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Vitória Piai

@vipiai.bsky.social

assoc prof, neuropsych of language, passion for electrophysiology & language after brain damage: 'what is left to be right'. PI of Language Function and Dysfunction lab vitoriapiai.science

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Vitória Piai @vipiai.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Philosopher Jolien Francken and I analysed the "neurobiology of language", here's our view of some problems 1) defining language; 2) identifying its neurobiological basis; 3) overlooking goal dependence. 1&2 are principled, but we can modify 3 and use it to remedy 1&2 doi.org/10.31234/osf...

OSF

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CuttingEEG @cuttingeeg.bsky.social · 4mo ago

On the menu of CuttingGardens 2026 🍽️ 👶 Developmental EEG 📊 Cutting-edge Methods & Metrics ⚡ Advances in intraEEG 🤝 Building Open & Collaborative EEG Science 🔭 Perspectives EEG Join us on September 21-25, 2026 📅 & stay tuned for more 🌱 #EEG #MEG #Neuroscience #OpenScience #CuttingGardens

CuttingEEG@cuttingeeg.bsky.social · 4mo ago

CuttingGardens 2026 is back 🌍 Global EEG & MEG multi-hub meeting 📅 Save the date: Sept 21–25 20+ Gardens worldwide 🇦🇷🇦🇺🇧🇪🇨🇱🇨🇳🇨🇺🇫🇷🇩🇪🇮🇹🇳🇱🇵🇱🇪🇸🇨🇭🇹🇭🇹🇳🇬🇧🇺🇾🇺🇸🇳🇬🇰🇪🇪🇬🇹🇿 Join the movement 🌱 #EEG #MEG #Neuroscience #OpenScience #CuttingGardens

Sebastiaan Mathôt @cogsci.nl · 7mo ago

University of Groningen: ⭐ no more big-tech by 2030 ⭐ Google Workplace 🚫 Windows 🚫 MS Office 🚫 ChatGPT 🚫 A huge challenge! Meeting culture won't get us there. Dedication and focus will. 💪🚀 Let's get to work. ukrant.nl/magazine/we-... @rug.nl @rug-gmw.bsky.social #science

We can do without them: how the UG is cutting ties with Big Tech

By 2030, the university aims to be digitally independent. And that’s not a pipe dream, say proponents of the plan.

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Vitória Piai @vipiai.bsky.social · 7mo ago

"Speaking: The Free Book" has migrated to vitpia.github.io/speaking/ The only true, freely available textbook for teaching and learning more about language **production** (which tends to get neglected in textbooks on "language"). Chapters written by experts in the field. New chapter expected soon!

Speaking: The free book (chapter)

Speaking, the free book, was conceived by V. Piai

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Mark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social · 9mo ago

We wrote the Strain on scientific publishing to highlight the problems of time & trust. With a fantastic group of co-authors, we present The Drain of Scientific Publishing: a 🧵 1/n Drain: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820 Strain: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/... Oligopoly: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...

A table showing profit margins of major publishers. A snippet of text related to this table is below.

1. The four-fold drain
1.1 Money
Currently, academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for
whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who
created it. The dominant four are Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley and Taylor & Francis,
which collectively generated over US$7.1 billion in revenue from journal publishing in 2024
alone, and over US$12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024 (Table 1A). Their profit
margins have always been over 30% in the last five years, and for the largest publisher
(Elsevier) always over 37%.
Against many comparators, across many sectors, scientific publishing is one of the most
consistently profitable industries (Table S1). These financial arrangements make a substantial
difference to science budgets. In 2024, 46% of Elsevier revenues and 53% of Taylor &
Francis revenues were generated in North America, meaning that North American
researchers were charged over US$2.27 billion by just two for-profit publishers. The
Canadian research councils and the US National Science Foundation were allocated US$9.3
billion in that year.

A figure detailing the drain on researcher time.

1. The four-fold drain

1.2 Time
The number of papers published each year is growing faster than the scientific workforce,
with the number of papers per researcher almost doubling between 1996 and 2022 (Figure
1A). This reflects the fact that publishers’ commercial desire to publish (sell) more material
has aligned well with the competitive prestige culture in which publications help secure jobs,
grants, promotions, and awards. To the extent that this growth is driven by a pressure for
profit, rather than scholarly imperatives, it distorts the way researchers spend their time.
The publishing system depends on unpaid reviewer labour, estimated to be over 130 million
unpaid hours annually in 2020 alone (9). Researchers have complained about the demands of
peer-review for decades, but the scale of the problem is now worse, with editors reporting
widespread difficulties recruiting reviewers. The growth in publications involves not only the
authors’ time, but that of academic editors and reviewers who are dealing with so many
review demands.
Even more seriously, the imperative to produce ever more articles reshapes the nature of
scientific inquiry. Evidence across multiple fields shows that more papers result in
‘ossification’, not new ideas (10). It may seem paradoxical that more papers can slow
progress until one considers how it affects researchers’ time. While rewards remain tied to
volume, prestige, and impact of publications, researchers will be nudged away from riskier,
local, interdisciplinary, and long-term work. The result is a treadmill of constant activity with
limited progress whereas core scholarly practices – such as reading, reflecting and engaging
with others’ contributions – is de-prioritized. What looks like productivity often masks
intellectual exhaustion built on a demoralizing, narrowing scientific vision.

