📢 PhD position in Developmental Language Modelling (PLZ RT) What can human language acquisition teach us about training language models? Join us as a PhD! mpi.nl/career-education/vacancies/vacancy/fully-funded-4-year-phd-position-developmental-language @carorowland.bsky.social @mpi-nl.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. :)

Postdoctoral Researcher (100 %), a 4-Year Postdoc on Psychology of Language Control, RWTH Aachen University, Germany The position is embedded in the DFG funded Research Unit “Bilingual Flexibility — The Psychology of Language Control”. Application deadline is 15 March 2026.

Bots have made their way to Prolific experiments. Our lab has stopped online testing of adults entirely now for this reason - we want to know if what we study is real. Probably data collected 2-3 years ago are ok, but moving forward we just can't know. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Applications are still open (until March 1) for the 2026 ERP Boot Camp at UC Davis from 6/15-6/24! It's a workshop for people with at least 1 year of experience with EEG/ERP, and ALL EXPENSES ARE PAID. I went many years ago – it was a great and very educational experience.

I am so pleased that my first paper out this year is this multi-coauthored gem with my collaborators in the ROLE Collective. It was so wonderful to serve as a small part of this effort to understand the terms we use as language researchers and their impacts! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

@matildellen.bsky.social bravely decided to do a registered report with @pci-regreports.bsky.social as the first manuscript of her PhD -- 2+ years later, it's out! It's on how bilingualism affects statistical word learning, and the results were quite unexpected. Read more:

Sign up for the next virtual #GeWoNN Journal Club Meeting! We are thrilled to have @juliafstrand.bsky.social give us a guest talk on error prevention in psychological research! Linguists, psychologists, and language researchers are all welcome! 😊 Register here: forms.gle/YoZpPxrRxXcG...

Congratulations to our #GeWoNN members on their accepted symposia at the #teap2026 Conference!  See titles below:

Are you a US-based PhD student WITHOUT summer funding who is interested in adolescent development, trans youth, and/or gender? Reach out to me about applying to join my lab in Summer 2026 for the VIPS program! psych.princeton.edu/diversity/vi...

The Spoken Language group @bcbl.bsky.social is currently recruiting for these positions: 👉PhD students (expressions of interest are welcome on a rolling basis) 👉Postdoctoral Researcher (start date: Nov '26 - Sep '27) tinyurl.com/3um3bjze 👉Research Assistant tinyurl.com/y5uebra6 Please share ☺️

If you have a syllabus for a psych grad methods course that covers both experimental and non-experimental methods, I'd love to take a peek! 👀

** New ** Seeking Postdoctoral Research Fellow (3 yrs) for ESRC project on skilled reading in Arabic. Based in my lab at @rhulpsychology.bsky.social and collaborating with @denisdrieghe.bsky.social (Soton) and Sami Boudelaa (UAE). Please share! jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

📢PhD fellowships The Spoken Language group at #BCBL (Spain) offers sponsorship for the #INPhINIT Predoctoral Fellowships Potential PhD projects can be related to: 🗣️Speech perception 🧠Language learning ℹ️Info about the position and application process: tinyurl.com/2kcfsjr3 📆Deadline: October 30

Posting on behalf of Tamar Gollan, who is not on Bluesky: A postdoc position is open and available immediately in Dr. Tamar Gollan’s Laboratory of Aging Bilingualism at the University of California, San Diego, funded by NIH & NSF. See link for details! psychiatry.ucsd.edu/about/LAB_Go...

