So much happening this week! I was beyond excited to present our vision language model bencmarking study on sign iconicity @MPI_NL in Nijmegen, and then I traveled to Prague for #AMLaP2025 to report our Turkish good-enough parsing studies with L1 & L2 speakers and LLMs.

What contagious crying and comforting in infants tell us about the roots of emotional connection We wrote a piece in Psyche Magazine about our research on #empathy in infants :) psyche.co/ideas/were-learnin…

NeurIPS is pleased to officially endorse EurIPS, an independently-organized meeting taking place in Copenhagen this year, which will offer researchers an opportunity to additionally present their accepted NeurIPS work in Europe, concurrently with NeurIPS. Read more in our blog post and on the EurIPS website: blog.neurips.cc/2025/07/16/n… eurips.cc/

Another great conference in #Nijmegen. Lots of cool stuff on the relationship btw #gesture, #cognition & #language at @isgs2025 And, above all, lots of fun and great, old & new, colleagues🙌 @Multimodallang @psylex_lab @ZaragozaLing

📢 We are thrilled to announce that the full program for #ISGS2025 is now available on our website: isgs10.nl ✨Explore the detailed schedule featuring latest advancements in multimodal language research ✨ @GestureSociety

So proud of my friend and colleague 🧿🎊

Signs from large sign languages are perceived as more iconic than signs from small sign languages (although this is only true for nonsocial signs) = the larger the comunity, the more iconicity onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…

This is super cool work and really fascinating findings! 👌👌

✉️ Decision letters for #ISGS2025 are out! We are looking forward to the symposia, talks and posters presenting the the latest multimodal language research in Nijmegen! 🔎For information about conference registration: isgs10.nl/registration

The new ChatGPT 4o image generation is transformative for multimodal conversation analysis. It creates anonymized illustrations in any style while preserving relevant details of embodied conduct—useful when you lack ethical approval to include frame grabs in publications.

My book ‘Looking Ahead. The New Science of the Predictive Mind’ is available from today. Cambridge has provided a temporary promo code, if you enter HUETT24 and order via the CUP website you get 20% off any version (hardback, paperback, or ebook) cambridge.org/de/universityp…