My Canadian university, Queen's, is offering TWENTY 4-year funded PhDs (40k CAD/yr) for a student of ANY citizenship who has been accepted at a top 100 US university but have had offer rescinded OR are reconsidering offer due to US policy. Details found here👇 www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...

What they call pedants (people who can’t resist correcting you’re spelling and grammer) in five different countries…. 5. Comma fucker (Finland) 4. Little dot shitter (Switzerland) 3. Whittler of woodchips (Norway) 2. Counter of peas (Germany) 1. Sodomizer of flies (France)

A typically brilliant talk from @jennirodd.bsky.social for her @exppsychsoc.bsky.social Mid-career Award

Later this week is #EPSLancaster25! ☀️🧠😎 For all the up to date information, please check our website. eps.ac.uk/next-meeting/

Let your research do the talking! We’re awarding 5 🦍 grants ($1,770 each)—could one be yours? Submit a 500-word research proposal + overview on how one could support your next study for a chance to win! If you're exploring #language, #linguistics or anything in between—apply now! ➡️ bit.ly/3FeV9rX

Great opportunity to win a subscription from @gorillapsych.bsky.social

Are you a junior faculty member interested in spending 2-4 weeks at Princeton Psych? Please apply for our Microsabbatical program! It’s a fully funded visit for professional development and creating long-term collaborations. psych.princeton.edu/diversity/mi...

Wonderful to see the symposium honouring Dr. Andy Johnson. A fantastic academic and colleague, and a friend to so many. All the best to the BU PGRs presenting your work with Andy at this event - you will do him proud

Unspeakably excited about this meeting. Already getting emotional about the thought of giving an EPS prize lecture.

Every week, I see a new study talking about this or that effect of GLP-1 receptor agonists like #ozempic. FINALLY, we have a study evaluating all the outcomes (good and bad) in one dataset. There are some... surprises. 🧵

ICN is hiring at Prof / reader level. Come and join the best and most fabulous cognitive neuroscience department anywhere www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/.... Please share

I have a student recruiting Cantonese speaking people living in the UK for a 20-minute vocabulary task. Does anyone know good ways to recruit? We can pay via paypal or Amazon vouchers.

Announcing a new endowed Chair in Young People's Mental Health at @campsydept.bsky.social. An exciting opportunity to shape mental health strategy and conduct world-leading research in one of the most intellectually vibrant places in the world. Please share!

Trying to compile a list of people with active pedagogic interests in teaching statistics go.bsky.app/Qg6YSq6

The April @exppsychsoc.bsky.social meeting opens for submissions on Monday. I'm giving a prize lecture & Jo Taylor has organised an amazing symposium: Recent perspectives on the mental lexicon. eps.ac.uk/next-meeting/

The April @exppsychsoc.bsky.social meeting opens for submissions on Monday. I'm giving a prize lecture & Jo Taylor has organised an amazing symposium: Recent perspectives on the mental lexicon. eps.ac.uk/next-meeting/

Uta’s here! Welcome!

We are hiring! We're looking for a great project manager to help with a large-scale Wellcome funded study. If you know of anyone that this might appeal to, please share. www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49880/

The best award in psychology is now OPEN: The Glushko Dissertation Prize is a $10,000 award to a recent PhD in the field of cognitive science. Several awards are made each cycle. Deadline is January 18th. @cogscisociety.bsky.social cognitivesciencesociety.org/glushko-diss...

Welcome to Bluesky, @exppsychsoc.bsky.social. The best society in the world.*

A few spots still remaining for our Cognitive Science Research Skills workshop later this week at UCL (in-person), sign up for free here: www.eventbrite.com/e/cognitive-...

Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume? Psychologist: causal inference is not possible without experiments, but I can describe the gap!

Word of the day is ‘bellycheer’ (16th century): feasting, gluttony, and ‘the gratification of the belly’.

So I have some time to read over the break. What are the best psychology and neuroscience theory/concept papers of 2024 that I might have missed? Recommendations please 📄📄📄📄

We recently published a book of articles where neuroscientists, medics, and psychologists with neurological disorders discussed their own conditions. Narinder Kapur organised an online conference where some of the authors presented. It's now online in full: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wfy...

