Invitation to sign open letter: "The University of Exeter has proposed to make redundant a significant proportion of staff who are members of the Cognition Group in the Department of Psychology... We are writing to urge you to immediately withdraw this proposal..." docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Open Letter in Support of the Cognition Group, University of Exeter

To Executive members of the University of Exeter, including Vice Chancellor Prof. Lisa Roberts, Senior Vice-President and Provost Prof. Dan Charman, Pro Vice Chancellor and Executive Dean Prof. Sallie...

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interesting new fellowship for people studying child development, available for early-career folk (10 years since PhD, US$300K over 3 years, worldwide eligibility)

The LEGO Foundation Fellowship: Application Details

The LEGO Foundation Fellowship is a global initiative supporting researchers working to deepen our understanding of how children thrive. Spanning disciplines from education and psychology to public he...

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Are you a speech therapist in Germany? If you have 10 minutes, could you please help our research and fill out this questionnaire? 💫 survey.ifkw.lmu.de/EYELED/ @alanlangus.bsky.social

We're #recruiting a research assistant to work on a DFG-funded project on #MetaScience at the University of Cologne. Some coding skills in #python required, and interest in modelling the #cognition of #reading! Please spread the word!

📢 PhD position in Developmental Language Modelling (PLZ RT) What can human language acquisition teach us about training language models? Join us as a PhD! mpi.nl/career-education/vacancies/vacancy/fully-funded-4-year-phd-position-developmental-language @carorowland.bsky.social @mpi-nl.bsky.social

We have funding for a PhD position on word learning of a third language! The position is part of a research group on the psychology of language control (bilingualism), so that there will be a cohort of PhD students with related topics. Please distribute with anyone who might be interested. :)

Postdoctoral Researcher (100 %), a 4-Year Postdoc on Psychology of Language Control, RWTH Aachen University, Germany The position is embedded in the DFG funded Research Unit “Bilingual Flexibility — The Psychology of Language Control”. Application deadline is 15 March 2026.

Bots have made their way to Prolific experiments. Our lab has stopped online testing of adults entirely now for this reason - we want to know if what we study is real. Probably data collected 2-3 years ago are ok, but moving forward we just can't know. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Applications are still open (until March 1) for the 2026 ERP Boot Camp at UC Davis from 6/15-6/24! It's a workshop for people with at least 1 year of experience with EEG/ERP, and ALL EXPENSES ARE PAID. I went many years ago – it was a great and very educational experience.

I am so pleased that my first paper out this year is this multi-coauthored gem with my collaborators in the ROLE Collective. It was so wonderful to serve as a small part of this effort to understand the terms we use as language researchers and their impacts! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Finding our ROLE: How and why to reframe essentialist approaches to language

Essentialist categorizations of language users, such as native speaker, are widely used but lack empirical validity and reinforce social inequities. T…

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@matildellen.bsky.social bravely decided to do a registered report with @pci-regreports.bsky.social as the first manuscript of her PhD -- 2+ years later, it's out! It's on how bilingualism affects statistical word learning, and the results were quite unexpected. Read more:

The influence of bilingualism on statistical word learning: a registered report

Abstract. While statistical word learning has been the focus of many studies on monolinguals, it has received little attention in bilinguals. The results o

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Sign up for the next virtual #GeWoNN Journal Club Meeting! We are thrilled to have @juliafstrand.bsky.social give us a guest talk on error prevention in psychological research! Linguists, psychologists, and language researchers are all welcome! 😊 Register here: forms.gle/YoZpPxrRxXcG...

Congratulations to our #GeWoNN members on their accepted symposia at the #teap2026 Conference!  See titles below:

Are you a US-based PhD student WITHOUT summer funding who is interested in adolescent development, trans youth, and/or gender? Reach out to me about applying to join my lab in Summer 2026 for the VIPS program! psych.princeton.edu/diversity/vi...

The Spoken Language group @bcbl.bsky.social is currently recruiting for these positions: 👉PhD students (expressions of interest are welcome on a rolling basis) 👉Postdoctoral Researcher (start date: Nov '26 - Sep '27) tinyurl.com/3um3bjze 👉Research Assistant tinyurl.com/y5uebra6 Please share ☺️

If you have a syllabus for a psych grad methods course that covers both experimental and non-experimental methods, I'd love to take a peek! 👀

** New ** Seeking Postdoctoral Research Fellow (3 yrs) for ESRC project on skilled reading in Arabic. Based in my lab at @rhulpsychology.bsky.social and collaborating with @denisdrieghe.bsky.social (Soton) and Sami Boudelaa (UAE). Please share! jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

Job Opportunity at Royal Holloway University of London: Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Applications are invited for a 3-year, full-time Postdoctoral Research Fellow position in the Department of Psychology at Royal Holloway, University of London.This position is funded by an ESRC resear...

