Dr Lena M Blott
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Psycholinguist at Uni Mannheim. Academic Mama. Hunter of vintage treasures.
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Emily Myers
6 days ago
Researchers: are you reassured by Prolific's efforts to tamp down bot activity? Have you seen changes in data quality? We've gone from rejecting about 10% of the sample for headphone checks to more like 40%. Not confident the rest are real.
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c0nc0rdance
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In my ongoing attempts to give you a break from *gestures widely* THE HORRORS: Let's talk about the utterly bizarre science of cats' purring. Here's a weird starting point: There are NO cats (Felidae) that can BOTH roar AND purr. Cats that roar = genus Panthera Cats that purr = genus Felis
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Stan Carey
30 days ago
A very funny and satisfying rant by
@acollierastro.bsky.social
about the impact of "AI" on education and specifically the professor who outsourced his work to ChatGPT, lost it, then told the world about it (25 min.)
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this is what 2 years of chatgpt does to your brain
YouTube video by Angela Collier
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pqF90rstZQ
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I've been looking for an easy-to-follow explainer on how LLMs work for a class I'm teaching this term, but this series is so much more than that. Worth sharing with students (and everyone else)!
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A. Russo
about 1 month ago
I'm looking to interview, read, and share disaster narratives. If you have a story to tell, data to share, and want to talk, I'm taking trains and bikes across the EU and want to talk to you.
#academicsky
#disasters
#openscience
www.andrewrusso.me/dnp
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Nicholas Pagnucco
about 2 months ago
So... as I write syllabi for next semester, I have to ask a question that makes me feel incompetent: Does anyone have solid resources on AI policies in class? This could be how to organize assessment to minimize AI use, or any of the other Faustian bargains.
#sociology
#academicsky
#highered
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Dr Keith Wilson đ
2 months ago
Itâs the same with academic writing. The difficulty doesnât lie in formulating grammatical sentences, but in deciding what it is you actually want to say. Writing is part of the process by which you figure that out, and isnât something that can be outsourced to a machine.
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Joachim Baumann
6 months ago
đš New paper alert đš Using LLMs as data annotators, you can produce any scientific result you want. We call this **LLM Hacking**. Paper:
arxiv.org/pdf/2509.08825
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Sabrina Norwood
2 months ago
Did you know that from tomorrow, Qualtrics is offering synthetic panels (AI-generated participants)? Follow me down a rabbit hole I'm calling "doing science is tough and I'm so busy, can't we just make up participants?"
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Stephen Collins
3 months ago
Every ad now
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Jo Wolff
5 months ago
The advice I give young people on choice of degree programme. Choose something you love. Youâve got the rest of your life to be frustrated and miserable.
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Beautiful thread
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An die deutsche
#Linguistics
#Linguistik
crowd: Kann es sein, dass die Leipzig corpora gerade down sind? Wenn ja, weiĂ da jemand vielleicht, wann man da wieder Zugriff haben kann?
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Jonathan Peelle
11 months ago
Psycholinguists and psychologists: Is there good R packages for distributing items across conditions? For example, I have 60 stimuli and some preliminary data on item-level accuracy. I'd like to create 3 lists of 20 items that are matched in accuracy without coding it myself. đ
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Social Cognition Lab, University of Miami
about 1 year ago
We have another online study on Children Helping Science for adults with a baby between 2 and 24 months old!
childrenhelpingscience.com/studies/7012...
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Amrei Bahr
12 months ago
Wie wÀre es mal mit
#Existenzstrategie
statt
#Exzellenzstrategie
? Auch Wissenschaftler_innen wollen verlÀsslich Miete zahlen können, ihre Kinder ernÀhren & in finanziellen Notlagen nicht vollkommen aufgeschmissen sein. Plus: ExistenzÀngste bremsen Forschung aus. Deshalb:
#ExitExzellenz
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#IchBinHanna
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein đ
12 months ago
Research from 2022 that every Democrat apologist should chew on: âWe do not find any evidence that accommodative strategies reduce radical right support. If anything, our results suggest that they lead to more voters defecting to the radical right.â
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Does accommodation work? Mainstream party strategies and the success of radical right parties | Political Science Research and Methods | Cambridge Core
Does accommodation work? Mainstream party strategies and the success of radical right parties - Volume 11 Issue 1
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/political-science-research-and-methods/article/does-accommodation-work-mainstream-party-strategies-and-the-success-of-radical-right-parties/5C3476FCD26B188C7399ADD920D71770
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Alissa Ferry
12 months ago
Come join us! We (me, Jill Lany, Perrine Brusini, and Gert Westermann) are recruiting a
#devpsych
PhD student to Lancaster Uni to join our ongoing Levehulme funded research project on how word learning shapes visual representations in infants! Please share! More info :
tinyurl.com/ynbfkhbj
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PhD - Lancaster University
https://tinyurl.com/ynbfkhbj
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Doctors TARDIS
12 months ago
We can upload 3 minute videos now. YOU KNOW THE RULE
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Leah Greenberg âđ
12 months ago
when the teams are "imperfect woman who demanded basic safety standards for herself and the rest of the crew and cast" vs "sexual harassers, the system that protects them, and the entire right-wing media ecosystem" I hope we're all clear which side we need to be on
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Michael Pleyer
12 months ago
JOB ALERT in
#language
and
#linguistics
! Postdoc Position at the Center for Language Evolution Studies, Nicolaus Copernicus University in ToruĆ, Poland. Job offer here:
www.umk.pl/en/jobs/?tas...
