Valerie van Mulukom
@herebehumans.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Psychology @ Oxford Brookes University, UK // Research on cognitive & evolutionary science of religious, secular, political, conspiracy belief & imagination. #COVIDisNotOver
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“Fighting misinformation is not as simple as only correcting facts; it also involves addressing purposeful manipulation and the way algorithms direct people's attention.”
Good, but what about partisan information seeking?
www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(25)00094-7/fulltext
Good, but what about partisan information seeking?
www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(25)00094-7/fulltext
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Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
October 5, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
Thinking about studying MSc psych?
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October 6, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Thinking about studying MSc psych?
Discover what it’s like to study Psychology at Oxford Brookes (@obu-hst-research.bsky.social), meet members of the course team & gain a deeper understanding of the curriculum & learning experience.
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Discover what it’s like to study Psychology at Oxford Brookes (@obu-hst-research.bsky.social), meet members of the course team & gain a deeper understanding of the curriculum & learning experience.
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September 23, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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We're trying to better understand how engagement with fiction relates to how you engage with the world - let us know!
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We're trying to better understand how engagement with fiction relates to how you engage with the world - let us know!
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September 23, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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To me it seems more like deeply engrained feudalism; either way, it is as frustrating.
Many of my mutuals are British & interested in human rights. Prob, the vast majority feel that cuts to ppl with disabilities allowances is wrong & feel like there is nothing they can do.
Govt attacked ppl with disabilities in Ireland. The result was they had to increase the allowance*.
Govt attacked ppl with disabilities in Ireland. The result was they had to increase the allowance*.
May 20, 2025 at 12:07 PM
To me it seems more like deeply engrained feudalism; either way, it is as frustrating.
Relevant to research on true crime and related fiction: We love the feeling of insight we get from finding or hearing the solution to whodunits, crossculturally!
"What goes on four feet in the morning, two feet at midday, and three feet in the evening?"
This riddle is thousands of years old, but why does it stick with us?
In our new paper, we argue that the feeling of insight might explain the lasting success of some cultural products: tinyurl.com/4j756h9a
This riddle is thousands of years old, but why does it stick with us?
In our new paper, we argue that the feeling of insight might explain the lasting success of some cultural products: tinyurl.com/4j756h9a
April 23, 2025 at 6:35 AM
Relevant to research on true crime and related fiction: We love the feeling of insight we get from finding or hearing the solution to whodunits, crossculturally!
Reposted by Valerie van Mulukom
179 experts. 28 countries. 1 message:
Long COVID is real, multi-systemic, and devastating. It affects over 400 million people. And we're not prepared.
New global consensus just dropped.
link.springer.com/content/pdf/10…
🧵
Long COVID is real, multi-systemic, and devastating. It affects over 400 million people. And we're not prepared.
New global consensus just dropped.
link.springer.com/content/pdf/10…
🧵
https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10…
April 21, 2025 at 2:35 AM
179 experts. 28 countries. 1 message:
Long COVID is real, multi-systemic, and devastating. It affects over 400 million people. And we're not prepared.
New global consensus just dropped.
link.springer.com/content/pdf/10…
🧵
Long COVID is real, multi-systemic, and devastating. It affects over 400 million people. And we're not prepared.
New global consensus just dropped.
link.springer.com/content/pdf/10…
🧵
Reposted by Valerie van Mulukom
A #crab in a fish tank discovered the air pump… and turned it into a personal jacuzzi. Crabs are curious creatures and often interact with their environment in surprisingly playful ways.
April 16, 2025 at 8:59 PM
A #crab in a fish tank discovered the air pump… and turned it into a personal jacuzzi. Crabs are curious creatures and often interact with their environment in surprisingly playful ways.
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Great talk at #ehbea2025 by @paulajasheppard.bsky.social on family size and child health: inconsistent findings across populations, which would be expected if we focus on asking 'under what conditions/context do we see X', rather than expecting one answer.
April 16, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Great talk at #ehbea2025 by @paulajasheppard.bsky.social on family size and child health: inconsistent findings across populations, which would be expected if we focus on asking 'under what conditions/context do we see X', rather than expecting one answer.
