iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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wimpouw @wimpouw.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

We have made a user-friendly python package `envisionboxbio-apetrack` that combines several tools (Owlv2, ByteTrack, OpenApePose) to track multiple apes without any labeling or finetuning. Check it out: `pip install envisionboxbio-apetrack` github.com/WimPouw/envi...

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Mark Thornton @markthornton.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

What would you want to see in a textbook (free, online, jupyter/marimo style) about quantitative/computational approaches for analyzing naturalistic social interactions (e.g., face-to-face conversations)? I'm in the early phases of drafting one and would value external input on its audience's needs.

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 28/09/2026

I’m looking into the literature on the effects of marriage on well-being 👀 if you have any favorite studies, please let me know! My main interest is on the causal inference side of things, but I’ll take anything that is interesting 😋

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Mikkel Wallentin @mikkelwallentin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

New PhD-opportunity at Aarhus University with a project investigating the cognitive correlates of having no inner speech. Supervised by Johanne Nedergaard and yours truly. Deadline 11 November. Starting date 1 February 2027. Get in touch if you want to know more. phd.arts.au.dk/applicants/o...

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Individual differences in inner speech: Measurement and modelling (5+3), 2026-14

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Philipp Markolin @philippmarkolin.eurosky.social · 26/09/2026

Random little investigation I saw that Claude Opus 5.5 can now create quite appealing "science explainer" shorts as one-shot prompt: "Pick a problem or mystery that obsesses you and solve it as best you can & make a movie we can share on social media about it" So I wondered where info came from?

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Adrian Currie @adrian-currie.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

press.ucalgary.ca/books/978177...

Ummm hard to describe: a creepily colour-inverted Ichthyosaur wearing spectacles crawls through a cave to discover a copy of Currie’s “The Science of Lost Worlds”

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Riccardo Fusaroli @fusaroli.eurosky.social · 25/09/2026

The effect is so much greater as soon as I push the "send" button to a mail with the figure on. all the issues with the figure and all the issues in the text that the figure make visible: puff, magnified in my face!

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Riccardo Fusaroli @fusaroli.eurosky.social · 25/09/2026

Diagrammatic reasoning: Abstraction, interaction, and insight: www.jbe-platform.com/content/jour... (open here: pure.au.dk/ws/files/952...)

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Riccardo Fusaroli @fusaroli.eurosky.social · 25/09/2026

here we go again. I write the grant application text. I make a conceptual plot. The conceptual plot immediately makes an obvious gap evident. Sigh! back to the drawing (writing?) board. It's not as if I wrote extensively on how diagrams are active forms of thinking...

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Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Happy to see others emphasizing traceability (Nachvollziehbarkeit) over simple reproducibility. Let’s make fetch happen!

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Riccardo Fusaroli @fusaroli.eurosky.social · 19/09/2026

Paris was amazing, the science, the discussions, the morning runs, the people. But I might have developed a problem. Apparently I have had eggplant 4 evenings and 3 lunches out of 5... a selection

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Riccardo Fusaroli @fusaroli.eurosky.social · 19/09/2026

Science is hard, we should all work hard to do it better, & we should all help each other (also) with methodological developments and tutorials. However, this is an endless endeavor with no one solution. To translate a collective tentative striving into one normative framework seems disingenuous

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Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

This is how zombie statistics are born. It's tempting to speculate but best not to. Even research that tries to come up with estimates is often pretty bad because it's very difficult to accurately measure these things, let alone vibe about them.

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Pietro Biroli @pietrobiroli.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Spending more money in schools works. It takes *a lot* of time, but it raises wages and GDP per capita around 30 yrs later, just as we should expect

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Riccardo Fusaroli @fusaroli.eurosky.social · 16/09/2026

Controversial, but this city does have its charms (and charming running places)

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Thomas Talhelm @thomastalhelm.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

🚨 It's published! 🚨 This is the big one. 100 cultures, 12,000 people, 108 researchers. Why people (and our most-used surveys) get collectivism wrong and how to fix it. www.nature.com/articles/s41... @natureportfolio.nature.com

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Riccardo Fusaroli @fusaroli.eurosky.social · 15/09/2026

not the worst place for a morning run

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Marlene Berke @marleneberke.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Do non-human primates have theory of mind? My new paper takes a new computational approach to this classic question. We implemented verbal theories of primates' mental representations as computational models. These models completed classic visual perspective-taking tasks.

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Martin Modrák @modrakm.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I will be looking for a PhD student in Bayesian statistics (in collaboration with Paul Bürkner), located in Prague. Forward to students if you have somebody who could be interested. www.martinmodrak.cz/grammo-call/

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Grammo - Let's Research Bayes!

