Happy New Year! 🥳 We're excited to announce January's #GeWoNN Journal Club Meeting! Our guest speaker, Dr Kurt Winsler, will talk about "Experience-Dependent Changes in Visual Processing of Letters". Date: 21-1-2026, 9-10 am (CET) Register here for the Zoom link 👇 forms.gle/e25X4FoQ2VUh...

Or as I often say: Friends don't let friends use abbreviations!

Diese Geschichte ist unfassbar. Weil der Trump-Regierung die Arbeit des Internationalen Strafgerichtshofs nicht passt, wird ein französischer Richter digital de facto ausgelöscht und bekommt keine Kreditkarte und kein Bankkonto mehr:

TODAY! In case you are interested ;)

🚨Now out in *Open Mind* 🚨 "Can we utilize Large Language Models (LLMs) to generate useful linguistic corpora? A case study of the word frequency effect in young German readers" direct.mit.edu/opmi/article... with @jobschepens.bsky.social @hannawoloszyn.bsky.social @nicolekmarx.bsky.social

Professor Dr Pamela Perniss, Chair of Sign Language Interpreting: German Sign Language - German, talks about her love for her research and educational work and the special contribution sign language makes to people's inclusion in society, education and life👇 andhowaboutyou.podigee.io/28-pamela-pe...

🚨Now out in *Open Mind* 🚨 "Can we utilize Large Language Models (LLMs) to generate useful linguistic corpora? A case study of the word frequency effect in young German readers" direct.mit.edu/opmi/article... with @jobschepens.bsky.social @hannawoloszyn.bsky.social @nicolekmarx.bsky.social

In the contribution by Elif Ecem Çalışkan, we compare human ratings for semantic variables to those produced by LLMs in the Turkish language, which has not been studied a lot to date.

Looking forward to being part of this symposium at TeaP2026. I will present our TRUST guidelines for reading research and the German Lexicon Project (GLP)

Congratulations to our #GeWoNN members on their accepted symposia at the #teap2026 Conference!  See titles below:

Welcome to join our upcoming Journal Club meetings in Oct & Nov! Happy to have @cyhsieh.bsky.social & Dr. Cosimo Iaia as our guest speakers! Register to get the Zoom link or sign up as our next guest speaker: forms.gle/TY6Cuxut87Ej... More exciting talks coming up. Please share & see you there!

This 2021 paper by @benjamingagl.bsky.social and colleagues is full of important findings and ideas about the temporal structure of reading and speech. I keep coming back to these data. Eye movements during text reading align with the rate of speech production www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Binz et al. (in press, Nature) developed an LLM called Centaur that better predicts human responses in 159 of 160 behavioural experiments compared to existing cognitive models. See: arxiv.org/abs/2410.20268

Wir brauchen ein sofortiges #Waffenverbot für Privatpersonen – damit sich eine schreckliche Tat wie #Graz nicht wiederholen kann. Jetzt Appell an Innenminister Karner und die Bundesregierung unterzeichnen: actions.aufstehn.at/waffenverbot...

Wir brauchen ein sofortiges #Waffenverbot für Privatpersonen – damit sich eine schreckliche Tat wie #Graz nicht wiederholen kann. Jetzt Appell an Innenminister Karner und die Bundesregierung unterzeichnen: actions.aufstehn.at/waffenverbot...

We're happy to share a new preprint by our members, @jnpauli.bsky.social & @benjamingagl.bsky.social: "Understanding the Neuro-Cognitive Mechanisms of Orthographic Learning in Humans and Baboons: A Comparative Study Using Domain-Specific Mechanistic and Domain-General Connectionist Models"!

🧠✍️ How do humans and baboons learn orthography? We simulated their orthographic learning using CNNs (CORnet-Z, ResNet-18) vs. neuro-cognitive model (Speechless reader model, SLR). 🔍 SLR not only outperformed CNNs—it revealed how both species learned to differentiate between learned and novel words

🧠✍️ How do humans and baboons learn orthography? We simulated their orthographic learning using CNNs (CORnet-Z, ResNet-18) vs. neuro-cognitive model (Speechless reader model, SLR). 🔍 SLR not only outperformed CNNs—it revealed how both species learned to differentiate between learned and novel words

To protect an individual's #privacy, facial features are removed before data-sharing of human #neuroimaging data. @oesteban.bsky.social &co show that this procedure affects the quality ratings given by human raters but not automated image quality metrics @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/3Gtr3lo

Some time ago, I asked ChatGPT for a title for my paper. It suggested a title containing 'Unveiling'—a word I didn’t know but liked. Title found! A few weeks later, I came across another paper with 'Unveiling' in the title. A doubt crossed my mind… I checked and found this:

Join us on site and if to far away from Cologne online!

