New JEP:LMC paper, led by Roger van Gompel and w/ Leila Kantola that exploits the property of Dutch that subject and verb invert when putting e.g."Yesterday" sentence-initial. It shows that the lexical boost of structural priming depends on head overlap, not adjacency. doi.org/10.1037/xlm0...

New! Interactional foundations for critical AI literacies doi.org/10.5281/zeno... Why do Anthropic engineers talk to Claude as a witch-doctor to his potions? How is prompt engineering like spider divination? Can one reason without reasons? ft. Lovelace, Adorno, Suchman, Weizenbaum & many more ☺️

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Great thread. The sentence I found most intriguing, tho, was this: "TLDR: the decline is greatest amongst people who used AI to obtain answers directly, and people who used AI as a tool to get hints/clarification didn't decline and arguably improved over time.."

Dear visual-world eye-tracking community: My colleagues and I are conducting a survey on pre-processing practices in visual world experiments. The survey takes approximately 20–30 minutes to complete: ugent.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... We'd appreciate it you fill it out or spread it further!

I'm building an intro to R course to help students get up to speed on the basics. It's called 'R for Nervous Humans'. Modules 1-4 are up now. No interactivity though, for reasons. Feedback welcomed. arcaravaggi.github.io/r-for-nervou... #statistics #rstats

Today, if you live in the Netherlands, it is your time to make your voice heard. Yours may be the vote that makes the difference. Think European. Vote local. Vote Volt 💜

TFW your work on self-monitoring of speech is cited several times in a paper on monitoring startup companies in developing countries.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=vyz9... School music project resulting in a few wonderful songs (says fully objective father) with lyrics & backing vocals by Elisa Hartsuiker.

Has transparency improved in clinical psychology? New cross sectional study from us (Bianca Kotoulas, Justine Blackwell & me). Adoption of transparent research practices has increased between 2012, 2018, & 2024, but aside from coi and funding disclosures, they remain uncommon osf.io/preprints/ps...

The Multilingual Minds and Machines Meeting abstract submission deadline has been extended to March 21! mmmm2026.github.io

A few people have asked for the syllabus from my grad seminar on Generative AI for social science -- just posted it here: statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/03/10/n...

A Review in Nature Reviews Psychology summarizes how visual signals, feedback and multi-party interactions contribute to language processing during conversation and require further study. 🔒

UH Researcher Disputes Claim that Multilingualism Promotes Better Brain Aging | University of Houston www.uh.edu/news-events/...

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...

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. :)

Despite all the chatter, social media bans for teens lack evidence! New paper out in Nature Health. (1) Harms from social media are real & serious. (2) We need regulatory action but bans are not nuanced, do not empower youth, & are not supported by evidence. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

📢 PhD position in Computational Neuroscience 🧠 Join the Deco-B project to decode bilingual speech (Spanish–Basque) using MEG/fMRI + multilingual AI models. Work at the intersection of neuroscience & machine learning at BCBL. More: tinyurl.com/2rnur82n

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/...

Correlation? Causation?

Are you a junior faculty member interested in spending 2-4 weeks at Princeton Psych? Please apply for our Microsabbatical program! It’s a fully funded visit for professional development and creating long-term collaborations. psych.princeton.edu/diversity/mi...

I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again: the weaponizing of normal speech disfluency is normal practice in political journalism

Excited to announce a new book telling the story of mathematical approaches to studying the mind, from the origins of cognitive science to modern AI! The Laws of Thought will be published in February and is available for pre-order now.

I am looking to hire 2-3 post-docs over the course of the next few months to work on questions related to cognitive control in humans, broadly construed. EEG, TMS, DBS, sEEG, fMRI or related methodological experience preferred. Apply here: jobs.uiowa.edu/jobSearch/po... Lab website: wessellab.org

📢Applications to our Master's Program in Cognitive Neuroscience of Language at BCBL @bcbl.bsky.social (Spain) will be open from March 2nd until March 27th! Info: www.bcbl.eu/en/study-wit... #neuroscience #language #psychology #linguistics #research #master

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

Now available on the OSF as part of a growing collection of preregistration resources, the new EEG & ERP Methods template guides researchers through every stage of ERP study planning. In our Q&A, two of its creators share how the template can help researchers at all stages:

🚀 Deux postes de Maître·sse·s de Conférences ouverts – "IA et ses applications" (IUT-2) et "Modélisation, simulation, traitement et analyse du comportement humain" (UFR SHS) – sont associés au GETALP du Laboratoire d’Informatique de Grenoble (LIG). 📧 contactez : [email protected]

The LingComm Grants are back! These grants started in 2020, as "hey let's help get lingcomm projects going during lockdown" They've since run in 2022 and 2024, and thanks to generous folks we've always given out more than expected But they only work if people apply!!! Please share this!!

