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Jenni Rodd @jennirodd.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

A (somewhat self-indulgent) preprint summarising what I think connectionism/LLMs can tell psychologists about what word meanings might be. I'd really appreciate feedback and comments. osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Jenni Rodd @jennirodd.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Finally out at @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social. Everything I think I know about word meanings. Particular focus on words that are unfamiliar or ambiguous. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Saloni Krishnan @salonikrishnan.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

@jennirodd.bsky.social gave a lovely talk about these ideas and I am super excited to read this paper!

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Jenni Rodd @jennirodd.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Finally out at @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social. Everything I think I know about word meanings. Particular focus on words that are unfamiliar or ambiguous. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Tom Hollenstein @tomhollenstein.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

My Canadian university, Queen's, is offering TWENTY 4-year funded PhDs (40k CAD/yr) for a student of ANY citizenship who has been accepted at a top 100 US university but have had offer rescinded OR are reconsidering offer due to US policy. Details found here👇 www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...

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Queen’s University is a globally engaged, research-intensive institution dedicated to attracting and supporting exceptional PhD students who will significantly advance our research mission.

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Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

What they call pedants (people who can’t resist correcting you’re spelling and grammer) in five different countries…. 5. Comma fucker (Finland) 4. Little dot shitter (Switzerland) 3. Whittler of woodchips (Norway) 2. Counter of peas (Germany) 1. Sodomizer of flies (France)

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Gareth Gaskell @mggaskell.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

A typically brilliant talk from @jennirodd.bsky.social for her @exppsychsoc.bsky.social Mid-career Award

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Gorilla Experiment Builder @gorillapsych.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Let your research do the talking! We’re awarding 5 🦍 grants ($1,770 each)—could one be yours? Submit a 500-word research proposal + overview on how one could support your next study for a chance to win! If you're exploring #language, #linguistics or anything in between—apply now! ➡️ bit.ly/3FeV9rX

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Jenni Rodd @jennirodd.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Great opportunity to win a subscription from @gorillapsych.bsky.social

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Diana Tamir @dianatamir.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Are you a junior faculty member interested in spending 2-4 weeks at Princeton Psych? Please apply for our Microsabbatical program! It’s a fully funded visit for professional development and creating long-term collaborations. psych.princeton.edu/diversity/mi...

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Microsabbaticals at Princeton Psychology

Microsabbaticals at Princeton Psychology provide a several-week-long visit to our department for early-career faculty from groups that are historically under-represented in academia. The program focus...

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Prof. Sarah Bate @sarahbate.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Wonderful to see the symposium honouring Dr. Andy Johnson. A fantastic academic and colleague, and a friend to so many. All the best to the BU PGRs presenting your work with Andy at this event - you will do him proud

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Jenni Rodd @jennirodd.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Unspeakably excited about this meeting. Already getting emotional about the thought of giving an EPS prize lecture.

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F. Perry Wilson, MD @fperrywilson.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Every week, I see a new study talking about this or that effect of GLP-1 receptor agonists like #ozempic. FINALLY, we have a study evaluating all the outcomes (good and bad) in one dataset. There are some... surprises. 🧵

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Jenni Rodd @jennirodd.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

I have a student recruiting Cantonese speaking people living in the UK for a 20-minute vocabulary task. Does anyone know good ways to recruit? We can pay via paypal or Amazon vouchers.

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Jon Simons @jonsimons.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Announcing a new endowed Chair in Young People's Mental Health at @campsydept.bsky.social. An exciting opportunity to shape mental health strategy and conduct world-leading research in one of the most intellectually vibrant places in the world. Please share!

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The Dawson Professorship of Young People's Mental Health - Job Opportunities - University of Cambridge

The Dawson Professorship of Young People's Mental Health in the Department of Psychology at the University of Cambridge.

