James Trujillo
@jamestrujillo.bsky.social
Assistant prof at University of Amsterdam using motion tracking and virtual agents to study multimodal language and social interaction.
Autistic and interested in autistic language and interaction.
Dad/papa, artist, runner, gamer.
Autistic and interested in autistic language and interaction.
Dad/papa, artist, runner, gamer.
There are a lot of barriers associated with getting a diagnosis, and doubts about whether it's worthwhile. This is a really nice overview of why it *can* be worthwhile to get that confirmation
New article alert!
In this article, I explore the many ways in which an autism/AuDHD diagnosis can be meaningful and beneficial.
embrace-autism.com/the-benefits...
How has your diagnosis benefited you?
In this article, I explore the many ways in which an autism/AuDHD diagnosis can be meaningful and beneficial.
embrace-autism.com/the-benefits...
How has your diagnosis benefited you?
November 13, 2025 at 12:15 PM
There are a lot of barriers associated with getting a diagnosis, and doubts about whether it's worthwhile. This is a really nice overview of why it *can* be worthwhile to get that confirmation
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
October 24, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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
Check out our fantastic new EnvisionBOX intro video made by Markus Küpper! This video and nomination really feels like another step in professionalizing the platform and making it even more visible, and so hopefully becoming useful to even more people. Thanks everyone for the nominations!
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
www.youtube.com
October 2, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Check out our fantastic new EnvisionBOX intro video made by Markus Küpper! This video and nomination really feels like another step in professionalizing the platform and making it even more visible, and so hopefully becoming useful to even more people. Thanks everyone for the nominations!
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The U.S. powers-that-be still want us to die or vanish into hyper-compliance that makes us more vulnerable to victimization: blogs.exeter.ac.uk/exploringdia...
blogs.exeter.ac.uk
September 23, 2025 at 8:45 PM
The U.S. powers-that-be still want us to die or vanish into hyper-compliance that makes us more vulnerable to victimization: blogs.exeter.ac.uk/exploringdia...
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🚨 New preprint: Invisible neural frequency tagging (RIFT) for the underfunded researcher:
👉 www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
RIFT uses high-frequency flicker to probe attention in M/EEG with minimal stimulus visibility and little distraction. Until now, it required a costly high-speed projector.
👉 www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
RIFT uses high-frequency flicker to probe attention in M/EEG with minimal stimulus visibility and little distraction. Until now, it required a costly high-speed projector.
Rapid Invisible Frequency Tagging (RIFT) with a consumer monitor: A proof-of-concept
Rapid Invisible Frequency Tagging (RIFT) enables neural frequency tagging at rates above the flicker fusion threshold, eliciting steady-state responses to flicker that is almost imperceptible. While R...
www.biorxiv.org
August 22, 2025 at 11:52 AM
🚨 New preprint: Invisible neural frequency tagging (RIFT) for the underfunded researcher:
👉 www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
RIFT uses high-frequency flicker to probe attention in M/EEG with minimal stimulus visibility and little distraction. Until now, it required a costly high-speed projector.
👉 www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
RIFT uses high-frequency flicker to probe attention in M/EEG with minimal stimulus visibility and little distraction. Until now, it required a costly high-speed projector.
On my way back from my last conference/event of the academic year! It's been so fun to meet so many great people doing cool stuff. I certainly have inspiration to last the summer! Thanks for organizing this @adw.bsky.social , and for letting me pick your brain about affordances for 3 days! #EWEP16
July 18, 2025 at 6:19 PM
On my way back from my last conference/event of the academic year! It's been so fun to meet so many great people doing cool stuff. I certainly have inspiration to last the summer! Thanks for organizing this @adw.bsky.social , and for letting me pick your brain about affordances for 3 days! #EWEP16
A couple of days late to post this, but this is one of the great things about in person conferences: getting to hang out with people in very different, non-work settings! Had a great time on Sunday canoeing in Utrecht with @ashleydemarchena.bsky.social , who is normally only see on Zoom!
July 15, 2025 at 12:11 PM
A couple of days late to post this, but this is one of the great things about in person conferences: getting to hang out with people in very different, non-work settings! Had a great time on Sunday canoeing in Utrecht with @ashleydemarchena.bsky.social , who is normally only see on Zoom!
What a great time at @isgs2025.bsky.social ! So great to reconnect and meet so many people doing really cool work. And always nice to be back in Nijmegen 😁 Already excited for ISGS11 in Hong Kong!
July 12, 2025 at 7:38 AM
What a great time at @isgs2025.bsky.social ! So great to reconnect and meet so many people doing really cool work. And always nice to be back in Nijmegen 😁 Already excited for ISGS11 in Hong Kong!
