I'm happy to have been appointed as one of the Open Science Ambassadors of the Faculty of Behavioral and Social Sciences @rug-gmw.bsky.social al at the University of Groningen @rug.nl! My motivation for Open Science, and that of my UG colleagues, can be found here: www.rug.nl/research/ope...

New publication!: Cognitive understanding is a functional coordination pattern, just like swimming www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...

New publication!: Cognitive understanding is a functional coordination pattern, just like swimming www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...

Vanavond presenteer ik over mijn onderzoek naar gebaren, spraak en cognitieve ontwikkeling tijdens de Europese Nacht van de Onderzoekers #ERN2025, georganiseerd door @rug.nl! Ik zal dan ook deze folder uitdelen, met activiteiten om de rol van gebaren en spraak in communiceren zelf te ervaren.

🎪 Op Noorderzon doen Kirsten van den Bosch en Tassos Sarampalis, samen met Delic & Huda, onderzoek naar de effecten van kunst en binaural beats. Dit doen zij tijdens de voorstelling ReCharge & ReSearch op zondag 24 augustus in de dome van DOT. www.noorderzon.nl/programma/de...

Paper accepted for publication! 🥳

You can find an updated version of this preprint here: osf.io/preprints/ps... In this preprint, I argue that cognitive understanding is a functional coordination pattern —analogous to swimming— based on a complex systems, coordination dynamics, affordances, and (now also) constraints perspective.

On my way to EWEP @ Leeds 🥳! I’m genuinely impressed (again) by the European railway system. From the north of the Netherlands to London in 6 hours, without any hiccups (apart from me almost missing the train to London, because I did not take the 30 minute boarding deadline seriously)!

If you are an #AssistantProfessor in the Netherlands, please join us for this event! #AcademicSky

The new Teach@Tuebingen fellowship call is open. For 1/2 or 1 year you can do research & teach here. Decent salary & benefits. If you are interested in joint numerical cognition research with our lab, feel free to contact me as a host professor. Deadline June 20th. uni-tuebingen.de/en/research/...

Het kabinet zou zich kapot moeten schamen. Want bovenop de grootste onderwijsbezuiniging van deze eeuw, wordt óók 177 miljoen weggehaald bij kinderen die het al moeilijk hebben. Help het onderwijs om dit tegen te houden. ✍️Teken en deel deze petitie! petities.nl/petitions/sc...

Waarom toch die hysterie, woede en negativiteit? 1. De nationale herdenking op vier mei is volstrekt beheerst en waardig verlopen, in A’dam en elders; www.telegraaf.nl/nieuws/33139...

I want to conduct semi-structured interviews w parents of children who undergo long term medical treatment (e.g. for clubfoot, hip dysplasia) about their experiences with treatment, HC interactions and the child’s cognitive, emotional-social and motor dev. Any suggestions for an existing protocol?

I could not agree more. Cutting English Psychology bachelor programs in many Dutch universities would be a huge, unnecessary, loss. We need to stand up for science. And currently for Psychological science in particular. Understanding why people do the things they do could not be more urgent.

Four large Dutch universities, including Leiden University where I work, have decided to throw international psychology bachelor programs under the bus in an effort to appease the rightwing government. Here's my blog why this is a terrible idea. eiko-fried.com/cutting-inte...

Interesting discussion going on here :)

Does ecological psychology ❤️ fractals? Yes? No? Maybe? This chapter reviews decades of flirtation of the former with the latter--and to advocate for committing to the relationship (or for getting on with life separately!) www.researchgate.net/publication/... coauthored w/ @davidfarrokh.bsky.social

I'm looking for a PhD Student at the intersection of Machine Learning and Developmental Psychology. We study everyday experiences in children from 🇰🇪🇩🇪🇹🇷 and use ML models to quantify interactions. 4 years, fully funded, great team, beautiful location. Please share and apply! tinyurl.com/2mafdyh4

Are you based in Ireland and interested in training the next generation of researchers in open research practices? We have a "train-the-trainer" event in Dublin on April 29th. Registration is free, but spaces are limited! norf.ie/tropic-train... #openResearch #irishResearch #loveIrishResearch

I usually post research or academic stuff, but this is a bit different. My family worked in manufacturing and export for years; we’re worried about the US tariffs, but we also know Vietnam's survived 30-yr embargo. Yesterday the government shared a message of unity. Here’s the English translation🧵

What is your favorite chapter/paper for explaining complex dynamic systems theory to ~3rd year (Developmental) Psychology students? Bonus points for sources from the last 5-10 years 💯

