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James Trujillo

@jamestrujillo.bsky.social
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Assistant prof at University of Amsterdam using motion tracking and virtual agents to study multimodal language and social interaction. Autistic and interested in autistic language and interaction. Dad/papa, artist, runner, gamer.

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James Trujillo @jamestrujillo.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Very happy to see this one out finally! It was a long time in the making, but we felt it was an important one to write. Thanks @naominota.bsky.social and @judithholler.bsky.social !
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Travis J. Wiltshire @tjwiltshire.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
🚨🚀 Excited to kick off our summer school today on Multiscale Social Dynamics in Individuals and Groups at MindLabs, Tilburg University with @wimpouw.bsky.social @jamestrujillo.bsky.social @babajideowoyele.bsky.social and others! Full details here envisionbox.org/summerschool...
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Chloe (she/her) @chloeapter.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
How do autistic adults make sense of being assigned the "challenging behaviour" label? *RECRUITING PARTICIPANTS* I am autistic & I have been assigned the "challenging behaviour" label Supervisor: @drstevenkapp.bsky.social Email Chloe.Apter@myport.ac.uk to express interest/for more information
On a white background with pale pink highlights and black text is the information below. There is also a photo of Chloe, a white woman with long black hair and multiple facial piercings, with a speech bubble coming from it. There is the University of Portsmouth logo and School of Psychology, Sport and Health Sciences logo too:

How do autistic adults make sense of being assigned the "challenging behaviour" label?

Eligibility:

Autistic (formally diagnosed or self-identified)

Age 18+

UK-based

You have been assigned the "challenging behaviour" label by staff/clinicians/professionals in an education, health, and/or care context

Participation* involves one of either:

An online interview**

An in-person interview in London, UK***

All participants will be offered the interview questions in advance

I'm Chloe, a master's student at the University of Portsmouth. I am autistic and I have been assigned the "challenging behaviour" label.

This research has been given ethical approval

If you are interested in taking part or want more

information, please email

Chloe.Apter@myport.ac.uk

Supervisor: Dr Steven Kapp

*Please note, there is unfortunately no financial remuneration for participation due to this research being for a master's degree

