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PsychoPy @psychopy.org · 23/09/2026

Next week we will host another free and casual session to help people get started with git 👩‍💻 The goal is to help you in getting started with contributing to #opensource projects. Come along and hopefully leave having made your first pull request! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/my-first-p...

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"My First Pull Request": A Beginners Guide to Open Source with PsychoPy

Make your first pull request and learn how to get started in the world of Open Source Projects!

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Dr. Ethan Kutlu @ethankutlu.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Please help us by sharing this information with your colleagues.

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Mark Dingemanse @markdingemanse.net · 06/09/2026

I recall this too, it was called the Panel Pledge in 2015-ish, but I'm not sure it has survived the past decade I see I blogged about it in my 'how to avoid manels' post but couldn't find a link then ideophone.org/how-to-avoid...

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How to avoid all-male panels (manels)

The last time I blindly accepted an invitation to speak was in 2012, when I was invited to an exclusive…

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 03/08/2025

Also and perhaps most importantly, my redefinition of AI allows us to: 👩🏼‍💻👪 Center human cognition 🤖🤥 Reject AI hype 🤔⚛️ Consider AI in general abstracted terms ⏰📜 Grant AI a (pre)history 🔗📝 doi.org/10.48550/arX...

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

If it can be done fast and/or mindlessly, it is not really problem solving.

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Dr. Ethan Kutlu @ethankutlu.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

We discussed @olivia.science @irisvanrooij.bsky.social and other colleagues' "Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia" in my class today. My students told me that they didn't have this type of clarity about "AI." We need to introduce our trainees to the scholarly work.

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Dr. Ethan Kutlu @ethankutlu.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Hello, some people are losing their doctors, their insurance, and their IDs.

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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Thousands of scientists and other citizens joined together to post comments on this proposal, and Congress took action. Now's the time for a similar effort to block the major changes proposed in peer review at NIH 🧪 grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

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NOT-OD-26-088: Request for Information (RFI) on Proposed Changes to Reporting Outcomes from NIH Peer Review

NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Request for Information (RFI) on Proposed Changes to Reporting Outcomes from NIH Peer Review NOT-OD-26-088. NIH

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

I'm extremely excited that @brianwwl.bsky.social has started his postdoctoral researcher position in my lab. Dr. Wong will bring his expertise to our behavioral and EEG experiments. After some challenging two years (and feeling like the squirrel below), I'm grateful for my community.

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Tornado Squirrel

ALT: Tornado Squirrel

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

Just want to give a big shoutout to Behavior Research Methods especially Dr. @jgeller1phd.bsky.social for his extremely transparent and thorough editorial service. Thanks to him and our wonderful reviewers (one of them being Dr. @tjmahr.com), we were able to complete this package.

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

FYI: our paper features the analysis of a political debate 💜

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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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Reviewer Zero @reviewerzero.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

As part of a Reviewer Zero initiative, @frankikung.bsky.social and colleagues are launching a survey on reviewers' and editors' experiences worldwide to help improve the publishing system. miamioh.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

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Online Survey | Built with Qualtrics Experience Management™

Qualtrics makes sophisticated research simple and empowers users to capture customer, product, brand & employee experience insights in one place.

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Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

in case you need a break from depressing political news and just as depressing academic discourse in the western world, turkey is always here to, no not to make you feel better, but to pile on even more crap

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Fun @funkelly.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

the good news is that, for at least the foreseeable future, these humanoid robots can be easily defeated by utilizing any number of foiling tactics demonstrated in your run-of-the-mill looney tunes cartoon.

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Psychonomic Society @psychonomicsociety.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Congratulations to our 2026 Graduate Student Travel Award Recipients. A full list of recipients can be found on the PS website. www.psychonomic.org/page/2026Gra...

