Marta Łockiewicz

@martalockiewicz.bsky.social

Associate Professor at University of Gdańsk. I study reading and dyslexia.

If you have (or will soon) complete your PhD & would like to join a thriving cultural evolution research group in NEW ZEALAND, drop me a line. UoA offers a handful of funded research fellowships. Applications must be made by a faculty member. Deadline August. Pls share with your students

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By the way, this new chick bouba-kiki @science.org study fits nicely within bottom middle of my handy guide to main types of papers in the language sciences, for anyone keeping track. 🧪

Simon Fisher@profsimonfisher.bsky.social · 2y ago

To accompany all those Bluesky science/academia #starterpacks, how about we also share introductions to the literature of our different fields. I present here a handy guide to main types of papers in the language sciences (inspired by the amazing @xkcd.com). #language #linguistics #science #academia

Comic depictions of the first page of research papers in the language sciences, with titles that include the following: 
Just what the hell is a word anyway?
See how this single cognitive process or brain area or neural oscillation or gene explains language!
Based on the shapes of these old bones, Homo erectus could sing .... don't @ me.
A baby looked at one thing more than the other, now we know the secret to grammar.
If you think about it, every language is fundamentally the same, amirite?
We taught a load of undergrads a made-up language, lol.
On the staggering diversity of the many languages across the world.
Remember the thing you said only humans could do, here's a video of a monkey / dolphin / corvid / octopus / honeybee doing it.
I trained this AI with 80 billion tweets and it became head-writer for phase 4 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

I’m searching for the original and/or rights owner of this fabulous picture of Birmingham in the early 1970s. It popped up on my Instagram feed, but I’ve been unable to track it down. Any leads? I’m really hoping to use it in a book. (And would much appreciate a RT please)

Photo from the early 1970s of a man on horseback negotiating the Birmingham inner ring road at Holloway Head

After 5 years of data collection, our WARN-D machine learning competition to forecast depression onset is now LIVE! We hope many of you will participate—we have incredibly rich data. If you share a single thing of my lab this year, please make it this competition. eiko-fried.com/warn-d-machi...

WARN-D machine learning competition is live » Eiko Fried

If you share one single thing of our team in 2026—on social media or per email with your colleagues—please let it be this machine learning competition. It was half a decade of work to get here, especi...

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Honoured to be featured by the @jacobsfoundation.bsky.social Research Fellowship. Their support enables ambitious, cross-border science on how genetics and environments shape children’s learning & development. 🌍🧬 Work with other Fellows nature.com/articles/s41... nature.com/articles/s41...

Jacobs Foundation@jacobsfoundation.bsky.social · 8mo ago

🧠 Jacobs CIFAR Research Fellow Elsje van Bergen of @vuamsterdam.bsky.social studies how genetics & home environments shape children’s development. 📢 Apply for the 2027–2029 #JacobsCIFARFellowship by 2 Feb 2026: cifar.ca/next-generat... #ApplyNow #Education

Byloby wspaniale zorganizować taki portal w Polsce pod auspicjami @polskaakademianauk.bsky.social @jemielniak.bsky.social

Hilary Barth@hilarybarth.bsky.social · 8mo ago

There’s a fantastic developmental science resource called Children Helping Science, at MIT (childrenhelpingscience.com). Researchers run child studies online, Parents sign up & participate with their kids. CHS got an offer from an anonymous donor: matching gifts up to $100K through December!

If you’re in San Diego for #Sfn25, come by on Wednesday at 2 pm for a session on oligodendrocyte pathophysiology and repair mechanisms in multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer’s, and Parkinson’s disease. Would be great to see some familiar (and new) faces there!

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