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Morten H. Christiansen @mh-christiansen.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

📣 I'm recruiting a new grad student at Cornell for F27, so please share the word with possible candidates interested in conversation as it intersects with language processing, evolution, and/or statistical learning, approached using computational and/or behavioral methods. 👉 Email me if interested

Illustration showing two people conversing with each other, with interpretation through pattern recognition involving the integration of multiple cues, including social cues (pointing), the visual environment, what they know about the person they’re talking with, knowledge about the world, prior discourse, cultural expectations, and communicative goals.

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Riccardo Fusaroli @fusaroli.eurosky.social · 10/09/2026

How does the architecture of a city shape the way we think, talk, and draw space? And how do spatial conventions travel across cultural generations? New paper in Open Mind, spearheaded by Z Alinam (w J Nölle, C Vesper, K Tylén & me): doi.org/10.1162/OPMI.a.380 🧵 1/

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When the City Speaks: How Urban Form Shapes the Cultural Transmission of Spatial Conceptualization

Abstract. How do urban environments shape the way people conceptualize and communicate space? Using a cultural transmission experiment in virtual reality, we asked participants to navigate one of two ...

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Aki Vehtari @avehtari.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

A FAQ is what to do in case of high Pareto-k's with PSIS-LOO or PSIS-LOGO. In case of hierarchical models we can integrate out group specific parameters before PSIS. We investigated reliability of some alternative integration methods with the eventual goal of automating this arxiv.org/abs/2609.05713

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Girish M. Duvvuri @gmduvvuri.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The open secret to pedagogy research is that small class sizes/maximizing educator attention per pupil is the simplest, most effective, and unfortunately the least attractive to administration thing you can do to improve learning outcomes.

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Riccardo Fusaroli @fusaroli.eurosky.social · 05/09/2026

One of the things I find most fascinating in mathematical/computational thinking is the borrowing and development of model components from other domains. I need to model how different coders annotate a corpus? It's like occupancy models in ecology, with some twists! 1/

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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Rough Draft vs Final Draft

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Riccardo Fusaroli @fusaroli.eurosky.social · 03/09/2026

Since I'm slightly crazy, I decided to start drawing the DAG(s) of an apparently simple language-matched longitudinal study of language development in autism, and its implications. This is a work in progress, so sharing as a way of better defining my thoughts. Comments welcome! Thread!

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Riccardo Fusaroli @fusaroli.eurosky.social · 03/09/2026

through the holidays, I decided I'd try to put a llm onto a side project I never found the time for. Initial plan & checks, every few days I'd check in, briefly review (me&a2nd llm), give feedback & push it forward. It did a lot of work, but what an unbelievable amount of technical debt 😱 1/

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Abdellah Fourtassi @fourtassi.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Happy to share our new paper: "Scaffolding Early Dialogue: A Unified Account of Response Contingency in Child–Caregiver Interaction" with @abhiagrawal.bsky.social and Benoît Favre. Question: How can infants participate in dialogue while their linguistic and cognitive abilities are still immature? 🧵

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Riccardo Fusaroli @fusaroli.eurosky.social · 01/09/2026

Really cool thesis by @shoakamine.bsky.social justice came in with the mail. Conversational alignment, critical appraisal of manual/automated annotations, causal inference, what’s not to like?

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Riccardo Fusaroli @fusaroli.eurosky.social · 27/08/2026

"The decision goes against everything we want as a university." Ecouraging to see AU’s Pro-rector Berit Eika express clear support for our Cognitive Science program. Management shares our frustration, but they're bound by recent political mandates. 1/ omnibus.au.dk/en/archive/s...

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Pro-Rector: “The decision goes against everything we want to achieve as a university”

The senior management team has decided to convert the English-taught bachelor's degree programme in Cognitive Science into a Danish-language programme, even though the decision "goes against everythin...

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Riccardo Fusaroli @fusaroli.eurosky.social · 27/08/2026

"Beslutningen strider mod alt det, vi gerne vil som universitet." Prorektor forstår vores frustration og anerkender nu i Omnibus, at omlægningen af Cognitive Science til dansk går stik imod AUs egne ønsker, men er drevet af pludselige politiske krav. Læs hendes svar: omnibus.au.dk/arkiv/vis/ar...

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Prorektor: ”Beslutningen strider mod alt det, vi gerne vil som universitet”

Universitetsledelsen har besluttet at omlægge den engelsksprogede bacheloruddannelse i Cognitive Science til dansk. Til trods for, at ”beslutningen strider mod alt det, vi gerne vil som universitet”, ...

