James Trujillo
Assistant prof at University of Amsterdam using motion tracking and virtual agents to study multimodal language and social interaction.
Autistic and interested in autistic language and interaction.
Dad/papa, artist, runner, gamer.
- Thrilled to have been awarded an AUF Impact Call grant to start researching how we can improve communication between healthcare professionals and autistic adults 🥳 The project is a collab with Hedwig van der Meer and takes a multimodal, cross-disciplinary approach www.auf.nl/gedeelde-con... 🧵👇
- The project will run for the next two years, and we'll be using qualitative analysis, multimodal video analysis, and experiments (all developed in dialog with autistic advisors) to develop an autism education workshop and "communication toolbox" for physical therapists.
- I'm excited about the research we'll be doing, but also the impact that I hope it will have on creating more equitable access to healthcare for autistic adults. And to be doing something so cross-disciplinary with physical therapy / healthcare science. Looking forward to sharing more soon..!
- Happy to return to Orléans to take part in the Interaction and Inclusion workshop yesterday, talking about sign language recogniton. Many interesting and inspiring talks from perspectives I haven't seen before! Thanks for the invitation and your hospitality Katja Ploog & @biagioursi.bsky.social !
- La journée Interaction et inclusion c’est demain ! 🗣️♿️🎓 #LinguistiqueAppliquée #Multimodalité #Inclusion #Handicap #Multimodality #Inclusiveness #AppliedLinguistics #LLL @univorleans.bsky.social
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- Reposted by James TrujilloCogSci in Aarhus is hiring, open rank (assi, asso or full prof). We want somebody working on and teaching computational modelling of cognitive processes and/or social processes. Students are amazing, work/life balance very satisfactory, and colleagues are nice! international.au.dk/about/profil...
- Reposted by James TrujilloAcademic publishing is broken due to for-profit actors. Time to explore alternatives as researchers → A Diamond Open Access conference, Feb 5-6, 2026 in Nijmegen NL. Free registration (limited seats): horizondiamond.nl Let's build a sustainable publishing infrastructure together.
- Autistic adults, regardless of whether clinically dx or self-identifying, report more difficulty processing auditory information, particularly others' speech. doi.org/10.1177/1362... New research by Elena Silva, Linda Drivers @lindadrijvers.bsky.social and myself (reposting with correct link)
- Autistic adults,regardless of whether clinically dx or self-identifying, report more difficulty processing auditory information, particularly others' speech. doi.org/10.1080/1499... New research by Elena Silva, Linda Drivers @lindadrijvers.bsky.social and myself 🧵
- Autistic adults,regardless of whether clinically dx or self-identifying, report more difficulty processing auditory information, particularly others' speech. doi.org/10.1080/1499... New research by Elena Silva, Linda Drivers @lindadrijvers.bsky.social and myself 🧵
- Differences in sensory processing between autistic and nonautistic people are well known, I think, in general terms. But I've heard anecdotes for quite a while that autistic people find speech processing, particularly in noise, very challenging. But there didn't seem to be much evidence for it.
- We used the Speech, Spatial and Qualities of Hearing Scale (SSQ) as a simple, short survey to see whether autistic adults indeed report lower auditory processing abilities than non autistic adults. We surveyed both clinically-diagnosed individuals and those who self-identify as autistic.
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View full threadI'm posting about this because Elena is not on Bluesky, but she was the one doing most of the work, as this was her masters thesis project. I personally wanted to see a project like this for a while so im excited it finally became reality! Thanks Elena!
- There are a lot of barriers associated with getting a diagnosis, and doubts about whether it's worthwhile. This is a really nice overview of why it *can* be worthwhile to get that confirmation
- It was very inspiring to join the other two shortlisted candidates for the Leo Waaijers award and represent the team in Groningem today. @wimpouw.bsky.social @sarkadava.bsky.social @babajideowoyele.bsky.social Big congrats to winner Chris Hartgerink! #OpenScience #NOSF2025
- This really gives some fresh motivation that we are contributing something meaningful to the research community. We'll keep working to make multimodal research methods free to read, free to use, free to learn, and free to build upon. (Thanks for that excellent quote @babajideowoyele.bsky.social !)
