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🔎 distributional information and syntactic structure in the 🧠 | 💼 postdoc @ Université de Genève | 🎓 MPI for Psycholinguistics, BCBL, Utrecht University | 🎨 | she/her

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Sophie Slaats @sophieslaats.bsky.social · Feb 25

a plea to think carefully about surprisal + what it means to understand how we understand >> link.springer.com/article/10.1...

brand new paper in Computational Brain and Behaviour with @andreaeyleen.bsky.social at @mpi-nl.bsky.social

What’s Surprising About Surprisal - Computational Brain & Behavior

In the computational and experimental psycholinguistic literature, the mechanisms behind syntactic structure building (e.g., combining words into phrases and sentences) are the subject of considerable...

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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!

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Matt Goldrick @mattgoldrick.bsky.social · 5d

Postdoc (flexible start): child language development across different populations and contexts, methods including behavioral studies, large-scale data analysis, and/or computational modeling. M. Cychosz, Linguistics, Stanford Univ. postdocs.stanford.edu/prospective/...

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Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics @mpi-nl.bsky.social · 5d

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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Rewriting Wor(l)ds @re-writer.bsky.social · 6d

🎉We're hiring!🎉
We're looking for 2 Postdoctoral Researchers to join our exciting, interdisciplinary team. Both are full-time, fixed-term (almost 4 years), based in Edinburgh's @uoe-cahss.bsky.social / @uoe-llc.bsky.social w/ links to @schoolofppls.bsky.social & @morayhouse.bsky.social
Pls share!

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Sophie Slaats @sophieslaats.bsky.social · 6d

Hypothesis: the spell checker killed the variant "langauge"
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spell_c...

Sophie Slaats @sophieslaats.bsky.social · 7d

TIL the relative popularity of "langauge" peaks in the mid-80s

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Sophie Slaats @sophieslaats.bsky.social · 7d

"Langauge in the Brian" - free title for grant proposal for studying the neural basis of the Transposed Letter effect

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Sophie Slaats @sophieslaats.bsky.social · 15d

Dr. Fernández Merino shone at her defense today! 🌟

Nicola Molinaro @nicolaml.bsky.social · 15d

🎓✨ So proud of my PhD student for brilliantly defending her thesis today! Years of hard work, resilience, and curiosity have paid off — welcome, Dr. Fernández-Merino! 👩‍🎓👏

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andrea e. martin @andreaeyleen.bsky.social · 20d

I somehow called temporal response functions “millennial ERPs” in lab meeting and now I can’t stop thinking about that 😅🥹

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Anna Mai @annamai.bsky.social · Sep 8

Out now in Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews!

When studying language in the brain, we often look for things that can be model systems for language (songbirds, artificial grammars, etc.). Here, we flip this on its head and argue that language itself is an excellent model system for cognition 🗣️🧏‍♀️🧠

Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics @mpi-nl.bsky.social · Sep 8

Linguistic structure as a guiding principle for human neuroscience. New paper by @annamai.bsky.social & @andreaeyleen.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2025.106322

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andrea e. martin @andreaeyleen.bsky.social · Sep 3

Interested in doing a PhD with me and lacns.github.io? Or with any of the incredible fellows in the IMPRS School of Cognition www.maxplanckschools.org/cognition-en - apply before Dec 1st at cognition.maxplanckschools.org/en/application

Language and Computation in Neural Systems

We are an international group of scientists consisting of linguists, cognitive scientists, cognitive neuroscientists, computational neuroscientists, computational modellers, computational scientists, ...

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Sophie Slaats @sophieslaats.bsky.social · Sep 8

Find my poster below ⤵️

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Sophie Slaats @sophieslaats.bsky.social · Sep 8

I had a fantastic time at #AMLaP2025 in gorgeous Prague! Great feedback on my poster, lovely talks, wonderful reunions, and a phenomenal keynote by @lindadrijvers.bsky.social (so relevant when looking at the photos of my own presentation... 👐 ).

work with Alexis Hervais-Adelman 🌐 link in comment

Photo of Sophie Slaats explaining her poster with the title 'Patterns, fast and slow: The structure and statistics of language shape high- and low frequency neural signals'

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Sophie Slaats @sophieslaats.bsky.social · Sep 5

Not at AMLaP? Download the poster here: www.sophieslaats.nl/wp-content/u...

