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Elen Le Foll 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @elenlefoll.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 15/06/2026

Right, enough complaining about academia, let's make things better! A small step, but my colleagues and I are organising the Second Workshop on Replication in the Language Sciences (WoReLa 2) in July 2027 in Cologne: sites.google.com/view/worela2. The call for abstract is now open […]

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Universität Wien / University of Vienna @univie.ac.at · 28/05/2026

Political scientist @carolinaplescia.bsky.social explains the alarming results of the #Democracy Report 2026, especially the rapid #democratic backsliding of the US. With stronger electoral institutions, societal protests and most importantly, early action, there is hope for re-democratisation. 🏛️

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The Democracy Report 2026: what it says about the US and what comes next

Political scientist Carolina Plescia at the University of Vienna explains the alarming results of the Democracy Report 2026, especially the rapid democratic backsliding of the United States. With stro...

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Matthias Nau @matthiasnau.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Awesome overview of open-access resources for anyone looking to create beautiful scientific figures and illustrations! 👇

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Benjamin Gagl @benjamingagl.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Beautiful example showing that (neuro)-cognitive models can work super well simulating behavior, better than computer vision models, and at the same time allow understanding the underlying mechanisms. Great work by Janos, PhD student in my Lab.

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Benjamin Gagl @benjamingagl.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

We recently posted an extensive update to the *Differences in orthographic processing across species identified by a transparent computational model* preprint with more pigeon data. Also, more extensive analysis and simulation work. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Jeremiah Cohen @jeremiahycohen.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

First off, these cells are gigantic. This one, for example, has >72 cm of axon! To our knowledge, it’s the longest neuron ever fully reconstructed. I leave it to the reader as an exercise to estimate the length of a human LC neuron. 5

The complete morphology of a single LC-NE neuron.

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Benjamin Gagl @benjamingagl.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

At the OEGP conference in Salzburg presenting our consensus based guidelines for reading research and the progress of the german lexicon project that applies the guidelines. Nice to be back at my Alma mater!

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German Word Nerd Network @gewonnofficial.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

We're excited to announce today's #GeWoNN Journal Club Meeting! Our guest speaker, Daria Kostanian, will talk about "Development of coarse- and orientation-tuning for native letters in children" (Paper link: tinyurl.com/28fb4z89) TODAY!! 24-3-2026, 11-12 am (CET) Zoom link👇 tinyurl.com/3m9rfuyx

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Development of coarse- and orientation-tuning for native letters in children aged 3–9 years old: Oddball fast periodic stimulation study

To examine the processes contributing to reading, we investigated neurophysiological letter coding in typically developing children (3.6–9.3 years) us…

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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Eye-Tracking-BIDS: the Brain Imaging Data Structure extended to gaze position and pupil data www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…

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German Word Nerd Network @gewonnofficial.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

We're excited to announce March's #GeWoNN Journal Club Meeting! Our guest speaker, Prof. Katharina von Kriegstein, will talk about "The role of sensory thalami and cortico-thalamic connections in developmental dyslexia" 6-3-2026, 11-12 am (CET) Register here for the Zoom link👇 tinyurl.com/vk4r2eba

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Benedikt Zoefel @benediktzoefel.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

If you're looking for a PhD and you're interested in the cerebellum, predictions, language, and MEG, please apply by 1st March! We have two open positions. More details here: benediktzoefel.wixsite.com/home/phd

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Benjamin Gagl @benjamingagl.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

In case you are interested in letter recognition .... we start in a view minutes at 9!

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German Word Nerd Network @gewonnofficial.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Happy New Year! 🥳 We're excited to announce January's #GeWoNN Journal Club Meeting! Our guest speaker, Dr Kurt Winsler, will talk about "Experience-Dependent Changes in Visual Processing of Letters". Date: 21-1-2026, 9-10 am (CET) Register here for the Zoom link 👇 forms.gle/e25X4FoQ2VUh...

