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Working on dynamic signs and signals in communication at Tilburg University at the Department of Computational Cognitive Science. Interested in language & movement science, complex systems & 4E, Open Science (envisionbox.org) & other things (wimpouw.com)

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wimpouw @wimpouw.bsky.social · Apr 17

Happy to share that in a few weeks ill move to Tilburg University as an Associate Professor at the Department of Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence
www.tilburguniversity.edu/about/school... Super excited about this! I want to thank Donders/Radboud and many other people for their support!

Department of Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence | Tilburg University

Members of the Cognitive Science & Artificial Intelligence (CSAI) department conduct research in the interdisciplinary domain of Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science and are involved in teach...

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Ned Block @neddo.bsky.social · 5h

Can Only Meat Machines be Conscious? New paper in Trends in Cognitive Sciences, free download until November 26 with this URL: authors.elsevier.com/a/1luwh4sIRv...

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wimpouw @wimpouw.bsky.social · 1d

At this workshop today about where hand gestures get their rhythm from - participants can join online.

sfb1252.uni-koeln.de/veranstaltun...

Poster for this event: https://sfb1252.uni-koeln.de/veranstaltungen/internationale-tagungen-workshops/beatology

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 3d

🌟 New preprint 🌟, by @olivia.science and me:

📝 Guest, O., & van Rooij, I. (2025). *Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists*. doi.org/10.31234/osf...

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Core reasoning issues (first column), which we name after the relevant numbered section, are characterised using a plausible quote. In the second column are responses per row; also see the named section for further reading, context, and explanations.

See paper for full details: ** Guest, O., & van Rooij, I. (2025, October 4). Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/dkrgj_v1

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 2d

Earlier this year, Dr. Jane Goodall sat down for an interview for Brad Falchuk’s new Netflix series, Famous Last Words.

The premise of the series is to interview people on the condition that the interview not air until the subject has passed away.

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Marianne de Heer Kloots @mdhk.net · 6d

Huge congrats to the envisionBOX team for the Open Science award nomination! 🎉

My tutorial on speech analysis tools in Python from the Unboxing Multimodality summer school (github.com/mdhk/unboxin...) is now also available at envisionbox.org

Thanks for the invitation & this great initiative! 👏

wimpouw @wimpouw.bsky.social · 6d

www.envisionbox.org has been shortlisted for the Leo Waaijers Open Science price: ukb.nl/en/news/shor...

@babajideowoyele.bsky.social @jamestrujillo.bsky.social @sarkadava.bsky.social @DavideAhmar @acwiek.bsky.social

Amazing Markus Küpper made an animated video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HduI...

EnvisionBOX overview2025

YouTube video by Wim Pouw

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wimpouw @wimpouw.bsky.social · 5d

So publishers, like Wiley, are now putting ads on their websites? Did I only notice now? What the hell

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langscipress.bsky.social @langscipress.bsky.social · 6d

Just published "Prosody and attention orienting: The role of rising intonation in speech processing" by Maria Lialiou #openaccess #silp langsci-press.org/catalog/book...

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wimpouw @wimpouw.bsky.social · 6d

Others who are nominated:
- The Barcelona Declaration barcelona-declaration.org promoting community-driven action for Open Research Information
- www.researchequals.com developing process-based publishing

Check out their introductions here: ukb.nl/en/news/shor...

Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information

Latest updates Launch of a Joint Task Force on Negotiating Openness of Publication Metadata, established in partnership between the Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information and the O...

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wimpouw @wimpouw.bsky.social · 6d

EnvisionBOX overview2025

YouTube video by Wim Pouw

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Martina Saltafossi @martinasaltafossi.bsky.social · 12d

I'm thrilled to share that our new paper is now published in Psychophysiology (Open Access):
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

@zacndr.bsky.social @teamlabuda.bsky.social @fraferri.bsky.social @danlikesbrains.bsky.social

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Alan McElligott @amcell.bsky.social · 11d

2025. How sighing regulates pulmonary surfactant structure and its role in breathing mechanics | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

How sighing regulates pulmonary surfactant structure and its role in breathing mechanics

Sigh-induced structural changes lower alveolar surface stress through a mechanical response.

www.science.org

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Riccardo Fusaroli @fusaroli.bsky.social · 23d

Why does Western Paleolithic cave art strongly prefer animal side views and often use abbreviations? Our new paper in Topics in Cognitive Science challenges long-held assumptions about these artistic choices using cognitive science experiments. A thread 1/n
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 16d

Yet again, machine learning — even gussied up via the transformer architecture — encodes and reinforces societal biases.

This study reveals that LLM-based peer review relies heavily on author institution in its decisions.

arxiv.org/abs/2509.15122

Prestige over merit: An adapted audit of LLM bias in peer review

Large language models (LLMs) are playing an increasingly integral, though largely informal, role in scholarly peer review. Yet it remains unclear whether LLMs reproduce the biases observed in human de...

arxiv.org

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Robert Hawkins @rdhawkins.bsky.social · 16d

arxiv.org/abs/2509.15560

"Human and machine intelligence as collective, language-based intelligence."

