More exciting work by Elin Runnqvist together with Christian Kell: In this theory paper they propose a unified framework showing how abstract language monitoring and concrete speech motor control are intertwined. @cnrs.fr @univ-amu.fr @ilcb.bsky.social LPL www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

At this workshop today about where hand gestures get their rhythm from - participants can join online. sfb1252.uni-koeln.de/veranstaltun...

In case you missed it: our latest report explores a growing crisis in universities. In many regions, students risk losing access to vital humanities, social science and arts subjects. Swipe to see our key findings and recommendations.

We're seeking the next Director of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics! Lead cutting-edge research in language & cognition. Nominations (incl. self) due 19 Dec 2025. mpi.nl/career-education/vacancies/vacancy/nominations-and-self-nominations-sought-position-director-max

🚨Open immediately!! (rolling application review)🚨: Postdoc w/ the amazing Tamar Gollan, Uni. Cal. San Diego, bilingual speech production and cognitive control in aging and Alzheimer’s disease psychiatry.ucsd.edu/about/LAB_Go...

Ode to the original language model, or: Give me literally Anything* instead of Large Language Models (LLMs) *(no predictive coding either!) By Lady Byronadrea LLMartin 1/n

Times is running out! ⏳ Submit your 5-min video for the CogSci Mind Challenge by Oct 17 📅 Question: How do different minds (humans, animals, AI) learn language, if at all? 💰Prizes up to $1000! 👉 Don’t miss it: cognitivesciencesociety.org/cogsci-mind-... #CogSciMindChallenge

Cohen’s & Fleiss’ kappa assume each subject has one category. @filipmoons Filip Moons & Ellen Vandervieren introduce a generalized Fleiss’ kappa that handles multiple categories per subject, supports hierarchies & weights, and works with missing data.

Such cool work!

From age two, children use pronouns to predict who will speak next in conversation. New paper by Imme Lammertink & al. with @carorowland.bsky.social doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2025.106358

Repetition leads to short-term reduction of word frequency and name agreement effects: Evidence from a Dutch two-session picture naming experiment. New paper by Caitlin Decuyper , Ruth E Corps and Antje S Meyer. doi.org/10.1177/17470218251365517

The Italian Reproducibility Network (ITRN) is looking for people who'd like to share their experience with the discovery of Open Science - how this changed your way of doing science, or seeing science, what kind of challenges you had to face and overcome, etc.

Deadline Nov 1: Asst prof (tenure track), Computational Neuroscience and Cognition, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, University of Rochester apply.interfolio.com/173951

Call for papers on conflict adaptation across single- and multi-tasking paradigms in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory & Cognition The deadline for initial submissions is 1 October 2026.

Funded PhD Candidate positions at the BCBL, Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language, San Sebastián, Basque Country, Spain The Basque Center on Cognition Brain and Language is offering funded 5 PhD positions to work on various projects. Application deadline: 1 November 2025

New exciting work from Elin Runnqvist’s group 📝: Demonstrating that the brain’s medial frontal cortex monitors actions along a caudal-to-rostral gradient: simple movements at the back and complex speech errors at the front. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Excited to share that a book chapter I co-authored with my supervisors has just been published! 📖✨ @matthewmakpsy.bsky.social @gambichiara.bsky.social eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

Children are not the main agents of language change. New paper by @limorraviv.bsky.social @damianblasi.bsky.social & @vkempe.bsky.social. psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/... www.mpi.nl/publications...

The deadline for the Trust’s Visiting Professorship scheme has been extended to 9 October 2025. Dates for the next rounds have also been updated, please visit the scheme page for further details: www.leverhulme.ac.uk/visiting-pro...

The Trust would like to give applicants and reviewers as much notice as possible of several changes to the Research Project Grant scheme as we move to a new system in 2026. Read now: www.leverhulme.ac.uk/news/importa...

Officially out! "Predicting relative intelligibility from inter-talker distances in a perceptual similarity space for speech" S.E Kim, B. R. Chernyak, @keshet.bsky.social, me, & A. Bradlow link.springer.com/article/10.3.... BONUS: free online similarity calculator so you can join in the fun! 1/

Killing 'delve': We analysed 4,800+ student-authored reports across a decade to uncover how ChatGPT is shaping undergrad writing—style, sentiment, and quality. 📉📈 GenAI isn't just a tool. It's a co-author. 📝 #Preprint: www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-7...

Open to senior researchers who have retired or partially retired from an academic post, the Trust's Emeritus Fellowships support academics to complete a research project and prepare the results for publication. Here are some of our recently funded Emeritus Fellows 👇

Is humour serious enough for science? Fabulous @newyorker.com article on the insights gained from research by Elena Hoicka & orhers on the development of humour 👶🧪 #cogsci #psychscisky #devpsysky #earlyyears #infantstudies www.newyorker.com/culture/open...

