Happy New Year! 🥳 We're excited to announce January's #GeWoNN Journal Club Meeting! Our guest speaker, Dr Kurt Winsler, will talk about "Experience-Dependent Changes in Visual Processing of Letters". Date: 21-1-2026, 9-10 am (CET) Register here for the Zoom link 👇 forms.gle/e25X4FoQ2VUh...

Join us tomorrow and discuss error prevention in psychological research with our guest speaker, @juliafstrand.bsky.social!

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...

TODAY! In case you are interested ;)

Join our virtual Journal Club discussion in two days!

🚨Now out in *Open Mind* 🚨 "Can we utilize Large Language Models (LLMs) to generate useful linguistic corpora? A case study of the word frequency effect in young German readers" direct.mit.edu/opmi/article... with @jobschepens.bsky.social @hannawoloszyn.bsky.social @nicolekmarx.bsky.social

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

Coming up next in our November's Journal Club meeting: We have happy to have Dr. Cosimo Iaia talk about the concreteness effect in representational alignment between human and language models. All are welcome to join us! Please share 😊 Registration link: forms.gle/8W6Xu9VK31df...

Great talk and discussion with @cyhsieh.bsky.social today, where we learnt about the impact of Chinese characters' semantic consistency on learning compound characters!

Join our journal club next Monday! We're happy to have @cyhsieh.bsky.social to discuss "What Chinese Compounds Tell Us About Reading"! Scan the QR code to register or click here: forms.gle/JV5cp1RHHaH2...

Welcome to join our upcoming Journal Club meetings in Oct & Nov! Happy to have @cyhsieh.bsky.social & Dr. Cosimo Iaia as our guest speakers! Register to get the Zoom link or sign up as our next guest speaker: forms.gle/TY6Cuxut87Ej... More exciting talks coming up. Please share & see you there!

Great journal club meeting on @marcelbinz.bsky.social et al.'s "Centaur: a foundation model of human cognition", moderated by @ksenijamisic.bsky.social. Lots of discussions on the utility and the future of cognitive models! Stay tuned for our next meeting announcement. DM or email us to join!

We're happy to share a new preprint by our members, @jnpauli.bsky.social & @benjamingagl.bsky.social: "Understanding the Neuro-Cognitive Mechanisms of Orthographic Learning in Humans and Baboons: A Comparative Study Using Domain-Specific Mechanistic and Domain-General Connectionist Models"!

Welcome to join our journal club discussion tomorrow! 😄

This summer semester I'm very excited to teach a brand-new seminar on "Open Science practices in Applied Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition" @UniKoeln! ☀️ Some 20 B.A. and M.A. students studying #linguistics or a Romance language (+ one post-doc) […] [Original post on fediscience.org]

Join our next journal club meeting on May 22 (Thur), 11am-12pm (CEST)! We'll discuss: @marcelbinz.bsky.social et al.'s (2024) "Centaur: a foundation model of human cognition"! 😊 Moderator: @ksenijamisic.bsky.social 👇 See link for more info. DM or email us for the Zoom link!

Join our lecture on #standardisation in research this afternoon in Cologne or remotely! Registration still available - More info here: sites.google.com/view/gewonn/...

Three more days for registration! 😊

Hasenäcker, J., Wettmann, J. & Domahs, F.(2025).Kann leichte Sprache zu leicht sein? Eine zielgruppenorientierte Studie zur Wirksamkeit der Genitivvermeidung. Linguistische Berichte,281,39-59. Die Publikation ist aus dem Abschlussprojekt von Juliane Wettmann hervorgegangen. Herzlichen Glückwunsch!

🚀 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/...

Great discussion today on how to teach & set standards for #exploratoryresearch, & how exploratory research can be facilitated through collaborations! Stay tuned & join our next journal club meeting! More info available on our website.🙂

What's your stance on the #standardisation of #research processes? Join our pre-event discussion for the "TRUST Open Lecture: Standardisation in Research: Increasing Replicability or Stalling Scientific Progress?"!

More event highlights from our symposia at #teap2025 are now available on our website: sites.google.com/view/gewonn/... Photos featuring: @jnpauli.bsky.social, @hannawoloszyn.bsky.social, @boevesam.bsky.social & @aakashagr.bsky.social.

It seems our book is already available for purchase online: www.routledge.com/Introduction...

Check out this cool Python package by @jacketaylor.bsky.social for creating Gaussian Bubble image stimuli for #vision & #neuroscience research!

✨Playback of #teap2025 (Part 3) A cool symposium on #OrthographicProcessing, chaired by @jacketaylor.bsky.social & @jnpauli.bsky.social! Thanks to our very cool speakers, @merferlo.bsky.social, @aakashagr.bsky.social & @benjamingagl.bsky.social!

