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Sho Akamine
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Ph.D candidate @mpi-nl.bsky.social studying multimodal alignment in social interaction. Interested in #mulitmodality, #interaction, #kinematics, #stats, #causal_inference. Okinawa🇯🇵 → Nijmegen🇳🇱
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Sho Akamine @shoakamine.bsky.social · Apr 25
If anyone is interested in using WhisperX to transcribe speech, this tutorial is for you!! In this tutorial, I provide an easy-to-use pipeline where you will get a time-aligned transcript as a Praat TextGrid file, a TSV file, and a subtitle file🙌
github.com/ShoAkamine/w...
GitHub - ShoAkamine/whisperx_tutorial
Contribute to ShoAkamine/whisperx_tutorial development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
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mcxfrank.bsky.social
I always thought preschoolers were too egocentric to do well on communication tasks where they had to talk about novel referents. Old papers reported they'd say stuff like "this one looks like my uncle's hat."

@vboyce.bsky.social shows that this is wrong!

osf.io/preprints/ps...
Abstract of the paper Figure 1 - experimental setup Figure 2 - accuracy over time Figure 3 - semantic similarity within/across games
February 12, 2026 at 11:38 PM
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anitaslonimska.bsky.social
You can read the full chapter here: Iconicity in simultaneous constructions in sign languages | Max Planck Institute share.google/rzwFU9EpdXJb...
February 4, 2026 at 10:26 AM
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giulioseverijnen.bsky.social
I'm honored to have been awarded an NWO Rubicon grant! ⭐ Later this year, I will be joining the Spoken Language group at the @bcbl.bsky.social. Looking forward to more research on the cognitive mechanisms involved in perceptual learning, with @effiekapnoula.bsky.social and Arthur Samuel 🤩
January 21, 2026 at 9:45 AM
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masayano.bsky.social
📢 心理言語学（文処理）の概説書が出ました!

心理言語学は大学の言語学の講義であまり扱われることがないので学ぶ機会が少ないと思うのですが、この本を読めば、「ひとが言葉を理解・産出する仕組み」に関する古典的な知見から最新の研究（予測処理、自然言語処理の技術を用いた計算モデリング的研究など）まで理解できるようになっています。第1章で、研究するときに身につけておきたい基本的な考え・研究のコツも紹介しているので学部生・院生のかたもぜひ。

本書が少しでも心理言語学に関心のある多くのひとに読まれ、今後、言語学内外の様々な分野との交流の契機になればとても嬉しく思います🍀
矢野雅貴（編）・伊藤愛音・大石衡聴・大関洋平・小野創・小泉政利・峰見一輝・門馬将太（著）『ひとが言葉を理解・産出する仕組みー心理言語学 入門』
January 11, 2026 at 8:47 AM
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medallinguist.bsky.social
ECRs in the Spotlight: @shoakamine.bsky.social from @mpi-nl.bsky.social

Sho's PhD is all about #multimodality in online video-mediated communication (such as #Zoom) 📹

Read the interview 👇

medal.ut.ee/news/ecrs-in...
December 19, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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wimpouw.bsky.social
Team science (all shared authorship), pre-registered, diamond open access paper now accepted at Open Mind: "Foreign Language Learners Show a Kinematic Accent in Their Co-speech Hand Movements".

with Bosker, Marieke Hoetjes, Doenja Hustin, Lieke van Maastricht

www.wimpouw.com/files/POSTPR...
A busy figure showing some time series and timing distributions movement versus speech
November 26, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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fusaroli.bsky.social
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
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wimpouw.bsky.social
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...
EnvisionBOX overview2025
YouTube video by Wim Pouw
www.youtube.com
October 2, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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dondersinst.bsky.social
👀 👂 How does the brain merge what we hear & see? @lindadrijvers.bsky.social got an ERC Starting Grant (≈ €1.5M) for HANDWAVE, studying how we integrate audiovisual signals.

