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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 16/07/2026

calling all researchers who collect data from humans 🧠🧪 we are running a very brief survey (<1 min) about jsPsych, the software ecosystem for browser-based data collection. if you use jsPsych, or if you collect data with any other software, please fill it out at tinyurl.com/jspsych-census!

I am writing on behalf of the leadership of jsPsych, the software ecosystem for browser-based data collection used in experiments and surveys from many labs worldwide.

It has been difficult for us to figure out how widespread jsPsych usage is, because the software is freely available online and we do not collect any information about downloads, users, experiments posted online, etc. While the software has been cited in thousands of articles, jsPsych usage is likely more widespread than those citations imply, because not every project using jsPsych leads to a citation, and because there are also often substantial delays between actual jsPsych usage and a publication. As such, we are conducting a very brief census of jsPsych users.

If you collect data from humans using jsPsych or any other type of software, we would appreciate your filling out a very brief survey (<1 min) at tinyurl.com/jspsych-census. This will help us to understand how many people, labs, and institutions are current or former users of jsPsych, information that will help support the long-term sustainability of the jsPsych ecosystem.

We would also appreciate it if you could circulate this message to your lab, your department listserv, and your collaborators, to help ensure that it reaches as many members of the research community as possible. The survey is being distributed by Josh de Leeuw, Melissa Kline Struhl, and myself. Please contact me (sam@auckland.ac.nz) off-list if you have any questions about it.

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Kelly Kendro @kellykendro.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

New article out in RMAL with @reycabreraperez.bsky.social! In this paper, we introduce Terminological Review as a research synthesis framework that helps quantify terminological drift/variation to better understand the scope of a single term. 🧵 Share link: authors.elsevier.com/a/1nMrm9sT3h...

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anil oza @aniloza.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

wow — the preprint host, arxiv, is banning authors for a year if they submit papers with hallucinated citations 🤖

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If generative AI tools generate inappropriate language, plagiarized content, biased content, errors, mistakes, incorrect references, or misleading content, and that output is included in scientific works, it is the responsibility of the author(s). 2/
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We have recently clarified our penalties for this. If a submission contains incontrovertible evidence that the authors did not check the results of LLM generation, this means we can't trust anything in the paper. 3/
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The penalty is a 1-year ban from arXiv followed by the requirement that subsequent arXiv submissions must first be accepted at a reputable peer-reviewed venue. 4/
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Examples of incontrovertible evidence: hallucinated references, meta-comments from the LLM ("here is a 200 word summary; would you like me to make any changes?"; "the data in this table is illustrative, fill it in with the real numbers from your experiments") end/"

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Kelly Kendro @kellykendro.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

New solo paper in International Journal of Language and the Law! In this article, based on my MA thesis, I explore whether the lexical diversity in an eyewitness statement can predict perceptions of its integrity (accuracy, credibility, deceptiveness) and status (eloquence and prestige).

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Kirby Conrod @kirbyconrod.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

we need more linguists because i don't want to have to explain to otherwise educated people that there's no such thing as a "biological pronoun"

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savithry @savithry.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Afternoon ROLE sessions continue: first, @kellykendro.bsky.social & @reycabreraperez.bsky.social on systematic terminological review as a methodological approach to metaresearch, and Vilani Rajapakse on individual differences in picture naming RTs amongst bilinguals

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savithry @savithry.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Dra Elizabeth Buenabad has worked for decades on the education of Indigenous children in the state of Puebla — she highlights the multilingual and multicultural reality of the area across centuries (i can’t keep up the crossling live posting but this talk is 🔥 and plz check out the recording after!)

Reinaldo Cabrera Pérez y Doctoras Buenabad y Stransky sitting at a table in front of Dra Buenabad’s title slide

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Kelly Kendro @kellykendro.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

If you're staying till the end of #AAAL2026 today, I'll be presenting (one of) the first research syntheses of language attrition research to explore the variation in definitions of "language attrition" through the lens of terminological review. Hope to see you at 11:55!

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Kelly Kendro @kellykendro.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

#AAAL2026 is off to a great start! Be sure to stop by our talk "Testing the comprehensibility of Utah jury instructions through empirical linguistic methods" today at 4:35 to learn how linguists can help identify difficult legal language and assess layperson comprehension.

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Linguistic Society of America @lingsocam.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Last call! The LSA Nominating Committee & COSIAC are seeking nominations for VP/President-Elect, EC Members-at-Large, and Student Rep to the EC. We especially encourage nominations from those historically underrepresented in LSA governance. Deadline: 3/13. buff.ly/EkqLh7j

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LSA Executive Committee Nomination Form: Nomination Deadline March 13, 2026

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Kelly Kendro @kellykendro.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

I’m thrilled and honored to be one of the 🦉 Duolingo English Test’s 2025 Doctoral Dissertation Awardees. (I knew my 2221-day streak would come in handy someday!) My dissertation research helps clarify the role of language attrition in language assessment and dynamic multilingualism.

