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To celebrate my favourite visual-vestibular collaborator @jennycampos.bsky.social joining bluesky. I am re-posting the Multisensory starter pack and as a reminder that @imrf.bsky.social abstract deadline is in two weeks. go.bsky.app/Gn1qnNp

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Inaugural post on bsky: The ECOLANG Multimodal Corpus, providing audiovisual recordings and annotations of multimodal communicative behaviours by English-speaking adults in dyadic interaction with a child or another adult is now available rdcu.be/eblMF

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Many neuroscience students are steeped in an experiment-first style of thinking that leads to “random walk science.” Let’s not forget how theory can guide experiments towards deeper insights, writes @gershbrain.bsky.social. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/theoretical-...

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Out today in Nature Machine Intelligence! From childhood on, people can create novel, playful, and creative goals. Models have yet to capture this ability. We propose a new way to represent goals and report a model that can generate human-like goals in a playful setting... 1/N

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PREPRINT: In face-to-face communication, we have a stronger prior tendency to bind vocal and bodily signals that share the same function, such as signalling the intention to communicate. Work started while at @mpi-nl.bsky.social w/ CIMeC (University of Trento) 🧠🧪 #psychscisky #academicsky See 🧵👇

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Come work with us! Our department is hiring an associate/assistant prof in language and speech technology www.ru.nl/en/working-a... #interspeech #speech #SpeechTech #SpeechScience

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How well can video-based methods estimate body kinematics? In my recent paper with @giacomonovembre.bsky.social, we show that accuracy of one such method (OpenPose) varied substantially across subjects & body parts. Interestingly, this accuracy strongly depended on the movement amplitude. t.ly/4Tlnc

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Statistical learning beyond words in human neonates Examined: Can neonates can compute transitional probabilities on one dimension despite irrelevant variation on another? Does the linguistic dimension enjoy an advantage over the voice dimension? elifesciences.org/articles/101...

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Thanks to all of the NIHers and their friends who reached out to me. I am still here (DM me or Signal jeremymberg.78) I still have a very incomplete picture but based on what I have been told, the damage to NIH and to many wonderful people who work(ed) there is/was impossible for me to imagine 1/n

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There's a movement in neuroscience suggesting we should be pursuing bigger bets with larger teams. I think there's a case for doing a bit of this, but I think it's a bad idea to prioritise it for two reasons, and a good case for saying we should be moving in the exact opposite direction. 🧠🧪

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Would you like to work at Max Planck Society tenured? A new round of the Lise Meitner Excellence Program for #tenuretrack group leaders opened today - pls consider applying! The program aims to recruit and promote exceptionally qualified female scientists. mpg.de/lise-meitner-e… #LiseMeitnerGroups

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We have an opening for a 12 month Research Assistant post, funded by an ERC grant. The postholder would help with several neuroimaging projects, including MEG and 7T fMRI. Please repost and share with anyone who may be interested. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... #neuroskyence #Neuroimaging

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1️⃣ More and more, we see scientists openly expressing emotions—moving away from the traditional norm of "rational", "neutral" communication. But what are the consequences of this shift? Does showing emotion compromise a scientist’s credibility? In our latest publication, we explored this question 🧵👇

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Using mobile #eyetracking to study #dogs’ understanding of human referential communication. New study w/ Karoline Gerwisch, Paula Berg, Zsófia Virányi and Ludwig Huber royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

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My lab is looking for a computational neuroscience postdoctoral researcher: www.ru.nl/en/working-a... Come join us at the @dondersinst.bsky.social!

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A coyote & badger pair were captured on a trailcam by the Peninsula Open Space Trust (POST) near Gilroy, CA in 2020. Look, I would absolutely watch a movie about these two, but there's also a fascinating bit of biology here. Interspecies cooperation is well established between these two species.

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Registration to the CAOs workshop on Concepts, Actions, and Objects (Rovereto, Italy, May 7-9 2025) now open! event.unitn.it/cimec-caos/

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SO very excited about new paper with @simonkirby.bsky.social and @ellengarland.bsky.social: We used infant-inspired tools to analyze eight years of humpback whale song, finding recurring parts with a Zipfian frequency distribution. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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I know this site only reaches a subset of neuro/ cog professors. If you know a young professor in the area who would benefit from a week of targeted learning about doing good science, good mentoring, networking etc, it would be great if you could forward them: compneurosci.com/Neuro4Pros/i...

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good post www.science.org/content/blog...

