Academic job opportunity for a Senior Research Associate working with @ukrepro.bsky.social 👇 www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

The third EuroSLA plenary talk being delivered by Emma Marsden (University of Oxford).

Open Mind, the free OA competitor to Cognition (El$evier) founded by Richard Aslin, has nearly caught up to it impact-factor-wise Submit your best work! It's a great journal with fast and constructive review, a great ed board, and lots of cool work Open Mind is the future of cogsci journals!

Our new book on sign language linguistics (adapted from the 2007 Auslan linguistics book) isn't out until next month, but over 500 clips of BSL and ASL sign examples from the book can be downloaded now! Take a look at the resources section on the book's webpage. www.cambridge.org/highereducat...

#ARTEM-IS is a free webapp that helps you document your EEG/ERP methods properly. You fill in a branching form and it gives you back a tidy PDF and a machine-readable JSON, so someone can rebuild exactly what you did. Loved presenting it at #OHBM #Brainhack2026 this year. doi.org/10.1111/psyp...

The winner of the Collaboration in Research Management award is Valuing Voices project, york.ac.uk #ARMAAwards

Happy Pretending-that-university-rankings-are-a-useful-reflection-of-the-social-value-we-all-create-and-not-the-industry-damaging-neoliberal-attack-on-higher-education-they-really-are Day to all who celebrate it.

We are looking for Dutch-speaking participants for a short 5-minute survey! We're studying how people evaluate utterances about others - no previous knowledge required! www.soscisurvey.de/evaluation_d... Linguists are kindly asked to share, but not to take part!

We're pleased to announce that @uoylibrary.bsky.social has joined the @ojcollective.bsky.social 🔓📚 OJC is a ground-breaking initiative - one we are proud to support as we look to drive change in the current publishing system and invest in alternative models which align with our mission and values 👍

Did you know you can search for R packages by what they do, as opposed to just their names? Look! 👉🏼 rwarehouse.netlify.app @kylieainslie.bsky.social made The Warehouse for just this purpose. Send it to a new R programmer today ❤️ because it's the resource we all wish we'd had at some point #rstats

A final plug for our online event next Friday: Reproducibility in Quantitative Social Sciences Research 📊 ♻️ 🔓 Contributors will include @crahal.com, @grigolus.bsky.social, @joespearing.bsky.social and @cbolibaugh.bsky.social Full details and registration link here: uoy.atlassian.net/wiki/x/MQBjRg

I've watched 1st hand as the young-person-in-care that I meet with via the Independent Visitors Scheme* was moved 123 miles and then 70 miles away from her home, and the type places that she has been 'dumped' (no other word) five placements in 12 months. This article starts to articulate the horrors

@crist14n.bsky.social presented some of the capabilities of metacheck, which has its first beta release today! See an example report that demonstrates all of the current modules. www.scienceverse.org/metacheck/re...

You can see where I stand on these issues in the values statement at www.scienceverse.org/metacheck/

@edithkaan.bsky.social @iwinther.bsky.social and I are editing a special issue "Bridging psycholinguistic and computational approaches to bilingualism". Have a look at mmmm2026.github.io/LAB/ if you're interested!

Waiting for the latest from @dingdingpeng.the100.ci on causal swimming

This year's ECR prize for Social Sciences goes to @kayleighdoyle.bsky.social, Research Associate @uoyeducation.bsky.social, and the Accessing Disability Library (ADLib) team 🏆 ADLib is an open repository of evidence-informed data collection tools for working with learning disabled participants 🚸

Very pleased to announce the winners of this year’s Open Research Awards, celebrating innovation, advocacy and good practice in open research across all disciplines at York! 🎉🏆 We will post about each our 9 awardees over the course of the week. You can read a summary of their projects on the wiki 👇

And if you're interested in computational reproducibility in the social sciences, join us and colleagues from the University of Oxford and University of York in this online lunchtime event on June 12: bsky.app/profile/uoyo... @uoyopenres.bsky.social #OpenScience #Metascience

Our big team science RCT on whether and how AI might assist in verifying results is published open access today doi.org/10.1073/pnas... Good news for humans: “for high-stakes verification, the human part is still doing real work: reading, debugging, deciding what matters, and judging evidence.”

York-based folk - On July 3rd we are putting on an afternoon for educational/speech and language professionals on neurodivergent masking/camouflaging, looking across autism and Developmental Language Disorder. If you are interested get in touch/sign up here! 8 places left! forms.gle/KB8Dy6Z2WqVh...

🚀 Exciting news for doctoral researchers & research teams! The UKRI Digital Research Skills Catalyst is now live — making high-quality digital training easier to access. Discover: 🔎 50+ training resources 💬 Free 1:1 expert help 🛠️ Events and networking Explore: www.digitalskillscatalyst.ac.uk

Arizona effects rule everything around me

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...