Call for collaborators! 🧵 The TL;DR: we seek collaborators on a #ManyLabs #RegisteredReport about what causes rapid forgetting. In-principle accepted Stage 1: osf.io/ahjn5 Expressions of interest: cardiffunipsych.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... Further details in the 🧵:

📢 SAVE THE DATE for #TeaP2026 in Tübingen 😍 Symposium submissions open on October 1! 🎉 For details, check out our website: coms.app/teap26/ 👍🏼

📢 Researchers in bilingualism & word learning! I'm doing a meta-analysis on the bilingual advantage & seeking unpublished data comparing bilinguals vs monolinguals. Summary stats or raw data welcome (confidential). Pre-reg 👉 osf.io/6a7yg/ DM me or share if you know someone! 🙏

Just attended @isbilingualism.bsky.social in San Sebastián with my supervisor @troembke.bsky.social. I presented my meta-analysis on bilingual advantage in word learning there. Great talks and interesting people. Grateful for the experience! #Bilingualism #LanguageLearning #Psycholinguistics

🚀 My first PhD paper is out! 🚀 "How do multiple meanings affect word learning and remapping?" was published in Memory & Cognition! Big thanks to my supervisors and co-authors (Iring Koch & @troembke.bsky.social). Curious? Read it here: rdcu.be/eeY9o #CognitivePsychology #WordLearning #Bilingualism

🚨 TRUST Open Lecture – Join Us! 🚨 Is #standardisation in research boosting #replicability or slowing scientific progress? 🤔 📅 March 31 (Mon), 2025 ⏰ 16:00–18:00 CET 📍 Hörsaal H112, IBW-Gebäude, University of Cologne 💻 Live-stream available! Registration info here: sites.google.com/view/gewonn/...

Proud PI! 👏 On #TeaP2025 two lab members presented their work: Haoyu Zhou in the symposium #StatisticalLearning and its Role in #Language and #Reading acquisition. @boevesam.bsky.social in the symposium From Babies to Semantics: Leveraging #LanguageModels for #Psycholinguistic Research.

Let #data talk! Our next journal club meeting will discuss @balazsaczel.bsky.social's commentary, "Let the data talk: embrace #exploratoryresearch". March 20 (Thurs), 11 am-12 pm (CET), Zoom Welcome to join us! Check out our website for more info! sites.google.com/view/gewonn/...

Day 1 #TeaP2025 with a great talk by Prof. Wolfe & a successful symposium on Statistical Learning (thanks @troembke.bsky.social @xeniaschmalz.bsky.social). Also, if you’re in Germany & a bit tired of ethics applications check out #Ethiktool (a software solution to support the ethical assessment)

Welcome to join our open lecture on #standardisation & #replicability in Cologne on March 31, organised by the #TRUSTNetwork, led by @benjamingagl.bsky.social, @janahasenacker.bsky.social, @troembke.bsky.social & @xeniaschmalz.bsky.social! See 🧵below for details 👇...

Fellowships for non-UK scientists who want to come to the UK. Happy to chat to postdocs who want to visit my lab @oxexppsy.bsky.social www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/inte...

Important read on the devastating impact of fraud in Alzheimer's research, highlighting the work of 2024 #EinsteinFoundationAward winners @elisabethbik.bsky.social and @pubpeer.com in cleaning up the scientific record. #ResearchIntegrity www.nytimes.com/2025/01/24/o...

New OA paper: "Let’s talk about language — and its role for replicability" by @xeniaschmalz.bsky.social, @marhai.bsky.social, Andrea Hildebrandt, Philipp Knöpfle, Anna Yi Leung, & @timoroettger.bsky.social, and me (originating from our @meta-rep.bsky.social group). www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I have supported many deaf graduate students and currently support a deaf post doc using this mechanism. What’s happening at NIH is terrible for science and closes doors for deaf students who face so many more challenges than their hearing peers

Want to get editing experience? If you have a PhD & are a member of a group that’s historically underrepresented in editorial roles, apply for a 1 yr editorial fellowship at one of APS’s journals (including Psych Science)! Deadline 7 Feb. Please share! www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...

I’m entering the final stages of data collection on research I’m doing into disability employment. If you have a physical disability and are UK based, I’d be especially grateful to hear from you. The survey is at: cambridge.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... #AcademicSky #Disability

🗣💬 Looking for a test of linguistic processing fluency that I could administer to both L1 & L2 speakers of English & German. I know that "proficiency" might indicate how difficult it is for someone to process language but proficiency measures among L1ers & L2ers are difficult to compare #linguistics

📣 I am excited to co-edit a book w/ Fabrice Jaumont on embracing the imperfection of language learning. Do you have a story, a case study, a biography that challenges the paralyzing "gold standard" of achieving native-like fluency in an L2? For submission guidelines, visit calec.org/2024/11/28/b...

