Paula Kaanders

Postdoc at the CPI Lab @cpilab @MPICybernetics. She/her.
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This has now been published in @eLife!
https://t.co/nnbl3TBpHf

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New paper up on bioRxiv! ‘Cherry-picking information: humans actively sample evidence to support prior beliefs’ with @pradysd, @Sjnjerak, @PietroOrtoleva and @bendemartino [1/13]

https://t.co/4nD2WmmTG9

[Paula Kaanders @PKaanders]

First day as a postdoc at @cpilab! Excited to start working on some new projects and do more cool science! ☀️

[Paula Kaanders @PKaanders]

@LHuntNeuro @cpilab Well-deserved gifts for great supervisors!

[Paula Kaanders @PKaanders]

@EpiHazelwood @r_martin_ @ECSanderson @vytancrane @kate_s_ruth @timfrayling @DimouNiki @neilajryan @DJPournaras @DrTracyO @mendel_random @jamesyrmsk which in itself has been shown to have a large negative effect on health. Unfortunately, scientific work is often presented in the media in a less nuanced manner than we ourselves might like! 2/2

[Paula Kaanders @PKaanders]

@EpiHazelwood @r_martin_ @ECSanderson @vytancrane @kate_s_ruth @timfrayling @DimouNiki @neilajryan @DJPournaras @DrTracyO @mendel_random @jamesyrmsk Thanks for engaging with me on this! I'm definitely all for research into better measures of health and better treatment! I guess this drew my attention because it’s been all over the media today, and I worry about weight-based discrimination in society, 1/2

[Paula Kaanders @PKaanders]

@r_martin_ @EpiHazelwood @ECSanderson @vytancrane @kate_s_ruth @timfrayling @DimouNiki @neilajryan @DJPournaras @DrTracyO @mendel_random @jamesyrmsk Thanks for your reply! Yes, I saw that you present many interesting findings linking molecular processes to cancer risk. So then why link it to BMI at all? Especially since it increasingly seems that long-term weight loss is not achievable for the majority of people.

[Paula Kaanders @PKaanders]

@EpiHazelwood @ECSanderson @vytancrane @kate_s_ruth @timfrayling @DimouNiki @neilajryan @DJPournaras @DrTracyO @mendel_random @r_martin_ @jamesyrmsk also, how can you exclude the presence of a third factor, eg. physical activity, explaining both high BMI and cancer risk?

[Paula Kaanders @PKaanders]

@EpiHazelwood @ECSanderson @vytancrane @kate_s_ruth @timfrayling @DimouNiki @neilajryan @DJPournaras @DrTracyO @mendel_random @r_martin_ @jamesyrmsk As a lay person, I'm wondering what your reason is for using BMI as a measure of obesity. It's been repeatedly shown to not be a good measure of obesity or even health in general, eg. https://t.co/lsVwSaIYSz

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@traumabeertje Problemen als klimaatverandering zijn juist zo complex omdat ze veroorzaakt worden door kleine individuele vrijheden die bij elkaar opgeteld enorme schade toerichten en leiden tot een grote toekomstige vrijheidsreductie, zoals bijv het onbewoonbaar worden van delen van de wereld.

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Many thanks to @pradysd, @Sjnjerak, @PietroOrtoleva and @bendemartino for your work on this!!! [13/13]

[Paula Kaanders @PKaanders]

New paper up on bioRxiv! ‘Cherry-picking information: humans actively sample evidence to support prior beliefs’ with @pradysd, @Sjnjerak, @PietroOrtoleva and @bendemartino [1/13]

https://t.co/4nD2WmmTG9

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Crucially, we have showed that agency controls this phenomenon, such that the way in which confirmatory evidence is acquired critically impacts the decision process. [12/13]