How important is language for human-like intelligence?

We use language to communicate our thoughts. But is language merely the expression of thoughts, which are themselves produced by other, nonlinguistic parts of our minds? Or does language play a more t...

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 19d

Fun article about “outsider” scientists and their breakthroughs.

“Academia filters most funding, publishing, and hiring decisions through senior insiders, which favors ideas within existing paradigms.”

worksinprogress.co/issue/why-sc...

Why science needs outsiders - Works in Progress Magazine

Science has forgotten that the greatest breakthroughs often come from outsiders who are able to take a fresh perspective.

worksinprogress.co

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Joshua Livestro @joshualivestro.bsky.social · 19d

En Nederland dus. Ik mag hopen dat de grondwetsgetrouwe partijen deze fascistische maatregel op een lijst zetten van zaken uit het huidige extreemrechtse parlement die in het volgende parlement in week 1 meteen gaan worden teruggedraaid.

Euronews @euronews.com · 19d

Hungary will replicate a policy announced by US President Trump, and designate Antifa a terrorist organisation, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said on Friday.

Antifa, short for "anti-fascist,” is an umbrella term for far-left-leaning militant groups and is not a singular entity.

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Chris J Dallmann @chrisjdallmann.bsky.social · 21d

Now out in @nature.com: Our study discovering a neural circuit in Drosophila that predictively inhibits proprioceptor axons during voluntary leg movements, such as walking and grooming. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 22d

Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, says UN inquiry

Commission’s 72-page legal analysis cites examples including scale of killings, aid blockages and forced displacement * Middle East crisis – live updates A UN commission of inquiry concluded on Tuesday that Israel had committed genocide in Gaza and that top Israeli officials including the prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, had incited these acts. It cited examples of the scale of the killings, aid blockages, forced displacement and the destruction of a fertility clinic to back up its genocide finding, adding its voice to rights groups and others that have reached the same conclusion. Continue reading...

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Grace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social · 24d

I've only read the abstract and I already know this paper is so very correct 👀

JJ @jjodx.bsky.social · 25d

The myth of optimality in human movement science

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The myth of optimality in human movement science

The concept of optimality dominates contemporary human movement science, with researchers across biomechanics, motor control, and neuroscience routine…

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Jonathan Tsay @tsay.bsky.social · 23d

The cerebellum isn’t just about coordinating movement. It’s implicated in nearly every domain of cognition—from language to social behavior.

But how exactly does the cerebellum contribute to action and cognition? 🧵

Check out our new paper w/ Rich Ivry.
arxiv.org/abs/2509.09818

Cerebellar Contributions to Action and Cognition: Prediction, Timescale, and Continuity

The cerebellum is implicated in nearly every domain of human cognition, yet our understanding of how this subcortical structure contributes to cognition remains elusive. Efforts on this front have ten...

arxiv.org

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LSE Philosophy @lsephilosophy.bsky.social · Jun 25

🏆 We are pleased to announce the 2025 Lakatos Award winner Mazviita Chirimuuta, who receives the award for her book “The Brain Abstracted: Simplification in the History and Philosophy of Neuroscience”

Congratulations! 👏

👉More about the award: www.lse.ac.uk/philosophy/b...

Mazviita Chirimuuta wins the 2025 Lakatos Award!

The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) is pleased to announce the 2025 Lakatos Award winner Mazviita Chirimuuta, who receives the award for her book “The Brain Abstracted:…

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Cedric Boeckx @cedricboeckx.bsky.social · 26d

Very cool study by @oyiz.bsky.social using optogenetics to shed light on how oxytocin signaling regulates vocalization to maintain maternal bonds (with nice write-up by @bellonec.bsky.social, “Cries into ties” indeed) 🧪

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Cries into ties

Oxytocin neurons in mouse pups regulate vocalization to maintain maternal bonds

www.science.org

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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 26d

Octopuses can use any of their arms to perform tasks, but tend to use a particular arm, or arms, for specific tasks, according to a study in Scientific Reports. go.nature.com/4pjR34k 🌊 🧪

This is figure 3, which shows arm actions and their relationship to animal behaviors.

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Sera Markoff @profsera.bsky.social · 27d

As a member of the Netherlands Royal Academy of Arts & Sciences (KNAW) I support our statement on the war in Gaza.

www.knaw.nl/en/news/stat...

Statement by the KNAW Board on the situation in Gaza - KNAW

The KNAW Board calls on the Dutch Minister of Education, Culture and Science to actively press for suspension of Israel’s participation in the EU’s Horizon Europe programme for scientific and scholarl...

www.knaw.nl

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Jungle @junglesfury.bsky.social · 27d

Reptiles have feelings too 🧠❤️🐍🐢🦎🧪

More Than A Feeling: Evidence That Reptiles May Experience Moods - Faunalytics

Can tortoises be optimistic? For the first time, researchers use cognitive bias tests on reptiles to explore whether mood influences their behavior.

faunalytics.org

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