"I have yet to see a course at the graduate level on how to conduct peer review, but its neglect in the list of courses is testament to the low status of reviewing." From this set of comments about academic publishing: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Life goals (not the first inspired by @emilymyers.bsky.social).

Come join us in Oxford! Or encourage your friends to apply, so you can visit them here! We are looking to fill the Professorship in Language and Communication, a senior professor position. my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru... .

📢Two calls for the prestigious INPhINIT PhD fellowships are now open: ▪️Retaining (applicants based in Spain) ▪️Incoming (international applicants) lacaixafoundation.org/en/doctoral-... The BCBL is an eligible host for both calls and the Spoken Language Group welcomes applications‼️

We had a great discussion in our @gewonnofficial.bsky.social #JournalClub about the paper “Inadequate foundational #decoding skills constrain global #literacy goals for pupils in low- and middle-low-income countries” by Crawford, Raheel, @mariakna.bsky.social and @kathyrastle.bsky.social .

#Fellowship #Alert The Collegium’s early-career fellowship program empowers exceptionally talented academics and artists. It fosters innovative, boundary-crossing work that challenges conventional disciplinary limits. Application deadline: February 15, 2025. collegium.ethz.ch/fellowships/...

🎥 Playback from our #QuaSemO2024 meeting in Oct 2024! 🌍✨ An inspiring session with a fantastic group of international researchers, diving into cutting-edge developments in quantifying orthography-semantics regularities in Munich. #Linguistics #ResearchInnovation #Orthography #Semantics

Our Journal Club meets monthly to explore word research! Join us tomorrow (Dec 5) as we discuss "Inadequate foundational decoding skills constrain global literacy goals for pupils in low- and middle-income countries" by Michael Crawford, Neha Raheel, @mariakna.bsky.social & @kathyrastle.bsky.social.

🌟 Call for ECR Keynotes! 🌟 The 15th International Symposium on Bilingualism is seeking nominations for 2-3 Early Career Researchers to deliver keynote talks showcasing future directions in bilingualism research. ✔️ Deadline: 3 Feb 2025 ✔️ Apply: [email protected] Details: www.bcbl.eu/events/isb15...

I am excited to announce the special issue I led with Rachel Wu for JEP: General is online! Read our intro! As a field we need to consider context, social identities, & individual differences that shape how we experience diversity across the lifespan! #psychology psycnet.apa.org/record/2025-...

Several PhD scholarships are available for joining the IDEALAB, an int. Grad School. Projects are carried out at 2 sites, e.g. Potsdam and Groningen or Sydney. Topics in Psycho- and Neurolinguistics, Phonetics, Language Acquisition and Clinical Linguistics. phd-idealab.com/application/...

ESCoP @escop.bsky.social Executive Committee Seeks the Next Editor of the Journal of Cognition @jcgntn.bsky.social - Deadline for expressions of interest 31 December 2024 - Start date: 1 January 2026 - Contact Editor-in-Chief @candicemorey.bsky.social for more info and (self)nominations

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...

Early career researchers! Ready to become a peer reviewer? Please come join @blackinneuro.bsky.social @mariamaly.bsky.social and me!

👩‍🎓👨‍🎓Fully funded PhD position available to come work with me at @unioslo.bsky.social using iterative learning experiments to understand the evolution of sound symbolism. 🔴 Deadline is 12. Jan '24 ⏲️ Desired starting date is Mar/April '24 shorturl.at/7hLH0

In case you haven't heard about our Network: sites.google.com/view/gewonn/... If you identify as (German) Word Nerd, join @xeniaschmalz.bsky.social @troembke.bsky.social and others by sending an email: sites.google.com/view/gewonn/... German is optional, but we can't deny where it all started 😉