The implication is severe: careless responding on MTurk isn’t rare noise; it’s systematic enough to flip the sign of relationships and generate results that are the opposite of what they really are. Wow; this is pretty damning. link.springer.com/article/10.3...

#CallForPapers #SpecialIssue #Diversity in #Multilingualism Please share the call for papers for the special issue of Infant and Child Development on "Capturing the Diversity in Early Multilingualism": onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal.... We are still accepting letters of intent.

Great calendar with photos from many different aspects of research on language and its evolution! The February photo is from our EEG 🧠 study on processing the Äiwoo language (Solomon Islands). We found an interesting pull btw language experience & universal heuristics: dx.doi.org/10.1111/cogs.13340

#wearehiring We have vacancies @jacobscenteruzh.bsky.social: * Stabmitarbeiter:in, Swiss EdLab 80 - 100% * Wissenschaftliche:r Mitarbeiter:in, Swiss EdLab (2 Stellen) 80 - 100% * Mitarbeit bei der z-proso-Studie (20–50%) Visit: www.jacobscenter.uzh.ch/en/jobs.html

Delighted to that my grant proposal with Anita Eerland, Verbs and Eyewitness Testimony: A Multilab Registered Replication Report, has been funded by @NWO (Dutch Research Council) through OpenScience.nl. Excited to get started on the project I describe here. rolfzwaan.substack.com/p/memory-mis...

#HURRAH: In Esmee Aalders' first paper, we looked at how the mix of languages in multilingual children’s everyday environment influences their vocabulary development and found that different sources of diversity in daily life shape what children learn: doi.org/10.1017/S136... #bilingual #language

Curious about how smartphones shape children’s development? We’re recruiting a Postdoctoral Researcher for 3(+2) years for a cutting-edge randomized controlled trial conducted in collaboration with @orbenamy.bsky.social and her team. iwm-tuebingen.de/en/career/jo...

Hey #rstats and #stats people, does anyone know of any references that explain the hazards of trying to run or interpret models with all combinations of many predictors? (i.e., including multiple 2-way and 3-way interactions)

Job announcement! Research Fellow (65% TV-L 13), to work on co-singing gesture in beatboxing, based at the University of Cologne. Application deadline: 12 January, 2026 Feel free to contact me with any questions about the position. jobportal.uni-koeln.de/ausschreibun...

Fully funded #PhDposition in Comparative Cultural Psychology @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social. We will use touchscreen experiments & eyetracking to study mental simulations in nonhuman apes & human children across different cultures. All info here: www.eva.mpg.de/career/posit... Please share / apply!🙏

🚨New #OSF #preprint alert! We test how 5 researcher choices affect divergence point analyses with bootstrapping in visual-world eye-tracking. Bin size and significance-window length matter most, and there's a consistent overestimation bias. See also osf.io/preprints/ps... for some recommendations.

Zum Gruseln. Wer nicht alles tut, #Palantir zu stoppen, verrät Freiheit und Demokratie. "Palantir-CEO sagt, dass es gut für die Wirtschaft wäre, wenn #Kriegsverbrechen verfassungsmäßig wären. #Karp verspricht, seinen „vollen Einfluss“ auf Einwanderungs- und Verteidigungspolitik geltend zu machen."

What does it mean to understand language? We argue that the brain’s core language system is limited, and that *deeply* understanding language requires EXPORTING info to other brain regions. w/ @neuranna.bsky.social @evfedorenko.bsky.social @nancykanwisher.bsky.social arxiv.org/abs/2511.19757 1/n🧵👇

Synesthetes claim sensory experiences, such as seeing color when reading or hearing a (black) number. 
But how genuine are these reports and sensations? We introduce a rather direct measure of synesthetic perception: Synesthetes’ pupils respond to evoked color as if it was real color #vision! 👁️🎨🧪

New paper: Evidence of crossmodal compensation in the conceptual representation of blind people: while they share visual associations with sighted people, blind people more strongly associate concepts with touch direct.mit.edu/opmi/article...

Bonus panel here: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/stats-3 #smbc

Does anyone have or know of a version of Veronica Boyce's software for A-Maze stimuli that works with German?

110 million years ago, a spinosaur's dinner got the best of it. Turns out the dino's fossilized vomit contained a new species of filter-feeding pterosaur! I came across this paper a few days ago on social media and had a blast covering it for @science.org: www.science.org/content/arti...

“Despite needing more sleep at this stage of life, many teenagers don’t get enough.” Chiara Staub, Alessia Colacino, Sarah Zurmühle, & David Bürgin explain that working with teenagers’ body clocks can yield academic and emotional benefits. @jacobscenteruzh.bsky.social boldscience.org/how-schools-...

Vielfältig, aktuell, lebendig – das neue Studienbuch Linguistik ist da! Mehr als 30 Jahre nach der ersten Auflage blickt es auf eine Disziplin im Wandel. Wie hat sich die #Linguistik seitdem verändert – und wie spiegelt sich dieser Wandel im neuen Studienbuch wider? Die Autor*innen antworten:

Rhythmic Speech Facilitates Turn-Taking, finds @juletzky.bsky.social. See osf.io/preprints/ps....

LLMs are now widely used in social science as stand-ins for humans—assuming they can produce realistic, human-like text But... can they? We don’t actually know. In our new study, we develop a Computational Turing Test. And our findings are striking: LLMs may be far less human-like than we think.🧵

Postdoc, bilingualism, social interaction, behavioral/EEG/fMRI methods, Aachen Univ. w/ A. Kuhlen jobs.rwth-aachen.de/index.php?ac...

