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wimpouw @wimpouw.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Summerschool 13-17 July Multiscale Social Dynamics at MindLabs NL - Sign ups are open!

We're pleased to announce the Summerschool 'Multiscale Social Dynamics in Individuals and Groups' (MDIG2026) at MindLabs, Tilburg, NL - 13-17 July 2026.
You can register here for a 5-day in-person summer school at Tilburg University, Research Center for Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence, from July 13th-17th (monday to friday), with the theme Multiscale Social Dynamics in Individuals and Groups (MDIG2026). This summer school supported by EnvisionBox.org will feature hands-on tutorials on analysis pipelines from computer science and complexity science, including methods for motion tracking, kinematic and acoustic analysis, empirical mode decomposition, windowed multiscale synchrony analysis, and related approaches. Rather than focusing on a single modality, we will cover several aspects of multimodal communication, including visual, prosodic, and movement-based signals, and examine how these interact across multiple temporal and spatial scales. One dedicated day will focus on methods for data management, masking and anonymizing audiovisual data to ensure privacy protection and GDPR compliance. In addition, participants will work in groups on applied projects throughout the week, culminating in presentations of project progress at the end of the summer school. The goal of the summer school is twofold: first, to familiarize participants with state-of-the-art tools, open solutions, and datasets for multiscale social signal analysis, and second, to critically examine their limitations. By the end of the week, participants will have gained practical skills, new analytical tools, and a deeper understanding of how these methods can be improved to advance research in multimodal behavioral dynamics.
Location
The Netherlands, MindLabs Tilburg University
Fee
125 euros person that includes a 5-day summer school featuring lectures and hands on tutorials and working groups with lunches, coffee breaks, and one social dinner provided (budget permitting).

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Itai Yanai @itaiyanai.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Doing a PhD is - at heart - one long discussion with your mentor. The discussion changes over time - with unexpected turns and ups & downs - but through it all is a pair of people discussing a topic endlessly to make sense of it. PhD students: choose someone you like to talk to!

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nash flynn @itsnashflynn.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

this meeting could have been me hitting you with my car

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

“A Busy, Busy Day at the Airport” By Ruben Bolling Genius. Click in.

A cartoon showing various activity at an airport, including an extorted luxury jet, an exploding X rocket, a ketamine enthusiast wheeling a barrow of money to his plane, many ICE officers -- some taking people to an El Salvador plane, another with a zip-tied child being blocked by a federal judge -- scientists boarding a plane to Europe, a medical self-educator covered with pox, and more. All the people are represented by various animals. The story is made in the style of a Richard Starry children's book. Alt text borrowed from Mastodon..

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Axel Ahrens @axelahrens.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Finishing up a grant application with a view while the baby is napping.

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wimpouw @wimpouw.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Update re pypi package envisionHGdetector! Our preprint "EnvisionHGdetector: A Computational Framework for Co-Speech Gesture Detection, Kinematic Analysis, and Interactive Visualization" is now out! osf.io/preprints/ps... @jamestrujillo.bsky.social @gdemelo.bsky.social @babajideowoyele.bsky.social

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Institut für Schallforschung @isf-oeaw.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

📢 For the 17th time, AABBA, an international network of scientists, gathered this week at ISF to exchange ideas & push the boundaries of binaural & spatial hearing research. Thanks to all who joined—your insights and collaboration keep our field moving forward! 🎶👂 #AABBA #HearingScience

A diverse group of scientists gathered in a bright indoor space poses for a group photo during the 17th AABBA annual meeting.

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Grace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

I remember expressing this worry to my husband when preparing for one of my first lectures and he said something like "you're a professor now, you should be able to talk about anything for any amount of time" and now I think of that as the true definition of "professing"

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

The scientific method served humanity well for hundreds of years but it was rendered obsolete in 2013 with the discovery of Vibes

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

Scientific Integrity Question Consider a fictional AI system M, and a scientist S who wishes to use M in their research pipeline (e.g., for analysis and/or interpretation). Functionally, M is not fully understood by S. In your opinion, is it acceptable that S uses M in their research pipeline?

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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 30/12/2024

I convert tax dollars to pdfs

white text on black "Poorly explain what you do for a job."

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Science Magazine @science.org · 23/12/2024

Women leave academia at higher rates than men at every career stage, and attrition is especially high among three groups: tenured faculty, women in non-STEM fields, and women employed at less prestigious institutions, a #ScienceAdvances analysis finds.

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Gender and retention patterns among U.S. faculty

Women faculty are more likely to leave their jobs than men, most often due to workplace climate, rather than work-life balance.

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Gabriel Bosslet @gbosslet.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Academic decision algorithm v 7.0- a testament to #SocialMedia peer review, as all versions past 1.0 were improved upon by feedback from colleagues on social media

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Grace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

Thinking about this a lot as a (pre-tenure) PI. There just isn't enough time to go deeply into an idea, which is obviously bad for (my) science.