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📢PhD fellowships The Spoken Language group at #BCBL (Spain) offers sponsorship for the #INPhINIT Predoctoral Fellowships Potential PhD projects can be related to: 🗣️Speech perception 🧠Language learning ℹ️Info about the position and application process: tinyurl.com/2kcfsjr3 📆Deadline: October 30

Posting on behalf of Tamar Gollan, who is not on Bluesky: A postdoc position is open and available immediately in Dr. Tamar Gollan’s Laboratory of Aging Bilingualism at the University of California, San Diego, funded by NIH & NSF. See link for details! psychiatry.ucsd.edu/about/LAB_Go...

Call for collaborators! 🧵 The TL;DR: we seek collaborators on a #ManyLabs #RegisteredReport about what causes rapid forgetting. In-principle accepted Stage 1: osf.io/ahjn5 Expressions of interest: cardiffunipsych.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... Further details in the 🧵:

📢 SAVE THE DATE for #TeaP2026 in Tübingen 😍 Symposium submissions open on October 1! 🎉 For details, check out our website: coms.app/teap26/ 👍🏼

📢 Researchers in bilingualism & word learning! I'm doing a meta-analysis on the bilingual advantage & seeking unpublished data comparing bilinguals vs monolinguals. Summary stats or raw data welcome (confidential). Pre-reg 👉 osf.io/6a7yg/ DM me or share if you know someone! 🙏

The “Bilingual Advantage” in Word Learning: A Meta-Analysis

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Just attended @isbilingualism.bsky.social in San Sebastián with my supervisor @troembke.bsky.social. I presented my meta-analysis on bilingual advantage in word learning there. Great talks and interesting people. Grateful for the experience! #Bilingualism #LanguageLearning #Psycholinguistics

🚀 My first PhD paper is out! 🚀 "How do multiple meanings affect word learning and remapping?" was published in Memory & Cognition! Big thanks to my supervisors and co-authors (Iring Koch & @troembke.bsky.social). Curious? Read it here: rdcu.be/eeY9o #CognitivePsychology #WordLearning #Bilingualism

🚨 TRUST Open Lecture – Join Us! 🚨 Is #standardisation in research boosting #replicability or slowing scientific progress? 🤔 📅 March 31 (Mon), 2025 ⏰ 16:00–18:00 CET 📍 Hörsaal H112, IBW-Gebäude, University of Cologne 💻 Live-stream available! Registration info here: sites.google.com/view/gewonn/...

TRUST Open Lecture

Interested in Scientific Standardisation & Replicability?Come join us in Cologne on 31st March 2025!

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German Word Nerd Network@gewonnofficial.bsky.social · last yr.

Welcome to join our open lecture on #standardisation & #replicability in Cologne on March 31, organised by the #TRUSTNetwork, led by @benjamingagl.bsky.social, @janahasenacker.bsky.social, @troembke.bsky.social & @xeniaschmalz.bsky.social! See 🧵below for details 👇...

Proud PI! 👏 On #TeaP2025 two lab members presented their work: Haoyu Zhou in the symposium #StatisticalLearning and its Role in #Language and #Reading acquisition. @boevesam.bsky.social in the symposium From Babies to Semantics: Leveraging #LanguageModels for #Psycholinguistic Research.

Let #data talk! Our next journal club meeting will discuss @balazsaczel.bsky.social's commentary, "Let the data talk: embrace #exploratoryresearch". March 20 (Thurs), 11 am-12 pm (CET), Zoom Welcome to join us! Check out our website for more info! sites.google.com/view/gewonn/...

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Welcome to the GeWoNN Journal Club! We meet once a month to discuss articles related to word and reading research. For more info, check out our past meetings or contact us at gewonn.contact.us@gmail.c...

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Day 1 #TeaP2025 with a great talk by Prof. Wolfe & a successful symposium on Statistical Learning (thanks @troembke.bsky.social @xeniaschmalz.bsky.social). Also, if you’re in Germany & a bit tired of ethics applications check out #Ethiktool (a software solution to support the ethical assessment)

Welcome to join our open lecture on #standardisation & #replicability in Cologne on March 31, organised by the #TRUSTNetwork, led by @benjamingagl.bsky.social, @janahasenacker.bsky.social, @troembke.bsky.social & @xeniaschmalz.bsky.social! See 🧵below for details 👇...

Benjamin Gagl@benjamingagl.bsky.social · last yr.

Hey everyone, we have organized a lecture and panel discussion on the topic "Standardization in Research: Increasing Replicability or Stalling Scientific Progress?" in Cologne on March 31st: sites.google.com/view/gewonn/... @gewonnofficial.bsky.social @unicologne.bsky.social

Fellowships for non-UK scientists who want to come to the UK. Happy to chat to postdocs who want to visit my lab @oxexppsy.bsky.social www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/inte...

International Fellowships 2025

The International Fellowships Programme enables researchers to work for two years at a UK institution with the aim of building a globally connected, mobile research and innovation workforce.

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