3. Motor overflow might be an overseen precursor for gesture production 4. Looking into the adapation of vocal-respiratory-locomotor adaptation in infancy and how this changes may be a fascinating topic

Some knowledge that was new to me while writing this review with my colleagues: 1. The respiratory system, i.e. how thorax and abdomen work together is very different in young infants 2. Empirical data on the coordination between motion and breathing are very limited

Some EU alternatives to the big AI and tech companies: european-alternatives.eu/categories

I've been working for ages on a comprehensive revamp of the Stanford Encyclopedia Entry on "Animal Consciousness", with new sections on non-Western perspectives, methodological challenges and evolutionary big pictures, and it's out today: plato.stanford.edu/entries/cons.... Hope you find it useful!

Reminder 📢 We are advertising a postdoctoral position in #philbio or #philphysics to work on an interdisciplinary project that adopts the lens of self-organization & active matter to explore the boundary between living and nonliving systems👇 www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo... #philjobs #philsci #evosky

Re: the AI slop paper shared by @thomaspellard.bsky.social and @lameensouag.bsky.social, I wrote to the editors — will update when I get a reply, and will be following closely what they do. Key point is that we should hold the *journal* accountable for this mess I have a few predictions... 1/n

Research position suitable for a PhD student (or beyond), keen to work with multimodal vocal performance data in beatboxing: jobportal.uni-koeln.de/ausschreibun... Deadline: 12 January! Apply here: jobportal.uni-koeln.de/bewerben/2429 Feel free to contact me with questions about the position

Part-time, permanent position. Rare opportunity to work at one of the UK's premier wildlife/ecotourism sites (Ospreys, White-tailed Eagles, Peregrine, Marsh Harriers) with a fabulous team @harbourbirds.bsky.social Closing date: 30 Jan. #RaptorResearch raptorpersecutionuk.org/2026/01/03/j...

Cycling cities: documentaries how to change cities in qualitative living areas (in German with English subtitles): www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5jQ...

This press conference is bananas, and the questions being asked are terrible. He's basically saying that anything he deems the US needs the US will just take regardless of where it is. "We're taking wealth out of the ground ..." like WTAF? Greenland and Canada next?

It’s not about drugs. If it was, Trump wouldn’t have pardoned one of the largest narco traffickers in the world last month. It’s about oil and regime change. And they need a trial now to pretend that it isn’t. Especially to distract from his sinking under Epstein and skyrocketing healthcare costs.

Trump and Hegseth should be tried at The Hague

Chavez in 2009, while being labelled as paranoid, outlines exactly what is happening today.

Time is running out to submit to to the 190th ASA in Philadelphia! Abstracts are due 12 January 2026. Complete details at https://acousticalsociety.org/philadelphia-abstract-submission-2 Come celebrate the 250th anniversary of the United States with the ASA #ASA190 #Philadelphia250

🌱🌾🌲🌍🌿🍄🌺🌳🌴🌷Welcome to 2026 - and another team registered for Botanical University Challenge 2026 - University of Plymouth. Their team first competed in 2022, and were the runner-up in 2025! #BUC2026

Reminder.

Salad survived the frost, amazing (sort: Zuckerhut). The rest is bought

Almost poetic my way today

Dieses Thema liegt mir am Herzen. Bitte hier unterzeichnen: weact.campact.de/petitions/so...

Google scholar is now broken for good because people use AI-generated, non-existent references. As someone who will go to great lengths to hunt down the original 19th century grammar to cross-check an example cited in later literature, this just adds to my general disappointment in humankind, tbh

For those in town

Ever thought there can be word internal pauses??? Yes, it is possible. Work by Ludger Paschen

One of our librarians sat down with a medical student and helped them find and create a list of citations. All they had to do was copy and paste it into their assignment. They submitted a list of AI generated citatons instead. They were ALL fake.

New paper in @openmindjournal.bsky.social "Scope and limits of iconic prosody." It all started in 2018. First results at CogSci 2019, then for my PhD. This is a complete re-analysis! doi.org/10.1162/OPMI... Thanks to @susfuchs.bsky.social Manfred Krifka, and Cornelia Ebert 💛 + editors + reviewers

Westcoast dance is just so amazing: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ih0...

A couple years (!) in the making: we’re releasing a new corpus of embodied, collaborative problem solving dialogues. We paid 36 people to play Portal 2’s co-op mode and collected their speech + game recordings. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2512.03381 Website: berkeley-nlp.github.io/portal-dialo... 1/n

innn.it/boellerverbot Berlin an Sylvester ist ein Ort, den man verlassen sollte. Um das zu verändern, unterschreibt diese Petition.

