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Alex Emmendorfer, PhD 🗣️〰️🧠 🟥

@alexemmendorfer.bsky.social
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Lecturer @ Maastricht University 🇳🇱 Language, Prediction, EEG 🗣️〰️🧠 Toddler mom 👶🏼 Vegan 💚 DnD 🐲 & cat 🐈 enthusiast She/her

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Alex Emmendorfer, PhD 🗣️〰️🧠 🟥 @alexemmendorfer.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
🚨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...
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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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Alex Emmendorfer, PhD 🗣️〰️🧠 🟥 @alexemmendorfer.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Finally my years of experience in this field are paying off 😬
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Alex Emmendorfer, PhD 🗣️〰️🧠 🟥 @alexemmendorfer.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
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!
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MetaArXivBot @metaarxivbot.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
The EEGManyPipelines Dataset: Metascientific Data on 168 Independent Analyses of a Single EEG Dataset: osf.io/c4xwg
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Dr. Naomi Nota @naominota.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
🚨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.
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Observant @observant-um.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
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...
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WOinActie.bsky.social @woinactie.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
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...
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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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Alex Emmendorfer, PhD 🗣️〰️🧠 🟥 @alexemmendorfer.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
On my way to the Dam to protest the budget cuts to higher education! Will I see you there? #woinactie @woinactie.bsky.social 🟥
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Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics @mpi-nl.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
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
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Alex Emmendorfer, PhD 🗣️〰️🧠 🟥 @alexemmendorfer.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Never been to a conference concert before, but if not the International Conference on Auditory Cortex, where else? #icac2025 @icac2025.bsky.social
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Alex Emmendorfer, PhD 🗣️〰️🧠 🟥 @alexemmendorfer.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
My son is calling this car blue and I'm having flashbacks to 2015 #thedress
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Alex Emmendorfer, PhD 🗣️〰️🧠 🟥 @alexemmendorfer.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
You know it's time for vacation when you arrive in the office only to find that you left your laptop at home 🙃
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Alex Emmendorfer, PhD 🗣️〰️🧠 🟥 @alexemmendorfer.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
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
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 27/06/2025
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-...
Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia
Our demands, see link
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IFCN and its Clinical Neurophysiology journal @clinicalneuroph.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
[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...
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WOinActie Limburg🟥 @woinactielimburg.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
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...
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Darin Flynn @phono-logical.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
“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...
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Alex Emmendorfer, PhD 🗣️〰️🧠 🟥 @alexemmendorfer.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
🚨 New Paper! Final chapter of my PhD at @maastrichtu.bsky.social is now (finally) out in Clinical Neurophysiology! doi.org/10.1016/j.cl...
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Alex Emmendorfer, PhD 🗣️〰️🧠 🟥 @alexemmendorfer.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
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)
The book "seven and a half lessons about the brain" by Lisa Feldman Barrett
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WOinActie Limburg🟥 @woinactielimburg.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
🟥 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...
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PLOS Biology @plosbiology.org · 24/04/2025
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
Left:  Four different avatars were used (two female avatars: AF1, AF2; and two male avatars: AM1, AM2) along with two real human observers (HF1, HM1). For privacy considerations, pictures of real human observers (HF1, HM1 in the top-right human panel) were replaced with AI-generated images which were created by using the AI Human Images. Right: Amygdala response to feedback uncertainty explains differential risk-taking in avatar and human conditions. Upper panel: Whole-brain subtraction analysis comparing avatar and human observer conditions revealed lower amygdala activity in the avatar condition. Peak activity was identified in the central amygdala. Lower panel: To find brain regions associated with differential valuation of feedback uncertainty the authors weighted differential activity correlated with feedback uncertainty (avatar–human) by the differential behavioral coefficient for feedback uncertainty. A significant correlation was observed in the central amygdala, with an FWE-corrected p-value of 0.039 at the peak.
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Prof. Emily Nordmann @emilynordmann.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
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.
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Maastricht University @maastrichtu.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
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
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Alex Emmendorfer, PhD 🗣️〰️🧠 🟥 @alexemmendorfer.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
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
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WOinActie Support Letter
Support letter against budget cuts in higher education in the Netherlands
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WOinActie Limburg🟥 @woinactielimburg.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
🟥 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
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Observant @observant-um.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
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...
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WOinActie Limburg🟥 @woinactielimburg.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
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
cover image of the protest song Eppo Ciao (which is Bella Ciao reimagined in Dutch regarding the minister of education Eppo Bruins and his terrible budget cuts) with fists raised in protest, giving the date of the relay strike in Maastricht (April 16)
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WOinActie Limburg🟥 @woinactielimburg.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
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.
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Alex Emmendorfer, PhD 🗣️〰️🧠 🟥 @alexemmendorfer.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
See the program below for @maastrichtu.bsky.social's strike day April 16th! #WOinActie
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Alex Emmendorfer, PhD 🗣️〰️🧠 🟥 @alexemmendorfer.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Next week on April 16th I am joining many colleagues and students at @maastrichtu.bsky.social to strike against the budget cuts to higher education. Read and sign our letter of support here: www.supportscienceandeducation.com See you on the Vrijthof! #woinactie 🟥
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WOinActie Support Letter
Support letter against budget cuts in higher education in the Netherlands
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The International Conference on Auditory Cortex @icac2025.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
The abstract submission deadline for ICAC 2025 has been extended to the 11th of April! Check the webpage for links and relevant information www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/icac2025/int...
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Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics @mpi-nl.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Eyebrow movements as signals of communicative problems in human face-to-face interaction. New paper by Paul Hömke, Stephen C. Levinson, Alexandra K. Emmendorfer & @judithholler.bsky.social doi.org/10.1098/rsos.241632
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Eyebrow movements as signals of communicative problems in human face-to-face interaction | Royal Society Open Science
Repair is a core building block of human communication, allowing us to address problems of understanding in conversation. Past research has uncovered the basic mechanisms by which interactants signal ...
