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Gwen Brekelmans

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Teaching focussed Reader in psychology at QMUL. Research interests: language learning, speech perception. She/her 🏳️‍🌈

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Matthew Mak @matthewmakpsy.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
@warwickpsych.bsky.social is recruiting an Assistant / Associate Professor (permanent post). Come join us! It's a great department. warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/appcentre...
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Assistant or Associate Professor (111338-0226) - University of Warwick
Title: Assistant or Associate Professor (111338-0226). Application Deadline: . Position Type: Permanent
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andrea e. martin @andreaeyleen.eurosky.social · 23/10/2025
OPEN PHD POSITION - Come join our group! The IMPRS at @mpi-nl.bsky.social is offering an PhD position on modelling structured meaning in the brain, supervised by me and Helen De Hoop at the Centre for Language Studies in the @dondersinst.bsky.social - www.mpi.nl/imprs-phd-fe... #NeuroJobs #cogsci
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IMPRS PhD Fellowships 2026 | Max Planck Institute
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Dr. Hannah M. King @hmking-linguist.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Ten more days to check out The Barbican's Voiced: The Festival for #EndangeredLanguages 🗣💬 #langsky www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/202...
barbican 1-31 Oct VOICED

The Festival for Endangered Languages

Experience visual art, literature, spoken word and sound installations from indigenous artists in the first UK festival of this kindDetails of some of the events are listed here, which can be found at:

https://www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/2025/series/voiced-the-festival-for-endangered-languages
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Dr Elsje van Bergen @drelsje.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
🧩Learning to talk & read isn’t just about effort or teaching—it’s shaped by biology, experience & context 🧠Our new review links genetics, neuroscience, psychology & education to show why some children find language or reading easier. 📖 doi.org/10.31234/osf... 🖼️genes→brain→cognition→behaviour 🧵👇
Figure 2 in the review: Levels of analysis from genes and brain systems to cognition and behaviour.
The child both influences and is influenced by parents through genetically shaped interactions, and by the wider school and social environment.
Figure design by Neil Usher.
Figure from this review paper: https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/w23yz_v1
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Teruni Ahamat @teruniahamat.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Excited to share my first PhD article, published in Scientific Data 👉 rdcu.be/eIRqD We present the Shared Book Reading Corpus: 44 caregiver-infant dyads, 3 camera views (headcams + overview), speech transcriptions & developmental measures. Access on Databrary for discovery & reuse! ✨ #OpenScience
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Centre for Brain and Behaviour, QMUL @queenmarycbb.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Today we had the launch event for our Centre for Brain & Behaviour! Lots of cool research from our PIs and contributions from companies, charities, and publishers. Great fruitful discussion and exchanges. Watch this space!
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T-FΨN (Teaching-Focused University Network) @t-fun.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Flash talks at the #TFUNfest2025 this afternoon! Next up is @gwenbrekel.bsky.social who is sharing preliminary results on what students value in relation to equality and diversity in their teaching...
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Caroline Rowland @carorowland.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
So excited to see that IASCL now has a group Zotero library of research on language acquisition in under-represented languages. 👏👏. All information here: www.childlanguage.org/underreprese...
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Repository of Papers on Underrepresented Languages — IASCL
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Matt Goldrick @mattgoldrick.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
🚨Postdoctoral fellowship in corpus phonetics / data science for speech with me and Ann Bradlow. Position is open immediately. Apply now! 🚨 Details: faculty.wcas.northwestern.edu/matt-goldric...
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Caroline Rowland @carorowland.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Children are incredible language learning machines. But how do they do it? Our latest paper, just published in TICS, synthesizes decades of evidence to propose four components that must be built into any theory of how children learn language. 1/ www.cell.com/trends/cogni... @mpi-nl.bsky.social
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Constructing language: a framework for explaining acquisition
Explaining how children build a language system is a central goal of research in language acquisition, with broad implications for language evolution, adult language processing, and artificial intelli...
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BPS Division of Academics, Researchers, & Teachers in Psychology @bps-dartp.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
What an incredible first day! Some fantastic talks, discussions, and networking - we can't wait to do it all again tomorrow! Check out our LinkedIn post for a few photos from the day... #dartp2025 www.linkedin.com/posts/dart-p...
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What an incredible first day! | British Psychological Society Division of Academics, Researchers, and Teachers in Psychology (DARTP)
What an incredible first day! Some fantastic talks, discussions, and networking - we can't wait to do it all again tomorrow! Here's a few photos from the day... #dartp2025
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Dr Anna Volkmer @annavolkmer.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
We are doing a survey to understand why other professionals do/don't refer people with Primary Progressive Aphasia for speech-language support We want Drs, nurses, psychologists, social workers, OTs, PTs & any other profession. The survey can be accessed here: qualtrics.ucl.ac.uk/jfe/form/SV_...
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
OK folks - will you please help me spread this far and wide. A really exciting opportunity to be the new Director of Comms at @britishacademy.bsky.social - the national academy for humanities and social sciences. £100k. Lovely team. Reports directly to me micro.green-park.co.uk/thebritishac...
Logos for The British Academy and Green Park
Job title: Director of Communications
Location: 10-11 Carlton House Terrace, SW1Y 5AH
Reports to: Chief Executive
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Adam Tierney @adamtierney.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
There's a PhD studentship opportunity available at the Birkbeck School of Psychological Sciences! 4 years, funded by working as a graduate teaching assistant. Feel free to get in touch if you have questions. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMD691/p...
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PhD Studentship & Graduate Teaching Assistant at Birkbeck, University of London
Apply now for the PhD Studentship & Graduate Teaching Assistant role on jobs.ac.uk - the leading job board for higher education jobs. View details.
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Gwen Brekelmans @gwenbrekel.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
As always a delight to host @emilynordmann.bsky.social and a very sunny day to boot! Thanks very much for sharing your words of wisdom with our @qmulsbbs.bsky.social teaching & scholarship staff, and for the thought-provoking seminar in the @queenmarycbb.bsky.social psychology seminar!
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Pernelle Lorette @pernellel.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Last stretch! Please help if you can. If you teach at a Spanish university, don’t hesitate to share with your students. I wouldn’t mind doing an online session afterwards if you want me to introduce the topic of emotion to your students (or I could do a methodological session on online surveys). Thx
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John Towse @jntowse.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
50 years ago Alan Baddeley and Graham Hitch propelled the term #workingmemory into the psychological lexicon, with a vision that still resonates today! This editorial with Mark Hurlstone, @amyatkinson.bsky.social , Satoru Saito and Robert Logie, reflects on that remarkable contribution in 1974.
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Science X / Phys.org @sciencex.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Group arts activities, such as painting and music, can significantly reduce depression and anxiety symptoms in older adults, offering a promising alternative to traditional mental health treatments. doi.org/g866dw
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The art of well-being: Group activities shown to ease depression and anxiety in older adults
