When the extinction of so much Higher Education is complete, people will look back and wonder with astonishment at how this vast financial hole was allowed to grow under the economy. A big risk to everyone, not just universities.
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
An international women’s day message from my friend and partner in activism Sandi Toksvig #iwd #internationalwomensday
Abstracts open for MPAL 2026!
28–30 Oct 2026 | Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen + online
🗓 Submit by 15 May 2026 (midnight, anywhere). Theme: variation in child language acquisition.
Join us, more info: www.mpi.nl/news/abstrac...
📣📣📣Job alert Multimodal Language Department Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics MAX PLANCK RESEARCH GROUP LEADER POSITION (W2 BBESG) lnkd.in/eaq5MW9a
New open-access paper with @asliozyurek.bsky.social & Emanuela Campisi
We extend relevance theory to a multimodal view of language, demonstrating that speakers explicitly highlight iconic gestures as communicatively relevant in knowledge transmission context
🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin
Absolutely!! So happy to see you and hopefully we can meet soon again 💕
Oooh! Are you around during lunch? Will try to catch you 😊
Looking forward to getting there and seeing you all soon! 😊
Cok sagol Ethan!
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Netherlands joins the 'Universities Shooting Themselves In the Foot to Placate Populists' Club.
No woman I know in academia would be surprised by this, but its good to see it documented like this, I guess.
Sarah Winman's Still Life is beautiful and joyful, if she has not already read it.
Ahaha, sorry replied to the wrong post 🤦🏻♀️😂
I think it's been announced to Asli's group but perhaps not to the whole Institute yet?
Thank you! Look forward to meeting you there! 😊
Thank you!! 😊
Thanks so much, Martha!
So, all that is left now is to pack, pack, pack and to hope that all goes well with the move. I'd sworn off doing an international move with my grumpy dog again, but here were are! This will be the 3rd country that Missy Kahlua will live in, much to her chagrin I'm sure. Helaas pindakaas! 😆 7/end
My adopted city of Liverpool will always be with me, too. Having lived here for 6+ years now, I can declare myself an honorary Scouser 😊 This beautiful city whose docks I've swum in for years held me and healed me with its warm, gregarious people and I'll forever be grateful ❤️ Go 'ed, lads 6/
There are many things that drive me nuts about the UK, things that I find incomprehensible and rant about regularly. At the same time, there are many things that I love and find endearing, that I will miss. Although I never felt home here entirely, I will always be British and carry the UK in me 5/
Among all the happiness and excitement, there is of course the sadness of leaving behind my friends, coworkers, and adopted country. It's been my absolute fortune to meet some wonderful people here who I dearly love. I'm going to miss them very much ❤️ 4/
I'm very much looking forward to being a part of the Multimodal Lang Dept and contributing to and supporting all the new and exciting research on multimodal language and communication. To say that I'm excited is very much an understatement! 😊 3/
In many ways, this will be a homecoming. Ever since I first visited the MPI, Nijmegen, and the Netherlands in 2001, they have always felt like home. Now, 12 years after having left, and lived in Canada and the UK, I'll be back. 2/
Some news: After 10 years as a Senior Lecturer, this is my last day of work in UK academia. I will start a new position as Lab Manager in the Multimodal Language Dept at @mpi-nl.bsky.social in February. I am delighted to be back at the MPI and to work with @asliozyurek.bsky.social again! 😊 1/
Our new paper in Cognitive Science, led by Can! @canavci.bsky.social
"Assessing Others’ Knowledge Through Their Speech Disfluencies and Gestures"
Cognitive Science - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
@kudilvebilis.bsky.social
Autistic adults, regardless of whether clinically dx or self-identifying, report more difficulty processing auditory information, particularly others' speech.
doi.org/10.1177/1362...
New research by Elena Silva, Linda Drivers
@lindadrijvers.bsky.social
and myself
(reposting with correct link)
🤯 Wild shit here. They put biologgers on greater noctule bats and found them pursuing, capturing, and eating birds in-flight. The recording of a European Robin getting blasted and snacked on is nuts.
Sci Am story: www.scientificamerican.com/article/this...
Paper: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
A busy figure showing how reduction of different types of multimodal signals reduces over experimental rounds (with a comparison of how a non-linear signal following a power law can be transformed to a linear slope using a log-transformation).
Our paper @sarabogels.bsky.social covering our pre-registered multi-year research is now finally out in Cognition. We show that in conversations people reduce their multimodal signals non-linearly; the steeper this non-linear drop-off the more communicative success.
www.wimpouw.com/files/Bogels...
