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dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · Jun 5

“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 · Feb 27

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

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wimpouw @wimpouw.bsky.social · Feb 27

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...

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Axel Ahrens @axelahrens.bsky.social · Feb 20

Looks fantastic. So sad that I missed it!

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Institut für Schallforschung @isf-oeaw.bsky.social · Feb 19

📢 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 · Jan 16

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"

Emily Grubert @gruberte.bsky.social · Jan 15

Literally every term I panic that I’m going to run out of material and have to let my class out after 15 minutes and literally every term I re-demonstrate that I can run out of time in a 3 hour class with 15 slides

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · Jan 12

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 · Dec 26

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 · Dec 30

I convert tax dollars to pdfs

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

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Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · Dec 29

Timeless

Two screenshots of Philomena Cunk speaking. In the first she says: Since light travels faster than sound
In the second she continues: people may appear bright until you hear them speak

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Science Magazine @science.org · Dec 23

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.

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 · Nov 16

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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Axel Ahrens @axelahrens.bsky.social · Dec 29

Can you share the link to the publication?

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Grace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social · Dec 26

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.

Rosa Ritunnano @rritunnano.bsky.social · Dec 20

Instead of listing my publications, as the year draws to an end, I want to shine the spotlight on the commonplace assumption that productivity must always increase. Good research is disruptive and thinking time is central to high quality scholarship and necessary for disruptive research.

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psychoSoph - Comic @psychosoph.bsky.social · Dec 24

🎇I wish you all happy holidays and a happy new year! As last #Christmas, I have a #calendar for you (4/6):

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psychoSoph 2025 Kalender / Calender Printable - psychoSoph - Comic's Ko-fi Shop

English below. *********************************************************** Einfach „0“ eingeben, um den Kalender kostenlos zu bekommen. 😉 Ich freue...

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Axel Ahrens @axelahrens.bsky.social · Dec 16

In Denmark it is sometimes difficult to find Danish applicants because industry jobs often pay so much better...

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Axel Ahrens @axelahrens.bsky.social · Dec 16

We found that participants modify their opinion towards more confident opinions which is amplified in noisy environments. We think that this paradigm can also be a valuable tool to better understand communication difficulties of people with atypical hearing such as age related hearing loss.

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Axel Ahrens @axelahrens.bsky.social · Dec 16

We placed people in an array of loudspeakers and equipped them with eye trackers and microphones (not analyzed in this study though). They were asked to answer general knowledge questions and judge their own confidence before and after a triadic conversation.

Three people sitting inside of an array of loudspeakers. They have a conversation. Each participant wears eye-tracking glasses and microphones in their ears and close to their mouth.

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Axel Ahrens @axelahrens.bsky.social · Dec 16

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. 🧪
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