We are now looking at a broader candidate pool so do consider applying! Please repost & share widely!
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Bernd Ulrich
12 months ago
Es ist in Deutschland ja so: Jede Subvention der Autoindustrie gilt als Marktwirtschaft. Und jede Investition in unsere Kinder als Sozialismus.
#Groko
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Louie Stowell
12 months ago
Big brains of
#KidLitUK
- someone's asking for books that provide authentic disability representation. What are your top recs? Across all spectrums of disability.
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At the playground with the 5yo. Daddy: You can lie on this hammock here if you want. M: I did a poo on my monkey in the night. D: What?! Really?? M: No! You said I can lie on here.
#lexical
#ambiguity
#linguistics
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Der Volksverpetzer
12 months ago
MĂŒnchen, Solingen, Magdeburg: Zu allen AnschlĂ€gen gab es einen Brennpunkt in der ARD. Zur gestrigen Amokfahrt in
#Mannheim
bisher nicht. Warum wohl?
www.volksverpetzer.de/aktuelles/ma...
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Mannheim: Als die Herkunft bekannt wurde, machte man die Livestreams aus
MĂŒnchen, Solingen, Magdeburg: Zu allen AnschlĂ€gen gab es einen Brennpunkt in der ARD. Zur gestrigen Amokfahrt in Mannheim bisher nicht.
https://www.volksverpetzer.de/aktuelles/mannheim-herkunft-bekannt/?utm_source=bsky
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Erica Flaten (She/Her)
12 months ago
Anyone in the developmental psychology/infant research community know of any existing parent-report questionnaires on infant babbling (i.e., syllable production), specifically for English families?
#DevSci
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Laura Breimann
about 1 year ago
My German election ballot only arrived today, a long shot but is anyone traveling from Boston to Berlin today who could take it? Any leads
@germanyinboston.bsky.social
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Ian Dunt
about 1 year ago
Good morning. After a rough few days, this week's Blind Date was perfectly timed to fill you with joy. Couldn't wipe the smile off my face.
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
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Blind date: âI was hoping to meet a total babe. She was a total babeâ
GrĂĄinne, 31, a software engineer and musician, meets Alexander, 34, a civil servant
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/feb/22/blind-date-grainne-alexander?CMP=share_btn_url
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Felipe De La Hoz
about 1 year ago
I think most people are intuitively aware of this but something like the official White House account posting an âASMRâ video of shackled immigrants is not just cruel for its own sake, itâs intentional envelope-pushing to ramp up to desensitization over inhumane detention, camps, and deaths
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Felipe De La Hoz
about 1 year ago
By the way, people should understand that the admin doesn't have to shoot or gas people to kill them. If you pile people in military-run camps in Gitmo and the Panamanian jungle without adequate food or healthcare and just wait, people will die
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Amrei Bahr
about 1 year ago
Liebe dt. Wissenschaftsinstitutionen, wir lesen ĂŒberall starke Bekenntnisse fĂŒr unsere Demokratie & groĂes Entsetzen ĂŒber Dammbruch durch Union, der Demokratie & Menschenrechte unmittelbar gefĂ€hrdet. Auch Ihr solltet dazu nun laut werden: Wissenschaft hat Demokratieverantwortung!
#LauteWissenschaft
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Prof. Emily Nordmann
about 1 year ago
I am writing psycholinguistics lectures for 1st time in many years, I only have 3 so it's a whistlestop tour but I want to ensure multilingualism & signed languages are represented. Am struggling to find sign research re: syntactic parsing models - has it been done? Any pointers appreciated!
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Katie O'Reilly
about 1 year ago
On Darwin Day, a reminder that Charles Darwin had an inexplicable major beef with marine iguanas, writing that they were: "small and of a sooty black, which if possible, heightens their native ugliness" and "the most disgusting, clumsy lizards.... Somebody calls them 'imps of darkness'"
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Was really enjoying Bluesky for a moment there. And now it's like 5% jokes, 5% wholesome content and 90% the collapse of the United States. I cannot afford going back to my doomscrolling habit, help.