A new study led by Queen Mary University of London researchers reveals that group arts interventions—such as painting, music, or dance—can significantly reduce symptoms of depression and anxiety among older adults.
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Koen Van den Eeckhout @vandeneeckhoutkoen.bsky.social · 07/11/2024
Are you thinking about doing more science communication, but not really sure where to start? Maybe you are already communicating, but would like to explore a wider range of channels? Or you just want an A-to-Z overview of everything #scicomm related? (1/3)
The cover for the book '50 essentials on science communication'. It features some images in red and greenish blue, showing a space shuttle, Albert Einstein mid-jump, a researcher with huge glasses, test tubes, a hand, speech bubbles, a light bulb, lots of arrows, and more.
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Skype a Scientist @skypeascientist.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Hi! We're Skype a Scientist! We're a free program that matches scientists with classrooms, scout troops, libraries, & other groups for Q&As all about science. Get matched with a scientist for a virtual conversation! We have 30+ types of scientist & match weekly. www.skypeascientist.com/sign-up.html
A blue infographic gives a step by step guide on how to Skype a scientist. The steps are: 1) sign up on skypeascientist.com 2) pick a category of science your group would like to talk about (e.g. marine biology, chemistry, astronomy) 3) get a match via email 4) connect with your scientist, discuss your ur group’s needs and pick a time to chat 5) talk to your scientist!
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Centre for Brain and Behaviour, QMUL @queenmarycbb.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
You are all invited to"Meet the team"! We will post regularly to introduce our fantastic staff at the Department of Psychology and Centre for Brain & Behaviour. Today, we would like to introduce Gwen Brekelmans @gwenbrekel.bsky.social and Sevasti Foka.
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Justin Lo @justinjhlo.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
New open access paper in Speech Communication on “nasal coarticulation in Lombard speech”: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... I argue that, in Lombard speech, coarticulatory vowel nasality falls amid a compressed range of nasalisation, but coarticulation is maintained @phoneticslab.bsky.social
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Nasal coarticulation in Lombard speech
Speaking in noisy environments entails a multitude of adaptations to speech production. Such modifications are expected to reduce gestural overlap bet…
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Betsy Sneller @betsysneller.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
THE BUNNY PAPER HAS BEEN PUBLISHED!! www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #linguistics 🐦
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Finding out about children’s language | Language Variation and Change | Cambridge Core
Finding out about children’s language
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Dr Giorgia Michelini @giorgiamichelini.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Don’t miss the Young People’s Mental Health Creative Showcase organised by Dr Christina Carlisi’s UCL team, happening this Friday evening! www.eventbrite.com/e/ucl-young-...
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UCL Young People's Mental Health Creative Showcase
An exhibition of young people's artworks on the topic of mental health and mental health research.
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Adam Tierney @adamtierney.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
New preprint! This paper shows that the perceptual boundary between speech and song can shift due to the surrounding context. Specifically, speech/song categorization is affected by contrastive adaptation: perceptual movement away from the previous stimulus. osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Simon Kirby @simonkirby.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
A thread explaining our new discovery about humpback whale song published today in Science... We found key statistical properties that characterise all human languages in another species for the first time. We have more in common with whales than we previously thought! doi.org/10.1126/scie...
A picture of a humpback whale just below the sea surface taken by Marc Quintin
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Deafness, Cognition and Language Research Centre (DCAL) @dcal-ucl.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
The British Sign Language Corpus offers video data documenting BSL use in the UK. It supports research into BSL structure, use, and change, aiding education, interpreter training, and linguistics. Explore it here: bslcorpusproject.org
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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 17/10/2024
look at this absolute unit
The absolute unit sheep; an Exmoor Horn ram
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Ludovica Serratrice @ludoserratrice.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
The Child Language Symposium 2025 will be hosted by the University of Reading on September 8th-10th. Our call for papers is now open and will close on 28th February. Submit your abstract for a poster, an oral presentation, a symposium, or a lightening talk. Pls RT research.reading.ac.uk/cls2025/
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CHILD LANGUAGE SYMPOSIUM 2025
University of Reading, September 8th - 10th, 2025
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Hu Chuan-Peng is on paternity leave @hcp4715.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
A study on sample diversity in > 5500 psycholinguistic studies "find that representation of Global South researchers & contexts has grown, but this growth is centered in a handful of countries, and Africa and Southeast Asia remain severely underrepresented." www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Diversity in research on the psychology of language: A large-scale examination of sampling bias
The human capacity for language cannot be fully understood without appreciation of its ability to adapt to startling diversity. Narrow sampling theref…
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David Sidhu @davidmsidhu.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Does sound symbolism show up in real language? Do real words for spiky things sound "spiky"? Words for small things sound "small"? I'm excited to share this new review paper summarising the existing work by myself and many others on these questions! compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Sound Symbolism in the Lexicon: A Review of Iconic‐Systematicity
Sound symbolism refers to associations between language sounds (i.e., phonemes) and particular properties (e.g., certain shapes). For example, phonemes like /m/ are associated with roundness, while p....
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Philipp Krämer @phkraemer.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Universities all over Europe are cutting language programs and closing the doors to the world. We want to get a more complete picture: where, when, why? If you know of any such cases, please tell us (and share the link with your language and linguistics contacts)! elomake.helsinki.fi/lomakkeet/13...
Door of a subway seen from the inside closing automatically with a flashing red light
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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Today’s poem is called ‘Needles’.
This poem, entitled 'Needles' is presented in the form of a Christmas tree. These words form the shape of the tree:
 
