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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 24d

I stand with PBS.

I stand with NPR.

I stand with Stephen Colbert.

I stand with Jimmy Kimmel.

I stand with the First Amendment.

PERIOD.*

*Also #ReleaseTheEPSTEIN_Files

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Ian Hussey @ianhussey.mmmdata.io · 26d

Proposal for how to fix family wise error rates.

For every uncorrected p value you must add an extra letter to the claim.

“Eating chocolate maaaaaaaaay be associated with lower rates of stroke”

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Lorna Quandt @lornaquandt.bsky.social · 28d

Day 2 of #snl2025 featured wonderful talk from Dave Poeppel, interesting keynote, posters from my team, and a thought provoking panel. My brain and heart are full!

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Lorna Quandt @lornaquandt.bsky.social · 29d

Really enjoying this keynote from Fatemeh Geranmeyah—use of new technologies like ASR/LLMs as a potential support for aphasics. Accessible, clear, and really thoughtful talk! #snl2025

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Lorna Quandt @lornaquandt.bsky.social · 29d

Same, it was incredible.

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Lorna Quandt @lornaquandt.bsky.social · 29d

Thanks, @reilly-coglab.com ! I’m happy it’s been going well

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Lorna Quandt @lornaquandt.bsky.social · Sep 13

Day 1 of #snl2025 was a blast! I’m so thankful that many smart and fun scientists came all this way to share in our passion for brains and languages.

President Cordano delivers comments to the crowd

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Lorna Quandt @lornaquandt.bsky.social · Sep 13

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Lorna Quandt @lornaquandt.bsky.social · Sep 13

I’m gonna win the low plank!

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Liina Pylkkänen @liinapy.bsky.social · Sep 12

Spectacular talk by SNL Early Career Award winner Esti Blanco Elorrieta! Much NeLLab pride, congratulations Esti! 🎉🎉 #SNL2025 @snlmtg.bsky.social

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Nick Lindsay @bluenoser2.bsky.social · Sep 12

Come join us at the @mitpress.bsky.social booth at #SNL2025 to learn more about @jneurolang.bsky.social the official journal of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language. #neuroscience #language #speech

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Lorna Quandt @lornaquandt.bsky.social · Sep 12

Find the #snl2025 program here if you need it! www.neurolang.org/programs/SNL...

www.neurolang.org

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SNL Annual Meeting @snlmtg.bsky.social · Sep 12

Happy to be kicking of #SNL2025 this morning! We have a full day planned. Get your name badge and coffee in the Field House and then come to Elstad Auditorium for talks!

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Lorna Quandt @lornaquandt.bsky.social · Sep 12

Sitting over here feeling like a winner with three ribbons on my badge 😅 #snl2025

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Lorna Quandt @lornaquandt.bsky.social · Sep 12

Here we go! Dr. Fumiko Hoeft presenting on dyslexia and neuroinflammation. #snl2025

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Liina Pylkkänen @liinapy.bsky.social · Sep 11

On our way to #SNL2025 as a big group, full NeLLab poster menu below, please come chat with our students and see you soon!!! @snlmtg.bsky.social

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Emily Myers @emilymyers.bsky.social · Sep 11

On my way! Can’t wait for SNL!

Lorna Quandt @lornaquandt.bsky.social · Sep 11

Coming at you from Gallaudet University to share that on-the-ground prep for the Society for Neurobiology of Language #SNL2025 is well underway! We cannot wait to welcome more than 500 of you, neuroscientists and linguists, to our campus tomorrow! Say hi if you see me running around!

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Lorna Quandt @lornaquandt.bsky.social · Sep 11

Coming at you from Gallaudet University to share that on-the-ground prep for the Society for Neurobiology of Language #SNL2025 is well underway! We cannot wait to welcome more than 500 of you, neuroscientists and linguists, to our campus tomorrow! Say hi if you see me running around!

