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Shravan Vasishth @shravanvasishth.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Applications are open for the 2027 summer school on statistical methods for linguistics and psychology: All details are here: smlp.science

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The Eleventh Summer School on Statistical Methods for Linguistics and Psychology

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Dario Paape @dariopaape.eurosky.social · 25/09/2026

Updated preprint with @tallinzen.bsky.social and @shravanvasishth.bsky.social : "LLM surprisal is necessary but not sufficient to capture English garden-path effects: Evidence from joint latent modeling of reading paradigms" arxiv.org/abs/2602.04489

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Dario Paape @dariopaape.eurosky.social · 10/08/2026

Ist Frische Gel so was wie Gute Käse?

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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

not to be confused with quesadilla

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Dario Paape @dariopaape.eurosky.social · 26/07/2026

Ah, always a pleasure to hear that universal icebreaker of the International Fraternity of Ostensibly Heterosexual Men: "Germany? Beautiful women! But football?" *makes so-so gesture with hand*

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Dario Paape @dariopaape.eurosky.social · 26/07/2026

Come to Rio for #CogSci2026, stay for the hot dog with peas, corn, quail eggs, raisins and tiny fries on it.

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Dario Paape @dariopaape.eurosky.social · 18/07/2026

Rewatched Ghibli's Tales from Earthsea with the kids yesterday. I hated it when I saw it in the cinema 20 years ago. But turns out it's actually... not that bad?I mean, it's still confusing and the tone is... bleak, but artistically it's still quite enchanting. Kinda Ghibli's The Black Cauldron.

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Dario Paape @dariopaape.eurosky.social · 15/07/2026

Who's attending #CogSci2026 in Rio next week? 🇧🇷 I will be presenting joint work with @shravanvasishth.bsky.social and @tallinzen.bsky.social on LLM surprisal in garden-path sentences on Friday! arxiv.org/abs/2602.04489

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

If I were a coach I would occasionally say to the referees "You're right we did commit a foul there" instead of arguing all the time. This builds my credibility as an objective interlocutor in their minds

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Dario Paape @dariopaape.eurosky.social · 08/06/2026

Hmm, the specificity of "eye ointment for use on the eye" makes me wonder what other kinds of eye ointments there are... ? Maybe ointments made *from* eyes for use on one's... ears?

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Dario Paape @dariopaape.eurosky.social · 04/06/2026

Is dit jetze Dialekt oder ham die einfach dit n fajessen

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Hadas Weiss @hadas.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

academics trying to save the humanities

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Dario Paape @dariopaape.eurosky.social · 22/05/2026

Being deeply interested in What The Hell Is Wrong With Germany, the Miscikowski et al. study where we have the highest level of "narcissistic rivalry" in their sample (doi.org/10.1080/1529...) made me wonder how this shaped me, in the sense that I've learned to abhor competition and zero-sum games.

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Dario Paape @dariopaape.eurosky.social · 20/05/2026

Wondering if we can learn something by looking at different cultures' equivalents of the idiom "It's not rocket science". German has "It's not witchcraft" - different because it evokes something arcane/irrational rather than just "very complicated". What does your language use? #linguistics

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Dario Paape @dariopaape.eurosky.social · 03/05/2026

Schafft es jemand, die Anzahl der möglichen syntaktischen Analysen zu zählen?

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Dario Paape @dariopaape.eurosky.social · 01/05/2026

Small experiment: Which of the following statements makes more sense to you? A) "One dog year is/equals seven human years" or B) "One human year is/equals seven dog years", or C) both are fine. #linguistics

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Dario Paape @dariopaape.eurosky.social · 30/04/2026

One thing I love about the modern world is that it makes garden paths so much more interesting when common sense isn't useful anymore even as a rough guide to wtf happened. (Source: BBC) #linguistics

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Dario Paape @dariopaape.eurosky.social · 21/04/2026

Currently preparing slides for my science slam that will ask the REAL questions

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Dario Paape @dariopaape.eurosky.social · 17/04/2026

Chat, what do we know about agreement attraction from inside NN compounds? Or maybe something else is happening here. AA on possessives is always interesting to me because it's the kind of error that I subjectively feel I would never conceivably make, because it just feels so... wrong.

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Suyog Chandramouli @suyoghc.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Excited to share that @shravanvasishth.bsky.social will be visiting @princeton.edu virtually tomorrow (Tuesday, April 7) 🗣️ Talk: "Can Context Eliminate Garden-Pathing? A Bayesian Approach" 12:00 PM ET 🛠️Workshop: "Theory-Informed Model Specification" 11:00 AM ET The zoom is open to all!

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Dario Paape @dariopaape.eurosky.social · 04/04/2026

Das Schild or der Schild? Wrong answers only. #linguistics

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Dario Paape @dariopaape.eurosky.social · 31/03/2026

New preprint: NPI and depth charge illusions in Pythia LLMs of different sizes and at different training checkpoints. NPI illusion goes away but depth charge illusion stays or even gets stronger. Amazingly for me, I come out in favor of... construction grammar? arxiv.org/abs/2603.27855

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What can LLMs tell us about the mechanisms behind polarity illusions in humans? Experiments across model scales and training steps

I use the Pythia scaling suite (Biderman et al. 2023) to investigate if and how two well-known polarity illusions, the NPI illusion and the depth charge illusion, arise in LLMs. The NPI illusion becom...

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Dario Paape @dariopaape.eurosky.social · 17/02/2026

New open-access paper with @shravanvasishth.bsky.social: "Context ameliorates but does not eliminate garden-pathing: Novel insights from latent-process modeling" doi.org/10.1016/j.jm...

