Riccardo Fusaroli
@fusaroli.bsky.social
Cognitive Science at Aarhus Uni. Curious about social interactions, symbolic behaviors, and meta-science. Focus on stats, computational modeling, machine learning, complex systems, language, exp semiotics and neuropsychiatric conditions. He/They.
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Hello new followers! I am a curious cognitive scientist, with a background in semiotics, a strong focus on quantitative and computational methods and meta-science and scattered interests in how we think, learn and function through conversations.
For a taste of my work, a thread of threads: 1/
For a taste of my work, a thread of threads: 1/
it always takes a while to adjust to the faroese rhythms and weather. and yet it's always hard to leave
January 2, 2026 at 8:48 AM
it always takes a while to adjust to the faroese rhythms and weather. and yet it's always hard to leave
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Applications open for SFI’s 2026 GWCSS program, a 2-week workshop for Ph.D. students and early-career scholars to explore complex systems and computation, collaborate on challenges, and advance their research with support from SFI faculty.
Apply by Feb 4, 2026
www.santafe.edu/gwcss
Apply by Feb 4, 2026
www.santafe.edu/gwcss
January 1, 2026 at 5:01 PM
Applications open for SFI’s 2026 GWCSS program, a 2-week workshop for Ph.D. students and early-career scholars to explore complex systems and computation, collaborate on challenges, and advance their research with support from SFI faculty.
Apply by Feb 4, 2026
www.santafe.edu/gwcss
Apply by Feb 4, 2026
www.santafe.edu/gwcss
Not my beloved Romagna wine hills, still not the worst place to run (and get my first running related injury)
December 29, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Not my beloved Romagna wine hills, still not the worst place to run (and get my first running related injury)
while this was an easy to write list of our 2025 papers (go read them, awesome ECRs spreading their wings!), it's harder to write one about lessons learned. Make time to think, make time to talk to those you care about although distant, busy, hard. don't lose sight of what's fun to do.
2025 has been a heavy year, but a few fun studies (finally) came out! Check the thread(s) for work on turn taking, causal inference, vowel hyper-articulation, vocal markers of schizophrenia and prehistoric symbolic behaviors! 1/
December 29, 2025 at 10:45 AM
while this was an easy to write list of our 2025 papers (go read them, awesome ECRs spreading their wings!), it's harder to write one about lessons learned. Make time to think, make time to talk to those you care about although distant, busy, hard. don't lose sight of what's fun to do.
2025 has been a heavy year, but a few fun studies (finally) came out! Check the thread(s) for work on turn taking, causal inference, vowel hyper-articulation, vocal markers of schizophrenia and prehistoric symbolic behaviors! 1/
December 22, 2025 at 10:56 PM
2025 has been a heavy year, but a few fun studies (finally) came out! Check the thread(s) for work on turn taking, causal inference, vowel hyper-articulation, vocal markers of schizophrenia and prehistoric symbolic behaviors! 1/
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Detailed vignettes demonstrate basic and advances use cases github.com/michaelchime....
GitHub - michaelchimento/STbayes: An R package for creating and running Bayesian models of social transmission.
An R package for creating and running Bayesian models of social transmission. - michaelchimento/STbayes
github.com
December 20, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Detailed vignettes demonstrate basic and advances use cases github.com/michaelchime....
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My book is now available as a PDF here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
It will still always be available in HTML (here: jamesblandecon.github.io/StructuralBa...), and HTML will be my preferred version (the tables look better).
It will still always be available in HTML (here: jamesblandecon.github.io/StructuralBa...), and HTML will be my preferred version (the tables look better).
Structural Bayesian Techniques for Experimental and Behavioral Economics
A book about estimating models from experimental economics datasets
papers.ssrn.com
October 16, 2025 at 7:54 PM
My book is now available as a PDF here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
It will still always be available in HTML (here: jamesblandecon.github.io/StructuralBa...), and HTML will be my preferred version (the tables look better).
It will still always be available in HTML (here: jamesblandecon.github.io/StructuralBa...), and HTML will be my preferred version (the tables look better).
Now out in TopiCS as "Simulating Symbolic Evolution in the Lab: Potentials and Implications of Using Transmission Chains to Study Early Symbolic Behavior at the Emergence of Homo sapiens" doi.org/10.1111/tops... Thread below! w @felixthehauskat.bsky.social & many others.