✨Playback of #teap2025 (Part 2) A thought-provoking symposium on #StatisticalLearning & its role in #language & #reading, chaired by @troembke.bsky.social & @xeniaschmalz.bsky.social. Great contributions by @mireiamarimon.bsky.social, Haoyu Zhou, Lukas Hauser & @matildellen.bsky.social!

✨Playback at #teap2025 (Part 1) Thanks to the amazing speakers and the audience for the successful symposium on #languagemodels in #psycholinguistics! Katharina Menn, @hannawoloszyn.bsky.social, @boevesam.bsky.social, Marco Marelli, Fritz Günther, @benjamingagl.bsky.social

Excited for tomorrow's symposium on #OrthographicProcessing at #teap2025! ☺️

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)

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.

Looking forward to seeing you at our symposium on #StatisticalLearning & #language & #reading at #teap2025!

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/...

Looking forward to great discussions with you at our symposium on #LanguageModels for #psycholinguistics at #teap2025!

Check out our symposium on levels of #OrthographicProcessing at #teap2025! March 12 | 11:00–12:30 Chairs: @jacketaylor.bsky.social, @jnpauli.bsky.social Speakers: Aakash Agrawal, @merferlo.bsky.social, Jack E. Taylor, Janos Pauli, @benjamingagl.bsky.social

Join our #teap2025 symposium & discuss #StatisticalLearning & its role in #language & #reading! March 10 | 17:00–18:30 Chairs: @troembke.bsky.social, @xeniaschmalz.bsky.social Speakers: @mireiamarimon.bsky.social, @matildellen.bsky.social, Lukas Hauser, Haoyu Zhou, Xenia Schmalz

Come join our symposium at #teap2025! 😊 Topic: From Babies to Semantics: Leveraging #LanguageModels for #Psycholinguistic Research March 10 | 11:00 - 12:30 Chair: @benjamingagl.bsky.social Speakers: Fritz Günther, Katharina Menn, @hannawoloszyn.bsky.social, @boevesam.bsky.social, Marco Marelli

Congratulations to our #GeWoNN members on their accepted symposia at the #teap2025 Conference! Special thanks to the organising committee @teap2025.bsky.social, and we're looking forward to the event next week in Frankfurt! Check out our website below for more news on our symposia!

The TeaP 2025 (Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psycholog*innen | Conference of Experimental Psychologists) will be taking place soon, from March 9th to 12th! We look forward to welcoming you to our beautiful Westend campus of Goethe University, located in the heart of the vibrant city of Frankfurt.

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 👇...

📣ESCoP Thematic Meetings 2026: Call for Proposals ESCoP offers partial funding of up to 4,000 euros per thematic meeting scheduled for 2026 and organised by ESCoP members. Application deadline: 15 May 2025.

Wir (Forscherteam an der @lmumuenchen.bsky.social , finanziert von @dfg.de) wollen herausfinden, wie sich Lesen zwischen Sprachen unterscheidet. Wir erheben Daten in 15 Ländern. Aktuell suchen wir VersuchsteilnehmerInnen, die #Deutsch als #Muttersprache haben! Link: run.pavlovia.org/Semantic_lea...

Great discussion on Schepens et al.'s paper, "Can we utilise Large Language Models (LLMs) to generate useful linguistic corpora? A case study of the word frequency effect in young German readers" today!

Join our journal club discussion on #LLM this Thursday!

You study vocabulary? You need a short high quality measure? You love the CDI but your kids are too old (>3)? Meet PREVIC - our adaptive (IRT-based) parent report measure of expressive vocabulary! 💯 open source and ready to use paper: rdcu.be/eahE7 measure (🇩🇪): ccp-odc.eva.mpg.de/previc-demo/

Applications for the ninth summer school on statistical methods for linguistics and psychology close on April 1, 2025. Every year people contact me saying they missed the call, so here it is again :) vasishth.github.io/smlp2025/

👋 Welcome to the official ISB15 BlueSky account! Conference Info: 🗓 June 9 - 13, 2025 📍 San Sebastián, Spain 🔗 Registration is open! Early bird rates available until March 16: tisa.teventos.com/isb2025/en/m... Follow us for updates on speakers, sessions and more!

FYI: Linguistic Open Access Forum at ZAS, Berlin: The Leibniz-Centre General Linguistics (ZAS) will host a forum for researchers, students, and organizations interested in open access publishing of linguistic materials. The goal of the forum is to increase the quantity and quality of non-profit…

Our next Journal Club (Feb 20, CET) will discuss #LargeLanguageModel in #Reading, featuring "Can we utilise Large Language Models (LLMs) to generate useful linguistic corpora? A case study of the word frequency effect in young German readers" by Schepens, Woloszyn, Marx & @benjamingagl.bsky.social.