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Timo B. Roettger @timoroettger.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Or as I often say: Friends don't let friends use abbreviations!

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Armin Wolf @arminwolf.at · 26/11/2025

Diese Geschichte ist unfassbar. Weil der Trump-Regierung die Arbeit des Internationalen Strafgerichtshofs nicht passt, wird ein französischer Richter digital de facto ausgelöscht und bekommt keine Kreditkarte und kein Bankkonto mehr:

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"Digitale Auslöschung": Wie US-Sanktionen einen europäischen Richter lahmlegen

Nicolas Guillou ist von beinahe allen digitalen Diensten dieser Welt gesperrt – von Amazon bis Paypal. Europa wirkt dagegen völlig machtlos

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German Word Nerd Network @gewonnofficial.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

TODAY! In case you are interested ;)

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Universität zu Köln @unicologne.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Professor Dr Pamela Perniss, Chair of Sign Language Interpreting: German Sign Language - German, talks about her love for her research and educational work and the special contribution sign language makes to people's inclusion in society, education and life👇 andhowaboutyou.podigee.io/28-pamela-pe...

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Meaningful Work with Sign Language and Other Factors for Job Satisfaction - Pamela Perniss

Professor Dr Pamela Perniss, Chair of Sign Language Interpreting: German Sign Language - German, talks about her love for her research and educational work, her colleagues and students and the special...

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Xenia Schmalz @xeniaschmalz.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

In the contribution by Elif Ecem Çalışkan, we compare human ratings for semantic variables to those produced by LLMs in the Turkish language, which has not been studied a lot to date.

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Jana Hasenäcker @janahasenacker.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Looking forward to being part of this symposium at TeaP2026. I will present our TRUST guidelines for reading research and the German Lexicon Project (GLP)

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German Word Nerd Network @gewonnofficial.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

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

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German Word Nerd Network @gewonnofficial.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Welcome to join our upcoming Journal Club meetings in Oct & Nov! Happy to have @cyhsieh.bsky.social & Dr. Cosimo Iaia as our guest speakers! Register to get the Zoom link or sign up as our next guest speaker: forms.gle/TY6Cuxut87Ej... More exciting talks coming up. Please share & see you there!

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David Poeppel @davidpoeppel.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

This 2021 paper by @benjamingagl.bsky.social and colleagues is full of important findings and ideas about the temporal structure of reading and speech. I keep coming back to these data. Eye movements during text reading align with the rate of speech production www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Eye movements during text reading align with the rate of speech production - Nature Human Behaviour

Speech is produced and perceived at a rate of 4–5 Hz. Gagl et al. show that the temporal structure of our eye movements during reading is similar (3.9–5.2 Hz), suggesting a temporal link between readi...

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Jeffrey Bowers @jeffreybowers.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Binz et al. (in press, Nature) developed an LLM called Centaur that better predicts human responses in 159 of 160 behavioural experiments compared to existing cognitive models. See: arxiv.org/abs/2410.20268

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Benjamin Gagl @benjamingagl.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Wir brauchen ein sofortiges #Waffenverbot für Privatpersonen – damit sich eine schreckliche Tat wie #Graz nicht wiederholen kann. Jetzt Appell an Innenminister Karner und die Bundesregierung unterzeichnen: actions.aufstehn.at/waffenverbot...

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Privates Waffenverbot jetzt!

Der Amoklauf an einer Grazer Schule zeigt, dass das Waffengesetz in Österreich viel zu locker ist. Das muss sich ändern! Fordere jetzt mit uns ein Waffenverbot für Privatpersonen.

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Privates Waffenverbot jetzt!

Der Amoklauf an einer Grazer Schule zeigt, dass das Waffengesetz in Österreich viel zu locker ist. Das muss sich ändern! Fordere jetzt mit uns ein Waffenverbot für Privatpersonen.

