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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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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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Stefan Frank @stefanfrank.bsky.social · 19d

Announcing the first (and perhaps only) Multilingual Minds and Machines Meeting! Come join us in Nijmegen, June 22-23, 2026, if you are interested in computational models of human multilingualism: mmmm2026.github.io

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · Jun 27

Hello & HAPPY FRIDAY, as promised an open letter by my lovely colleagues and myself. Everybody, feel free to sign this even if you are not NL-based and ‼️ share ‼️ (anonymous signature is poss):

Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia

openletter.earth/open-letter-...

Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia

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Dirk-Jan Scheffers 🟥 @dirkscheffers.bsky.social · Mar 28

Ik vind deze campagne erg belangrijk - doe je ook mee? actie.degoedezaak.org/petitions/ee...

Eerlijkere loonverdeling in het hoger onderwijs

Zeker nu minister Bruins van OCW de grootste bezuinigingen op het hoger onderwijs in decennia heeft aangekondigd is het essentieel dat de sector zich niet tegen elkaar uit laat spelen en solidair met ...

actie.degoedezaak.org

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Yevgen Matusevych @yevgenm.bsky.social · Mar 7

Interested in a paid PhD position in the Netherlands? Join me, Annemarie van Dooren, and @arianna-bis.bsky.social on a project to develop computational models of modal verb acquisition. A job ad will be out soon, but here's a preview: yevgen.web.rug.nl/phd.pdf

yevgen.web.rug.nl

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Gabriella Vigliocco @gabriellavigliocco.bsky.social · Feb 26

Inaugural post on bsky: The ECOLANG Multimodal Corpus, providing audiovisual recordings and annotations of multimodal communicative behaviours by English-speaking adults in dyadic interaction with a child or another adult is now available rdcu.be/eblMF

The ECOLANG Multimodal Corpus of adult-child and adult-adult Language

Scientific Data - The ECOLANG Multimodal Corpus of adult-child and adult-adult Language

rdcu.be

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Mark Dingemanse @dingemansemark.bsky.social · Feb 19

Come work with us! Our department is hiring an associate/assistant prof in language and speech technology www.ru.nl/en/working-a...
#interspeech #speech #SpeechTech #SpeechScience

Associate/Assistant Professor: Language and Speech Technology | Radboud University

Do you want to work as a Associate/Assistant Professor: Language and Speech Technology at the Faculty of Arts? Check our vacancy!

www.ru.nl

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Glossa Psycholinguistics @glossapsycholx.bsky.social · Feb 18

... and next up is Yadav, Frank, Futrell, and Husain, "Revisiting processing complexity of nested and cross-serial dependencies", which can be found here...

escholarship.org/uc/item/5w04...

Revisiting processing complexity of nested and cross-serial dependencies

Author(s): Yadav, Himanshu; Frank, Stefan; Futrell, Richard; Husain, Samar | Abstract: In two web-based experiments, we compare comprehension difficulty between Dutch and German sentences with cl...

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Stefan Frank @stefanfrank.bsky.social · Dec 19

"students engaged in language learning exhibited an approximately threefold increased likelihood of attaining a passing grade (or achieving higher results in standardised tests) than their peers, who were not involved in language lessons" -- which is not as impressive as performing 3x better

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multipleye-network.bsky.social @multipleye-network.bsky.social · Dec 17

🌟 Welcome to MultiplEYE on BlueSky! 🌟

MultiplEYE is an interdisciplinary network of research groups working on collecting #eyetracking data from reading in many languages. Visit our website to learn more: www.multipleye.eu.

Stay tuned for exciting developments and be part of our vibrant community!

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wimpouw @wimpouw.bsky.social · Dec 3

We wrote an opinion piece in Dutch that we should divest in for-profit publishing. Instead we should invest in Diamond Open Access, such that we keep innovating in a time of budget cuts
www.scienceguide.nl/2024/12/bezu...
@jeroenson.bsky.social

'Bezuinigen? Tijd voor een open access-revolutie’ - ScienceGuide

Als het kabinet wil bezuinigen op hoger onderwijs, is er een logische plek om te beginnen: open access, betogen Wim Pouw en Bert Bakker.

www.scienceguide.nl

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Marc van Oostendorp @fonolog.bsky.social · Dec 3

Stuur met een druk op de knop een mail naar een van de partijen die nu onderhandelen over de bezuinigingen op het hoger onderwijs!

www.fnv.nl/cao-sector/o...

