Congrads, Sarka to one part of your PhD! π I like to read this chapter, it is reads well, explains some major physiological components of multimodal language even for the non-specialist. Also fun to read as an expert.
21.02.2026 14:20 β π 5 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0So what would a truly holistic model of communication look like? One that takes breathing, posture, and biomechanics seriously. Difficult but necessary π€ [5/6]
20.02.2026 11:08 β π 3 π 1 π¬ 2 π 0Now the arms and torso. πͺ Gestures are often seen as a byproduct of thinking β your brain computes, your hands follow. But arm movements physically pressure the respiratory system and change how your voice acoustics. The gesture shapes the utterance, not just the other way around. [3/6]
20.02.2026 11:08 β π 3 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0Even your legs matter. π¦Ά Leg movements affect speech intensity, your lower body anchors the posture that frees your upper body to gesture, and conversation partners subtly synchronize their postural sway with each other. [4/6]
20.02.2026 11:08 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0
Starting at the top: your head literally changes your voice. π§ Tilting your head up raises your pitch β because your laryngeal muscles are physically connected to the muscles that move your head. Check out the new paper from @acwiek.bsky.social and @susfuchs.bsky.social in Open Mind! [2/6]
20.02.2026 11:08 β π 8 π 3 π¬ 1 π 0
3. Motor overflow might be an overseen precursor for gesture production
4. Looking into the adapation of vocal-respiratory-locomotor adaptation in infancy and how this changes may be a fascinating topic
Some knowledge that was new to me while writing this review with my colleagues:
1. The respiratory system, i.e. how thorax and abdomen work together is very different in young infants
2. Empirical data on the coordination between motion and breathing are very limited
Some EU alternatives to the big AI and tech companies: european-alternatives.eu/categories
04.02.2026 20:04 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Animal Consciousness (first paragraph of the article). First published Sat Dec 23, 1995; substantive revision Tue Jan 13, 2026. Is there something itβs like to be an octopus, a bee, a snail? For much of the twentieth century, research into animal cognition tended to avoid questions of consciousness, following the lead of human neuroscience, where such questions were also marginalized (see the entries on animal cognition, methods in comparative cognition). However, the growing profile of consciousness science since 2000 has brought the topic of consciousness back into the scientific mainstream (see the entry on the neuroscience of consciousness), and this has led to resurgent interest in studying conscious experience in other animals.
I've been working for ages on a comprehensive revamp of the Stanford Encyclopedia Entry on "Animal Consciousness", with new sections on non-Western perspectives, methodological challenges and evolutionary big pictures, and it's out today: plato.stanford.edu/entries/cons.... Hope you find it useful!
13.01.2026 15:00 β π 260 π 74 π¬ 3 π 3Reminder π’ We are advertising a postdoctoral position in #philbio or #philphysics to work on an interdisciplinary project that adopts the lens of self-organization & active matter to explore the boundary between living and nonliving systemsπ www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo... #philjobs #philsci #evosky
13.01.2026 18:49 β π 42 π 24 π¬ 1 π 0
AI slop published on your watch: very bad look for HSSComms and Springer/Nature ο»Ώ Dear editors, I have failed to locate contact information for most of the academic editors for Humanities and Social Sciences Communications; I trust that you will forward this message to them. I want to note that AI slop is being published on your watch in the journal you edit. This paper, out last week (Al-Jarrah 2026), is full of inaccurate claims and includes countless hallucinated references. Even a cursory look at the bibliography shows that at least 10 and probably many more references are bullshit pure and simple; the simplest explanation is that they are confabulated by generative AI, which sheds doubt on the quality of the manuscript as a whole and on the review and editorial processes at your journal. It is a great lapse of editorial judgement to let this kind of obvious drivel pass and I am warning my colleagues at MPI and Radboud to avoid your journal until clear and unambiguous action is taken. You may also want to take note that many people are finding out about this and the online discussion of this paper and of the journal's failing standards is something I hope that Springer Nature cares about. In my opinion the paper does not pass even the most minimal quality assurance checks and is fully against the COPE guidelines on publication ethics. You may want to hold the author accountable for this; I think the only reasonable course is retraction. But the scholarly community also holds the journal accountable. By letting AI slop through, your journal is polluting the information ecology of scientific publishing. Amidst a rising tide of synthetic text, scholarly publishing, with its tradition of human oversight and strong peer revidew, should be one of the last stalwarts to defend the integrity of our research. I look forward to your response and to find out what decisive action you are taking.