Are you interested in how adults learn new words and concepts? Are you based in London? Sign up for our fun experiment with your friend. You’ll get to chat with your friend and learn some new things

Things are moving faster than we can document them - after a first round of analysis, we're now continuing the collection: we'd like to hear about recent cases in the UK or the Netherlands, but also get a better picture of the situation in Central and Eastern Europe. All input is welcome. 1/2

🔎The ELL programme at the University of Hertfordshire is under review. 🫂Linguistics plays a critical role across humanities and social sciences contributing to areas such as education, communication, social justice and interdisciplinary research. ✍️Sign the petition: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

It's exam season, which means it is time to revise. Can AI help your revision process? Possibly. But definitely not if you let it do the important work for you. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DQS...

Some background on Psych-DS and why you should use it to organize your data: bsky.app/profile/mekl... tl;dr: if it comes in rows & columns we have a system for it, and if it's in the behavioral/social sciences we also have sensible default conventions and lots of example datasets!

Psych-DS is spellcheck for your datasets, and it has an R package now! Available in beta now, made by the excellent Brian Leonard, instructions here: psych-ds.github.io/psychds-r/

My current position will be coming to a close at the end of 2026, so I’m beginning to explore next steps. I’m a postdoctoral researcher at UCL working at the intersection of language, cognition, and multimodal communication. 1/4 👇

Just released & free to download for two weeks: "Constructions, Networks and Linguistic Change" by Graeme Trousdale and Elizabeth Closs Traugott in the Cambridge Elements Construction Grammar Series #language #linguistics doi.org/10.1017/9781...

Ode to the original language model, or: Give me literally Anything* instead of Large Language Models (LLMs) *(no predictive coding either!) By Lady Byronadrea LLMartin 1/n

Elen Le Foll published an interesting study on how (applied) linguists understand Open Science. I was involved in a collaborative and transparent peer review process for the article, with a reviewer report available here: works.hcommons.org/records/tfj1...

One week left to apply… Feel free to drop an email for more details, whether to the project lead (Kate Button), me, or other team members (@denolmo.bsky.social, @davidaellis.bsky.social, Marjan Bakker) #postdoc #AcademicJobs #metasci

How to join zillions of lexical norms to each word in your language sample the easy way: a quick tutorial and demo reilly-lab.github.io/Jamie_JoinLe...

Sir Albert Sloman envisioned languages at the heart of the University of Essex. ❗ Now, his legacy is in danger. Sign the petition: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

📣 New paper out in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B in which we investigated whether conversational alignment — the tendency to reuse each other's words, syntactic constructions, topics, sounds and gestures — can be used as a reliable individual trait. It cannot! 🧵 1/4 doi.org/10.1098/rspb...

The special issue "Second language fluency across contexts” (editors Pauliina Peltonen @utu.fi & Clare Wright @universityofleeds.bsky.social) is now out in IRAL www.degruyterbrill.com/journal/key/...! Warm thanks to all the contributors & to IRAL editors for support 🙏 @dgb-linguistics.bsky.social

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...

Unions are by no means perfect (anyone who's ever been in one can tell you). But I would rather be part of one and push for change than be trying to go it alone.

Happening online today at 2:30 Berlin time: Learn more about what meta-analyses and large scale replications can tell us, at the #LoveReplicationsWeek forrt.org/LoveReplicat... Thanks, @forrt.bsky.social

We have funding for a PhD position on word learning of a third language! The position is part of a research group on the psychology of language control (bilingualism), so that there will be a cohort of PhD students with related topics. Please distribute with anyone who might be interested. :)

"Oops, Git! How to recover from common mistakes" 🙈 Come learn some Git with me and {saperlipopette} at Workshops for Ukraine! Thursday, March 19th, 14:00 - 16:00 CET (Rome, Berlin, Paris timezone) sites.google.com/view/dariia-... Organized by @dariia.bsky.social 🙏 #RStats

:loudspeaker: Job opportunity to work on safeguarding at-risk data & culture :tada: Technische Informatzionsbibliothek (TIB, Germany's national library of science & technology) are recruiting a software engineer to work on developing the https://sciop.net platform for safeguarding at-risk data […]

Postdoctoral Researcher - BILINGUAL LENS - Infant Language and Cognition Research Group, BCBL, Basque Center on Cognition, Brain & Language Application deadline: 20 March 2026

Final call for papers!📢 Deadline extended to 14 February 2026! Join us in Lisbon next year for the International Word Processing Conference, on 6–8 July 2026. We welcome contributions on all aspects of word processing. www.woproc2026.com

2026 big update to the psycholinguistic database page! If you know of corpora, lexical databases, or other resources that I've missed, please LMK. Trying to keep this thing relatively current and could use the help www.reilly-coglab.com/data