what's the point of writing this? arguing (also to myself) that i) exploration is good, it doesn't need to lead to outputs! ii) models/research fail! and that can be insightful! but also if not insightful, that's still how research works! iii) sharing curiosity-driven efforts and excitement!

CogSci in Aarhus is hiring, open rank (assi, asso or full prof). We want somebody working on and teaching computational modelling of cognitive processes and/or social processes. Students are amazing, work/life balance very satisfactory, and colleagues are nice! international.au.dk/about/profil...

Academic publishing is broken due to for-profit actors. Time to explore alternatives as researchers → A Diamond Open Access conference, Feb 5-6, 2026 in Nijmegen NL. Free registration (limited seats): horizondiamond.nl Let's build a sustainable publishing infrastructure together.

Autistic adults, regardless of whether clinically dx or self-identifying, report more difficulty processing auditory information, particularly others' speech. doi.org/10.1177/1362... New research by Elena Silva, Linda Drivers @lindadrijvers.bsky.social and myself (reposting with correct link)

Autistic adults,regardless of whether clinically dx or self-identifying, report more difficulty processing auditory information, particularly others' speech. doi.org/10.1080/1499... New research by Elena Silva, Linda Drivers @lindadrijvers.bsky.social and myself 🧵

There are a lot of barriers associated with getting a diagnosis, and doubts about whether it's worthwhile. This is a really nice overview of why it *can* be worthwhile to get that confirmation

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

Check out our fantastic new EnvisionBOX intro video made by Markus Küpper! This video and nomination really feels like another step in professionalizing the platform and making it even more visible, and so hopefully becoming useful to even more people. Thanks everyone for the nominations!

The U.S. powers-that-be still want us to die or vanish into hyper-compliance that makes us more vulnerable to victimization: blogs.exeter.ac.uk/exploringdia...

🚨 New preprint: Invisible neural frequency tagging (RIFT) for the underfunded researcher: 👉 www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/... RIFT uses high-frequency flicker to probe attention in M/EEG with minimal stimulus visibility and little distraction. Until now, it required a costly high-speed projector.

On my way back from my last conference/event of the academic year! It's been so fun to meet so many great people doing cool stuff. I certainly have inspiration to last the summer! Thanks for organizing this @adw.bsky.social , and for letting me pick your brain about affordances for 3 days! #EWEP16

A couple of days late to post this, but this is one of the great things about in person conferences: getting to hang out with people in very different, non-work settings! Had a great time on Sunday canoeing in Utrecht with @ashleydemarchena.bsky.social , who is normally only see on Zoom!

What a great time at @isgs2025.bsky.social ! So great to reconnect and meet so many people doing really cool work. And always nice to be back in Nijmegen 😁 Already excited for ISGS11 in Hong Kong!

🧠 Call for Participation: Social Dynamics 2025 🗓️ 20-21 November 2025 📍Utrecht University, The Netherlands 🔗 socialdynamics2025.sites.uu.nl ft @antoniahamilton.bsky.social @escross.bsky.social @suzannedikker.bsky.social @milicanikolic.bsky.social, @dcrafa.bsky.social + many more

Very happy to have contributed to this review, with excellent direction from @ashleydemarchena.bsky.social , on communication in autistic adults! It was a fun experience to think about how to translate the findings into practical suggestions for clinicians

🚨 New preprint + open pipeline 🚨 CVML-based behavioral observations: osf.io/preprints/ps... Co-led with @wimpouw.bsky.social, alongside @jamestrujillo.bsky.social, @babajideowoyele.bsky.social, @tjwiltshire.bsky.social, F. Hasselman, N. Siekiera, J. Raczaszek-Leonardi. 👀 Take a look & use it!

New research from MIT found that those who used ChatGPT can’t remember any of the content of their essays. Key takeaway: the product doesn’t suffer, but the process does. And when it comes to essays, the process *is* how they learn. arxiv.org/pdf/2506.088...

Hey #linguistics people. Does anyone know of any open source corpora containing conversations in non-Indo-European languages?

Thanks for having me at ACORPO! It was great to discuss methods for analyzing corpora, and meet many new people! Also great to hear that so many are also thinking about how to open up data and have more collaborative language science!