More opportunities to join us in Oxford! We have an open-rank position in Phonetics, to coincide with our move into the amazing Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities. The new Phonetics Lab sits above a concert hall - both acoustically shielded! www.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/news/2024/12...

And we have a release date: "Psycholinguistics: A Very Short Introduction" comes out January 23, 2025!

the correct way to pronounce "pantomime" is "panto" because the mime is silent

𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗲𝘂𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗰𝘀 𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗱 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗰𝘀 If you are a statistician, teach statistics, or even just use statistics, this is a highly recommended read. What a horror story which probably most of us know little about. nautil.us/how-eugenics...

Do you know any early career researchers in the UK who have contributed something special to improve research practices? The call for the 2025 Dorothy Bishop award is open now! Nominations close on 26 January 2025. www.ukrn.org/2024/12/12/t...

💯 As I tell my students, having AI write your philosophy paper is like sending a robot to the gym for you and expecting to reap the health benefits.

I got a phd studentship I didn't apply for, which existed only to celebrate my university's 600th year of existence, and only found out about and accepted it because there was a letter addressed to me on my supervisor's desk which he'd received for cc (my copy never was delivered)

Reposting. Deadline is January 5th. We're looking for someone who will bring interesting computational perspectives to our research interests in linguistics (phonology, (morpho)syntax, semantics, socio, experimental, neuro).

Rereading one of my favourite recent papers on language comprehension from Kara Federmeier: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

Today’s poem is called ‘On Searching for a Book of Stamps’.

I've been talking to UG students a lot about essay writing this week. Interested to know what others make of my advice to them: Pretty much every good psychology essay includes a balance of theory and evidence. Sometimes it helps to reframe the question to make it clear that both are relevant.

hi #psycholinguistics or #langdev peeps, does anyone have good recs for papers that investigate the difference (for kiddos) between learning a new word for a novel referent vs. a new word for a known referent? feel like i should know some, but i'm coming up short.

Because it is such a fast evolving arms race, I'll also just highlight two papers from the last 2 years: academic.oup.com/swr/article/... doi.org/10.1007/s111...

Any good advice on bot prevention for online studies? We usually use well regulated subject pools, so haven't had a problem before. But a student is struggling with a study where she has to use social media networks to find pps with specific language backgrounds.

🌟 Call for ECR Keynotes! 🌟 The 15th International Symposium on Bilingualism is seeking nominations for 2-3 Early Career Researchers to deliver keynote talks showcasing future directions in bilingualism research. ✔️ Deadline: 3 Feb 2025 ✔️ Apply: [email protected] Details: www.bcbl.eu/events/isb15...

If you use Google Slides, you can turn on closed captions by starting the slideshow, moving your mouse to the bottom left of the screen, clicking the three little dots and going to "caption preferences"

Helpful info on using live subtitles in PowerPoint. Will probably do this by default for all teaching from now on

A new Lecturer position to join our department @rhulpsychology.bsky.social A preference for candidates with expertise in functional neuroimaging in relevant areas (e.g. cognitive, social, affective, clinical neuroscience), but all other areas will also be considered. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DKQ640/l...

I've created a starter pack with researchers who study #reading or #psycholinguistics, more generally, in #languages other than English: go.bsky.app/E2e9Afg. Please write to me if you or someone you know should be added (of if you've been added and would like to be removed)!

I gave a conference talk in a fairly noisy room last week to an audience of mostly non-native English listeners. Thanks to @axellecalcus.bsky.social I discovered it is trivially easy to add auto subtitling in powerpoint. Audience feedback was that it was super useful. Very impressed.

Banger of a thread. Everyone go challenge @psychmag.bsky.social ;)

What is the current world record for the number of times to sign in to OneDrive in a single day?

Prof Dorothy Bishop resigns from Royal Society over Elon Musk’s continuing fellowship www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Optimist: the cup is half full Pessimist: the cup is half empty Psycholinguist: cup is polysemous and can refer to both the object and its contents