Fantastic open letter from MIT Technology Review’s Melissa Heikkilä to Taylor Swift. Pass it along.

Truly tremendous research on synchrony, rapport and 🧠 activity measured by #fNIRS- led by the one and only Ryssa Moffat , in collaboration with Nate Caruana ⭐️SO exciting to see this great work finally in press - congrats Ryssa!! 🤸‍♂️🤸‍♂️

A particularly nice #PreprintFriday drop this week, featuring elegant secondary data analysis and even more great work on embodiment and synchrony led by the Queen of Synchrony research herself, Ryssa Moffat! 👑 shout outs as well to Courtney & Leonie & the DAAD News program!

It was quite the exciting week for #TeamSBS in Zürich, with fabulous visits and AMAZING talks from not one, but TWO brilliant guests! 🤩🤩Anna Ciaunica @annaciaunica.bsky.social & Antonia Hamilton, thank you both SO much once more for taking the time to visit and share your work with us! 🧠 👥🩵

Nothing short of fabulous to welcome Arvid Kappas & Eric Vanman to Zürich this week for the official launch of our ARC-funded collaborative project, ROSIE (Robots as Outgroups: Social Interaction & Empathy)- an intense & inspiring 3 days of science! Thanks, gents! 💚🤖🩵

Super honoured to be taking part in the latest & greatest Social Bridges event on 🌟Dance & Dialogues🌟 this Monday (even if only Zoom 😭)! I wish I could be in Dresden to meet ALL the awesome folks whose work packs this program⬇️💃🕺🧠[also on YouTube!]: tu-dresden.de/ing/elektrotec…

SO fun to share the stage with these brilliant humans at our “Empirical insights into performing arts aesthetics from multiple perspectives on the performative situation” symposium ⁦IAEA Palma 2024⁩! BIG THX to Julia, ⁦ophelia.deroy⁩, ⁦Andrea Orlandi⁩ & Laura!

Couldn’t agree more- Nemo was a STAR! Vote for SWITZERLAND! Vote for the amazing Nemo! 🇨🇭🫶🇨🇭🫶

A true pleasure to share the inaugural lecture double-bill with Prof Dr Martina Rau at ETH Zurich yesterday! The future of educational psychology and social cognitive neuroscience is looking bright indeed! 🤩 🚀thanks to all our colleagues, students & friends for your support! 🫶

🎉 Today, we are celebrating the end of an epic data collection effort for our #intergenerational #hyperscanning study!

Huge congratulations to DR Isla Jones (and her supervisor, Antonia Hamilton!) on a fantastic PhD thesis and a masterful viva at UCL ICN. Was a true pleasure to co-examine with James Kilner and to join in the post-viva celebration with Antonia’s inspiring team! 🧠🧠🧠

Huge shout out to collaborative dream team led by the one and only Ryssa Moffat, exploring the relationship between body competence and action mirroring ⬇️🕺🏽🕺🏽 Big ups to Courtney Casale & Leonie Roos too! 🫶🤩

Hello scholars in aesthetics and neuroaesthetics from all over the world! Still a few days to submit an abstract to the Third International Conference Beauty and Change. Don’t miss it!

🔥 New research, hot off the press: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/hb… What Emily S. Cross and I knew going in: Synchronous body movements are aesthetically pleasing. 👯 Think of synchronised swimming, rowing, ballet, marching in a band.

Couldn’t agree more with Carme Torras ! The 2024 RoboPhilosophy meeting promises to be truly exciting & stimulating as we discuss & debate risks, responsibility & opportunities of social robots w/AI! 🤖🦾 It’s hybrid, so you too can join us online or in lovely Aarhus! 🇩🇰

This week’s #PreprintFriday drop features a pair of exciting new experiments seeking to deepen our understanding of moral reasoning and perceptions when contemplating AI-generated art 🖼️ Brava, Ionela Bara, on leading this great work! 💫🤩

If you are attending RO-MAN 2024 in Pasadena, join us on 8/26 for critical discussions around LLMs for HRI applied to Health 😷 Our invited speakers are Jesse Thomason, Ryan Calo, Emily S. Cross ✨ we will follow up with a hands-on activity on LLMs for HRI. We start at 9:30 ☕️