Susanne Fuchs

A figure demonstrating the different aspects of the corpus described in the tweet. There is a main isomorphic 3D view of a level in the Portal 2 co-op game, with some portals, lasers, and the blue and orange players. Inset, there are first-person captures of the blue and orange player views. There is also a box containing the transcribed dialogue with timestamps and labels for the discursive acts. Finally, there is a box containing a task and a list of subtasks. Some subtasks are already crossed out, with the time that they have been completed. The last subtask ("Player 2 places portal 4 on wall 4") is marked incomplete. The dialogue is as follows: Blue: Can you put your other portal up here? (tagged as directive) Orange: Where? (tagged as request for clarification) Blue: On uh, on this wall. (tagged as directive) Blue: So that it uh points at the circle. (tagged as directive) Orange: Okay. (tagged as commit) The full list of subtasks is: Task: Redirect lasers Subtask: Player 1 places portal 1 on wall 1. (completed) Subtask: Player 1 polaces portal 2 on wall 2 or 3. (completed) Subtask: Player 2 places portal 3 opposite of portal 2. (completed) Subtask: Player 2 places portal 4 on wall 4. (incomplete)

A couple years (!) in the making: we’re releasing a new corpus of embodied, collaborative problem solving dialogues. We paid 36 people to play Portal 2’s co-op mode and collected their speech + game recordings.

Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2512.03381
Website: berkeley-nlp.github.io/portal-dialo...

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Stellenausschreibung: Redakteur:in (all genders) Zum 01.02.2026 suchen wir Unterstützung für das Volksverpetzer-Redaktions-Team! Bewirb dich unter bockauf@volksverpetzer.de

Wir suchen wieder Verstärkung im Team – diesmal in der Redaktion! Wenn es für dich in Frage kommt, guck gerne rein! Oder du jemanden kennst, für den das was wäre, teile das gern und helft uns, weiter zu wachsen, um gegen Hass & Desinformation zu kämpfen :) www.volksverpetzer.de/stellenaussc...

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Deadline 4 Jan: Postdoc, variability and vowel harmony, metaphony (phonetic and psycholinguistic approaches), Potsdam (w/ A. Gafos) docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Did you know the heart imprints onto the voice? New preprint spearheaded by Marijn Hafkamp, confirming (seemingly forgotten) research from the 80's and testing for the first time possible biomechanical mechanisms (evidence points to heart-lung-voice interactions).
wimpouw.com/files/Hafkam...

How physical information is used to make sense of the psychological world - Nature Reviews Psychology Reasoning about minds and reasoning about physical objects are governed by two distinct systems. In this Perspective, Liu et al. review research from developmental psychology and cognitive neuroscienc...

New perspective paper (w/ @sedaakbiyik.bsky.social, Joseph Outa, & @minjaek.bsky.social ) in @natrevpsychol.nature.com ⚽💭🧠👶 : www.nature.com/articles/s44...

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.

Acoustics Lay Language Paper

Hearing loss in old age isn’t normal aging. It’s the result of cumulative excessive lifetime noise exposure. https://acoustics.org/hearing-loss-in-old-age-isnt-due-to-normal-aging/

#ASA189 #ASA_ASJ2025

Wenn man wirklich die Universitäten nachhaltig schützen will vor politischen Einflussnahmen, dann braucht es dringend sehr viel mehr Dauerstellen. Das ist der beste Schutz der Wissenschaftsfreiheit und auch der Uni als kritischem Ort. Ich denke, genau deshalb gibt es diese Dauerstellen kaum

A richly annotated dataset of co-speech hand gestures across diverse speaker contexts - Scientific Data Scientific Data - A richly annotated dataset of co-speech hand gestures across diverse speaker contexts

A richly annotated dataset of co-speech hand gestures across diverse speaker contexts www.nature.com/articles/s41... Dataset comprising 2373 annotated gestures, 9 speakers across 3 distinct categories: University lecturers, Politicians, and Psychotherapists can be accessed at doi.org/10.17605/OSF...

EXCELLENT graphic on the drain of scientific publishing! zenodo.org/records/1759...

New amazing open Postdoc position, w/t opportunities to 1) get closely involved in our next @themanybirds.bsky.social study on innovation and problem-solving; 2) work with @ecobird.bsky.social on avian innovation, cognition & invasiveness. Advert: www.ugent.be/en/work/scie...

Transparent and comprehensive statistical reporting is critical for ensuring the credibility, reproducibility, and interpretability of psychological research. This paper offers a structured set of guidelines for reporting statistical analyses in quantitative psychology, emphasizing clarity at both the planning and results stages. Drawing on established recommendations and emerging best practices, we outline key decisions related to hypothesis formulation, sample size justification, preregistration, outlier and missing data handling, statistical model specification, and the interpretation of inferential outcomes. We address considerations across frequentist and Bayesian frameworks and fixed as well as sequential research designs, including guidance on effect size reporting, equivalence testing, and the appropriate treatment of null results. To facilitate implementation of these recommendations, we provide the Transparent Statistical Reporting in Psychology (TSRP) Checklist that researchers can use to systematically evaluate and improve their statistical reporting practices (https://osf.io/t2zpq/). In addition, we provide a curated list of freely available tools, packages, and functions that researchers can use to implement transparent reporting practices in their own analyses to bridge the gap between theory and practice. To illustrate the practical application of these principles, we provide a side-by-side comparison of insufficient versus best-practice reporting using a hypothetical cognitive psychology study. By adopting transparent reporting standards, researchers can improve the robustness of individual studies and facilitate cumulative scientific progress through more reliable meta-analyses and research syntheses.

