📖5th #iWORDD this October: 2 days of reading & dyslexia research, 1 on real-world impact!
Join our outstanding keynote line-up + share your work here by April 15: shorturl.at/lSlBI
@jyeatman.bsky.social @gaablab.bsky.social @drmluciano.bsky.social @standehaene.bsky.social @cassandrapw.bsky.social
REMINDER
trying to stay calm and do work in a fascist world is itself a radical action
a world that wants to destroy independent knowledge, universities, education, still contains people who want to gently think and teach without dehumanisation and destruction
The BCBL would be an amazing place to work. Great colleagues in a gorgeous location with some of the finest food in the world.
📢 PhD position in Computational Neuroscience 🧠
Join the Deco-B project to decode bilingual speech (Spanish–Basque) using MEG/fMRI + multilingual AI models. Work at the intersection of neuroscience & machine learning at BCBL.
More: tinyurl.com/2rnur82n
❗ New preprint from the Brain and Cognition lab spearheaded by @irenetxeberria.bsky.social, Sage Boettcher, Kia Nobre and crafted together with friends from the Brain, Speech, and Language lab,
@birtandemirel.bsky.social and @kateewatkins.bsky.social 🫂
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 1/n
Always nice working with Bojana & @simomancini.bsky.social 😊
📢 New in Trends in Neurosciences
Dyslexia shows atypical phonological processing and speech tracking, yet comprehension is preserved. We argue this reflects adaptive compensation, via hemispheric rebalancing and greater reliance on lexico-semantic processing.
authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
"these findings suggest a causal compensatory pathway in #dyslexia, supported by a rebalanced and more bilaterally connected #language network that can be actively trained (for instance, through musical experience or #bilingual exposure"
#brain #research
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Alex Pretti, wearing a green sweater with his VA badge on.
This is Alex Pretti.
This morning he was murdered by ICE. Six ICE agents held him down and shot him at point blank range. Alex was a nurse and researcher at the VA.
Our thoughts are with his loved ones and we stand united in action calling for the abolishment of ICE.
#ScientistsAgainstICE
So happy to see this nice collaborative work out now!
@nicolaml.bsky.social @anaklimovichgray.bsky.social @mirjanabozic.bsky.social
#Dyslexia #TINS
Speech processing is adaptive, shaped by development and experience. Studying speech processing in dyslexia gives us a unique window into the neural mechanisms of this flexibility.
@nicolaml.bsky.social @marielallierbcbl.bsky.social
@mirjanabozic.bsky.social
#Neuroscience #Language #Dyslexia #TINs
📢 New in Trends in Neurosciences
Dyslexia shows atypical phonological processing and speech tracking, yet comprehension is preserved. We argue this reflects adaptive compensation, via hemispheric rebalancing and greater reliance on lexico-semantic processing.
authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
main goal for this year: find a new job! 🙂
looking for a role with fun & complex technical challenges & within a great community. my main expertise is in signal processing/EEG/MEG, but topic-wise I am quite flexible.
science/industry both great! starting mid-year. nschawor.github.io/cv
This story is full of gems. Read the whole thing. Here's just one:
🧠 How strong is speech decoding from MEG signals? Much stronger during speech production (73% accuracy) than comprehension (~51%) (& Delta & Theta bands carry most relevant information). More discussion in our recent decoding study: doi.org/10.1016/j.cs...
Christmas dinner with an amazing research team 🎄✨ So thankful for the people behind the work—and excited for what the new year will bring!
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
Solo nel ricordo il tempo smette di fuggire e diventa nostro
🎓✨ 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! 👩🎓👏
Gave my talk at #ICON2025 today 🎤✨ Great discussions about music and speech and lots of inspiring science all around. Feeling energized by this community!
... and delivered. Thanks to @manuruz.bsky.social - @eegmanylabs.bsky.social, @alinakoppold.bsky.social - @igor-dgps.bsky.social, Elena Cesnaite - @eegmanypipes.bsky.social and @lauraklatt.bsky.social - @scone-neuro.bsky.social for holding a mirror to cog #neuroskyence #ICON2025 🙌
New paper out: available online the "Tracking Umbrella": ⛱️ Get some shade in the late summer time 😎 doi.org/10.1111/nyas...
📢 PhD opening @bcbl_ (San Sebastián, Spain)
Join our ERC project CORTICAL RHYTHMS 🧠 to study how brain rhythms shape second language learning (spoken & signed) with MEG/MRI.
📅 Start Jan 2026 | ⏳ Apply by Sept 15, 2025
👉 tinyurl.com/bdwkumn3
📢 PhD opening @bcbl_ (San Sebastián, Spain)
Join our ERC project CORTICAL RHYTHMS 🧠 to study how brain rhythms shape second language learning (spoken & signed) with MEG/MRI.
📅 Start Jan 2026 | ⏳ Apply by Sept 15, 2025
👉 tinyurl.com/bdwkumn3
Still playing the waiting game with the publication process 🤐😪😑 … but in the meantime, here’s some fresh evidence showing that cognitive conflict might actually feel rewarding. Who knew it could be fun? osf.io/c75tj
@mlapietra.bsky.social @MarcLluisVives @nicolaml.bsky.social
Neural tracking: evoked or oscillatory? 🎧🧠 The #TrackingUmbrella paper argues it’s not either/or — both perspectives reveal how our brains align with speech, music, and more. Method matters. Let’s rethink how we measure and interpret tracking! tinyurl.com/ywbe7rrz
Neural tracking: evoked or oscillatory? 🎧🧠 The #TrackingUmbrella paper argues it’s not either/or — both perspectives reveal how our brains align with speech, music, and more. Method matters. Let’s rethink how we measure and interpret tracking! tinyurl.com/ywbe7rrz
To all those who believe in democracy: be ready to fight.
VdP is impressive this year. And Wout is soooo unlucky, but nobody will forget TdF 2022. Hope he will get again so spectacular. We miss him
