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Rob Hartsuiker @roberthartsuiker.bsky.social · 1h

New JML paper led by Merel Muylle with @bonnie-nozari.bsky.social reporting simulations and experiments showing that those pesky homophone errors in typing - there/their/they’re - reflect lexical competition and not poor spelling knowledge.

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Rob Hartsuiker @roberthartsuiker.bsky.social · 16h

A majority of the EP insulted the European citizen today and undermined the parliaments credibility by voting for this ridiculous law. Counterproposal: an obligatory “Meat is Murder” sticker on every package of meat.

POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 16h

The European Parliament voted today to ban plant-based and lab-grown products from having meat-related names such as “burger,” “sausage” or “steak” on their labels.

EU lawmakers back ‘veggie burger’ ban

The European Parliament slips prohibition of plant-based “burgers” into wider farm reform, sparking NGO outrage and political splits.

www.politico.eu

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Rob Hartsuiker @roberthartsuiker.bsky.social · 16h

Misschien moeten de progressieve partijen een tegenvoorstel indienen:
Op elk pakje vlees een sticker met de tekst ‘warning: animals were harmed in the preparation of this product’

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Susanne Brouwer @susannebrouwer.bsky.social · 6d

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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Caroline Rowland @carorowland.bsky.social · 6d

Nominate yourself to come run your own research dept in lovely MPI-PL in the woods. Or nominate someone amazing - your colleague, supervisor, former student.... Deadline for nominations 19th December

Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics @mpi-nl.bsky.social · 6d

We're seeking the next Director of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics! Lead cutting-edge research in language & cognition. Nominations (incl. self) due 19 Dec 2025.
mpi.nl/career-education/vacancies/vacancy/nominations-and-self-nominations-sought-position-director-max

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Volt Europa @volteuropa.org · 6d

Volt is the only party in the Netherlands that sees climate as a #1 priority. With our candidate for Dutch Parliament, Simone Ritzer, do something new – vote Volt on 29 October. 💜🧡💜

‼️ IMPORTANT: A Dutchie living abroad? Get your postal vote to the embassy before October 24.

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The LAB Lab 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @thelablab.bsky.social · Aug 27

Inner speech and the neurobiology of psychosis

biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

With @daniellametti.com and David Green

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Evie Vergauwe @evievergauwe.bsky.social · 10d

Collaborate with us!! #workingmemory

Candice Morey @candicemorey.bsky.social · 12d

Call for collaborators! 🧵

The TL;DR: we seek collaborators on a #ManyLabs #RegisteredReport about what causes rapid forgetting.

In-principle accepted Stage 1: osf.io/ahjn5

Expressions of interest: cardiffunipsych.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Further details in the 🧵:

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Matt Goldrick @mattgoldrick.bsky.social · 28d

Deadline Oct 15: Asst. prof. (tenure track), AI in Psych Science, @uoftpsychology.bsky.social jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...

Assistant Professor - Artificial Intelligence in Psychological Science

jobs.utoronto.ca

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Volt Europa @volteuropa.org · 23d

🧡💜 Dutch living abroad? You can vote in the Dutch elections.

Make sure you don’t miss the opportunity to change the future. Register before September 17 here:

👉 www.netherlandsworldwide.nl/voting-abroad
👉 www.stemmenvanuithetbuitenland.nl

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Brad Postle @bradpostle.bsky.social · 29d

The Dept. of Psychology at the U. Wisconsin–Madison has an opening for an Assistant Professor in the area of Computational Neuroscience and/or Cognitive Science, with an emphasis on artificial intelligence (AI).

Domain of behavior or cognition is open. Details at jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...

Assistant Professor of Psychology - Madison, Wisconsin, United States

Current Employees: If you are currently employed at any of the Universities of Wisconsin, log in to Workday to apply through the internal application process.Job Category:FacultyEmployment Type:Regula...

jobs.wisc.edu

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William Matchin @wmatchin.bsky.social · 29d

University of South Carolina has *7* tenure-track faculty positions in Neurobiology of Language:

tinyurl.com/USC-Faculty-...

