📢 [ML02 -- CLAPS] Call for Collaborators. If you are interested, please contact Ece Erten (ece.erten@pm.me) for more details.

📢[ML01 -- ManyTones] Call for Deputy Leadership Roles. Please email manytones@many-languages.com for more information if you are interested.

#ManyLanguagesChallengeOfTheMonth Citation practices suffer from systemic biases that can distort the academic record. Researchers often rely on a narrow canon of highly cited publications as cognitive shortcuts for identifying authoritative work, a phenomenon related to the Matthew Effect.

Fancy a weekend read? We've got a preprint for you! zenodo.org/records/2214...

For this month’s #ManyLanguagesChallengeOfTheMonth, we’re turning our attention to the big picture: 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐝𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐤 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐢𝐠𝐠𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐮𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐬 𝐭𝐨𝐝𝐚𝐲? We’d love to hear what you see as the most pressing or exciting open questions in the field.

Daniel's useful take on alternatives to the OSF for data storage. We at @manylanguagesc.bsky.social will also pivot to a combination of Github and Zenodo.

Daniel Lakens@lakens.bsky.social · last mo.

New Blog post: Which Data Repository Should you Use? In light of OSF closing down, I compare Zenodo, Dataverse, ResearchBox, PsychArchive, and local repositories on six important dimensions. If you want to know which to pick: It depends! daniellakens.blogspot.com/2026/08/whic...

For this month’s #ManyLanguagesChallengeOfTheMonth , we’d like to hear your experiences with *ethics approval* processes around the world:

This month, we’re turning our attention to the realities of project management in academia — something that affects every Big Team Science project.

If you want to contribute to any of our three projects (ManyTones, CLAPS, Many Uses), you can reach out to the project leads. You will find their contact information here: many-languages.com/projects.html

This month’s #ManyLanguagesChallengeOfTheMonth focuses on something many of us grapple with every year: seasonal recruitment difficulties.

This month’s #ManyLanguagesChallengeOfTheMonth focuses on gamification in linguistic data collection. Gamifying data collection in linguistics has many benefits.

representativeness is a big issue for BTS. our argument is backed by a new study, from Cindel White & @michael.muthukrishna.com: "more highly educated ppl are significantly more culturally similar to WEIRD countries, such as the Anglosphere and Western Europe." www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Higher education predicts global cultural similarity to WEIRD countries - Nature Communications

Psychology studies are becoming more global, yet often rely on highly educated participants. The authors find, across 95 countries, that higher education predicts cultural similarity to WEIRD societie...

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Sakshi Ghai@sakshighai.bsky.social · 2y ago

Do big team science studies guarantee the global generalizability of findings? At the risk of not overgeneralizing ourselves, we reanalysed one big team science study on temporal discounting. Together with peerless @psforscher.bsky.social & @hcp4715.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

2️⃣ Scaling Projects Without Direct Access to Target Populations thread #ManyLanguagesChallengeOfTheMonth

ManyLanguages@manylanguagesc.bsky.social · 6mo ago

2️⃣ Scaling Projects Without Direct Access to Target Populations: ManyLanguages, like other Big Team Science initiatives, aims to collect data from a wide range of populations to build findings that genuinely reflect human diversity.

1️⃣ Recruiting and Incentivising Adult Participants Across Contexts thread #ManyLanguagesChallengeOfTheMonth

ManyLanguages@manylanguagesc.bsky.social · 6mo ago

1️⃣ Recruiting and Incentivising Adult Participants Across Contexts: The CLAPS team has been reflecting on how researchers around the world recruit and incentivise adult participants for longer studies.

This month, we’re highlighting two interconnected #ManyLanguagesChallengeOfTheMonth challenges that sit at the heart of scaling ManyLanguages projects across diverse linguistic and cultural contexts.

This month’s #ManyLanguagesChallengeOfTheMonth comes from the world of **grammatical acceptability judgments** by the ML2 CLAPS team. @ambridge.bsky.social

We’re trialling a new social activity: #ManyLanguagesChallengeOfTheMonth Running large-scale projects means encountering puzzles, hiccups, and the occasional “why is this happening” moment.

