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Katerina Drakoulaki @kdrakoulaki.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

This episode of one of my favourite science communicators @hankgreen.bsky.social has a lot of the questions I would ask students in an intro to music cognition class. It's so exciting to see how *everyone* has these questions about music, its evolution and its relationship to language.

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Dr. Seuss Bot @dr-seuss-bot.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

"I’ll help you," said Horton. “But who are you? Where?” He looked and he looked. He could see nothing there But a small speck of dust blowing past through the air.

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Natalie Schaworonkow @nschawor.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

time-frequency representation of human electrocorticography data. 🌊 one axis shows frequency, the other time. the high peaks correspond to a prominent alpha rhythm at 10 Hz which appears and subsides during the experiment.

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Katerina Drakoulaki @kdrakoulaki.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Historical linguistics! I was reading about ancient Greek evolution, linear B in high school. Then read The Language Instinct and knew what I wanted to study in undergrad. Also, I should have known that working on syntactic analysis of ancient Greek in high school was actually doing *syntax*.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

“Do you know how to read?” “No. It is one of the black arts.” He nodded. “But a useful one,” he said.

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

"Even the term 'Artificial Intelligence' itself is widely misused, with conceptual unclarity coopted to advance industry agendas ... It is our task to demystify and to challenge 'AI' in our teaching, research and in our engagement with society." openletter.earth/open-letter-...

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Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia

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Emily Myers @emilymyers.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

I don't think hold any belief more strongly than the belief that "Paste & Match Formatting" should be DEFAULT.

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Critical AI Literacy Symposium, with Dagmar Monett, @lucyavraamidou.bsky.social & Miquel Pérez Torres, Linda Mannila, and @olivia.science 🎬 Video recording: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fxyg... 📢 Symposium website: www.ru.nl/en/about-us/... 🤔 Critical AI Literacy website: www.ru.nl/en/research/...

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Critical AI Literacy: Empowering people to resist hype and harms in the age of AI -- Symposium 2025

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Dr Abi Roper @abracabadger.com · 20/10/2025

Data are part of our everyday lives. 📈 Navigating data can be hard if you have #aphasia or #DLD. Janet shares her experience in this clip. ⏯️

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Moor House Institute @moorhouseinstitute.com · 13/10/2025

🚨 Only 4 days until #DLDday! 💜💛 And today is Myth-Busting Monday! As the countdown continues, we've tackled these common misconceptions, and more, in our latest blog 👇 🔗 www.moorhouseinstitute.com/7-myths-abou... #DevLangDis #DLD @radld.bsky.social

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Gordon Hodson @gordonhodsonphd.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

#AcademicSky #PsychSciSky Even psychologists get amazed when non-human animals can do things that are essential to survival (and thus NOT surprising!), like categorizing stimuli. Our error? Humans truly overestimate our uniqueness in animal kingdom. www.scientificamerican.com/article/dogs...

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These Clever Dogs Know the Difference between ‘Pull’ and ‘Throw’ Toys

These dogs can extend words to new objects based on function the way children do in early language learning

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 06/09/2025

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or
even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in
the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or
apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we
are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not
considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This
is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse
and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece,
we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology
industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to
relevant work to further inform our colleagues.

Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI
(black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are
in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are
both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and
Apple’s Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf.
Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al.
2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA).

Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms
are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe.

Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles

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Mara Breen @mbreen.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Mount Holyoke College in lovely western Massachusetts is hiring a tenure-track neuroscientist. Amazing students and fantastic faculty support - please share! mtholyoke.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Extern...

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Assistant Professor of Neuroscience and Behavior

Job no: R-0000002388 Position Title: Assistant Professor of Neuroscience and Behavior Work Type: Faculty Full time In-Person Start Date: 07/01/2026 Job Description: The Department of Neuroscience and ...

