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Help my student @th-maya.bsky.social out by participating in her study if... - your native language is English, French, or German 🐣 - you speak *any level* of the other two languages (classes at school count! 👩‍🏫)

Proud of being part of www.winrepo.org and of all the work we do! 💙

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

Soon hiring a lab manager! Looking for someone who is really interested in language neuroscience, who is organised, motivated, a great communicator, and who works well in a research team. Express interest by submitting this form: tinyurl.com/glysn-labman... Reposts appreciated!

2026 big update to the psycholinguistic database page! If you know of corpora, lexical databases, or other resources that I've missed, please LMK. Trying to keep this thing relatively current and could use the help www.reilly-coglab.com/data

Quilicura, Chile, one of the communities I wrote about in EMPIRE OF AI, has launched a brilliant initiative to inspire more responsible AI prompting. Today, don't use AI; ask the townspeople instead: quili.ai. So heartened to see this creative act of resistance.

New PhD and post-doc job openings! Join me and Prof. Nina Kazanina @ Uni Geneva, Switzerland, to take part in an exciting project on relations and binding in language and vision, explored with cutting-edge neurophysiology (#iEEG and MEG). Full details in the job offer below.

If you're looking for a PhD and you're interested in the cerebellum, predictions, language, and MEG, please apply by 1st March! We have two open positions. More details here: benediktzoefel.wixsite.com/home/phd

File under: ambiguity h/t @scarequotes.com

I just created a series of seven deep-dive videos about AI, which I've posted to youtube and now here. 😊 Targeted to laypeople, they explore how LLMs work, what they can do, and what impacts they have on learning, well-being, disinformation, the workplace, the economy, and the environment.

samen kunnen we meer dragen dan alleen ons eigen leven 🦋

Job alert 🚨 Fully funded PhD position available in our Maastricht lab! Are you interested in the relationship between memory and prediction, and have a track record of neuroimaging/decoding? Please apply! #NeuroJobs www.academictransfer.com/nl/jobs/3576...

Paper alert! (1/2) We examined brain activation for each content word in a podcast relative to incrementally larger ngrams (1-word, 5-words, 10-words) that precede each word with a focus on semantic distance. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

MEG-SCANS - A comprehensive magnetoencephalography speech dataset with Stories, Chirps and Noisy Sentences https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41366218/

🚨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.

OK If we are moving to Bluesky I am rescuing my favourite ever twitter thread (Jan 2019). The renamed: Bluesky-sized history of neuroscience (biased by my interests)

Come join me online tomorrow as I talk about my latest analysis of ECoG data! 🥳⤵️

Join tomorrow's #PsychoLinguisticsCoffee talk by @sophieslaats.bsky.social "Overlapping & distinct neural sources for syntactic structure & lexical probability during spoken language comprehension". See also: blogs.ed.ac.uk/psycholingco... ☕🗣️ @schoolofppls.bsky.social @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social

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Many studies of naturalistic comprehension report that surprisal (often LLM derived) explains more of the variance in data than other predictors. Why is this? And why can it be problematic for our conclusions? A 🧵 of takeaways from our paper doi.org/10.1007/s421... with @andreaeyleen.bsky.social

Many studies of naturalistic comprehension report that surprisal (often LLM derived) explains more of the variance in data than other predictors. Why is this? And why can it be problematic for our conclusions? A 🧵 of takeaways from our paper doi.org/10.1007/s421... with @andreaeyleen.bsky.social

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Thinking only of Rosalind Franklin today, and what was stolen from her (and so many other female scientists alongside her).

In the first Cognitive Webinar of this year, we are excited to host @sophieslaats.bsky.social , a postdoctoral researcher at the Université de Genève. Registration link is below 👇 #cogist #cognitivewebinar

Please repost! I am looking for a PhD candidate in the area of Computational Cognitive Neuroscience to start in early 2026. The position is funded as part of the Excellence Cluster "The Adaptive Mind" at @jlugiessen.bsky.social. Please apply here until Nov 25: www.uni-giessen.de/de/ueber-uns...