#ESCOP2025 ESCoP 2025 starts tomorrow with Pre-Conference Satellite Events and Workshops. See you there 🙂 www.escop2025.com/event-progra...

It’s GCSE results day: new data shows Spanish has overtaken French in popularity for the first time in history, while German uptake continues to decline. Read the full story here 👉 buff.ly/rx4fJ4z

Now on CRAN, ggdiagram is a #ggplot2 extension that draws diagrams programmatically in #Rstats. Allows for precise control in how objects, labels, and equations are placed in relation to each other. wjschne.github.io/ggdiagram/ar...

Today I had the idea to test LLMs on problems from the UK show Only Connect. Ofc, it turned out another group had already done it (@babaktaati.bsky.social‬)! tl;dr: LLMs were pretty shit at the Connecting Wall and were often fooled by red herring distractors. proceedings.neurips.cc/paper_files/...

🧪Really pleased to see this collobarative work come together. Congratulations to @michaelapawley.bsky.social on her first PhD publication - a great milestone. Thanks also to Dr Isabel Morales-Munoz and @bagshaap.bsky.social @uob-sop.bsky.social for their valuable contributions. #sleepresearch

Eternally grateful to this amazing linguist for the insights they brought to me and other professional women - "Dr. Lakoff.... maintained that women and men communicate differently, and that women are brought up to speak in a way that triggers their powerlessness"

Funded PhD Candidate Position, Accented Speech Processing, BCBL, Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language, Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain Application deadline: 10 October 2025

Another job here at Michigan - this one in Linguistics! Part of a cluster of hires with a focus on Cognitive Science and AI. Happy to chat to interested folks. apply.interfolio.com/171006

we're hosting a science party in nyc next summer 👇

you think your algo really knows you and then it does something like think you mean Journal of Molecular Liquids when you type JML submission #CogSciSky #PsychSciSky

"Using multi-unit recording we found that inner speech is robustly represented in motor cortex, & decoded imagined sentences in real time. We demonstrate strategies to prevent brain-computer interfaces from unintentionally decoding private inner speech." Fascinating new @cp-cell.bsky.social paper:👇🧪

Anybody?! 👇🙏

The @raeng.org.uk announces eight new Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowships, awarded to outstanding researchers working on a wide variety of engineering challenges including energy-efficient quantum imaging and soft robotics for minimally invasive surgical procedures. raeng.org.uk/news/leverhu...

Princeton Psychology & Neuroscience are looking to hire a joint assistant professor doing computational, clinical, and/or neuroimaging research, w/ PhD in Psych, Neuro, CS or related. 👇

The Trust seeks to appoint an Assistant Director, a newly-created position in our centenary year. This broad-ranging grants leadership position will cover three major activities: grant-making, representing the Trust and leading on key areas of policy development. www.leverhulme.ac.uk/news/current...

Cool stuff by @tomerullman.bsky.social with a nice profile piece to boot! news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

🚨 New tool alert! Fokin and co created the Polish Vocabulary Size Test (PVST) — a fast, validated, and adaptive way to measure Polish vocab for natives & learners. Try it here 👉 myvocab.info/pl #Psycholinguistics #LanguageScience buff.ly/lFaPqCE

My new @science.org editorial on the role of scientists in defending democracy is out today. As authoritarianism takes hold in the US, we must fight for the democratic principles that enable a free society and scientists have a key role. I hope you'll join us. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

I have a BA in music (classical voice) with a minor in philosophy, where I took logic, political philosophy, and legal philosophy. My PhD is in cognition and neuroscience w/an MA in stats, and now my work is applied stats. I am a better, more rounded scholar because of the humanities.

Our position paper is now out: "Learning Variability Network Exchange (LEVANTE): A Global Framework for Measuring Children's Learning Variability Through Collaborative Data Sharing". srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... (preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...) What is LEVANTE? 🧵

Come work with us! @princetonneuro.bsky.social and the Department of Psychology at Princeton University are searching for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the area of human cognitive neuroscience, to be hired jointly in Psychology and Neuroscience: puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/app...

Hey #AISky! I need to generate short videos of people speaking to camera for a study. I need fine control over appearance and accent but don’t care much about movement (beyond good lip synch). Recommendations for the best open source option that would work on a standard GPU? #videogen

Just over a week left to apply for this exciting postdoctoral research opportunity on children and nature! 🐾 The application deadline is Wednesday the 20th of August 2025.

Postdoc (80%) in the Cognition Lab at University of Zurich, Switzerland We are looking for a postdoc to work with us on the capacity limits of cognition (working memory, attention, long-term memory, ...). Application deadline: 10 September 2025

Cogsci and AI: two different approaches as articulated by Josh Tenenbaum #cogsci2025