Interested in spending 3-12 months with us in Oxford as a senior visiting academic? The Leverhulme Trust has a scheme to help. Get in touch with an Oxford colleague soon, as the internal deadline for interest is on Apr 17. www.leverhulme.ac.uk/visiting-pro...

Heads up: After Hours is on Netflix for just one more day. If you haven’t seen it: it’s a wonderful picture of what was weird downtown in ‘80s New York.

Postdoc opportunity at the Laboratory for the Experimental Research of Religion, for candidates with a background in social psychology, cognitive science, or social neuroscience. As a bonus, you get to work with @martinlangcz.bsky.social! www.phil.muni.cz/en/careers/a...

At dinner with a bunch of language scientists last night and it emerged that we all considered ourselves to have terrible navigation abilities. Is this a thing? Does language colonize spatial areas? Do linguists constantly get lost on the way to the conference venue?

Congrats to my colleague Diane Lillo-Martin for her election as an AAAS Fellow! She was my faculty mentor when I arrived at UConn and is the best of the best!

Just a reminder to non-scientists that NIH funds are used for studies for prevention & cures to pretty much all the diseases you can think of, including cancer, heart disease, rare diseases, pregnancy-related conditions like pre-eclampsia, diabetes, childhood development disorders, and so more.

New paper our from our lab led by postdoc Holly Zaharchuk, with @overhannahlyze.bsky.social , @hannahmech.bsky.social , and @mattcphillips.bsky.social We measured individual differences in sensitivity to phonetic contrasts using VAS and eyetracking 1/2

If asked to draw a person's portrait, many people would say “I cannot draw.” Why is observational drawing so hard? In a new paper, @judithfan.bsky.social and I answer: it's the limitations of human vision. Learning to draw is learning skills to overcome them. aaronhertzmann.com/2026/03/23/d... 1/

The interesting challenge of packing for a trip where it will be 85 degrees on arrival and 30 at departure.

Deadline 12 April: postdoc, speech perception and L2 learning w/ M. Antoniou @ Western Sydney jobs.smartrecruiters.com/WesternSydne...

I want to recruit 3 postdocs at Trinity College Dublin for the neuroscience arm of JUSTICE, a new @erc.europa.eu Synergy project. Focus: • fNIRS hyperscanning • deliberative groups under pressure • silence, dissent, conformity, status, and coercive drift /1

Nap time

THE GREAT BRITISH SEWING BEE: oh my this is fun, oh what larks THE GREAT BRITISH REAPING BEE: well this is a spot of bother and make no mistake, what on earth

I would appreciate a second spring break, please, this time with much more "spring" and a big increase in "break."

📢 New paper in JEP:HPP Speech perception gradiency (sensitivity to fine-grained phonetic detail) has been shown to enhance speech perception flexibility (recovery from misleading information) in L1 English. But does it play the same role in L2? doi.org/10.1037/xhp0... @bcbl.bsky.social

lots of jarring statistics and heartbreaking stories I could share from this story, but this particular anecdote made me tear up when @jonathanwosen.bsky.social first shared this story with me For more details from our survey of ~1000 nih-funded researchers, read the report below

Deadline 15 April: Professor (W3), Phonetics and Speech Processing, LMU Munich job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/2...

People re-use each other's words, syntax and semantics in conversation, arguably to facilitate common ground. In a new Proceedings of the Royal Society B we assess whether this tendency can be used an individually reliable trait (e.g. to correlate it to something else): doi.org/10.1098/rspb... 1/

Deadline Apr 15: Postdoc, "using computational methods and EEG to study predictive processing in multilingual populations", at U Michigan w/ @jonrbrennan.bsky.social and @edithkaan.bsky.social careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...

Guy walking down the street just yelled “hey, it’s Ms. Frizzle” at me and I don’t think he meant it as a complement but I am *thrilled*

This Russell Vought, trying to usurp the power of the purse. Congress and the people have made it abundantly clear that they want to fund science. But Vought keeps trying to steal those funds. www.science.org/content/arti...

Et tu, squares?

Spent 4+ hours yesterday reorganizing all of our bookshelves. My mind is now 2% more at peace. Can feel my librarian ancestors smiling upon me.

