Job announcement! Research Fellow (65% TV-L 13), to work on co-singing gesture in beatboxing, based at the University of Cologne. Application deadline: 12 January, 2026 Feel free to contact me with any questions about the position. jobportal.uni-koeln.de/ausschreibun...

Postdoctoral research fellowship available, based at the University of Oslo. We’ll be looking at physical interactions between body movement (gesture) and vocalization in song/vocal performance. If you have any questions about the position, please get in touch!

Just published, the co-structuring of gesture-vocal dynamics in vocal performance, with @wimpouw.bsky.social and Thomas Nuttall. Which dimensions of hand and head gestures co-structure with which vocal modalities, and how does this differ across individuals? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

This is an awe-inspiring and fascinating study that I thoroughly enjoyed reading. However, the overall framing in terms of "innate versus learned” is unnecessary. The innate versus acquired dichotomy is outdated and has been for a long time. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

www.envisionbox.org has been shortlisted for the Leo Waaijers Open Science price: ukb.nl/en/news/shor... @babajideowoyele.bsky.social @jamestrujillo.bsky.social @sarkadava.bsky.social @DavideAhmar @acwiek.bsky.social Amazing Markus Küpper made an animated video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=HduI...

Counterpoint: what if studies run in the lab just tell you how behaviour unfolds in that context, because context constitutes part of behaviour? And you aren’t just getting a clean look at the contributions of the organism?

Alright it's here! Where we push back against the exploratory-confirmatory distinction that's become canonized in metascience and talk about what we think exploratory research (including exploratory experimentation and modeling) means and why our view is incompatible with 'unplanned data analyses'.

One thing that has stuck with me from my reading this fall is a point that Jeff Mielke makes in his 2008 book: "linguists often confuse their shared assumptions with linguistic universals." Since I care about features, I thought I should read Jeff's book in more detail. A thread. 1/n #linguistics

Any European PhDs interested in working with me as a post-doc via the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Postdoctoral Fellowships scheme, drop me a line ([email protected] or on here). Happy to chat topics, with a focus on perceptual learning, affordances, etc (please RT :)

Elon might be bothered by the journalists coming here but the true heads know that a social media ecosystem's health is most clearly signalled by the frequency of arguments about affordances

My 3-month sabbatical has ended! Our first gesture-vocal biomechanics paper got a 100 citations. And... I am slowly getting back on the academic job market. For this occasion, I have updated my pub page, eg search bar, embedded abstracts, AND multi-pdf downloads! wimpouw.com/publications...

For all the newcomers, here is a starter pack of people to follow on #musicscience, music cognition and related topics. just comment below if you want to be added! go.bsky.app/4oZbDpj #musicskyence

Here is a start for our gesture researcher starter pack! Please let me know if you would like to be included :) #gesture go.bsky.app/B9S5W94