🎉 New paper out by a member of our group! Are speakers sensitive to lexical bias effects in their own auditory feedback? And do such effects shape speech production? 🚨 Spoiler in the title! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #phonetics #auditoryfeedback #lexicalbias

Lexical Bias Effects do not Influence Responses to Real-Time Temporal Auditory Feedback Perturbation - Miriam Oschkinat, Eva Reinisch, Philip Hoole, 2026

In speech perception, listeners tend to hear real words rather than non-words on a physically balanced real word—non-word continuum (lexical bias effect). Bourg...

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🚨New preprint and our results are rather concerning.. We find the "boiling frog" equivalent of AI use. Using large-scale RCTs, we provide *casual* evidence that AI assistance reduces persistence and hurts independent performance. And these effects emerge after just 10–15 minutes of AI use! 1/

The trove of files released by the Department of Justice, illuminates Epstein’s deep interest and entrenchment in the scientific community. But the files also underscore how he used his power and money in ways that kept women out of places where they might succeed. https://bit.ly/4qWgPLz

The boys’ club: How Epstein’s influence shaped the exclusion of women in STEM

In one email, an AI researcher suggested it’s “hard to be brilliant if you are worrying if you look fat or why another woman hates you.”

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🧵 New paper to appear in The Handbook of Linguistics and Multimodality: “Communicating from head to toe”, with @acwiek.bsky.social and @susfuchs.bsky.social 🥰 We review evidence that language is fundamentally physical, shaped by anatomy and biomechanics from your skull to your soles. 🗣️🦵 [1/6]

🚨 #EnvisionBOX alert 🚨 We are pleased to announce a virtual EnvisionBox Community Meeting, designed to bring together researchers who work with computational tools for processing, annotation, and analysis of multimodal data available on the EnvisionBox platform (and beyond). #multimodality

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...

EnvisionBOX overview2025

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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."

The problem is far bigger than Jeffrey Epstein | Rebecca Solnit

Treating the scandal as an aberration misunderstands the global epidemic of violence against women

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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

Postdoctoral Researcher in social/cognitive neuroscience with focus on social learning

Do you want to contribute to top quality medical research? The Mechanisms of Social Behavior lab at Karolinska Institutet (PI: Björn Lindström) is seeking a highly qualified postdoctoral researcher.

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🚨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...

wimpouw@wimpouw.bsky.social · last yr.

Applications open! forms.gle/LnNSEyivsADr...

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 ❤️🥹

Martin Paul Eve@eve.gd · 2y ago

The unexpected poetry of PhD acknowledgements science.anu.edu.au/news-events/...

So beautiful ❤️🥹

Martin Paul Eve@eve.gd · 2y ago

The unexpected poetry of PhD acknowledgements science.anu.edu.au/news-events/...

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 🥳🦋