Never been to a conference concert before, but if not the International Conference on Auditory Cortex, where else? #icac2025 @icac2025.bsky.social

My son is calling this car blue and I'm having flashbacks to 2015 #thedress

You know it's time for vacation when you arrive in the office only to find that you left your laptop at home 🙃

Making the trip up to Nijmegen again today for @isgs2025.bsky.social! Stop by today's poster session to see some new data on conversational expectations elicited by facial signals. @judithholler.bsky.social #isgs2025

Hello & HAPPY FRIDAY, as promised an open letter by my lovely colleagues and myself. Everybody, feel free to sign this even if you are not NL-based and ‼️ share ‼️ (anonymous signature is poss): Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia openletter.earth/open-letter-...

[Dyslexia] Emmendorfer et al.: "This is the first study to simultaneously assess neural sensitivity to phonological and temporal regularities in Dutch adult dyslexic readers and highlights distinct change detection for different sublexical features." doi.org/10.1016/j.cl...

Strike in Amsterdam June 10! The Dutch cabinet may have fallen, but the future of higher education in the Netherlands is still uncertain. We need to let the caretaker government and all the political parties know that the recently adopted budget with its drastic cuts to higher ed cannot stand...

“Neurophysiological responses to phonological and temporal regularities in speech in dyslexic and typical readers” by Alexandra K. Emmendorfer, Bernadette M. Jansma, Sonja A. Kotz and Milene Bonte (May ’25) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🚨 New Paper! Final chapter of my PhD at @maastrichtu.bsky.social is now (finally) out in Clinical Neurophysiology! doi.org/10.1016/j.cl...

The book my toddler brought me to read this morning. Like mother like son? (He left to play with his cars as soon as I started reading)

🟥 CALL FOR A NATIONAL STRIKE - June 10 🟥 A week ago, we stood together on the Vrijthof to defend our universities. On Friday, the cabinet announced its plans to cut another 400 million a year from primary and secondary education. Yesterday, the minister confirmed he will force universities...

How does our brain process interactions with an #avatar compared to another human being? This study shows that feedback from an avatar increases #RiskTaking behavior in humans and is associated with lower activity in the #amygdala & ventral #striatum @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/3S3Esmw

For all the talk of avoiding academic conferences in US, it must also be recognised that if you host a conference in the UK this is no longer a safe place for trans people to be.

The march is underway. The crowd has left Vrijthof and is making its way through the city center. The message: our region's economy is at risk! UM is the largest employer in Limburg. Citizens hold also a stake in defending all other educational institutions against these cuts! #WOinActie

Higher education institutions in Maastricht are on strike today to protest destructive cuts of more than 1 billion €. These cuts will impact our research, teaching quality, and our unique position as a border region university. To Minister Bruins we say: HANDS OFF our higher education! #WOinACTIE

🟥 Maastricht University is on strike today to protest devastating cuts in higher ed 🟥 👉 Show up @ Vrijthof @ 12:30! 👉 Bring your colleagues! 👉 Post your photos & tag us! 👉 Help us to spread the word - share this post! #WOinACTIE #DefendMaastrichtUniversity #KabinetSlooptHogerOnderwijs #StakingHO

Maastricht University strikes against the higher education budget cuts today (@woinactielimburg.bsky.social). The strike day kicks off with guest lectures by UM staff at high schools. Follow the news troughout the day in our liveblog: www.observantonline.nl/english/Home...

Saturday morning listening recommendation: "Eppo Ciao" protest song performed by the UM choir: tinyurl.com/yc6jk3ws The choir will do a live session on April 16 at the Vrijthof podium in Maastricht. Sing with us & join the protest! Special thanks and credits to the UM choir: www.umchoir.com

A thread: We know a lot of colleagues and students still doubting to strike. Here is why it matters: Imagine a long row of dominoes, perfectly aligned. The first one stands at the edge – seemingly insignificant on its own. But once it falls, a chain reaction becomes inevitable.

See the program below for @maastrichtu.bsky.social's strike day April 16th! #WOinActie

Next week on April 16th I am joining many colleagues and students at @maastrichtu.bsky.social to strike against the budget cuts to higher education. Read and sign our letter of support here: www.supportscienceandeducation.com See you on the Vrijthof! #woinactie 🟥

The abstract submission deadline for ICAC 2025 has been extended to the 11th of April! Check the webpage for links and relevant information www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/icac2025/int...