December 18, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Now out in TopiCS as "Simulating Symbolic Evolution in the Lab: Potentials and Implications of Using Transmission Chains to Study Early Symbolic Behavior at the Emergence of Homo sapiens" doi.org/10.1111/tops... Thread below! w @felixthehauskat.bsky.social & many others.
I spent my last 2w of research time understanding and implementing hidden markov models in Stan. I had an application case (improving automated diarization, based on manually coded snippets), but really I wanted to learn HMMs :-) What happened? @betanalpha.bsky.social> 1/
December 18, 2025 at 9:27 AM
I spent my last 2w of research time understanding and implementing hidden markov models in Stan. I had an application case (improving automated diarization, based on manually coded snippets), but really I wanted to learn HMMs :-) What happened? @betanalpha.bsky.social> 1/
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Two-year post-doc position in my department working on a cool project applying cognitive science (transmission chain experiments and natural language processing) to study cultural evolution: tinyurl.com/bdeju6kw
Post-Doctoral Research Associate
The Psychology Department in the School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences are seeking a full time, fixed term Post-Doctoral Research Associate. This post is available from 1st of Septemb...
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December 15, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Two-year post-doc position in my department working on a cool project applying cognitive science (transmission chain experiments and natural language processing) to study cultural evolution: tinyurl.com/bdeju6kw
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kids changed the game to make it harder when playing for fun than when playing to win (& chose similar win-irrelevant stuff in both)
So, 'playing for fun' optimizes for something other than external outcomes (e.g. knocking down all the blocks or getting a prize)
So, 'playing for fun' optimizes for something other than external outcomes (e.g. knocking down all the blocks or getting a prize)
December 15, 2025 at 2:00 PM
kids changed the game to make it harder when playing for fun than when playing to win (& chose similar win-irrelevant stuff in both)
So, 'playing for fun' optimizes for something other than external outcomes (e.g. knocking down all the blocks or getting a prize)
So, 'playing for fun' optimizes for something other than external outcomes (e.g. knocking down all the blocks or getting a prize)
it took a few days of steep learning and fun Stan coding, but I think I'm onto something (hidden markov models to correct automated annotations of time series based on a few snippets of manual annotations). Now onto stress testing the algorithm with way more noisy emissions!
December 11, 2025 at 2:01 PM
it took a few days of steep learning and fun Stan coding, but I think I'm onto something (hidden markov models to correct automated annotations of time series based on a few snippets of manual annotations). Now onto stress testing the algorithm with way more noisy emissions!
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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.
Free registration (limited seats): horizondiamond.nl
Let's build a sustainable publishing infrastructure together.
November 21, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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.
Free registration (limited seats): horizondiamond.nl
Let's build a sustainable publishing infrastructure together.
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Big new blogpost!
My guide to data visualization, which includes a very long table of contents, tons of charts, and more.
--> Why data visualization matters and how to make charts more effective, clear, transparent, and sometimes, beautiful.
www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/salonis-gu...
My guide to data visualization, which includes a very long table of contents, tons of charts, and more.
--> Why data visualization matters and how to make charts more effective, clear, transparent, and sometimes, beautiful.
www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/salonis-gu...
December 9, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Big new blogpost!
My guide to data visualization, which includes a very long table of contents, tons of charts, and more.
--> Why data visualization matters and how to make charts more effective, clear, transparent, and sometimes, beautiful.
www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/salonis-gu...
My guide to data visualization, which includes a very long table of contents, tons of charts, and more.
--> Why data visualization matters and how to make charts more effective, clear, transparent, and sometimes, beautiful.
www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/salonis-gu...
A really neat new paper on interpersonal heart coordination in the wild following 3 groups during organized trips in New York.
🫀 New preprint alert! 🌆
Thrilled to share the first paper of my PhD on heart-rate synchrony during social interactions in urban environments. @sinelabdtu.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Thrilled to share the first paper of my PhD on heart-rate synchrony during social interactions in urban environments. @sinelabdtu.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Physical proximity, social familiarity, and acoustic environment modulate heart rate synchrony in real-world social interactions
Human social behaviour unfolds in complex real-world environments shaped by social and acoustic factors, yet markers of social engagement and connection remain elusive. Interpersonal physiological syn...
www.biorxiv.org
December 9, 2025 at 7:08 PM
A really neat new paper on interpersonal heart coordination in the wild following 3 groups during organized trips in New York.