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Prof Andy Field @profandyfield.com · 20/01/2025

Trying to compile a list of people with active pedagogic interests in teaching statistics go.bsky.app/Qg6YSq6

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Jenni Rodd @jennirodd.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

The April @exppsychsoc.bsky.social meeting opens for submissions on Monday. I'm giving a prize lecture & Jo Taylor has organised an amazing symposium: Recent perspectives on the mental lexicon. eps.ac.uk/next-meeting/

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Next Meeting

EPS Meeting: Lancaster University. 2nd – 4th April 2025. This meeting will include the joint 23rd EPS Mid-Career Prize Lecture by Jennifer Rodd (with an accompanying symposium organised by Jo …

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Jenni Rodd @jennirodd.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

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Next Meeting

EPS Meeting: Lancaster University. 2nd – 4th April 2025. This meeting will include the joint 23rd EPS Mid-Career Prize Lecture by Jennifer Rodd (with an accompanying symposium organised by Jo …

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Celia Heyes @celiaheyes.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Uta’s here! Welcome!

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Duncan Astle @duncanastle.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

We are hiring! We're looking for a great project manager to help with a large-scale Wellcome funded study. If you know of anyone that this might appeal to, please share. www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49880/

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Project Manager (Part Time, Fixed Term) - Job Opportunities - University of Cambridge

Project Manager (Part Time, Fixed Term) in the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit at the University of Cambridge.

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CantlonLab @cantlonlab.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

The best award in psychology is now OPEN: The Glushko Dissertation Prize is a $10,000 award to a recent PhD in the field of cognitive science. Several awards are made each cycle. Deadline is January 18th. @cogscisociety.bsky.social cognitivesciencesociety.org/glushko-diss...

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Glushko Dissertation Prize - Cognitive Science Society

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Gareth Gaskell @mggaskell.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Welcome to Bluesky, @exppsychsoc.bsky.social. The best society in the world.*

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Steve Fleming @smfleming.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

A few spots still remaining for our Cognitive Science Research Skills workshop later this week at UCL (in-person), sign up for free here: www.eventbrite.com/e/cognitive-...

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Cognitive Science Research Skills Workshop

A Cognitive Science Research Skills Workshop sponsored by the Maria Skłodowska-Curie CODE programme https://confidentdecisions.org/

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Georg Henning @georghenning.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume? Psychologist: causal inference is not possible without experiments, but I can describe the gap!

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Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Word of the day is ‘bellycheer’ (16th century): feasting, gluttony, and ‘the gratification of the belly’.

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Antonia Hamilton @antoniahamilton.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

So I have some time to read over the break. What are the best psychology and neuroscience theory/concept papers of 2024 that I might have missed? Recommendations please 📄📄📄📄

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Vaughan Bell @vaughanbell.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

We recently published a book of articles where neuroscientists, medics, and psychologists with neurological disorders discussed their own conditions. Narinder Kapur organised an online conference where some of the authors presented. It's now online in full: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wfy...

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Injured Brains of Medical Minds: Views from Within (online conference) - supported by UCL CNR

YouTube video by UCL QS IoN

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Colin Phillips @colinphillips.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

More opportunities to join us in Oxford! We have an open-rank position in Phonetics, to coincide with our move into the amazing Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities. The new Phonetics Lab sits above a concert hall - both acoustically shielded! www.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/news/2024/12...

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Fernanda Ferreira @fernandaedi.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

And we have a release date: "Psycholinguistics: A Very Short Introduction" comes out January 23, 2025!

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Frovo @frovo.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

the correct way to pronounce "pantomime" is "panto" because the mime is silent

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PessoaBrain @pessoabrain.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗲𝘂𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗰𝘀 𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗱 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗰𝘀 If you are a statistician, teach statistics, or even just use statistics, this is a highly recommended read. What a horror story which probably most of us know little about. nautil.us/how-eugenics...

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How Eugenics Shaped Statistics

Exposing the damned lies of three science pioneers.

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 13/12/2024

Do you know any early career researchers in the UK who have contributed something special to improve research practices? The call for the 2025 Dorothy Bishop award is open now! Nominations close on 26 January 2025. www.ukrn.org/2024/12/12/t...

A picture of a trophy. The real award looks much cooler.