"Anders" is onvoldoende. Wij pleiten voor een duurzame, sociaalliberale Belgische en Europese toekomst. Een eengemaakte kapitaalmarkt, een Europese industrie & defensie om ons onafhankelijk te maken, en een Europese grondwet die de zwaksten beschermt en gelijke kansen biedt.

@mattgoldrick.bsky.social Matt, congratulations on the Elman Prize! This is so richly deserved!

Ik vind deze campagne erg belangrijk - doe je ook mee? actie.degoedezaak.org/petitions/bo...

In Groningen krijgen big-tech-vrije IT ambities een eerste vorm. Gemeente Nijmegen en Radboud Universiteit lezen jullie mee? community-edtech.npuls.nl/groups/view/...

Nederland kan in de komende jaren een taalpolitiek voorbeeldland worden. neerlandistiek.nl/2026/01/mijn...

Dave Sinardet is professor politieke wetenschappen (VUB/UCLouvain). Zijn column verschijnt tweewekelijks op dinsdag.

Wat een degoutante partij is N-VA toch eigenlijk. Wel altijd de mond vol hebben dat de Brusselaars in Vlaanderen moeten komen werken, maar als er een tram gelegd moet worden is het van: oh nee, geen mensen uit Brussel in onze Vlaemsche residentiële wijken. Fuckers.

Psychology Jobs Three assistant professor positions in health, clinical, or social psychology at the University of Southampton, UK. Closing date: 30 Jan 2026 BSky Contacts: @timwildschut.bsky.social & @denisdrieghe.bsky.social #PsychJobs #SocialPsyc #ClinPsyc #HealthPsyc #PhDSky #AcademicSky

“As suggested by an anonymous reviewer, another theory that may also account for [X] is Theory [Y]. While a comprehensive review of this theory falls outside the scope of this paper, we encourage readers to explore it further”… my nomination for the international prize for diplomacy!

We should no longer trust data collected on MTurk link.springer.com/article/10.3... My guess is that other online data is going to drop in quality due to LLMs. This is going to be an existential crisis for the behavioral sciences.

TOTD "8 yoked bears" -> "8 yoked pairs" #CogSciSky

Very cool but … does it sound any better than Von Kempelen’s speaking machine from the 1790’s?

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I may be a *little* biased but this 📘 is GREAT! If you ever found language structure interesting, but were turned off by implausible and overly complicated accounts, this book is 4U: a simple and empirically grounded account of the syntax of natural lgs. A must-read for lang researchers+aficionados!

😔 Science Fictions | Episode 92: Oliver Sacks www.podbean.com/ea/dir-ryr7x...

@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:

I've used Lavaan almost every (work)day for 15 years, but this open source labour of love has never received proper institutional support. I'm delighted to be a small part of an 1.5M OpenScienceNL award, led by Jorgensen, to completely revamp and futureproof Lavaan www.openscience.nl/en/news/45-p...

The United Kingdom is coming back to Erasmus+ 🇪🇺🇬🇧 We have concluded negotiations for the United Kingdom’s association to Erasmus+ in 2027, making further steps in our renewed EU-UK Strategic Partnership. More ↓ link.europa.eu/vf3vJk

If you analyse time-resolved data (M/EEG, iEEG, pupillometry, force recordings…) and feel limited by cluster-based permutation tests (CBPTs); especially when trying to determine when an effect starts or ends; you may want to try our new R package: lnalborczyk.github.io/neurogam/ #rstats #brms #EEG

Psycholinguistics in Flanders Pavia, Italy 12-13 MAY 2026 (please not that the date in the previous post was incorrect) Abstract submission deadline: 20 February 2026 Early registration deadline: 31 March 2026 Registration deadline: 1 May 2026 sites.google.com/view/pifpavia