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Speech perception & brain nerd, University of Connecticut. Opinions my own, not my employer's.

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How Congress can restore the independence of US science Members must go beyond reinstating US government research spending and re-establish decentralized governance at the National Institutes of Health and other agencies.

How Congress can restore the independence of US science
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

11.03.2026 10:47 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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​​UMD LEAD Lab Manager Ad The Language, Experience, and Development (LEAD) lab at the University of Maryland, College Park, directed by Dr. Rachel Romeo (she/her/hers), is seeking a lab manager. Expected start date is early su...

I am hiring a new lab manager for the @umdleadlab.bsky.social to start this summer! Job ad and link to apply here. Please re-post and share with your seniors, and/or anyone else who would be a good fit! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

10.03.2026 21:08 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 12 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

We're still accepting applications! Review will begin 3/23 for a full-time Junior Specialist Lab Coordinator in the Cognition in Context Lab at UC Davis. #psychjobs

09.03.2026 12:03 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 11 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

More academic papers should have jump-scares

07.03.2026 12:23 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This is such a cool insight into an (excellent!) writer’s process.

Using TTS to read your text aloud to you also works. I find that artificial voices are even better for catching clunky writing.

07.03.2026 12:19 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Spanish is the only reason I can spell caffeine!

07.03.2026 03:36 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It's been fun knowing you.

06.03.2026 21:26 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Some personal news: today I spelled "bureaucratic" correctly on the first try.

(It will probably never happen again.)

06.03.2026 19:34 πŸ‘ 18 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Amazing. Next you're going to tell me that all of those Roman gods weren't real either.

06.03.2026 16:38 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

"we definitely founds something! but what? nobody can say"

06.03.2026 16:28 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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What our brain hears beyond words - NCCR Evolving Language How do we know that a sentence was said by a woman? How do we know that what she told us was a question? Researchers from the University of Zurich and the NCCR Evolving Language described the complex ...

How do we know that a sentence was a question? Researchers from the UZH and our NCCR described the complex processes happening in our brain, that allow us to understand the information contained in pitch.

@fcbg-neuro.bsky.social @isle-uzh.bsky.social

evolvinglanguage.ch/what-our-bra...

06.03.2026 10:44 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The horrifying day when we opened the experiment file to find conditions labeled β€œcondition A” and β€œcondition B” with no notes as to what that meant.

05.03.2026 20:54 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸ“’ PhD position in the NeuroAI of Language

Why can LLMs predict brain activity so well? We're hiring a PhD student to find out -- AI interpretability meets neuroimaging
Deadline March 20
Please RT πŸ™
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mpi.nl/career-education/vacancies/vacancy/fully-funded-4-year-phd-position-neuroai-language

05.03.2026 13:34 πŸ‘ 48 πŸ” 37 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1

The "my mom told me he was a creep" one was my absolute favorite.

05.03.2026 13:41 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Friends!!! Enchilada recipes! After two promising but disappointing attempts to make enchiladas I need your best recipes for one of my favorite dishes.

Extra points for vegetarian or vegetarian-adaptable recipes.

Β‘VΓ‘mos!

05.03.2026 00:33 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

teaching about morphology today which meant making my linguistics students scream the word PHILAFUCKINGDELPHIA at me in unison to show how we can predict where the FUCKING goes based on which syllable is stressed

04.03.2026 19:01 πŸ‘ 57 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 0

I might be an unsung hero. No one is singing so that's one clue

04.03.2026 12:22 πŸ‘ 19 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I didn't expect the "then they came for..." to hit me QUITE so specifically, but lesson learned.

04.03.2026 15:07 πŸ‘ 2708 πŸ” 302 πŸ’¬ 81 πŸ“Œ 6

Deadline 24 March: Research fellow (5 year fixed term), cog neurosci of aging and dementia, MARCS Institute for Brain, Behaviour and Development, Western Sydney jobs.smartrecruiters.com/WesternSydne...

04.03.2026 03:26 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
An embroidery of an inner ear done in bone white thread on dark purple linen. The centre of the spiral is labeled β€œnave of vibration”, the body of the inner ear is labeled β€œplumes of sound”, and the tubes are labeled β€œwindows open.”

An embroidery of an inner ear done in bone white thread on dark purple linen. The centre of the spiral is labeled β€œnave of vibration”, the body of the inner ear is labeled β€œplumes of sound”, and the tubes are labeled β€œwindows open.”

It’s #WorldHearingDay to raise awareness about hearing health and accessibility. Here’s my #SciArt #embroidery of the cochlea/inner earβ€”nave of vibration (2017)β€”which I did while researching my symptoms of hyperacusis.

03.03.2026 16:03 πŸ‘ 112 πŸ” 39 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 3

I think he knows.

03.03.2026 02:32 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Congrats, Russell! So glad you get to pursue one of your biggest passions!

02.03.2026 22:42 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Told a former student I'd be delighted to meet up with him for "breakfast near campus" this morning.

At least, that's what I meant to write. Instead I suggested "breakfast beer campus", which, despite how tough things are, is not how I roll on a Monday morning.

02.03.2026 15:18 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I mean, on top of the abject horrors of the news. That's also bad.

01.03.2026 15:23 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The fact that I have the most irritating song from "Kiss Me Kate" stuck in my head ("I've Come to Wive It Wealthily in Padua" UGH) is really ruining my morning.

01.03.2026 15:23 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
tenance.

the birds bring branches to my balcony,
assuming it’s a cliffside, for their nest;
the building’s shade (projecting to the west
across the park to darken every tree)
to them’s a canyon-wall; they’re in its lee
each morning, the canals below suggest
a shadowed marshland; perching here to rest,
their thoughts turned to a future family.

the birds mistook my deck-chair for a nook
along a beetling rockface, good to haul
light twigs to. what they shake loose was repressed,

an ache i shy from. did i also look
for home somewhere that’s not a home at all?
what will we clutch, the hour it’s repossessed?

tenance. the birds bring branches to my balcony, assuming it’s a cliffside, for their nest; the building’s shade (projecting to the west across the park to darken every tree) to them’s a canyon-wall; they’re in its lee each morning, the canals below suggest a shadowed marshland; perching here to rest, their thoughts turned to a future family. the birds mistook my deck-chair for a nook along a beetling rockface, good to haul light twigs to. what they shake loose was repressed, an ache i shy from. did i also look for home somewhere that’s not a home at all? what will we clutch, the hour it’s repossessed?

today's #sonnet. a true story from the balcony. didn't even notice i kept using one of the octet rhymes in the sestet. thanks for reading! #poetry πŸ•ŠοΈ

01.03.2026 03:10 πŸ‘ 18 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
Crossword clue reading β€œβ€Feliz ___ nuevo!” (Spanish "happy new anus!")”

Crossword clue reading β€œβ€Feliz ___ nuevo!” (Spanish "happy new anus!")”

We at AVCX crosswords believe that N and Γ‘ are different letters

27.02.2026 14:36 πŸ‘ 108 πŸ” 33 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 2
Heatmap showing migration activity

Heatmap showing migration activity

Sunday is BirdCast Day, when daily radar-inspired forecasts start for the spring migration.

It's traditional to buy small gifts for all of your birder friends.

birdcast.org

27.02.2026 14:49 πŸ‘ 15 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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Oh, Outlook. You really don’t want to ask this.

27.02.2026 14:42 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Tenure track position in the multimodal language department at the MPI!

27.02.2026 02:15 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0