Today we had the launch event for our Centre for Brain & Behaviour! Lots of cool research from our PIs and contributions from companies, charities, and publishers. Great fruitful discussion and exchanges. Watch this space!

Flash talks at the #TFUNfest2025 this afternoon! Next up is @gwenbrekel.bsky.social who is sharing preliminary results on what students value in relation to equality and diversity in their teaching...

So excited to see that IASCL now has a group Zotero library of research on language acquisition in under-represented languages. 👏👏. All information here: www.childlanguage.org/underreprese...

🚨Postdoctoral fellowship in corpus phonetics / data science for speech with me and Ann Bradlow. Position is open immediately. Apply now! 🚨 Details: faculty.wcas.northwestern.edu/matt-goldric...

Children are incredible language learning machines. But how do they do it? Our latest paper, just published in TICS, synthesizes decades of evidence to propose four components that must be built into any theory of how children learn language. 1/ www.cell.com/trends/cogni... @mpi-nl.bsky.social

What an incredible first day! Some fantastic talks, discussions, and networking - we can't wait to do it all again tomorrow! Check out our LinkedIn post for a few photos from the day... #dartp2025 www.linkedin.com/posts/dart-p...

We are doing a survey to understand why other professionals do/don't refer people with Primary Progressive Aphasia for speech-language support We want Drs, nurses, psychologists, social workers, OTs, PTs & any other profession. The survey can be accessed here: qualtrics.ucl.ac.uk/jfe/form/SV_...

OK folks - will you please help me spread this far and wide. A really exciting opportunity to be the new Director of Comms at @britishacademy.bsky.social - the national academy for humanities and social sciences. £100k. Lovely team. Reports directly to me micro.green-park.co.uk/thebritishac...

There's a PhD studentship opportunity available at the Birkbeck School of Psychological Sciences! 4 years, funded by working as a graduate teaching assistant. Feel free to get in touch if you have questions. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMD691/p...

As always a delight to host @emilynordmann.bsky.social and a very sunny day to boot! Thanks very much for sharing your words of wisdom with our @qmulsbbs.bsky.social teaching & scholarship staff, and for the thought-provoking seminar in the @queenmarycbb.bsky.social psychology seminar!

Last stretch! Please help if you can. If you teach at a Spanish university, don’t hesitate to share with your students. I wouldn’t mind doing an online session afterwards if you want me to introduce the topic of emotion to your students (or I could do a methodological session on online surveys). Thx

50 years ago Alan Baddeley and Graham Hitch propelled the term #workingmemory into the psychological lexicon, with a vision that still resonates today! This editorial with Mark Hurlstone, @amyatkinson.bsky.social , Satoru Saito and Robert Logie, reflects on that remarkable contribution in 1974.

Group arts activities, such as painting and music, can significantly reduce depression and anxiety symptoms in older adults, offering a promising alternative to traditional mental health treatments. doi.org/g866dw

Are you thinking about doing more science communication, but not really sure where to start? Maybe you are already communicating, but would like to explore a wider range of channels? Or you just want an A-to-Z overview of everything #scicomm related? (1/3)

Hi! We're Skype a Scientist! We're a free program that matches scientists with classrooms, scout troops, libraries, & other groups for Q&As all about science. Get matched with a scientist for a virtual conversation! We have 30+ types of scientist & match weekly. www.skypeascientist.com/sign-up.html

You are all invited to"Meet the team"! We will post regularly to introduce our fantastic staff at the Department of Psychology and Centre for Brain & Behaviour. Today, we would like to introduce Gwen Brekelmans @gwenbrekel.bsky.social and Sevasti Foka.

New open access paper in Speech Communication on “nasal coarticulation in Lombard speech”: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... I argue that, in Lombard speech, coarticulatory vowel nasality falls amid a compressed range of nasalisation, but coarticulation is maintained @phoneticslab.bsky.social

THE BUNNY PAPER HAS BEEN PUBLISHED!! www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #linguistics 🐦

Don’t miss the Young People’s Mental Health Creative Showcase organised by Dr Christina Carlisi’s UCL team, happening this Friday evening! www.eventbrite.com/e/ucl-young-...

New preprint! This paper shows that the perceptual boundary between speech and song can shift due to the surrounding context. Specifically, speech/song categorization is affected by contrastive adaptation: perceptual movement away from the previous stimulus. osf.io/preprints/ps...

A thread explaining our new discovery about humpback whale song published today in Science... We found key statistical properties that characterise all human languages in another species for the first time. We have more in common with whales than we previously thought! doi.org/10.1126/scie...

The British Sign Language Corpus offers video data documenting BSL use in the UK. It supports research into BSL structure, use, and change, aiding education, interpreter training, and linguistics. Explore it here: bslcorpusproject.org

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The Child Language Symposium 2025 will be hosted by the University of Reading on September 8th-10th. Our call for papers is now open and will close on 28th February. Submit your abstract for a poster, an oral presentation, a symposium, or a lightening talk. Pls RT research.reading.ac.uk/cls2025/

A study on sample diversity in > 5500 psycholinguistic studies "find that representation of Global South researchers & contexts has grown, but this growth is centered in a handful of countries, and Africa and Southeast Asia remain severely underrepresented." www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Does sound symbolism show up in real language? Do real words for spiky things sound "spiky"? Words for small things sound "small"? I'm excited to share this new review paper summarising the existing work by myself and many others on these questions! compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Universities all over Europe are cutting language programs and closing the doors to the world. We want to get a more complete picture: where, when, why? If you know of any such cases, please tell us (and share the link with your language and linguistics contacts)! elomake.helsinki.fi/lomakkeet/13...

