology books out there.
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Tina Lonsdorf @tinalonsdorf.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Come join us! www.emotionalmemory.de
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Emotional Learning and Memory - Universität Hamburg
Although the emotional modulation of learning and memory has been a topic of intense scientific inquiry for decades
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Russ Poldrack @russpoldrack.org · 20/11/2024
I am so thankful that I came up in an academic environment that valued openness r/t secrecy. I have never worried about discussing my ideas with others, and those discussions have paid off greatly. I feel bad for trainees who learn to be secretive with their ideas - they are missing out on so much!
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Dorothy Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social · 10/06/2024
100% this goodscience.substack.com/p/strip-club...
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Strip Clubs vs. Academic Fraud
Which is worse?
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Tom Beckers @tombeckers.bsky.social · 31/05/2024
100% recommend - you couldn’t wish for a better supervisor!
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Tom Beckers @tombeckers.bsky.social · 29/05/2024
Fancy doing a PhD at the crossroads of memory research, clinical psychology and metascience? And travelling the globe while doing so? Come work with @wolfvanpaemel.bsky.social @simine.com @tomhardwicke.bsky.social and me at KU Leuven and UniMelb and get a joint PhD degree! [please distribute] 1/2
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Reconsolidation-based therapies: Science & fiction (joint PhD Leuven/Melbourne)
Do a PhD in Leuven and Melbourne on a topic at the intersection of the science of memory, clinical psychology and meta-science
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Tom Beckers @tombeckers.bsky.social · 13/05/2024
Temporary free-access link to the publisher’s version: authors.elsevier.com/a/1j3vW_KBfw.... Although, frankly, some of the figures and tables look better in the preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps....
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OSF
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Nature Reviews Psychology @natrevpsychol.nature.com · 07/05/2024
Mechanisms linking social media use to adolescent mental health vulnerability New Review by Amy Orben, Adrian Meier, Tim Dalgleish & Sarah-Jayne Blakemore  FREE to access until May 21 -- download now! go.nature.com/4dwD71i #psychology #psychschsky
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Tom Beckers @tombeckers.bsky.social · 10/05/2024
New paper alert: across a series of studies in humans and rats, we find that (unlike for benzodiazepines) pre-extinction propranolol administration doesn’t impair extinction retention. Which suggests it may be fine to take beta-blockers during exposure treatment www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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No harmful effect of propranolol administered prior to fear memory extinction in rats and humans
Exposure therapy is an evidence-based treatment option for anxiety-related disorders. Many patients also take medication that could, in principle, aff…
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simine vazire @simine.com · 01/05/2024
The future of Perspectives on Psychological Science (the journal) is wide open! Want to be the next Editor in Chief? Have ideas about new directions for the journal? Submit a proposal (2pp) by June 1. Come join the team of APS journals' Editors in Chief! www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...
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<em>Perspectives on Psychological Science</em> Call for Editorial Proposals
When Perspectives on Psychological Science was founded in 2006, the goal of the journal was to “publish an eclectic mix of articles that are enjoyable to read and thought-provoking, and at the same ti...
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Tom Beckers @tombeckers.bsky.social · 02/05/2024
Final prepping - almost ready for #EMHFC2024
Handmade pottery cups
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Gamer Lab Wuerzburg @gamerlab.bsky.social · 24/04/2024
Finally published: New work on human freezing responses by the fabulous Alma Merscher. More details 👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Can I see it in the eyes? An investigation of freezing‐like motion patterns in response to avoidable threat
Our article unravels the relationship between body and eye movements in human threat anticipation, drawing parallels with freezing behavior in rodents. We reveal a physio-behavioral defensive state, ....
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Eiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social · 25/03/2024
PCI may well be the future if we all support it now. It's one of the better initiatives I've seen! Please go check it out.
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moin syed @syeducation.bsky.social · 15/03/2024
New blog post! "Preregistration: More Promises than Pitfalls," some thoughts inspired by the recent meeting at the Royal Society. I don't find many pitfalls with preregistration itself, but there are plenty of problems with how we talk about it. getsyeducated.substack.com/p/preregistr...
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Preregistration: More Promises than Pitfalls
Or, maybe the real pitfalls are different from what we usually think
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Tom Beckers @tombeckers.bsky.social · 06/03/2024
I was going to go this year, it had been too long. But then eventually I couldn’t make it fit. And now I have anticipatory FOMO. Damn!
