Yet again, machine learning — even gussied up via the transformer architecture — encodes and reinforces societal biases. This study reveals that LLM-based peer review relies heavily on author institution in its decisions. arxiv.org/abs/2509.15122

UK recognises Palestine as an independent state

Today, Canada recognises the State of Palestine.   My statement: www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/stat...

"As limited as the recognition of Palestine – a state with no territory or sovereignty – is, it is a step in the right direction, because it re-establishes the existence and the rights of Palestinians as individuals and as a collective" www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

This is an extremely good take on some of the nuances of free speech and how the ideal is both (a) kind of incoherent; and (b) has been distorted and hijacked to support the authoritarian push we are seeing now.

Reading papers is a basic skill (and dare I say duty?) of scientists, and I include medical doctors in that group. Keeping abreast of the literature is a foundational part of our professions. There aren’t good shortcuts. In any case, reading papers regularly is fun. arstechnica.com/ai/2025/09/s...

My statement formally recognising the State of Palestine.

Why you should never argue online iandunt.substack.com/p/why-you-sh...

Excellent news. I'm just off to the off-license then (Ik ga nu naar de slijterij)... congratulations Matt et al!

🌍 Today is the last day of Postdoc Appreciation Week #PAW_NL. Paula Fikkert, Dean of the Faculty of Arts reflects on her time as a postdoc and the role postdocs currently have: “Postdocs are indispensable." Read the full story: 👇 www.ru.nl/en/donders-i...

Because awareness of DLD is only now starting to grow, we are missing whole generations of adults with DLD (Developmental Language Disorder) whose needs were not identified as children. Like Nichole below #DLDday is Friday October 17th 2025. 'You can't see DLD' is the theme. radld.org #DevLangDis

Of course #Israel should be banned from sport events, #Eurovision, cultural events, etc. Yes, we should try to avoid mixing politics with sports and culture, but when those are strategically used to whitewash the horrendous crimes against humanity of #Netanyahu, there should be no debate about it.

Unexpected benefit of working in a babylab

💛🚫🤖 No AI Gods, No AI Masters 🤖🚫💛 I am massively excited to share the backstory ACADEMIC SHENANIGANS behind our Open Letter (& so this paper below too) — and as always big thanks to my co-authors {@irisvanrooij.bsky.social & @marentierra.bsky.social}: www.civicsoftechnology.org/blog/no-ai-g... 1/n

People take language for granted. Imagine that everyone in your daily life suddenly started speaking gobbledegook. And then you had to go to school and learn reading, writing, maths, history, biology etc without understanding a word your teachers and schoolmates were saying.

"Evolution produces sufficient rather than optimal adaptations." - so true and so annoying

🚨 New paper alert 🚨 Using LLMs as data annotators, you can produce any scientific result you want. We call this **LLM Hacking**. Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2509.08825

We are seeking a #Postdoctoral #Researcher to join our Multimodal Language Department for the NWO funded project: 𝐆𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐆𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐱𝐭: 𝐎𝐛𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭- 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧-𝐀𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐀𝐈 𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐋𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐮𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐔𝐬𝐞 Start: ideally February 1, 2026 but negotiable. www.mpi.nl/career-educa...

The Item Response Warehouse is a new data resource for psychometricians interested in developing methods using bigger and more diverse sets of instruments: itemresponsewarehouse.org New paper out now at BRM: doi.org/10.3758/s134...

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

Speechwoman absolutely 😍LOVES😍 this 🆓🔓 open access article by @carorowland.bsky.social and colleagues! www.speech-language-therapy.com/index.php?op... 🦋 #bskySPEECHIES

Proton claims their “Lumo” to be a fully open course AI chatbot. Luckily, there is @dingemansemark.bsky.social ’s European Open Source AI Index that makes clear that Lumo is in fact “the least open 'open' model” that they have seen so far. osai-index.eu/news/lumo-pr...

The common denominator in every place where birth rates are dropping is women’s increased access to education.

So excited to see that IASCL now has a group Zotero library of research on language acquisition in under-represented languages. 👏👏. All information here: www.childlanguage.org/underreprese...

