Loes Stukken
@loesstk.bsky.social
Experimental and cognitive psychologist, clinical psychologist, phd in psychology
Interests: Science communication & research integrity
https://medium.com/@loes.stukken
Interests: Science communication & research integrity
https://medium.com/@loes.stukken
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"Two major publishers have begun to automatically reject the vast majority of papers based on public health data sets, following revelations that unscrupulous actors use these data sets to churn out nonsense scientific papers."
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Journals and publishers crack down on research from open health data sets
PLOS, Frontiers, and others announce policies trying to stem the tide of suspect research
www.science.org
October 13, 2025 at 7:43 AM
"Two major publishers have begun to automatically reject the vast majority of papers based on public health data sets, following revelations that unscrupulous actors use these data sets to churn out nonsense scientific papers."
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
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Motherf*cker. “Responsibility to endure pain.”
En Vlaamse en buitenlandse media ondertussen “Idioten zeggen a. Wat is er van aan?” terwijl het gros van hun socmed publiek enkel titels scant. Het ergste is dat ze dit weten, maar t toch blijven doen.
You’re all complicit.
En Vlaamse en buitenlandse media ondertussen “Idioten zeggen a. Wat is er van aan?” terwijl het gros van hun socmed publiek enkel titels scant. Het ergste is dat ze dit weten, maar t toch blijven doen.
You’re all complicit.
September 23, 2025 at 5:48 AM
Motherf*cker. “Responsibility to endure pain.”
En Vlaamse en buitenlandse media ondertussen “Idioten zeggen a. Wat is er van aan?” terwijl het gros van hun socmed publiek enkel titels scant. Het ergste is dat ze dit weten, maar t toch blijven doen.
You’re all complicit.
En Vlaamse en buitenlandse media ondertussen “Idioten zeggen a. Wat is er van aan?” terwijl het gros van hun socmed publiek enkel titels scant. Het ergste is dat ze dit weten, maar t toch blijven doen.
You’re all complicit.
"Waarom is het zo moeilijk een kat een kat te noemen? Dat wat nu gebeurt in Gaza is een rauwe massamoord waar we als België en Europa naar staan te kijken met de handen in de zakken. 👏👏👏 bedankt Erika Vlieghe!
Blijkbaar is het Rode Kruis een achterhaald idee
Betrouwbare artsen die in Gaza werkzaam zijn, laten geen misverstand bestaan over het leed dat daar aangericht wordt. Waarom behandelen beleidsmakers die noodsignalen dan slechts als een kiezel in de schoen?
www.standaard.be
July 28, 2025 at 7:33 AM
"Waarom is het zo moeilijk een kat een kat te noemen? Dat wat nu gebeurt in Gaza is een rauwe massamoord waar we als België en Europa naar staan te kijken met de handen in de zakken. 👏👏👏 bedankt Erika Vlieghe!
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Als een medisch professional u dit aanraadt: lopen.
In de zoektocht naar passende hulpverlening vroeg een arts me vorige week bij gebrek aan die beschikbare hulp of ik al met ChatGPT heb gepraat. De absurditeit van de realiteit in ons zorgsysteem kwam zo hard binnen dat ik er geen woorden voor had.
July 26, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Als een medisch professional u dit aanraadt: lopen.
Samenvatting Boudry vs. Dedecker:
Hahahahahahahaha. "Ze hebben mij iets verteld, dus dat is waar."
"Ik heb grellige dingen gezien."
"Waarom zou ik u op uw woord geloven?" 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
"Ik heb grellige dingen gezien."
"Waarom zou ik u op uw woord geloven?" 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
July 19, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Samenvatting Boudry vs. Dedecker:
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UGent-filosoof Maarten Boudry woonde in juni een conferentie bij waar extreemrechtse pseudowetenschappers verzamelden. Door aan te schurken bij figuren die de strijd tegen woke combineren met ‘wetenschappelijk racisme’, maakt Boudry extreemrechtse nepwetenschap mainstream. apache.be/2025/07/08/f...
Filosoof Maarten Boudry congresseert met nepwetenschappers
Hoe Maarten Boudry zich steeds dieper in het netwerk van wetenschappelijk racisme begeeft.
apache.be
July 8, 2025 at 11:19 AM
UGent-filosoof Maarten Boudry woonde in juni een conferentie bij waar extreemrechtse pseudowetenschappers verzamelden. Door aan te schurken bij figuren die de strijd tegen woke combineren met ‘wetenschappelijk racisme’, maakt Boudry extreemrechtse nepwetenschap mainstream. apache.be/2025/07/08/f...
