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wimpouw
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Working on dynamic signs and signals in communication at Tilburg University at the Department of Computational Cognitive Science. Interested in language & movement science, complex systems & 4E, Open Science (envisionbox.org) & other things (wimpouw.com)
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wimpouw @wimpouw.bsky.social · Apr 17
Happy to share that in a few weeks ill move to Tilburg University as an Associate Professor at the Department of Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence
www.tilburguniversity.edu/about/school... Super excited about this! I want to thank Donders/Radboud and many other people for their support!
Department of Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence | Tilburg University
Members of the Cognitive Science & Artificial Intelligence (CSAI) department conduct research in the interdisciplinary domain of Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science and are involved in teach...
www.tilburguniversity.edu
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rebeccasear.bsky.social
New Phil Trans B issue on the ‘Evolutionary functions of consciousness’

royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/202...
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences: Vol 380, No 1939
royalsocietypublishing.org
November 15, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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nataliepeluso.com
🧠🫀 🫁 💯

Time, space, memory and brain–body rhythms
György Buzsáki
(2025)

Physical time is measured using arbitrary units whereas experienced time is linked to a hierarchy of brain–body rhythms... these rhythms, may be the source of our subjective feeling of time. 👇💥

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Time, space, memory and brain–body rhythms - Nature Reviews Neuroscience
Understanding how the brain represents experienced time and how representations of space and time are integrated to form episodic memories has been a goal of much neuroscientific research. In this Per...
www.nature.com
November 13, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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eivimeycook.bsky.social
New paper from @marijapurgar.bsky.social out now in @royalsocietypublishing.org Proc B 🙌🙌🙌.

We critically evaluated preprint policies from 230 journals in Ecology and Evolution

royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Preprint policies across journals and publishers in ecology and evolutionary biology | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Preprints have the potential to accelerate knowledge dissemination and promote transparency in ecology and evolutionary biology. However, concerns about journal policies regarding prior publication ma...
royalsocietypublishing.org
November 13, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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micahgallen.com
🧠 New paper on breathing and the brain, out now
@plos.org Computational Biology! 🫁
"The respiratory cycle modulates distinct dynamics of affective and perceptual decision-making"
doi.org/10.1371/jour...
We show how respiratory 'tidal computations' alter our decisons!
The respiratory cycle modulates distinct dynamics of affective and perceptual decision-making
Author summary Breathing is more than just a vital process for survival — it influences how we perceive and interact with the world around us. Recent research suggests that the rhythm of breathing, fr...
doi.org
August 1, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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benkawam.bsky.social
New paper!

We propose a framework to empirically study animal social relationships by modelling social network (SN) data as time-series—that is, without the need to aggregate them over time.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Each dyad (a, b) moves through four discrete states over time, represented by coloured circles. The dyad remains in a given state for a certain duration, or "holding time", before transitioning to a new state according to state-specific transition probabilities, indicated by arrows showing all possible (non-zero) transitions. Paintings by Sofia M. Pereira & Judith von Nordheim.
November 12, 2025 at 11:56 AM
wimpouw.bsky.social
@jeroenson.bsky.social perhaps you can pass this on to NWO ;)
hansonmark.bsky.social Mark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social · 4d
Fundamentally, what we need is leadership. But we break with the chorus of most #OpenScience initiatives here and emphasize very strongly that this leadership must come from funders and institutions.

We researchers can support the battle, but we cannot lead the charge. Funders hold the cards.

6/n
The costs of inaction are plain: wasted public funds, lost researcher time, compromised scientific integrity and eroded public trust. Today, the system rewards commercial publishers first, and science second. Without bold action from the funders we risk continuing to pour resources into a system that prioritizes profit over the advancement of scientific knowledge.
November 12, 2025 at 7:40 AM
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hansonmark.bsky.social
Fundamentally, what we need is leadership. But we break with the chorus of most #OpenScience initiatives here and emphasize very strongly that this leadership must come from funders and institutions.

We researchers can support the battle, but we cannot lead the charge. Funders hold the cards.

