Gesellschaftliche Verständigung entsteht durch rationalen Dialog und öffentliche Diskussion, davon war Jürgen Habermas überzeugt. Heute ist der leidenschaftliche Europäer und Streiter für die #Demokratie in Starnberg gestorben. www.zeit.de/feuilleton/2...

Falls ihr an Unis beschäftigt seid oder studiert, nehmt euch bitte einen Moment für diese Umfrage zur Vereinbarkeit von Hochschularbeit und Familie. limesurvey.uni-due.de/index.php/97...

1. Kevin Gross and I have a new paper out today PLOS Biology. We used economic models based around screening games and the market for unpaid labor to highlight a meltdown cycle threatening peer review.

Our new paper is now out showing how time perception in animals is linked to their ecology. Using data from 237 species we show temporal perception is faster in species that fly and pursuit predators www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🌐

Research plug: we're currently seeking (bilateraly, congenitally) blind adults & Deaf adults for a *paid* online research study (screen reader compatible) on how individuals experience words across perceptual modalities. Ping [email protected] if interested! Reposts welcome! #Blind #Deaf

Please support the petition against the planned #closure of #Archaeology at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Archaeology has been a part of Humboldt-Universität academic tradition for almost 200 years, so closing it would break a long-standing research tradition weact.campact.de/petitions/sc...

A retired British primary school administrator with a British passport and a valid visa was shackled, chained and detained for six weeks by ICE www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Bots have made their way to Prolific experiments. Our lab has stopped online testing of adults entirely now for this reason - we want to know if what we study is real. Probably data collected 2-3 years ago are ok, but moving forward we just can't know. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

If you only read one post today, make it this one:

Confs: Crosslinguistic Perspectives on Processing and Learning 2026

Another day, another clearly AI generated review for a paper. Is that now the new normal, like, academics and editors just quietly accepted it? Hollow words asking us to randomly "discuss more", "consider this", "address that", and we're supposed to respect it as expert opinion to follow?

Deadline Mar 20: Postdoc, fNIRS+bilingual language development w/ M. Kalashnikova, Basque Center on Cognition, Brain, + Language calls.bcbl.eu/index.php?op...

Academic freedom is meaningless unless academics have the ability to explore novel ideas without constant pressure to maintain yearly publication rates, pursuit of grant funding, etc.

Detailed characterisation of the link between brain and enbocast (study led by A. Balzeau); presenting a good challenge for the interpretation of fossil endocasts, and offering useful recommendations for future studies 🧪💀🧠 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

This is a great paper going deep on the connection between language (and linguistic diversity) and the mind! 👀👂👇🌍 Highly recommended (like every paper from @enorcliffe.bsky.social and @asifamajid.bsky.social)!

We’re trialling a new social activity: #ManyLanguagesChallengeOfTheMonth Running large-scale projects means encountering puzzles, hiccups, and the occasional “why is this happening” moment.

Good news everyone, _Nature_ has published 66 Open Access articles to date in 2026! This means Springer-Nature has gobbled up USD$837,540 of science funding this year. I'm sure we couldn't think of anything better to do with that money. #OpenScience

Europa muss souveräner werden bei wissenschaftlichen Daten und Forschungsressourcen – aus Verantwortung. Darüber habe ich in dieser Woche im Deutschlandfunk gesprochen ⬇️ www.deutschlandfunk.de/us-wissensch...

Today, January 27th, marks International Holocaust Remembrance Day. It is also the birthday of Friedrich (Fritz) Epstein (January 27, 1882 – December 22, 1943, Auschwitz). A chemist and long-time collaborator of Fritz Haber, Friedrich Epstein made significant contributions to chemistry. [1]

Dear exp linguist, for my advanced stats class, I am looking for articles that - are experimental linguistics-ish - report on linear mixed models that did not converge with the intended random effect structure (using lme4) - published open data and scripts Please @ me, I would appreciate it!

Pro tip for scholars: make sure you have a homepage that is not acdemia.edu,researchgate, or google scholar, and has your correct affiliation and contact information. This is doubly true if you are in a less mainstream institution, between jobs, or other unusual setting.

Here is the first published paper of 2026 in JEP: General led by Demet & Efe! Very happy about this EEG paper in which we assessed temporal dynamics of speech and gesture processing in L1 and L2! @kudilvebilis.bsky.social psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...

Peer Review is broken because a generation of Editors were trained that peer review is sacrosanct. Thus we have Editors who are clerks, sending and re-sending manuscripts to reviewers until they are happy. That's not the job. Be an Editor, not a clerk. Use your skill and judgement. Make decisions.

The recently accepted ManyLanguages project CLAPS - A Crosslinguistic Approach to Passive Semantics led by @ambridge.bsky.social is looking to fill four key leadership roles (Analysis Lead, Scaling Coordinator, Translation Coordinator, Ethics Coordinator). ⏰Deadline: 30th Jan.

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