Want to join the Multilingual Minds and Machines Meeting, June 22-23 in Nijmegen? Registration is open until 1 May! mmmm2026.github.io

Deadline Apr 15: Postdoc, "using computational methods and EEG to study predictive processing in multilingual populations", at U Michigan w/ @jonrbrennan.bsky.social and @edithkaan.bsky.social careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...

The Multilingual Minds and Machines Meeting abstract submission deadline has been extended to March 21!
mmmm2026.github.io

The Multilingual Minds & Machines Meetings call for abstracts is now open! Everything you need to know is here -> mmmm2026.github.io

Thoughtfully Shaping Our Digital Future To the parties forming the government in the Senate and House of Representatives, as well as the outgoing administration, We are writing to you in recognition of your crucial responsibility for shaping current and future AI policy, overseeing digitization, and upholding public values. We are a coalition of scientists, experts, and representatives of civil society organizations. We believe it is essential to address these matters together. This letter has two objectives: a) Provide context for current plans, including the AI Delta Plan, the AIC4NL position paper, and the Invest-NL AI Deep Dive. These investment proposals often rely on assumptions that lack scientific evidence and do not fully reflect public values. b) To offer a constructive, well-substantiated alternative approach to digital futures based on people, nature, and democracy. We believe a collaborative process should guide decisions on the needs, scope, and nature of investments by bringing together scientists, civil society organizations, and stakeholders.

If you're based in NL please consider reading & signing our open letter on reclaiming so-called AI from the AI Delta Plan & co:

"Thoughtfully Shaping Our Digital Future" openletter.earth/zorgvuldig-a...

Big thanks to @lekkerresistance.bsky.social @irisvanrooij.bsky.social @marentierra.bsky.social

The Multilingual Minds & Machines Meetings call for abstracts is now open! Everything you need to know is here -> mmmm2026.github.io

We're seeking the next Director of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics! Lead cutting-edge research in language & cognition. Nominations (incl. self) due 19 Dec 2025.
mpi.nl/career-education/vacancies/vacancy/nominations-and-self-nominations-sought-position-director-max

PhD Position: Accented Speech Processing | Radboud University Do you want to work as a PhD: Accented Speech Processing at the Faculty of Arts? Check our vacancy!

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...

Announcing the first (and perhaps only) Multilingual Minds and Machines Meeting! Come join us in Nijmegen, June 22-23, 2026, if you are interested in computational models of human multilingualism: mmmm2026.github.io

Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia

Our demands, see link

Hello & HAPPY FRIDAY, as promised an open letter by my lovely colleagues and myself. Everybody, feel free to sign this even if you are not NL-based and ‼️ share ‼️ (anonymous signature is poss):

Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia

openletter.earth/open-letter-...

Eerlijkere loonverdeling in het hoger onderwijs Zeker nu minister Bruins van OCW de grootste bezuinigingen op het hoger onderwijs in decennia heeft aangekondigd is het essentieel dat de sector zich niet tegen elkaar uit laat spelen en solidair met ...

Ik vind deze campagne erg belangrijk - doe je ook mee? actie.degoedezaak.org/petitions/ee...

Interested in a paid PhD position in the Netherlands? Join me, Annemarie van Dooren, and @arianna-bis.bsky.social on a project to develop computational models of modal verb acquisition. A job ad will be out soon, but here's a preview: yevgen.web.rug.nl/phd.pdf

The ECOLANG Multimodal Corpus of adult-child and adult-adult Language Scientific Data - The ECOLANG Multimodal Corpus of adult-child and adult-adult Language

Inaugural post on bsky: The ECOLANG Multimodal Corpus, providing audiovisual recordings and annotations of multimodal communicative behaviours by English-speaking adults in dyadic interaction with a child or another adult is now available rdcu.be/eblMF

Associate/Assistant Professor: Language and Speech Technology | Radboud University Do you want to work as a Associate/Assistant Professor: Language and Speech Technology at the Faculty of Arts? Check our vacancy!