It never fails. After months of late night feedings and short bursts of sleep, your baby FINALLY begins sleeping through the night… only to begin waking again. What gives? (Thread 🧵)

I think if Britain colonised your country of origin you should get free BBC iplayer.

Thanks to the presentation by @anthe.sevenants.net at #SLE2025 today I now know of the Zipfian dinosaur 🦕 and shall henceforth use it in all my stats classes 🤩

Ever stared at a table of regression coefficients & wondered what you're doing with your life? Very excited to share this gentle introduction to another way of making sense of statistical models (w @vincentab.bsky.social) Preprint: doi.org/10.31234/osf... Website: j-rohrer.github.io/marginal-psy...

If you are preparing your bachelor statistics course and would like to add optional material for students to better understand statistics on a conceptual level (see topics in the screenshot) my free textbook provides a state of the art overview. lakens.github.io/statistical_...

I bet the people who designed the new online curricula restrict screentime to their own children, completely unaware of the irony. Face to face interaction is best for learning at any age, guys!

DLD is really very common. Way more common than other well know conditions such as autism. DLD is a difficulty with using and understanding words and sentences. And the biggest problem is that very few people have heard of it. Join our #DLDday campaign on October 17 2025. radld.org

A colleague at UB is conducting a 6-9 minute survey on the experiences of transgender people in academia: sunybuffalo.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Please don't reduce AI to LLMs

Prachtig stuk in de @volkskrant.nl van @laurensvhg.bsky.social over “Grote AI-denker Margaret Boden (1936-2025) ...” Echt het lezen waard! www.volkskrant.nl/tech/grote-a...

Might frame this quote from this wonderful thread: "Most (good) solutions are proposed not by newcomers, but by people who understand an issue deeply. There are exceptions, of course, but generally, if a solution seems "obvious", it's because you don't understand the problem as well as you think"

Good on the Mirror for having the bravery to strike out against this bullshit

I really like the backstory of this paper. I had been working w C Dideriksen & @chrismmcox.bsky.social on weird properties of Danish Infant Directed speech (srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...). I wanted to rigorously understand our findings given what was known on IDS across languages 1/

thrilled that our guides for #OpenScience in developing countries is now published in AMPPS of @psychscience.bsky.social: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... Please see the thread for details

The growing body of evidence showing children actively maximise the learning affordances in their surroundings - and that optimal input changes dramatically depending on developmental level - is a potential game changer for intervention approaches.

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"

Calling all educators and professionals! 2 million children are struggling with talking and understanding words. Our free Learning Centre has tools, classroom strategies and guidance to help you support them. Explore now: learningcentre.speechandlanguage.org.uk

Statements like "X% of trait Y of an individual can be attributed to their genetic makeup" promote fundamental misconceptions about the nature of genetic effects. Here's one of my prior short threads explaining the issue:

Okay I'm going to predict that, just like screens, the results will completely depend on how they are used. 1/

A poem from this morning.

Time to share this one again…. bsky.app/profile/dams...

It seems a "science news site" has taken and translated quotations from an interview I did with a proper science journalist, giving that journalist and Scientific American no credit. Credits only their 'editorial staff' Feels icky. So here's the original. www.scientificamerican.com/article/ling...

Just a shout out for the UN world #food app sharethemeal.org/now?adjust_t... #ShareTheMeal and help #children in need with a tap. ShareTheMeal here:

I loved it. I think the School of English Drama and Creative Studies (of which my dept Linguistics and Communication is a part) at @unibirmingham.bsky.social regrets not recruiting Paris Lees. We probably need some reputational damage control after this fact was made central to the story line! 😂

Phd students benefit from the infrastructure of a graduate school. But postdocs need guidance too. @brittawestner.bsky.social @devoogdld.bsky.social and I were the first to advocate for this as Donders postdoc reps. Now postdocs have a dedicated coordinator—a unique position on campus. Wonderful!

AI slop and the destruction of knowledge irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2025/08/12/a...