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🧠 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
🗓️ 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
🧠 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
🗓️ 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
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Very happy to have contributed to this review, with excellent direction from @ashleydemarchena.bsky.social , on communication in autistic adults! It was a fun experience to think about how to translate the findings into practical suggestions for clinicians
Our new review explores how autistic adults experience & express communication – and how environments & partners shape that. We spotlight AAC, nonverbals, double empathy, & more. Plus: practical tips for clinicians & researchers to be better communication partners and allies.
#autism #research
#autism #research
Communication in Autistic Adults: An Action-Focused Review - Current Psychiatry Reports
Purpose of Review This review focuses on recent research (primarily published between 2020–2024) describing unique aspects of communication in autistic adults. We review research on communication-rela...
link.springer.com
June 23, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Very happy to have contributed to this review, with excellent direction from @ashleydemarchena.bsky.social , on communication in autistic adults! It was a fun experience to think about how to translate the findings into practical suggestions for clinicians
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🚨 New preprint + open pipeline 🚨
CVML-based behavioral observations: osf.io/preprints/ps...
Co-led with @wimpouw.bsky.social, alongside @jamestrujillo.bsky.social, @babajideowoyele.bsky.social, @tjwiltshire.bsky.social, F. Hasselman, N. Siekiera, J. Raczaszek-Leonardi.
👀 Take a look & use it!
CVML-based behavioral observations: osf.io/preprints/ps...
Co-led with @wimpouw.bsky.social, alongside @jamestrujillo.bsky.social, @babajideowoyele.bsky.social, @tjwiltshire.bsky.social, F. Hasselman, N. Siekiera, J. Raczaszek-Leonardi.
👀 Take a look & use it!
June 23, 2025 at 3:01 PM
🚨 New preprint + open pipeline 🚨
CVML-based behavioral observations: osf.io/preprints/ps...
Co-led with @wimpouw.bsky.social, alongside @jamestrujillo.bsky.social, @babajideowoyele.bsky.social, @tjwiltshire.bsky.social, F. Hasselman, N. Siekiera, J. Raczaszek-Leonardi.
👀 Take a look & use it!
CVML-based behavioral observations: osf.io/preprints/ps...
Co-led with @wimpouw.bsky.social, alongside @jamestrujillo.bsky.social, @babajideowoyele.bsky.social, @tjwiltshire.bsky.social, F. Hasselman, N. Siekiera, J. Raczaszek-Leonardi.
👀 Take a look & use it!
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New research from MIT found that those who used ChatGPT can’t remember any of the content of their essays.
Key takeaway: the product doesn’t suffer, but the process does. And when it comes to essays, the process *is* how they learn.
arxiv.org/pdf/2506.088...
Key takeaway: the product doesn’t suffer, but the process does. And when it comes to essays, the process *is* how they learn.
arxiv.org/pdf/2506.088...
June 18, 2025 at 7:32 AM
New research from MIT found that those who used ChatGPT can’t remember any of the content of their essays.
Key takeaway: the product doesn’t suffer, but the process does. And when it comes to essays, the process *is* how they learn.
arxiv.org/pdf/2506.088...
Key takeaway: the product doesn’t suffer, but the process does. And when it comes to essays, the process *is* how they learn.
arxiv.org/pdf/2506.088...
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Hey #linguistics people. Does anyone know of any open source corpora containing conversations in non-Indo-European languages?
June 16, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Hey #linguistics people. Does anyone know of any open source corpora containing conversations in non-Indo-European languages?
Thanks for having me at ACORPO! It was great to discuss methods for analyzing corpora, and meet many new people! Also great to hear that so many are also thinking about how to open up data and have more collaborative language science!
J2 de la #SummerSchool ACORPO: conf sur la #transcription de langues peu dotées, atelier sur le traitement pluri-outillé de #CorpusOraux, plenary on qualitative & quantitative methods for annotating #multimodality by @jamestrujillo.bsky.social
…et un atelier sur #annotations multimodales dans #ELAN
…et un atelier sur #annotations multimodales dans #ELAN
June 15, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Thanks for having me at ACORPO! It was great to discuss methods for analyzing corpora, and meet many new people! Also great to hear that so many are also thinking about how to open up data and have more collaborative language science!
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Today in Hell Yes, Research! Autistic quality of life improved by access to accommodations like earplugs & headphones to manage sounds.
"Our study demonstrates that many aspects of auditory environments—beyond noise alone―can negatively impact Autistic people’s QoL."
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
"Our study demonstrates that many aspects of auditory environments—beyond noise alone―can negatively impact Autistic people’s QoL."
