Come join us! I have startup funds to hire a postdoc for Fall 2025 at Rutgers to study intergroup relations. The job ad is at jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/249... & evaluations begin in 1 wk (5/16) w rolling evaluation. See 🧵below for a write-up on what I'm looking for in a postdoc. Please share widely!

Despite everything going on, I may have funds to hire a postdoc this year 😬🤞🧑‍🔬 Open to a wide variety of possible projects in social and cognitive neuroscience. Get in touch if you are interested! Reposts appreciated.

Come join us in Oxford as we move into our new home in the Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities (opening Oct '25). We are looking to fill THREE fixed-term lecturer positions: in Semantics/Pragmatics, Psycholinguistics, and Linguistics with French. www.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/news/2025/05...

Huge thanks to the other authors: Aitor Egurtzegi, @sebastiansauppe.bsky.social , Arrate Isasi-Isasmendi, Guilleme Martinez de la Hidalga, Ina Bornkessel-Schlesewsky, Matthias Schlesewsky, @ilaka.bsky.social, Martin Meyer, & @balthasarbickel.bsky.social

Plus there are some bonus bits about the effects of argument-drop in processing!

Basque is an Active language, meaning that agents get a special case marker.  We show that it really is agency that matters to comprehenders, because they don't apply the typical Agent-first principle when the first noun phrase isn't agentive enough (in this case, when the first NP is inanimate).

The effect of animacy on the agent preference: Self-paced reading evidence from Basque - Memory & Cognition Language processing shows a tendency to prefer agents over other roles. For instance, when initial unmarked noun phrases (NPs) are ambiguous between agent and patient roles, there is a preference to i...

Our new paper on animacy effects in Basque comprehension is out! It's been fun shepherding this paper for the last couple years.  Congratulations to all the authors, but especially Aitor Ergurtzegi on publishing the last paper of his PhD! link.springer.com/article/10.3...

Neural correlates of processing case in adults and children Sentence-initial arguments with role-specific case markers (e.g., accusatives) have been reported to be processed slower than arguments with default c…

🆕 📝 𝑵𝒆𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒍 𝒄𝒐𝒓𝒓𝒆𝒍𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒄𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒄𝒂𝒔𝒆 𝒊𝒏 𝒂𝒅𝒖𝒍𝒕𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒄𝒉𝒊𝒍𝒅𝒓𝒆𝒏

#EEG evidence that development of top-down #language processing skills is ongoing by age 6 b/c #Basque children‘s and adults’ 🧠 signatures of processing case marking differ in the β-band.

OA here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Scheme of DiCoW target speaker ASR pipeline

Transcribing multiple speakers with OpenAI’s Whisper? No problem.

Check out our recent work at BUT Speech@FIT in collaboration with CLSP JHU. It is fully open-sourced. Do not forget to try out our demo: pccnect.fit.vutbr.cz/gradio-demo

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Simon Fraser University Speech Error Database - English (SFUSED English) SFUSED English is a large database of speech errors collected from audio recordings of spontaneous speech. SFUSED English documents over 10,000 speech errors in English, and its cousin database, SFUSE...

John Alderete: “The English speech error database I developed with my students is now available on this OSF page: osf.io/8c9rg/. It has over 10k richly structured errors and most of them have audio backup.”

Kicking of DoReCo's Bluesky presence with a bang: DoReCo 2.0 was published today, featuring open-access, time-aligned spoken corpora on, by now, 53 language, ca. 7,000 words each, with morpheme glosses for 38 of them. Check it out at doreco.huma-num.fr

If you're still adding to this, I'd love to be on it! It's certainly still circulating and helpful

Our work on ape event cognition and the evolution of language is featured in The Conversation theconversation.com/how-primate-...

What Happened To Peru's Cloud Warriors? | Breakthrough YouTube video by Curiosity Stream

A documentary about the ancient Chachapoya culture of Peru, talking about their legacy, history, and genetics. With Sonia Guillén, international mummy expert, and my little contribution! www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Qwc...

It's really cool to have access to this data on cross-linguistic representation at conferences. Thanks for all the work to keep it updated @aymericcollart.bsky.social!

Expert-elicitation method for non-parametric joint priors using normalizing flows We propose an expert-elicitation method for learning non-parametric joint prior distributions using normalizing flows. Normalizing flows are a class of generative models that enable exact, single-step...

Prior specification is one of the hardest tasks in Bayesian modeling.

In our new paper, we (Florence Bockting, @stefanradev.bsky.social and me) develop a method for expert prior elicitation using generative neural networks and simulation-based learning.

arxiv.org/abs/2411.15826

Super excited to see this out! Congrats to everyone, esp. @vd0ubleu.bsky.social. Comparative eyetracking across four species of great apes is a huge feat

LINGUIST List 35.3312 Support: French; Psycholinguistics, Syntax: PhD, Goethe University Frankfurt The LINGUIST List, International Linguistics Community Online.

Interested in doing a PhD in French psycholinguistics 💻? We are looking for someone fluent in French and interested in Romance Languages. The position is for 3 years with the possibility of an extension. 📅 Application deadline: December 20, 2024. More info: linguistlist.org/issues/35-3312

𝚝𝚒𝚗𝚢𝚝𝚊𝚋𝚕𝚎 0.6.1 for #Rstats is out!

It's an ultra simple, super flexible, and 0-dependency package to draw beautiful tables in HTML, LaTeX, Typst, Word, PDF, and PNG.

And for those who ❤️ documentation, 𝚝𝚒𝚗𝚢𝚝𝚊𝚋𝚕𝚎 ships with a billion pages of tutorials:

vincentarelbundock.github.io/tinytable/

Officially joining the exodus from that other social media place. It's awfully nice to see academia chatter reconstituting itself over here