IPA is a magic spell that makes anyone who can read IPA make the noises with their mouth

Also, recall that I examined grant title changes for evidence of “remediation” and found 777 grants with titles changed from 2024 to 2025. Here is a word cloud of the removed words.

German academia: great place to work? You should think twice before giving it a try: Permanent positions are very rare, most scholars have to drop out after some precarious years. @dianakwon.bsky.social has written a great piece about this for @nature.com and also talked to yours truly. #IchBinHanna

I can’t believe my life is being affected by the former CEO of World Wrestling Entertainment newrepublic.com/article/2013...

If you’ve been following the RFK Jr autism news, then you’ve probably heard that there’s a systematic review “proving” Tylenol causes autism. Here’s my review of that paper👇🏼 open.substack.com/pub/epiellie...

Furious American knitters cut off from EU yarn stores sit around fuming surrounded by sharp objects

remember that word gap narratives and ideologies don’t just frame marginalised children as linguistically deficient but also point the finger at their parents for their allegedly inferior parenting skills. the stigma attached to the word gap is intergenerational.

vocal fry implies the existence of vocal onion ring and vocal tater tot

Our (short) perspectives piece on challenging dyads as defaults in developmental psychology research is out (open access). Check it out here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... With Roman Stengelin (MPI EVA)

Misused terms in linguistics: a good link to put on the reading list for Child Language Acquisition—which I'm back to teaching this year inference-review.com/article/misu...

I'm offering a 3-year PhD position with benefits (1-year extension possible). Research topic open but broadly in incremental sentence comprehension. If you're into eye-tracking, even better! No teaching until Summer 2027, light teaching after that (English). Official ad soon. Please share 🙏

Kennedy provides a bunch of references for his claim that thimerosal in vaccines (barely used anymore) is harmful. If a high-school student submitted this as their reference list, they would fail. I will do what Kennedy didn’t - actually look at them. 🧵

📢 Researchers in bilingualism & word learning! I'm doing a meta-analysis on the bilingual advantage & seeking unpublished data comparing bilinguals vs monolinguals. Summary stats or raw data welcome (confidential). Pre-reg 👉 osf.io/6a7yg/ DM me or share if you know someone! 🙏

Sie ist überall: die Rede vom #Spitzenforscher. Nur: Was soll das überhaupt sein? Über einen Begriff, der das Gros der Wissenschaftler_innen als zweitklassig degradiert & einem Geniekult zuarbeitet, der der Arbeitsrealität in der Wissenschaft weder angemessen noch zuträglich ist. ⬇️ #ArbeitInDerWiss

In my opinion, Trump's shift on this issue ("stop raiding farms and hotels") demonstrates the US needs to have an honest conversation about the role of undocumented immigrants in this country. And who constitutes this population. I'm afraid the rhetoric has already poisoned the well.

its amazing how chatgpt knows everything about subjects I know nothing about, but is wrong like 40% of the time in things im an expert on. not going to think about this any further

God they're good

Updated Preprint: We added 5 high-profile psycholinguistic journals to the sample. Numbers stay the same and are now based on >85k statistical tests in >13k articles across 13 different experimental linguistic journals.

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“There is far too much power in the hands of professors in the German system,” says @leising.bsky.social. My latest @nature.com story digs into efforts to tackle the entrenched structural heirarchy that enables academic bullies.

Last night was the 250th anniversary of Paul Revere's midnight ride to warn the Minutemen of approaching British troops. I want to take a moment to share an excerpt from the Declaration of Independence's grievances against King George III. Remind you of anyone?

Dafür bin ich auch dankbar, der Nordcampus sieht sehr schön aus!

We recently sat down with Dr. Celia Rosemberg, Principal Researcher at CONICET & Prof. at the University of Buenos Aires. Here Celia shares recent findings on children learning from overheard speech, highlighting the importance of considering children's entire environment. youtu.be/6ZlfJ_lmw1c?...

🚨4-5 new postdoc positions in language & cognition🚨 😇 One postdoc will work specifically with Eon-Suk Ko and I on the ManyBabies-AtHome project, focusing on infant word recognition in global, remote settings using collaborative, open science practices [https://shorturl.at/5l3tW]. @manybabies.org

The meta-analysis on the relationship between Fluoride and IQ by Taylor et al. (2025) that RFK Jr. has cited contains major methodological flaws and data integrity issues that we describe in the following pre-print (submitted to meta-psychology): osf.io/preprints/os...

