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Nicola Molinaro @nicolaml.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

We’re hiring! Join my group at BCBL in San Sebastián for a funded 4-year PhD on how the brain learns and processes an additional language. MEG · speech modelling · Python · LLMs Deadline: 8 November 2026 www.bcbl.eu/eu/phd-posit...

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PhD position - PRO-LISTEN (N.M.)

at the BCBL- Basque Center on Cognition Brain and Language (San Sebastián, Basque Country, Spain) www.bcbl.eu The Basque Center on Cognition Brain and Language (BCBL) in San Sebastian (Basque Co...

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Josh McDermott @joshhmcdermott.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Postdoc opening in my lab to work on NeuroAI approaches to improve prosthetic devices for human hearing. We offer a great training environment and strong mentorship. Prior expertise in machine learning and signal processing are essential. Apply here: careers.peopleclick.com/careerscp/cl...

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Postdoctoral Associate

MIT - Postdoctoral Associate - Cambridge MA 02139

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Matt Davis @drmattdavis.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

All good suggestions. But, any ear plug is better than nothing at loud concerts. I’ve taken to wearing insert earphones (Apple AirPods Pro) which work well and (apparently) give 20-30dB of attenuation. If you’re an Apple Watch wearer you can get estimated noise levels with/without protection

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Matt Davis @drmattdavis.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

As for Egon Moniz his Nobel prize was for developing the frontal lobotomy! 😱😱😱

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Matt Davis @drmattdavis.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

How about Peter Mansfield and Paul Lauterbur for developing MRI? Not a human neuroscience Nobel per-se, but definitely a major advance for human neuroscience

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Matt Davis @drmattdavis.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Aaron Beck - though it’s now too late as he died in 2021 (age 100!)

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Laura Gwilliams @lauragwilliams.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

delighted to share my review article, out now in Trends in Cognitive Sciences! i have been thinking a lot about dynamics lately. this article outlines three key principles - persistence, parallelism, and time-stamped encoding - that support human speech comprehension 🧠✨🌀

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Cognitive Science Society @cogscisociety.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Many strong Elman Prize candidates are never nominated simply because no one thought to do it. Please repost! Your share might reach the colleague who writes the letter. Deadline: Nov 18 👇

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Matt Davis @drmattdavis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Delighted to be welcomed to Geneva airport by @snlmtg.bsky.social

Large display advert welcoming arrivals for the SNL 2026 conference. It displayed a watch advert immediately after!

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EngagewithDLD @edldproject.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Hello E-DLD followers! Today's study aimed to investigate whether a jury’s opinions are different when they know that a defendant has DLD. Article summary: www.engage-dld.com/post/does-a-... Original article/Full text available at: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #DevLangDis #DLD #Jury

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Matt Davis @drmattdavis.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I should have held my nerve and gotten past the bath tub scene in S1E2!

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Matt Davis @drmattdavis.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

So, so, tempting! What’s it from?

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Matt Davis @drmattdavis.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

So pleased to see this paper published. Great work from @gtmai1.bsky.social, Emily Upton, Holly Robson and their team at @uclpals.bsky.social

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Rhodri Cusack @rhodricusack.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

We're hiring! 2 postdocs + 3 PhD students to join InfantNeuroAI at Trinity College Dublin: awake infant fMRI & OPM-MEG, plus computational models of how infants learn. Aims: understand infant visual cognition, infant neuroimaging methods, more energy-efficient learning 🧵 www.cusacklab.org/vacancies

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Dr. Ethan Kutlu @ethankutlu.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Do you work with production data? We have some updates for you. My students and I developed a tool that was accepted for publication in Behavior Research Methods. The tool is called: TAPA (Toolkit for Acoustic-Phonetic Analysis). Yes, the name is influenced by the tapas tradition. #speechscience

Illustration of a tapas table set with small plates of food, one labeled /tapa/. The image is created by Adriana Ojeda. Text reads: TAPA, Toolkit for Acoustic Phonetic Analysis. Runs on your local machine. Open source, free.

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Jon Simons @jonsimons.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

The advert for the Hatton Professorship of Sustainability is now out. A fantastic opportunity for someone with expertise in social psychology, behavioural science, etc, to help address the greatest threat of our age. Please share with anyone who might be interested! www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/hatton-...