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SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
This is not intended as a brag btw, the key to submitting 5 first-author manuscripts in a couple of months is to fail to submit them in a more timely manner years ago.
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The International Conference on Auditory Cortex @icac2025.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
The abstract submission and registration for ICAC 2025 in Maastricht is now open! www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/icac2025/int...
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Max-Planck-Gesellschaft @maxplanck.de · 12/02/2025
A new round of the Lise Meitner Excellence Program for #tenuretrack group leaders opened today - please consider applying! The program aims to recruit and promote exceptionally qualified female scientists. www.mpg.de/lise-meitner... #LiseMeitnerGroups #WomeninScience #ScienceCareer
Pictures of Lise Meitner Group leaders: Sofie Valk, Flore Kunst, Anna-Maria Meister, Maria Sokolova, Heidi Colleran, Nathalie Feiner und Ulrike Kraft.
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Floris de Lange @predictivebrain.bsky.social · 19/03/2024
🚨Job alert!🚨 Are you curious about curiosity, and looking for a post-doc position? Then please consider applying: www.ru.nl/en/working-a... Feel free to e-mail/DM me if you have questions. Thanks very much for sharing/re-posting!
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Shravan Vasishth @shravanvasishth.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Applications for the ninth summer school on statistical methods for linguistics and psychology close on April 1, 2025. Every year people contact me saying they missed the call, so here it is again :) vasishth.github.io/smlp2025/
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The Ninth Summer School on Statistical Methods for Linguistics and Psychology
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Get in dorks, we're going protesting! STAND UP FOR SCIENCE WITH US ON MARCH 7TH, 2025 WASHINGTON DC AND EVERY STATE CAPITOL Because science is for everyone! Find us at www.standupforscience2025.org #standupforscience2025 #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence
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Divyangana Rakesh @divyangana.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
POSTDOC POSITION at @kingsioppn.bsky.social The postdoc will work on an @ukri.org funded project on disadvantage, the pace of neurodevelopment, and cognitive outcomes using openly available infant and adolescent data. See the job ad here: fluxsociety.org/postdoctoral... Please share and repost 🙏
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Postdoctoral Researcher in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience - Flux Society
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Jaclyn A. Siegel, PhD @jacasiegel.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Happy International Day of Women in Science. The National Science Foundation’s list of flagged words includes both “Women” and “Female.”
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Elliott Hoey @elliotthoey.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Fully funded 4-year PhD with me at VU Amsterdam #emca workingat.vu.nl/vacancies/ph...
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Vacancy — PhD position: Recording in social interaction
Are you looking for a PhD position in the field of communication? Do you have a background in conversation analysis, interactional-, or sociolinguistics? Are you fascinated by the impact of smartphone...
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Jonathan Peelle @jpeelle.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Email from a colleague at a university you've heard of: "We just got notice that we have to move every grant-funded personnel off their grant funding by noon. And stop work on federal grants."
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Amrei Bahr @amreibahr.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Ich meine das mit dem Aufruf zum Wählen übrigens ernst. Laut Forsa könnten wir 28% (!) Nicht-Wähler_innen haben. Liebe Wissenschaftler_innen, liebe Wissenschaftsinstitutionen: Euch hören viele zu. Erinnert sie, wie wichtig Wählen ist. Für unsere Demokratie. & ermuntert sie, Botschaft weiterzutragen!
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Nancy Kanwisher @nancykanwisher.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Ashley: Academic workers across the country are organizing to call on our congressional representatives on Thursday, 1/30, at 3pm ET / 12pm PT to demand these restrictions be lifted immediately. There will be a training over zoom at the beginning of the event. form.jotform.com/250226137228...
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Join researchers across the country in fighting restrictions on the NIH
Please click the link to complete this form.
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Konstantina Kilteni @kkilteni.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
We are recruiting!! Two new positions in our lab @karolinskainst.bsky.social! Postdoctoral position (deadline 30/01): ki.varbi.com/en/what:job/... RA position (deadline 15/01): ki.varbi.com/en/what:job/... JOIN US!!!
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Postdoctoral Researcher in Cognitive Neuroscience
Do you want to contribute to top quality medical research? Do you have a strong interest in the cognitive neuroscience of somatosensory perception? Are you motivated to develop into an independent sch
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Alex Emmendorfer, PhD 🗣️〰️🧠 🟥 @alexemmendorfer.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
As I'm trying to transition away from Meta platforms, does anyone have a good alternative to Instagram for following recipe creators/food bloggers? Or a starter pack for #veganfood content? This is the vast majority of my Insta feed, and I will miss it!
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Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics @mpi-nl.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Facial signals shape predictions about the nature of upcoming conversational responses. New paper by @alexemmendorfer.bsky.social & @judithholler.bsky.social doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-85192-y
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Facial signals shape predictions about the nature of upcoming conversational responses - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Facial signals shape predictions about the nature of upcoming conversational responses
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Michael Pleyer @symbolicstorage.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
JOB ALERT! Come work with me! 34-Month Postdoc Position here at the Center for Language Evolution Studies, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń in my project "Paths to Polysemy" Job offer here: www.umk.pl/en/jobs/?tas... Please repost & share widely!
a picture of Torun old town in winter
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Belinda Barnet @manjusrii.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Donate to Wikipedia. Do it today, and every time one of the broligarchs has a tantrum because he can’t buy it
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Alex Emmendorfer, PhD 🗣️〰️🧠 🟥 @alexemmendorfer.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
An oddly difficult thing for me to leave behind while closing my Twitter account are memories like this one.
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