Stop de sloop van ons hoger onderwijs

De bezuiniging van 1 miljard op het hoger onderwijs moet van tafel. Zo help jij mee.

www.fnv.nl

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David Barner @drbarner.bsky.social · Dec 2

Want to review for #CogSci2025? Click this thing. @cogscisociety.bsky.social
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

CogSci 2025 Call for Reviewers

CogSci is looking for abstract reviewers for the 2025 conference in San Francisco. If you are interested in this role, please complete the following form. If you have any questions, please contact cog...

docs.google.com

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Remco Breuker 🟥 @remcobreuker.bsky.social · Nov 24

Kom ook morgen naar het Malieveld om 13.00 om tegen de bezuinigingen op het hoger onderwijs te demonstreren!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=exxG...

www.youtube.com

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Stefan Frank @stefanfrank.bsky.social · Nov 16

After learning the publisher sold access to its data for LLM training, I resigned as editor of Language, Cognition & Neuroscience (I will continue handling papers already assigned). If any not-for-profit journal is looking for an editor who knows a bit about psycholinguistics, please get in touch!

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David Barner @drbarner.bsky.social · Oct 4

Last chance to get meta in your cogsci reviewing!

David Barner @drbarner.bsky.social · Oct 2

We're seeking meta-reviewers for CogSci 2025. If you have a PhD, have reviewed for CogSci before, and have previously submitted, send me a DM with your full name & email address to express your interest in meta-reviewing.
cognitivesciencesociety.org/cogsci-2025/

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Stefan Frank @stefanfrank.bsky.social · Sep 4

I'm hiring a postdoc! If you have experience with computational modelling of language and an interest in bilingualism, then check out the ad here: www.ru.nl/en/working-a... (and please spread the word!)

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Cognitive Science Society @cogscisociety.bsky.social · Jul 19

📢 The full detailed program for #CogSci2024 is now available for download on our website!

cognitivesciencesociety.org/program/

Check out the detailed program for CogSci 2024 and get ready to join us in Rotterdam! The image features bold green text on a dark teal background, with an icon of a magnifying glass highlighting a sequence of three connected rectangles.

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Remco Breuker 🟥 @remcobreuker.bsky.social · Jun 19

Als aftrap van een grootschalig protest tegen de plannen van de aankomende regering roepen we iedereen op om op zaterdag 22 juni om 14 uur op het Jaarbeursplein te Utrecht samen met landelijke studentenvakbond (LSVb) te protesteren tegen de bezuinigingen op het hoger onderwijs.

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Stefan Frank @stefanfrank.bsky.social · Jun 5

Europapa

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Cognitive Science Society @cogscisociety.bsky.social · Apr 16

Registration for #CogSci2024 IS OPEN and you will get the BEST RATE if you register before May 25!

cognitivesciencesociety.org/registration/

If attending poses financial challenges, we’re still offering financial hardship waiver and support for your additional family care costs! Apply by May 25!

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Stefan Frank @stefanfrank.bsky.social · Mar 22

Heel leuk: een interview met @mdhk.net , Zoë Prins en Michelle Suijkerbuijk over ons BLiMP-NL project!
www.nemokennislink.nl/publicaties/...

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Dan Mirman @danmirman.bsky.social · Feb 25

Call for submissions! 30th Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP), 5-7 September 2024, Edinburgh, Scotland. Present your interdisciplinary research on all aspects of language processing in a beautiful and fun city. More info at amlap2024.ed.ac.uk

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ManyLanguages @manylanguagesc.bsky.social · Feb 1

We are pleased to launch ManyLanguages, a globally distributed network of laboratories that helps coordinating #BigTeamScience data collection for studies on human language

many-languages.com

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ManyLanguages

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