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2025 Doctoral Dissertation Award Winners | Duolingo English Test

Meet the 2025 Duolingo English Test Doctoral Dissertation Award winners and the research shaping the future of language assessment worldwide.

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Kelly Kendro @kellykendro.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Applications are open for 2026-2027 doctoral dissertation grants from The International Research Foundation for English Language Education (TIRF)! This is a competitive international grant to help PhD candidates (like me) carry out their planned language research. www.tirfonline.org/doctoral-dis...

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Doctoral Dissertation Grants | TIRF

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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com · 23/01/2026

The LingComm Grants are back! These grants started in 2020, as "hey let's help get lingcomm projects going during lockdown" They've since run in 2022 and 2024, and thanks to generous folks we've always given out more than expected But they only work if people apply!!! Please share this!!

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Kelly Kendro @kellykendro.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Our new paper (my first first-author!) is out at International Journal of Applied Linguistics. Read the full paper here: doi.org/10.1111/ijal.... We analyzed the lexical diversity in texts written by 240 human participants and four ChatGPT models to investigate whether they differed, and they did! 🧵

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Do Large Language Models Produce Texts With “Human‐Like” Lexical Diversity? Evidence From Four ChatGPT Models

The degree to which large language models produce writing that is truly human-like remains unclear despite the extensive empirical attention that this question has received. The present study address...

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Andrew Cheng 鄭安誠 @linguistandrew.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

The ROLE Collective Symposium has had its abstract deadline extended to January 30th! This year's symposium will take place April 9-10, held jointly online and in-person at UNAM (Mexico). Keynote speaker is Dr. Elizabeth Martínez Buenabad. More info here: www.rolecollective.org/events/3rd-r...

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The ROLE Collective - 3rd ROLE Symposium

The third Reframing Our Language Experience (ROLE) Symposium will be held on April 9-10, 2026.

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Kelly Kendro @kellykendro.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

First 2026 paper (of many, I hope!) out in Cognition! Led by the incredible @savithry.bsky.social + @ethankutlu.bsky.social, and co-written with many amazing collaborators from the ROLE Collective (www.rolecollective.org), it explores the challenges of describing diverse language experience.

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Prof. Nicole Holliday @mixedlinguist.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

The American Dialect Society has chosen its word of the year: slop…used as both a freestanding noun, and a productive suffix! Check out all the words we nominated at the link! And while I nominated “that’s AI” (and it won for most useful), there’s no fake news here!

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Kirby Conrod @kirbyconrod.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

hey, did y'all know that the Linguistic Society of America offers FREE registration to K12 teachers, K12 students, and Indigenous scholars of the Americas for the #LSA2026 Annual Meeting? And it's not too late to register for the hybrid/online portion of the conference!

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Kelly Kendro @kellykendro.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

It's almost time for #LSA2026! We start with the exec meeting at 8am on Thursday, then continue on with an annual weekend of excellent language science. My talk (Is my ‘bilingual’ your ‘bilingual’? Researchers’ definitions and operationalizations of multilingual terminology) is Saturday at 2:45 😊

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Kelly Kendro @kellykendro.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Check out an excellent letter from @ethankutlu.bsky.social (and written accessibly for specialists AND non-specialists) regarding how bilinguals/bilingualism are viewed through a researcher's lens. He beautifully illustrates the personal and scientific consequences of narrow "bilingual" concepts 🤩

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Kelly Kendro @kellykendro.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Abstract submissions are open for the 3rd annual ROLE Symposium! This is our first hybrid year— join us online or in-person in Mexico City next April for an excellent discussion about accurately characterizing language experience in linguistics and related fields.

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Kelly Kendro @kellykendro.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

In 2026, I join the @lingsocam.bsky.social Executive Committee as the student representative. I am so grateful to everyone who voted for me, and I look forward to contributing to the LSA’s strategic direction and initiatives to help advance the field as an ECR. See you in New Orleans for #LSA2026!

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Kristina Killgrove @killgrove.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

NEW from me - NSF cancels grant scheme for social science research. Seems the NSF quietly archived ALL calls for DDRIG grants in the SBE directorate. This is a massive blow for PhD students wanting to do cutting-edge social science research. 🏺🧪

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Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2025: Your daily feed of the biggest discoveries and breakthroughs making headlines.

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Kelly Kendro @kellykendro.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

I’m so excited to be a 2025-2026 recipient of a Doctoral Dissertation Grant from The International Research Foundation (TIRF) for English Language Education! My project contributes to Plurilingualism and Multilingualism research across fields. Read more: www.tirfonline.org/announcing-t...