I
wrote
a poem
in the shape
of a Christmas
tree but then forgot
to water it and only a few

days
later
there

And these words are distributed around the base of my poem 'tree' as if they've fallen off it:

were
words
all
over
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RNIB @rnib.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Alt text? Don’t worry, Santa’s elves have your back! Writing great alt text is simpler than you think. Got questions? Ask our alt text elves!
A bright pink instructional graphic titled “How to sleigh alt text.” It includes colourful headings labelled Identify Who (in green), Expression (blue), Description (pink), Colour (red), and Interesting Features (grey). On the right side, there’s a sample alt text description in various colours that reads: “Santa Claus looking happy as he waves at the camera. He wears a traditional red suit and hat and has a long white beard and glasses. There are colourful lights twinkly behind him.” Below the text, a photo of Santa Claus is shown, waving with a big smile against a background of twinkling, colourful holiday lights
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Nicola Rennie @nrennie.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
🎉 The {messy} package is now available on CRAN! 🎉 Read the introductory blog post here: nrennie.rbind.io/blog/introdu... #RStats #StatsEd #DataScience
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Introducing the {messy} package | Nicola Rennie
The {messy} R package takes a clean dataset, and randomly adds mess to create data more similar to that which you'd find in the real world. This is an easy way for educators to create data sets that g...
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Centre for Brain and Behaviour, QMUL @queenmarycbb.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Hello everyone 👋🧠 We are very happy to be here! We are the Centre for Brain and Behaviour at Queen Mary University of London! We'll be posting about all the exciting work being done by our researchers focused on the interface between psychology and biology. www.seresearch.qmul.ac.uk/cbb/
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Centre for Brain and Behaviour
QMUL Faculty of Science and Engineering Research Centres
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Prof Hannah Cobb @archaeocobb.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Are you a teaching focused academic in #UKHE? Come and join our next National L&T focused network event online THIS Friday 29th Nov 10-12 on "Telling your teaching focused story". Sign up link and more info about future events here ltfocusednetwork.wordpress.com #TeachLearnSky #SoTLsky
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National Learning and Teaching Focused Network
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Mirjana Bozic @mirjanabozic.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Interested in doing a PhD on how to help people learn a new language? We have an ESRC-funded PhD studentship available, to work on the project ‘Individualised second language learning’ from Oct 2025. Application deadline is 3 Dec. More information at www.findaphd.com/phds/program...
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FindAPhD : Funded studentships available with the CAM-Doctoral Training Partnership at University of Cambridge
Apply for a PhD: Funded studentships available with the CAM-Doctoral Training Partnership at University of Cambridge
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Mike Frank @mcxfrank.bsky.social · 24/07/2024
Announcing the launch of the Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science: oecs.mit.edu! OECS is a freely-available, growing collection of peer-reviewed articles introducing key topics in cogsci to a broad audience of students and scholars.
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Open Encylopedia of Cognitive Science
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University of York Library @uoylibrary.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
We've written a Researcher's Guide to Bluesky! It's a bit like all those other useful guides to Bluesky, but with several useful insights from University of York academics about using the platform, and we'd love it if it was reposted far and wide... >> blogs.york.ac.uk/library/2024... 🧵 below
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The Researcher’s Guide to Bluesky – The Library, Learning, Archives and Wellbeing Blog
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alex @dremenec.bsky.social · 28/10/2024
Generally we think of alt-text as the domain of those with accessibility needs. However alt-text is useful for many reasons, which benefit your viewers, as well as you, the creator!
An infographic. There are six panels.

1. "Slow internet. Alt text is shown in place of unloaded images." a drawing shows a phone with poor signal, and alt text is visible where the image should have loaded.