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Redirecting

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Dario Paape @dariopaape.eurosky.social · 05/02/2026

New preprint with @tallinzen.bsky.social and @shravanvasishth.bsky.social: We jointly model reading data from four tasks (SPR, BSPR, eye tracking, Maze) with a latent-process mixture, and find that it outperforms LLM surprisal in terms of predictive fit: arxiv.org/abs/2602.04489

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Dario Paape @dariopaape.eurosky.social · 28/01/2026

What do people think of this construction? I'm not a native speaker of English, but for me "it" can't refer back to "WB-57". #linguistics

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Dario Paape @dariopaape.eurosky.social · 23/01/2026

Shoutout to the person who added this passive-aggressive-ish comment to the CogSci LaTeX template

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Dario Paape @dariopaape.eurosky.social · 21/01/2026

PSA: We're moving the deadline for submissions to the JML special issue on nonveridical language comprehension (www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...), co-guest-edited by @golfwriterkiel.bsky.social and me, back to end of February! We're looking forward to many interesting contributions!

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Dario Paape @dariopaape.eurosky.social · 23/12/2025

Is it just me or does the chorus of Last Christmas not make sense? X gives their heart to Y, and on the very next day, Y gives "it" away, "it" presumably being X's heart. So... is X now in love with some unspecified person Z or does "it" have a different antecedent here somehow? #linguistics

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Dario Paape @dariopaape.eurosky.social · 22/12/2025

Heute in "Rassismus oder Klammerparadox"?

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Dario Paape @dariopaape.eurosky.social · 19/12/2025

I think "(in)tolerance towards coordination of unlike things" is probably a good indicator of general linguistic pedantry in a person. Here we have "snow and slipperiness removal", which I personally don't feel good about. #linguistics

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Dario Paape @dariopaape.eurosky.social · 13/11/2025

Today's random insight during a lab meeting on visual world experiments was that there's probably a deeper reason why clip art is perfect for psychology experiments. Even found a paper arguing that clip art is "the visual representation of common sense categories": doi.org/10.1177/1470...

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Dario Paape @dariopaape.eurosky.social · 12/11/2025

Geht es nur mir so oder ist das seltsam, weil es sich anhört, als wäre er schon Manager? (Quelle: FAZ)

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Dario Paape @dariopaape.eurosky.social · 05/11/2025

Gut, dass es Dünger extra für Qualitätsblumen gibt

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Lara Orphal @laraorphal.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Actually, we recently spooked away some ghosts with warnings and other scary things (with @semihaktepe.bsky.social)

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M.J. Crockett @mjcrockett.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Can AI simulations of human research participants advance cognitive science? In @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social, @lmesseri.bsky.social & I analyze this vision. We show how “AI Surrogates” entrench practices that limit the generalizability of cognitive science while aspiring to do the opposite. 1/

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AI Surrogates and illusions of generalizability in cognitive science

Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) have generated enthusiasm for using AI simulations of human research participants to generate new know…

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Dario Paape @dariopaape.eurosky.social · 13/10/2025

Making Apfelstrudel and the recipe says to adjust the amount of breadcrumbs according to "how much the butter can soak up". Am I having a stroke or should it be the other way around? This even appears twice in the recipe. #linguistics

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Manoel Horta Ribeiro @manoelhortaribeiro.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

Computer Science is no longer just about building systems or proving theorems--it's about observation and experiments. In my latest blog post, I argue it’s time we had our own "Econometrics," a discipline devoted to empirical rigor. doomscrollingbabel.manoel.xyz/p/the-missin...

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jenbanim @jenbanim.mastodo.neoliber.al.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2025

If you mash the audio example buttons on the wikipedia page for the IPA vowel sounds you can create a choir of mildly disgusted men

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Dario Paape @dariopaape.eurosky.social · 21/09/2025

So if someone is "X poor" and you promise to make them "X rich", is X the difference between their $$$ and some average, and you're promising to basically flip the sign of that difference? I want to understand precisely what the bear is offering here. #linguistics

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Dario Paape @dariopaape.eurosky.social · 14/09/2025

Can we accurately model reading time patterns by assuming that readers predict upcoming words, but that their memory of the sentence context that the prediction is based on is imperfect? New preprint led by Johan Hennert: osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 06/09/2025

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or
even imposed on users — 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
industry’s 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. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and
Apple’s 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

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 25/08/2025

Newsletter: My 16,000 word opus - How To Argue With An AI Booster, a comprehensive guide to arguing with AI boosters, addressing both their bad faith debate style and their specific (and flimsy) arguments as to why generative AI is the future. www.wheresyoured.at/how-to-argue...

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How To Argue With An AI Booster

Editor's Note: For those of you reading via email, I recommend opening this in a browser so you can use the Table of Contents. This is my longest newsletter - a 16,000-word-long opus - and if you like...

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Dario Paape @dariopaape.eurosky.social · 12/08/2025

Inscrutability of reference still going strong. I was totally assuming that the little guy in the picture was the nurdle and immediately went "How dare you!" #linguistics

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Dario Paape @dariopaape.eurosky.social · 04/08/2025

There‘s probably a reason that these guys aren‘t placed right next to Hagebuttentee, Kamillentee and Pfefferminztee #linguistics

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Dario Paape @dariopaape.eurosky.social · 02/08/2025

I think this is the first time ever that I've seen this bracketing in the wild. [[pet [dog and cat]] poo] #linguistics

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Melanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

In a stunning moment of self-delusion, the Wall Street Journal headline writers admitted that they don't know how LLM chatbots work.

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