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The saga of the NYT's anti-Mamdani story taken from notorious white supremacist Jordan Lasker (they call him an "academic") gets even more amazing: Lasker's only impactful paper, which claimed white people are smarter, is infamous: it misused data so badly it got his tenured co-author fired. 2/
July 4, 2025 at 3:26 AM
The saga of the NYT's anti-Mamdani story taken from notorious white supremacist Jordan Lasker (they call him an "academic") gets even more amazing: Lasker's only impactful paper, which claimed white people are smarter, is infamous: it misused data so badly it got his tenured co-author fired. 2/
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Samen met enkele collega's schreef ik een stuk in Apache waarin we ons distantiëren van de associate van onze vakgroep met racistische pseudowetenschap en eugenetica.
apache.be/2025/07/04/r...
apache.be/2025/07/04/r...
Racistische pseudowetenschap hoort niet thuis aan de universiteit
Vakgroepleden distantiëren zich van haar associatie met racistische pseudowetenschap en eugenetica.
apache.be
July 4, 2025 at 6:16 AM
Samen met enkele collega's schreef ik een stuk in Apache waarin we ons distantiëren van de associate van onze vakgroep met racistische pseudowetenschap en eugenetica.
apache.be/2025/07/04/r...
apache.be/2025/07/04/r...
Dit.... Zou fijn zijn als De Morgen dat ook zou doen... Toogpraat hoeft geen platform te krijgen.
Helemaal eens met de oproep van Thomas Decreus @dcrsthms.bsky.social "Vergeet Maarten Boudry". Aan beroepsprovocateurs die al hun zogezegde principes inruilen om een genocide te verdedigen, moet je als geprovoceerde zo weinig mogelijk aandacht besteden.
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www.dereactor.org/teksten/verg...
July 1, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Dit.... Zou fijn zijn als De Morgen dat ook zou doen... Toogpraat hoeft geen platform te krijgen.
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The Behavior Genetics Association has put out a statement against the misuse of behavioral genetics research: “It is critical that behavioral geneticists grapple with the field’s checkered history and actively work to prevent and respond to misuses and misunderstandings”
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Behavior Genetics Association - Behavior Genetics Association
The Behavior Genetics Association is an international society that promotes research into the connections between heredity and behavior, both human and animal.
bga.org
June 25, 2025 at 12:59 PM
The Behavior Genetics Association has put out a statement against the misuse of behavioral genetics research: “It is critical that behavioral geneticists grapple with the field’s checkered history and actively work to prevent and respond to misuses and misunderstandings”
bga.org/content.aspx...
bga.org/content.aspx...
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I am privileged to announce the publication of the Anti-Autocracy Handbook: sks.to/autocracy 1/12
The Anti-Autocracy Handbook: A Scholars' Guide to Navigating Democratic Backsliding
The Anti-Autocracy Handbook is a call to action, resilience, and collective defence of democracy, truth, and academic freedom in the face of mounting authoritarianism. It tries to provide guidance to ...
sks.to
June 19, 2025 at 9:44 AM
I am privileged to announce the publication of the Anti-Autocracy Handbook: sks.to/autocracy 1/12
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"We should be able to have an open discussion about what's good science and freely critique bad research. No not you! You shouldn't be having an open discussion about what's good metascience or freely critique bad metaresearch. That's censorship."
Idk about you folks but I'm tired of the bullshit.
Idk about you folks but I'm tired of the bullshit.
June 12, 2025 at 6:45 AM
"We should be able to have an open discussion about what's good science and freely critique bad research. No not you! You shouldn't be having an open discussion about what's good metascience or freely critique bad metaresearch. That's censorship."
Idk about you folks but I'm tired of the bullshit.
Idk about you folks but I'm tired of the bullshit.
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Here's something I post from time to time. My answer to a reader who asked me: what could journalists do NOW to break with some of their more corrosive habits.
June 12, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Here's something I post from time to time. My answer to a reader who asked me: what could journalists do NOW to break with some of their more corrosive habits.
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Since we’re discussing both the Centre for Heterodox Social Science’s push for a “politically-neutral social science” and Aporia, an outlet for scientific racism with links to far-right political activists, this weekend, it’s worth noting that the former considers the latter a part of its network
June 8, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Since we’re discussing both the Centre for Heterodox Social Science’s push for a “politically-neutral social science” and Aporia, an outlet for scientific racism with links to far-right political activists, this weekend, it’s worth noting that the former considers the latter a part of its network
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Steven Pinker spent the last several years framing those of us who disagreed with views as a “woke mob” attacking his free speech, which laid the foundation for the fascist takeover of higher education he now laments.
“I'll start with myself. During my decades at the university I've been an extraordinary bigot.”
