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Jonathan Peelle

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PI + parent = professional cat-herder • inclusiveness • he/him • studying the neuroscience of language at Northeastern University Textbook: The Neuroscience of Language (Cambridge University Press) http://jonathanpeelle.net/the-neuroscience-of-language

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Jonathan Peelle @jpeelle.bsky.social · 14d

I’m scheduled for surgery today on my Achilles tendon, followed by 2 weeks of no weight bearing.😵‍💫

So, like any good scientist, I got together 7 colleagues to study consequences of limb disuse.

Introducing the HEALING study

with @laurelgd.bsky.social @sneuroble.bsky.social @briemreid.bsky.social

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Jonathan Peelle @jpeelle.bsky.social · 2m

Epic idea

Jonathan Peelle @jpeelle.bsky.social · 48m

We just need a GIF to explain everything

a jar of jif creamy peanut butter is on a shelf

Alt: a jar of jif creamy peanut butter is on a shelf

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Jonathan Peelle @jpeelle.bsky.social · 53m

Preach

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 2h

Here’s a primer on ‘primer.’

It’s pronounced ‘PRIMM-er’ if you mean “a small book” or “a short informative piece of writing.”

It’s pronounced ‘PRY-mer’ if you mean “an initial coat of paint.”

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kottke.org @kottke.org · 6h

A Data Love Letter to the Subway is a fantastic data-driven animation visualizing the NYC subway system. “Imaginatively animating each train line’s age, length, and path, we wrote a poetic story that explores the trains’ interwoven encounters…” [kottke.org]

A Data Love Letter to the NYC Subway

Giorgia Lupi and her team at Pentagram have created a data-driven animation for the MTA called A Data Love Letter to the Subway. More from Lupi (who calls this an “absolute dream project”): The project, “A Data L

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Jonathan Peelle @jpeelle.bsky.social · 22h

Got my current faculty job ✅

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 1d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

Jonathan Peelle @jpeelle.bsky.social · 1d

Oddly, one of my favorite quotes on parenting comes from Frasier:

"You don’t just love your children...you *fall* in love with them.”

which has absolutely been my experience with my children (ages 9, 5, 5). ❤️

Jonathan Peelle @jpeelle.bsky.social · 1d

With three children under the age of 10, MRI scans are the most relaxing part of my day 😎

Laurel Joy Gabard-Durnam @laurelgd.bsky.social · 1d

How good is the MR data we'll be sharing as part of this deep phenotyping study? So good that someone asked if Jonathan was sedated while viewing his resting-state data collection 😆 Watch this space!

Jonathan Peelle @jpeelle.bsky.social · 14d

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 2d

Prank a German by setting their spell checker to Dutch. Hilarity ensues.

Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 2d

Excuse me?

Text snippet: "quantitative approaches are..."
With word auto-suggesting the alternative spelling "kwantitatieve, kwantitatiever"

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Kyle Mahowald (COLM 2025) @kmahowald.bsky.social · 2d

UT Austin Linguistics is hiring in computational linguistics!

Asst or Assoc.

We have a thriving group sites.utexas.edu/compling/ and a long proud history in the space. (For instance, fun fact, Jeff Elman was a UT Austin Linguistics Ph.D.)

faculty.utexas.edu/career/170793

🤘

UT Austin Computational Linguistics Research Group – Humans processing computers processing humans processing language

sites.utexas.edu

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Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 2d

Admin email from university: "Share your ideas: Help shape operational excellence at U of I"

Soliciting ideas for how to improve operational processes.

Except...

The form doesn't work—the form created by the Operational Excellence team.

Yeah.

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Jonathan Peelle @jpeelle.bsky.social · 2d

I love go pizza also

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Jonathan Peelle @jpeelle.bsky.social · 2d

Very relevant for when I’m telling my kids (5 and 9) are trying to put on their socks and shoes and we are late.

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 3d

If it doesn’t survive the washing machine or the dish washer, maybe it was never meant to be part of your household in the first place.

essencesimmone.blacksky.app @essencesimmone.blacksky.app · 6d

Those who are 35+, what advice do you have for people just entering their 30s?

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Jonathan Peelle @jpeelle.bsky.social · 2d

I think you may have found a new nom de plume though

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Jonathan Peelle @jpeelle.bsky.social · 4d

wait you just get this ONE day each week????

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Jonathan Peelle @jpeelle.bsky.social · 5d

"[F]rom the 1940s to the 1970s, a Bell Labs job was said to be just like working at a research university, except the pay was better, the equipment was more up-to-date, the machine shop was available for all your needs and you didn’t have to spend time teaching or applying for research grants."

Kevin J. CREATURE @kevinjkircher.com · 5d

Sometimes I think about how from 1935-1975ish, Bell Labs produced an insane amount of revolutionary science and technology, including 11 Nobel Prizes, the transistor, UNIX, C, the laser, the solar cell, information theory, etc. The secret? Provide scientists with ample, steady, no-strings funding.

sites.stat.columbia.edu

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Grace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social · 6d

The universities are: MIT, University of Pennsylvania, University of Virginia, University of Texas, Vanderbilt University, University of Arizona, Brown University, Dartmouth College

Rosa Lafer-Sousa @rosalafersousa.bsky.social · 6d

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✍️ Sign this petition to defend your university, free speech, and democracy. I signed.

This is a time for courage, not capitulation.
#JustSayNo #Compact 🧪🧠🧬

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Trump attacks 9 universities: Sign the alumni petition to defend your school now

Are you an alum outraged by Trump's attacks on universities? Defend your school now by signing this alumni petition in support of these 9 universities as well as campus communities across America.

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Susanne Brouwer @susannebrouwer.bsky.social · 7d

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...

PhD Position: Accented Speech Processing | Radboud University

Do you want to work as a PhD: Accented Speech Processing at the Faculty of Arts? Check our vacancy!

www.ru.nl

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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 6d

Can’t decide whether these Statue of Liberty rubber chickens that say “squeeze me to hear me scream” are a little too on-the-nose for these times or if they’re perfect

A yellow cardboard carton on a CVS shelf with brightly colored letters that say “squeeze me to hear me scream” and “statue of liberty chicken.” Inside the carton are hot pink, teal, and royal blue rubber chickens with googly eyes rendered like the Statue of Liberty, with their faces distressed and frozen in a shriek. They have tags around their necks that say “squeeze me to hear me scream”

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Jonathan Peelle @jpeelle.bsky.social · 7d

Congratulations! 🎉😳

Jonathan Peelle @jpeelle.bsky.social · 7d

It is peak academic to just get so angry about something that you’ve been bottling up that you finally explode and

Write a long poem

In rhyming meter

With footnotes 🥰

andrea e. martin @andreaeyleen.bsky.social · 10d

Ode to the original language model, or:
Give me literally Anything* instead of Large Language Models (LLMs)
*(no predictive coding either!)

By Lady Byronadrea LLMartin 1/n

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Jonathan Peelle @jpeelle.bsky.social · 7d

Congratulations! Great department!!

Jonathan Peelle @jpeelle.bsky.social · 8d

So glad my kids were drawing upside-down hearts today.

It’s too bad they didn’t have time to color this one in all the way…

A somewhat floppy looking upside down heart partly colored in pink.

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 8d

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

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Stories of WiN @storiesofwin.bsky.social · 8d

Our next profile is here! Dr. Christine Constantinople studies the neural mechanisms of decision-making. Follow the link below to learn more! 🧠

www.storiesofwin.org/profiles/202...

#StoriesOfWiN #WomenInNeuro

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