Today’s poem is called ‘Needles’.

Alt text? Don’t worry, Santa’s elves have your back! Writing great alt text is simpler than you think. Got questions? Ask our alt text elves!

🎉 The {messy} package is now available on CRAN! 🎉 Read the introductory blog post here: nrennie.rbind.io/blog/introdu... #RStats #StatsEd #DataScience

Hello everyone 👋🧠 We are very happy to be here! We are the Centre for Brain and Behaviour at Queen Mary University of London! We'll be posting about all the exciting work being done by our researchers focused on the interface between psychology and biology. www.seresearch.qmul.ac.uk/cbb/

Are you a teaching focused academic in #UKHE? Come and join our next National L&T focused network event online THIS Friday 29th Nov 10-12 on "Telling your teaching focused story". Sign up link and more info about future events here ltfocusednetwork.wordpress.com #TeachLearnSky #SoTLsky

Interested in doing a PhD on how to help people learn a new language? We have an ESRC-funded PhD studentship available, to work on the project ‘Individualised second language learning’ from Oct 2025. Application deadline is 3 Dec. More information at www.findaphd.com/phds/program...

Announcing the launch of the Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science: oecs.mit.edu! OECS is a freely-available, growing collection of peer-reviewed articles introducing key topics in cogsci to a broad audience of students and scholars.

We've written a Researcher's Guide to Bluesky! It's a bit like all those other useful guides to Bluesky, but with several useful insights from University of York academics about using the platform, and we'd love it if it was reposted far and wide... >> blogs.york.ac.uk/library/2024... 🧵 below

Generally we think of alt-text as the domain of those with accessibility needs. However alt-text is useful for many reasons, which benefit your viewers, as well as you, the creator!

I lead the Teaching Innovation & Learning Enhancement (TILE) Network (@tilenetwork.bsky.social). TILE is teaching-focused speaker series to share best practice in education. Talks take place on Zoom and are free & open to all. Upcoming talks: tile.psy.gla.ac.uk/tile-schedule/ #AcademicSky #Edusky

This has been a very long while in the works, but some of the work from my PhD back with Liz Wonnacott and Bronwen Evans is finally out! 🎉 Reviewer comments definitely shaped this into a better paper, so I hope you enjoy it! 📖 doi.org/10.1111/lang... open access preprint via doi.org/10.31234/osf...

When I do #SciComm training, I say “you’re not dumbing anything down because you’re not talking to dumb people. You’re talking to people who are smart at something different from what you’re smart at.” I find that perspective helps

📢📢📢 We are hiring 📢📢📢 We have multiple Grade 7 and 8 lectureships available on our Learning, Teaching and Scholarship track. As an LTS academic you will be committed to high quality teaching excellence and leadership and join our Pedagogy and Education Research Unit www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DJS142/l...

The Web-based Open-access Reliable Decision on Synonyms (WORDS): 4-minute English Vocab Test 🧑‍💻 @gorillapsych.bsky.social app.gorilla.sc/openmaterial... 📚 doi.org/10.5334/joc.... Designed by me and @rach-hulme.bsky.social @lenamblott.bsky.social @jennirodd.bsky.social Excited to see more use of it

Hey, just landed! please, can those who know me repost to help me reconnect with my #HE #SoTL #PedRes #DBER #TL #T&S community? Much appreciated!

The 2000th classroom signed up for the spring semester of Skype a Scientist today! We can accommodate another 2000 classrooms. We have plenty of scientists! Sign up to be matched with a scientist for a Q&A with your class, scout troop, or library today skypeascientist.com/sign-up.html

Ever wondered how to ask inclusive, clear and accurate gender questions in survey research? But not had any data support your best guesses? Very excited to announce we have a new paper out in Linguistics Vanguard investigating exactly that! (Out now! Open Access!) www.degruyter.com/document/doi...

No exaggeration: this panel changed my life.

A bit of wisdom from my HoD's whiteboard which is easy to forget in this output-oriented academic world

Something that isn’t really very obvious to non-academics—including many grad applicants—is how to interpret author order on papers. But it’s useful to know about if you’re contacting an academic about their work. 1/

Postdoc alert! Come work with me on an ESRC project on the role of narratives in the learning and retention of educational material. 2 year position, start date flexible but no later than 1st September. Application deadline 1st March. #neuroskyence #psychscisky #cognition

Alright people. I need your help. Enrollment for @skypeascientist.bsky.social this semester has been -fine- but we can do better. We have so many scientists who want to speak with classrooms! Will you tell a teacher you know about our program 🥺 please? Send them to skypeascientist.com/sign-up