Sho Akamine
@shoakamine.bsky.social
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
GitHub - ShoAkamine/whisperx_tutorial
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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.com/ShoAkamine/w...
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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...
@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
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October 2, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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...
@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...
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👀 👂 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/...
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
👀 👂 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/...
Vital for understanding language disorders & improving diagnostics.👇
www.ru.nl/en/research/...
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The physical book copies have arrived: www.routledge.com/Introduction...
August 14, 2025 at 3:29 PM
The physical book copies have arrived: www.routledge.com/Introduction...
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
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?
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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.
New CRAN package ConversationAlign with initial version 0.2.0
#rstats
https://cran.r-project.org/package=ConversationAlign
#rstats
https://cran.r-project.org/package=ConversationAlign
CRAN: Package ConversationAlign
Imports conversation transcripts into R, concatenates them into a single dataframe appending event identifiers, cleans and formats the text, then yokes user-specified psycholinguistic database values to each word. 'ConversationAlign' then computes alignment indices between two interlocutors across each transcript for >40 possible semantic, lexical, and affective dimensions. In addition to alignment, 'ConversationAlign' also produces a table of analytics (e.g., token count, type-token-ratio) in a summary table describing your particular text corpus.
cran.r-project.org
July 22, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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.
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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
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
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
www.cell.com/trends/cogni... @mpi-nl.bsky.social
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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!
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!
July 16, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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!
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!
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Sho presents his work validating dynamic time warping to a rapt #ISGS2025 audience. Lots of engagement afterwards #ProudSupervisor
July 11, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Sho presents his work validating dynamic time warping to a rapt #ISGS2025 audience. Lots of engagement afterwards #ProudSupervisor
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
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!
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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
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
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
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
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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...).
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...).
July 8, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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...).
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...).
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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
Read more: markdingemanse.net/futures/news...
#linguistics #interaction #sts #emca #hci
July 7, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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
Read more: markdingemanse.net/futures/news...
#linguistics #interaction #sts #emca #hci
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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
Two nice papers now added to my primer of what to read about theory in cognitive science ... docs.google.com/document/d/1... 1/
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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.
July 1, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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.
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📣 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
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...
sites.google.com
June 30, 2025 at 12:47 PM
📣 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
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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June 10, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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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
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.
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#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
Check out their answers on #NationalHigherEducationDay: scim.ag/45zsFEr
June 6, 2025 at 6:56 PM
#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
Check out their answers on #NationalHigherEducationDay: scim.ag/45zsFEr
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The Causal Bandits episode with me is finally up! We talked about a hodge-podge of causal inference and methods issues. I already got one positive testimonial from my boss who listened to the first half and liked it!
Causal Inference, Human Behavior, Science Crisis & The Power of Causal Graphs | Julia Rohrer S2E5
YouTube video by Causal Python with Alex Molak
www.youtube.com
June 5, 2025 at 8:54 AM
The Causal Bandits episode with me is finally up! We talked about a hodge-podge of causal inference and methods issues. I already got one positive testimonial from my boss who listened to the first half and liked it!
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“As the presenter, assume that most questions are designed to help you. The questioner may well be trying to help you make your points more clearly, develop your claims, or provide helpful ideas for future work. Take every question as an opportunity to learn and think. Try not to be defensive”
Asking Questions at Psychology Paper Presentations: https://osf.io/au4bf
May 30, 2025 at 6:33 PM
“As the presenter, assume that most questions are designed to help you. The questioner may well be trying to help you make your points more clearly, develop your claims, or provide helpful ideas for future work. Take every question as an opportunity to learn and think. Try not to be defensive”
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"Human voice aligns with whole-body kinetics" is now published! royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/epdf/10....
Headline: Muscles that control arm movement affect the voice!
The EMG, acoustic, ground-reaction force, kinematics dataset is also fully open and FAIR reviewed:
github.com/WimPouw/kine...
Headline: Muscles that control arm movement affect the voice!
The EMG, acoustic, ground-reaction force, kinematics dataset is also fully open and FAIR reviewed:
github.com/WimPouw/kine...
May 21, 2025 at 6:57 AM
"Human voice aligns with whole-body kinetics" is now published! royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/epdf/10....