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Excited to have another paper coming out from my postdoc time with @judithholler.bsky.social ! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... We looked at how visual signals, like facial expressions and hand gestures, are associated with the the amount of linguistic information, in spoken conversations 🧵

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FYI: I was looking for a paper for an upcoming journal club and found this absolute gem www.pnas.org/topic/568 🤩 🧠 🧪

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🗣️ Language is widely distributed throughout the brain 🧠 In a recent correspondence in @natrevneurosci.bsky.social, we suggest that there is no 'language network' in the brain. What appears as such is an inevitable illusion created in part by the methods we use. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Hope you'll forgive a quick thread as I take over as the new EiC of @elife.bsky.social

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Just published: our validated 23-item parent report measure of curiosity in infants 5-24 months of age (ITCQ), a single measure with subscales of sensory, investigative and interactive curiosity. With Elena Altmann, @marinabazhydai.bsky.social, Didar Karadag. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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A PhD position is open in @peelen.bsky.social Lab at the Donders Institute - please spread the word and consider applying if you are interested about how imagery and perception relate to each other www.ru.nl/en/working-a... - plus we are fun people to work with ! :)

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Happy 30th birthday year to SPM!! 🎈🍰 To get the party started, we are delighted to announce SPM 25.01, a major new version of the open-source neuroimaging software. Read the preprint to discover what's new arxiv.org/pdf/2501.12081 and download SPM for free from Github github.com/spm/spm/rele...

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Facial signals shape predictions about the nature of upcoming conversational responses. New paper by @alexemmendorfer.bsky.social & @judithholler.bsky.social doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-85192-y

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Your last chance to register... and also to help me advertise :) Please repost 🙏

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Our lab is hiring a post doc! We are looking specifically for someone with machine learning research experience to contribute to funded simulation projects on learning and/or replay. Please share, and email me if you are interested!!

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Announcing a new week-long program for young computational neuroscience/ behavior professors to talk about rigorous science, mentoring, lab management, and networking in a stunning retreat setting. Do great science as a community and have fun doing so.

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Did someone say the IMRF submission portal is open? Oooh yeah! You heard it - send us your symposium proposals by February 14; talk/poster proposals by March 14 📝 More information, submission templates, and submission instructions on: imrf2025.sciencesconf.org We cannot wait to read them!

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How do our brains generate predictive models of unfolding events? We're seeking for a postdoc to address this question in my lab: sites.google.com/site/moritzf...

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Prior knowledge changes sensory processing in the spinal cord?! 🤯 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #neuroskyence

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Olfaction is a Spatial Sense Review of Philosophy and Psychology And it is out! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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"Keep your eyes on the donut, not the hole" RIP David Lynch This interview of his is etched into my brain: Where do ideas come from? www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fxr-...

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Hi everyone! Allow us to introduce ourselves: We are the Baby & Child Research Center. Everyday, our wonderful team works on unraveling the fascinating world of the development of babies & children. There's so much to learn, so stay tuned to follow our journey and give us a follow!👶🧠

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Happy to see this out in Cognition with a more rounded discussion and further methodological details (see suppl info) thanks to very insightful reviews. It's been a pleasure working on this project with Peter Hagoort at @mpi-nl.bsky.social and Donders Institute! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Wow, just wow. V different approach reveals numerous problems in Scientific Reports - cf deevybee.blogspot.com/2024/10/an-o... I do hope @springernature.bsky.social will start to publish reviewer reports and editor info as we suggested

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Debate resolved! Is the left-to-right association between numbers and space biologically or culturally determined? Our study involved: 👨‍👩‍👧 Unschooled adults (Himba, Namibia) 👶 Italian pre-schooled kids 🎓 Italian schooled adults — see comment for the findings www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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The neurobiology of language does not operate in a vat. An important perspective from the @thelablab.bsky.social and colleagues: "Language is widely distributed throughout the brain" www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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It is with profound sadness that we share the devastating news that Eleanor Maguire passed away on January 4th. She was a phenomenally brilliant neuroscientist, with immense passion for her work and many remarkable accomplishments. We will miss her terribly. www.online-tribute.com/EleanorMaguire

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Folks in this thread pointing out that low pay for high experience jobs makes them 'hobby jobs' - things for rich folks to do. When we make the cultural infrastructure of our country a hobby for the rich, we end up with a culture that valorises wealth. It is a political choice, and a dangerous one

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Deep neural networks and humans both benefit from compositional language structure. New paper by @lukasgalke.bsky.social, Yoav Ram, and @limorraviv.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1038/s414....

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