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Konrad Kording
about 1 year ago
I know this site only reaches a subset of neuro/ cog professors. If you know a young professor in the area who would benefit from a week of targeted learning about doing good science, good mentoring, networking etc, it would be great if you could forward them:
compneurosci.com/Neuro4Pros/i...
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Neuro4Pros summer school
NeUroscience Computational LEAdership Retreat (NUCLEAR): happiness and success
http://compneurosci.com/Neuro4Pros/index.html
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Georg Henning
about 1 year ago
US friends and colleagues, let me know if you are looking for European phd / postdoc positions to get out of this mess - I can explain how the systems work over here or know people who can (at least for Germany, Sweden. Spitzenkandidat, Norway and UK) and help you find possible job openings
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Ein bisschen Hoffnung!
www.zeit.de/gesellschaft...
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Demonstrationen: Zehntausende Menschen demonstrieren erneut gegen Rechtsruck
Bundesweit wird auch an diesem Wochenende gegen die AfD und das Manöver von Friedrich Merz protestiert. Allein in Hamburg beteiligten sich 65.000 Menschen an einer Demo.
https://www.zeit.de/gesellschaft/zeitgeschehen/2025-02/demonstrationen-brandmauer-friedman-migrationspolitik
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Peter Jelinek
about 1 year ago
Eine Rede, die Anerkennung verdient. In 1 Minute zeigt
@ricardalang.bsky.social
, wie man mit der AfD umgehen sollte und ja, sie spricht Friedrich Merz zurecht die KanzlerfÀhigkeit ab. Hut ab vor dieser Rede!
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Ok, Semester geht ĂŒbernĂ€chste Woche wieder los und dann noch zwei Wochen bis zur Wahl. WĂŒrde gerne meine Student*innen zum WĂ€hlen motivieren zwecks Vermeidung von Faschismus. Frage: Wie macht ihr das so? Zeigt ihr z.B. Wahlomat?
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Amanda Van Horne
about 1 year ago
#Crowdsourcing
I'm looking for current overview book chapter(s)/articles or systematic reviews on adult and child online language processing (emphasis on sentence processing rather than lexical procesing). Target audience = 1st/2nd year grad student level.
#linguistics
#devpsy
#cogpsyc
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Dr Vanessa
about 1 year ago
ngl a lot of AI pick mes in academia are just exposing how poor their teaching/writing is without realising.
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CNN
about 1 year ago
Human rights advocates have warned that Palestinian children are bearing the brunt of Israelâs bombardment and siege.
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A newborn baby froze to death in a tent encampment in Al-Mawasi, in southern Gaza, on Wednesday, highlighting the stark challenges to survival faced by Palestinian children displaced from their homes ...
https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/25/middleeast/israel-gaza-babies-freeze-to-death-winter-intl/index.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=blueskyCNN&utm_content=2024-12-25T21%3A36%3A07
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Nothing like the adrenaline you get when you think you might have lost your child's favourite stuffy đ
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist
about 1 year ago
read the rest, it's great
onehundredpages.wordpress.com/2013/06/12/d...
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Donât make fun of renowned Dan Brown
Renowned author Dan Brown woke up in his luxurious four-poster bed in his expensive $10 million house â and immediately he felt angry. Most people would have thought that the 48-year-old man had noâŠ
https://onehundredpages.wordpress.com/2013/06/12/dont-make-fun-of-renowned-dan-brown/
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Q for fellow academic parents: when will I stop kidding myself with plans like "I'll work on this thing when I have a few uninterrupted hours"?
#academicsky
#parenthood
about 1 year ago
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Gotta love museum bluesky
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Louisa
about 1 year ago
Please tell your kids, every damn day if necessary, that chatGPT is not a goddamn search engine and you shouldnât believe a word it says. Tell the adults too, but itâs especially imperative to inoculate kids against this
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Dr Vanessa
about 1 year ago
Spoiler: this is a textbook. The LLM turned the professorâs teaching materials into a text book so she can do the most basic form of interactive teaching: a flipped classroom (bonus: sheâs now replaceable). This is incredibly embarrassing. Claiming this as innovative teaching is just âŠcringe.
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We keep us safe
about 1 year ago
Today my autistic 4yo was kicked out of speech therapy because he wouldn't "follow directions" and instead wanted to "pretend he was a tiger." I don't know but like... if your job is to give speech therapy to 4 year olds maybe sometimes you have to give speech therapy to a tiger.
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