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Hatton Professorship of Sustainability

The Board of Electors to the Hatton Professorship of Sustainability invite applications for this Professorship from persons whose work falls within the general field of the Professorship (combining be...

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speechpapers.bsky.social @speechpapers.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Electrophysiological indices of hierarchical speech processing differentially reflect the comprehension of speech in noise pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42642328

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Matt Davis @drmattdavis.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I predict the worst of the symptoms will ameliorate ~18 years after onset

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Matt Davis @drmattdavis.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

What’s the point? Why did the named author spend their time (and their AI’s time) and money (tokens aren’t free) on generating this nonsense? Publishing a worthless paper is such a pointless achievement I find it hard to understand their motivation. Could someone explain it, please

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Gavin Buckingham @drgbuckingham.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

The Cognition Group in the Psychology dept at Exeter are at risk of redundancy because "basic cognitive psychology research does not align with the current priorities of funding bodies" If you think this is overtly wrong and misguided, please sign this open letter docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Open Letter in Support of the Cognition Group, University of Exeter

To Executive members of the University of Exeter, including Vice Chancellor Prof. Lisa Roberts, Senior Vice-President and Provost Prof. Dan Charman, Pro Vice Chancellor and Executive Dean Prof. Sallie...

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Matt Davis @drmattdavis.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

We bought a HomePod mini - not a bad size for a bedroom, playroom, etc and Siri is good enough at music requests. Sharing music out loud felt more inclusive than blocking out the world with headphones

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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

I was not informed by the BBC that they would have a right wing political figure or lobbyist on after me to rebut what I said. The individual in question went on to spout lies about China, etc. to distract attention from the Trump administration's assault on climate action. This is unacceptable.

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Dr Michele V @micheleveldsman.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

📢📢📢 Neuroscientists and psychologists with kids Did your research interests change as a result of (or after) having kids? Would you mind telling me how/why if it has? Appreciate a repost for reach…

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Itai Yanai @itaiyanai.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

🔥 Published today, and just in time for summer conferences, here are your guidelines for presenting badly www.nature.com/articles/s41... rdcu.be/fqa92

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SNL Annual Meeting @snlmtg.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Wow! A record-breaking 688 abstracts have been submitted for #SNL2026! 🤯 As we finalize the review process, please hang tight - decisions will drop on June 29th. In the meantime, please join us in thanking our amazing Reviewers for their hard work! 🙏🏼

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Emma James @emljames.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

We would really appreciate a few more perspectives over the next week! 🙏 Please let us know what vocabulary support looks like in your classroom/school, and the kinds of challenges you encounter. #EduSky #edchat #secondaryschool tinyurl.com/UoYVocabular...

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Survey | Supporting Vocabulary at Secondary School

Schools are increasingly prioritising vocabulary and spoken language. But what is actually working in classrooms? And what is left to do? We are running a short survey to understand how vocabulary is...

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 06/06/2026

The criticism of Trump, Kennedy, and Bhattacharya that was so subversive that the ADA had to eject the Editor-in-Chief of their flagship journal from their annual meeting for sharing it? Prior today it had fewer than 1000 views. Do your thing.

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Matt Davis @drmattdavis.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

My kids and I *loved* “Interstellar Cinderella” by Deborah Underwood

Cover art from the book Interstellar Cinderella by Deborah Underwood. The covet depicts the titular character - a girl with red hair using her tools to fix a space ship accompanied by her robot mouse

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Matt Davis @drmattdavis.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Delighted to celebrate today @jvonseth.bsky.social from @mrccbu.bsky.social passing her PhD viva. Special thanks to examiners @olafhauk.bsky.social and @pattiadank.bsky.social for asking all the right questions

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Matt Davis @drmattdavis.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

It’s actually on Friday 12th June - but an excellent change to join me in celebrating a fantastic researcher

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Matt Davis @drmattdavis.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Congratulations to @abbiebradshawphd.bsky.social who did a brilliant job of leading this work, and guided this paper through to publication before her maternity leave

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Matt Davis @drmattdavis.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

This review/theory paper is my first publication on speech production and a first attempt to extend ideas on speech prediction beyond perception/comprehension. I'm interested to hear thoughts from others with more expertise. Thanks also to @leverhulme.ac.uk & @mrccbu.bsky.social for funding

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Matt Davis @drmattdavis.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

I'm pleased to share this excellent paper from @abbiebradshawphd.bsky.social with @clarepress.bsky.social that presents an active inference account of speech motor control doi.org/10.3758/s134...