Do you teach #rstats? Do your students complain about how lame and old-fashioned dplyr is? Don't worry: I have the solution for you: github.com/hadley/genzp.... genzplyr is dplyr, but bussin fr fr no cap.

Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching

OPEN PHD POSITION - Come join our group! The IMPRS at @mpi-nl.bsky.social is offering an PhD position on modelling structured meaning in the brain, supervised by me and Helen De Hoop at the Centre for Language Studies in the @dondersinst.bsky.social - www.mpi.nl/imprs-phd-fe... #NeuroJobs #cogsci

#JNeurosci: When we produce words, what processing steps does our brain take? @glicalzi.bsky.social Meyer & @stan-vd-burght.bsky.social show subtle characteristics of a word’s sound structure can be predicted before we start to speak @mpi-nl.bsky.social https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0546-25.2025

The German company that makes the mechanical ladder used in the Louvre heist has used the image to advertise, with the text 'When you need to move fast' 10/10 response, no notes

Many thanks to Lilián Guerrero for inviting me to give lectures at UNAM in Mexico City! (The lecture materials are here: zenodo.org/records/1743...)

Sentence Processing by Matthew Wagers: https://doi.org/10.21428/e2759450.624d819a

"A compelling and thought-provoking analysis of human sociality and the origins of language." The Interaction Engine by Stephen C. Levinson (@mpi-nl.bsky.social), Out Now & #OpenAccess https://cup.org/4nusznG #OA #Linguistics #LangSky 🐦🐦

The time course of phonological encoding: Insights from time-resolved MVPA. New paper by @glicalzi.bsky.social , Antje S. Meyer & @stan-vd-burght.bsky.social doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0546-25.2025 Paper: tinyurl.com/yjw47vzz

If you have a syllabus for a psych grad methods course that covers both experimental and non-experimental methods, I'd love to take a peek! 👀

If you don’t teach your students your subject, you’re not doing your job. If you teach your students to ask AI first, you’re ensuring they’ll never be *needed* for any job. You’re also guaranteeing that knowledge of your subject slowly dies. Asking ChatGPT is gaining neither knowledge nor skills.

Wenn sich Bevölkerungsgruppen miteinander vermischen, nähern sich auch ihre Sprachen an. Genetische Analysen liefern Hinweise darauf, wie linguistische Entlehnungen entstehen. #repost

"How I, a non-developer, read the tutorial you, a developer, wrote for me, a beginner" by Annie Mueller 😅 😂 😭 anniemueller.com/posts/how-i-...

📢Out now! @jixingli.bsky.social, @lamb-cityuhk.bsky.social and colleagues assess whether instruction tuning can enhance LLM's ability to capture linguistic information in the human brain. www.nature.com/articles/s43... #compneuro #ArtificialIntelligence

🏛️ Der Bundesrat will im BFI-Bereich trotz zahlreicher Einwände sparen. Auch beim SNF sind in den nächsten Jahren Kürzungen von jeweils über 10 Prozent vorgesehen. Dies gefährdet vor allem die Innovationskraft und Wettbewerbsfähigkeit der Wirtschaft. ℹ️ sohub.io/4pv7

It is with deep sorrow that we bid farewell to Prof. Dr. Martin Volk, who passed away on 15 September 2025 at the age of 64 after a brief and sudden illness. www.cl.uzh.ch/en/about-us/...

I somehow called temporal response functions “millennial ERPs” in lab meeting and now I can’t stop thinking about that 😅🥹

Wenn du wissen willst, welches Medium eher für „das Volk“ spricht, bedenke Folgendes: Wenn der Multimillionär Gotthardt aufhört, NIUS zu finanzieren, gehen sie sofort pleite. Wenn kein einziger Millionär Volksverpetzer Geld gibt, ändert sich für uns nichts und wir machen weiter wie bisher.

I'm sorry, worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable permission to my voice and likeness? For what now? In any manner for any purpose??? This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.

Curious to learn what EEG-MVPA can tell us about speech production planning? Come find me at #SNL2025 - poster A25, Friday 11:00-12:30 @stan-vd-burght.bsky.social @mpi-nl.bsky.social

Sage, dass du in den letzten 10 Jahren nicht einmal Bahn gefahren bist, ohne zu sagen, dass du in den letzten 10 Jahren nicht einmal Bahn gefahren bist.

Beschuldigter: gibt an, dass seine Tat politische Hintergründe hatte (er hielt die Personen für Klimaaktivist:innen) Staatsanwaltschaft: schließt politische Motive aus (Quelle: www.tagesanzeiger.ch/schwerer-zwi...)

Wobei beachtenswert ist, dass eben diese deutsche Regierung X massiv unterstützt - mit kostenfreiem Content und den Präsenzen der wichtigsten Ministerien + Ämter. Zum Mitschreiben: Der neonazi-orientierte, mächtigste Desinformationskanal der Welt wird von der deutschen Bundesregierung gefördert.

My thread on the Neurology paper on sweeteners & cognitive health: skywriter.blue/pages/did:pl... And a follow-up thread on some weird patterns in the Appendix tables: skywriter.blue/pages/did:pl... Collated by Skywriter onto a web page for easier reading!