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Emily S. Cross
@escross.bsky.social
Head of Social Brain Sciences group at ETH Zurich / cog neuroscientist, dancer, alpinist, runner / big fan of robots, aesthetics, jumpshots & snow / you can find me sciencing @ETH_en in Zürich! 🤩🧠🤖💃🏾🏔️🇨🇭
A tremendously exciting preprint detailing first results of an ambitious multi-week intergenerational art making & hyperscanning study, whose aim was to explore the naissance of friendships 👥 Massive props to @ryssamoffat.bsky.social for leading and to @introspection.bsky.social for the fab collab!🌟
October 18, 2025 at 4:39 PM
What an utterly delightful, inspiring and downright ace two days it has been hosting the Zurich Neuroscience Center-sponsored Social Connection workshop at @ethz.ch‘s glorious Villa Hatt! 🤩 SO much brilliant research & discussion shared while we socially connected over great food and stellar views!
September 17, 2025 at 7:04 PM
It was truly lovely to speak with the awesome team behind @storiesofwin.bsky.social ! Thanks so much for giving me this opportunity to share my story, gals! 💞🧠💃🤖
Our next profile is here! Dr. Emily Cross (@escross.bsky.social) studies human neuroscience, arts, and social robotics. Follow the link below to learn more!

www.storiesofwin.org/profiles/202...

#StoriesOfWiN #WomenInNeuroscience
September 17, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Such a brilliant study and SO exciting to see this in press! Congrats Guido & team! 💪🙌🕺
When groups watch a dance performance, their brainwaves sync up 🕺💃 cell.com/iscience/ful...

@guidorgs.bsky.social‬, @auralair.bsky.social
@cp-iscience.bsky.social
July 10, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Reposted by Emily S. Cross
🧠 Call for Participation: Social Dynamics 2025
🗓️ 20-21 November 2025
📍Utrecht University, The Netherlands
🔗 socialdynamics2025.sites.uu.nl

ft @antoniahamilton.bsky.social @escross.bsky.social @suzannedikker.bsky.social @milicanikolic.bsky.social, @dcrafa.bsky.social + many more
Social Dynamics 2025 | Universiteit Utrecht
Universiteit Utrecht
socialdynamics2025.sites.uu.nl
July 8, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Reposted by Emily S. Cross
OK here it is, the moment you have all been waiting for! Our advert for 5 posts here at Glasgow: Cognitive neuroscience/psychology. Closing date May 12 - please spread the word
www.nature.com/naturecareer...
March 28, 2025 at 7:06 AM
💃🧠 Psyched to share my latest paper in Neuron on the past, present and future of dance neuroscience research! Crazy to think where this field will be in 20 more years 🚀

authors.elsevier.com/a/1kkh3_KOmx...

#PsychSciSky #neuroskyence #Dance #CognitiveNeuroscience #Neuroaesthetics #BrainScience
authors.elsevier.com
March 22, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Interested in fresh new #neuroaesthetics research? Want to hear from brilliant keynotes @neurobea.bsky.social, @anjanchatterjee.bsky.social & Fredrik Ullén from @ae.mpg.de, and an all-⭐ cast of speakers? Then submit your abstract & join us in Ascona🇨🇭 this Sept! Plz share! sbs.ethz.ch/conference.h...
Aesthetics 2025
Submission period: 10 February 2025 - 31 March 2025
sbs.ethz.ch
March 5, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Happy Int'l Day of Women & Girls in Science! 👩‍🔬 The #HBTransform Leadership voyage to Antarctica with 120 women & non-binary STEMM leaders has been deeply inspiring, but my 💙 breaks for my US friends facing ignorance threatening research. At least at Palmer Station, it was still science as usual.
February 11, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Super proud of #TeamSBS & friends for this awesome #PreprintFriday drop! 👇 Keep scrolling to learn about a mixed-methods approach for exploring what kids of different reading levels want in a robot reading companion 👀📕🤖 Kudos to @natecaruana.bsky.social, @ryssamoffat.bsky.social & Hannah!
🧑‍🎨🤖📚 We invited children with different reading levels to design their own reading robot companions – and what did we learn?

New preprint: “It’ll cheer you on!” Children with and without reading difficulty value robot reading companions that are smart, supportive, and personal
osf.io/preprints/ps...
February 7, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Out of office on ✅, team in great shape to rock next 4 weeks when I'm away ✅, & final weekly swim in the Limmat was in perfect sunshine! Tomorrow I'm Antarctica-bound, joining 123 other women in STEMM to hone our leadership & community-building skills💪💙
homewardboundprojects.com.au/124-women-le...
January 24, 2025 at 2:07 PM
New year, new paper from the Social Brain Sciences team! ✨✨Very excited to share this paper presenting 3 pre-registered experiments on the perceived morality of AI-generated (visual) art, led by ace neuroaesthetics postdoc Ionela Bara! Out now in Cognition! 🧠🎨🤖 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
AI contextual information shapes moral and aesthetic judgments of AI-generated visual art
Throughout history, art creation has been regarded as a uniquely human means to express original ideas, emotions, and experiences. However, as Generat…
www.sciencedirect.com
January 17, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Awesome to see these data from my PhD (collected many, many moons ago!) provide the grist for this super interesting new analysis- I certainly learned something new about participants‘ performance of this task! 🪢🪢🪢🪢🪢🪢🪢🪢🪢
December 14, 2024 at 6:50 PM
Know of any colleagues/pals not yet in an #fNIRS starter pack who should be? 🧠 💡

go.bsky.app/TR9ubFQ
November 22, 2024 at 2:07 PM
Things are hotting up with the Cold Water Cognition crew! ❄️❄️❄️ First snowfall meant this week’s Limmat dip featured ethereal city snowscapes for our aesthetic pleasure as we swam along! I’m sure there’s a study to be done about not feeling as cold (/miserable) when immersed in a winter wonderland!
November 22, 2024 at 11:50 AM
Are humanoid robots perceived as mindless mannequins? 🤔🤖👤👁️

Check out our latest paper to find out! 👇👇👇

This particular paper was a long time in the making, but so exciting to see it out in the big bad world! Extra big thanks/congrats to @letstido.bsky.social 🦾
November 22, 2024 at 8:44 AM