M&S Sparring Session: Two wave data Prof Ellen Hamaker will  elaborate on some of the statistical challenges and opportunities that your research group is facing with the two wave data from YOUth. Specifically, Ellen will reflect on the questions how one can study stability over time when the test-retest reliability is low, and how change in one…

Dear colleagues, In the aftermath of the successful 2017 research evaluation, the UU departments of Psychology and Methods & Statistics have reserved a budget for visits of renowned external researchers to our departments, to talk about psychology and its future challenges. The first will be Eveline Crone (Leiden Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, Spinoza laureate), on November…

Carlijn ontdekt: een hele week programmeren  

Beste onderzoeker, Chantal ontving onderstaande uitnodiging. Wie vindt het leuk om een bijdrage te leveren aan deze avond? — Op donderdag 8 november 2018 organiseert het Alumni Office in samenwerking met Dynamics of Youth een ouderavond. Op deze avond nodigt de UU haar alumni uit voor een bijeenkomst waar Utrechts onderzoek naar het gedrag en de…

Summer Course 2018  

Magie met smartphone tijdens college – Matthijs Vink  

Dear CID researchers,    We are working on our June issue of the CID newsletter and if you would like to have anything published in this newsletter please send it to: CID-news@uu.nl by the 15th of May.   Examples of newsitems are: News from CID/WP’s and status updates of our cohorts Prizes or grants Highlighted…

Good news! As of this morning, a central server with the name “wp0226” is available for us to perform calculations and process all sorts of data! I’ve set up the first (initial) version of the YOUth Quality Control pipeline and this worked perfectly. It took almost no time for the server to work through thousands…

Dear labmember, As of now, we have an online calendar which you can use to schedule your labmeeting contribution (eg. presentation, research plan discussion etc). You can find the calendar here Cheers, Matthijs

Today the University Museum hosted a special “Meet-the-scientist”-event for which YOUth was invited. Visitors could ask everything about science, development and the brain. For YOUth, it was a great opportunity to promote our study, share our ideas and insights with the general public, and try to recruit participants. Matthijs Vink manned the YOUth booth this…