- Check out our fantastic new EnvisionBOX intro video made by Markus Küpper! This video and nomination really feels like another step in professionalizing the platform and making it even more visible, and so hopefully becoming useful to even more people. Thanks everyone for the nominations!
- www.envisionbox.org has been shortlisted for the Leo Waaijers Open Science price: ukb.nl/en/news/shor... @babajideowoyele.bsky.social @jamestrujillo.bsky.social @sarkadava.bsky.social @DavideAhmar @acwiek.bsky.social Amazing Markus Küpper made an animated video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=HduI...
- Im looking forward to meeting the other nominees at the Open Science Festival in a few weeks in Groningen! So cool to see all these fantastic initiatives for more open science
- Reposted by James TrujilloThe U.S. powers-that-be still want us to die or vanish into hyper-compliance that makes us more vulnerable to victimization: blogs.exeter.ac.uk/exploringdia...
- Reposted by James Trujillo🚨 New preprint: Invisible neural frequency tagging (RIFT) for the underfunded researcher: 👉 www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/... RIFT uses high-frequency flicker to probe attention in M/EEG with minimal stimulus visibility and little distraction. Until now, it required a costly high-speed projector.
- On my way back from my last conference/event of the academic year! It's been so fun to meet so many great people doing cool stuff. I certainly have inspiration to last the summer! Thanks for organizing this @adw.bsky.social , and for letting me pick your brain about affordances for 3 days! #EWEP16
- A couple of days late to post this, but this is one of the great things about in person conferences: getting to hang out with people in very different, non-work settings! Had a great time on Sunday canoeing in Utrecht with @ashleydemarchena.bsky.social , who is normally only see on Zoom!
- What a great time at @isgs2025.bsky.social ! So great to reconnect and meet so many people doing really cool work. And always nice to be back in Nijmegen 😁 Already excited for ISGS11 in Hong Kong!
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- Very happy to have contributed to this review, with excellent direction from @ashleydemarchena.bsky.social , on communication in autistic adults! It was a fun experience to think about how to translate the findings into practical suggestions for clinicians
- Reposted by James Trujillo🚨 New preprint + open pipeline 🚨 CVML-based behavioral observations: osf.io/preprints/ps... Co-led with @wimpouw.bsky.social, alongside @jamestrujillo.bsky.social, @babajideowoyele.bsky.social, @tjwiltshire.bsky.social, F. Hasselman, N. Siekiera, J. Raczaszek-Leonardi. 👀 Take a look & use it!
- Reposted by James TrujilloNew research from MIT found that those who used ChatGPT can’t remember any of the content of their essays. Key takeaway: the product doesn’t suffer, but the process does. And when it comes to essays, the process *is* how they learn. arxiv.org/pdf/2506.088...
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- Thanks for having me at ACORPO! It was great to discuss methods for analyzing corpora, and meet many new people! Also great to hear that so many are also thinking about how to open up data and have more collaborative language science!
- J2 de la #SummerSchool ACORPO: conf sur la #transcription de langues peu dotées, atelier sur le traitement pluri-outillé de #CorpusOraux, plenary on qualitative & quantitative methods for annotating #multimodality by @jamestrujillo.bsky.social …et un atelier sur #annotations multimodales dans #ELAN
- Reposted by James TrujilloToday in Hell Yes, Research! Autistic quality of life improved by access to accommodations like earplugs & headphones to manage sounds. "Our study demonstrates that many aspects of auditory environments—beyond noise alone―can negatively impact Autistic people’s QoL." www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by James Trujillo🚨 URGENT RESPONSE CALL 🚨 Trump’s Fool’s Gold Science EO is a dangerous sham. It gives his appointees the power to dismiss entire bodies of research and punish researchers who fail to fall in line with his agenda. We’ve launched an open letter. SIGN & SHARE NOW: actionnetwork.org/petitions/op...
