As well as a new name, OxCIN also has a brand new Director: Karla Miller! @fmrib-karla.bsky.social We are grateful for 10 years of superb leadership by Heidi Johansen-Berg @heidijoberg.bsky.social and excited to see the new ideas Karla will bring. More about Karla: oxcin.ox.ac.uk/people/karla...

We're excited to announce that WIN is now the Oxford University Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging: OxCIN! Our mission: developing and deploying neuroimaging and related technology to solve big challenges in basic neuroscience and brain health. oxcin.ox.ac.uk/about/vision

Watery water lillies.

A curious robin

Doctors at one of England’s leading cancer hospitals have launched a clinical trial of headgear that emits electric fields. The pulses disrupt cell division in glioblastoma — one of the deadliest forms of brain cancer www.thetimes.com/article/23d3...

Here's a helpful article with background on the new study of compositionality of bonobo calls, & why findings might be of interest for (at least some) scientists investigating evolution of human language. From the excellent @carlzimmer.com in @nytimes.com .🧪

"Findings suggest that compositionality [the capacity to combine meaningful elements into larger meaningful structures] is a prominent feature of the bonobo vocal system revealing stronger parallels with human language than previously thought." Fascinating work by @berthetmelissa.bsky.social et al.🧪

A sad day for the world of great ape language research. www.apeinitiative.org/remembering-...

Did you know that @jneurolang allows you to submit your manuscript your way? We only require journal specific formatting once your manuscript is accepted. Put your figures in the text and keep reviewers happy 😃 direct.mit.edu/nol/pages/su...

Camouflage not always a good thing. Almost squished Toady on my walk this morning.

Does your research investigate how the brain communicates using language? Consider the Neurobiology of Language journal for your next submission. We are fully open access with reasonable APCs. Check out our latest papers direct.mit.edu/nol

New Call for Papers for a Special Issue: The Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience of Language Disorders: Exploring the Biological Foundations of Primary Progressive Aphasias direct.mit.edu/DocumentLibr...

New review on the neurobiology of sentence production by my grad student Jeremy Yeaton. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The Afasic helpline is open Mondays & Wednesdays 10.30am till 4.00pm to discuss difficulties your child may have with speech & language. 📞 0300 666 9410 afasic.org.uk 📧 [email protected] www.afasic.org.uk/the-afasic-h...

Ever wonder how the brain works to _stop_ your speech midway?🤫🧠 Our latest work on the neural mechanism for stopping speech production is now out @naturehumbehav.bsky.social! See a brief summary below and the original paper here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Great to see wonderful Irene Tracey on top of the league www.timeshighereducation.com/student/best...

For social psychologists looking for a more permanent home in the UK, Oxford Experimental Psychology Department @oxexppsy.bsky.social is hiring. my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

Another proud supervisor moment yesterday. Congratulations Dr Nilgoun Bahar (not yet on bsky). Celebrated with brain-themed pav (of which I’m also proud 😊) Thanks to examiners Gaia Scerif and Frédérique Liégeois.

1st preprint of 2025! @jamielmitchell.bsky.social found that as children with dyslexia improve their reading ability, their reading area in the brain grows, yet remains markedly different from their peers. So excited to see this after years of data collection with this great team! Feedback welcome!

Interesting new work by Kimi Akita: Ideophones more reliable than metaphors in Japanese pain descriptions www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Do you want to do a phd on #speech and #song and how we use our brain for it #electrophysiology #neuroimaging #motor #rhythm ? Come work with us at the MPI_ae ! Apply here and contact me for questions. e-recruiting.pro/jobposting/7... Please forward to everyone interested!

First obituary of Eleanor Maguire Fitting that it comes from a neuroscience community publication. Very grateful to Calli McMurray for writing this lovely piece on who Eleanor was and what she achieved in her dazzling career:

One of my favourite podcasts. And this is now one of my favourite episodes.

Neurobiology of Language is an #openaccess journal that provides articles across a range of disciplines addressing the neurobiological basis of speech & language. A new issue is out now: https://direct.mit.edu/nol/issue/5/4 Follow @jneurolang.bsky.social to stay current on the latest research!

