wimpouw
@wimpouw.bsky.social
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.bsky.social
· Apr 17
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
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!
www.tilburguniversity.edu/about/school... Super excited about this! I want to thank Donders/Radboud and many other people for their support!
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Fungi coat the eggs of stinkbugs, creating a shield that protects the embryos from parasitic wasps, researchers report.
Learn more: https://scim.ag/43kl3np
Learn more: https://scim.ag/43kl3np
November 10, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Fungi coat the eggs of stinkbugs, creating a shield that protects the embryos from parasitic wasps, researchers report.
Learn more: https://scim.ag/43kl3np
Learn more: https://scim.ag/43kl3np
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> "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...
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
> "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...
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...
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"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...
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November 9, 2025 at 6:47 PM
"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."
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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 ...
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November 7, 2025 at 7:46 AM
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
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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...
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
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...
Multimodal fNIRS–EEG sensor fusion: Review of data-driven methods and perspective for naturalistic brain imaging
doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...
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Cover of new book.
July 28, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Cover of new book.
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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.
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
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.
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.
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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...
...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
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...
...and this year is one of these years! Please send us your nominations! 🫵 Infos: www.etho-ges.de/wordpress/aw...
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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
Using containers for reproducible computing russpoldrack.substack.com/p/using-cont... - the latest in my Better Code, Better Science series
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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...
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October 30, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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” 🧵
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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: 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
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: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...
#interoception #exteroception #affect #neuroskyence
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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...
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
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...
We find a unique mechanism for body axis elongation in mammals, different from other vertebrate species
➡️ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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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
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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
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.
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'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
'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
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We’ve recently updated our collaborative open-access book, “Neural Networks in Cognitive Science”, adding a few new authors, chapters, and lots of content.
downloads.jeffyoshimi.net/NeuralNetwor...
downloads.jeffyoshimi.net/NeuralNetwor...
October 21, 2025 at 8:44 PM
We’ve recently updated our collaborative open-access book, “Neural Networks in Cognitive Science”, adding a few new authors, chapters, and lots of content.
downloads.jeffyoshimi.net/NeuralNetwor...
downloads.jeffyoshimi.net/NeuralNetwor...
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News from the Evil Empire of Academic Publishing: In June Taylor & Francis acquired the back catalogue of Amsterdam University Press' film and media series. As a consequence the majority of the series editors publicly resigned and decided to move their series to /
necsus-ejms.org/sale-of-the-...
necsus-ejms.org/sale-of-the-...
Sale of the Amsterdam University Press film, media and communication list to Taylor & Francis - NECSUS
July 9, 2025
necsus-ejms.org
October 2, 2025 at 12:18 PM
News from the Evil Empire of Academic Publishing: In June Taylor & Francis acquired the back catalogue of Amsterdam University Press' film and media series. As a consequence the majority of the series editors publicly resigned and decided to move their series to /
necsus-ejms.org/sale-of-the-...
necsus-ejms.org/sale-of-the-...
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New preprint written with the wonderful philosopher William Ramsey: Mental Representation Without Neural Representation: Understanding The Evidence osf.io/preprints/ps...
OSF
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October 18, 2025 at 8:18 AM
New preprint written with the wonderful philosopher William Ramsey: Mental Representation Without Neural Representation: Understanding The Evidence osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Scientists have detected microplastics in the digestive systems of red howler monkeys living in protected areas in the Brazilian Amazon, marking the first evidence of plastic ingestion by a tree-dwelling primate, according to a recent study.
Microplastics found in the stomachs of Amazon tree-dwelling monkeys
Scientists have detected microplastics in the digestive systems of red howler monkeys living in protected areas in the Brazilian Amazon, marking the first evidence of plastic ingestion by a…
news.mongabay.com
October 17, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Scientists have detected microplastics in the digestive systems of red howler monkeys living in protected areas in the Brazilian Amazon, marking the first evidence of plastic ingestion by a tree-dwelling primate, according to a recent study.
"Would you like to submit a mini-review"
October 17, 2025 at 6:46 AM
"Would you like to submit a mini-review"
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Handedness is a great example of something innate to each of us (and many other animals) that is NOT genetically determined (Identical twins do not necessarily have the same handedness). It is, as they say, complicated…
Great review on The Genetics of Human Handedness: Microtubules and Beyond www.cell.com/trends/genet... - handedness is such an interesting phenotype!
Genetics of human handedness: microtubules and beyond
Handedness (i.e., the preference to use either the left or the right hand for fine
motor tasks) is a widely investigated trait. Handedness heritability is consistently
estimated to be 25%. After decad...
www.cell.com
October 16, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Handedness is a great example of something innate to each of us (and many other animals) that is NOT genetically determined (Identical twins do not necessarily have the same handedness). It is, as they say, complicated…
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Really enjoyed & honoured to be part of the Critical AI Literacy Symposium yesterday. Also @lucyavraamidou.bsky.social & @miquelpt.bsky.social (and others) spoke about their wonderful work too. Big thanks to @irisvanrooij.bsky.social, Leo & Barbara for organising. ✨
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fxyg...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fxyg...
October 14, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Really enjoyed & honoured to be part of the Critical AI Literacy Symposium yesterday. Also @lucyavraamidou.bsky.social & @miquelpt.bsky.social (and others) spoke about their wonderful work too. Big thanks to @irisvanrooij.bsky.social, Leo & Barbara for organising. ✨
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fxyg...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fxyg...
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Allocentric flocking
by
Mohammad Salahshour & Iain Couzin
"We find collective motion can emerge spontaneously when individuals act as sensory inputs to each other’s networks, but only if individuals employ allocentric bearings to neighbors."
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
by
Mohammad Salahshour & Iain Couzin
"We find collective motion can emerge spontaneously when individuals act as sensory inputs to each other’s networks, but only if individuals employ allocentric bearings to neighbors."
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
October 15, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Allocentric flocking
by
Mohammad Salahshour & Iain Couzin
"We find collective motion can emerge spontaneously when individuals act as sensory inputs to each other’s networks, but only if individuals employ allocentric bearings to neighbors."
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
by
Mohammad Salahshour & Iain Couzin
"We find collective motion can emerge spontaneously when individuals act as sensory inputs to each other’s networks, but only if individuals employ allocentric bearings to neighbors."
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.openaccess.nl/en/netherlan...
A hub primarily for librarians and research support professionals in the Netherlands to exchange knowledge, resources and developments in open access book publishing.
Date: October 28, 2025
Time: 12:00-13:30
Location: Online
A hub primarily for librarians and research support professionals in the Netherlands to exchange knowledge, resources and developments in open access book publishing.
Date: October 28, 2025
Time: 12:00-13:30
Location: Online
Netherlands Open Access Books Community Launch Webinar | Open Access
www.openaccess.nl
October 14, 2025 at 10:17 AM
www.openaccess.nl/en/netherlan...
A hub primarily for librarians and research support professionals in the Netherlands to exchange knowledge, resources and developments in open access book publishing.
Date: October 28, 2025
Time: 12:00-13:30
Location: Online
A hub primarily for librarians and research support professionals in the Netherlands to exchange knowledge, resources and developments in open access book publishing.
Date: October 28, 2025
Time: 12:00-13:30
Location: Online