New preprint investigating whether lossy-context surprisal can account for the locality and expectation effects found in Russian, Hindi, and Persian reading data: osf.io/preprints/ps...

We are done with the ninth Statistical Methods for Linguistics and Psychology (SMLP) summer school, Potsdam, Germany. The tenth edition is planned for 24-28 August 2026.

The physical book copies have arrived: www.routledge.com/Introduction...

New preprint with @shravanvasishth.bsky.social: We use a computational model to look at how linguistic context affects first-pass attachment and reanalysis. Assuming a tripartite mixture of reanalyzed, non-reanalyzed and inattentive trials outperforms LLM surprisal. lingbuzz.net/lingbuzz/009...

Next week onwards, I'm teaching a five-day introductory course on Bayesian Data Analysis in Gent. Newly recorded video lectures to accompany the course are now online: vasishth.github.io/LecturesIntr...

In person (no streaming/zoom) sentence processing workshop at Potsdam with Tal Linzen, Brian Dillon, Titus von der Malsburg, Oezge Bakay, William Timkey, Pia Schoknecht, Michael Vrazitulis, and Johan Hennert: vasishth.github.io/sentproc-wor...

Three year postdoc position in Cognitive Science, Potsdam, Germany: www.uni-potsdam.de/en/verwaltun...

New study on local coherence, led by Pia Schoknecht : The time course of local coherence effects: Evidence from self-paced reading times and event-related potentials osf.io/preprints/os...

Scientists wanting to move to Europe from the US take note of this funding opportunity: erc.europa.eu/news-events/...

@cos.io Are you aware that in restructuring your website you have destroyed many repositories? The new Files directory is empty, and add-ons to github repos no longer work. WTF?

Computational Psycholinguistics Meeting 2025 cpl2025.sites.uu.nl When: December 18–19, 2025 Where: Utrecht, the Netherlands Abstract submission deadline: June 15, 2025 Organizers: Jakub Dotlačil, Lena Jäger, Bruno Nicenboim, Ece Takmaz

Without question the greatest open courseware in the world, bar none.

At #HSP2025, I'll present work with @tallinzen.bsky.social and @shravanvasishth.bsky.social on modeling garden-pathing in a huge benchmark dataset: hsp2025.github.io/abstracts/29.... Statistically decomposing the effect into subprocesses greatly improves predictive fit over just comparing means!

It seems our book is already available for purchase online: www.routledge.com/Introduction...

Very important Deutsche Welle documentary on the abuse of early career researchers by MPI directors. Reminds me of the Tanja Singer case, but the problems seems to be much more widespread (and probably not limited to MPI). youtu.be/n5nEd600iM0?...

This year as well, during 14-18 July 2025, I will be teaching an introduction to Bayesian data analysis at the MILS 2025 summer school in Gent: www.mils.ugent.be

Our introduction to Bayesian Data Analysis underwent a major revision (it was too long at 1000 pages, so we moved some 400 pages into online). Currently in production but freely available forever: bruno.nicenboim.me/bayescogsci/

Applications for the ninth summer school on statistical methods for linguistics and psychology close on April 1, 2025. Every year people contact me saying they missed the call, so here it is again :) vasishth.github.io/smlp2025/

3rd Workshop on Eye Movements and the Assessment of Reading Comprehension June 5–7, 2025 University of Stuttgart, Germany This cross-disciplinary workshop explores how eye-tracking and machine learning can enhance real-world reading assessments. tmalsburg.github.io/Comprehensio...

New paper led by Pia Schoknecht: Do syntactic and semantic similarity lead to interference effects? Evidence from self-paced reading and event-related potentials using German. osf.io/preprints/ps...

The @LabexEFL is offering a 3 year grant for a PhD position in Paris to work in experimental grammar! Deadline October 1st en.labex-efl.fr/post/recruit...

My paper on improving data quality for online experiments has just been accepted. Massively improved by the reviewers - collaborative peer review at its constructive best psyarxiv.com/2fhcb

📢 If you’re looking for a job in #linguistics: CNRS is hiring every year For 2025, posting of offers (tenured positions) & applications online from early December to early January It’s still time to contact a research unit to prepare your application! carrieres.cnrs.fr/en/external-...

Psyarxiv preprint by Hailin Hao (PhD student at USC): Similarity-Based Interference in the Processing of Classifier-Noun Dependencies in Mandarin Chinese osf.io/preprints/ps...

The @elseveir.bsky.social Journal of Memory and Language charges some 4000 USD for making a paper open access. However, the production team can't make sure that the online version of the paper (doi.org/10.1016/j.jm...) has a complete data availability statement.

New paper led by @dariopaape.bsky.social : Do local coherence effects exist in English reduced relative clauses? Journal of Memory and Language, 140, 2025. doi.org/10.1016/j.jm...

I'm tentatively planning to be in the Boston area June 9-15 2025 and was thinking of spending another week in the US June 16-21. Due to my dialysis schedule it has to be a week. In case anyone wants to host me to visit their lab, feel free to contact me :)

Three year funded PhD student position led by @juliaha.bsky.social, with co-PIs Audrey Buerki and me, on Bayesian modeling of individual differences. Applications open until filled. Details: vasishth.github.io/misc/METAREP...

Applications are open for the ninth summer school on statistical methods for linguistics and psychology (SMLP 2025), to be held August 25-29, 2025 in Potsdam, Germany: vasishth.github.io/smlp2025/

Our Introduction to Bayesian Data Analysis for Cognitive Science (with Nicenboim and Schad) is now in production with CRC Press. It will remain freely available here: bruno.nicenboim.me/bayescogsci/

Summer school in statistics (for linguistics and psychology), at the University of Potsdam, Germany. Applications close April 1, 2024: vasishth.github.io/smlp2024/