Today at #AMLaP2025: In 🇨🇿, sentential negation causes both NPI and NCI (negative concord) illusions, contrary to the predictions of active scope and scalar theories. This is me saying my money is on feature percolation. Check out the poster here: www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Melvyn Bragg has been one of the last standard-bearers for a really important, and unfashionable, idea: that good conversation, between people who really know their stuff, on complex or difficult subjects, can be fantastic radio - and that the national broadcaster should do this. I hope it endures.

Very excited to teach my first semester as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Czech Language 🇨🇿 at @masarykuniversity.bsky.social! Taking over Intro to Ling is a big responsibility, but I hope to inspire at least a few to start thinking about language scientifically 🧪

Brněnské Bienále už i oficiálně oznámeno v tisku, protože, co je psáno, to je dáno! Přečtěte si a šiřte oznámení o konání naší konference v nejnovějším čísle Slova a slovesnosti! asjournals.lib.cas.cz/slovoasloves...

Great news, but it can be difficult for some researchers to support these given the science evaluation criteria of their country. In 🇨🇿, nothing counts unless it's in WoS or Scopus. I want to publish in @glossapsycholx.bsky.social for instance, but I would be loosing my Department funding if I did.

Let’s give STAR all the support we can. Let’s move away from a subscription based to a diamond open access science—free, independent science. Journals backed by research institutions must lead the way—and so are they doing.

I wrote about these 'illusion illusions' previously here: arxiv.org/abs/2412.18613

Elsevier creates factually wrong AI slop and communicating with them is maddening corporate buzzword slop, hu-effing-rray!

Since search is dead, how soon do you think Google Scholar is headed for the Google Graveyard? I'm betting it's soon, and academia is NOT prepared

Rodilí mluvčí češtiny, assemble! @slovcem.bsky.social a já vás potřebujeme na jeden kraťoučký pilot výzkumu o tom, jak zpracováváte jazyk (víc opět neprozradím, ale DMs jsou vám po vyplnění otevřené)! Díky moc předem 🇨🇿 farm.pcibex.net/p/zdkMYw/

0% CGI, 100% genius! Karel Zeman’s legendary Journey to the Beginning of Time (Cesta do pravěku) turns 70 today 🦖

Hello, I'm a linguist in a film. I speak a dozen languages fluently and can decode an ancient/alien script in minutes of encountering it because "it's just like Egyptian hieroglyphs".

S radostí oznamujeme, že stejně jako nad prvním ročníkem BČL je i nad naším brněnským převzalo záštitu Jazykovědné sdružení České republiky 🇨🇿! Děkujeme za podporu! www.jazykovednesdruzeni.cz

I'm offering a 3-year PhD position with benefits (1-year extension possible). Research topic open but broadly in incremental sentence comprehension. If you're into eye-tracking, even better! No teaching until Summer 2027, light teaching after that (English). Official ad soon. Please share 🙏

My dissertation got published today with Uni Osnabrück! You can check it out here: osnadocs.ub.uni-osnabrueck.de/handle/ds-20...

Knížečka je na světě. Jakoby mohla jsem psát habilitační spis, ale tohle dostalo přednost. 👩‍💻Práce to bylo moc a naučilo mě to nejvíc! Nejen jak komunikovat vědu atraktivně (snad) a furt pravdivě. Díky všem, co se podíleli: akademicky recenzentky Míša a Šárka👯‍♀️ a editor🕴🏻 @ondrejdufek.bsky.social

While it's called the Biennial of "Czech" linguistics, you don't need to be 🇨🇿 or work on the language to submit! We're very much interested in having people come from all over to come and exchange their ideas and research! Consider sending in your stuff!

Druhý ročník Bienále české lingvistiky je tady a má účet na Bsky! Sledujte informace, šiřte dál a pošlete svoje panely!

Po veleúspěšném prvním Bienále 2024 v Praze přichází na řadu Brno 🐊 v roce 2026! Právě jsme zveřejnili naše stránky, kde najdete výzvu k zaslání návrhů na tematické panely, které se na konferenci objeví. Těšíme se na Vaše návrhy! sites.google.com/mail.muni.cz...

The German understanding of the phrase 'publishing a PhD dissertation online'

I'm hiring at least one post-doc! We're interested in creating language models that process language more like humans than mainstream LLMs do, through architectural modifications and interpretability-style steering. Express interest here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

@katquita.bsky.social mluví v Rozhlase o tom, že už novorozená miminka rozeznávají mateřštinu, tedy řeč matky, a o tom, že bychom se cizí jazyky měli učit tak přirozeně jako ta miminka. Obklopit se jimi. dvojka.rozhlas.cz/miminka-rozu...