Eyebrow movements as signals of communicative problems in human face-to-face interaction. New paper by Paul Hömke, Stephen C. Levinson, Alexandra K. Emmendorfer & @judithholler.bsky.social doi.org/10.1098/rsos.241632

This is not intended as a brag btw, the key to submitting 5 first-author manuscripts in a couple of months is to fail to submit them in a more timely manner years ago.

The abstract submission and registration for ICAC 2025 in Maastricht is now open! www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/icac2025/int...

A new round of the Lise Meitner Excellence Program for #tenuretrack group leaders opened today - please consider applying! The program aims to recruit and promote exceptionally qualified female scientists. www.mpg.de/lise-meitner... #LiseMeitnerGroups #WomeninScience #ScienceCareer

🚨Job alert!🚨 Are you curious about curiosity, and looking for a post-doc position? Then please consider applying: www.ru.nl/en/working-a... Feel free to e-mail/DM me if you have questions. Thanks very much for sharing/re-posting!

Applications for the ninth summer school on statistical methods for linguistics and psychology close on April 1, 2025. Every year people contact me saying they missed the call, so here it is again :) vasishth.github.io/smlp2025/

Get in dorks, we're going protesting! STAND UP FOR SCIENCE WITH US ON MARCH 7TH, 2025 WASHINGTON DC AND EVERY STATE CAPITOL Because science is for everyone! Find us at www.standupforscience2025.org #standupforscience2025 #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence

POSTDOC POSITION at @kingsioppn.bsky.social The postdoc will work on an @ukri.org funded project on disadvantage, the pace of neurodevelopment, and cognitive outcomes using openly available infant and adolescent data. See the job ad here: fluxsociety.org/postdoctoral... Please share and repost 🙏

Happy International Day of Women in Science. The National Science Foundation’s list of flagged words includes both “Women” and “Female.”

Fully funded 4-year PhD with me at VU Amsterdam #emca workingat.vu.nl/vacancies/ph...

Email from a colleague at a university you've heard of: "We just got notice that we have to move every grant-funded personnel off their grant funding by noon. And stop work on federal grants."

Ich meine das mit dem Aufruf zum Wählen übrigens ernst. Laut Forsa könnten wir 28% (!) Nicht-Wähler_innen haben. Liebe Wissenschaftler_innen, liebe Wissenschaftsinstitutionen: Euch hören viele zu. Erinnert sie, wie wichtig Wählen ist. Für unsere Demokratie. & ermuntert sie, Botschaft weiterzutragen!

Ashley: Academic workers across the country are organizing to call on our congressional representatives on Thursday, 1/30, at 3pm ET / 12pm PT to demand these restrictions be lifted immediately. There will be a training over zoom at the beginning of the event. form.jotform.com/250226137228...

We are recruiting!! Two new positions in our lab @karolinskainst.bsky.social! Postdoctoral position (deadline 30/01): ki.varbi.com/en/what:job/... RA position (deadline 15/01): ki.varbi.com/en/what:job/... JOIN US!!!

As I'm trying to transition away from Meta platforms, does anyone have a good alternative to Instagram for following recipe creators/food bloggers? Or a starter pack for #veganfood content? This is the vast majority of my Insta feed, and I will miss it!

Facial signals shape predictions about the nature of upcoming conversational responses. New paper by @alexemmendorfer.bsky.social & @judithholler.bsky.social doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-85192-y

JOB ALERT! Come work with me! 34-Month Postdoc Position here at the Center for Language Evolution Studies, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń in my project "Paths to Polysemy" Job offer here: www.umk.pl/en/jobs/?tas... Please repost & share widely!

Donate to Wikipedia. Do it today, and every time one of the broligarchs has a tantrum because he can’t buy it

An oddly difficult thing for me to leave behind while closing my Twitter account are memories like this one.

Now that's a headline.

When I told my son (19mo) it was time to get dressed this morning, he looked at me and asked "why?" (with a beautiful brow furrow and palm-up open hand gesture, for my multimodal people). It seems we're now entering the "why?" era of toddlerhood, send help 😱

Closing the scissor-shaped curve: Strategies to promote gender equality in academia 🧪 www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Disappointing new study showing - once again - that women are leaving research careers at far higher levels than men If you're interested to read about strategies to reverse these types of curves, check out our recent #Cell perspective- link below ⤵️ #WomeninSTEM 👩‍🔬👩🏾‍🔬🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

What better occasion for a first post here! Happy to share this fun new paper that came out today at #ScientificReports. In this online behavioral study we showed that facial signals allow us to predict the nature of an upcoming response. @judithholler.bsky.social rdcu.be/d5F2r