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Joshua Holland @joshuaholland.bsky.social · Sep 10

We have a bit of a natural experiment here. Compare the tone, quantity and duration of Charlie Kirk coverage with that of the two Dem lawmakers gunned down in their homes in Minnesota 6 months ago. May be revealing.

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Lorna Quandt @lornaquandt.bsky.social · Aug 18

The SNL 2025 Access Award will waive registration fees for up to 20 students, trainees, and faculty who face barriers to attending the Society for Neurobiology of Language conference.

Apply by Aug 27; winners named Aug 28.

Pls share!

🔗 tinyurl.com/SNLAcessAward

#SNL2025 #NeurobiologyofLanguage

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Lorna Quandt @lornaquandt.bsky.social · Aug 15

Me, working like a crazed person this week and constantly seeing "out of office" replies from everyone I email....

a man is standing on a rug in a living room with the words `` guys '' written on it .

Alt: a man is standing on a rug in a living room with the words `` guys '' written on it .

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Lorna Quandt @lornaquandt.bsky.social · Aug 15

This is the correct link, seems the above one may not work: tinyurl.com/SNLaccessaward

SNL 2025 Access Award application

The SNL 2025 Access Award is funded by an NSF award granted to Gallaudet University (#2515190; PI Dr. Lorna Quandt, Co-PIs Drs. Rachel Pizzie and Ilaria Berteletti). This award will waive the registration fees for up to 20 disabled students, trainees, and faculty to attend the SNL 2025 conference. Fees may be refunded for award winners who have already registered for the meeting. This application is due on August 27, 2025. Winners will be selected at random from the pool of eligible applicants and be informed on August 28.

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Oscar Woolnough @owoolnough.bsky.social · Jul 8

For everyone out there working at the intersection of vision and language. We are currently accepting submissions for a Journal of Vision Special Issue on the vision-language interface
Submission deadline: Dec 31st
jov.arvojournals.org/ss/visionlan...

#neuroskyence #VisionScience #PsychSciSky

Journal of Vision Special Issue
The vision-language interface
Call for papers
Vision and language are often considered to be separate cognitive systems, studied by separate research teams. However, they interact when we use vision for linguistic communication: when reading printed text, when describing verbally the things we see, and when observing the expressions and gestures of an interlocutor (during sign language, for example). The development of these critical skills changes the brain, such that the visual and language systems influence one another. In particular, regions of the cerebral cortex that are typically responsive to visual stimuli are also recruited for linguistic tasks. But some of those ideas are controversial. For instance, for well over a century scientists have debated whether the brains of literate individuals contain a region that is specialized for recognizing written
words.
The Journal of Vision invites submissions for a Special Issue on the interface between vision and language. The unique perspectives and techniques of vision science contribute much to the understanding of language. This special issue welcomes empirical papers that use behavioral/psychophysical, neuroimaging, electrophysiological and stimulation methods.
Topics include, but are not limited to:
- Functional specialization in the brain for reading and naming
- Semantic representations in the brain
- Letter recognition and perceptual learning
- Sign language comprehension
- Eye movements during reading or other linguistic tasks
- Development of visual skills for reading and communication
- Links between visual cortical activity and representations in large language models
- Visual processing differences in dyslexia
Editors:
Susana Chung
Kalanit Grill-Spector
Garikoitz Lerma-Usabiaga
Hans Op de Beeck
Zeynep Saygin
Alex White
Oscar Woolnough
Deadline for submissions: December 31, 2025. All
papers will be subject to peer review.

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Lorna Quandt @lornaquandt.bsky.social · Aug 15

Thanks for letting me know! Fixing now.

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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · Aug 15

i don't know who needs to hear this but MAKE YOUR REVIEWERS' LIFE EASIER:

- print line numbers on your manuscript so we can refer to things easily
- write short, clear, and descriptive headings so we know what we're reading
- put the figures in the body of the paper, journal rules be damned

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