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Radim Lacina @radlacina.bsky.social · 1d

Hope you had a great time in Oxford, @dannybate.bsky.social! We'll need to finally meet up btw (either Prague or Brno!)

Radim Lacina @radlacina.bsky.social · 10d

Brno, náměstí Svobody 12:50 několik málo dnů před volbami, u stánku nikde nikdo, všechny ostatní obsazeny. Už podruhé jsem se s Vámi chtěl jít pobavit a nebyli jste tu. Vy chcete ty volby prohrát? @piratskastrana.bsky.social

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Radim Lacina @radlacina.bsky.social · 22d

The Lasagne College!

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Radim Lacina @radlacina.bsky.social · 26d

My warmest congratulations, sir! Cheers to the Bates!

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Radim Lacina @radlacina.bsky.social · Sep 8

So what Fingolfin would do, essentially...

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Radim Lacina @radlacina.bsky.social · Sep 6

What a shame, hope you get better soon, we were looking forward to having you here!

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Radim Lacina @radlacina.bsky.social · Sep 5

Thanks @slovcem.bsky.social for the pic!

Radim Lacina @radlacina.bsky.social · Sep 5

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/...

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · Sep 3

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.

Scott Bryan @scottygb.bsky.social · Sep 3

Melvyn Bragg has decided to stand down as host of In Our Time, the BBC says.

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Radim Lacina @radlacina.bsky.social · Sep 2

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 🧪

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Bienále české lingvistiky 2026 @bcl2026.bsky.social · Aug 22

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...

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Radim Lacina @radlacina.bsky.social · Aug 21

Reviewing for for-profit publishers should be paid at least, it could also serve as a good income source for junior researchers!

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Radim Lacina @radlacina.bsky.social · Aug 21

Yup, it's a sick system! Not only that, Gold OA creates its very own perverse incentives for publishers as brilliantly argued here: bsky.app/profile/psma...

Paul Smaldino @psmaldino.bsky.social · May 9

As grant money starts drying up, it's more important than ever not to waste it on paying publishers' open access "article processing fees" when we can host PDFs for free. Tom Morgan and I wrote a paper on this, forthcoming at Science and Public Policy. Accepted draft here: osf.io/preprints/os...

Author-Paid PublicationFees Corrupt Science and Should Be Abandoned
Thomas J. H Morgan & Paul E. Smaldino

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Radim Lacina @radlacina.bsky.social · Aug 21

In 🇨🇿, OA is very much preferred and sometimes mandated by funders, however, in combination with the WoS/Scopus and IF requirements, this almost always leads to publishing in the Gold OA mode, which in the end, is just funnelling tax payer money into the pockets of Elsevier & Co.

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Radim Lacina @radlacina.bsky.social · Aug 21

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.

Jorge Agulló @jorgeagullo.bsky.social · Aug 16

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.

Heidi Harley @heidiharley.bsky.social · Aug 15

STAR's first issue is out! (STAR is an open-access journal publishing syntactic research from the same editorial team that brought us Syntax) #Linguistics

star-linguistics.org

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Jorge Agulló @jorgeagullo.bsky.social · Aug 16

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.

Heidi Harley @heidiharley.bsky.social · Aug 15

STAR's first issue is out! (STAR is an open-access journal publishing syntactic research from the same editorial team that brought us Syntax) #Linguistics

star-linguistics.org

Syntactic Theory and Research

star-linguistics.org

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Tomer Ullman @tomerullman.bsky.social · Aug 19

I wrote about these 'illusion illusions' previously here:

arxiv.org/abs/2412.18613

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Radim Lacina @radlacina.bsky.social · Aug 20

Špatné zkušenosti s ním jako prorektorem?

Radim Lacina @radlacina.bsky.social · Aug 20

It took some trying, but I got an illusion illusion with the comparative "More people have been to Russia than I have" illusions. Interestingly though, it's quite good with other types of linguistic illusions.

Radim Lacina @radlacina.bsky.social · Aug 19

V UK se například běžně píší eseje nejenom v hodinách angličtiny, ale zejména pak v dalších humanitních i přírodovědných předmětech - v dějepisu, zeměpisu, biologii a tak dále.

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Radim Lacina @radlacina.bsky.social · Aug 18

Very cool, already sent it to my neurologist friend interested in language impairments!

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Radim Lacina @radlacina.bsky.social · Aug 13

I have to say it's really frustrating to read, because it's that faceless corporate lingo that they use in their emails to give the veneer of caring about you while not actually giving a single hoot!

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Radim Lacina @radlacina.bsky.social · Aug 13

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

Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · Aug 12

AI slop and the destruction of knowledge irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2025/08/12/a...

AI slop and the destruction of knowledge

This week I was looking for info on what cognitive scientists mean when they speak of ‘domain-general’ cognition. I was curious, because the nuances are relevant for something I am researching at t…

irisvanrooijcogsci.com

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Hannah Shelley, MLIS (Metadata, Lattes & Impostor Syndrome) @hannahshelley.bsky.social · Aug 13

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

Google Scholar Is Doomed

Academia built entire careers on a free Google service with zero guarantees. What could go wrong?

hannahshelley.neocities.org

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Radim Lacina @radlacina.bsky.social · Aug 12

Děkuji Vám za zpětnou vazbu. Je pravda, že tyto výzkumy se nejvíce dělaly na vysokoškolských studentech, kteří mají díky mládí velmi rychlé reakce, takže tato metoda nemusí být až tak vhodná pro všechny věkové kategorie.

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