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/
There is an absolute banger of a case study on modeling a linguistic experiment on Michael's patreon, thinking carefully through the whole data generating process and I am so looking forward to the video run through. Absolutely worth supporting him (do that and we'll get more :-))!
Just posted a new, long case study as well as a swag give away over on patreon dot com, www.patreon.com/c/betanalpha, in case you've been thinking about supporting.
Get more from Michael Betancourt on Patreon
writing about modeling building and statistical inference.
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January 17, 2026 at 9:02 AM
There is an absolute banger of a case study on modeling a linguistic experiment on Michael's patreon, thinking carefully through the whole data generating process and I am so looking forward to the video run through. Absolutely worth supporting him (do that and we'll get more :-))!
I'm indeed hooked. Unfortunately, the kids' despondency foiled my plan to just spend the day watching it, as they started quarreling again :-)
January 17, 2026 at 8:30 AM
I'm indeed hooked. Unfortunately, the kids' despondency foiled my plan to just spend the day watching it, as they started quarreling again :-)
They disassemble the golems, curate them, plant and fertilize, before setting them up again w a productive delicious garden on their back. I’m sure @rmcelreath.bsky.social would appreciate
January 17, 2026 at 7:47 AM
They disassemble the golems, curate them, plant and fertilize, before setting them up again w a productive delicious garden on their back. I’m sure @rmcelreath.bsky.social would appreciate
The only thing is that I wanted to go back to sleep, but my presence is needed since there’s some gratuitous violence here and there
January 17, 2026 at 7:39 AM
The only thing is that I wanted to go back to sleep, but my presence is needed since there’s some gratuitous violence here and there
Family down w the flu. Irascible kids trying to defy my directive to find something to watch together, one wants a cooking show, the other monsters. The Japanese:hold my beer! The day is saved. W not too bad discussions of ecology (of dungeon ecosystems)
January 17, 2026 at 7:37 AM
Family down w the flu. Irascible kids trying to defy my directive to find something to watch together, one wants a cooking show, the other monsters. The Japanese:hold my beer! The day is saved. W not too bad discussions of ecology (of dungeon ecosystems)
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The trick here is basically to run screaming away from dichotomizing findings and into the warm and loving embrace of the vast language we have for describing uncertainty and scale, interpreting whether it matters accordingly. Use figures that make it clear.
January 16, 2026 at 8:40 PM
The trick here is basically to run screaming away from dichotomizing findings and into the warm and loving embrace of the vast language we have for describing uncertainty and scale, interpreting whether it matters accordingly. Use figures that make it clear.
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Maybe the effect is small and straddles zero? That's cool too, don't sweat it. "Treatment had a small, but likely positive effect on outcome (Beta=.1, 94% C.R. [-.05, 0.25].)
Dead-centered on zero? "We found no clear effect..."
Dead-centered on zero? "We found no clear effect..."
January 16, 2026 at 8:31 PM
Maybe the effect is small and straddles zero? That's cool too, don't sweat it. "Treatment had a small, but likely positive effect on outcome (Beta=.1, 94% C.R. [-.05, 0.25].)
Dead-centered on zero? "We found no clear effect..."
Dead-centered on zero? "We found no clear effect..."
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You’ve build a probabilistic model and, for a small data set, computed posterior inferences with Hamiltonian Monte Carlo. Everything works great and, flush with confidence, you throw the model against all of your data only for everything to go to hell....
January 8, 2026 at 5:16 AM
You’ve build a probabilistic model and, for a small data set, computed posterior inferences with Hamiltonian Monte Carlo. Everything works great and, flush with confidence, you throw the model against all of your data only for everything to go to hell....
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Advance your research and expand your network at SFI's 2026 CSSS program with lectures, application-focused seminars, and team projects. Participants gain experience in transdisciplinary collaboration and explore real-world questions through complexity science.
Apply by Feb 4, 2026
santafe.edu/csss
Apply by Feb 4, 2026
santafe.edu/csss
January 14, 2026 at 8:21 PM
Advance your research and expand your network at SFI's 2026 CSSS program with lectures, application-focused seminars, and team projects. Participants gain experience in transdisciplinary collaboration and explore real-world questions through complexity science.
Apply by Feb 4, 2026
santafe.edu/csss
Apply by Feb 4, 2026
santafe.edu/csss
fingers crossed! admin work always scares me, but this could be very rewarding! (also, yeah, getting people to apply for, but especially to actually use money on time is going to be err... fun)
January 14, 2026 at 9:41 AM
fingers crossed! admin work always scares me, but this could be very rewarding! (also, yeah, getting people to apply for, but especially to actually use money on time is going to be err... fun)
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📽️ “Claims about scientific rigour require rigour” / with Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social
youtu.be/qNJ8xqaObR8?...
The event was organised by ReproducibiliTea UniBasel
youtu.be/qNJ8xqaObR8?...
The event was organised by ReproducibiliTea UniBasel
Open Science Basel Year 6 #5 - Berna Devezer
YouTube video by BAMM
youtu.be
January 13, 2026 at 9:23 AM
📽️ “Claims about scientific rigour require rigour” / with Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social
youtu.be/qNJ8xqaObR8?...
The event was organised by ReproducibiliTea UniBasel
youtu.be/qNJ8xqaObR8?...