✨i'm hiring a lab manager, with a start date of ~September 2025! to express interest, please complete this google form: forms.gle/GLyAbuD779Rz... looking for someone to join our multi-disciplinary team, using OPM, EEG, iEEG and computational techniques to study speech and language processing! 🧠

Last days to submit for the multimodal language workshop in Catania!!https://multimodallanguage.wixsite.com/workshop

Dissociable Neural Mechanisms for Human Inference Processing Predicted by Static and Contextual Language Models | https://buff.ly/4fpz5Hu | by Takahisa Uchida, Nicolas Lair, Hiroshi Ishiguro & Peter Ford Dominey

Activity in Occipito-Temporal Cortex Is Involved in Tool-Use Planning and Contributes to Tool-Related Semantic Neural Representations | doi.org/10.1162/nol_... | by @sthibault.bsky.social, Eric Koun, Romeo Salemme, Alice C. Roy, Véronique Boulenger & Claudio Brozzoli

We will start accepting applications for GRS Cerebellum from Dec 19 until all 70 spots fill up—so don’t wait too long! Who else is planning to join? Let’s dive into cerebellar science together! Apply here: www.grc.org/cerebellum-g... #CerebellumGRS @carobellum.bsky.social

Neurobiological Causal Models of Language Processing | doi.org/10.1162/nol_... | by Hartmut Fitz, Peter Hagoort & Karl Magnus Petersson

🚨 Reminder! 🚨 Submissions are due December 31 🗓️ to our special issue on the white matter connectome supporting speech & language, by Guest Editors @anthonystevend.bsky.social and Pascale Tremblay. Submit your manuscript before the end of the year! direct.mit.edu/DocumentLibr...

If you are struggling with your day, please take solace in these insightful words penned by renowned scholar Charles Darwin in 1861, perhaps the most resonant quote from his entire body of work: "But I am very poorly today and very stupid and hate everybody and everything...."

Useful reading list on neurodiversity from @iammirela.bsky.social and colleagues elifesciences.org/articles/102...

Neurobiology of Language is now on Blue Sky! We'll continue exploring the intersections of the brain, speech and language while sharing cutting-edge research and real-world clinical insights. Follow us and join the conversation. direct.mit.edu/nol #Neurobiology #Language #Brain #Science

Thank you to everyone who has followed us here on @bsky.app. Check out our Starter Pack to follow our Editorial Board members too! go.bsky.app/Cgzeqzm

Thanks to the @lingsocam.bsky.social for awarding The Best Paper in Language to "Verbs of perception: A quantitative typological study" shorturl.at/VqnRf @enorcliffe.bsky.social free to read here muse.jhu.edu/pub/24/artic...

Come join us in Oxford! Or encourage your friends to apply, so you can visit them here! We are looking to fill the Professorship in Language and Communication, a senior professor position. my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru... .

📢Two calls for the prestigious INPhINIT PhD fellowships are now open: ▪️Retaining (applicants based in Spain) ▪️Incoming (international applicants) lacaixafoundation.org/en/doctoral-... The BCBL is an eligible host for both calls and the Spoken Language Group welcomes applications‼️

**New paper** in Nature Human Behaviour shows that pupils in low- and middle-income countries #LMICs are failing to acquire the most basic skills needed for reading comprehension. Evidence-aligned #phonics instruction needed to meet global literacy goals #SDGs www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We’ve moved to bluer skies. Worth a follow?

Avengers stars assemble to endorse Kamala Harris – by brainstorming an election catchphrase

Please Share! 📢 I'm recruiting a PhD student for Fall 2025 at UC Berkeley! I'm particularly interested in students interested in early math learning (kindergarten - 3rd grade), working memory, and inequities in early childhood using quantitative methods. Deadline is Dec 3rd!

Language Acquisition by Ben Ambridge: https://doi.org/10.21428/e2759450.b4a2349c

Postdoc position! Come work with us at Western University studying EEG and speech perception in children with/without reading and language disorders. Our CIHR-funded team includes L. Batterink, @blakebutler.bsky.social @christinavbdn.bsky.social & J. Oram: grad.uwo.ca/doc/postdoc/...

Sad news about James Earl Jones, the voice of Darth Vader to my generation and Mufasa to the next. Such a beautiful voice. He talked about how he learned to “work with” his lifelong stutter. His advocacy for people who stutter will be missed. RIP www.stutteringhelp.org/famous-peopl...

My lab (BITS Lab @ NYU) is looking to admit a new student in the coming cycle. Please share with anyone interested in sensorimotor control of speech in children and adults / technology development for speech applications / biofeedback for speech sound disorders and gender-affirming voice training!

📢 Job alert: My department is advertising *two* permanent Lectureships in any area of psychology (including Origins of Mind) @ Univ of St Andrews, UK. Please circulate! #PsychSciSky #Psychology #AcademicSky #EHBEA @eslr.bsky.social Deadline: 06/09/24 www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/I/...

Never far from a brain area when in Greece - two thalami

The @psychonomicsociety.bsky.social did a nice Featured Content blog post about our recent paper led by Dr. Abbie Bradshaw at Cambridge examining the social side of sensorimotor control in speech: featuredcontent.psychonomic.org/how-the-voic...