If you are considering a Marie Curie for the September deadline that fits in the lab (depression, measurement, time-series, complex systems, history of psychiatry), please don't hesitate to send me an email if you'd like to work with me :).

For everyone interested in computational psycholinguistics, please feel encouraged to submit your work to the 2nd edition of the Computational Psycholinguistics Meeting, co-organized by our lenajaeger.bsky.social, to be held in Utrecht, NL. cpl2026.sites.uu.nl/2026/05/19/c...

Nein, non, nee. Als je Thatcher's koers volgt, krijg je geen sterker Europa. Jetten, kies voor een nieuwe Europese koers. Mijn opinie met @svenfranck.bsky.social en @reiniervanlanschot.volteuropa.org www.trouw.nl/opinie/opini...

We're so very proud of this! Not much of the journal metrics per se (they don't always reflect well what they're supposed to measure...), but of the fact that we offer a reputable outlet for strong cognitive science outside of commercial logics. Send us your best papers, folks!

A new paper out, cognitive peeps: Wang Y., Hendrix P., & Keuleers E. (2026). Orthographic Neighbourhood Size Effects in Chinese Character Recognition: Small, Inconsistent, and Theoretically Ambiguous. Journal of Cognition 9(1):33, pp. 1–23. DOI: doi.org/10.5334/joc....

WK voetbal met twee filosofische elftallen ⚽️ #MontyPython youtu.be/PjV9eZzNs2g?...

New release: "The Perks of Being a Bookworm: The Science of the Benefits of Reading" by @falkhuettig.bsky.social, now out with @universitypress.cambridge.org www.cambridge.org/core/books/p...

Only 49 student papers and 7 master theses to go and then I’m done with the first summer marking period… how’s *your* summer going?

Inner speech and the neurobiology of psychosis: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... with @daniellametti.com

—— Open Mind is MIT Press’s Diamond Open Access Cognitive Science journal. We now have our first Impact Factor: 2.9 as of June 2026 Submit your papers to Open Mind direct.mit.edu/opmi

Volt komt met een initiatiefnota om de kansen van AI te verzilveren en de negatieve neveneffecten te dempen. Volt doet met één zetel in de Kamer nu al meer zinnig werk dan die 50 zetels ter rechterzijde van de VVD bij elkaar. Chapeau. 1/2

On the way home from Beijing, after a tour of China - four cities, four talks, great meetings, sightseeing, and food. Now time for some rest and a diet.

Our newest finding: tiny microsaccades are biased toward the location that is about to be attentionally suppressed. This suggests that attention briefly precedes suppression: before the system can suppress a location, it first appears to select it.

11. Addendum: here are the words characteristic of LLMs. Notice anything? It reads like an email from our upper administration.

Ted Chiang is brilliant. He takes the question of AI consciousness to its logical conclusion—really a must-read, right down to the last word: www.theatlantic.com/philosophy/2...

Maladaptief dagdromen: wanneer fantaseren een probleem wordt vrtnws.be/p.M96EA4a4a?t=178... @vrtnws.be

@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!

Attention to all teaching introduction to psycholinguistics

This is a clear tendency: While the 1990s saw the peak of generative comparative syntax (or g-syntax), the last two decades have been dominated by analyses of particular phenomena in individual languages (p-syntax) – with limited repercussions on general theories. sites.google.com/view/salzbur...

Tip for junior authors: Keep your cover letter short. Clarify (1) the fit to the journal’s mission and (2) what kinds of reviewers would be most appropriate. Especially for work that bridges areas, or if the paper could be misread as belonging to a different area than the one you see as central.

go and work w @alpar.bsky.social in copenhagen for a 2y postdoc on comparing llms and humans on metaphor processing (including eye-tracking fun stuff): employment.ku.dk/faculty/?sho...

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...

“…hallucinated references disproportionately assign credit to already prominent and male scholars, suggesting that LLM-generated errors may reinforce existing inequities in scientific recognition…” 🧪 arxiv.org/abs/2605.07723

An incredible panel of speakers at the Too Mad to be True conference: (clockwise from top left) Tanya Luhrmann, Cherie’s Rosen @ccrosenphd.bsky.social , Tatiana Baxter @tatianabaxter.bsky.social , Pablo López-Silva, & in-person Rosa Ritunnano @rritunnano.bsky.social. #toomadtobetrue #toomadtobetrue4

Why do our brains need books? 🧠 📚 Falk Huettig, author of ‘The Perks of Being a Bookworm’, explains how reading supports #mentalhealth, shapes our brains and helps us stay connected in the age of digital distraction and AI. Read more 🔗 https://cup.org/4378IT0 #MentalHealthAwarenessMonth

Het initiatief in Nederland om Antifa als terroristische organisatie te bestempelen, kwam vooral van Lidewij de Vos (FVD), Caroline van der Plas (BBB) en Geert Wilders (PVV) Hebben zij al een initiatief genomen om de Defend groepen ook als terroristische organisatie aan te merken?

Poster session at Psycholinguistics in Flanders at Pavia. @lauraocchipinti.bsky.social presents @abstractionerc.bsky.social results on how lexical concreteness and specificity affect children's text evaluation. 🤩 sites.google.com/view/pifpavia

ESCoP 2026 will be held in Hangzhou (31 Aug–4 Sept). Great keynote speakers, strong programme, and a chance to experience China. Easy travel via Shanghai + high-speed train. Abstracts still open! www.escop-copm-2026.com

Rechter bevestigt: de quasi-permanente grenscontroles zijn in strijd met Schengen regels. Dat was glashelder, maar regeringen hebben Teumpiaans maling aan regels en rechters, de @ec.europa.eu weigert de wetten en verdragen te handhaven, en @europarl.europa.eu verzaakt zijn toezichtsplicht

My favorite paper these days: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... "[I]t is hard to predict ex ante (i.e., before data collection) when errors will be fast or slow. [...] [We] validate a [...] model which successfully predicts when errors will be faster or slower than correct responses."

New e-bike hitting 1000km after 2 months of loyal service (w fewer flat tyres than MvdP in Paris-Roubaix)

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 ☺️

🇪🇺 Vier Europa met ons op 9 mei, Europadag! We pleiten voor het verder verenigen van Europa om eindelijk ons enorme potentieel in te lossen. Praktisch 15u00: verzamelen 16u15: aankomst 16u30-17u: toespraken 📍 Rabotpark => Kouter, Gent 🕒 15u-17u 📅 9 mei voltbelgie.org/agenda/europamars

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