6/n
The costs of inaction are plain: wasted public funds, lost researcher time, compromised scientific integrity and eroded public trust. Today, the system rewards commercial publishers first, and science second. Without bold action from the funders we risk continuing to pour resources into a system that prioritizes profit over the advancement of scientific knowledge.
November 11, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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hansonmark.bsky.social
We wrote the Strain on scientific publishing to highlight the problems of time & trust. With a fantastic group of co-authors, we present The Drain of Scientific Publishing:

a 🧵 1/n

Drain: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Strain: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
Oligopoly: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
A table showing profit margins of major publishers. A snippet of text related to this table is below. 1. The four-fold drain 1.1 Money Currently, academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it. The dominant four are Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley and Taylor & Francis, which collectively generated over US$7.1 billion in revenue from journal publishing in 2024 alone, and over US$12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024 (Table 1A). Their profit margins have always been over 30% in the last five years, and for the largest publisher (Elsevier) always over 37%. Against many comparators, across many sectors, scientific publishing is one of the most consistently profitable industries (Table S1). These financial arrangements make a substantial difference to science budgets. In 2024, 46% of Elsevier revenues and 53% of Taylor & Francis revenues were generated in North America, meaning that North American researchers were charged over US$2.27 billion by just two for-profit publishers. The Canadian research councils and the US National Science Foundation were allocated US$9.3 billion in that year. A figure detailing the drain on researcher time. 1. The four-fold drain 1.2 Time The number of papers published each year is growing faster than the scientific workforce, with the number of papers per researcher almost doubling between 1996 and 2022 (Figure 1A). This reflects the fact that publishers’ commercial desire to publish (sell) more material has aligned well with the competitive prestige culture in which publications help secure jobs, grants, promotions, and awards. To the extent that this growth is driven by a pressure for profit, rather than scholarly imperatives, it distorts the way researchers spend their time. The publishing system depends on unpaid reviewer labour, estimated to be over 130 million unpaid hours annually in 2020 alone (9). Researchers have complained about the demands of peer-review for decades, but the scale of the problem is now worse, with editors reporting widespread difficulties recruiting reviewers. The growth in publications involves not only the authors’ time, but that of academic editors and reviewers who are dealing with so many review demands. Even more seriously, the imperative to produce ever more articles reshapes the nature of scientific inquiry. Evidence across multiple fields shows that more papers result in ‘ossification’, not new ideas (10). It may seem paradoxical that more papers can slow progress until one considers how it affects researchers’ time. While rewards remain tied to volume, prestige, and impact of publications, researchers will be nudged away from riskier, local, interdisciplinary, and long-term work. The result is a treadmill of constant activity with limited progress whereas core scholarly practices – such as reading, reflecting and engaging with others’ contributions – is de-prioritized. What looks like productivity often masks intellectual exhaustion built on a demoralizing, narrowing scientific vision. A table of profit margins across industries. The section of text related to this table is below: 1. The four-fold drain 1.1 Money Currently, academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it. The dominant four are Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley and Taylor & Francis, which collectively generated over US$7.1 billion in revenue from journal publishing in 2024 alone, and over US$12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024 (Table 1A). Their profit margins have always been over 30% in the last five years, and for the largest publisher (Elsevier) always over 37%. Against many comparators, across many sectors, scientific publishing is one of the most consistently profitable industries (Table S1). These financial arrangements make a substantial difference to science budgets. In 2024, 46% of Elsevier revenues and 53% of Taylor & Francis revenues were generated in North America, meaning that North American researchers were charged over US$2.27 billion by just two for-profit publishers. The Canadian research councils and the US National Science Foundation were allocated US$9.3 billion in that year. The costs of inaction are plain: wasted public funds, lost researcher time, compromised scientific integrity and eroded public trust. Today, the system rewards commercial publishers first, and science second. Without bold action from the funders we risk continuing to pour resources into a system that prioritizes profit over the advancement of scientific knowledge.
November 11, 2025 at 11:52 AM
wimpouw.bsky.social
Our paper @sarabogels.bsky.social covering our pre-registered multi-year research is now finally out in Cognition. We show that in conversations people reduce their multimodal signals non-linearly; the steeper this non-linear drop-off the more communicative success.

www.wimpouw.com/files/Bogels...
A busy figure showing how reduction of different types of multimodal signals reduces over experimental rounds (with a comparison of how a non-linear signal following a power law can be transformed to a linear slope using a log-transformation).
November 11, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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science.org
Fungi coat the eggs of stinkbugs, creating a shield that protects the embryos from parasitic wasps, researchers report.

Learn more: https://scim.ag/43kl3np
November 10, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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olivia.science
> "We are saying that progress is moving faster than older forecasts suggested," the Commission said.

