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

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.