Come work with us! Our department is hiring an associate/assistant prof in language and speech technology www.ru.nl/en/working-a...
#interspeech #speech #SpeechTech #SpeechScience

Revisiting processing complexity of nested and cross-serial dependencies Author(s): Yadav, Himanshu; Frank, Stefan; Futrell, Richard; Husain, Samar | Abstract: In two web-based experiments, we compare comprehension difficulty between Dutch and German sentences with cl...

... and next up is Yadav, Frank, Futrell, and Husain, "Revisiting processing complexity of nested and cross-serial dependencies", which can be found here...

escholarship.org/uc/item/5w04...

"students engaged in language learning exhibited an approximately threefold increased likelihood of attaining a passing grade (or achieving higher results in standardised tests) than their peers, who were not involved in language lessons" -- which is not as impressive as performing 3x better

🌟 Welcome to MultiplEYE on BlueSky! 🌟

MultiplEYE is an interdisciplinary network of research groups working on collecting #eyetracking data from reading in many languages. Visit our website to learn more: www.multipleye.eu.

Stay tuned for exciting developments and be part of our vibrant community!

'Bezuinigen? Tijd voor een open access-revolutie’ - ScienceGuide Als het kabinet wil bezuinigen op hoger onderwijs, is er een logische plek om te beginnen: open access, betogen Wim Pouw en Bert Bakker.

We wrote an opinion piece in Dutch that we should divest in for-profit publishing. Instead we should invest in Diamond Open Access, such that we keep innovating in a time of budget cuts
www.scienceguide.nl/2024/12/bezu...
@jeroenson.bsky.social

Stuur met een druk op de knop een mail naar een van de partijen die nu onderhandelen over de bezuinigingen op het hoger onderwijs!

www.fnv.nl/cao-sector/o...

CogSci 2025 Call for Reviewers CogSci is looking for abstract reviewers for the 2025 conference in San Francisco. If you are interested in this role, please complete the following form. If you have any questions, please contact cog...

Want to review for #CogSci2025? Click this thing. @cogscisociety.bsky.social
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Kom ook morgen naar het Malieveld om 13.00 om tegen de bezuinigingen op het hoger onderwijs te demonstreren!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=exxG...

After learning the publisher sold access to its data for LLM training, I resigned as editor of Language, Cognition & Neuroscience (I will continue handling papers already assigned). If any not-for-profit journal is looking for an editor who knows a bit about psycholinguistics, please get in touch!

Last chance to get meta in your cogsci reviewing!

I'm hiring a postdoc! If you have experience with computational modelling of language and an interest in bilingualism, then check out the ad here: www.ru.nl/en/working-a... (and please spread the word!)

Check out the detailed program for CogSci 2024 and get ready to join us in Rotterdam! The image features bold green text on a dark teal background, with an icon of a magnifying glass highlighting a sequence of three connected rectangles.

📢 The full detailed program for #CogSci2024 is now available for download on our website!

cognitivesciencesociety.org/program/

Als aftrap van een grootschalig protest tegen de plannen van de aankomende regering roepen we iedereen op om op zaterdag 22 juni om 14 uur op het Jaarbeursplein te Utrecht samen met landelijke studentenvakbond (LSVb) te protesteren tegen de bezuinigingen op het hoger onderwijs.

Europapa

Registration for #CogSci2024 IS OPEN and you will get the BEST RATE if you register before May 25!

cognitivesciencesociety.org/registration/

If attending poses financial challenges, we’re still offering financial hardship waiver and support for your additional family care costs! Apply by May 25!

Heel leuk: een interview met @mdhk.net , Zoë Prins en Michelle Suijkerbuijk over ons BLiMP-NL project!
www.nemokennislink.nl/publicaties/...

Call for submissions! 30th Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP), 5-7 September 2024, Edinburgh, Scotland. Present your interdisciplinary research on all aspects of language processing in a beautiful and fun city. More info at amlap2024.ed.ac.uk