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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 · 27/09/2026

Steigt der auf Schokoladenbäume?

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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 · 27/07/2026

My god, I'm so sorry to hear that! Wishing you all the best for the future!

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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 · 24/07/2026

Damen ohne Blumenmuster sind nach meiner Erfahrung oft die, die Ambiguität mehr mögen als die meisten Menschen

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

I wonder if this is the opposite of the nostalgia bias where you remember movies/books/whatever as being better than they actually are. Anti-nostalgia. I also wonder if I should try rewatching other movies I hated back then.

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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

Ick will ooch würkleh niemam' zu nahe treten, sowat kann ja alle möglijen Jründe hamn

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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 · 21/05/2026

I was trying to contrast the different terms. Of course they also have a lot in common - "complicated" appears to be a shared property, assuming that witchcraft is complicated.

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

Interesting! So if the meaning of the idiom is "Don't worry, the thing in question is not X", where X is something "scary", EN basically has "complicated", DE has "irrational" and PL has... maybe "abstract"?

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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

Mein Lieblingsdetail ist das "mit Gurken" am Ende, das da irgendwie so hervorguckt und wo ich legit nicht weiß, wo im Baum es hingehört.

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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 · 02/05/2026

I just read that as "bist-able" and didn't know what to do with it. :D But more to the point, in my case I think I've meta'd it so much that I can't un-meta it now and get a proper intuition anymore. I can semi-laboriously work out both readings but neither jumps out at me.

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

Oh, and I think it's probably slightly different meanings of "is/equals" as well.

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

I genuinely think both are fine in this case! It simply depends on what you take "dog year" and "human year" to mean. ;)

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

Still, at first I was completely committed to A while she was completely committed to B, and we both thought the other was crazy.

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

When I first discussed these with my wife, I was like "you can't just go 'one meter is 1000 kilometers' and it's fine!". But here you have units (dog year, human year) that are not lexically defined, so you can change their meaning to get either version to work.

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

Yes! That's why I find this example so fascinating. But it turns out you can pragmatically (?) engineer both versions to make sense.

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

At first I didn't grasp the logic behind B either, but it was explained to me as follows: a "dog year" is a time unit that is 1/7 of a standard (human) year. So for each human year, seven dog years pass, in which the dog ages as much as a human does in one human year.

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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 · 29/04/2026

The German etymology is apparently subject to debate, though. Some sources say "trut" (pronounced "troot") is meant to evoke the sound they make. Also the "from India/Turkey/Wales (?)" approach seems to have been a thing in German in the 16th century.

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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 · 06/03/2026

So when done in bad faith, it's just a straw man strategy - distorting the actual argument so that it becomes easier to defeat.

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Dario Paape @dariopaape.eurosky.social · 06/03/2026

I suspect that in some cases it's a rhetorical strategy people use to sidestep the methodological criticisms - "So you're saying I'm wrong??" puts you on the defensive, especially when the conclusions are plausible.

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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 · 14/02/2026

But I believe "can not" is correct here ;) The point is that it's possible to make them short, right?

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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

Yes, it's quite interesting! So, do we have two "different Englishes" installed in our minds?

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

It's not so much an issue of clarity - I was able to understand the intended meaning. It's more a question of whether it's possible to formulate the sentence like this - if I say "John go school", it's also clear what I mean, but it's still not correct. To me, the sentence immediately "felt wrong".

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