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Ayesha Ali from @brunelcce.bsky.social presenting on the importance of Spiritual-But-Not-Religious practices providing community for people in Glastonbury, including a slide with the first quote from a male witch I’ve seen so far at #ehbea2025
April 16, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Ayesha Ali from @brunelcce.bsky.social presenting on the importance of Spiritual-But-Not-Religious practices providing community for people in Glastonbury, including a slide with the first quote from a male witch I’ve seen so far at #ehbea2025
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Great presentation from @brunelcce.bsky.social’s Julieta Baker on how a high proportion of parents in post-industrial settings have little experience of parenting before having their own kids, and frequently experience parenting problems they don’t know how to solve #ehbea2025
April 15, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Great presentation from @brunelcce.bsky.social’s Julieta Baker on how a high proportion of parents in post-industrial settings have little experience of parenting before having their own kids, and frequently experience parenting problems they don’t know how to solve #ehbea2025
Did you know that crows participate in true crime investigations?
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We're still looking for +50 ppl; thnx!
March 24, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Did you know that crows participate in true crime investigations?
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Are you a fan of true crime? Participate in our 5-10 minute survey on fiction genre preferences, interests & coping styles!
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We're still looking for +50 ppl; thnx!
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Are you a fan of true crime? Participate in our 5-10 minute survey on fiction genre preferences, interests & coping styles!
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We're still looking for +50 ppl; thnx!
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Today I lost an NIH grant training clinicians to do research about intimate partner violence with perinatal women.
More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications.
I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.
More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications.
I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.
March 22, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Today I lost an NIH grant training clinicians to do research about intimate partner violence with perinatal women.
More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications.
I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.
More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications.
I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.
Thanks to all who have taken part already!
We now have a large number of scifi & thriller fans 🛸🧟, but true crime, horror, drama, and fantasy fans are lagging (among others) 👮👹🧝 - where these fans at?
Take part to tell us why your genre is your favourite & take a 5-10 min break from scrolling!
We now have a large number of scifi & thriller fans 🛸🧟, but true crime, horror, drama, and fantasy fans are lagging (among others) 👮👹🧝 - where these fans at?
Take part to tell us why your genre is your favourite & take a 5-10 min break from scrolling!
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Thanks very much for participating (&/or RT/likes)!
March 20, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Thanks to all who have taken part already!
We now have a large number of scifi & thriller fans 🛸🧟, but true crime, horror, drama, and fantasy fans are lagging (among others) 👮👹🧝 - where these fans at?
Take part to tell us why your genre is your favourite & take a 5-10 min break from scrolling!
We now have a large number of scifi & thriller fans 🛸🧟, but true crime, horror, drama, and fantasy fans are lagging (among others) 👮👹🧝 - where these fans at?
Take part to tell us why your genre is your favourite & take a 5-10 min break from scrolling!
📺 Feel like a small break from scrolling to tell us about your favourite TV/movie genre?🎞️
Here is a 5-10 minute survey for our latest research project project on understanding the functions of fiction: brookeshls.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
Thanks very much for participating (&/or RT/likes)!
Here is a 5-10 minute survey for our latest research project project on understanding the functions of fiction: brookeshls.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
Thanks very much for participating (&/or RT/likes)!
March 18, 2025 at 4:58 PM
📺 Feel like a small break from scrolling to tell us about your favourite TV/movie genre?🎞️
Here is a 5-10 minute survey for our latest research project project on understanding the functions of fiction: brookeshls.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
Thanks very much for participating (&/or RT/likes)!
Here is a 5-10 minute survey for our latest research project project on understanding the functions of fiction: brookeshls.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
Thanks very much for participating (&/or RT/likes)!
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EvoDemoS 2025 website is now live. The 10th Evolutionary Demography Conference will be held 22-24 September 2025, at Oxford University, organised by @robsalgo.bsky.social and colleagues evodemo2025.weebly.com
EvoDemoS 2025
EvoDemoS 2025 International Conference. The local organising committee welcomes you to the 10th International Conference of the Evolutionary Demography Society, hosted at Pembroke College, Oxford, bet...
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March 14, 2025 at 6:46 PM
EvoDemoS 2025 website is now live. The 10th Evolutionary Demography Conference will be held 22-24 September 2025, at Oxford University, organised by @robsalgo.bsky.social and colleagues evodemo2025.weebly.com
It's so hard to believe it's true, but here we are.
£14.9bn was spent on unusable or fraudulent PPE deals.
Nearly £10bn of this was profit.
Not a penny has been recovered.
Nearly £10bn of this was profit.
Not a penny has been recovered.
March 11, 2025 at 11:59 PM
It's so hard to believe it's true, but here we are.