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I'm teaching Statistical Rethinking again starting Jan 2026. This time with live lectures, divided into Beginner and Experienced sections. Will be a lot more work for me, but I hope much better for students.
I will record lectures & all will be found at this link: github.com/rmcelreath/s...
I will record lectures & all will be found at this link: github.com/rmcelreath/s...
December 9, 2025 at 1:58 PM
I'm teaching Statistical Rethinking again starting Jan 2026. This time with live lectures, divided into Beginner and Experienced sections. Will be a lot more work for me, but I hope much better for students.
I will record lectures & all will be found at this link: github.com/rmcelreath/s...
I will record lectures & all will be found at this link: github.com/rmcelreath/s...
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The Groningen Spring school on Cognitive Modeling is back! Join us from March 30th-April 2nd, 2026! www.ai.rug.nl/springschool/
Groningen Spring School in Cognitive Modeling
www.ai.rug.nl
December 4, 2025 at 7:50 PM
The Groningen Spring school on Cognitive Modeling is back! Join us from March 30th-April 2nd, 2026! www.ai.rug.nl/springschool/
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New paper out today w @dalmaijer.bsky.social @barbaraklump.bsky.social and @lucymaplin.bsky.social as part of the Phil Trans special issue doi.org/10.1098/rstb.... Over 2 years, we studied a population of cockatoos thought to be the source of the innovation of bin-opening.
December 4, 2025 at 1:31 PM
New paper out today w @dalmaijer.bsky.social @barbaraklump.bsky.social and @lucymaplin.bsky.social as part of the Phil Trans special issue doi.org/10.1098/rstb.... Over 2 years, we studied a population of cockatoos thought to be the source of the innovation of bin-opening.
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🧠⚙️ Interested in decision theory+cogsci meets AI? Want to create methods for rigorously designing & evaluating human-AI workflows?
I'm recruiting PhDs to work on:
🎯 Stat foundations of multi-agent collaboration
🌫️ Model uncertainty & meta-cognition
🔎 Interpretability
💬 LLMs in behavioral science
I'm recruiting PhDs to work on:
🎯 Stat foundations of multi-agent collaboration
🌫️ Model uncertainty & meta-cognition
🔎 Interpretability
💬 LLMs in behavioral science
November 5, 2025 at 4:40 PM
🧠⚙️ Interested in decision theory+cogsci meets AI? Want to create methods for rigorously designing & evaluating human-AI workflows?
I'm recruiting PhDs to work on:
🎯 Stat foundations of multi-agent collaboration
🌫️ Model uncertainty & meta-cognition
🔎 Interpretability
💬 LLMs in behavioral science
I'm recruiting PhDs to work on:
🎯 Stat foundations of multi-agent collaboration
🌫️ Model uncertainty & meta-cognition
🔎 Interpretability
💬 LLMs in behavioral science
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Are you working on a project where you need to infer whether individuals are socially learning? pathways, correlates of, and individual variation in sensitivity to social transmission? Consider joining the hand-on STbayes workshop to learn about the latest update to the NBDA framework
⏰ Reminder: 10 days left to submit your abstract for Culture Conference 2026!
🧠 Workshop details are now live! Join us for a hands-on day on cutting-edge tools for analysing social networks & social transmission (registration opens soon).
Find all details here: culture-conference.com/workshop/
🧠 Workshop details are now live! Join us for a hands-on day on cutting-edge tools for analysing social networks & social transmission (registration opens soon).
Find all details here: culture-conference.com/workshop/
November 28, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Are you working on a project where you need to infer whether individuals are socially learning? pathways, correlates of, and individual variation in sensitivity to social transmission? Consider joining the hand-on STbayes workshop to learn about the latest update to the NBDA framework
CogSci in Aarhus is hiring, open rank (assi, asso or full prof).
We want somebody working on and teaching computational modelling of cognitive processes and/or social processes. Students are amazing, work/life balance very satisfactory, and colleagues are nice!
international.au.dk/about/profil...