Our paper on improving statistical reporting in psychology is now online 🎉

As a part of this paper, we also created the Transparent Statistical Reporting in Psychology checklist, which researchers can use to improve their statistical reporting practices

www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Letzte Ernte aus dem Gewächshaus, es könnte ja bald frostig werden und grüne Tomaten rot werden lassen.

Wissenschaftler beobachten Schimpansen – und machen bahnbrechende Beobachtung Eine Studie der Universität Utrecht zeigt, dass Schimpansen offenbar rational denken und neue Beweise abwägen können. Diese Entdeckung stellt unser altes Menschenbild infrage.

Schimpansen können offenbar rational denken – das zeigt eine neue Studie der Universität Utrecht, die im Fachjournal "Science" veröffentlicht wurde. Damit stellen die Forscher die lange geltende Annahme infrage, dass nur Menschen zu solchem Denken fähig sind.
www.focus.de/wissen/forsc...

A busy figure showing how reduction of different types of multimodal signals reduces over experimental rounds (with a comparison of how a non-linear signal following a power law can be transformed to a linear slope using a log-transformation).

Our paper @sarabogels.bsky.social covering our pre-registered multi-year research is now finally out in Cognition. We show that in conversations people reduce their multimodal signals non-linearly; the steeper this non-linear drop-off the more communicative success.

www.wimpouw.com/files/Bogels...

Always shocking to see these kinds of data collected together. "[publishers made]US$12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024" - That's $12 billion diverted away from actual research or materially supporting the community - these are disgusting numbers.

Register effects of imagined addressees on f0 across generations This study analyzed fundamental frequency (f0) data from 717 German speakers, collected via the Plapper smartphone app, to investigate phonetic variation as a f

If you are interested in f0, have a look at the new paper from our lab on f0 across generations in 717 German speakers. pubs.aip.org/asa/jel/arti...

Obituary for Prof. Dr. Dr. Friedemann Pulvermüller

😢Friedemann Pulvermueller passed away. www.geisteswissenschaften.fu-berlin.de/en/dcl/veran...

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A hub primarily for librarians and research support professionals in the Netherlands to exchange knowledge, resources and developments in open access book publishing.

Date: October 28, 2025

Time: 12:00-13:30

Location: Online

Hilfsorganisationen verurteilen Verlängerung des IRINI-Mandats durch Bundesregierung Unterstützung der libyschen Küstenwache fördert Gewalt, illegale Rückführungen und gefährdet Menschenleben auf See. Mandat sieht diese Option erstmals vor.

Diesen Mittwoch steht im Bundestag ein Mandatsentwurf zur Abstimmung, bei dem - anders als früher - nicht mehr ausgeschlossen wird, dass Deutschland die libyschen Küstenwache unterstützt. Obwohl diese systematisch Menschrechtsverletzungen begeht. Wir fordern eine klare Ablehnung des Mandats. [1/2]

Rubber arm illusion in octopus The feeling of a body as belonging to oneself is called the sense of body ownership and the centerpiece of conscious experience. Kawashima and Ikeda investigated the sense of body ownership in an octo...

Happy World Octopus Day. Here's a recent paper demonstrating octopuses have a sense of body ownership similar to mamals and rodents.
www.cell.com/current-biol...

The Leibniz Center for Science and Society (LCSS) at @unihannover.bsky.social invites international researchers in science studies & higher educ research to apply for the fellowship program “Disruptions in Science and Society” (research stays: 1–18 months).

www.lcss.uni-hannover.de/en/fellowshi...

Big news! Starting in 2027, @cambup-linguistics.cambridge.org will publish the Journal of Black Language and Culture (JBLAC)—a new LSA journal highlighting the richness of Black language & culture across the globe.
Learn more: www.lsadc.org/content.asp?... @acharityhudley.bsky.social

#ilcb #welcomeback2025 | Institut ILCB 🎉 ILCB Annual Welcome Back Party – 10 October 2025 Join us at Salle B 011, 5 avenue Pasteur, Aix-en-Provence for a morning of science, networking, and celebration as we kick off the new academic yea...

🎉 ILCB Annual Welcome Back Party – 10 October 2025

Join us at LPL Aix-en-Provence for a morning of science, networking, and celebration as we kick off the new academic year!

🔗 Confirm your attendance (mandatory): www.ilcb.fr/event/garden...

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Wonderful and the video is just great. Thanks envisionbox team 🤩!!!!

YouTube video by Wim Pouw EnvisionBOX overview2025

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...

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! 👏

Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time One of the most devastating diseases finally has a treatment that could transform lives, tearful doctors tell BBC

“An emotional research team became tearful as they described how data shows the disease was slowed by 75% in patients.”

What an absolutely incredible, joyous achievement for everyone involved. Hurrah for science and scientists! www.bbc.com/news/article...