Headline: Muscles that control arm movement affect the voice!
The EMG, acoustic, ground-reaction force, kinematics dataset is also fully open and FAIR reviewed:
github.com/WimPouw/kine...
Headline: Muscles that control arm movement affect the voice!
The EMG, acoustic, ground-reaction force, kinematics dataset is also fully open and FAIR reviewed:
github.com/WimPouw/kine...
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my lab (lacns.github.io) at @mpi-nl.bsky.social and @dondersinst.bsky.social is recruiting for two PhD and two postdoctoral positions funded by an @erc.europa.eu Consolidator - come join us!
PhD: www.mpi.nl/career-educa...
Postdoc: www.mpi.nl/career-educa...
(please share widely)
PhD: www.mpi.nl/career-educa...
Postdoc: www.mpi.nl/career-educa...
(please share widely)
Language and Computation in Neural Systems
We are an international group of scientists consisting of linguists, cognitive scientists, cognitive neuroscientists, computational neuroscientists, computational modellers, computational scientists, ...
lacns.github.io
May 20, 2025 at 1:49 PM
my lab (lacns.github.io) at @mpi-nl.bsky.social and @dondersinst.bsky.social is recruiting for two PhD and two postdoctoral positions funded by an @erc.europa.eu Consolidator - come join us!
PhD: www.mpi.nl/career-educa...
Postdoc: www.mpi.nl/career-educa...
(please share widely)
PhD: www.mpi.nl/career-educa...
Postdoc: www.mpi.nl/career-educa...
(please share widely)
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Summer Workshop Alert‼️
The Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Japan organizes on July 1 a hands-on DeepLabCut workshop led by Drs. Mackenzie and Alexander Mathis.
Applications are open at www.oist.jp/conference/d...
The Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Japan organizes on July 1 a hands-on DeepLabCut workshop led by Drs. Mackenzie and Alexander Mathis.
Applications are open at www.oist.jp/conference/d...
DeepLabCut Workshop
A one day hands-on workshop on the use of the famous DeepLabCut software to analyze videos of animal behavior, led by Drs. Mackenzie and Alexander Mathis. Participants will be helped to pre-install th...
www.oist.jp
May 13, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Summer Workshop Alert‼️
The Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Japan organizes on July 1 a hands-on DeepLabCut workshop led by Drs. Mackenzie and Alexander Mathis.
Applications are open at www.oist.jp/conference/d...
The Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Japan organizes on July 1 a hands-on DeepLabCut workshop led by Drs. Mackenzie and Alexander Mathis.
Applications are open at www.oist.jp/conference/d...
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How do we build theory in cogsci? traditional physics w its rich data and experimental possibilities is often used as parangon. We argue historical sciences provide an equally rich source: "Lessons for Theory from Scientific Domains Where Evidence is Sparse or Indirect": doi.org/10.1007/s421... 🧵 1/
May 8, 2025 at 7:59 AM
How do we build theory in cogsci? traditional physics w its rich data and experimental possibilities is often used as parangon. We argue historical sciences provide an equally rich source: "Lessons for Theory from Scientific Domains Where Evidence is Sparse or Indirect": doi.org/10.1007/s421... 🧵 1/
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Please join @asliozyurek.bsky.social, @tanialombrozo.bsky.social, Hannah Rohde and me **this Wednesday 12pm eastern**. What does the future of cogsci in higher ed look like? I promise it's not all bad news!! Register below!
We're launching a new webinar series! Cognitive Science: Perspectives for Higher Education ✨
Join us May 7🗓️ to hear about the future of #CogSci education, from interdisciplinary challenges to innovative teaching and research.
Learn more and register at cognitivesciencesociety.org/higher-educa...
Join us May 7🗓️ to hear about the future of #CogSci education, from interdisciplinary challenges to innovative teaching and research.
Learn more and register at cognitivesciencesociety.org/higher-educa...
May 5, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Please join @asliozyurek.bsky.social, @tanialombrozo.bsky.social, Hannah Rohde and me **this Wednesday 12pm eastern**. What does the future of cogsci in higher ed look like? I promise it's not all bad news!! Register below!