We're building a tower to the moon and they added loads of floors recently. We'll reach the moon faster than older forecasts. 🤡

Great work @krisshrishak.bsky.social

www.rte.ie/news/busines...
Scientists call on Von der Leyen to withdraw AI comment
More than 70 AI scientists from around the world have written to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen asking her to retract a statement she made in May that artificial intelligence is ex...
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November 11, 2025 at 6:34 AM
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socrates17.bsky.social
"We are a group of sleuths and forensic meta-scientists who are concerned that Springer Nature is failing in its duty to protect the scientific literature from fraudulent and low quality work."
An open letter regarding Scientific Reports
16th October 2024  to: Mr Chris Graf Research Integrity Director, Springer Nature and Chair Elect of the World Conference...
deevybee.blogspot.com
November 9, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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elinamantyla.bsky.social
Granger et al. Multispecies sensory networks and social foraging strategies: Implications for population decline in procellariiform seabirds www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... #ornithology #seabirds
Multispecies sensory networks and social foraging strategies: Implications for population decline in procellariiform seabirds | PNAS
Multispecies sensory networks, where different species prioritize different sensory modalities and then use heterospecific information in a likely ...
www.pnas.org
November 7, 2025 at 7:46 AM
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imagingneurosci.bsky.social
New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Tomás Codina, Benjamin Blankertz, and Alexander von Lühmann:

Multimodal fNIRS–EEG sensor fusion: Review of data-driven methods and perspective for naturalistic brain imaging

doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...
November 7, 2025 at 7:19 AM
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tonychemero.bsky.social
Cover of new book.
July 28, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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c0nc0rdance.bsky.social
You have to admire the bloody-minded ambition of a pelican trying to eat a whole capybara (who seems utterly unconcerned).

The thing with pelicans is that they have ONE super-power & their brains default to "get it in your mouth & deal with it later."

Let's talk about the gular sac of the pelican.
November 5, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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ethoges.bsky.social
Award alert! 🎖️🚨 Every other year, the Ethologische Gesellschaft awards the Niko Tinbergen Award to outstanding post-doc level researchers in Behavioural Biology (<=6yrs post PhD exam).
...and this year is one of these years! Please send us your nominations! 🫵 Infos: www.etho-ges.de/wordpress/aw...
Awards – Ethologische Gesellschaft e.V.
www.etho-ges.de
October 31, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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russpoldrack.org
Using containers for reproducible computing russpoldrack.substack.com/p/using-cont... - the latest in my Better Code, Better Science series
Using containers for reproducible computing
Better Code, Better Science: Chapter 6, Part 2
russpoldrack.substack.com
November 4, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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emilymsanford.bsky.social
Are humans really the only rational animals? Our NEW PAPER 🎉 out in @science.org suggests otherwise! In a large collaboration led with my joint first author @hanna-schleihauf.bsky.social, we show that “Chimpanzees rationally revise their beliefs” 🧵
Chimpanzees rationally revise their beliefs
The selective revision of beliefs in light of new evidence has been considered one of the hallmarks of human-level rationality. However, tests of this ability in other species are lacking. We examined...
www.science.org
October 30, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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nataliepeluso.com
New primer in Cell from Patrick Haggard & @mattlongo.bsky.social

Somatosensation and the sense of self: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...

#interoception #exteroception #affect #neuroskyence
Somatosensation and the sense of self
In this primer, Patrick Haggard and Matthew Longo consider how sensory signals from receptors throughout the body are integrated to produce the sense of a coherent, continuous, sentient body that form...
www.cell.com
October 30, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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campaslab.bsky.social
Really excited to present the results of a fantastic collaboration with Jesse Veenvliet @jesseveenvliet.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de @poldresden.bsky.social 🤩

We find a unique mechanism for body axis elongation in mammals, different from other vertebrate species

➡️ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
October 28, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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jamestrujillo.bsky.social
It was very inspiring to join the other two shortlisted candidates for the Leo Waaijers award and represent the team in Groningem today. @wimpouw.bsky.social @sarkadava.bsky.social @babajideowoyele.bsky.social Big congrats to winner Chris Hartgerink! #OpenScience #NOSF2025
Screen showing the list of 26 nominees for the Leo Waaijers award Light up sign saying #Open Science in the auditorium area of the National Open Science Festival
October 24, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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jpeelle.bsky.social
We are using multiple modalities — including MRI, EEG, fNIRS, blood, saliva, accelerometry—to study mental health, brain plasticity, fitness, and more. I've been doing baseline measurements regularly for the past month, and will continue these during recovery.
September 25, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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eicathomefinn.bsky.social
'New proposals by Elsevier, Springer Nature, Taylor & Francis, Wiley and Sage were sent to universities this week after their initial offers were decisively rejected by institutions in a sector-wide consultation run by Jisc,...negotiating jointly with Universities UK on behalf of universities.' 1/3
New offers from big five ‘still too costly’ for UK universities
‘Significant’ number of institutions predicted to drop deals with main scholarly imprints, leaving journal access much reduced
www.timeshighereducation.com
October 23, 2025 at 6:43 AM
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sheardcat.bsky.social
Tool use in giant pandas?! 👀😮🐼

www.cell.com/current-biol...
Self-directed tool use by giant pandas
Yang et al. report new evidence of self-directed tool use in captive giant pandas.
www.cell.com
October 21, 2025 at 9:33 AM