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Vandy CaLL is hiring a Project Manager for early 2026! We're looking for someone that can help manage work on an NSF-funded project investigating how individual differences in cognitive ability and language experience shapes L2 sentence processing. ecsr.fa.us2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

New from me: I talked to CDC staffers about the new vaccines and autism page. They said things like: “The best way I can put it is it feels like we’re on a hijacked airplane.” “I think people are starting to see that we can’t fulfill our mission here.”

I hereby name this symbol "the schwat". I will be taking no questions. #linguistics #phonetics #threads #schwa #schwat

PhD Position: Accented Speech Processing - Apply now! Come work with Mirjam Broersma, @davidpeeters.bsky.social, and me at the Centre for Language Studies, Radboud University in the Netherlands. Application deadline: 19 October 2025 For more information, see www.ru.nl/en/working-a...

Postdoc opening!! We’re looking for a postdoc to support our DoD funded study, using noninvasive vagus nerve stimulation and EEG to study speech in noise perception in veterans with TBI. Please share and reach out to start the conversation if interested! bit.ly/478e3ME

Georgetown University is conducting a search for a one-year postdoctoral associate in Applied Linguistics to begin on January 1, 2026. Candidates should apply by October 31 at apply.interfolio.com/174232

We're doing it again! Join the @lingsocam.bsky.social First Generation Access and Equity Group for a low-stakes conversation about what it means to be a first-generation linguist. Sign up here to receive an invite: forms.gle/VfWN9AwscyFM...

2) Mon Sept 22nd 9am ET the National Academies is hosting a webinar on Opportunities for Doing Social-Environmental Research with Little to No Funding. Experts will discuss secondary data analysis, meta-analysis, and other lower-cost methods for research www.nationalacademies.org/event/1072_0...

As a chronically bad sleeper, I started reading right before bed to help lull me to sleep. Now I can't read articles at night without my eyelids getting heavy two pages in.

I just wrote "correctment" instead of "correction" in a class email, so that's how I'm doing on the second week of classes.

Ozzy Osbourne has passed away at age 76. RIP to an icon. 📷 Eddie Sanderson/Getty Images

A researcher-friendly resource for studying phonological social networks. Spread the word to your networks! #psynomBRM paper by Alderete and colleagues #Psycholinguistics #NetworkAnalysis #OpenAccess post by Caballero

My Canadian university, Queen's, is offering TWENTY 4-year funded PhDs (40k CAD/yr) for a student of ANY citizenship who has been accepted at a top 100 US university but have had offer rescinded OR are reconsidering offer due to US policy. Details found here👇 www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...

Fascism and trade wars are inherently more dangerous to those who are struggling the most. Immigrants, people of colour, LGBTQ+, disabled & elderly people will be hit the hardest. People say “we survived them once & we can survive them again!” Many did NOT survive. We fight in their memory.

"On a weekly basis more than 90% of people use weather forecasts, job market reports, food safety warnings and other information that is based on federal science. But only 10% ... are concerned that cuts to federal support for science might impact their access to [it]." www.npr.org/2025/05/06/n...

From Music City Migrawatch May 4, 2025, 11:30am Active ICE operation has detained up to 100 people currently being processed in Nashville. At least 1 person detained says that MNPD participated in her detention!

55 years ago today, 4 students at Kent State University were killed for protesting the Vietnam war. Allison Krause, 19 Jeffrey Glenn Miller, 20 Sandra Lee Scheuer, 20 William Knox Schroeder, 19 We must stand against war, militarism, and government attacks on protest.

📣🧪 $25k grants for those who: 1. are working on research on STEM and education (including AI and CS, graduate education and MSIs, and scholarship that aims to reduce inequality), and 2. have had a recently terminated or cancelled grant from NSF. Early-career scholars prioritized

BREAKING: NSF has frozen all grant funding, as of yesterday. It's unclear when they will resume funding awards, or why the pause has been put in place. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

“However bad everyone on the outside thinks it is, it is a million times worse. They’re dismantling and destroying everything.” Read, share, respond. Call your representatives. The health and well-being of Americans & America's innovation economy are at stake. www.science.org/content/arti...

One thing I do not like about grading writing assignments is having to actively be an AI detector.

We have officially become @thefestfl.bsky.social parents. You can find us and our baby in the pit. 🫡

Toxicologist here! This will improve the health of zero Americans. Current synthetic food dyes are not causing health problems, and are often times used because they are actually safer than natural food dyes. Reminder that guns are the #1 cause of death of children but we are going to ban food dyes.