Wir suchen wieder Verstärkung im Team – diesmal in der Redaktion! Wenn es für dich in Frage kommt, guck gerne rein! Oder du jemanden kennst, für den das was wäre, teile das gern und helft uns, weiter zu wachsen, um gegen Hass & Desinformation zu kämpfen :) www.volksverpetzer.de/stellenaussc...

Deadline 4 Jan: Postdoc, variability and vowel harmony, metaphony (phonetic and psycholinguistic approaches), Potsdam (w/ A. Gafos) docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Did you know the heart imprints onto the voice? New preprint spearheaded by Marijn Hafkamp, confirming (seemingly forgotten) research from the 80's and testing for the first time possible biomechanical mechanisms (evidence points to heart-lung-voice interactions). wimpouw.com/files/Hafkam...

New perspective paper (w/ @sedaakbiyik.bsky.social, Joseph Outa, & @minjaek.bsky.social ) in @natrevpsychol.nature.com ⚽💭🧠👶 : www.nature.com/articles/s44...

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.

Acoustics Lay Language Paper Hearing loss in old age isn’t normal aging. It’s the result of cumulative excessive lifetime noise exposure. https://acoustics.org/hearing-loss-in-old-age-isnt-due-to-normal-aging/ #ASA189 #ASA_ASJ2025

Wenn man wirklich die Universitäten nachhaltig schützen will vor politischen Einflussnahmen, dann braucht es dringend sehr viel mehr Dauerstellen. Das ist der beste Schutz der Wissenschaftsfreiheit und auch der Uni als kritischem Ort. Ich denke, genau deshalb gibt es diese Dauerstellen kaum

A richly annotated dataset of co-speech hand gestures across diverse speaker contexts www.nature.com/articles/s41... Dataset comprising 2373 annotated gestures, 9 speakers across 3 distinct categories: University lecturers, Politicians, and Psychotherapists can be accessed at doi.org/10.17605/OSF...

EXCELLENT graphic on the drain of scientific publishing! zenodo.org/records/1759...

New amazing open Postdoc position, w/t opportunities to 1) get closely involved in our next @themanybirds.bsky.social study on innovation and problem-solving; 2) work with @ecobird.bsky.social on avian innovation, cognition & invasiveness. Advert: www.ugent.be/en/work/scie...

Our paper on improving statistical reporting in psychology is now online 🎉 As a part of this paper, we also created the Transparent Statistical Reporting in Psychology checklist, which researchers can use to improve their statistical reporting practices www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Letzte Ernte aus dem Gewächshaus, es könnte ja bald frostig werden und grüne Tomaten rot werden lassen.

Schimpansen können offenbar rational denken – das zeigt eine neue Studie der Universität Utrecht, die im Fachjournal "Science" veröffentlicht wurde. Damit stellen die Forscher die lange geltende Annahme infrage, dass nur Menschen zu solchem Denken fähig sind. www.focus.de/wissen/forsc...

Our paper @sarabogels.bsky.social covering our pre-registered multi-year research is now finally out in Cognition. We show that in conversations people reduce their multimodal signals non-linearly; the steeper this non-linear drop-off the more communicative success. www.wimpouw.com/files/Bogels...

Always shocking to see these kinds of data collected together. "[publishers made]US$12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024" - That's $12 billion diverted away from actual research or materially supporting the community - these are disgusting numbers.

If you are interested in f0, have a look at the new paper from our lab on f0 across generations in 717 German speakers. pubs.aip.org/asa/jel/arti...

😢Friedemann Pulvermueller passed away. www.geisteswissenschaften.fu-berlin.de/en/dcl/veran...

www.openaccess.nl/en/netherlan... A hub primarily for librarians and research support professionals in the Netherlands to exchange knowledge, resources and developments in open access book publishing. Date: October 28, 2025 Time: 12:00-13:30 Location: Online

Diesen Mittwoch steht im Bundestag ein Mandatsentwurf zur Abstimmung, bei dem - anders als früher - nicht mehr ausgeschlossen wird, dass Deutschland die libyschen Küstenwache unterstützt. Obwohl diese systematisch Menschrechtsverletzungen begeht. Wir fordern eine klare Ablehnung des Mandats. [1/2]

Happy World Octopus Day. Here's a recent paper demonstrating octopuses have a sense of body ownership similar to mamals and rodents. www.cell.com/current-biol...