Positions in COMD, Psych, Linguistics, School of Medicine.

@snlmtg.bsky.social #SNL2025, we will have a booth.

w/@rutvikdesai.bsky.social @imb-uofsc.bsky.social

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Adele Goldberg @adelegoldberg.bsky.social · Aug 24

UPDATE: Abstract deadline: Nov 1, 25! Invited speakers: Corrine Occhino, Dagmar Divjak, Idan Blank, Randy Allen Harris, Gary Lupyan, Laura Michaelis, Kanishka Misra !
@dagmardivjak.bsky.social @randyallenharris.bsky.social @congramqueen.bsky.social @glupyan.bsky.social @kanishka.bsky.social

Adele Goldberg @adelegoldberg.bsky.social · Aug 15

📌 👉 The 14th International Construction Grammar conference will be held at Princeton, June 4-7, 2026

Usage-based analyses and Empirical methods

Stay tuned for updates!

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Rob Hartsuiker @roberthartsuiker.bsky.social · Sep 6

My guess is: a number between 100 (assuming full independence of the 5 variables) and 60K (assuming perfect correlation). We know in reality there are weak positive correlations, so we need to compensate for that but how much? My bet: 10K.

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Reinier Van Lanschot @reiniervanlanschot.volteuropa.org · Sep 5

Stemmen op een écht Europese partij: het kan wél. Stem Volt!

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Rob Hartsuiker @roberthartsuiker.bsky.social · Sep 5

And now a change of scenery!

Meadow with two sheep as seen from a Peak District cottage

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Rob Hartsuiker @roberthartsuiker.bsky.social · Sep 5

Thx to the organisers for the great conference they put together!

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Rob Hartsuiker @roberthartsuiker.bsky.social · Sep 5

#Escop2025 is over, ending (for me) with a great talk by Merel Muylle…

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de Volkskrant @volkskrant.nl · Sep 4

Onderwijsraad: meertaligheid in de klas is ook goed voor de Nederlandse taalvaardigheid

www.volkskrant.nl

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Rob Hartsuiker @roberthartsuiker.bsky.social · Sep 2

Off to Sheffield for #ESCOP2025 . Hope to see many of you there!

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Rob Hartsuiker @roberthartsuiker.bsky.social · Aug 21

@miekeslim.bsky.social waarom denk ik bij dit bericht meteen aan jou? :-)

DER SPIEGEL @spiegel.de · Aug 21

Normalerweise ist es ja andersherum, aber im hessischen Dieburg stand ein Mann vor Gericht, weil er eine Bulldogge ins Ohr gebissen haben soll. Verurteilt wurde er nicht. Der Hund hatte sich bereits gerächt.

Dieburg bei Darmstadt: Mann beißt Hund ins Ohr

Normalerweise ist es ja andersherum, aber im hessischen Dieburg stand ein Mann vor Gericht, weil er eine Bulldogge ins Ohr gebissen haben soll. Verurteilt wurde er nicht. Der Hund hatte sich bereits gerächt.

www.spiegel.de

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de Volkskrant @volkskrant.nl · Aug 20

D66 en GL-PvdA dienen wetsvoorstel in om Nederlanders het recht op een dubbele nationaliteit te geven

www.volkskrant.nl

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Simon Fisher @profsimonfisher.bsky.social · Aug 14

"Using multi-unit recording we found that inner speech is robustly represented in motor cortex, & decoded imagined sentences in real time. We demonstrate strategies to prevent brain-computer interfaces from unintentionally decoding private inner speech." Fascinating new @cp-cell.bsky.social paper:👇🧪

Inner speech in motor cortex and implications for speech neuroprostheses

Inner speech is robustly represented in the motor cortex and can be decoded in real time to restore communication to people with paralysis. Unintentional decoding of private inner speech can be preven...

www.cell.com

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Daniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · Aug 15

An abbreviation (ABB) in a journal article (JA) or Grant Application (GA) is rarely worth the words it saves. Every ABB requires cognitive resources (CR) and at my age by the time I'm halfway through a JA or GA I no longer have the CR to remember what your ABB stood for.

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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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