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Auditory environments influence the link between Autistic traits and quality of life - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Auditory environments influence the link between Autistic traits and quality of life
www.nature.com
May 26, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Today in Hell Yes, Research! Autistic quality of life improved by access to accommodations like earplugs & headphones to manage sounds.
"Our study demonstrates that many aspects of auditory environments—beyond noise alone―can negatively impact Autistic people’s QoL."
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
"Our study demonstrates that many aspects of auditory environments—beyond noise alone―can negatively impact Autistic people’s QoL."
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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🚨 URGENT RESPONSE CALL 🚨
Trump’s Fool’s Gold Science EO is a dangerous sham.
It gives his appointees the power to dismiss entire bodies of research and punish researchers who fail to fall in line with his agenda.
We’ve launched an open letter.
SIGN & SHARE NOW: actionnetwork.org/petitions/op...
Trump’s Fool’s Gold Science EO is a dangerous sham.
It gives his appointees the power to dismiss entire bodies of research and punish researchers who fail to fall in line with his agenda.
We’ve launched an open letter.
SIGN & SHARE NOW: actionnetwork.org/petitions/op...
Sign The Open Letter to Stand Up For Science Now!
Science is under siege. Trump’s latest Executive Order calls for politically appointed science commissars to evaluate research. Join us in adding your name to our open letter condemning Trump’s escala...
actionnetwork.org
May 26, 2025 at 4:19 PM
🚨 URGENT RESPONSE CALL 🚨
Trump’s Fool’s Gold Science EO is a dangerous sham.
It gives his appointees the power to dismiss entire bodies of research and punish researchers who fail to fall in line with his agenda.
We’ve launched an open letter.
SIGN & SHARE NOW: actionnetwork.org/petitions/op...
Trump’s Fool’s Gold Science EO is a dangerous sham.
It gives his appointees the power to dismiss entire bodies of research and punish researchers who fail to fall in line with his agenda.
We’ve launched an open letter.
SIGN & SHARE NOW: actionnetwork.org/petitions/op...
This has been a really insightful read! @clearautism.bsky.social mentions examining neurodivergence holistically. Is anyone working on something like this?
In case you missed it: #AutINSAR is a much-needed discussion between autistic people, autism researchers, family members, and professionals about priorities in autism research. This year it happened during #INSAR2025. Recap at TPGA:
thinkingautismguide.com/2025/05/what... #autism #neurodiversity
thinkingautismguide.com/2025/05/what... #autism #neurodiversity
What Autistic People Want From Autism Research: AutINSAR 2025
AutINSAR is a much-needed discussion between autistic people and autism researchers about priorities in autism research.
thinkingautismguide.com
May 26, 2025 at 7:23 AM
This has been a really insightful read! @clearautism.bsky.social mentions examining neurodivergence holistically. Is anyone working on something like this?
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If you research autism, this is for you to read; and inwardly digest.
(And thank you to our team who were there - @autisticcharlie.bsky.social
@zahrablue.bsky.social
Josh & @brianirvine.bsky.social)
(And thank you to our team who were there - @autisticcharlie.bsky.social
@zahrablue.bsky.social
Josh & @brianirvine.bsky.social)
In case you missed it: #AutINSAR is a much-needed discussion between autistic people, autism researchers, family members, and professionals about priorities in autism research. This year it happened during #INSAR2025. Recap at TPGA:
thinkingautismguide.com/2025/05/what... #autism #neurodiversity
thinkingautismguide.com/2025/05/what... #autism #neurodiversity
What Autistic People Want From Autism Research: AutINSAR 2025
AutINSAR is a much-needed discussion between autistic people and autism researchers about priorities in autism research.
thinkingautismguide.com
May 26, 2025 at 6:05 AM
If you research autism, this is for you to read; and inwardly digest.
(And thank you to our team who were there - @autisticcharlie.bsky.social
@zahrablue.bsky.social
Josh & @brianirvine.bsky.social)
(And thank you to our team who were there - @autisticcharlie.bsky.social
@zahrablue.bsky.social
Josh & @brianirvine.bsky.social)
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Excited to share the DIMS Dashboard—a tool for displaying multimodal, extracted time series alongside the original video source! It’s designed to support and inspire a richer qualitative–quantitative research cycle.
Huge thanks to my amazing collaborators and mentors who made this possible! 🙌
Huge thanks to my amazing collaborators and mentors who made this possible! 🙌
Postprint: osf.io/987fm_v1 To appear in Proceedings of Cog Sci 2025
DIMS Dashboard for Exploring Dynamic Interactions and Multimodal Signals.
The interdisciplinary @graceqmiao.bsky.social in the lead here! Developing a dynamic dashboard for a quali-quanti social neuroscience research cycle!