Re: the AI slop paper shared by @thomaspellard.bsky.social and @lameensouag.bsky.social, I wrote to the editors β will update when I get a reply, and will be following closely what they do.
Key point is that we should hold the *journal* accountable for this mess
I have a few predictions...
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Research position suitable for a PhD student (or beyond), keen to work with multimodal vocal performance data in beatboxing: jobportal.uni-koeln.de/ausschreibun...
Deadline: 12 January!
Apply here: jobportal.uni-koeln.de/bewerben/2429
Feel free to contact me with questions about the position
Part-time, permanent position.
Rare opportunity to work at one of the UK's premier wildlife/ecotourism sites (Ospreys, White-tailed Eagles, Peregrine, Marsh Harriers) with a fabulous team @harbourbirds.bsky.social
Closing date: 30 Jan.
#RaptorResearch
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2026/01/03/j...
Cycling cities: documentaries how to change cities in qualitative living areas (in German with English subtitles): www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5jQ...
04.01.2026 17:56 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0This press conference is bananas, and the questions being asked are terrible. He's basically saying that anything he deems the US needs the US will just take regardless of where it is. "We're taking wealth out of the ground ..." like WTAF? Greenland and Canada next?
03.01.2026 17:37 β π 4 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0
Itβs not about drugs. If it was, Trump wouldnβt have pardoned one of the largest narco traffickers in the world last month.
Itβs about oil and regime change.
And they need a trial now to pretend that it isnβt. Especially to distract from his sinking under Epstein and skyrocketing healthcare costs.
Trump and Hegseth should be tried at The Hague
03.01.2026 17:19 β π 6 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0Chavez in 2009, while being labelled as paranoid, outlines exactly what is happening today.
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Time is running out to submit to to the 190th ASA in Philadelphia! Abstracts are due 12 January 2026.
Complete details at https://acousticalsociety.org/philadelphia-abstract-submission-2
Come celebrate the 250th anniversary of the United States with the ASA
#ASA190 #Philadelphia250
Information about degrees including plants at university of Plymouth.
π±πΎπ²ππΏππΊπ³π΄π·Welcome to 2026 - and another team registered for Botanical University Challenge 2026 - University of Plymouth. Their team first competed in 2022, and were the runner-up in 2025! #BUC2026
01.01.2026 10:03 β π 8 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0
Graffiti: The planet doesnβt need more βsuccessfulβ people. The planet desperately needs more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers, & lovers of all kinds.
Reminder.
31.12.2025 16:12 β π 278 π 58 π¬ 6 π 5
Salad survived the frost, amazing (sort: Zuckerhut). The rest is bought
29.12.2025 18:00 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Almost poetic my way today
28.12.2025 18:49 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Dieses Thema liegt mir am Herzen. Bitte hier unterzeichnen: weact.campact.de/petitions/so...
26.12.2025 10:51 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Google scholar is now broken for good because people use AI-generated, non-existent references.
As someone who will go to great lengths to hunt down the original 19th century grammar to cross-check an example cited in later literature, this just adds to my general disappointment in humankind, tbh
**Colloquium Research Center for Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence** Wednesday 4th February Room AZ 19 15:45 β 17:00 Tea, coffee and snacks upon arrival
For those in town
19.12.2025 16:19 β π 1 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0Ever thought there can be word internal pauses??? Yes, it is possible. Work by Ludger Paschen
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One of our librarians sat down with a medical student and helped them find and create a list of citations. All they had to do was copy and paste it into their assignment.
They submitted a list of AI generated citatons instead. They were ALL fake.
New paper in @openmindjournal.bsky.social "Scope and limits of iconic prosody." It all started in 2018. First results at CogSci 2019, then for my PhD. This is a complete re-analysis! doi.org/10.1162/OPMI...
Thanks to @susfuchs.bsky.social Manfred Krifka, and Cornelia Ebert π + editors + reviewers