2. "Findabillity. Alt text helps to search content." A drawing shows someone searching 'dog with banana' and a post is shown underneath without the words 'dog' or 'banana'. It is implied to be part of the alt text.

3. "Screen readers. Alt is read out to people using text-to-speech software". There is a drawing of the output a screen-reader would show when viewing an image with alt text on bluesky.

4. "Translation. Alt text can be translated". A drawing shows a post being translated. The alt text is also translated into german.

5. "Readability. Text in images can be made legible" There is a drawing of some truly awful handwriting inside a speech bubble. The alt text clarifies what the text is supposed to say.

6. "Disambiguation. Description helps clarify intent." There is a drawing of a post with a picture of a creature. This is styled after the famous optical illusion of a rabbit and a duck. The alt text clarifies that the animal is a rabbit. It definitely looks more like a duck.
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Dr Carolina Kuepper-Tetzel @drckt.bsky.social · 06/09/2024
I lead the Teaching Innovation & Learning Enhancement (TILE) Network (@tilenetwork.bsky.social). TILE is teaching-focused speaker series to share best practice in education. Talks take place on Zoom and are free & open to all. Upcoming talks: tile.psy.gla.ac.uk/tile-schedule/ #AcademicSky #Edusky
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TILE Seminar | Teaching Innovation & Learning Enhancement Network
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Gwen Brekelmans @gwenbrekel.bsky.social · 16/10/2024
This has been a very long while in the works, but some of the work from my PhD back with Liz Wonnacott and Bronwen Evans is finally out! 🎉 Reviewer comments definitely shaped this into a better paper, so I hope you enjoy it! 📖 doi.org/10.1111/lang... open access preprint via doi.org/10.31234/osf...
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<em>Language Learning</em> | Language Learning Research Club Journal | Wiley Online Library
A one-page Accessible Summary of this article in nontechnical language is freely available in the Supporting Information online and at https://oasis-database.org
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 01/10/2024
When I do #SciComm training, I say “you’re not dumbing anything down because you’re not talking to dumb people. You’re talking to people who are smart at something different from what you’re smart at.” I find that perspective helps
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Prof. Emily Nordmann @emilynordmann.bsky.social · 16/09/2024
📢📢📢 We are hiring 📢📢📢 We have multiple Grade 7 and 8 lectureships available on our Learning, Teaching and Scholarship track. As an LTS academic you will be committed to high quality teaching excellence and leadership and join our Pedagogy and Education Research Unit www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DJS142/l...
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Lecturer (Learning, Teaching & Scholarship Track) at University of Glasgow
Explore an exciting academic career as a Lecturer (Learning, Teaching & Scholarship Track). Don't miss out on other academic jobs. Click to apply and explore more opportunities.
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Bobby Po-Heng Chen 陳柏亨 @bobbychen.bsky.social · 31/07/2024
The Web-based Open-access Reliable Decision on Synonyms (WORDS): 4-minute English Vocab Test 🧑‍💻 @gorillapsych.bsky.social app.gorilla.sc/openmaterial... 📚 doi.org/10.5334/joc.... Designed by me and @rach-hulme.bsky.social @lenamblott.bsky.social @jennirodd.bsky.social Excited to see more use of it
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The Web-based Open-access Reliable Decision on Synonyms (WORDS) English Vocabulary Test | Journal of Cognition
The Journal of Cognition, the official journal of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology, publishes reviews, empirical articles (including registered reports), data reports, stimulus developmen...
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Gabriel Cavalli @gabrielcavallip.bsky.social · 28/08/2024
Hey, just landed! please, can those who know me repost to help me reconnect with my #HE #SoTL #PedRes #DBER #TL #T&S community? Much appreciated!
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Skype a Scientist @skypeascientist.bsky.social · 30/04/2024
The 2000th classroom signed up for the spring semester of Skype a Scientist today! We can accommodate another 2000 classrooms. We have plenty of scientists! Sign up to be matched with a scientist for a Q&A with your class, scout troop, or library today skypeascientist.com/sign-up.html
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