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Announcing TIRF’s 2025 DDG Awardees | TIRF

This year marks the 24th consecutive year TIRF has offered its Doctoral Dissertation Grants (DDGs) to doctoral candidates around the world. With the suppor ...

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Dr. Ethan Kutlu @ethankutlu.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

The Speech, Sign, and Systems Lab (formerly VoiceLab) is seeking motivated PhD students to join us in Fall 2026! We are part of the University of Iowa’s Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, consistently ranked among the top 5 programs in speech sciences nationwide.

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 04/10/2025

New preprint 🌟 Psychology is core to cognitive science, and so it is vital we preserve it from harmful frames. @irisvanrooij.bsky.social & I use our psych and computer science expertise to analyse and craft: Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. doi.org/10.31234/osf... 🧵 1/

Cover page of Guest, O., & van Rooij, I. (2025, October 4). Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/dkrgj_v1

Table 1 Guest, O., & van Rooij, I. (2025, October 4). Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/dkrgj_v1

Table 2 Guest, O., & van Rooij, I. (2025, October 4). Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/dkrgj_v1

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 01/10/2025

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

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Kelly Kendro @kellykendro.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

It's great to wake up to a conference review that says "this is the most highly rated abstract in the strand" 🤩 See you in Chicago at AAAL this March, where I'll be giving talks on 1) layperson comprehensibility of jury instructions, and 2) how language attrition is defined and operationalized!

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Dave Vanness @djvanness.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

A lot of people think that every international student admitted means one fewer spot for domestic students, when the opposite is more likely true - the tuition revenue international students bring allows public universities to provide substantial discounts to domestic students, improving access.

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Kelly Kendro @kellykendro.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Looking forward to seeing friends (and making new ones) at #SLRF2025 later this month! I'll be presenting preliminary data from (part of) my dissertation, a preregistered scoping review of language attrition research to determine how L2 attrition/loss/decline is defined & operationalized.

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Linguistic Society of America @lingsocam.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

LSA Presidential Research Forum Join us as scholars rethink terms like “native speaker” and “bilingual”— and work toward empirically driven, contextually grounded characterizations of language use. Register to attend - www.lsadc.org/ev_calendar_... #LSA #Linguistics #Sociolinguistics

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Second Language Research Forum (SLRF) 2025 @slrf2025.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Today's the last day for proposal authors to register for SLRF and secure their spots at the conference! Register now at sites.google.com/nau.edu/slrf....

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SLRF 2025 - Registration & Venue

Registration for SLRF 2025 is now live!

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andriescoetzee.bsky.social @andriescoetzee.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Lab Manager position at the University of Michigan. Come join us as part of an active research community across many different labs (phonetics, computational, sign language, etc.) careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...

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Kelly Kendro @kellykendro.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Next stop: #ISB2025 (that's the International Symposium on Bilingualism, not the Star Wars one)! My poster with Scott Jarvis (on the 13th) shows variety in self-description and language experience from 50 (mostly "bilingual") participants. Take a peek at drive.google.com/file/d/1unHu....

Image (.jpg) of our ISB poster. Poster is vertical with two columns. It has a white background with a gradient dark-lighter blue header and dark blue headings. Descriptive results appear in light blue boxes with rounded edges, and qualitative excerpts appear in yellow boxes with rounded edges. See the screenreader-friendly PDF at https://drive.google.com/file/d/1i8c0erAteN-KkQDamc7Zhz-wrgo6ZQ6z/view?usp=drive_link.

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Kelly Kendro @kellykendro.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Please consider submitting to the Second Language Research Forum if you haven’t already. We can’t wait to discuss the latest in L2 research with a great group of language scientists this September!

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Kelly Kendro @kellykendro.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Interested in combating essentialist ideals of language experience? Join the ROLE Collective on May 19 for our 2nd annual FREE, ONLINE conference to discuss linguistic justice. www.rolecollective.org/events/2nd-r... If you plan on submitting something, lightning talk proposals are due April 14th!

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The ROLE Collective - 2nd ROLE Symposium

The second Reframing Our Language Experience (ROLE) Symposium will be held on May 19, 2025.

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Kelly Kendro @kellykendro.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Have you submitted an abstract for SLRF yet? We're down to the last 20 days— be sure to send in your proposal by March 31 and join us in Flagstaff this September!

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Kelly Kendro @kellykendro.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

SO excited to be a finalist for Five Minute Linguist at #LSA2025. Come hear about "Who counts as bilingual?" in Philly on Jan 10, right after #WOTY2024. web.cvent.com/event/40d941...

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LSA 2025 Annual Meeting. Online registration by Cvent

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Kelly Kendro @kellykendro.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

I'll be giving upcoming presentations on "Who counts as bilingual?" at #LSA2025 (poster and a #5ML talk), plus #AAAL2025 talks "A Constant Decay Hypothesis account of lexical attrition" and "Lexical diversity across human and AI writing." Hope to see you there!

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