Today in Hell Yes, Research! Autistic quality of life improved by access to accommodations like earplugs & headphones to manage sounds. "Our study demonstrates that many aspects of auditory environments—beyond noise alone―can negatively impact Autistic people’s QoL." www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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This has been a really insightful read! @clearautism.bsky.social mentions examining neurodivergence holistically. Is anyone working on something like this?

If you research autism, this is for you to read; and inwardly digest. (And thank you to our team who were there - @autisticcharlie.bsky.social @zahrablue.bsky.social Josh & @brianirvine.bsky.social)

Excited to share the DIMS Dashboard—a tool for displaying multimodal, extracted time series alongside the original video source! It’s designed to support and inspire a richer qualitative–quantitative research cycle. Huge thanks to my amazing collaborators and mentors who made this possible! 🙌

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“For someone with increased perceptual capacity, tranquillity could lead to unpleasant rumination, and solitude could become imposed isolation. Instead of creating bland and featureless places, we must create places in which ongoing cycles of engagement and rest can be done well.” #AutRes 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

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...

Applications for our summer school on analysis pipelines for quantifying multimodal behavior are now open!

Looking forward to discussing some new work with Travis Wiltshire on turn-taking dynamics this summer! And even more so looking forward to discussing ecological psychology and dynamical systems perspectives with everyone there 😀

When listening to a story, earlier parts of the story (context) and the speaker's gestures help us predict and understand what they are saying. In a new preprint we show context and gestures have a push-pull synergy on neural response to linguistic information 👇🧵

In an unprecedented move, the US National Institutes of Health has begun mass terminations of research grants that fund active scientific projects because they no longer meet “agency priorities”. https://go.nature.com/4bpG2It

1/ 🧵 🚨New paper!🚨 Cross-cultural research is expanding in the social sciences — but are we measuring what we think we are? Our recent paper argues that construct validity is an overlooked challenge, especially in developmental research. Let’s break it down. 🌍 🧠 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Towards automated gesture detection! With bonus analyses and visualizations built in. And no complicated installation: it's all in a nice pypi package

New paper out on the relationship between EQ scores, kinematic entrainment, and prosodic similarity during question-answer sequences in dialogue. Congrats @aridyer.bsky.social on having this excellent thesis work published!

How well can video-based methods estimate body kinematics? In my recent paper with @giacomonovembre.bsky.social, we show that accuracy of one such method (OpenPose) varied substantially across subjects & body parts. Interestingly, this accuracy strongly depended on the movement amplitude. t.ly/4Tlnc

Directory of free, open psychological datasets docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Very excited to be bringing the EnvisionBox summer school to Amsterdam! Now that we've got the dates lined out, we're working on finalizing a very exciting week of social signal processing sessions, both from the EnvisionBox team, as well as some exciting guest experts!

Excited to have another paper coming out from my postdoc time with @judithholler.bsky.social ! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... We looked at how visual signals, like facial expressions and hand gestures, are associated with the the amount of linguistic information, in spoken conversations 🧵

Yes, very exciting to have our paper coming online soon! www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy... We looked at how "gesture expressivity" develops over the course of a story telling, and how this gesture expressivity is associated with emotional resonance between storyteller and listener.

The Dutch government wants to cut €1billion to higher education. 20,000 people marched in the Hague today to say NO to this. Very proud to see so many UvA colleagues joining in!

I've started working on a (very incomplete!) starter pack for social interaction researchers! If you're working in this space, please asked to be added (or suggest others)! Meant to be inclusive of many disciplines, methods, interaction types, and types of interacting agents: go.bsky.app/44VAEhU

New starter pack: people doing science with narratives, naturalistic memory, natural conversations, and using language models for psych/cog sci 📖💻📚 (Reply with 🙋 if you'd like to be added!) go.bsky.app/LGRYMvQ

It is such an honor to be included in this fantastic new Handbook of Gesture Studies! And really wild to see my name listed among so many amazing people whose work has inspired me

You can sign up now for the new workshop on 'Behavioral Dynamics in Social Interactions' in Krakow 2-4th of May. Follow the link through here to apply: envisionbox.org/krakow_flyer...