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German Word Nerd Network @gewonnofficial.bsky.social · 6d

Welcome to join our upcoming Journal Club meetings in Oct & Nov! Happy to have @cyhsieh.bsky.social & Dr. Cosimo Iaia as our guest speakers!

Register to get the Zoom link or sign up as our next guest speaker:
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More exciting talks coming up. Please share & see you there!

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Anna Leung @leungyianna.bsky.social · Jun 25

✨ Our panellists will share their personal journeys in metascientific and interdisciplinary research:
@ElenLeFoll.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy, @shawn-hemelstrand.bsky.social, Daniel Kristanto

⭐ Special guest discussants: @epizyklen.bsky.social & @sajedehra.bsky.social

See you there!

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Anna Leung @leungyianna.bsky.social · Jun 25

Welcome to join our virtual symposium at #Metascience2025 and debate if and how #metascience helps us do interdisciplinary work! It's a public forum. ECRs are especially welcome to join!

Date: June 27 (Fri), 14:00 (BST)
Register here to get the Zoom link:
nomadit.co.uk/conference/m...

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Center for Open Science @cos.io · Jun 2

The #Metascience2025 conference is hosting a series of ten pre-conference virtual symposia over Zoom in the weeks leading up to the conference. These sessions are all free to attend!

⬇️ Register here ⬇️
metascience.info/virtual-symp...

#Metascience #OpenScience

Virtual pre-conference symposia - Metascience

In the two weeks leading up to the conference, Metascience 2025 will host a series of ten pre-conference virtual symposia. These sessions will be free to attend and held on Zoom.

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Xenia Schmalz @xeniaschmalz.bsky.social · Jun 13

We are still short on #English-speaking participants! If anyone is a native English speaker (bilingual OK) and has half an hour to spare, please consider participating! It shouldn't be too demanding, and there are nice pictures! 🙂 run.pavlovia.org/eli_1199/eng...

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German Word Nerd Network @gewonnofficial.bsky.social · May 21

Welcome to join our journal club discussion tomorrow! 😄

German Word Nerd Network @gewonnofficial.bsky.social · May 13

Join our next journal club meeting on May 22 (Thur), 11am-12pm (CEST)! We'll discuss: @marcelbinz.bsky.social et al.'s (2024) "Centaur: a foundation model of human cognition"!

😊 Moderator: @ksenijamisic.bsky.social
👇 See link for more info. DM or email us for the Zoom link!

Journal Club

Welcome to the GeWoNN Journal Club! We meet once a month to discuss articles related to word and reading research. For more info, check out our past meetings or contact us at [email protected]...

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German Word Nerd Network @gewonnofficial.bsky.social · May 13

Join our next journal club meeting on May 22 (Thur), 11am-12pm (CEST)! We'll discuss: @marcelbinz.bsky.social et al.'s (2024) "Centaur: a foundation model of human cognition"!

😊 Moderator: @ksenijamisic.bsky.social
👇 See link for more info. DM or email us for the Zoom link!

Journal Club

Welcome to the GeWoNN Journal Club! We meet once a month to discuss articles related to word and reading research. For more info, check out our past meetings or contact us at [email protected]...

sites.google.com

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German Word Nerd Network @gewonnofficial.bsky.social · Mar 28

Three more days for registration! 😊

German Word Nerd Network @gewonnofficial.bsky.social · Mar 24

🚨 TRUST Open Lecture – Join Us! 🚨

Is #standardisation in research boosting #replicability or slowing scientific progress? 🤔

📅 March 31 (Mon), 2025
⏰ 16:00–18:00 CET
📍 Hörsaal H112, IBW-Gebäude, University of Cologne

💻 Live-stream available! Registration info here:
sites.google.com/view/gewonn/...

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German Word Nerd Network @gewonnofficial.bsky.social · Mar 24

🚨 TRUST Open Lecture – Join Us! 🚨

Is #standardisation in research boosting #replicability or slowing scientific progress? 🤔

📅 March 31 (Mon), 2025
⏰ 16:00–18:00 CET
📍 Hörsaal H112, IBW-Gebäude, University of Cologne

💻 Live-stream available! Registration info here:
sites.google.com/view/gewonn/...

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Anna Leung @leungyianna.bsky.social · Mar 19

Some say #standardisation improves #replicability, while some argue they block innovation.

Is modern science getting too rigid?

#AcademicChatter
#AcademicSky

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German Word Nerd Network @gewonnofficial.bsky.social · Mar 17

What's your stance on the #standardisation of #research processes? Join our pre-event discussion for the "TRUST Open Lecture: Standardisation in Research: Increasing Replicability or Stalling Scientific Progress?"!

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German Word Nerd Network @gewonnofficial.bsky.social · Mar 10

Let #data talk! Our next journal club meeting will discuss @balazsaczel.bsky.social's commentary, "Let the data talk: embrace #exploratoryresearch".

March 20 (Thurs), 11 am-12 pm (CET), Zoom

Welcome to join us! Check out our website for more info!
sites.google.com/view/gewonn/...

Journal Club

Welcome to the GeWoNN Journal Club! We meet once a month to discuss articles related to word and reading research. For more info, check out our past meetings or contact us at [email protected]...