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Axel Ahrens @axelahrens.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

We have a new publication on conversation and decision-making in noisy environments. The study was run by our PhD student Ingvi Örnolfsson. We studied how people change/keep their decision and voting strategy after a triadic conversation. 🧪 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Axel Ahrens @axelahrens.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

From not being able to find people within auditory research to not being able to follow up on notifications. This is fantastic! So nice to see this community growing! Do not hesitate to contact me if you want want to be added to this list, particularly young/early career peeps. go.bsky.app/2V3D2mu

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Axel Ahrens @axelahrens.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

I feel that the auditory research community has either not arrived here yet or is not very well connected. Please let me know who to add to this starter pack and self-nominate. 🧪 go.bsky.app/2V3D2mu

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Michael Pleyer @symbolicstorage.bsky.social · 26/10/2024

I have a joke about research funding but you wouldn't get it

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Axel Ahrens @axelahrens.bsky.social · 10/10/2024

Servicepost: Don't aim to submit two large grant applications within 5 days when you have a toddler and a newborn...

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Gavin Buckingham @drgbuckingham.bsky.social · 03/10/2024

Subtweeting a discussion on the other platform, I think that academics are far too attached to the notion that their clever ideas have value, and should be treated as currency. I think this leads down a bad path. In science, ideas without implementation are pretty worthless.

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Axel Ahrens @axelahrens.bsky.social · 02/10/2024

Write your grant application when your baby writes their grant application.

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Ian Oldenburg @ianoldenburg.bsky.social · 13/08/2024

Not sure if we've hit critical mass here on bsky yet, but the lab is hiring! We've gotten some good news grants recently, and now have some funded projects that are looking for people to champion them. All projects use Holographic Optogenetics to study motor systems. oldenburglab.com/positions/

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Positions, Oldenburg Lab

Join the lab We are looking for curious, motivated, and talented people from all different backgrounds to join our team at all levels.

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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 28/09/2024

me, adjusting my reading glasses: "that's a vibraphone"

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Leon Kroczek @leonkroczek.bsky.social · 08/08/2024

New Paper! The influence of affective voice on sound distance perception We present two #VR experiments using a 🎯placement task and 👀 #EyeTracking to test whether affective voice (angry vs neutral) biases distance perception doi.org/10.1037/xhp0... Preprint osf.io/preprints/ps... #VRcademicSky

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Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 14/08/2024

me redesigning a whole course having less than a week before classes begin

Infamous Australian Olympic breakdancer Raygun demonstrating seven awkward looking poses, the last one with her head upside down on the floored with a pained expression on her face

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Josh Grubbs @joshuagrubbsphd.com · 31/07/2024

“There are only how many weeks until the semester starts?”

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Matthijs Dorst @mattneuro.dorst-lab.org · 15/05/2024

Saw today's @xkcd.com comic, realized it worked equally well for us, too! #neuroskyence #neuroscience Original: xkcd.com/2933/

An adapted version of the comic https://xkcd.com/2933/, with particles substituted for neurons.

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Axel Ahrens @axelahrens.bsky.social · 25/04/2024

New #preprint on audio-visual search strategies in 360° scenes using head- and gaze-motion behaviour. We investigated how participants find #audio, #visual and #audio-visual stimuli in a #VR environment. 🧪 osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Manuel Bohn @elmanubohn.bsky.social · 04/04/2024

"A universal of human social cognition: Children from 17 communities process gaze in similar ways" 🇦🇷🇨🇳🇩🇪🇮🇳🇲🇽🇳🇦🇳🇿🇳🇬🇨🇬🇹🇷🇬🇧🇺🇸🇺🇬🇿🇲 Preprint for our large-scale cross-cultural study (N = 1377) on gaze-following. We found the same key processing signatures in all communities we studied. osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Earl K. Miller @earlkmiller.bsky.social · 15/03/2024

The neuroscientist formerly known as Prince’s audio engineer www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Dan Jagger @auditorynerves.bsky.social · 06/02/2024

Been sifting through our archive of 1960s histology sections. Here, the organ of Corti (sensory epithelium of the cochlea) is viewed using Mallory's trichrome stain. The outer hair cells (centre right) are stained orange.

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Axel Ahrens @axelahrens.bsky.social · 07/03/2024

Newish #preprint first authored by my great colleague Valeska. We investigate if people move their heads/eyes differently in certain #acoustic scenes. In fact, we find that motion #behavior changes in situations where it is more difficult to understand #speech. #research osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Axel Ahrens @axelahrens.bsky.social · 05/03/2024

So nice to see that the science community here is growing and getting more active. Maybe time to get more active too! 😀

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Josh Grubbs @joshuagrubbsphd.com · 21/12/2023

As an academic this is the best academic quote I’ve ever read

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