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Riccardo Fusaroli @fusaroli.eurosky.social · 23/08/2026

How I got to empathise w the german way to Italian cuisine. Last time i was in Tokyo i took a ramen course. Amazing. I then fell in love w the vegan ramen uzu at the Teamlab planet installation. I’ve been working on reproducing it. Yet 1/

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Riccardo Fusaroli @fusaroli.eurosky.social · 22/08/2026

I've been part of the Cognitive Science environment at Aarhus University since its early years, and I helped create the programme. It's easy to think of internationalisation as an add-on, or something that happens to a programme after it exists. 1/

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Riccardo Fusaroli @fusaroli.eurosky.social · 22/08/2026

Jeg har været en del af Cognitive Science-miljøet siden uddannelsens første år og har været med til at skabe den. Det vil jeg gerne sige noget om først. For det er nemt at tænke på internationalisering som noget, der overgår en uddannelse, efter den er blevet til. 1/

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Riccardo Fusaroli @fusaroli.eurosky.social · 22/08/2026

Regeringen vil skære i antallet af internationale studerende. For at leve op til det omlægger Aarhus Universitet vores bachelor i Cognitive Science til en rent dansksproget uddannelse fra 2027 Det modarbejder præcis de mål, universitetet og regeringen selv forfølger omnibus.au.dk/arkiv/vis/ar... 1/

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Riccardo Fusaroli @fusaroli.eurosky.social · 21/08/2026

"...knowing when to stop banging one’s head against those internal cranial walls and ask a stupid question of one who knows more than you. Figuring out how to present a stupid question to someone you do not want to think you stupid is also a necessary component of thinking and learning."

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C. Brandon Ogbunu @cbo.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

1/8: 🚨New Paper🚨 "Structural causal influence captures the forces of social inequality in models of infectious disease." Published in 'Biology Letters' (@royalsocietypublishing.org) Coverage here: www.santafe.edu/news-center/... Paper link here: royalsocietypublishing.org/rsbl/article...

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Riccardo Fusaroli @fusaroli.eurosky.social · 14/08/2026

Current vs past dwellers along my morning run.

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Danielle Navarro @djnavarro.net · 06/08/2026

The title is a little pointed, but I am very serious here. Academics, medical researchers, and other organisations should not collect data on birth sex. It is rarely relevant, and it almost always leads to privacy violations for transgender people. Please share. I would like people to read this one.

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Separating sex and gender is statistical malpractice – Notes from a data witch

Statisticians and academics in Australia should ignore the terrible advice of most LGBTIQA+ organisations and read this post instead. The 2020 ABS standard is almost never the correct way to collect d...

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Riccardo Fusaroli @fusaroli.eurosky.social · 04/08/2026

A cool thing of having multilingual kids w somewhat limited access to language 1 and 3 makes is that can more clearly observe some of their learning processes. e.g. 1. things my kids transfer across their languages: words (biciclare from at cykle, fiollare from at fjolle), 1/

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Riccardo Fusaroli @fusaroli.eurosky.social · 01/08/2026

Awesome thread on dynamic storytelling in ‘static art’. The cognitive/perceptual mechanisms involved have been investigated a bit in comics, but there’d be so much more here to study!

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Riccardo Fusaroli @fusaroli.eurosky.social · 28/07/2026

The locals’ suggested running route might not be too conductive to running, but it does have its charms

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Riccardo Fusaroli @fusaroli.eurosky.social · 23/07/2026

your mundlak's discussion, @rmcelreath.bsky.social, sent me back 2 a longitudinal dataset of lang matched aut & non-aut kids. y ~ group + group:visit + (1 + visit | child) This is confounded by age. Classic Mundlak would add the child-mean of a covariate; here 1/

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Martin Modrák @modrakm.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Multiverse analysis, abdication of responsibility and manufacturing of doubt: I have written on some downsides I see with multiverse analysis (which I like in principle): arxiv.org/abs/2607.14623 I was inspired/provoked to write it by @dingdingpeng.the100.ci (thanks!)

Abstract: I argue that multiverse analysis is highly suited to two undesirable uses: abdication of researcher's responsibility for their conclusion and manufacturing of doubt. A review of multiverse analyses published in 2025 provides tentative empirical support that abdication of responsibility is present in the literature and I mention anecdotal evidence that multiverse has been used for manufacturing of doubt about Covid-19 precautions. To mitigate negative effects if multiverse analysis becomes widely used I suggest the community adopts two conventions for evaluating multiverse analyzes: evaluating multiverses by the single worst universe they contain and considering large size of a multiverse as a sign of weakness rather than a praiseworthy achievement.

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Riccardo Fusaroli @fusaroli.eurosky.social · 17/07/2026

cool setup on hearing aids and miscommunication (@markdingemanse.net): wearing hearing aids reduces misunderstanding in the wearer, but increases them in their interlocutors (perhaps as the wearers speak at a lower volume) www.ovid.com/jnls/ear-hea...

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Quantifying Miscommunications in Triadic... : Ear & Hearing

Background:Conversations are an important part of our social lives, although for people with hearing impairment (HI), conversations can pose a...

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