ManyLanguages is on two social platforms: ✨ LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/1107... ✨ Bluesky (this page): bsky.app/profile/many... Follow us to stay in the loop, join discussions, and help us spread the word about Big Team Science.

The next one (though it's adults only) is a team-science project with @manylanguagesc.bsky.social looking at passives. We're keen to get as many diverse languages as possible so please get in touch if you'd like to join as a coordinator or a co-investigator for your language bsky.app/profile/many...

ManyLanguages@manylanguagesc.bsky.social · 9mo ago

The recently accepted ManyLanguages project CLAPS - A Crosslinguistic Approach to Passive Semantics led by @ambridge.bsky.social is looking to fill four key leadership roles (Analysis Lead, Scaling Coordinator, Translation Coordinator, Ethics Coordinator). ⏰Deadline: 30th Jan.

Dear exp linguist, for my advanced stats class, I am looking for articles that - are experimental linguistics-ish - report on linear mixed models that did not converge with the intended random effect structure (using lme4) - published open data and scripts Please @ me, I would appreciate it!

One of the major extrinsic hurdles to increasing outreach for @manylanguagesc.bsky.social has been structural and institutional requirements for potential collaborators to be `first authors' and/or 'last authors' for them to even be considered candidates for positions. <long rant coming>

📣 Big news from RoSE! We’re launching a new RoSE × FORRT collaborative research project 🎉 With @rosenetwork.bsky.social and @forrt.bsky.social, we’re starting a Big Team Science review on evidence for using statistical packages in teaching & learning. Watch this space 👀 #statsed #openscience

The recently accepted ManyLanguages project CLAPS - A Crosslinguistic Approach to Passive Semantics led by @ambridge.bsky.social is looking to fill four key leadership roles (Analysis Lead, Scaling Coordinator, Translation Coordinator, Ethics Coordinator). ⏰Deadline: 30th Jan.

New BTS paper out🎉! 'Investigating object orientation effects across 18 languages' in Current Psychology. Check it out here: doi.org/10.1007/s121...

🔔Today🕒 17:30–18:25 UTC 🔔at the BTS conference [𝐏𝐚𝐧𝐞𝐥 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐮𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧] 𝐈𝐧𝐜𝐥𝐮𝐝𝐞, 𝐬𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐞, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡 𝐨𝐮𝐭 – 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐲𝐗 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐬 📹Zoom link: stanford.zoom.us/j/9171930450...

🔔Today🕒 14:30–14:55 UTC 🔔at the BTS conference 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐲𝐓𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐬: 𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐟𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐟𝐫𝐞𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐲 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐛𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐚𝐜𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐬 𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐮𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐬 📹Zoom link: us06web.zoom.us/j/8288025439...

There's still time to register for the 2025 Big Team Science Conference (October 6-8, live on Zoom)! All fees are OPTIONAL, so you can pay what you'd like (or nothing at all!) to gain access to a ton of amazing BTS content. bigteamscienceconference.github.io/registration/

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>>> Register for the 2025 BTSCON now! *** ### BTSCON Registration Info To balance inclusivity with our funding needs, *registration fees for the Big Team Science Conference are optional*. You can pay ...

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Join me at the Big Team Science Conference, where I'll be presenting live via Zoom on Monday, October 6 from 17:30-18:25 UTC (time converter).

Our full 2025 program and schedule are now up on our website! We've got so many great presentations lined up, you won't want to miss it! bigteamscienceconference.github.io/program/

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Note: The live conference schedule with links to sessions will be provided to conference registrants via email. To access the live schedule, REGISTER NOW *** >>> View the 2025 BTSCON Program *** > Not...

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The project also provides a large open dataset for future psycholinguistic research. If you are interested in large-scale collaborations, check out the ManyLanguages community @manylanguagesc.bsky.social Powered by @psysciacc.bsky.social and @scanunit.bsky.social Please RT and enjoy