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Katerina Drakoulaki @kdrakoulaki.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Toying around with a new academic website. I've been prompted to say "I'm a cognitive psychologist, linguist, etc". Decided to just write "interdisciplinary scientist" Leaning into interdisciplinarity as a benefit 🤞🏻 #postdoclife #psychscisky

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Katerina Drakoulaki @kdrakoulaki.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Interesting read from @pitchscience.com.au newsletter: as a ECR and during the current climate I'm not optimistic, but I hope to see an institutional change on how we quantify people's contribution to science archive.md/ker9f

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Solomon @wearesolomon.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

🔴 28/2 #Τεμπη #tempi

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NAPLIC @naplic.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Just added two more DLD stars to the Developmental Language Disorder starter pack. @rkomesidou.bsky.social and @kdrakoulaki.bsky.social. Building our #DevLangDis community! go.bsky.app/FMV4dou

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Katerina Drakoulaki @kdrakoulaki.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

I got it in my hands! It's so absurd to see the whole book when I've only interacted with single digital chapters for 2,5 years! Cool experience with awesome co-editors and co-authors. I guess now I have something that says Music Psychology with my name on it 😁 #impostorsyndrome #musicscience

Two pages of the physical book that got recently published in Greek on Music Psychology

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Nichola Shelton @nichola-slp.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

#SLPeeps might want to contribute to this research, looking at vocab and word learning in 8- to 12-year-olds with a langauge disorder. #BskySpeechies #DevLangDis #SLP #SLT

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Katerina Drakoulaki @kdrakoulaki.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Hmm I wonder if some political and financial events caused this 🤔 Hmm I wonder

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Katerina Drakoulaki @kdrakoulaki.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

If #preregistrations were obligatory for all publications, some academics would not even have a #phd I wonder about what people *write* they did and what they *actually* did, and how well some people don't feel obligated for these two to be the same. Tired of lessons to avoid. #academiclife

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Michael Varaklas @michaelvaraklas.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

A video from the #Tempi #protest in #Athens, #Greece, Sunday, Jan. 26, 2025.

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Lydia Emmanouilidou @lydiaemman.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Massive demo outside Greek parliament today as public outrage reignites over country’s deadliest train crash New details have emerged about the 2023 #Tempi tragedy, including reports that cargo train involved in collision was carrying flammable materials Catch my coverage on @npr.org newscast

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Katerina Drakoulaki @kdrakoulaki.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Instead of overthinking academic bullying, I should be thrilled (and exhausted and relieved) for the publication of the first Music Psychology edited volume in **Greek**, making #musiccognition accessible for Greek undergrad students. #academicsky #music

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Katerina Drakoulaki @kdrakoulaki.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

After a terrible morning of academic bullying, I'm so happy I get to randomly listen to traditional mourning songs from Epirus Greece to get my students discuss the blurry boundaries between language and music. Examples from other cultures welcome! #musiccognition #psychsky #ecr #music

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Katerina Drakoulaki @kdrakoulaki.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Wow awesome that such initiatives are happening! #devlangdis

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Crystal Lewis @cghlewis.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Also, 😉

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Prof. Emily Nordmann @emilynordmann.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

Stop Getting Emails on Holidays You Celebrate With This One Weird Hack: Don't Check Your Email On Holidays You Celebrate. #AcademicSky

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Audun Rosslund @audunrosslund.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

12 months of data collection, 317 lab sessions, 22,958 phrases, 54,594 vowels, and a gazillion supplementary tables later... proud to say that our longitudinal study on the acoustics of infant-directed speech is now out! 👶🧵 1/ #DevSci #langsky #devpsy royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

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A longitudinal investigation of the acoustic properties of infant-directed speech from 6 to 18 months | Royal Society Open Science

Caregivers often modulate their speech when interacting with infants, adapting a register that has been suggested to have attentional, affective and didactic purposes. The present preregistered study ...

