Last week, PhDs from @zasberlin.bsky.social visited @idsmannheim.bsky.social as part of annual networking event between the institutes.

It was very inspiring to join the other two shortlisted candidates for the Leo Waaijers award and represent the team in Groningem today. @wimpouw.bsky.social @sarkadava.bsky.social @babajideowoyele.bsky.social Big congrats to winner Chris Hartgerink! #OpenScience #NOSF2025

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...

Modern research is increasingly collaborative and global, yet project management tools often lack effectiveness. STAPLE is an open-source platform that enhances research workflows. This webinar will cover project creation, task assignment, and contribution tracking. Register: cos-io.zoom.us/webin...

"One of the reasons the epidemic of violence against women is so unacknowledged is because cases like these are talked about individually, and often treated as though they are shocking aberrations rather than part of a pervasive pattern that operates at all levels of society."

Another summer full of amazing encounters 🌞 Just arrived home from conferences, the scientists’ favorite alternative to beach holiday 🏝️ /1

WeTransfer just changed their TOS giving themselves permission to train AI on any content you transfer and produce derivative works based on content you transfer that they are allowed to monetize and you are not allowed payment for. Stop using WeTransfer.

Great week full of people excited about gestures 👌 ahead! Arrived in beautiful Nijmegen 🇳🇱 for @isgs2025.bsky.social Stop by at Friday’s poster session to learn about our project with Door Spruijt comparing kinematic patterns of gesturers, L2-signers and native signers 🤓 #isgs2025 #vicom

Day 4 of EnvisionBOX summer school 👩🏾‍💻🧑🏻‍💻👩🏼‍💻👩🏽‍💻 Solving challenges connected to multimodal research with @babajideowoyele.bsky.social, based on Maass et al. 2018 Teamwork makes the dream work 💪🏼

Thank you to EnvisionBOX (@wimpouw.bsky.social, @jamestrujillo.bsky.social, @babajideowoyele.bsky.social, and @sarkadava.bsky.social) for hosting an excellent summer school in Amsterdam on computer vision and advanced multimodal techniques. We learned a lot and had a great time!

Day 3 of EnvisionBOX summer school 👩‍💻🧑🏽‍💻👨🏻‍💻👩🏻‍💻 Tapping into kinematic and acoustic signals with @jamestrujillo.bsky.social , @wimpouw.bsky.social and Marianne de Heer Kloots 👀

Day 2 of EnvisionBOX summer school 👩🏻‍💻👨🏽‍💻🧑🏼‍💻👩🏾‍💻 Learning fundamentals of deep learning & computer vision with Antonio Rueda-Toicen (@hpi.bsky.social)

Day 1 of EnvisionBOX summer school 👩‍💻🧑🏼‍💻🧑🏽‍💻👩🏻‍💻 Working on 3D motion capture with participants’ phones to perform markerless #Pose2Sim pipeline with David Pagnon

On Wednesday 18th of June at 13:00, Zuzanna Laudańska (Heidelberg University Hospital) will present her work on early dyadic conversations and motor-vocal development over the first year of life 👶🏼🤱🏻 The talk is part of ZASx Talk Series (@zasberlin.bsky.social)

Join our @erc.europa.eu funded lab @ki.se! We're hiring a postdoc to explore how humans learn from each other — with fMRI, modeling, & behavioral experiments. 🧠👫 A chance to lead cutting-edge work in social neuro & computational psychology. Apply: shorturl.at/GJQuW

🚨PhD position alert!🚨 Joint PhD position with @fedemar.bsky.social @predictivebrain.bsky.social and Sonja Kotz, to investigate the neurobiological underpinnings of perceptual decisions vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric... Please share and if you have questions, send me a message!

On Monday, May 19 at 10:00 Lara Pearson (@musicalgesture.bsky.social) will present her work on sonic & kinematic 🤲 motifs in Karnatak music 🎵 at @zasberlin.bsky.social as a part of ZASx series Possible to join online! 👩‍💻 More details about the event here: www.leibniz-zas.de/de/forschung...

On Tuesday, May 6 at 10:00, Door Spruijt (@unicologne.bsky.social) will present her work on how learners of a sign language may utilize their gestural repertoire in acquiring manual phonology 👐🏻🧏🏼‍♀️ at @zasberlin.bsky.social #ViCom #DGS More info here: www.leibniz-zas.de/en/about-us/...

Join us for a week of *Unboxing Multimodality* in Amsterdam 🇳🇱 Among others, David Pagnon will introduce #pose2sim pipeline and cover topics like building low-cost 3D motion capture setup 📽️ and motion tracking processing 👐🏻 Application is open until 4th of May! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

We (with Annika Schiefner) put a new EnvisionBox module online for creating stimuli where one wants to dynamically block the signal potential of different facial gestures, mouthings, or articulatory information. Maybe helpful for some! envisionbox.org/embedded_Sti... github.com/WimPouw/Auto...