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German Word Nerd Network @gewonnofficial.bsky.social · Mar 6

Welcome to join our open lecture on #standardisation & #replicability in Cologne on March 31, organised by the #TRUSTNetwork, led by @benjamingagl.bsky.social, @janahasenacker.bsky.social, @troembke.bsky.social & @xeniaschmalz.bsky.social!

See 🧵below for details 👇...

Benjamin Gagl @benjamingagl.bsky.social · Mar 6

Hey everyone, we have organized a lecture and panel discussion on the topic "Standardization in Research: Increasing Replicability or Stalling Scientific Progress?" in Cologne on March 31st: sites.google.com/view/gewonn/... @gewonnofficial.bsky.social @unicologne.bsky.social

TRUST Open Lecture

Interested in Scientific Standardisation & Replicability?Come join us in Cologne on 31st March 2025!

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German Word Nerd Network @gewonnofficial.bsky.social · Feb 20

Great discussion on Schepens et al.'s paper, "Can we utilise Large Language Models (LLMs) to generate useful linguistic corpora? A case study of the word frequency effect in young German readers" today!

German Word Nerd Network @gewonnofficial.bsky.social · Feb 6

Our next Journal Club (Feb 20, CET) will discuss #LargeLanguageModel in #Reading, featuring "Can we utilise Large Language Models (LLMs) to generate useful linguistic corpora? A case study of the word frequency effect in young German readers" by Schepens, Woloszyn, Marx & @benjamingagl.bsky.social.

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German Word Nerd Network @gewonnofficial.bsky.social · Feb 18

Join our journal club discussion on #LLM this Thursday!

German Word Nerd Network @gewonnofficial.bsky.social · Feb 6

Our next Journal Club (Feb 20, CET) will discuss #LargeLanguageModel in #Reading, featuring "Can we utilise Large Language Models (LLMs) to generate useful linguistic corpora? A case study of the word frequency effect in young German readers" by Schepens, Woloszyn, Marx & @benjamingagl.bsky.social.

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German Word Nerd Network @gewonnofficial.bsky.social · Feb 6

Our next Journal Club (Feb 20, CET) will discuss #LargeLanguageModel in #Reading, featuring "Can we utilise Large Language Models (LLMs) to generate useful linguistic corpora? A case study of the word frequency effect in young German readers" by Schepens, Woloszyn, Marx & @benjamingagl.bsky.social.

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Xenia Schmalz @xeniaschmalz.bsky.social · Jan 28

Are you looking for a way to #procrastinate, help a #research project, and learn a new #language at the same time? Look no further: we (Uni Munich) are recruiting participants for a study on processing of learned and unlearned #Chinese characters. Please share! 🙏

run.pavlovia.org/eli_1199/exp...

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Xenia Schmalz @xeniaschmalz.bsky.social · Jan 15

New #preprint by @leungyianna.bsky.social: We introduce #ReSearchTerms: a #ShinyApp that visualises the content of #definitions for a set of key terminology in #OpenScholarship (selected from @forrt.bsky.social).

Preprint: osf.io/qsp7x
ShinyApp: msleungyi.shinyapps.io/Re-SearchTer...

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German Word Nerd Network @gewonnofficial.bsky.social · Jan 16

Our next journal club meeting will be discussing "A Computational Investigation of Inventive Spelling and the 'Lesen durch Schreiben' Method" by @jannisblrn.bsky.social et al. on 23 Jan 2025, 11am - 12pm (GMT+1). Join us by emailing us at [email protected], and stay tuned for more news!

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German Word Nerd Network @gewonnofficial.bsky.social · Dec 5

Evidence-based insights from the science of #reading are shaping #education and policy globally. #BigTeamScience is the way forward—start by joining #GermanWordNerdNetwork and connect with passionate psychologists, linguists, educators, and more!

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German Word Nerd Network @gewonnofficial.bsky.social · Dec 4

🎥 Playback from our #QuaSemO2024 meeting in Oct 2024! 🌍✨

An inspiring session with a fantastic group of international researchers, diving into cutting-edge developments in quantifying orthography-semantics regularities in Munich.

#Linguistics #ResearchInnovation #Orthography #Semantics

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German Word Nerd Network @gewonnofficial.bsky.social · Dec 4

Our Journal Club meets monthly to explore word research! Join us tomorrow (Dec 5) as we discuss "Inadequate foundational decoding skills constrain global literacy goals for pupils in low- and middle-income countries" by Michael Crawford, Neha Raheel, @mariakna.bsky.social & @kathyrastle.bsky.social.

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Welcome to the GeWoNN Journal Club! We meet once a month to discuss articles related to word and reading research. For more info, check out our past meetings or contact us at [email protected]...

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Benjamin Gagl @benjamingagl.bsky.social · Nov 21

In case you haven't heard about our Network: sites.google.com/view/gewonn/...

If you identify as (German) Word Nerd, join @xeniaschmalz.bsky.social @troembke.bsky.social and others by sending an email: sites.google.com/view/gewonn/...

German is optional, but we can't deny where it all started 😉

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Johannes Breuer @johannesbreuer.com · Aug 28

New #metascience preprint: "Let’s talk about language — and its role for replicability" with @xeniaschmalz.bsky.social, @marhai.bsky.social, Andrea Hildebrandt, Philipp Knöpfle, Anna Yi Leung, & @timoroettger.bsky.social (resulting from our @meta-rep.bsky.social discussions).
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