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Dr. Ethan Kutlu @ethankutlu.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Our lab has been cooking something for the last two years and it is almost ready to be served. Coming soon… #speech #phonetics #linguistics #language

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Seeing group of men (philosophers, engineers, cognitive scientists) finding each other in their shared hate of women experts who work and think outside the(ir) mainstream. Patting each other on the back for mysogynist dunks & mischaracterisations, while thinking they are smart and doing noble work.

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bergelsonlab @bergelsonlab.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Pretty confused ab the coming @cos.io changes to OSF. looks like they’re phasing out “projects” (ie where u share/store code, stimuli, etc) which has been a keystone for our replicable pipelines: the info recreates our manuscript, figs, analyses, etc & lets u do ur own. Open science at its best! 1/4

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Sami Schalk @drsamischalk.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Police murdered a Black man in the street in Madison WI today. Shot point blank in the head while on the ground, tased, and surrounded by four cops. It looks like an execution. Multiple videos circulating online. Things are about to get very bad here.

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 06/07/2026

New preprint! So honoured to have worked with Ishani Ray on providing vital critique on "AI literacy" & correctives for those interested in understanding why "just use the newest version of an LLM" is nonsense Contra Literacy-Laundering: Mechanistic Critical AI Literacy doi.org/10.5281/zeno... 1/

Critical discourse on large language models (LLMs) has bifurcated between epistemic dismissal that invokes some form of the stochastic parrot metaphor to puncture hype, and pragmatic accommodation that treats LLM capability improvements as grounds for updating the critique. We argue that both misdiagnose the problem as the issue is not whether or not LLMs work, but what kind of working is happening and at whose cost. Drawing on meta-theoretical frameworks of cognitive science, feminist labor analysis and critical pedagogy, we propose a conceptual reorientation. We develop this claim through registers of (i) the cognitive, examining what is forfeited when statistical pattern-matching substitutes for the iterative, grounded processes that constitute thinking; (ii) the pedagogical, examining how “AI literacy” as currently deployed is itself a symptom of the confusion it purports to address; and (iii) the political, examining how the infrastructure framing of AI naturalizes asymmetric labor displacement, particularly of feminized cognitive and reproductive work. The stochastic parrot, deployed with mechanistic precision rather than mere rhetorical convenience, specifies what is forfeited when cognitive labor is delegated, who bears the cost, and why a literacy adequate to this moment must begin from the epistemology of those most harmed by the systems it describes. We conclude with underlining that critical AI literacy, which this paper embodies an instance of, is the only sensible way forward.

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Matt Goldrick @mattgoldrick.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Hoping that our talk connects more people with some of the fantastic organizations enacting change in our communities *right now* including Reviewer Zero @reviewerzero.bsky.social Bilingualism Matters www.bilingualism-matters.org and the ROLE Collective www.rolecollective.org #CogSci2026

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Dr. Ethan Kutlu @ethankutlu.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

So thrilled to see the fantastic duo @mattgoldrick.bsky.social and @m2b2.bsky.social doing this work, and representing @reviewerzero.bsky.social and the ROLE Collective while they do it. Friday 2-3:30pm in Gavea A if you are at #CogSci2026.

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 26/06/2026

> Microsoft is promoting Copilot to enhance its profits. This does not mean it will enhance your organization's goals or workflows. Caution is warranted.

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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

As everything started to go to heck in a hand basket, both in terms of support for science in the US, and support for scholarship as a whole at UNC, I realized that faculty advocacy, which i had ignored, was crucial. Joining the @aaup.org was a wise move--their leadership has been remarkable 1/2

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Dr. Ethan Kutlu @ethankutlu.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

I have had the privilege and honor to attend the Critical AI Literacy Workshop offered at the Radboud Summer School. The workshop was organized by @irisvanrooij.bsky.social @marentierra.bsky.social @olivia.science along with @joostvossers.bsky.social and @altibel.bsky.social.

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Dr. Ethan Kutlu @ethankutlu.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

I urge everyone to read this and act asap! There are a lot of comments that are in support of OMB.