What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders? Academic publishers make vast profits, but don’t pay royalties to academics. Instead, universities pay publishers to make the research that the universities have funded widely available, and then pay them again to access other research.

"Married pending minor revisions"

What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders? There are no individual "languages" scientifically speaking. The commonly used divisions into national languages are arbitrary from a linguistics point of view and are almost entirely based on socio-historical factors.

Excited to have my first "Oxford-style" tutorial as the final part of my psycholinguistics class this semester!

New attraction paper alert 🚨 Czech very much lacks strong number attraction effects, so what happens when these speakers process attraction sentences in their L2 English? They show the effect! Joint work with @janchromy.bsky.social, Norbert Vanek and James Brand

We look at how negation in Czech requests interacts with epistemic speaker bias and lowers perceived politeness!

Celebrating the defence in style with @slovcem.bsky.social - at a random Lebanese grill place in Berlin P.S.: the smokes are from previous guests

South Korea gender divide update 😲 Young men lean right by 50 points (74% conservative vs 24% centre-left) Young women lean left by 22 points (58% centre-left vs 36% cons)

PhDone!

This looks like a great resource! Excited to use it for the first time in my classes in the Autumn Semester. Let's hope it grows to be the field's Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy!

Check out this new paper from my good friend @dpallewho.bsky.social !

JML special issue on nonveridical language comprehension, co-edited by @golfwriterkiel.bsky.social and myself - deadline is January 31, 2026. www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu... #linguistics

This is a must-read. Csaba Szabó, the author of Unreliable, was approached by a paper mill, and he decided to conduct a sting operation. He documented how paper mills operate. forbetterscience.com/2025/05/19/a...

A cool workshop "Developing New Languages in Migration Contexts" organised at my new uni by our colleages at the Romance Languages Dept! A part of the recently funded large linguistics project LangInLife! Send your abstracts! romanistika.phil.muni.cz/aktuality/ca...

Gold Open Access (i.e., authors pay to publish) has perverse incentives and encourages low-quality research (i.e., crap). The publishers win and science (and the taxpayer) loses. Let's have more of Diamond Open Access journals like @glossa-linguistics.bsky.social and @glossapsycholx.bsky.social!

I sure hope this office has a *licence* from Prague City Council. Credits to @slovcem.bsky.social for the pic!

Je sváteční den, takže určitě máte moře času vyplnit náš další experiment s @slovcem.bsky.social! Pokud jste už dělali náš první (poznáte to velmi rychle), tak jej jenom přepošlete známým 😉 www.l-rex.de/studies/vyzk...

Scientists wanting to move to Europe from the US take note of this funding opportunity: erc.europa.eu/news-events/...

Make sure you remember to submit your abstract for #AMLaP2025 hosted at Charles University in Prague! The deadline is today 😱

Love my PsychLing class this semester - just got the data back from an NPI illusion experiment in 🇨🇿 that my students created the items for and ran on their friends... I didn't think much would come out of it but take a look at this harvest! I hope they'll be just as excited when they see this data 🤯

The deadline for #AMLaP2025 in wonderful Prague 🇨🇿 organised by @janchromy.bsky.social has been extended to April 30! Send us your stuff! amlap2025.ff.cuni.cz

I was able to find whose grant this is - it's on the same type of stuff that I'm working on - linguistic illusions that have to do with *grammatical* gender. Had our own research on Czech and Slovak gender been done in the US, it would have been bye-bye birdie! Better stick with number attraction 🙃

Pokud jste rodilí mluvčí 🇨🇿, udělejte si chvilku a vyplňte krátký dotazník v rámci experimentálního výzkumu pragmatiky češtiny, který děláme společně s Míšou Chodounskou. Díky! www.l-rex.de/studies/vyzk...

Check out a cool study by my colleagues: doi.org/10.1017/lang...

💻🧬Rodina Hajičova má matematickou lingvistiku opravdu v genech. Přečtěte si unikátní trojrozhovor s vedoucím obřího projektu @openeurollm.bsky.social Janem Hajičem, jeho maminkou Evou a synem Janem @ufal-cuni.bsky.social #MFFUK @unikarlova.cuni.cz. www.ukforum.cz/rubriky/veda...

🇨🇿 and 🇸🇰 comprehenders show agreement attraction effects in gender agreement, but only (!) when both the attractor and the head are case-syncretic with the nominative (read: the form looks the same). The effect is super tiny (-5ms) and difficult to accommodate under cue-based retrieval!