time-frequency representation of human electrocorticography data. π
one axis shows frequency, the other time. the high peaks correspond to a prominent alpha rhythm at 10 Hz which appears and subsides during the experiment.
Historical linguistics! I was reading about ancient Greek evolution, linear B in high school. Then read The Language Instinct and knew what I wanted to study in undergrad. Also, I should have known that working on syntactic analysis of ancient Greek in high school was actually doing *syntax*.
βDo you know how to read?β
βNo. It is one of the black arts.β
He nodded. βBut a useful one,β he said.
"Even the term 'Artificial Intelligence' itself is widely misused, with conceptual unclarity coopted to advance industry agendas ... It is our task to demystify and to challenge 'AI' in our teaching, research and in our engagement with society."
openletter.earth/open-letter-...
I don't think hold any belief more strongly than the belief that "Paste & Match Formatting" should be DEFAULT.
Working in an editorial team at a journal, you don't even need to see the figure to start suspecting AI.
As ECR I'm getting more and more disappointed and frustrated by what I see getting published (AI generated or not)
@archaeostoryteller.bsky.social
Critical AI Literacy Symposium, with Dagmar Monett, @lucyavraamidou.bsky.social & Miquel PΓ©rez Torres, Linda Mannila, and @olivia.science
π¬ Video recording: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fxyg...
π’ Symposium website: www.ru.nl/en/about-us/...
π€ Critical AI Literacy website: www.ru.nl/en/research/...
Data are part of our everyday lives. π
Navigating data can be hard if you have #aphasia or #DLD.
Janet shares her experience in this clip. β―οΈ
We're highlighting some of our trending resources on Developmental Language Disorder #DevLangDis ahead of DLD Awareness Day. Check out these articles from across our journals! https://academy.pubs.asha.org/2025/10/you-cant-see-dld-asha-journals-honors-dld-awareness-day/ #DLDday
π¨ Only 4 days until #DLDday! ππ
And today is Myth-Busting Monday! As the countdown continues, we've tackled these common misconceptions, and more, in our latest blog π
π www.moorhouseinstitute.com/7-myths-abou...
#DevLangDis #DLD @radld.bsky.social
#AcademicSky #PsychSciSky
Even psychologists get amazed when non-human animals can do things that are essential to survival (and thus NOT surprising!), like categorizing stimuli.
Our error? Humans truly overestimate our uniqueness in animal kingdom.
www.scientificamerican.com/article/dogs...
Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or even imposed on users β in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece, we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology industryβs marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to relevant work to further inform our colleagues.
Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI (black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAIβs ChatGPT and Appleβs Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf. Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al. 2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA).
Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe.
Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles
Finally! π€© Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
We unpick the tech industryβs marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
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Just saw it last night ππ
Mount Holyoke College in lovely western Massachusetts is hiring a tenure-track neuroscientist. Amazing students and fantastic faculty support - please share!
mtholyoke.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Extern...
Toying around with a new academic website. I've been prompted to say "I'm a cognitive psychologist, linguist, etc". Decided to just write "interdisciplinary scientist"
Leaning into interdisciplinarity as a benefit π€π»
#postdoclife #psychscisky
Tips for data entry in Excel.
#databs
cghlewis.com/blog/excel_e...
Interesting read from @pitchscience.com.au newsletter: as a ECR and during the current climate I'm not optimistic, but I hope to see an institutional change on how we quantify people's contribution to science archive.md/ker9f
π΄ 28/2 #΀ΡμΟΞ· #tempi
Just added two more DLD stars to the Developmental Language Disorder starter pack. @rkomesidou.bsky.social and @kdrakoulaki.bsky.social.
Building our #DevLangDis community!
go.bsky.app/FMV4dou
Welcome! Hope you build all the connections from the other place βΊοΈ
Yep (abstracts also in English)
Two pages of the physical book that got recently published in Greek on Music Psychology
I got it in my hands!
It's so absurd to see the whole book when I've only interacted with single digital chapters for 2,5 years!
Cool experience with awesome co-editors and co-authors.
I guess now I have something that says Music Psychology with my name on it π
#impostorsyndrome #musicscience
#SLPeeps might want to contribute to this research, looking at vocab and word learning in 8- to 12-year-olds with a langauge disorder. #BskySpeechies #DevLangDis #SLP #SLT
Hmm I wonder if some political and financial events caused this π€
Hmm I wonder
Honestly I don't know. I have experience with Rmarkdown but I see Quarto being suggested lately for everything publication wise (websites, slides, documents).
Quarto website?
If #preregistrations were obligatory for all publications, some academics would not even have a #phd
I wonder about what people *write* they did and what they *actually* did, and how well some people don't feel obligated for these two to be the same.
Tired of lessons to avoid.
#academiclife