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Benjamin Gagl @benjamingagl.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

🧠✍️ How do humans and baboons learn orthography? We simulated their orthographic learning using CNNs (CORnet-Z, ResNet-18) vs. neuro-cognitive model (Speechless reader model, SLR). 🔍 SLR not only outperformed CNNs—it revealed how both species learned to differentiate between learned and novel words

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PLOS Biology @plosbiology.org · 01/05/2025

To protect an individual's #privacy, facial features are removed before data-sharing of human #neuroimaging data. @oesteban.bsky.social &co show that this procedure affects the quality ratings given by human raters but not automated image quality metrics @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/3Gtr3lo

An example of T1w image before and after defacing. Defacing is typically implemented by zeroing the voxels around the face (left-hand side, panel “T1-weighted”). The “Background noise” panel shows two visualizations extracted from the MRIQC visual report, in which a window is applied to select the lowest intensities and then they are inverted to enhance patterns in the background. The red arrows indicate aliases along the anterior–posterior axis—which had the lowest bandwidth in the example—produced by eye motion. These aliases are straightforward to notice in front of the ocular globes in the “Background noise” panel of the “nondefaced” image because of the absence of signal sources. This aliasing also spreads in the opposite direction, overlapping brain tissue. However, this overlap is often very hard to notice against the signal of interest within the brain. The corresponding “defaced” version of the “Background noise” panel shows how defacing eliminates valuable information for quality assessment.

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Giacomo Lanfiuti Baldi @giacomolanfiuti.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Some time ago, I asked ChatGPT for a title for my paper. It suggested a title containing 'Unveiling'—a word I didn’t know but liked. Title found! A few weeks later, I came across another paper with 'Unveiling' in the title. A doubt crossed my mind… I checked and found this:

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Benjamin Gagl @benjamingagl.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Join us on site and if to far away from Cologne online!

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Tim Behrens @behrenstimb.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Science is under threat in the US. @elife.bsky.social have commissioned a series of articles discussing the implications and what we can do. The first three articles are now live. More to follow: elifesciences.org/articles/106... elifesciences.org/articles/106... elifesciences.org/articles/106...

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Science Under Threat in the United States: How scientists and institutions should respond

Individual researchers and university leaders need to make the case for science to their elected representatives and to the public at large.

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Benjamin Gagl @benjamingagl.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Join us on site and if to far away from Cologne online!

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German Word Nerd Network @gewonnofficial.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

🚨 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/...

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TRUST Open Lecture

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

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Benjamin Gagl @benjamingagl.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Yes, #TeaP2025 was great this year, thanks to the organizers!

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German Word Nerd Network @gewonnofficial.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Come join our symposium at #teap2025! 😊 Topic: From Babies to Semantics: Leveraging #LanguageModels for #Psycholinguistic Research March 10 | 11:00 - 12:30 Chair: @benjamingagl.bsky.social Speakers: Fritz Günther, Katharina Menn, @hannawoloszyn.bsky.social, @boevesam.bsky.social, Marco Marelli

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German Word Nerd Network @gewonnofficial.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

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 👇...

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Benjamin Gagl @benjamingagl.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

The GEWoNN and our Lab is at the TeaP ... Lots of fun Reading and Language Science!

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German Word Nerd Network @gewonnofficial.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Congratulations to our #GeWoNN members on their accepted symposia at the #teap2025 Conference! Special thanks to the organising committee @teap2025.bsky.social, and we're looking forward to the event next week in Frankfurt! Check out our website below for more news on our symposia!

Benjamin Gagl @benjamingagl.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

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

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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 · 20/02/2025

Happy to have the authors, Hanna Woloszyn & @benjamingagl.bsky.social, to share their views in person today! Stay tuned for more details of the meeting in March! 😄

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Stephan Lewandowsky @lewan.uk · 12/02/2025

Science is under a wide-ranging attack in the U.S. From arbitrary and catastrophic funding cuts to censorship based on keywords, scholarship is no longer free from government interference. How can scientists respond? 1/n

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