Vital for understanding language disorders & improving diagnostics.👇

www.ru.nl/en/research/...
ERC Starting Grants for research into language, money circulation and medieval songs | Radboud University
Three researchers at Radboud University will receive a Starting Grant from the European Research Council (ERC). They will receive a grant of rougly 1.5 million euros.
www.ru.nl
September 4, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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shravanvasishth.bsky.social
The physical book copies have arrived: www.routledge.com/Introduction...
August 14, 2025 at 3:29 PM
shoakamine.bsky.social
Please help me learn! I see people using CI for hypothesis testing (whether 95% CIs for slope cover 0), but Nicenboim, Schad &Vasishth say in their fantastic book that "just by looking at the [CIs], we cannot make inferences about whether a null hypothesis can be rejected". Why is this the case?
August 13, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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reilly-coglab.com
Our conversation analysis software is now on CRAN! Reach out with any questions. We hope it’s useful for all you language and social interaction folks out there.
July 22, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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carorowland.bsky.social
Children are incredible language learning machines. But how do they do it? Our latest paper, just published in TICS, synthesizes decades of evidence to propose four components that must be built into any theory of how children learn language. 1/
www.cell.com/trends/cogni... @mpi-nl.bsky.social
Constructing language: a framework for explaining acquisition
Explaining how children build a language system is a central goal of research in language acquisition, with broad implications for language evolution, adult language processing, and artificial intelli...
www.cell.com
June 27, 2025 at 5:17 AM
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dingdingpeng.the100.ci
At this point, I might as well --
Here's an infographic showing different ways to include age as a predictor. The top shows two extremes, just as a plain old numerical predictor (imposes linear trajectory) vs. categorical predictor (imposes nothing whatsoever). And then three solutions in between!
Infographic illustrating different ways to model age. First panel shows two "extreme" cases; including age as a linear numerical predictor (df = 1) or including age as a categorical predictor (df = number of years of age minus 1). Second panel shows an intermediate solution in which age is categorized into broader bins (df = number of categories minus 1, here 5 - 1 = 4). Third panel shows an intermediate solution in which age is included with a polynomial (df = degrees of freedom of the polynomial, here 4). Fourth panel shows an intermediate solution in which age is modeled with the help of splines (df = degrees of freedom of the splines, here 4).
July 16, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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dingemansemark.bsky.social
Sho presents his work validating dynamic time warping to a rapt #ISGS2025 audience. Lots of engagement afterwards #ProudSupervisor
Sho Akamine presenting on dynamic time warping on a large stage at ISGS 2025 in Nijmegen Sho answering questions
July 11, 2025 at 2:10 PM
shoakamine.bsky.social
Are you at #ISGS2025 today? Come see my talk in the kinematics session! I'll present my PhD work validating dynamic time warping (DTW) as a measure of gesture form similarity with manual ratings. We show that DTW can be an efficient, useful proxy for gesture form similarity!
July 11, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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martinamellana.bsky.social
Excited to present at ISGS25 this Thursday morning in Nijmegen!
Together with @shariceclough.bsky.social , we’ll be sharing our work on the role of gesture in narrative recall across Alzheimer’s, MCI, and healthy aging.
Looking forward to great discussions! 💪🏻🧠🗣️
#ISGS25
July 9, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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dingdingpeng.the100.ci
Let's say you want to include age as a predictor in your model. How do you do that?

Here's an illustration of three options -- it's for a paper I'm working on (so if you feel like anything could be tweaked...).
Plot that depicts the average importance people in my data assign to their friendships (y-axis, on a scale from 1 to 5, depicted with 95% confidence intervals) by their age (x-axis, from 18 to 60). Depicted are 3 different ways to model importance of friends as a function of age. Using age as a linear predictor: this imposes a linear trajectory which comes with very tight confidence intervals (i.e., uncertainty is low). Using age as a categorical predictor: this imposes no trajectory whatsoever but instead simply reproduces the means by age. The confidence intervals are very wide, in particular for those ages not well represented in the data (i.e., uncertainty is high). Age splines: This results in a smooth trajectory that follows some of the bumps in the data, but not all of them. The confidence intervals are somewhere between the linear and the categorical case (i.e., uncertainty is medium)
July 8, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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dingemansemark.bsky.social
We're hiring! Join us to work at the intersection of social interaction and language technology. Postdoc and PhD positions in my Futures of Language research group, based at Radboud University in Nijmegen, NL

Read more: markdingemanse.net/futures/news...

#linguistics #interaction #sts #emca #hci
Aerial photograph of Radboud University campus with the Erasmus tower in the foreground: tallest building in Nijmegen & home to the Futures of Language project. Source: RU
July 7, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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carorowland.bsky.social
Two nice papers now added to my primer of what to read about theory in cognitive science ... docs.google.com/document/d/1... 1/
Theory: What to read
The role of theory in cognitive science Or: my guide to what to read if you really want to understand how to do good, robust , theory-driven cognitive science. (disclaimer: this is an aspirational gu...
docs.google.com
July 5, 2025 at 7:20 AM
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mcxfrank.bsky.social
Experimentology is out today!!! A group of us wrote a free online textbook for experimental methods, available at experimentology.io - the idea was to integrate open science into all aspects of the experimental workflow from planning to design, analysis, and writing.
Experimentology cover: title and curves for distributions.
July 1, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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cogscisociety.bsky.social
📣 Calling early-career cognitive scientists in the Asia-Pacific!

The CogSci Asia-Pacific Meetup Kickoff is coming:

📍 Dec 6–7, 2025 | Tokyo
🌱 Retreat-style event, community building, and cross-cultural exchange.

Details: sites.google.com/view/cogsci-...
#CogSci2025 #CognitiveScience
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Towards a More Inclusive and Culturally Diversified Cognitive Science Cognitive science is an interdisciplinary field that seeks to understand the nature and mechanisms of intelligence—whether biologi...
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June 30, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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jpeelle.bsky.social
Absolutely.

I also did this with all the figures I created for my textbook!

osf.io/geqb6/
June 10, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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aidangcw.bsky.social
Pro tip, folks: if you make a figure for a publication, don’t just hand the copyright over to the publisher. Post it on OSF first and then give yourself permission to use it in the first publication and then all future publications. That way, no permissions issues.
June 10, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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science.org
#NextGenSci asked young scientists to write a rule that all principal investigators should be required to follow to improve the experience of young scientists in their lab.

Check out their answers on #NationalHigherEducationDay: scim.ag/45zsFEr
Illustration of two people, one holding a large pencil, the other walking along a path of diverging arrows. Hedline is "Rules all PIs should follow."
June 6, 2025 at 6:56 PM