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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, @RyssaMoffat! 👑 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 & @socialneuro 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, ⁦@OpheliaDeroy⁩, ⁦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! 🫶

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 @RyssaMoffat, 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!

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 2025 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 ☕️

After missing the first 2 editions of the Int’l Conf on Beauty & Change, it’s an enormous pleasure to be in lovely (if rainy!) Torino to attend the 3rd edition in person, with fellow SBS team members Ionela Bara & Courtney Casale! Big thanks to Irene Ronga & Jacopo Frascaroli! 🫶🧠🎨🇮🇹

It was nothing short of inspiring to watch #TeamSBS’s own Dr. Ionela Bara present her work on the aesthetics of affective touch at the Beauty & Change conference in Turin today! Utterly brilliant work, Ionela, and what an outstanding presentation of this fine research! 🖼️ 🎨 🫂

Immensely proud of Martha Waugh for this beast of a paper addressing timely & important questions related to dance-focused health & social interventions for older people 🕺💃Congrats, Martha! This is shaping up to be one heck of an impactful PhD project! 🚀

This particular #PreprintFriday drop is near and dear to my heart, as we’ve been discussing the ideas for nearly 3 years, while watching the landscape of AI-generated art evolve at a wild pace. 🖼️ 🤖So proud of Ionela Bara for getting this submitted this week! 💪