🚨 New paper! Together with @florian-hintz.bsky.social @judithholler.bsky.social and colleagues, we investigate the contribution of iconic gestures to sentence comprehension. doi.org/10.1016/j.co...

🚨Preprint alert! Repeated exposure to the same audiobook excerpt doesn't affect how well your brain tracks the input, but it does affect *how* it does! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Repeated listening induces exposure-specific cortical tracking of intelligible continuous speech

Neural encoding of acoustic and linguistic features of continuous speech is sensitive to cognitive factors, such as attention and comprehension. We investigated whether neural tracking is also sensiti...

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Finally my years of experience in this field are paying off 😬

Not fooling myself to think I'm going to make it to the bottom of my "to read" folder in 2026, but as a (slightly) more feasible resolution, this year I'm aiming to get through my ever-growing collection of cookbooks!

The EEGManyPipelines Dataset: Metascientific Data on 168 Independent Analyses of a Single EEG Dataset: https://osf.io/c4xwg

🚨New #OSF #preprint alert! We test how 5 researcher choices affect divergence point analyses with bootstrapping in visual-world eye-tracking. Bin size and significance-window length matter most, and there's a consistent overestimation bias. See also osf.io/preprints/ps... for some recommendations.

Today - Tuesday - there are strikes against the planned budget cuts to higher education. These three UM'ers show up time after time: what drives them, does protesting run in their blood, and why is it sometimes hard to protest, even for them? #Protest www.observantonline.nl/english/Home...

Morgen de grote HO staking! Tot op de Dam! Tomorrow the big HE strike! See you at Dam square! woinactie.blogspot.com/2025/12/prog...

Programma Stakingsactie 9 december / Programme Strike Action 9 December

WOinActie is een beweging van studenten en medewerkers en maakt zich sterk voor de universiteit en haar toekomst.

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On my way to the Dam to protest the budget cuts to higher education! Will I see you there? #woinactie @woinactie.bsky.social 🟥

We're seeking the next Director of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics! Lead cutting-edge research in language & cognition. Nominations (incl. self) due 19 Dec 2025. mpi.nl/career-education/vacancies/vacancy/nominations-and-self-nominations-sought-position-director-max

Never been to a conference concert before, but if not the International Conference on Auditory Cortex, where else? #icac2025 @icac2025.bsky.social

My son is calling this car blue and I'm having flashbacks to 2015 #thedress

You know it's time for vacation when you arrive in the office only to find that you left your laptop at home 🙃

Making the trip up to Nijmegen again today for @isgs2025.bsky.social! Stop by today's poster session to see some new data on conversational expectations elicited by facial signals. @judithholler.bsky.social #isgs2025

Hello & HAPPY FRIDAY, as promised an open letter by my lovely colleagues and myself. Everybody, feel free to sign this even if you are not NL-based and ‼️ share ‼️ (anonymous signature is poss): Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia openletter.earth/open-letter-...

[Dyslexia] Emmendorfer et al.: "This is the first study to simultaneously assess neural sensitivity to phonological and temporal regularities in Dutch adult dyslexic readers and highlights distinct change detection for different sublexical features." doi.org/10.1016/j.cl...

Strike in Amsterdam June 10! The Dutch cabinet may have fallen, but the future of higher education in the Netherlands is still uncertain. We need to let the caretaker government and all the political parties know that the recently adopted budget with its drastic cuts to higher ed cannot stand...

“Neurophysiological responses to phonological and temporal regularities in speech in dyslexic and typical readers” by Alexandra K. Emmendorfer, Bernadette M. Jansma, Sonja A. Kotz and Milene Bonte (May ’25) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🚨 New Paper! Final chapter of my PhD at @maastrichtu.bsky.social is now (finally) out in Clinical Neurophysiology! doi.org/10.1016/j.cl...

The book my toddler brought me to read this morning. Like mother like son? (He left to play with his cars as soon as I started reading)

🟥 CALL FOR A NATIONAL STRIKE - June 10 🟥 A week ago, we stood together on the Vrijthof to defend our universities. On Friday, the cabinet announced its plans to cut another 400 million a year from primary and secondary education. Yesterday, the minister confirmed he will force universities...

How does our brain process interactions with an #avatar compared to another human being? This study shows that feedback from an avatar increases #RiskTaking behavior in humans and is associated with lower activity in the #amygdala & ventral #striatum @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/3S3Esmw

For all the talk of avoiding academic conferences in US, it must also be recognised that if you host a conference in the UK this is no longer a safe place for trans people to be.

The march is underway. The crowd has left Vrijthof and is making its way through the city center. The message: our region's economy is at risk! UM is the largest employer in Limburg. Citizens hold also a stake in defending all other educational institutions against these cuts! #WOinActie

Higher education institutions in Maastricht are on strike today to protest destructive cuts of more than 1 billion €. These cuts will impact our research, teaching quality, and our unique position as a border region university. To Minister Bruins we say: HANDS OFF our higher education! #WOinACTIE

🟥 Maastricht University is on strike today to protest devastating cuts in higher ed 🟥 👉 Show up @ Vrijthof @ 12:30! 👉 Bring your colleagues! 👉 Post your photos & tag us! 👉 Help us to spread the word - share this post! #WOinACTIE #DefendMaastrichtUniversity #KabinetSlooptHogerOnderwijs #StakingHO

Maastricht University strikes against the higher education budget cuts today (@woinactielimburg.bsky.social). The strike day kicks off with guest lectures by UM staff at high schools. Follow the news troughout the day in our liveblog: www.observantonline.nl/english/Home...

Saturday morning listening recommendation: "Eppo Ciao" protest song performed by the UM choir: tinyurl.com/yc6jk3ws The choir will do a live session on April 16 at the Vrijthof podium in Maastricht. Sing with us & join the protest! Special thanks and credits to the UM choir: www.umchoir.com

A thread: We know a lot of colleagues and students still doubting to strike. Here is why it matters: Imagine a long row of dominoes, perfectly aligned. The first one stands at the edge – seemingly insignificant on its own. But once it falls, a chain reaction becomes inevitable.

See the program below for @maastrichtu.bsky.social's strike day April 16th! #WOinActie