What is your favorite chapter/paper for explaining complex dynamic systems theory to ~3rd year (Developmental) Psychology students? Bonus points for sources from the last 5-10 years 💯

Interested in ESM but don’t know where to start? On Thursday May 22 we organize a workshop on how to design and analyze your ESM study! Register here: forms.office.com/e/2jUtLe2t2R. With @domimaciejewski.bsky.social, @dejonckheeregon.bsky.social, Marlies Houben @tilburg-university.bsky.social

Big crowd @ Grote Markt, Groningen #WOinActie #DoeHetNiet

Geen bezunigingen! Da’s Gronings (denk ik). #WOinActie #DoeHetNiet

Vandaag gaat de estafettestaking tegen de bezuinigingen op hoger onderwijs en wetenschap verder. Vandaag is het de beurt aan het zonnige Groningen. Ik hoop vanmiddag veel collega’s te zien op de Grote Markt!

Een weerbare universiteit weet wat haar missie en waarde is in een democratische samenleving en weet die te verdedigen.

I wrote a blog post about a collaborative research project that I’m involved in, and which is one of the most enjoyable things that I’m currently working on :): mindwise-groningen.nl/serious-gami...

I wrote a blog post about a collaborative research project that I’m involved in, and which is one of the most enjoyable things that I’m currently working on :): mindwise-groningen.nl/serious-gami...

So someone put 75% of all bicycles parked near the train station upside down tonight. What a way to spend the night, I’m impressed by the effort!

The inset appears to move.

impressive piece of investigative journalists. if this was happening anywhere else, the US would have declared it dictatorship

Super cool work here 👇🏼

Developmental psychology in the wild 🤩 Perservation during sorting of our 2yo. After putting three blue beads with the other blue ones, also a pink bead ends up with the blue ones.

Wat is de overeenkomst tussen een kleuter en die man met dat stomme petje? Gevaarlijke zelfoverschatting, constateert columnist (en ontwikkelingspsycholoog, dus hij kan het weten) Gerrit Breeuwmsa. ukrant.nl/een-kleuter-...

Come and join our wonderful summer school about Analyzing Classroom Interactions! When 📆: June 30-July 4, 2025 Where 🚩: Groningen, the Netherlands Deadline to apply ⏱️: April 1, 2025

I received very good suggestions for this issue as well, thanks! 🌷

I've just submitted my first single author (opinion) paper, which feels very scary! 🫣 Title: Cognitive understanding is a functional coordination pattern, just like swimming 🏊 Preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...

I'm looking for a way to automatically blur multiple faces in a video. People in the video cross paths. Do have ideas and/or experiences? Ideally, the program would automatically blur all faces and then we would be able to select which faces we want to "de-blur". But also open to other options.

Thanks for the shout out, @nicofoley.bsky.social! Here is the GitHub repo with this code. I hope it’s helpful! github.com/vedb/protect...

Michelle Greene’s group has a lot of experience with this: arxiv.org/abs/2404.18934 They use: github.com/serengil/ret...

My research assistants tried a bunch of different programs for this and we ultimately decided to use movavi with pretty good success - there’s a free option that leaves a watermark across the video or the paid version is fairly inexpensive too! Happy to answer questions (if I can 😅)

I'm looking for a way to automatically blur multiple faces in a video. People in the video cross paths. Do have ideas and/or experiences? Ideally, the program would automatically blur all faces and then we would be able to select which faces we want to "de-blur". But also open to other options.

Cognitive understanding is a functional coordination pattern, just like swimming: http://osf.io/enyx4_v1/

I've just submitted my first single author (opinion) paper, which feels very scary! 🫣 Title: Cognitive understanding is a functional coordination pattern, just like swimming 🏊 Preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...

Already got some good tips 👇, thanks! If you’re interested, read the comments. And if you have tips to add that would be wonderful! 💐

I need your help 🙋! Within Kindergarten classrooms, we want to record the speech of five 4yo's with wearable microphones. During a pilot with wearable recorders and wired mic's, kids were very distracted by the heavy recorders and wires. Do you have any tips for speech recording in this setting?

As part of my recent British Academy / Leverhulme Small Research Grant, we are conducting exciting new experimental research in the lab. Our main hypothesis is evolutionary: the transition to bipedalism and its impact on balance control fundamentally changed the way humans communicate.

🚨Abstract submission now open for the European Workshop on Ecological Psychology, 15-18 July 2025, in Leeds UK 🚨 Abstracts: due Friday 14th March, 2025 Early Registration: by Wednesday 30 April (open shortly) Please share widely! www.leedsbeckett.ac.uk/events/confe...