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Dr. Ethan Kutlu @ethankutlu.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

I shared almost two years ago with my colleagues what I went through in my previous life. This was one of the examples. I am not Nostradamus or a fortune teller. Most of us experienced these in other contexts. I am happy to share my experiences but I don’t know where, how, and when.

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Dr. Ethan Kutlu @ethankutlu.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

My friends chose me as their chef for their engagement party. I don’t want to disappoint.

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Reviewer Zero @reviewerzero.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Only 4 days until our free webinar on writing better, fairer reviews! You'll leave with a practical framework for giving feedback that's specific, balanced, and fair. Register using the link below.

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Dr. Ethan Kutlu @ethankutlu.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

And congrats to @osamakhalid.bsky.social for leading this work. I am grateful to have his generosity, friendship, and scholarship in my life. Stereotypes don’t fall from the sky, we implement them in every part of our society.

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icwsm.bsky.social @icwsm.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Congrats to the winners of this year's best paper, best dataset paper, best poster paper, and best Web Agent demo/poster 🎉 #ICWSM2026

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Osama Khalid @osamakhalid.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

I am currently at @icwsm.bsky.social . We (Sarmad, Sharaf, @ethankutlu.bsky.social ) will be presenting our paper "Flattening Fantasies: Analysing Stereotypes in Pornographic Discourse" in the 4:00-5:00 session . Come say Hi! (It just won the best paper award)

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Dr. Ethan Kutlu @ethankutlu.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Funny how AI companies have been instrumental in rejecting trans people from every level of society. But, it is okay for them to "resurrect" dead people. bbc.com/news/article...

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AI-powered version of Ozzy Osbourne could make its first UK appearance in Birmingham

Two companies are working on creating an Ozzy Osbourne AI avatar.

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Dr. Ethan Kutlu @ethankutlu.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Extremely concerned and heartbroken by the news that Istanbul Bilgi University was shut down by presidential order in Turkey. I hope that my colleagues and thousands of staff and students receive the recognition they deserve.

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Dr. Ethan Kutlu @ethankutlu.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Such an honor visiting University of Konstanz to give a talk on unpacking complex signal, what we've long mistaken for noise. I explored how bilingual, bidialectal speech gets mislabeled as deficient, and how neural, behavioral & computational tools reveal the systems underneath.

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Reviewer Zero @reviewerzero.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Don't forget to register for this upcoming event! #PeerReview #Academic

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Dr. Ethan Kutlu @ethankutlu.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Please share with your networks!

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Reviewer Zero @reviewerzero.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Want to make peer review more inclusive & equitable? @mattgoldrick.bsky.social and @mariamaly.bsky.social are hosting a free webinar on how to write better, fairer reviews! 📅 June 15th | 12–1:30pm EST 🔗 Register: tinyurl.com/59ez5azt #PeerReview #AcademicTwitter

A promotional flyer from Reviewer Zero for a webinar titled "So You Want to Participate in Peer Review: How to Write Inclusive and Equitable Reviews." The event is scheduled for June 15th, 12–1:30pm EST. The flyer features a yellow speech bubble with the event title in bold blue text, an illustration of two hands typing on a keyboard, and a QR code and link to register at https://tinyurl.com/59ez5azt. The background is cream-colored with a blue spiral notebook graphic at the top.

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PsychoPy @psychopy.org · 23/02/2026

📣 PsychoPy Studio is out now!! ✨ Which also means swish new branding on psychopy.org ✨ We really hope that this improves user experience in general. Please download and try it. Let us know how you get on via the forum discourse.psychopy.org/t/introducin...

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Dr. Ethan Kutlu @ethankutlu.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

I'll be guest editing a special collection on ecological and/or multimodal tools in language science (broadly construed). I'm looking for scholars to invite. Please reply or DM with your work or recommendations. I'd appreciate it if you could share it with your networks. Thank you!

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