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Simon Fisher @profsimonfisher.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

To accompany all those Bluesky science/academia #starterpacks, how about we also share introductions to the literature of our different fields. I present here a handy guide to main types of papers in the language sciences (inspired by the amazing @xkcd.com). #language #linguistics #science #academia

Comic depictions of the first page of research papers in the language sciences, with titles that include the following:
Just what the hell is a word anyway?
See how this single cognitive process or brain area or neural oscillation or gene explains language!
Based on the shapes of these old bones, Homo erectus could sing .... don't @ me.
A baby looked at one thing more than the other, now we know the secret to grammar.
If you think about it, every language is fundamentally the same, amirite?
We taught a load of undergrads a made-up language, lol.
On the staggering diversity of the many languages across the world.
Remember the thing you said only humans could do, here's a video of a monkey / dolphin / corvid / octopus / honeybee doing it.
I trained this AI with 80 billion tweets and it became head-writer for phase 4 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

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Micah G. Allen @micahgallen.com · 13/11/2024

Some resources i've curated for the cognitive and computational neuroscience communities on bluesky! First, a twin set of starter packs. go.bsky.app/2n84SRM

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Katerina Drakoulaki @kdrakoulaki.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Today #language #fatigue was real, and I wasn't even teaching! I wish being a #linguist and #SLT would make me kinder to myself but no. Even writing this is exhausting. Sending solidarity to people working in a 2nd language #bilingualism #postdoclife #academiclife

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Alex Wormall @wormito.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

Forgot the link go.bsky.app/GD3QZVS

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David R. Quiroga-Martinez 🧠👂🎵🎸🇨🇴🕺 @dquiroga.bsky.social · 07/11/2024

For all the newcomers, here is a starter pack of people to follow on #musicscience, music cognition and related topics. just comment below if you want to be added! go.bsky.app/4oZbDpj #musicskyence

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Katerina Drakoulaki @kdrakoulaki.bsky.social · 06/11/2024

'There is no reason to work in academic research in Greece except for extremely strong personal reasons' As a 'Greek brain drain' academic, I wholeheartedly agree. I wouldn't go back either for the working conditions or the salary #academia #ecrlife www.frontiersin.org/journals/pol...

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Frontiers | Necessary reforms in the Greek academic system

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Katerina Drakoulaki @kdrakoulaki.bsky.social · 10/10/2024

Next time a junior person approaches you and the only mentorship you can offer is ask where's your first author papers, really think about what kind of mentorship you're providing. #nope #postdoclife #academia

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Katerina Drakoulaki @kdrakoulaki.bsky.social · 06/10/2024

Random #musiccognition thought of the day: is there the concept of heritage musics in the sense of heritage languages? Wonder how first and second generation immigrants experience the music of their heritage culture

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Katerina Drakoulaki @kdrakoulaki.bsky.social · 26/09/2024

My two cents from trying to do cutting edge research in languages other than English: since basic research is not that well developed, you end up using tools invalid, not standardized which make your results uninterpretable.

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Caroline Bowen, Speech-Language Pathologist 🇦🇺🇳🇿🌻 @carolinebowen.bsky.social · 18/09/2024

QUESTION: REALLY? QUESTION: Is there STILL the need to debunk pseudoscientific #LearningStyles (VAK) theory? ANSWER: Seems like it. Learning styles theory has enjoyed extraordinary success over the past 50 years, and not just in the classroom. aeon.co/essays/the-e...

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The evidence is clear: learning styles theory doesn’t work | Aeon Essays

A teaching approach that is based on students’ preferences sounds laudable. But this misunderstands how learning happens

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Katerina Drakoulaki @kdrakoulaki.bsky.social · 18/09/2024

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #962,345!

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Patrick McCray @patrickmccray.bsky.social · 17/09/2024

If you're having a rough day, remember that in 1991 Tim Berners-Lee's paper for the World Wide Web was rejected and he was relegated to the poster session.

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Katerina Drakoulaki @kdrakoulaki.bsky.social · 17/09/2024

Blue sky Sphere: I'm looking for your favourite podcasts around language acquisition, language development, including disorders. 🤓

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Katerina Drakoulaki @kdrakoulaki.bsky.social · 16/09/2024

Omg I'm on this list 😅 Thanks @carolinebowen.bsky.social for creating the list, it's great so see this place getting more traction!

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