Axel Ahrens

We're pleased to announce the Summerschool 'Multiscale Social Dynamics in Individuals and Groups' (MDIG2026) at MindLabs, Tilburg, NL - 13-17 July 2026. You can register here for a 5-day in-person summer school at Tilburg University, Research Center for Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence, from July 13th-17th (monday to friday), with the theme Multiscale Social Dynamics in Individuals and Groups (MDIG2026). This summer school supported by EnvisionBox.org will feature hands-on tutorials on analysis pipelines from computer science and complexity science, including methods for motion tracking, kinematic and acoustic analysis, empirical mode decomposition, windowed multiscale synchrony analysis, and related approaches. Rather than focusing on a single modality, we will cover several aspects of multimodal communication, including visual, prosodic, and movement-based signals, and examine how these interact across multiple temporal and spatial scales. One dedicated day will focus on methods for data management, masking and anonymizing audiovisual data to ensure privacy protection and GDPR compliance. In addition, participants will work in groups on applied projects throughout the week, culminating in presentations of project progress at the end of the summer school. The goal of the summer school is twofold: first, to familiarize participants with state-of-the-art tools, open solutions, and datasets for multiscale social signal analysis, and second, to critically examine their limitations. By the end of the week, participants will have gained practical skills, new analytical tools, and a deeper understanding of how these methods can be improved to advance research in multimodal behavioral dynamics. Location The Netherlands, MindLabs Tilburg University Fee 125 euros person that includes a 5-day summer school featuring lectures and hands on tutorials and working groups with lunches, coffee breaks, and one social dinner provided (budget permitting). Travel grant …

Summerschool 13-17 July Multiscale Social Dynamics at MindLabs NL - Sign ups are open!

Super interesting, @wimpouw.bsky.social ! Will forward to our PhD and Postdoc.

Doing a PhD is - at heart - one long discussion with your mentor. The discussion changes over time - with unexpected turns and ups & downs - but through it all is a pair of people discussing a topic endlessly to make sense of it.
PhD students: choose someone you like to talk to!

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Update re pypi package envisionHGdetector! Our preprint "EnvisionHGdetector: A Computational Framework for Co-Speech Gesture Detection, Kinematic Analysis, and Interactive Visualization" is now out! osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Looks fantastic. So sad that I missed it!

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I remember expressing this worry to my husband when preparing for one of my first lectures and he said something like "you're a professor now, you should be able to talk about anything for any amount of time" and now I think of that as the true definition of "professing"

The scientific method served humanity well for hundreds of years but it was rendered obsolete in 2013 with the discovery of Vibes

Scientific Integrity Question

Consider a fictional AI system M, and a scientist S who wishes to use M in their research pipeline (e.g., for analysis and/or interpretation). Functionally, M is not fully understood by S. In your opinion, is it acceptable that S uses M in their research pipeline?

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Gender and retention patterns among U.S. faculty Women faculty are more likely to leave their jobs than men, most often due to workplace climate, rather than work-life balance.

Women leave academia at higher rates than men at every career stage, and attrition is especially high among three groups: tenured faculty, women in non-STEM fields, and women employed at less prestigious institutions, a #ScienceAdvances analysis finds.

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Can you share the link to the publication?

Thinking about this a lot as a (pre-tenure) PI. There just isn't enough time to go deeply into an idea, which is obviously bad for (my) science.

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We found that participants modify their opinion towards more confident opinions which is amplified in noisy environments. We think that this paradigm can also be a valuable tool to better understand communication difficulties of people with atypical hearing such as age related hearing loss.

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We placed people in an array of loudspeakers and equipped them with eye trackers and microphones (not analyzed in this study though). They were asked to answer general knowledge questions and judge their own confidence before and after a triadic conversation.

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We have a new publication on conversation and decision-making in noisy environments. The study was run by our PhD student Ingvi Örnolfsson. We studied how people change/keep their decision and voting strategy after a triadic conversation. 🧪
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Sorry for the delay! Added you now. Wasn't much on here these days. End of semester and exams kept me busy.

Hi. Sorry for the delay! Added you now. Wasn't much on here these days. End of semester and exams kept me busy.

Hi. Sorry for the delay! Wasn't much on here these days. End of semester and exams kept me busy.

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Obviously chocolate up! Otherwise it's like bread falling on its chocolate side... Not great.

Added you long ago. 😉