A Boca Mexa burrito to end an amazing day visiting and giving a talk at my old lab at the INCC CNRS in Paris. Also got to see how well Marie (Flohr) is getting along collecting data for her PhD. Delicious day for the mind and stomach!

Ever stuck choosing the right plot or trying to figure out how to make it look just right? My go-to resource is the R Graph Gallery (r-graph-gallery.com), which is full of examples and clear code for everything from scatterplots to Sankey diagrams! #dataviz #rstats #rladies

Working with an interdisciplinary team, we have developed a website to communicate how the White House's proposed cuts to health research would cause losses of $16B and 68,500 jobs. Find out how your community may be impacted. Explore more at SCIMaP: scienceimpacts.org a 🧵

Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying. They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks. From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY

Disappeared Tufts Human Dev. PhD student Rumesya Ozturk is also a graduate of Teachers College - she’s a dev. psychologist studying children’s media & prosocial development. She also bakes without recipes and binge-watches cartoons. She is our colleague & she was abducted on the street w/ our tax $.

Another paper to review that focuses on the word gap? Another opportunity to require the authors to sit back and reflect on what they're actually doing by reading Megan's paper.

🚨 TRUST Open Lecture – Join Us! 🚨 Is #standardisation in research boosting #replicability or slowing scientific progress? 🤔 📅 March 31 (Mon), 2025 ⏰ 16:00–18:00 CET 📍 Hörsaal H112, IBW-Gebäude, University of Cologne 💻 Live-stream available! Registration info here: sites.google.com/view/gewonn/...

If you have a federal grant, I *highly* recommend going to this Friday's webinar on responding to grant terminations. Lisa Brown, former general counsel at Dept of Ed, will present along with other lawyers. Friday, March 21, 2-3 pm. More info & register here: www.linkedin.com/pulse/regist...

We're collecting opinions on #standardisation of #research processes before an event next month. Please feel free to vote & share: www.linkedin.com/posts/leungy... The public event will be a #panel #discussion & will be live streamed. If you're interested in learning more, please get in touch!

La investigación de la directora del CIIPME, Celia Rosemberg, destacada por el Latinx Caucus de la Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) drive.google.com/file/d/1UlpR...

Christian Uffmann wins linguist prof of 2024. This video is iconic. Definitely worth watching and I say this as someone who is terminally not interested in watching video content. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSOl...

Why do a multilab study? Robust evidence Credible evidence when using transparent open practices Large and diverse data set Highly valuable data for reuse Lowering the risk for any one researcher Exchanging methodological expertise and training Foster a collaborative culture

Hey everyone, we have organized a lecture and panel discussion on the topic "Standardization in Research: Increasing Replicability or Stalling Scientific Progress?" in Cologne on March 31st: sites.google.com/view/gewonn/... @gewonnofficial.bsky.social @unicologne.bsky.social

Important work coming from Potsdam + Amsterdam with Paul Okyere Omane, characterizing the language environment of infants growing up in Ghana.

Labov (1971), Finding out about children's language (a.k.a "the bunny paper") has been published (open access) in Language Variation and Change! #linguistics 🐰

I call congresspeople while walking to the train 2x week. You can too! And now, in addition to annoying Senators, you can lean on House members and ask them to oppose HR899, which would gut the Dept. of Ed. Schiff and Padilla aren’t responsive, but Congresswoman Chu was! 5calls.org/issue/educat...

Random post in the midst of (gestures) ALL THIS, but I discovered recently that Michael Tomasello got his PhD in my department (UGA Psychology), and so a copy of his dissertation has been sitting on a shelf down the hall from my office for the last 27 years. #psychsky #developmentalpsychology

The OSF is available for preservation of datasets that need saving. osf.io Contact [email protected] if you need assistance

In my opinion, inclusion and equity aren’t opposites. In my opinion, treating all children the same, despite differing needs, is unfair. Hence, individualized logopedic/SLT support enables true inclusion. And: inclusion mustn’t be used as an excuse for staff cuts at schools.

Received a devastating letter today that a job search I had applied for was terminated "prematurely". I couldn't remember anything about this, so I looked up when I had sent my application, and it was from October 2020. #JustGermanAcademiaThings

This is one of the ways that I use pre-registration. Not surprised that it isn't talked about more frequently, though.

I would like to express my gratitude for the invitation to the Bremen state parliament! Today, some of my students, research associates and I followed the invitation of the spokesperson for children and families, incl a discussion with MPs on child language health and need for SLTs in schools 🧵

Okay, buckle up bsky, it's time for the Tale of the Bunny Paper. Here's the imported thread from twitter where the search all started: bsky.app/profile/bets... (1/n)