**Having your camera on or off is acceptable, as is using the chat function or participating via email

***In a mutually agreed public place anywhere within London, UK (e.g. a café or a library)
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Yifei He 何奕菲 @yifeihe.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Very happy that our manuscript with my brilliant collaborators @jamestrujillo.bsky.social and @straubeb.bsky.social is now published @jneurolang.bsky.social. 🥳🥳🥳 Interested in gesture, discourse, fMRI, prediction, computational modeling? This is the paper for you 👇 doi.org/10.1162/NOL....
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Discourse context and co-speech gestures jointly shape hierarchical prediction during the processing of a multimodal narrative
Abstract. Understanding one another in daily communication depends on predicting language from prior discourse context and visual signals, such as co-speech gestures. However, it remains unclear how d...
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wimpouw @wimpouw.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Our companion validation paper to pypi package envisionhgdetector has been accepted for publication as Diamond Open Access book chapter in "Behavioromics" (Eds. Lucking & Mehler). Postprint here: wimpouw.com/files/gh_det...
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James Trujillo @jamestrujillo.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Amazing news! Big congrats Ambra!! Looking forward to seeing what comes out of your lab:)
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James Trujillo @jamestrujillo.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Thanks Wim!
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James Trujillo @jamestrujillo.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
I'm excited about the research we'll be doing, but also the impact that I hope it will have on creating more equitable access to healthcare for autistic adults. And to be doing something so cross-disciplinary with physical therapy / healthcare science. Looking forward to sharing more soon..!
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James Trujillo @jamestrujillo.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
The project will run for the next two years, and we'll be using qualitative analysis, multimodal video analysis, and experiments (all developed in dialog with autistic advisors) to develop an autism education workshop and "communication toolbox" for physical therapists.
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James Trujillo @jamestrujillo.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Thrilled to have been awarded an AUF Impact Call grant to start researching how we can improve communication between healthcare professionals and autistic adults 🥳 The project is a collab with Hedwig van der Meer and takes a multimodal, cross-disciplinary approach www.auf.nl/gedeelde-con... 🧵👇
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James Trujillo @jamestrujillo.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Happy to return to Orléans to take part in the Interaction and Inclusion workshop yesterday, talking about sign language recogniton. Many interesting and inspiring talks from perspectives I haven't seen before! Thanks for the invitation and your hospitality Katja Ploog & @biagioursi.bsky.social !
View out the window. A courtyard under a sunny sky with some clouds. A cathedral stands on the right side of the courtyard.A fancy stone staircase lined with paintings and statues. A sign is posted in front, advertising the day of "Interaction and Inclusion"
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Riccardo Fusaroli @fusaroli.eurosky.social · 18/12/2025
what's the point of writing this? arguing (also to myself) that i) exploration is good, it doesn't need to lead to outputs! ii) models/research fail! and that can be insightful! but also if not insightful, that's still how research works! iii) sharing curiosity-driven efforts and excitement!
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Riccardo Fusaroli @fusaroli.eurosky.social · 26/11/2025
CogSci in Aarhus is hiring, open rank (assi, asso or full prof). We want somebody working on and teaching computational modelling of cognitive processes and/or social processes. Students are amazing, work/life balance very satisfactory, and colleagues are nice! international.au.dk/about/profil...
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Assistant Professor, Associate Professor or Full Professor of Cognitive Science - Vacancy at Aarhus University
Vacancy at School of Communication and Culture - Linguistics, Cognitive Science and Semiotics, Dept. of, Aarhus University
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James Trujillo @jamestrujillo.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Ah cool! I'm curious what responses you get. It's certainly handy to have available, I imagine, especially for people more comfortable with R. Can't comment on how it compares to other options of course:)
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James Trujillo @jamestrujillo.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
I just use python for this. Pympi package for reading the .EAFs, collect and organize what I need in python, and then export to .csv and continue in R. I've been curious about the R packages as well, but I'm so comfortable with my python->R workflow I haven't gotten around to trying😅
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James Trujillo @jamestrujillo.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Usually 3), although using parselmouth to load them directly into python so I can compile a data frame, do any gap/overlap calculations, etc. Then over to R for stats. And then plenty of cycling back to ELAN to look again at specific data points
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wimpouw @wimpouw.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Academic publishing is broken due to for-profit actors. Time to explore alternatives as researchers → A Diamond Open Access conference, Feb 5-6, 2026 in Nijmegen NL. Free registration (limited seats): horizondiamond.nl Let's build a sustainable publishing infrastructure together.
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James Trujillo @jamestrujillo.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
This sounds very cool! Looking forward to reading it
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James Trujillo @jamestrujillo.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Very sad!
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James Trujillo @jamestrujillo.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
That would be very interesting to look at! Nothing came of it though?
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James Trujillo @jamestrujillo.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Unfortunately, while autism in adulthood is already a much smaller field than in childhood, there's really very little research on aging in autism. Trying to set up a project involving APD, hearing loss, and neurodivergence though, so hopefully I can say more on this some day!
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James Trujillo @jamestrujillo.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Thanks Riccardo! I would guess that hearing loss would make it worse, since it typically affects SNR. But I imagine it would depend on the type of hearing loss, as wearing Loops for example reduces everything, but thereby really helps understanding speech in noise.
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James Trujillo @jamestrujillo.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
I just reposted! Here's the link: doi.org/10.1177/1362... And indeed, the overlap between APD and neurodivergence is super interesting. Seems fairly recognized in children, but then (seemingly) ignored in autistic adults. But it definitely seems to be a common, and persistent, challenge!
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James Trujillo @jamestrujillo.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Autistic adults, regardless of whether clinically dx or self-identifying, report more difficulty processing auditory information, particularly others' speech. doi.org/10.1177/1362... New research by Elena Silva, Linda Drivers @lindadrijvers.bsky.social and myself (reposting with correct link)
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James Trujillo @jamestrujillo.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
I'm posting about this because Elena is not on Bluesky, but she was the one doing most of the work, as this was her masters thesis project. I personally wanted to see a project like this for a while so im excited it finally became reality! Thanks Elena!
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James Trujillo @jamestrujillo.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Why are these results interesting? I hope it brings awareness to those who may not realize this is a common challenge and not something they are struggling with alone. More research can also bring better understanding of the underlying issues so we can think about how to accommodate these challenges
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James Trujillo @jamestrujillo.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
The lack of difference between self identifying and clinically diagnosed individuals is likely due to statistical power. But the equivalence tests shows the importance of digging into this further, as those who self identify are also reporting similar experiences to those with a clinical dx
