Axel Ahrens
@axelahrens.bsky.social
I want to understand how we understand speech and how we communicate. Psychophysics | Virtual acoustics | Virtual reality | Movement behavior. Assistant Professor at the Technical University of Denmark.
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this meeting could have been me hitting you with my car
November 10, 2025 at 10:55 PM
this meeting could have been me hitting you with my car
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“A Busy, Busy Day at the Airport”
By Ruben Bolling
Genius. Click in.
By Ruben Bolling
Genius. Click in.
June 5, 2025 at 6:18 AM
“A Busy, Busy Day at the Airport”
By Ruben Bolling
Genius. Click in.
By Ruben Bolling
Genius. Click in.
Finishing up a grant application with a view while the baby is napping.
February 27, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Finishing up a grant application with a view while the baby is napping.
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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...
@jamestrujillo.bsky.social @gdemelo.bsky.social @babajideowoyele.bsky.social
@jamestrujillo.bsky.social @gdemelo.bsky.social @babajideowoyele.bsky.social
February 27, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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...
@jamestrujillo.bsky.social @gdemelo.bsky.social @babajideowoyele.bsky.social
@jamestrujillo.bsky.social @gdemelo.bsky.social @babajideowoyele.bsky.social
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📢 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
February 19, 2025 at 11:34 AM
📢 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
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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"
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
January 16, 2025 at 5:01 AM
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"
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The scientific method served humanity well for hundreds of years but it was rendered obsolete in 2013 with the discovery of Vibes
January 12, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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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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?
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?
December 26, 2024 at 11:17 PM
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?
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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I convert tax dollars to pdfs
December 30, 2024 at 7:37 PM
I convert tax dollars to pdfs
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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.
scim.ag
December 23, 2024 at 3:07 PM
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.
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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
social media
November 16, 2024 at 6:30 PM
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
social media
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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.
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.
December 26, 2024 at 2:42 AM
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.
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🎇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.
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Einfach „0“ eingeben, um den Kalender kostenlos zu bekommen. 😉 Ich freue...
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December 24, 2024 at 7:31 AM
🎇I wish you all happy holidays and a happy new year! As last #Christmas, I have a #calendar for you (4/6):
ko-fi.com/s/e8a7f1ae4b
ko-fi.com/s/e8a7f1ae4b
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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December 16, 2024 at 8:41 AM
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. 🧪
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
From not being able to find people within auditory research to not being able to follow up on notifications. This is fantastic! So nice to see this community growing! Do not hesitate to contact me if you want want to be added to this list, particularly young/early career peeps.
go.bsky.app/2V3D2mu
go.bsky.app/2V3D2mu
November 21, 2024 at 11:00 AM
From not being able to find people within auditory research to not being able to follow up on notifications. This is fantastic! So nice to see this community growing! Do not hesitate to contact me if you want want to be added to this list, particularly young/early career peeps.
go.bsky.app/2V3D2mu
go.bsky.app/2V3D2mu
I feel that the auditory research community has either not arrived here yet or is not very well connected. Please let me know who to add to this starter pack and self-nominate. 🧪
go.bsky.app/2V3D2mu
go.bsky.app/2V3D2mu
November 12, 2024 at 10:07 PM
I feel that the auditory research community has either not arrived here yet or is not very well connected. Please let me know who to add to this starter pack and self-nominate. 🧪
go.bsky.app/2V3D2mu
go.bsky.app/2V3D2mu
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I have a joke about research funding but you wouldn't get it
I have a joke about academic head shots but it’s like 15 years out of date
I have a joke about infant research but it’s not fully developed yet
October 26, 2024 at 7:57 AM
I have a joke about research funding but you wouldn't get it
Servicepost: Don't aim to submit two large grant applications within 5 days when you have a toddler and a newborn...
October 10, 2024 at 8:28 PM
Servicepost: Don't aim to submit two large grant applications within 5 days when you have a toddler and a newborn...
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Subtweeting a discussion on the other platform, I think that academics are far too attached to the notion that their clever ideas have value, and should be treated as currency. I think this leads down a bad path. In science, ideas without implementation are pretty worthless.
October 3, 2024 at 1:30 PM
Subtweeting a discussion on the other platform, I think that academics are far too attached to the notion that their clever ideas have value, and should be treated as currency. I think this leads down a bad path. In science, ideas without implementation are pretty worthless.
Write your grant application when your baby writes their grant application.
Sleep when the baby sleeps, eat when the baby eats, edit your manuscript when the baby edits their manuscript
October 2, 2024 at 6:06 PM
Write your grant application when your baby writes their grant application.
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Not sure if we've hit critical mass here on bsky yet, but the lab is hiring!
We've gotten some good news grants recently, and now have some funded projects that are looking for people to champion them.
All projects use Holographic Optogenetics to study motor systems.
oldenburglab.com/positions/
We've gotten some good news grants recently, and now have some funded projects that are looking for people to champion them.
All projects use Holographic Optogenetics to study motor systems.
oldenburglab.com/positions/
Positions, Oldenburg Lab
Join the lab We are looking for curious, motivated, and talented people from all different backgrounds to join our team at all levels.
oldenburglab.com
August 13, 2024 at 4:57 PM
Not sure if we've hit critical mass here on bsky yet, but the lab is hiring!
We've gotten some good news grants recently, and now have some funded projects that are looking for people to champion them.
All projects use Holographic Optogenetics to study motor systems.
oldenburglab.com/positions/
We've gotten some good news grants recently, and now have some funded projects that are looking for people to champion them.
All projects use Holographic Optogenetics to study motor systems.
oldenburglab.com/positions/
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me, adjusting my reading glasses: "that's a vibraphone"
September 28, 2024 at 3:06 AM
me, adjusting my reading glasses: "that's a vibraphone"
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New Paper!
The influence of affective voice on sound distance perception
We present two #VR experiments using a 🎯placement task and 👀 #EyeTracking to test whether affective voice (angry vs neutral) biases distance perception
doi.org/10.1037/xhp0...
Preprint osf.io/preprints/ps...
#VRcademicSky
The influence of affective voice on sound distance perception
We present two #VR experiments using a 🎯placement task and 👀 #EyeTracking to test whether affective voice (angry vs neutral) biases distance perception
doi.org/10.1037/xhp0...
Preprint osf.io/preprints/ps...
#VRcademicSky
APA PsycNet
doi.org
August 8, 2024 at 7:47 AM
New Paper!
The influence of affective voice on sound distance perception
We present two #VR experiments using a 🎯placement task and 👀 #EyeTracking to test whether affective voice (angry vs neutral) biases distance perception
doi.org/10.1037/xhp0...
Preprint osf.io/preprints/ps...
#VRcademicSky
The influence of affective voice on sound distance perception
We present two #VR experiments using a 🎯placement task and 👀 #EyeTracking to test whether affective voice (angry vs neutral) biases distance perception
doi.org/10.1037/xhp0...
Preprint osf.io/preprints/ps...
#VRcademicSky