The event was organised by ReproducibiliTea UniBasel
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Our machine learning competition on forecasting depression is online! We'd love for as many people as possible to participate. Please share in your respective networks — thank you :).
www.staff.universiteitleiden.nl/announcement...
www.staff.universiteitleiden.nl/announcement...
Machine-learning competition on forecasting depression in young adults - Leiden University
After nearly 5 years of work, the research team led by Eiko Fried has finished data collection in the ERC-funded WARN-D project on building a personalised early warning system for depression. But just...
www.staff.universiteitleiden.nl
January 12, 2026 at 12:52 PM
Our machine learning competition on forecasting depression is online! We'd love for as many people as possible to participate. Please share in your respective networks — thank you :).
www.staff.universiteitleiden.nl/announcement...
www.staff.universiteitleiden.nl/announcement...
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After 5 years of data collection, our WARN-D machine learning competition to forecast depression onset is now LIVE! We hope many of you will participate—we have incredibly rich data.
If you share a single thing of my lab this year, please make it this competition.
eiko-fried.com/warn-d-machi...
If you share a single thing of my lab this year, please make it this competition.
eiko-fried.com/warn-d-machi...
WARN-D machine learning competition is live » Eiko Fried
If you share one single thing of our team in 2026—on social media or per email with your colleagues—please let it be this machine learning competition. It was half a decade of work to get here, especi...
eiko-fried.com
January 7, 2026 at 7:39 PM
After 5 years of data collection, our WARN-D machine learning competition to forecast depression onset is now LIVE! We hope many of you will participate—we have incredibly rich data.
If you share a single thing of my lab this year, please make it this competition.
eiko-fried.com/warn-d-machi...
If you share a single thing of my lab this year, please make it this competition.
eiko-fried.com/warn-d-machi...
give it a "received more than 30 days ago" rule. That'd definitely be a game-changer :-)
January 7, 2026 at 10:50 AM
give it a "received more than 30 days ago" rule. That'd definitely be a game-changer :-)
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Computational Social Scientists in the Nordics, unite!
🇩🇰🇫🇮🇳🇴🇸🇪🇮🇸
The brand new Nordic Society for CSS welcomes all researchers and practitioners based in the Nordics. The Society will promote student mobility, events, and education initiatives.
Join for free: nosocss.org/join.html.
🇩🇰🇫🇮🇳🇴🇸🇪🇮🇸
The brand new Nordic Society for CSS welcomes all researchers and practitioners based in the Nordics. The Society will promote student mobility, events, and education initiatives.
Join for free: nosocss.org/join.html.
January 5, 2026 at 7:57 AM
Computational Social Scientists in the Nordics, unite!
🇩🇰🇫🇮🇳🇴🇸🇪🇮🇸
The brand new Nordic Society for CSS welcomes all researchers and practitioners based in the Nordics. The Society will promote student mobility, events, and education initiatives.
Join for free: nosocss.org/join.html.
🇩🇰🇫🇮🇳🇴🇸🇪🇮🇸
The brand new Nordic Society for CSS welcomes all researchers and practitioners based in the Nordics. The Society will promote student mobility, events, and education initiatives.
Join for free: nosocss.org/join.html.
I would also like to read that :-)
January 4, 2026 at 9:30 PM
I would also like to read that :-)
may you have the joy of iSeek in identifying lice. I for sure was not that thrilled 😅
January 4, 2026 at 8:30 PM
may you have the joy of iSeek in identifying lice. I for sure was not that thrilled 😅
So I’d say that shifting the benchmark is actually an ideal scenario only practiced in the virtuous cs fields (or at least much slower than the article portrays)
January 4, 2026 at 2:38 PM
So I’d say that shifting the benchmark is actually an ideal scenario only practiced in the virtuous cs fields (or at least much slower than the article portrays)
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If you've missed this piece about the different modes of empiricism in computer science versus the social sciences, I can highly recommend it. doomscrollingbabel.manoel.xyz/p/the-empiri...
The Empiricism Gap in Computer Science
So far, I have argued that there is a dissonance between, on the one hand, CS’s founding myths, curricula, and self-image, and, on the other hand, the modern production of knowledge in computer scienc...
doomscrollingbabel.manoel.xyz
January 4, 2026 at 1:28 PM
If you've missed this piece about the different modes of empiricism in computer science versus the social sciences, I can highly recommend it. doomscrollingbabel.manoel.xyz/p/the-empiri...
This is really good, indeed! We did studies empirically showing how ml models of vocal biomarkers suffer from bad external validity and they are only cited as yet another example of bio marker study w no change in the field (eg www.nature.com/articles/s44...). So it feels v close to home!
Speech- and text-based classification of neuropsychiatric conditions in a multidiagnostic setting - Nature Mental Health
Hansen et al. investigate the applicability of machine learning models in identifying diagnosis-specific speech or text-based markers of neuropsychiatric disorders.
www.nature.com
January 4, 2026 at 2:30 PM
This is really good, indeed! We did studies empirically showing how ml models of vocal biomarkers suffer from bad external validity and they are only cited as yet another example of bio marker study w no change in the field (eg www.nature.com/articles/s44...). So it feels v close to home!
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.