Ouch, EU. Rub it in, why dontcha.

We are looking to fill an open-rank position in Sociolinguistics in Oxford, in conjunction with Worcester College. Come be a part of the exciting developments in language and linguistics in Oxford! www.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/news/2026/05...

The academic equivalent of always reblog Tom Holland lip syncing to Umbrella is always reblog The Snake Fight Portion of Your Thesis Defense

The most hydrated water I’ve ever tasted. Hints of H3O, maybe even H4O???

Guide for Authors Complying with U.S. Federal Agency Public Access and Publisher Policies - SPARC sparcopen.org/our-work/gui...

Experiencing anticipatory separation anxiety about leaving my laptop behind for a 1.5 week vacation. Which, uh, is probably a really strong sign that I should take more vacations.

Full points for obeying the maximum of quantity, but not clear about quality.

As a writer, receiving feedback graciously is a vital skill Cartoon by Reza Farazmand

I still can't get over the fact that Hungary elected a guy called, essentially, "Peter Hungarian." Looking forward to casting my vote in 2028 for previously-unknown candidate, Jennifer American.

"gibberish shibboleth" is my new "it's a nonsense" 🫡

Am I wrong though?

I had a great time talking to Sophie Hardach at the BBC for this article on accent learning. She reports on work that we did with @overhannahlyze.bsky.social and dialect coach colleague Jen Scapetis. As a bonus, Jen explains some differences between US & UK varieties! www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...

Join us in Barcelona for a postdoc! We are looking for candidates with a strong NLP/ML/AI background and an interest in linguistic diversity and human and machine cognition: dub.sh/blasi_nlp_po...

As the parent of a Smithie (and frankly as a person) I am infuriated by this. Sure, the best way to protect women’s education is to harass women’s colleges. apnews.com/article/smit...

A quick YT short in which we see if my cat shows any indication of seeing illusory contours. #visionscience #psychSciSky Inspired by Gabriella Smith's 2021 "If I fits I sits" paper: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Bowie is done! I can’t say it’s 100% how I wanted it to be but I’m happy I did it. He now lives on the mantle with my Bowie Barbies #pottery

name your top 15 birds ever, gut instincts only: Ravens Crows Snowy owl Robin Big bird Mourning doves The owl that eats the tootsie pop Seagulls Snow buntings Chickadees Hummingbirds Blue herons Eagles (bald or otherwise) Hawks (red tailed or cooper) Other owls (barred, barn, etc)

These two gentlemen survived a trip to the vet today; received a diagnosis of "enormous and handsome."

cc: my current and former institutions

Excellent opportunity!

Deadline 31 May: Postdoc, perceptual inference in the auditory system w/ A. Tabas, Basque Center on Cog. Brain + Lang. www.bcbl.eu/en/join-us/j...

Cooking with white vinegar feels so transgressive somehow. You mean I'm just going to pull out this giant bottle I keep under the sink with the cleaning products and chuck a bunch in the chicken vindaloo? Seriously?

well that's not great

I'm in the market for new sneakers and I stumbled across this website. They absolutely destroy the shoes to test everything you can think of--and the data is all downloadable! #dataviz challenge? I'm fascinated and also no closer to finding a pair of shoes. runrepeat.com

My colleague whose office shares a wall with mine: hey, your seasonal allergies must be acting up. Me: I don’t have seasonal allergies MC: You do. You start coughing and sneezing every spring like clockwork. 😬

Are your students entering research culture without ever learning how peer review actually works? We'd love to help. We're offering free "Peer Review 101" virtual workshops for undergrad/grad seminars, tailored to Psych, Neuro, and related fields. Visit our website to learn more tinyurl.com/2ra56w72

Hey regional friends, UConn's Titan arum is blooming next week! Follow the botanical conservatory (instagram: @uconnbotanicalconservatory) and come visit! We'll have extended hours on the night of the bloom. 🪰👃🌿

🚨🚨 Job Alert! 🚨🚨 We are seeking a full-time Study Coordinator for a NIMH-funded project that aims to uncover cognitive and neural mechanisms underlying maladaptive food-choice behavior in anorexia nervosa using behavior, eye tracking, fMRI, and computational models. Pls spread the word!

Still feel like "Musk and his crew of incels destroyed a bunch of stuff they didn't understand and thereby hastened the deaths of millions of children" did not get the public attention it warranted.

Always a pleasure to be podcasted by Subtitle—they do such beautiful audio.

Deadline 15 July: Assoc or full, tenured prof., open area, Linguistics and Multilingual Studies, NTU Singapore apply.ap1.interfolio.com/119095

What happens when a chief executive loses executive functions? www.statnews.com/2026/04/21/e... via @statnews.com

I'm pleased to share this excellent paper from @abbiebradshawphd.bsky.social with @clarepress.bsky.social that presents an active inference account of speech motor control doi.org/10.3758/s134...

Our cats (huge robust, age 12) were always friendly but suddenly they are needy to the point of aggression. One of them wakes me every morning by clawing at exposed skin and his brother likes to bite if I stop petting him. What’s going on? Male (feline) loneliness epidemic?

Adding to my beloved collection of photos that look like data plots.

If you have NIH funding you're stuck between NIH's requirements that you deposit manuscripts in PMC and publishers' assertions that the only way to comply is $$$$ open-access fees. I found this super useful: www.authorsalliance.org/2025/06/06/t...

Ok, gardening people, help me out: 1. In Fall of 2024 I planted a bunch of tulip and narcissus bulbs. 2. In Spring of 2025 they bloomed beautifully 3. Spring of 2026: no sign of them at all (although the established daffodils in the same beds are fine). What happened?

Highly recommend Secret Mall Apartment (now on Netflix), the documentary about a group of artists who transformed a forgotten space in the Providence Place Mall into, well, a secret mall apartment. All about art and artists and real estate. secretmallapartment.com

A young friend was interviewing me about what skills I have that have helped me be successful in academia. I think she was a little disappointed by #2. 1. Curiosity about people and an interest in understanding how they work. 2. Good at email.

It should be illegal to play certain albums on shuffle. We could just disable that button! We have the technology. Who's with me?

Traditionally, number of grad school applicants.

New paper out on speech perception consistency by @brianwwl.bsky.social! 👏

Someday I'd love to read an academic paper that says, "after years of research in <x area>, <y topic> remains *incredibly* well-understood."

In Boston Mid-May? Come hang out with us and learn what we’re doing to move Cognitive & Brain Health forward, from exercise to methods to the arts! 🤸🏽‍♂️🎭 (+ pick up some SWAG along the way.) Open to everyone, and we do mean everyone—the more the merrier 🙌🏽

The Obleser lab will be hiring soon! New postdoc (fully funded) and new PhD or part-time postdoc position (soft-money funded). Spread the word. Start in Sept/Oct. Watch out for official announcements! Please be in touch. auditorycognition.com obleserlab.com hoerhanse.de lemmi.uni-luebeck.de

"Maybe If I Color-Code My To-Do List I Will Complete It More Efficiently: A Delusion"

We’ve got an exciting new thing to share! We have causal evidence (using TMR) that memory reactivation during sleep promotes abstract understanding of underlying structure, allowing transfer learning in a new domain with zero superficial feature overlap with the learned one.

OPEN POSTDOC position (part of @erc.europa.eu Consolidator DYNALANG) We build math&comp models of neural dynamics using insights from formal linguistics + ML Seeking theory-driven researchers w/ interests in language, neural dynamics, & math/comp neuroscience. Apply here: tinyurl.com/55exdpse

The informal style of this book makes it accessible to anyone with an interest in the complexity and beauty of language and who wants to understand how it is put together, how it comes apart, and how language maps on to the brain. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-95848-0

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