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Sophie Slaats @sophieslaats.bsky.social · Sep 5

Come find my poster on how syntax and lexical probability interact in intracranial EEG today at 10:00 at #AMLaP2025 - poster 106! 🗣️

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Jonathan Peelle @jpeelle.bsky.social · Jul 30

HOW DO I LOG IN TO EDITORIAL MANAGER TO SUBMIT MY REVIEW

Eiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social · Jul 30

Psychologists & related fields: what is a big methods question that you believe remains somewhat unanswered & that you'd love to see adressed? There may be an opportunity for a large-scale meta-science project with many teams trying to figure out a question.

Any thoughts welcome! #psychscisky

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Sophie Slaats @sophieslaats.bsky.social · Jul 24

Relevant publications: doi.org/10.1523/JNEU... & doi.org/10.1162/nol_...

Delta-Band Neural Responses to Individual Words Are Modulated by Sentence Processing

To understand language, we need to recognize words and combine them into phrases and sentences. During this process, responses to the words themselves are changed. In a step toward understanding how t...

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Sophie Slaats @sophieslaats.bsky.social · Jul 24

It's always a pleasure to read the research report from the @mpi-nl.bsky.social - but when your own work is mentioned, it does hit different. Thanks for the mention and, of course, the wonderful years of work! 🧠 💬 @andreaeyleen.bsky.social

Report: www.mpi.nl/sites/defaul...

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Caroline Rowland @carorowland.bsky.social · Jul 24

Is it possible to use AI well and ethically in academia? I don't know but these amazing resources - via @dingemansemark.bsky.social - may help you make an informed decision 1/

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SCONe - Scottish-EU Critical Oscillations Network @scone-neuro.bsky.social · Jul 22

/1 We took our sweet time (~3yrs) to put this into its final shape - but happy to say that the pre-print of an extensive review of brain rhythms in cognition - from a cognruro perspective - is now available. Please let us know what you think. #neuroskyence doi.org/10.48550/arX...

Brain rhythms in cognition -- controversies and future directions

Brain rhythms seem central to understanding the neurophysiological basis of human cognition. Yet, despite significant advances, key questions remain unresolved. In this comprehensive position paper, w...

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Carlos González-García @gonzalezgarcia.bsky.social · Jul 16

🧠💻 We (a bunch of colleagues at @cimcyc.bsky.social) just released a programming guide for psych & cog neuro students. Instead of a tutorial, this is a starting point: a collection of reflections, examples, and recommendations.

👉 Still growing, but ready to explore: wobc.github.io/programming_book/

Programming in psychological science

A practical introduction

wobc.github.io

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · Jul 10

British Academy postdoctoral fellowships scheme is now open. The deadline is 1 October. Time to get talking with potential host institutions and mentors about planning an application for this year or instead waiting for a future round. (The scheme is annual).

Postdoctoral Fellowships

The British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowships is a three year award made to an annual cohort of outstanding early career researchers in the humanities or social sciences.

www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · Jul 2

"But other scientists were less impressed. @olivia.science, a computational cognitive scientist … argued that because the scientists hadn’t used a theory about cognition in building Centaur, its prediction didn’t have much to reveal about how the mind works." www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/s...

Scientists Use A.I. to Mimic the Mind, Warts and All

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Titus von der Malsburg 📖👀💭 @tmalsburg.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · Jul 9

I'm offering a 3-year PhD position with benefits at the University of Stuttgart (1-year extension possible). Research topic is open but broadly in incremental sentence comprehension. If you're into eye-tracking, even better! No teaching obligations until Summer 2027, some light teaching after […]

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Caroline Rowland @carorowland.bsky.social · Jul 9

I've been adding to my 'how I write papers' google doc recently. Interested to hear if others disagree with my views on writing journal articles docs.google.com/document/d/1...

How I write papers

How I write empirical papers Caroline Rowland Last updated May 2025 This guide tells you how I structure empirical papers in child language acquisition. It is not the only way, nor is it suitable f...

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