A table of profit margins across industries. The section of text related to this table is below:

1. The four-fold drain
1.1 Money
Currently, academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for
whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who
created it. The dominant four are Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley and Taylor & Francis,
which collectively generated over US$7.1 billion in revenue from journal publishing in 2024
alone, and over US$12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024 (Table 1A). Their profit
margins have always been over 30% in the last five years, and for the largest publisher
(Elsevier) always over 37%.
Against many comparators, across many sectors, scientific publishing is one of the most
consistently profitable industries (Table S1). These financial arrangements make a substantial
difference to science budgets. In 2024, 46% of Elsevier revenues and 53% of Taylor &
Francis revenues were generated in North America, meaning that North American
researchers were charged over US$2.27 billion by just two for-profit publishers. The
Canadian research councils and the US National Science Foundation were allocated US$9.3
billion in that year.

The costs of inaction are plain: wasted public funds, lost researcher time, compromised
scientific integrity and eroded public trust. Today, the system rewards commercial publishers
first, and science second. Without bold action from the funders we risk continuing to pour
resources into a system that prioritizes profit over the advancement of scientific knowledge.

Vitória Piai @vipiai.bsky.social · 11mo ago

New chapter on sentence production in "Speaking: The Free Book" bookdown.org/v_piai_resea... beautifully written by @drlearnasaurus.bsky.social Go check, very useful resource for free (!) for teaching & initiating folks on topic of language production (usually missing from textbooks on "language"!)

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Greig de Zubicaray @dezubg.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Very happy to see Angelique's paper on semantic processing and the ATL with @vipiai.bsky.social, @profkatie.bsky.social out now in Cortex : www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Are the ventral anterior temporal lobes involved in accessing conceptual knowledge during spoken word production? fMRI evidence from auditory naming

There is ongoing debate about the role of ventral anterior temporal lobe (vATL) regions in the initial stages of production, particularly in accessing…

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Vitória Piai @vipiai.bsky.social · last yr.

Really happy to see this finally published. Hard work together with colleagues @engra.me and @jolienfrancken.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Serge Dumoulin @sergedumoulin.net · last yr.

It’s ironic that amid huge cuts to science and education funding and enforcement of Dutch-only programs, extra money is spent attracting US scientists. I support international collaboration, but without investing in our own students and education, science can’t thrive. www.nwo.nl/en/news/upda...

Update on the fund for leading international scientists: advance announcement of the Tulip Fund | NWO

NWO has made 25 million euros available to facilitate the transition of top international researchers to the Netherlands. Later this summer, the call for proposals for the Tulip Fund, as the new fund will be called, will open. The fund will enable renowned international scientists from outside the EU to continue their research at a Dutch research institution. Knowledge institutions can nominate top researchers or talents who wish to continue their work here in the Netherlands due to the growing threats to academic freedom to be considered for funding.

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Vitória Piai @vipiai.bsky.social · last yr.

And we can't wait to have you visit! Congratulations 🎉🎉🎉

Simone Gastaldon@simonegastaldon.bsky.social · last yr.

Extremely positive news about my #MSCA application. Can't wait to start my project FlexyRhythm at @bcbl.bsky.social with @nicolaml.bsky.social (and secondment at @dondersinst.bsky.social with @vipiai.bsky.social). So happy to have the chance to work with such wonderful people!

Vitória Piai @vipiai.bsky.social · 2y ago

Julia Chauvet @juliachauvet.bsky.social · 2y ago

The section is a resource for teaching about current views on how speakers go from a phonological representation to its articulatory control. 🧠 🗣️

Vitória Piai @vipiai.bsky.social · 2y ago

What a better way to kick off here than the release of a new, critical chapter for "Speaking: The free book (chapter)" bookdown.org/v_piai_resea... "Form to Articulation" by the amazing @juliachauvet.bsky.social 💥 bringing together the psycholinguistics and motor control literatures, no small feat!!

Speaking: The free book (chapter)

Speaking, the free book chapter, was conceived by V. Piai

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