Doing a PhD is - at heart - one long discussion with your mentor. The discussion changes over time - with unexpected turns and ups & downs - but through it all is a pair of people discussing a topic endlessly to make sense of it. PhD students: choose someone you like to talk to!

this meeting could have been me hitting you with my car

“A Busy, Busy Day at the Airport” By Ruben Bolling Genius. Click in.

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Finishing up a grant application with a view while the baby is napping.

Update re pypi package envisionHGdetector! Our preprint "EnvisionHGdetector: A Computational Framework for Co-Speech Gesture Detection, Kinematic Analysis, and Interactive Visualization" is now out! osf.io/preprints/ps... @jamestrujillo.bsky.social @gdemelo.bsky.social @babajideowoyele.bsky.social

📢 For the 17th time, AABBA, an international network of scientists, gathered this week at ISF to exchange ideas & push the boundaries of binaural & spatial hearing research. Thanks to all who joined—your insights and collaboration keep our field moving forward! 🎶👂 #AABBA #HearingScience

I remember expressing this worry to my husband when preparing for one of my first lectures and he said something like "you're a professor now, you should be able to talk about anything for any amount of time" and now I think of that as the true definition of "professing"

The scientific method served humanity well for hundreds of years but it was rendered obsolete in 2013 with the discovery of Vibes

Scientific Integrity Question Consider a fictional AI system M, and a scientist S who wishes to use M in their research pipeline (e.g., for analysis and/or interpretation). Functionally, M is not fully understood by S. In your opinion, is it acceptable that S uses M in their research pipeline?

I convert tax dollars to pdfs

Timeless

Women leave academia at higher rates than men at every career stage, and attrition is especially high among three groups: tenured faculty, women in non-STEM fields, and women employed at less prestigious institutions, a #ScienceAdvances analysis finds.

Academic decision algorithm v 7.0- a testament to #SocialMedia peer review, as all versions past 1.0 were improved upon by feedback from colleagues on social media

Thinking about this a lot as a (pre-tenure) PI. There just isn't enough time to go deeply into an idea, which is obviously bad for (my) science.

🎇I wish you all happy holidays and a happy new year! As last #Christmas, I have a #calendar for you (4/6): ko-fi.com/s/e8a7f1ae4b

We have a new publication on conversation and decision-making in noisy environments. The study was run by our PhD student Ingvi Örnolfsson. We studied how people change/keep their decision and voting strategy after a triadic conversation. 🧪 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

From not being able to find people within auditory research to not being able to follow up on notifications. This is fantastic! So nice to see this community growing! Do not hesitate to contact me if you want want to be added to this list, particularly young/early career peeps. go.bsky.app/2V3D2mu

I feel that the auditory research community has either not arrived here yet or is not very well connected. Please let me know who to add to this starter pack and self-nominate. 🧪 go.bsky.app/2V3D2mu

I have a joke about research funding but you wouldn't get it

Servicepost: Don't aim to submit two large grant applications within 5 days when you have a toddler and a newborn...

Subtweeting a discussion on the other platform, I think that academics are far too attached to the notion that their clever ideas have value, and should be treated as currency. I think this leads down a bad path. In science, ideas without implementation are pretty worthless.

Write your grant application when your baby writes their grant application.

Not sure if we've hit critical mass here on bsky yet, but the lab is hiring! We've gotten some good news grants recently, and now have some funded projects that are looking for people to champion them. All projects use Holographic Optogenetics to study motor systems. oldenburglab.com/positions/

me, adjusting my reading glasses: "that's a vibraphone"

New Paper! The influence of affective voice on sound distance perception We present two #VR experiments using a 🎯placement task and 👀 #EyeTracking to test whether affective voice (angry vs neutral) biases distance perception doi.org/10.1037/xhp0... Preprint osf.io/preprints/ps... #VRcademicSky

me redesigning a whole course having less than a week before classes begin

“There are only how many weeks until the semester starts?”

Saw today's @xkcd.com comic, realized it worked equally well for us, too! #neuroskyence #neuroscience Original: xkcd.com/2933/

New #preprint on audio-visual search strategies in 360° scenes using head- and gaze-motion behaviour. We investigated how participants find #audio, #visual and #audio-visual stimuli in a #VR environment. 🧪 osf.io/preprints/ps...

"A universal of human social cognition: Children from 17 communities process gaze in similar ways" 🇦🇷🇨🇳🇩🇪🇮🇳🇲🇽🇳🇦🇳🇿🇳🇬🇨🇬🇹🇷🇬🇧🇺🇸🇺🇬🇿🇲 Preprint for our large-scale cross-cultural study (N = 1377) on gaze-following. We found the same key processing signatures in all communities we studied. osf.io/preprints/ps...

The neuroscientist formerly known as Prince’s audio engineer www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Been sifting through our archive of 1960s histology sections. Here, the organ of Corti (sensory epithelium of the cochlea) is viewed using Mallory's trichrome stain. The outer hair cells (centre right) are stained orange.

Newish #preprint first authored by my great colleague Valeska. We investigate if people move their heads/eyes differently in certain #acoustic scenes. In fact, we find that motion #behavior changes in situations where it is more difficult to understand #speech. #research osf.io/preprints/ps...

So nice to see that the science community here is growing and getting more active. Maybe time to get more active too! 😀

As an academic this is the best academic quote I’ve ever read