Feel free to tune in tomorrow if you want to hear me ramble on about one of my favourite topics (string figures and knots!). Should be fun and I’ll be making a few string figures along the way.

Meet the new research assistant in Chris Mathys, friend of abundance ILAB, Trupthi Karanth Ramadeva Trupthi | ತೃಪ್ತಿ | तृप्ति - do give her a warm welcome! 🌱

interactingminds.au.dk/news/enkelt/ar…

Check out this new paper Roberta Rocca (@rockberta.bsky.social) et al - a challenging question that is addressed in a clever and interesting way!

Communicating Europe: a computational analysis of the evolution of the European Commission’s communication

Can we use computational text analysis to describe how European identity has changed over time? How are these changes reflected in the language of European institutions? 🇪🇺 🤖 💬 New paper out w/ Dr Katharina Lawall, Laura Cram, Manos Tsakiris 🎉 Thread 👇 link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Workshop: Culture and Kinds of Mind | Apr 25th

Workshop on cross-cultural diversity (or recurrence) of mind conception agency perception and cultural models Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies, org by IMC affil Renatas Berniūnas!

Registration required - see speakers and details:

aias.au.dk/events/show/ar…

🌐 Update on the Massive Multilingual Text Embedding Benchmark (MMTEB) 🌐

We're thrilled to share progress from the first week since launching the MMTEB project, which has garnered tremendous interest across the global community. Here’s a quick recap:

We're hosting a symposium, Studying Ideas in Practice, at Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies at Aarhus Universitet October 23-24.
Join this interdisciplinary event to discuss the emergence and evolution of ideas, and the practices and infrastructures that shape them.
digitalcreativity.au.dk/symposium
#creativity #ideas

Sneak peak of the conference program for #HBES2024 in Aarhus with talk titles & times! See here for the preliminary pdf: conferences.au.dk/fileadmin/conf…
Get conference details here: conferences.au.dk/hbes2024
See you in less than six weeks!

Discover #neuroplasticity , and how mental #Wellbeing is a practice for everyone to master, when Prof Richard Davidson Center for Healthy Minds UW–Madison visits AIAS & DANDRITE in the 'Science & The Flavour of Aarhus' series with Lundbeckfonden support🙏
Know more: aias.au.dk/events/science…

New paper out from the multi-talented @LineKruse4 Roberta Rocca (@rockberta.bsky.social) & Mikkel Wallentin on 'Inferring Depression and Its Semantic Underpinnings from Simple Lexical Choices' - Check it out here! 👇

🚀 Exciting News! We're launching MMTEB, the Multilingual Massive Text Embedding Benchmark. A community initiative to make text embeddings more inclusive & diverse. Join us in expanding the coverage of NLP to a wide range of languages! 🌍 #MMTEB #NLP

New paper out from the brilliant Anna Zamm and colleagues Cordula Vesper Janeen Loehr SINe Lab Peter Keller et al. - Stellar team, great work and a #mustread for anyone in social neuro and joint action! 🧠👇👇👇

Line Kruse with Roberta Rocca (@rockberta.bsky.social) and me in tow have tried a new approach to studying mental health - using the Demonstrative Choice Task.

🧵“This pain” or “that pain”? Can simple lexical choices be used to infer maladaptive mental states such as depression? Our new work hindawi.com/journals/da/20… based on the Demonstrative Choice Task (DCT) suggests so. Work in collab with brilliant Roberta Rocca (@rockberta.bsky.social) and Mikkel Wallentin /1

PhD Defence tomorrow 1pm (CET) by the brilliant Chris Cox Christopher Cox, on his thesis:
'How Social Contingency Shapes the Content and Structure of Early Child-Caregiver Interactions'
Chris has done some fantastic and impressive work - come and enjoy!
cc.au.dk/aktuelt/arrang…

New interesting paper out from Ida Selbing Joshua Skewes - great work, big congrats!

The expression of decision and learning variables in movement patterns related to decision actions 👇