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Tom Beckers @tombeckers.bsky.social · 05/03/2024
Just got home from hugely interesting symposium @ Royal Society on merits and pitfalls of preregistration. It’s all on YouTube, highly recommend. Thx @tomhardwicke.bsky.social @deevybee.bsky.social @cruwelli.bsky.social Marcus Munafò and EJ Wagenmakers for organising! www.youtube.com/live/yNb2Vdd...
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The promises and pitfalls of preregistration | Day 1
Slido Code: #PPP0403The Royal Society is a Fellowship of many of the world's most eminent scientists and is the oldest scientific academy in continuous exist...
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Tom Beckers @tombeckers.bsky.social · 26/02/2024
Why do they call it support services if all they do is make your life miserable?
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simine vazire @simine.com · 15/02/2024
We have another Psych Science drop in zoom office hour coming up, Feb 22, at a time better for people in North, Central, & South America (& parts of Oceania) 4pm Eastern US time on Thurs Feb 22 Registration is free & open to anyone Please share! member.psychologicalscience.org/events/event...
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Event Details
Impexium Association Management Software
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Tom Beckers @tombeckers.bsky.social · 06/02/2024
Have questions for the editors at Psychological Science? Here’s your chance to ask them!
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simine vazire @simine.com · 27/01/2024
Nature Human Behaviour joins Psych Science, the first two journals that publish Psych papers that will be part of @i4replication.bsky.social ‘s replication games. Sign up if you want to be part of the replicating team!
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Tom Beckers @tombeckers.bsky.social · 26/01/2024
Taking in the views of the Long Room - just one of the highlights of a very enjoyable visit to TCD. Thanks Olive Healy, @clairegillan.bsky.social and colleagues for inviting me to Dublin and being such wonderful hosts.
Long Room of Trinity College Dublin
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Filip Raes @filipraes.bsky.social · 25/01/2024
Very neat study by my faculty colleague Gert Storms on his own autobiographical memories from his personal diary for the past 24 years. What a job! Don't forget to read the 'Data Accessibility Statements', 'Ethics and Consent' sections ;-) www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles...
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Tom Beckers @tombeckers.bsky.social · 25/01/2024
Cool art project from French photographer Augustin Lignier at the crossroads of social media and animal behaviour - the rats’ selfies are very compelling!
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Selfie Rats — AUGUSTIN LIGNIER
Augustin Lignier french artist
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Tom Beckers @tombeckers.bsky.social · 18/12/2023
An important contribution, this one!
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Jan Haaker @janhaaker.bsky.social · 13/12/2023
Open post-doc position in neuroimaging, pharmacology and dynamic learning! @christianbuchel.bsky.social & myself seek candidates for a 3-4 year post-doc that is available in early 2024. sites.google.com/view/systems... Feel free to contact me for more infos #neuroskyence #compneuro #neuroscience
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Institute for Replication @i4replication.bsky.social · 08/12/2023
We are thrilled to announce a new collaboration with Psychological Science. Papers published in PS following January 1st, 2024 will be candidates for I4R to computationally reproduce, stress-test and replicate.
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Institute for Replication @i4replication.bsky.social · 08/12/2023
We are excited to announce that we will now reproduce and replicate studies in the fields of psychology and behavioral sciences!! We are also welcoming 13 new board members. 🧵with details below!
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simine vazire @simine.com · 08/12/2023
Finally! New policies for Psych Science in 2024 (part 1): Editorial 1: www.psychologicalscience.org/public… Editorial 2 w/ @tomhardwicke.bsky.social : www.psychologicalscience.org/public…
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PsyArXivBot @psyarxivbot.bsky.social · 06/12/2023
Emotional overshadowing: pleasant and unpleasant cues overshadow neutral cues in human associative learning: osf.io/jekug
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Tom Beckers @tombeckers.bsky.social · 01/12/2023
Excited to be part of this fantastic line-up - check us out!
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Tom Beckers @tombeckers.bsky.social · 29/11/2023
In beautiful Marburg for my first visit as a Mercator Fellow of the DFG RTG ‘Breaking Expectation’. Came across a sign that summarises much of what I’ll be talking about this week - be it uncovering fraud, accepted wisdom on exposure treatment or controversies surrounding fear memory reconsolidation
Aber Ich habe keine Angst mehr
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