If you, like me, had you NSF granted terminated, here’s what I learned from a hopeful meeting with my VP of research: 1. We have 30 days to act! Meet with your admin asap 2. APPEAL: Everyone can appeal! It must go through your institution, there’s a template, sent registered mail. My VP told me ⬇️

The Spark Society appreciates your support. Thank you all for your donations. In addition to donations, I encourage those who study animal or human cognition to become a member of the Spark Society. If you support diverse voices and building inclusive spaces in Cognitive Psy/Sci, you belong!

🎉 🚨 UPDATE: As suspected, the cruel Lamberth & Watson bill to kick undocumented kids out of schools across 🇺🇸 is DEAD FOR THE YEAR, after huge pushback. Bravo, y’all 👏🏽 — finances is the excuse, but the truth is the support wasn’t there because of the backlash.

Unfortunately, the NSF grant that supports our work has been terminated. This is a setback, but our mission has not changed. We will continue to work hard on making cognitive science a more inclusive field. Stay tuned for upcoming events.

New R package almost birthed - SemanticDistance - computes two semantic distance metrics (experiential and embedding) for any rolling chunk size (ngram-to-ngram, word-to-word, turn-to-turn, ngram-to-word). You give it your language sample. It does the rest, including lemmatize and stopword omit

Keivan Stassun's program at Vanderbilt is impressive, and it's a real loss that its NSF funding has been cancelled. He was notified of $4 million in funding in January and, of course, that's all gone now, for no good reason.

Can confirm that my NSF grant "How False Beliefs Form & How to Correct Them" was cancelled today because it is "not in alignment with current NSF priorities" Shocking that understanding how people are misled by false information is now a forbidden topic. Our work will continue but at a smaller scale

Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions - rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking steps to make sure students can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect. Let’s hope others follow suit.

We are currently accepting applications for a lab manager position to oversee the administration of multiple grant-funded research projects! More info below: ecsr.fa.us2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

“I struggle to help students revise AI generated text because there aren’t promising ideas in AI sentences. AI sentences, rather, are banal because these technologies select from the middle of the statistical distribution. These bots write in distinctly average ways.”

I'll be presenting data from a project run in parallel to the one presented in @vrtliceralde.bsky.social's talk yesterday, this time exploring how individual differences in 10- to 15-year-olds affect language processing. Work with @duanegwatson.bsky.social. Poster session 2 at #hsp2025 today!

In DC for #hsp2025! This morning, @vrtliceralde.bsky.social will be presenting some of our work investigating individual differences in sentence processing. Happy first conference day 🤗

There are days in life that shake you. I’m shattered 💔 to share that I just found out that the US Government terminated my 2024 NIH Director’s Early Independence Award (~$2 million), threatening my long-promised assistant professor job at Columbia University & academic career... 1/🧵

In case you ever get a bunch of prickly pear cactus needles in your pants and boil your pants in case the needles will dissolve, I’m here to tell you they definitely will not oof ouch owie

It appears the Trump Admin is shutting down the Dept of Education's International and Foreign Language Education unit, which funds and administers University and graduate foreign language study throughout the country and overseas. If true, an act of national sabotage. www.ed.gov/about/ed-off...

Oh heck yeah this feed is fantastic, I need more people in #linguistics to see it too

Learned today that @duanegwatson.bsky.social and I have been awarded NSF funding to investigate the effects of reading exposure on second language processing! I can’t put into words my gratitude to all the people at NSF who continue to do the good work. Feeling especially proud to be #firstgen 🍾

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Protesters shut down the March 11 House K-12 Subcommittee meeting after it passed a bill that would allow schools to "refuse to enroll students who are unlawfully present in the United States." Parents, educators, faith leaders and activists spoke out against the bill.

Want to get published? Join our virtual workshop on March 18, 5-6 PM (ET) to learn how to navigate academic publishing. Speakers Prof. David Bowie & Dr. Aylin Coskun Kunduz will cover manuscript prep, peer review, and common challenges. Register now: www.lsadc.org/ev_calendar_... #LSA

Nashville stands up for science! @standupforscience.bsky.social

This account is biased towards my professional interests, so with the caveat there are a litany of reasons to protest those in power in the US, GO PROTEST. Keep protesting. Protest until there is actual change.

“A Call to Action: A Multilingual Society, not a Monolingual One”

“For all this talk about free speech, this is direct censorship of scientific research.” Misinformation researchers are being investigated under a fake “censorship industrial complex” narrative at the same time as the govt is literally censoring scientific research. Free speech warriors indeed 🙄

Moments like this remind me that the work we do as social scientists are very important...

Apropos of nothing, now is a good time to brush up on your rights as a protester or protest organizer. You are largely protected under the first amendment, thiugh there are limitations. www.aclu.org/know-your-ri...