DIMS Dashboard for Exploring Dynamic Interactions and Multimodal Signals.
The interdisciplinary @graceqmiao.bsky.social in the lead here! Developing a dynamic dashboard for a quali-quanti social neuroscience research cycle!
May 15, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Excited to share the DIMS Dashboard—a tool for displaying multimodal, extracted time series alongside the original video source! It’s designed to support and inspire a richer qualitative–quantitative research cycle.
Huge thanks to my amazing collaborators and mentors who made this possible! 🙌
Huge thanks to my amazing collaborators and mentors who made this possible! 🙌
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You do not need to be Dutch to sign. If you simply care to preserve programs that have been leaders in rigor and reform in psychology, then signal your support for them to continue to thrive.
An open letter supporting the international bachelor’s psychology programs threatened for cuts. Proceeding with these cuts would damage some of the most important and impactful psychology departments globally. #supportdutchpsychology
openletter.earth/against-lang...
openletter.earth/against-lang...
Against Language Barriers: A Call to Protect International Education in Dutch Academia
openletter.earth
April 29, 2025 at 11:51 AM
You do not need to be Dutch to sign. If you simply care to preserve programs that have been leaders in rigor and reform in psychology, then signal your support for them to continue to thrive.
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“For someone with increased perceptual capacity, tranquillity could lead to unpleasant rumination, and solitude could become imposed isolation.
Instead of creating bland and featureless places, we must create places in which ongoing cycles of engagement and rest can be done well.”
#AutRes 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Instead of creating bland and featureless places, we must create places in which ongoing cycles of engagement and rest can be done well.”
#AutRes 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
‘A storm of post-it notes’: Experiences of perceptual capacity in autism and ADHD - Brian Irvine, Freya Elise, Jana Brinkert, Daniel Poole, Emily K. Farran, Elizabeth Milne, Gaia Scerif, Laura Crane, ...
Lab-based tasks suggest autistic people have increased perceptual capacity (i.e. process more information at any one time) compared to non-autistic people. Here...
journals.sagepub.com
January 1, 2025 at 6:24 PM
“For someone with increased perceptual capacity, tranquillity could lead to unpleasant rumination, and solitude could become imposed isolation.
Instead of creating bland and featureless places, we must create places in which ongoing cycles of engagement and rest can be done well.”
#AutRes 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Instead of creating bland and featureless places, we must create places in which ongoing cycles of engagement and rest can be done well.”
#AutRes 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
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Join us for a week of *Unboxing Multimodality* in Amsterdam 🇳🇱
Among others, David Pagnon will introduce #pose2sim pipeline and cover topics like building low-cost 3D motion capture setup 📽️ and motion tracking processing 👐🏻
Application is open until 4th of May! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Among others, David Pagnon will introduce #pose2sim pipeline and cover topics like building low-cost 3D motion capture setup 📽️ and motion tracking processing 👐🏻
Application is open until 4th of May! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
April 25, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Join us for a week of *Unboxing Multimodality* in Amsterdam 🇳🇱
Among others, David Pagnon will introduce #pose2sim pipeline and cover topics like building low-cost 3D motion capture setup 📽️ and motion tracking processing 👐🏻
Application is open until 4th of May! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Among others, David Pagnon will introduce #pose2sim pipeline and cover topics like building low-cost 3D motion capture setup 📽️ and motion tracking processing 👐🏻
Application is open until 4th of May! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Applications for our summer school on analysis pipelines for quantifying multimodal behavior are now open!
April 25, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Applications for our summer school on analysis pipelines for quantifying multimodal behavior are now open!
Looking forward to discussing some new work with Travis Wiltshire on turn-taking dynamics this summer! And even more so looking forward to discussing ecological psychology and dynamical systems perspectives with everyone there 😀
Abstract acceptances have gone out (finally, sorry for the delay :) Still some spaces if anyone would still like to present! Drop me an email if you are interested
Registration is now open at the website - early registration runs till the end of this month
Registration is now open at the website - early registration runs till the end of this month
🚨Abstract submission now open for the European Workshop on Ecological Psychology, 15-18 July 2025, in Leeds UK 🚨
Abstracts: due Friday 14th March, 2025
Early Registration: by Wednesday 30 April (open shortly)
Please share widely!
www.leedsbeckett.ac.uk/events/confe...
Abstracts: due Friday 14th March, 2025
Early Registration: by Wednesday 30 April (open shortly)
Please share widely!
www.leedsbeckett.ac.uk/events/confe...
April 8, 2025 at 6:38 AM
Looking forward to discussing some new work with Travis Wiltshire on turn-taking dynamics this summer! And even more so looking forward to discussing ecological psychology and dynamical systems perspectives with everyone there 😀