So beautiful ❤️🥹

So beautiful ❤️🥹

Made my first PyPi package "EnvisionHGdetector" (version 0.0.3), a simple skeleton-based hand gesture recognizer using a convolutional neural network trained on three fully open datasets (SAGA, TEDM3D, Zhubo). Demo and info: envisionbox.org/embedded_Usi... Package: pypi.org/project/envi...

I had an amazing opportunity to be part of a workshop *Multimodality in Social Interactions 2.0* in sunny sunny Marseille 🌞 and share our ongoing #flesh & #vicom work on motion capture in different context and species. Thanks everyone for truly great time ❤️🐋🐒

Last week at @zasberlin.bsky.social , we had a visit of doctoral candidates from @idsmannheim.bsky.social 🧑🏼‍🔬👩🏻‍🔬 Thanks for coming, and see you next year in Mannheim 🥳🦋

to all multimodal freaks 🤓🤓🤓

Save the Date: Summer School in Sign Language Studies at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin from July 21 through July 25, 2025. International SL and written English are working languages. IntSL: box.hu-berlin.de/f/680f6902d4... English: box.hu-berlin.de/f/0fc59d11b7...

Move over bouba-kiki! New study on crossmodal iconicity shows [r] = rough and [l] = smooth, even in langs that conflate them. The results show "that speech sounds are not just acoustic objects, but they also have a texture and a shape to them". #iconicity 🐦🐦

OK, here it is: the starter pack to get to know the #multimodalists on Bluesky. Who is missing? go.bsky.app/QPLSxuX

The Department of Psychology at University of Wisconsin–Madison is searching for an assistant professor in the area of computational approaches to language (broadly construed). Please share widely! jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...

Come join us as a post-doc on NWO project 'Multimodal Signalling in Face-to-Face Communication' 😃 at the Donders Centre for Cognition. Deadline 8th December! Dutch language proficiency required. ru.varbi.com/what:job/job...

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

Call for submissions open for 10th Conference of the International Society for Gesture Studies at Nijmegen, the Netherlands on July 9-11 2025 Submission guidelines and more info: www.isgs10.nl/abstract-sub... Deadline: January 15,2025

New paper out in our special issue with @acwiek.bsky.social and Jody Kreiman in JASA: Vowel signatures in emotional interjections and nonlinguistic vocalizations expressing pain, disgust, and joy across languages. Enjoy reading!

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Do you see problems with the for-profit academic publishing system? Are you a cognitive scientist? Take action with us! Publish with diamond open access in 5 years after the pledge activates. Activation happens when a critical mass is reached. freeourknowledge.org/2024-01-30-c...

Unser Forschungsbereich #Laborphonologie lädt ein! Am 15. Feb. 2024, 14-15:30 Uhr via Zoom: ZASx Talk mit Dr. Lara Sophie Burchardt (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin). Thema: #Kommunikationsrhythmen in der #Tierwelt. Mehr Infos und Anmeldung unter: www.leibniz-zas.de/de/forschung...

The IACS conference in beautiful Lund has extended submission deadline to February 15 🥳 Check out our session Linguistic Bodies in Interaction 💃 and join us for discussions about dynamic multimodal signals and many more 🌞

JOB ALERT We are looking for a new Camp Manager to manage the Taï Chimpanzee Project in Ivory Coast. You will manage data collection, manage schedule of 35 local staff and international researchers, and make sure smooth running. PhD opportunity optional. Start 1.4.24 emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...

Einblick in das von der DFG geförderte Projekt FLESH: Im Vicom Programm untersuchen @susfuchs.bsky.social, @acwiek.bsky.social, @sarkadava.bsky.social und Wim Pouw die Koordination zwischen Sprache und Gestik. Ein Kurzvideo dazu finden Sie hier: vicom.info/projects/on-...

Local registration for the 2024 round of my FREE OPEN ONLINE Statistical Rethinking course has begun. I'll open up registration on Sunday 3 December. See theatrical trailer below and other details on the course github page #stats 🧪 github.com/rmcelreath/s...

Just hit 8035 code sent! Thank you all so much for donating codes and spreading the word to get more researchers and clinicians here. There are ~850 codes left to distribute, and I just cleared the request list. If you know anyone looking to join bsky, send them my way! 🧪 forms.gle/ZyYhpa5MHT66...

Honeybees understand the concept of zero, or "null set", putting them in the same cognitive class as parrots, dolphins and primates in that regard. What's more interesting to me is HOW WE CAN KNOW THAT. The experimental design is what I want to focus on: