Emily Myers
@emilymyers.bsky.social
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Speech perception & brain nerd, University of Connecticut. Opinions my own, not my employer's.
Ouch, EU. Rub it in, why dontcha.
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Colin Phillips
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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...
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Gretchen McCulloch
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The academic equivalent of always reblog Tom Holland lip syncing to Umbrella is always reblog The Snake Fight Portion of Your Thesis Defense
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The most hydrated water I’ve ever tasted. Hints of H3O, maybe even H4O???
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6 days ago
Guide for Authors Complying with U.S. Federal Agency Public Access and Publisher Policies - SPARC
sparcopen.org/our-work/gui...
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Guide for Authors Complying with U.S. Federal Agency Public Access and Publisher Policies - SPARC
In response to the 2022 OSTP memo, U.S. federal agencies now require authors to deposit their manuscripts into agency repositories, often immediately upon acceptance by a journal. Agencies do not…
http://sparcopen.org/our-work/guide-for-authors-complying-with-policies/
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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.
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Full points for obeying the maximum of quantity, but not clear about quality.
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Ian Duhig
8 days ago
As a writer, receiving feedback graciously is a vital skill Cartoon by Reza Farazmand
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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.
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9 days ago
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ
10 days ago
"gibberish shibboleth" is my new "it's a nonsense" 🫡
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Nelson Flores
12 days ago
Am I wrong though?
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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...
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How easy is it to change your accent?
I tried to learn to speak like an office worker in Cincinnati – what can the science of accents reveal to make it easier?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/future/article/20260501-how-easy-is-it-to-change-your-accent
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Damián Blasi
14 days ago
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...
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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...
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Education Department opens probe into Smith College for admitting trans women
The U.S. Department of Education has opened an investigation into Smith College, an all-women’s institution in Massachusetts, for admitting transgender women.
https://apnews.com/article/smith-college-trans-women-title-ix-investigation-88e25588bfa2164fcb42be6dae1388d7
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Ben Balas
15 days ago
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...
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Does my cat see optical illusions? PART 1
YouTube video by SeeingScience
https://youtube.com/shorts/IX7_JLmWGzk?feature=share
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Andrea
16 days ago
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
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Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️
17 days ago
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)
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These two gentlemen survived a trip to the vet today; received a diagnosis of "enormous and handsome."
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Mark Baxter 🏳️🌈🧂
21 days ago
cc: my current and former institutions
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Jonathan Peelle
20 days ago
Excellent opportunity!
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Matt Goldrick
22 days ago
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...
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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?
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Karolina Heyduk
24 days ago
well that's not great
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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
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1,000+ shoes reviewed and cut in half
We've dissected more than 1,000+ shoes to give you the most in-depth reviews. We buy all shoes with our own money, and every shoe is wear and lab-tested extensively.
https://runrepeat.com/
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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. 😬
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Reviewer Zero
25 days ago
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
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Reviewer Zero Guest Lectures
🌱Reviewer Zero Guest Lectures🌱 Are your students entering research culture without ever learning how peer review actually works? We'd love to help. We are now offering free Zoom guest lectures tailo...
https://www.reviewerzero.net/about/reviewer-zero-guest-lectures
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Karolina Heyduk
25 days ago
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. 🪰👃🌿
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Akram Bakkour
26 days ago
🚨🚨 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!
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Study Coordinator
Department SSD Institute for Mind and Biology: Staff and Temporary Employees About the Department The Eating Disorders Program in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience at the Univer...
https://uchicago.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/External/job/Hyde-Park-Campus/Study-Coordinator_JR33390
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David Roberts
26 days ago
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.
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USAID Whistleblower Says It Was Even Worse Than People Knew
Political appointees wanted a quiet drawdown, the whistleblower says. DOGE wanted an execution.
https://www.wired.com/story/usaid-whistleblower-says-it-was-even-worse-than-people-knew/
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Julie Sedivy
27 days ago
Always a pleasure to be podcasted by Subtitle—they do such beautiful audio.
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Matt Goldrick
27 days ago
Deadline 15 July: Assoc or full, tenured prof., open area, Linguistics and Multilingual Studies, NTU Singapore
apply.ap1.interfolio.com/119095
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Olu Ajilore, MD, PhD
27 days ago
What happens when a chief executive loses executive functions?
www.statnews.com/2026/04/21/e...
via
@statnews.com
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What happens when a chief executive loses executive functions?
When a CEO develops acquired executive dysfunction yet remains in their role, the challenges are significant.
https://www.statnews.com/2026/04/21/executive-function-ceo-politician-leader-experts/
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Matt Davis
27 days ago
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...
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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?
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Adding to my beloved collection of photos that look like data plots.
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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...
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The NIH Public Access Policy: Q&A for Authors
We’ve received many questions from authors, librarians, and research administrators about the NIH decision to accelerate implementation of its public access plan, going into effect on July 1, 2025.…
https://www.authorsalliance.org/2025/06/06/the-nih-public-access-policy-qa-for-authors/
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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?
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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
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Home | Secret Mall Apartment
In 2003, eight Rhode Islanders created a secret apartment inside a busy mall and lived there for four years, filming everything along the way. Far more than a prank, the secret apartment became a deep...
https://secretmallapartment.com/
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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.
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It should be illegal to play certain albums on shuffle. We could just disable that button! We have the technology. Who's with me?
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Brandon Bishop
about 1 month ago
Traditionally, number of grad school applicants.
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Efthymia Kapnoula
about 1 month ago
New paper out on speech perception consistency by
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! 👏
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Someday I'd love to read an academic paper that says, "after years of research in <x area>, <y topic> remains *incredibly* well-understood."
about 1 month ago
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Stephanie Noble
about 1 month ago
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 🙌🏽
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Jonas Obleser
about 1 month ago
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
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"Maybe If I Color-Code My To-Do List I Will Complete It More Efficiently: A Delusion"
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Anna Schapiro
about 1 month ago
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.
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andrea e. martin
about 1 month ago
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
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Postdoctoral Position in the Cognitive Computational Neuroscience of Language | Max Planck Institute
https://tinyurl.com/55exdpse
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Acoustical Society of America
about 1 month ago
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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Josh Gondelman
about 1 month ago
Where the grass is [redacted] and the girls are [redacted].
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