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The speaker predicts they will say "head", but actually produces "had". The resulting sensory prediction error is minimised by active inference - changing speech movements to correct for this error.

The listener predicts they will hear "head" but hears "had" and performs perceptual inference to minimise their sensory prediction error - updating their predictions during perception.

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Matt Davis @drmattdavis.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

🤬 I hope you gave them the telling off they deserve. It’s a mistake they shouldn’t make twice

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Matt Davis @drmattdavis.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Congratulations! So pleased to see you continuing the line of brilliant awardees in cognitive neuroscience

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SNL Annual Meeting @snlmtg.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Poster submissions for #SNL2026 are now officially open! Don't miss this chance to showcase your work and connect with colleagues in the field. 🗓️ Deadline: May 22 / 📣 Notifications: June 24 More info: 2026.neurolang.org/abstract-sub...

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EngagewithDLD @edldproject.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Hello followers! Today we have more information about the E-DLD event taking place on Friday 13th March, 10-11am with Professor Saloni Krishnan from UCL Don’t miss out! Sign up for your free ticket today: e-dld.ticketbud.com/cognitive-an... #DevLangDis #DLD #Event

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Simon Fisher @profsimonfisher.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Please tell friends & colleagues about our unique course “Genetics & Neurobiology of Language” July 27-Aug 3 2026. Expert tutors, interactive talks, panel discussions, all in a beautiful setting. Scholarships available: meetings.cshl.edu/courses.aspx... @cshlnews.bsky.social @cshlbanbury.bsky.social

Group photograph of faculty and participants of the very first Cold Spring Harbor summer course on Genetics and Neurobiology of Language in 2014, taken as the sun was going down at the Banbury Campus, Lloyd Harbor.

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Matt Davis @drmattdavis.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

No prayers needed, unless they can bring a second, identically sized frying pan. Place on top, and turn…

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Cliona O'Doherty @clionaod.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

1/7 Can infants recognise the world around them? 👶🧠 As part of the FOUNDCOG project, we scanned 134 awake infants using fMRI. Published today in Nature Neuroscience, our research reveals 2-month-old infants already possess complex visual representations in VVC that align with DNNs.

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Mel Andrews @bayesianboy.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

A new study from Anthropic finds that gains in coding efficiency when relying on AI assistance did did not meet statistical significance; AI use noticeably degraded programmers’ understanding of what they were doing. Incredible.

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speechpapers.bsky.social @speechpapers.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Cutaneous alternating current stimulation can cause a phasic modulation of speech perception pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41617605

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The Experimental Psychology Society @exppsychsoc.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Thank you to everyone who attended, presented and helped organise #EPSLondon 2026! EPS meetings are coming up fast in 2026, with the next to be held at Newcastle University between Monday 30th March – Wednesday 1st April. Portals open on Monday 12th January, 10am UK time! eps.ac.uk/next-meeting/

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Next Meeting

EPS Meeting: Newcastle University. Monday 30th March – Wednesday 1st April 2026. This meeting will include the 24th EPS Mid-Career Prize lecture by Elizabeth Jefferies (and accompanying sympo…

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Alexander Huth @alexanderhuth.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

This paper had a pretty shocking headline result (40% of voxels!), so I dug into it, and I think it is wrong. Essentially: they compare two noisy measures and find that about 40% of voxels have different sign between the two. I think this is just noise!

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MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge @mrccbu.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Season's Greetings! From all at the MRC CBU 🎄☃️🎅

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languagemit.bsky.social @languagemit.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

New book! I have written a book, called Syntax: A cognitive approach, published by MIT Press. This is open access; MIT Press will post a link soon, but until then, the book is available on my website: tedlab.mit.edu/tedlab_websi...

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speechpapers.bsky.social @speechpapers.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Modulating speech tracking through brain state-dependent changes in audio loudness pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41435423

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