Reposted by Valerie van Mulukom
Post Doctoral Research Assistant ‘50 Years of Becoming A Mother’ www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
www.ucl.ac.uk
March 11, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Post Doctoral Research Assistant ‘50 Years of Becoming A Mother’ www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
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if you find yourself reluctant to support the guy at Columbia because you find some of the politics he espoused distasteful or even abhorrent, you should know that this is exactly the reaction that they hoped for in choosing him as a target for unlawful detention based on political speech.
March 10, 2025 at 7:33 PM
if you find yourself reluctant to support the guy at Columbia because you find some of the politics he espoused distasteful or even abhorrent, you should know that this is exactly the reaction that they hoped for in choosing him as a target for unlawful detention based on political speech.
Reposted by Valerie van Mulukom
“She’s in this orange prison outfit,” he said. “She just feels so isolated and desperate, you can imagine, she’s saying, ‘I want to come home’.”
She is safe, he said, but living “in horrendous conditions” and had not had access to legal representation.
Stop traveling to the U.S, It’s not safe.
She is safe, he said, but living “in horrendous conditions” and had not had access to legal representation.
Stop traveling to the U.S, It’s not safe.
British tourist detained by US authorities for 10 days over visa issue
Backpacker Rebecca Burke was handcuffed and taken to a detention facility in Washington state
www.theguardian.com
March 10, 2025 at 10:08 PM
“She’s in this orange prison outfit,” he said. “She just feels so isolated and desperate, you can imagine, she’s saying, ‘I want to come home’.”
She is safe, he said, but living “in horrendous conditions” and had not had access to legal representation.
Stop traveling to the U.S, It’s not safe.
She is safe, he said, but living “in horrendous conditions” and had not had access to legal representation.
Stop traveling to the U.S, It’s not safe.
I think it's time as a society that we face the implicit agreement we've made that if you don't financially contribute to the economy, you're not afforded the same human rights.
It's horrific, and shows that we largely live in economies, not societies.
It's horrific, and shows that we largely live in economies, not societies.
Cutting disability benefits doesn't 'incentivise work'. But it does penalise and humiliate the disabled, and that's the real point.
March 10, 2025 at 8:42 AM
I think it's time as a society that we face the implicit agreement we've made that if you don't financially contribute to the economy, you're not afforded the same human rights.
It's horrific, and shows that we largely live in economies, not societies.
It's horrific, and shows that we largely live in economies, not societies.
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James Harrison, whose blood donations saved over 2 million babies, has died. www.npr.org/2025/03/03/n...
James Harrison, whose blood donations saved over 2 million babies, has died
Harrison, whose plasma contained a rare antibody, rolled up his sleeve 1,173 times from 1954 to 2018. The Australian is credited with helping 2.4 million babies and advancing scientific research.
www.npr.org
March 3, 2025 at 5:34 PM
James Harrison, whose blood donations saved over 2 million babies, has died. www.npr.org/2025/03/03/n...
Reposted by Valerie van Mulukom
As I sit home with a terrible cold, I can’t help but be pissed that we decided as a society that we’re just cool with getting sick.
We applied technology to water-borne and food-borne illness, and you generally don’t get sick that way anymore.
But airborne? Nah, let’s keep getting sick.
We applied technology to water-borne and food-borne illness, and you generally don’t get sick that way anymore.
But airborne? Nah, let’s keep getting sick.
February 28, 2025 at 10:48 AM
As I sit home with a terrible cold, I can’t help but be pissed that we decided as a society that we’re just cool with getting sick.
We applied technology to water-borne and food-borne illness, and you generally don’t get sick that way anymore.
But airborne? Nah, let’s keep getting sick.
We applied technology to water-borne and food-borne illness, and you generally don’t get sick that way anymore.
But airborne? Nah, let’s keep getting sick.
Unbelievable but true.
My son's nursery keeps refusing air purifiers, even after all staff got sick and a child ended up in hospital a couple of months ago.
My son's nursery keeps refusing air purifiers, even after all staff got sick and a child ended up in hospital a couple of months ago.
5 years of pro infection Covid policies have made it easy for measles to make a comeback.
People have decided infection control is weakness. Masks are political. Clean air isn’t worth it. Kids need to get sick to get healthy.
We must change the narrative. Mask up. Stay home when sick. Resist.
People have decided infection control is weakness. Masks are political. Clean air isn’t worth it. Kids need to get sick to get healthy.
We must change the narrative. Mask up. Stay home when sick. Resist.
March 1, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Unbelievable but true.
My son's nursery keeps refusing air purifiers, even after all staff got sick and a child ended up in hospital a couple of months ago.
My son's nursery keeps refusing air purifiers, even after all staff got sick and a child ended up in hospital a couple of months ago.