@warwickpsych.bsky.social is recruiting an Assistant / Associate Professor (permanent post). Come join us! It's a great department. warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/appcentre...
@warwickpsych.bsky.social is recruiting an Assistant / Associate Professor (permanent post). Come join us! It's a great department. warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/appcentre...
I had somehow entirely missed Glyph had come out already, so your post came as a wonderful reminder! Very much looking forward to reading it, as with all her work
OPEN PHD POSITION - Come join our group! The IMPRS at @mpi-nl.bsky.social is offering an PhD position on modelling structured meaning in the brain, supervised by me and Helen De Hoop at the Centre for Language Studies in the @dondersinst.bsky.social -
www.mpi.nl/imprs-phd-fe... #NeuroJobs #cogsci
barbican 1-31 Oct VOICED The Festival for Endangered Languages Experience visual art, literature, spoken word and sound installations from indigenous artists in the first UK festival of this kind
Details of some of the events are listed here, which can be found at: https://www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/2025/series/voiced-the-festival-for-endangered-languages
Ten more days to check out The Barbican's
Voiced: The Festival for #EndangeredLanguages
π£π¬ #langsky
www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/202...
Figure 2 in the review: Levels of analysis from genes and brain systems to cognition and behaviour. The child both influences and is influenced by parents through genetically shaped interactions, and by the wider school and social environment. Figure design by Neil Usher. Figure from this review paper: https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/w23yz_v1
π§©Learning to talk & read isnβt just about effort or teachingβitβs shaped by biology, experience & context
π§ Our new review links genetics, neuroscience, psychology & education to show why some children find language or reading easier.
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Excited to share my first PhD article, published in Scientific Data π rdcu.be/eIRqD
We present the Shared Book Reading Corpus: 44 caregiver-infant dyads, 3 camera views (headcams + overview), speech transcriptions & developmental measures.
Access on Databrary for discovery & reuse! β¨
#OpenScience
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...
Today we had the launch event for our Centre for Brain & Behaviour! Lots of cool research from our PIs and contributions from companies, charities, and publishers. Great fruitful discussion and exchanges. Watch this space!
Flash talks at the #TFUNfest2025 this afternoon! Next up is @gwenbrekel.bsky.social who is sharing preliminary results on what students value in relation to equality and diversity in their teaching...
So excited to see that IASCL now has a group Zotero library of research on language acquisition in under-represented languages. ππ. All information here: www.childlanguage.org/underreprese...
π¨Postdoctoral fellowship in corpus phonetics / data science for speech with me and Ann Bradlow. Position is open immediately. Apply now! π¨ Details: faculty.wcas.northwestern.edu/matt-goldric...
Children are incredible language learning machines. But how do they do it? Our latest paper, just published in TICS, synthesizes decades of evidence to propose four components that must be built into any theory of how children learn language. 1/
www.cell.com/trends/cogni... @mpi-nl.bsky.social
What an incredible first day! Some fantastic talks, discussions, and networking - we can't wait to do it all again tomorrow! Check out our LinkedIn post for a few photos from the day... #dartp2025
www.linkedin.com/posts/dart-p...
We are doing a survey to understand why other professionals do/don't refer people with Primary Progressive Aphasia for speech-language support
We want Drs, nurses, psychologists, social workers, OTs, PTs & any other profession.
The survey can be accessed here: qualtrics.ucl.ac.uk/jfe/form/SV_...
Logos for The British Academy and Green Park Job title: Director of Communications Location: 10-11 Carlton House Terrace, SW1Y 5AH Reports to: Chief Executive
OK folks - will you please help me spread this far and wide. A really exciting opportunity to be the new Director of Comms at @britishacademy.bsky.social - the national academy for humanities and social sciences. Β£100k. Lovely team. Reports directly to me
micro.green-park.co.uk/thebritishac...
There's a PhD studentship opportunity available at the Birkbeck School of Psychological Sciences! 4 years, funded by working as a graduate teaching assistant. Feel free to get in touch if you have questions. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMD691/p...
As always a delight to host @emilynordmann.bsky.social and a very sunny day to boot! Thanks very much for sharing your words of wisdom with our @qmulsbbs.bsky.social teaching & scholarship staff, and for the thought-provoking seminar in the @queenmarycbb.bsky.social psychology seminar!
Last stretch! Please help if you can. If you teach at a Spanish university, donβt hesitate to share with your students. I wouldnβt mind doing an online session afterwards if you want me to introduce the topic of emotion to your students (or I could do a methodological session on online surveys). Thx
50 years ago Alan Baddeley and Graham Hitch propelled the term #workingmemory into the psychological lexicon, with a vision that still resonates today!
This editorial with Mark Hurlstone, @amyatkinson.bsky.social , Satoru Saito and Robert Logie, reflects on that remarkable contribution in 1974.
Group arts activities, such as painting and music, can significantly reduce depression and anxiety symptoms in older adults, offering a promising alternative to traditional mental health treatments. doi.org/g866dw
The cover for the book '50 essentials on science communication'. It features some images in red and greenish blue, showing a space shuttle, Albert Einstein mid-jump, a researcher with huge glasses, test tubes, a hand, speech bubbles, a light bulb, lots of arrows, and more.
Are you thinking about doing more science communication, but not really sure where to start?
Maybe you are already communicating, but would like to explore a wider range of channels?
Or you just want an A-to-Z overview of everything #scicomm related?
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A blue infographic gives a step by step guide on how to Skype a scientist. The steps are: 1) sign up on skypeascientist.com 2) pick a category of science your group would like to talk about (e.g. marine biology, chemistry, astronomy) 3) get a match via email 4) connect with your scientist, discuss your ur groupβs needs and pick a time to chat 5) talk to your scientist!
Hi! We're Skype a Scientist! We're a free program that matches scientists with classrooms, scout troops, libraries, & other groups for Q&As all about science.
Get matched with a scientist for a virtual conversation! We have 30+ types of scientist & match weekly.
www.skypeascientist.com/sign-up.html
You are all invited to"Meet the team"! We will post regularly to introduce our fantastic staff at the Department of Psychology and Centre for Brain & Behaviour. Today, we would like to introduce Gwen Brekelmans @gwenbrekel.bsky.social and Sevasti Foka.
New open access paper in Speech Communication on βnasal coarticulation in Lombard speechβ: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
I argue that, in Lombard speech, coarticulatory vowel nasality falls amid a compressed range of nasalisation, but coarticulation is maintained
@phoneticslab.bsky.social
THE BUNNY PAPER HAS BEEN PUBLISHED!!
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
#linguistics π¦
Donβt miss the Young Peopleβs Mental Health Creative Showcase organised by Dr Christina Carlisiβs UCL team, happening this Friday evening! www.eventbrite.com/e/ucl-young-...
New preprint! This paper shows that the perceptual boundary between speech and song can shift due to the surrounding context. Specifically, speech/song categorization is affected by contrastive adaptation: perceptual movement away from the previous stimulus.
osf.io/preprints/ps...
A picture of a humpback whale just below the sea surface taken by Marc Quintin
A thread explaining our new discovery about humpback whale song published today in Science... We found key statistical properties that characterise all human languages in another species for the first time. We have more in common with whales than we previously thought! doi.org/10.1126/scie...
The British Sign Language Corpus offers video data documenting BSL use in the UK. It supports research into BSL structure, use, and change, aiding education, interpreter training, and linguistics. Explore it here: bslcorpusproject.org
The absolute unit sheep; an Exmoor Horn ram
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