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James Trujillo @jamestrujillo.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
What about the self-identifying group? They also differed significantly from nonautistic adults in the Speech domain. But interestingly, equivalence tests showed that their reports were statistically equivalent to the clinically diagnosed group! Indeed, plotting the group predictions highlights this
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James Trujillo @jamestrujillo.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
We found that, across all domains of the SSQ (spatial perception, quality of sound, and speech understanding), the clinically diagnosed group reported more difficulties than the nonautistic group.
Plot showing distributions of responses across the four domains of the SSQ, with colours in each panel indicating the participant group.
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James Trujillo @jamestrujillo.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
We used the Speech, Spatial and Qualities of Hearing Scale (SSQ) as a simple, short survey to see whether autistic adults indeed report lower auditory processing abilities than non autistic adults. We surveyed both clinically-diagnosed individuals and those who self-identify as autistic.
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James Trujillo @jamestrujillo.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Differences in sensory processing between autistic and nonautistic people are well known, I think, in general terms. But I've heard anecdotes for quite a while that autistic people find speech processing, particularly in noise, very challenging. But there didn't seem to be much evidence for it.
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James Trujillo @jamestrujillo.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Autistic adults,regardless of whether clinically dx or self-identifying, report more difficulty processing auditory information, particularly others' speech. doi.org/10.1080/1499... New research by Elena Silva, Linda Drivers @lindadrijvers.bsky.social and myself 🧵
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The Speech, Spatial and Qualities of Hearing Scale (SSQ)
The Speech, Spatial and Qualities of Hearing Scale (SSQ) is designed to measure a range of hearing disabilities across several domains. Particular attention is given to hearing speech in a variety ...La Escala de Audición para el Lenguaje, la Audición Espacial y las Cualidades Auditivas (SSQ) está disen˜ada para medir un rango de discapacidades auditivas en varios ámbitos. Se da atención partic...
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James Trujillo @jamestrujillo.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Very cool! More evidence that passive, or even just non-interactive tasks just aren't going to get us the whole picture if we want to understand a typically interactive phenomenon, like language use
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James Trujillo @jamestrujillo.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
There are a lot of barriers associated with getting a diagnosis, and doubts about whether it's worthwhile. This is a really nice overview of why it *can* be worthwhile to get that confirmation
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James Trujillo @jamestrujillo.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
This really gives some fresh motivation that we are contributing something meaningful to the research community. We'll keep working to make multimodal research methods free to read, free to use, free to learn, and free to build upon. (Thanks for that excellent quote @babajideowoyele.bsky.social !)
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James Trujillo @jamestrujillo.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
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
Screen showing the list of 26 nominees for the Leo Waaijers awardLight up sign saying #Open Science in the auditorium area of the National Open Science Festival
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James Trujillo @jamestrujillo.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Thank you! Im glad people are finding some value in it
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James Trujillo @jamestrujillo.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Im looking forward to meeting the other nominees at the Open Science Festival in a few weeks in Groningen! So cool to see all these fantastic initiatives for more open science
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James Trujillo @jamestrujillo.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Check out our fantastic new EnvisionBOX intro video made by Markus Küpper! This video and nomination really feels like another step in professionalizing the platform and making it even more visible, and so hopefully becoming useful to even more people. Thanks everyone for the nominations!
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Steven Kapp @drstevenkapp.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
The U.S. powers-that-be still want us to die or vanish into hyper-compliance that makes us more vulnerable to victimization: blogs.exeter.ac.uk/exploringdia...
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Olaf Dimigen @olaf.dimigen.de · 22/08/2025
🚨 New preprint: Invisible neural frequency tagging (RIFT) for the underfunded researcher: 👉 www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/... RIFT uses high-frequency flicker to probe attention in M/EEG with minimal stimulus visibility and little distraction. Until now, it required a costly high-speed projector.
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Rapid Invisible Frequency Tagging (RIFT) with a consumer monitor: A proof-of-concept
Rapid Invisible Frequency Tagging (RIFT) enables neural frequency tagging at rates above the flicker fusion threshold, eliciting steady-state responses to flicker that is almost imperceptible. While R...
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James Trujillo @jamestrujillo.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
On my way back from my last conference/event of the academic year! It's been so fun to meet so many great people doing cool stuff. I certainly have inspiration to last the summer! Thanks for organizing this @adw.bsky.social , and for letting me pick your brain about affordances for 3 days! #EWEP16
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James Trujillo @jamestrujillo.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
A couple of days late to post this, but this is one of the great things about in person conferences: getting to hang out with people in very different, non-work settings! Had a great time on Sunday canoeing in Utrecht with @ashleydemarchena.bsky.social , who is normally only see on Zoom!
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James Trujillo @jamestrujillo.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
What a great time at @isgs2025.bsky.social ! So great to reconnect and meet so many people doing really cool work. And always nice to be back in Nijmegen 😁 Already excited for ISGS11 in Hong Kong!
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Ruud Hortensius @ruudhortensius.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
🧠 Call for Participation: Social Dynamics 2025 🗓️ 20-21 November 2025 📍Utrecht University, The Netherlands 🔗 socialdynamics2025.sites.uu.nl ft @antoniahamilton.bsky.social @escross.bsky.social @suzannedikker.bsky.social @milicanikolic.bsky.social, @dcrafa.bsky.social + many more
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Social Dynamics 2025 | Universiteit Utrecht
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Autism @autismtalk.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5Nl...
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It’s Not Social Anxiety – It’s Autism
YouTube video by Auticate with Chris & Debby
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James Trujillo @jamestrujillo.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Very happy to have contributed to this review, with excellent direction from @ashleydemarchena.bsky.social , on communication in autistic adults! It was a fun experience to think about how to translate the findings into practical suggestions for clinicians
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arekbialek.bsky.social @arekbialek.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
🚨 New preprint + open pipeline 🚨 CVML-based behavioral observations: osf.io/preprints/ps... Co-led with @wimpouw.bsky.social, alongside @jamestrujillo.bsky.social, @babajideowoyele.bsky.social, @tjwiltshire.bsky.social, F. Hasselman, N. Siekiera, J. Raczaszek-Leonardi. 👀 Take a look & use it!
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Bradley Busch @handle.invalid · 18/06/2025
New research from MIT found that those who used ChatGPT can’t remember any of the content of their essays. Key takeaway: the product doesn’t suffer, but the process does. And when it comes to essays, the process *is* how they learn. arxiv.org/pdf/2506.088...
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ZP Rosen @zaqdelinguist.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Hey #linguistics people. Does anyone know of any open source corpora containing conversations in non-Indo-European languages?
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