The Spoken Language group @bcbl.bsky.social is currently recruiting for these positions: 👉PhD students (expressions of interest are welcome on a rolling basis) 👉Postdoctoral Researcher (start date: Nov '26 - Sep '27) tinyurl.com/3um3bjze 👉Research Assistant tinyurl.com/y5uebra6 Please share ☺️

"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"

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

“Women-led papers were more likely to be featured in local outlets than in national, international, or science-specialty media. They appeared more often in liberal-leaning outlets than conservative ones. And coverage of their work carried a more negative tone” www.science.org/content/arti...

PhD Position: Accented Speech Processing - Apply now! Come work with Mirjam Broersma, @davidpeeters.bsky.social, and me at the Centre for Language Studies, Radboud University in the Netherlands. Application deadline: 19 October 2025 For more information, see www.ru.nl/en/working-a...

Postdoc (flexible start): child language development across different populations and contexts, methods including behavioral studies, large-scale data analysis, and/or computational modeling. M. Cychosz, Linguistics, Stanford Univ. postdocs.stanford.edu/prospective/...

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

🎉We're hiring!🎉 We're looking for 2 Postdoctoral Researchers to join our exciting, interdisciplinary team. Both are full-time, fixed-term (almost 4 years), based in Edinburgh's @uoe-cahss.bsky.social / @uoe-llc.bsky.social w/ links to @schoolofppls.bsky.social & @morayhouse.bsky.social Pls share!

"Langauge in the Brian" - free title for grant proposal for studying the neural basis of the Transposed Letter effect

Dr. Fernández Merino shone at her defense today! 🌟

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

Out now in Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews! When studying language in the brain, we often look for things that can be model systems for language (songbirds, artificial grammars, etc.). Here, we flip this on its head and argue that language itself is an excellent model system for cognition 🗣️🧏‍♀️🧠

Interested in doing a PhD with me and lacns.github.io? Or with any of the incredible fellows in the IMPRS School of Cognition www.maxplanckschools.org/cognition-en - apply before Dec 1st at cognition.maxplanckschools.org/en/application

I had a fantastic time at #AMLaP2025 in gorgeous Prague! Great feedback on my poster, lovely talks, wonderful reunions, and a phenomenal keynote by @lindadrijvers.bsky.social (so relevant when looking at the photos of my own presentation... 👐 ). work with Alexis Hervais-Adelman 🌐 link in comment

Come find my poster on how syntax and lexical probability interact in intracranial EEG today at 10:00 at #AMLaP2025 - poster 106! 🗣️

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It's always a pleasure to read the research report from the @mpi-nl.bsky.social - but when your own work is mentioned, it does hit different. Thanks for the mention and, of course, the wonderful years of work! 🧠 💬 @andreaeyleen.bsky.social Report: www.mpi.nl/sites/defaul...

Is it possible to use AI well and ethically in academia? I don't know but these amazing resources - via @dingemansemark.bsky.social - may help you make an informed decision 1/

/1 We took our sweet time (~3yrs) to put this into its final shape - but happy to say that the pre-print of an extensive review of brain rhythms in cognition - from a cognruro perspective - is now available. Please let us know what you think. #neuroskyence doi.org/10.48550/arX...

🧠💻 We (a bunch of colleagues at @cimcyc.bsky.social) just released a programming guide for psych & cog neuro students. Instead of a tutorial, this is a starting point: a collection of reflections, examples, and recommendations. 👉 Still growing, but ready to explore: wobc.github.io/programming_book/

British Academy postdoctoral fellowships scheme is now open. The deadline is 1 October. Time to get talking with potential host institutions and mentors about planning an application for this year or instead waiting for a future round. (The scheme is annual).

"But other scientists were less impressed. @olivia.science, a computational cognitive scientist … argued that because the scientists hadn’t used a theory about cognition in building Centaur, its prediction didn’t have much to reveal about how the mind works." www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/s...