- This has been a really insightful read! @clearautism.bsky.social mentions examining neurodivergence holistically. Is anyone working on something like this?
- In case you missed it: #AutINSAR is a much-needed discussion between autistic people, autism researchers, family members, and professionals about priorities in autism research. This year it happened during #INSAR2025. Recap at TPGA: thinkingautismguide.com/2025/05/what... #autism #neurodiversity
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- Reposted by James TrujilloExcited to share the DIMS Dashboard—a tool for displaying multimodal, extracted time series alongside the original video source! It’s designed to support and inspire a richer qualitative–quantitative research cycle. Huge thanks to my amazing collaborators and mentors who made this possible! 🙌
- Reposted by James TrujilloYou do not need to be Dutch to sign. If you simply care to preserve programs that have been leaders in rigor and reform in psychology, then signal your support for them to continue to thrive.
- An open letter supporting the international bachelor’s psychology programs threatened for cuts. Proceeding with these cuts would damage some of the most important and impactful psychology departments globally. #supportdutchpsychology openletter.earth/against-lang...
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- Reposted by James TrujilloJoin us for a week of *Unboxing Multimodality* in Amsterdam 🇳🇱 Among others, David Pagnon will introduce #pose2sim pipeline and cover topics like building low-cost 3D motion capture setup 📽️ and motion tracking processing 👐🏻 Application is open until 4th of May! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
- Applications open! forms.gle/LnNSEyivsADr...
- Applications for our summer school on analysis pipelines for quantifying multimodal behavior are now open!
- Applications open! forms.gle/LnNSEyivsADr...
- Looking forward to discussing some new work with Travis Wiltshire on turn-taking dynamics this summer! And even more so looking forward to discussing ecological psychology and dynamical systems perspectives with everyone there 😀
- When listening to a story, earlier parts of the story (context) and the speaker's gestures help us predict and understand what they are saying. In a new preprint we show context and gestures have a push-pull synergy on neural response to linguistic information 👇🧵
- In this collaboration @yifeihe.bsky.social and @straubeb.bsky.social we used a transformer model to capture contextualized information (predictability, contextualized by preceding context), decontextualized information, and context informativity of a multimodal narrative osf.io/preprints/ps...
- We used these measures to disentangle the role of context in reducing surprisal, at calculated them at a sentence level, rather than word level. By also taking the amount of spontaneous gestures in each sentence, we could look at the interaction of these factors on brain response
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View full threadWe think these effects show a push-pull relationship between context and gestures in terms of their influence on speech processing. We're quite excited about this project since we go beyond word level processing, and predictability based on short timescale context as well as long timescale context
- Reposted by James TrujilloIn an unprecedented move, the US National Institutes of Health has begun mass terminations of research grants that fund active scientific projects because they no longer meet “agency priorities”. go.nature.com/4bpG2It
- Reposted by James Trujillo1/ 🧵 🚨New paper!🚨 Cross-cultural research is expanding in the social sciences — but are we measuring what we think we are? Our recent paper argues that construct validity is an overlooked challenge, especially in developmental research. Let’s break it down. 🌍 🧠 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
- Towards automated gesture detection! With bonus analyses and visualizations built in. And no complicated installation: it's all in a nice pypi package
- New paper out on the relationship between EQ scores, kinematic entrainment, and prosodic similarity during question-answer sequences in dialogue. Congrats @aridyer.bsky.social on having this excellent thesis work published!
- Our paper has been published open access! (My first publication!) This project was part of my MSc thesis with @jamestrujillo.bsky.social & @judithholler.bsky.social. We explored the relationship between dyadic differences in EQ scores, and kinematic & prosodic similarity🧵 doi.org/10.1080/0163...