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Alisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

💯 As I tell my students, having AI write your philosophy paper is like sending a robot to the gym for you and expecting to reap the health benefits.

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Gavin Buckingham @drgbuckingham.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

I got a phd studentship I didn't apply for, which existed only to celebrate my university's 600th year of existence, and only found out about and accepted it because there was a letter addressed to me on my supervisor's desk which he'd received for cc (my copy never was delivered)

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David Adger @davidadger.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Reposting. Deadline is January 5th. We're looking for someone who will bring interesting computational perspectives to our research interests in linguistics (phonology, (morpho)syntax, semantics, socio, experimental, neuro).

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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Today’s poem is called ‘On Searching for a Book of Stamps’.

On Searching for a Book of Stamps

check in wallet
check once more
hunt through bag
look in drawer

feel coat pockets
peer in pot
rifle desk
find them not

shake out shoes
lift up hat
inspect fridge
ask the cat

scour the shelves
peek in purse
turn out cupboards
swear & curse

go to shop
buy new stamps
put in wallet
next to stamps

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Jenni Rodd @jennirodd.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

I've been talking to UG students a lot about essay writing this week. Interested to know what others make of my advice to them: Pretty much every good psychology essay includes a balance of theory and evidence. Sometimes it helps to reframe the question to make it clear that both are relevant.

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Kirsten Read @kreadlab.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

hi #psycholinguistics or #langdev peeps, does anyone have good recs for papers that investigate the difference (for kiddos) between learning a new word for a novel referent vs. a new word for a known referent? feel like i should know some, but i'm coming up short.

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John Towse @jntowse.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Because it is such a fast evolving arms race, I'll also just highlight two papers from the last 2 years: academic.oup.com/swr/article/... doi.org/10.1007/s111...

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Jenni Rodd @jennirodd.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Any good advice on bot prevention for online studies? We usually use well regulated subject pools, so haven't had a problem before. But a student is struggling with a study where she has to use social media networks to find pps with specific language backgrounds.

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Efthymia Kapnoula @effiekapnoula.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

🌟 Call for ECR Keynotes! 🌟 The 15th International Symposium on Bilingualism is seeking nominations for 2-3 Early Career Researchers to deliver keynote talks showcasing future directions in bilingualism research. ✔️ Deadline: 3 Feb 2025 ✔️ Apply: isb2025@bcbl.eu Details: www.bcbl.eu/events/isb15...

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Ben Bowman @bennosaurus.com · 04/12/2024

If you use Google Slides, you can turn on closed captions by starting the slideshow, moving your mouse to the bottom left of the screen, clicking the three little dots and going to "caption preferences"

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Jenni Rodd @jennirodd.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Helpful info on using live subtitles in PowerPoint. Will probably do this by default for all teaching from now on

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Manos Tsakiris @mtsakiris.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

A new Lecturer position to join our department @rhulpsychology.bsky.social A preference for candidates with expertise in functional neuroimaging in relevant areas (e.g. cognitive, social, affective, clinical neuroscience), but all other areas will also be considered. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DKQ640/l...

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Lecturer in Psychology (Research & Teaching) at Royal Holloway, University of London

Discover an exciting academic career path as a Lecturer in Psychology (Research & Teaching) at jobs.ac.uk. Don't miss out on this job opportunity - apply today!

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Xenia Schmalz @xeniaschmalz.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

I've created a starter pack with researchers who study #reading or #psycholinguistics, more generally, in #languages other than English: go.bsky.app/E2e9Afg. Please write to me if you or someone you know should be added (of if you've been added and would like to be removed)!

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Jenni Rodd @jennirodd.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

I gave a conference talk in a fairly noisy room last week to an audience of mostly non-native English listeners. Thanks to @axellecalcus.bsky.social I discovered it is trivially easy to add auto subtitling in powerpoint. Audience feedback was that it was super useful. Very impressed.

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Emma Barratt @ebarratt.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Banger of a thread. Everyone go challenge @psychmag.bsky.social ;)

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