We have three lectureships available at York Psychology (@yorkpsychology.bsky.social) with a broad remit for research/teaching areas. Home and overseas applications are welcome. Deadline for applications is early April - enquiries welcome. Come and join us! jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...

Hey, if there is an optional, anonymous opinion survey you don’t want to fill out, you don’t have to fill it out! No need to have ChatGPT do it for you, I promise!

Exactly how I feel emerging from this winter: squished.

I’m at the mid-career slump. I’m at the national research funding & infrastructure crisis. I’m at the university budget cuts. I’m at the nonsensical war. I’m at the demolition of our democracy. I’m at the combination mid-career-slump-national-research-funding-&-infrastructure-crisis-university-budge

How Congress can restore the independence of US science www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I am hiring a new lab manager for the @umdleadlab.bsky.social to start this summer! Job ad and link to apply here. Please re-post and share with your seniors, and/or anyone else who would be a good fit! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

We're still accepting applications! Review will begin 3/23 for a full-time Junior Specialist Lab Coordinator in the Cognition in Context Lab at UC Davis. #psychjobs

This is such a cool insight into an (excellent!) writer’s process. Using TTS to read your text aloud to you also works. I find that artificial voices are even better for catching clunky writing.

Some personal news: today I spelled "bureaucratic" correctly on the first try. (It will probably never happen again.)

How do we know that a sentence was a question? Researchers from the UZH and our NCCR described the complex processes happening in our brain, that allow us to understand the information contained in pitch. @fcbg-neuro.bsky.social @isle-uzh.bsky.social evolvinglanguage.ch/what-our-bra...

📢 PhD position in the NeuroAI of Language Why can LLMs predict brain activity so well? We're hiring a PhD student to find out -- AI interpretability meets neuroimaging Deadline March 20 Please RT 🙏 👇 mpi.nl/career-education/vacancies/vacancy/fully-funded-4-year-phd-position-neuroai-language

Friends!!! Enchilada recipes! After two promising but disappointing attempts to make enchiladas I need your best recipes for one of my favorite dishes. Extra points for vegetarian or vegetarian-adaptable recipes. ¡Vámos!

teaching about morphology today which meant making my linguistics students scream the word PHILAFUCKINGDELPHIA at me in unison to show how we can predict where the FUCKING goes based on which syllable is stressed

I might be an unsung hero. No one is singing so that's one clue

I didn't expect the "then they came for..." to hit me QUITE so specifically, but lesson learned.

Deadline 24 March: Research fellow (5 year fixed term), cog neurosci of aging and dementia, MARCS Institute for Brain, Behaviour and Development, Western Sydney jobs.smartrecruiters.com/WesternSydne...

It’s #WorldHearingDay to raise awareness about hearing health and accessibility. Here’s my #SciArt #embroidery of the cochlea/inner ear—nave of vibration (2017)—which I did while researching my symptoms of hyperacusis.

Told a former student I'd be delighted to meet up with him for "breakfast near campus" this morning. At least, that's what I meant to write. Instead I suggested "breakfast beer campus", which, despite how tough things are, is not how I roll on a Monday morning.

The fact that I have the most irritating song from "Kiss Me Kate" stuck in my head ("I've Come to Wive It Wealthily in Padua" UGH) is really ruining my morning.

today's #sonnet. a true story from the balcony. didn't even notice i kept using one of the octet rhymes in the sestet. thanks for reading! #poetry 🕊️

We at AVCX crosswords believe that N and Ñ are different letters

Sunday is BirdCast Day, when daily radar-inspired forecasts start for the spring migration. It's traditional to buy small gifts for all of your birder friends. birdcast.org

Oh, Outlook. You really don’t want to ask this.

Tenure track position in the multimodal language department at the MPI!

Deadline March 30 (rolling): Postdoc, computational linguistics and language acquisition w/ H. Dai, Linguistics, U Michigan careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...

Sooooo one fun thing about having a long career and a bad memory is that occasionally you discover a paper that you authored that you have NO memory of, and it turns out to be exactly the thing you needed to motivate some new paper.

We are at the "eating the neighbor's store of wheat that he was saving for seed" stage of this story.