We want somebody working on and teaching computational modelling of cognitive processes and/or social processes. Students are amazing, work/life balance very satisfactory, and colleagues are nice!
international.au.dk/about/profil...
Assistant Professor, Associate Professor or Full Professor of Cognitive Science - Vacancy at Aarhus University
Vacancy at School of Communication and Culture - Linguistics, Cognitive Science and Semiotics, Dept. of, Aarhus University
international.au.dk
November 26, 2025 at 11:38 AM
CogSci in Aarhus is hiring, open rank (assi, asso or full prof).
We want somebody working on and teaching computational modelling of cognitive processes and/or social processes. Students are amazing, work/life balance very satisfactory, and colleagues are nice!
international.au.dk/about/profil...
We want somebody working on and teaching computational modelling of cognitive processes and/or social processes. Students are amazing, work/life balance very satisfactory, and colleagues are nice!
international.au.dk/about/profil...
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Our Tuesday guest speaker @interacting-minds.bsky.social 25th Nov will be @graceqmiao.bsky.social joining us remotely.
All are most welcome in person or online interactingminds.au.dk/events/singl...
Thanks to @fusaroli.bsky.social for organizing
All are most welcome in person or online interactingminds.au.dk/events/singl...
Thanks to @fusaroli.bsky.social for organizing
Grace Miao (@graceqmiao.bsky.social)
PhD Student @UCLA | Communication 🗣🗣& Social Neuroscience 🧠🧠 | Research: Multimodal dynamics of human communication and connections | Snowboard enthusiast 🏂
graceqmiao.bsky.social
November 24, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Our Tuesday guest speaker @interacting-minds.bsky.social 25th Nov will be @graceqmiao.bsky.social joining us remotely.
All are most welcome in person or online interactingminds.au.dk/events/singl...
Thanks to @fusaroli.bsky.social for organizing
All are most welcome in person or online interactingminds.au.dk/events/singl...
Thanks to @fusaroli.bsky.social for organizing
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Our New Paper is out in Nature Human Behaviour: 🚨 Culture is critical in driving orangutan diet development past individual potentials! 🦧 www.nature.com/articles/s41.... See 🧵
Culture is critical in driving orangutan diet development past individual potentials - Nature Human Behaviour
Howard-Spink et al. develop an empirically based model of orangutan diet development, which suggests that social learning is vital for orangutans to acquire varied diets.
www.nature.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Our New Paper is out in Nature Human Behaviour: 🚨 Culture is critical in driving orangutan diet development past individual potentials! 🦧 www.nature.com/articles/s41.... See 🧵
for all of you using the ALIGN library (to measure lexical, syntactic and semantic alignment in conversations), Nick Duran has put together a great refactoring: ALIGN 2.0 (github.com/nickduran/al...), now integrated with Spacy and Bert
GitHub - nickduran/align2-linguistic-alignment: ALIGN 2.0: Modern Python package for multi-level linguistic alignment analysis. Faster, streamlined, and feature-rich while maintaining full compatibili...
ALIGN 2.0: Modern Python package for multi-level linguistic alignment analysis. Faster, streamlined, and feature-rich while maintaining full compatibility with the original ALIGN methodology (Duran...
github.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:17 AM
for all of you using the ALIGN library (to measure lexical, syntactic and semantic alignment in conversations), Nick Duran has put together a great refactoring: ALIGN 2.0 (github.com/nickduran/al...), now integrated with Spacy and Bert
A new paper suggests that variance in length of utterance might be a better measure of linguistic skills than mean length of utterance: pubs.asha.org/doi/abs/10.1... I had that thought while working on this: doi.org/10.1016/j.co... but never pursued, yet it seems very persuasive: 1/
Beyond Mean Length of Utterance: Novel Measures for Characterizing the Spoken Language of Autistic Children
Purpose: Mean length of utterance (MLU) is a common measure of expressive language
complexity in young children, including autistic children. How...
pubs.asha.org
November 23, 2025 at 8:11 AM
A new paper suggests that variance in length of utterance might be a better measure of linguistic skills than mean length of utterance: pubs.asha.org/doi/abs/10.1... I had that thought while working on this: doi.org/10.1016/j.co... but never pursued, yet it seems very persuasive: 1/