Science is under threat in the US. @elife.bsky.social have commissioned a series of articles discussing the implications and what we can do. The first three articles are now live. More to follow: elifesciences.org/articles/106... elifesciences.org/articles/106... elifesciences.org/articles/106...

Join us on site and if to far away from Cologne online!

🚨 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/...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5nE... Important and painful

Yes, #TeaP2025 was great this year, thanks to the organizers!

Come join our symposium at #teap2025! 😊 Topic: From Babies to Semantics: Leveraging #LanguageModels for #Psycholinguistic Research March 10 | 11:00 - 12:30 Chair: @benjamingagl.bsky.social Speakers: Fritz Günther, Katharina Menn, @hannawoloszyn.bsky.social, @boevesam.bsky.social, Marco Marelli

Welcome to join our open lecture on #standardisation & #replicability in Cologne on March 31, organised by the #TRUSTNetwork, led by @benjamingagl.bsky.social, @janahasenacker.bsky.social, @troembke.bsky.social & @xeniaschmalz.bsky.social! See 🧵below for details 👇...

The GEWoNN and our Lab is at the TeaP ... Lots of fun Reading and Language Science!

Congratulations to our #GeWoNN members on their accepted symposia at the #teap2025 Conference! Special thanks to the organising committee @teap2025.bsky.social, and we're looking forward to the event next week in Frankfurt! Check out our website below for more news on our symposia!

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

Happy to have the authors, Hanna Woloszyn & @benjamingagl.bsky.social, to share their views in person today! Stay tuned for more details of the meeting in March! 😄

European alternatives for digital products 🇪🇺 european-alternatives.eu

Science is under a wide-ranging attack in the U.S. From arbitrary and catastrophic funding cuts to censorship based on keywords, scholarship is no longer free from government interference. How can scientists respond? 1/n

We are looking for Student Assistants!! www.stellenwerk.de/koeln/studen...

Welcome to join the starter pack of the #GermanWordNerdNetwork to follow our news and research!

The great thing with Signal is that not only is it more secure and operated by better people, but it's also flat out the better product in terms of usability and aesthetics. Also no weird AI bots, solid desktop version, and great videoconferencing.

Horrible… would be better to put the Money in the ZPID or similar @zpid.bsky.social

Kids' poor math and reading skills are posing a risk to how well Europe's future workforce can power its economy, a new report says.

The unbearable slowness of being: Humans still clock in at just 10 bits/s. Even after peer review :) Share link: authors.elsevier.com/a/1kHVa3BtfH.... ArXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2408.10234

Repost appreciated! 🙏 ACL 2025 Ling theory & Cognitive modeling track is looking for emergency reviewers. The emergency review period is between 3/18-26, and these reviewers will be excluded from the ARR cycle. If you're interested, please sign up here! docs.google.com/forms/d/1fH7...

What is the optimal level at which to describe the brain? @misicbata.bsky.social explores a study by @kangjoolee.bsky.social &co in @plosbiology.org, showing that simplifying complex brain recordings makes them more useful for studying brain function. Primer: plos.io/4iInF4q Paper: plos.io/3MZAdG4

New #preprint: Do faster learners know more? #OrthographicLearning and knowledge, sensitivity to #graphotactic regularities, #spelling accuracy, and #reading ability in #German primary school children, w. Heike Mehlhase, Kristina Moll, Gerd Schulte-Körne, Huachen Wang. osf.io/preprints/ps...

I think this is excellent and a very helpful way of framing things. 📌

@kanishka.bsky.social and I have made a starter pack for researchers working broadly on linguistic interpretability and LLMs! go.bsky.app/F9qzAUn Please message me or comment on this post if you've noticed someone who we forgot or would like to be added yourself!

Totally agree, let us know if you need infos

🎥 Playback from our #QuaSemO2024 meeting in Oct 2024! 🌍✨ An inspiring session with a fantastic group of international researchers, diving into cutting-edge developments in quantifying orthography-semantics regularities in Munich. #Linguistics #ResearchInnovation #Orthography #Semantics

Had an inspiring discussion with @xeniaschmalz.bsky.social, @jnpauli.bsky.social, @jacketaylor.bsky.social, @leungyianna.bsky.social, Wanlu Fu, and Sanha Lee on Crawford et al.'s paper comparing cross-country decoding skills. Insightful exchange on methodology and findings!

🚨Published an extended version of "Can we utilize Large Language Models (LLMs) to generate useful linguistic corpora? A case study of the word frequency effect in young German readers"🚨 including a new study and a word frequency effect size investigation. osf.io/preprints/ps...