May 24, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Steven Pinker spent the last several years framing those of us who disagreed with views as a “woke mob” attacking his free speech, which laid the foundation for the fascist takeover of higher education he now laments.
Started art school in september last year. I’m very far from actually knowing what I’m doing 😅 but I absolutely love it! Most recent work👇 (which was an exercise in colour study/reflection).
May 16, 2025 at 7:10 AM
Started art school in september last year. I’m very far from actually knowing what I’m doing 😅 but I absolutely love it! Most recent work👇 (which was an exercise in colour study/reflection).
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Goed dat iemand anders dit boek las, zodat ik het niet moet doen. Deze quote vat het probleem mooi samen. Alles is deel van één of andere theoretisch debat dat moet gewonnen worden op basis van tekstanalyse of gedachte-experimenten, los van het lijden van echte mensen in de wereld.
May 12, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Goed dat iemand anders dit boek las, zodat ik het niet moet doen. Deze quote vat het probleem mooi samen. Alles is deel van één of andere theoretisch debat dat moet gewonnen worden op basis van tekstanalyse of gedachte-experimenten, los van het lijden van echte mensen in de wereld.
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Rubio publicly criticizing an ally for cracking down on right-wing extremism. And Germany hitting back. We are in a new world
May 2, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Rubio publicly criticizing an ally for cracking down on right-wing extremism. And Germany hitting back. We are in a new world
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Ik heb een lezing over eugenics in de wetenschappelijke wereld aan Max Planck bijgewoond en binnen een half uur ging het al over onze vrienden van de UGent.
March 25, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Ik heb een lezing over eugenics in de wetenschappelijke wereld aan Max Planck bijgewoond en binnen een half uur ging het al over onze vrienden van de UGent.
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The additional horrendous thing is that no one knows who these people are. they have not been charged with anything, nothing is known about their visa status. They have simply been declared to be "terrorists" or whatever by a deranged administration without due process. This is fascism. Period.
It is about time that the EU imposes economic sanctions on the US for violating basic human rights. No normal agreement is possible with such a mafia state.
Don't send any more sensitive digital data to the US either. Isolate this rogue state as much as possible.
Don't send any more sensitive digital data to the US either. Isolate this rogue state as much as possible.
The video of Trump’s deportees arriving in El Salvador is horrific.
This is 21st century Nazism.
Identities concealed, trafficked to a foreign labour camp. No due process, no evidence of crime. Dehumanised.
Where is the global outrage?
The crime is historic; the normalisation catastrophic.
This is 21st century Nazism.
Identities concealed, trafficked to a foreign labour camp. No due process, no evidence of crime. Dehumanised.
Where is the global outrage?
The crime is historic; the normalisation catastrophic.
March 18, 2025 at 10:01 AM
The additional horrendous thing is that no one knows who these people are. they have not been charged with anything, nothing is known about their visa status. They have simply been declared to be "terrorists" or whatever by a deranged administration without due process. This is fascism. Period.
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"Er zijn geen feiten, alleen politieke meningen, en elke mening die de mijne niet is, is woke radicaal links fundamentalisme."
- De Vlaamse filosofische school
- De Vlaamse filosofische school
March 13, 2025 at 10:05 AM
"Er zijn geen feiten, alleen politieke meningen, en elke mening die de mijne niet is, is woke radicaal links fundamentalisme."
- De Vlaamse filosofische school
- De Vlaamse filosofische school
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This was always the problem with this "institutional neutrality" stuff. Academics now have to argue that maybe, it might be a good thing not to stay neutral when democracy is on the line...
🔥🔥Harvard professors of government @ryanenos.bsky.social and Steven Levitsky (experts in democracy) urge Harvard to come to defense of American democracy, highlighting how “The defense of democracy transcends partisan or policy debates.”
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
March 6, 2025 at 11:58 AM
This was always the problem with this "institutional neutrality" stuff. Academics now have to argue that maybe, it might be a good thing not to stay neutral when democracy is on the line...
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They're continuing the (incorrect) claim that progressive college students, trans people, "woke" ideology, etc, is a threat to freedom of speech and scientific freedom while actual threats to science from the current far-right US administration are happening at an unprecedented scale.
Lol. All the anti-trans, reflexively contrarian, “anti-woke” scientists have contributed to a book about how science is under attack.
Somehow, there are no chapters dedicated to how Republicans are decimating research and firing experts.
Somehow, there are no chapters dedicated to how Republicans are decimating research and firing experts.
February 27, 2025 at 7:18 PM
They're continuing the (incorrect) claim that progressive college students, trans people, "woke" ideology, etc, is a threat to freedom of speech and scientific freedom while actual threats to science from the current far-right US administration are happening at an unprecedented scale.