Reposted by Dr Lena M BlottMelissa Baese-Berk @m2b2.bsky.social · 13/05/2026My student is looking for participants for her dissertation experiment (done online! Paid!). DM me if you're interested: Looking for native English speakers in the US between 18-35 years old learning Mandarin / Korean as their second language to participate in an online linguistics study! 133
Dr Lena M Blott @lenamblott.bsky.social · 11/05/2026First time I'm siding with Elsevier on an issue.... 000
Reposted by Dr Lena M Blottalexbergs.bsky.social @alexbergs.bsky.social · 25/03/2026Student at my department in need of some data! Check out her questionnaire. It's fun and all participants get a free labradoodle puppy :-) forms.gle/m6mmoHQhocBy...forms.gleEnglish Language Use among L1 and L2 SpeakersThank you for your interest in participating in this study. This survey is part of a Master’s thesis in English and American Studies at the University of Osnabrück. The study investigates different as... 001
Reposted by Dr Lena M BlottGC CUNY - Linguistics Program @gccunylinguistics.bsky.social · 12/03/2026The Second Language Acquisition Lab at the CUNY Graduate Center is recruiting Turkish speakers in the U.S. or Germany for an online study on Turkish and bilingualism. Not eligible? Please share, word of mouth really helps! slalab.gc.cuny.edu/post/new-stu... #linguistics @verbingnouns.bsky.socialslalab.gc.cuny.eduInterested in a (paid) study about Turkish language use?The Second Language Acquisition Lab (SLAL) at The City University of New York (CUNY) is inviting participants to take part in a short online research study on how Turkish is used and understood by peo... 01116
Reposted by Dr Lena M BlottEmily Myers @emilymyers.bsky.social · 19/02/2026Researchers: are you reassured by Prolific's efforts to tamp down bot activity? Have you seen changes in data quality? We've gone from rejecting about 10% of the sample for headphone checks to more like 40%. Not confident the rest are real. 3122
Reposted by Dr Lena M Blottc0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 24/01/2026In my ongoing attempts to give you a break from *gestures widely* THE HORRORS: Let's talk about the utterly bizarre science of cats' purring. Here's a weird starting point: There are NO cats (Felidae) that can BOTH roar AND purr. Cats that roar = genus Panthera Cats that purr = genus Felis 201507588
Reposted by Dr Lena M BlottStan Carey @stancarey.bsky.social · 26/01/2026A very funny and satisfying rant by @acollierastro.bsky.social about the impact of "AI" on education and specifically the professor who outsourced his work to ChatGPT, lost it, then told the world about it (25 min.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pqF...youtube.comthis is what 2 years of chatgpt does to your brainYouTube video by Angela Collier 051
Dr Lena M Blott @lenamblott.bsky.social · 22/01/2026I've been looking for an easy-to-follow explainer on how LLMs work for a class I'm teaching this term, but this series is so much more than that. Worth sharing with students (and everyone else)! 060
Reposted by Dr Lena M BlottIt's me, Andrew @itsandrewrusso.bsky.social · 22/01/2026I'm looking to interview, read, and share disaster narratives. If you have a story to tell, data to share, and want to talk, I'm taking trains and bikes across the EU and want to talk to you. #academicsky #disasters #openscience www.andrewrusso.me/dnp 022
Reposted by Dr Lena M BlottNicholas Pagnucco @nicholaspagnucco.bsky.social · 27/12/2025So... as I write syllabi for next semester, I have to ask a question that makes me feel incompetent: Does anyone have solid resources on AI policies in class? This could be how to organize assessment to minimize AI use, or any of the other Faustian bargains. #sociology #academicsky #highered 834
Reposted by Dr Lena M BlottDr Keith Wilson 💭 @keithwilson.eu · 21/12/2025It’s the same with academic writing. The difficulty doesn’t lie in formulating grammatical sentences, but in deciding what it is you actually want to say. Writing is part of the process by which you figure that out, and isn’t something that can be outsourced to a machine. 3214
Reposted by Dr Lena M BlottJoachim Baumann @joachimbaumann.bsky.social · 12/09/2025🚨 New paper alert 🚨 Using LLMs as data annotators, you can produce any scientific result you want. We call this **LLM Hacking**. Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2509.08825 6303106
Reposted by Dr Lena M BlottSabrina Norwood @sabrinanorwood.bsky.social · 16/12/2025Did you know that from tomorrow, Qualtrics is offering synthetic panels (AI-generated participants)? Follow me down a rabbit hole I'm calling "doing science is tough and I'm so busy, can't we just make up participants?" 37652285
Reposted by Dr Lena M BlottStephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 13/11/2025Every ad now 8271363078
Reposted by Dr Lena M BlottJo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 09/10/2025The advice I give young people on choice of degree programme. Choose something you love. You’ve got the rest of your life to be frustrated and miserable. 1742876
Dr Lena M Blott @lenamblott.bsky.social · 08/09/2025An die deutsche #Linguistics #Linguistik crowd: Kann es sein, dass die Leipzig corpora gerade down sind? Wenn ja, weiß da jemand vielleicht, wann man da wieder Zugriff haben kann? 000
Reposted by Dr Lena M BlottJonathan Peelle @jpeelle.bsky.social · 31/03/2025Psycholinguists and psychologists: Is there good R packages for distributing items across conditions? For example, I have 60 stimuli and some preliminary data on item-level accuracy. I'd like to create 3 lists of 20 items that are matched in accuracy without coding it myself. 👀 552
Reposted by Dr Lena M BlottSocial Cognition Lab, University of Miami @soccoglab.bsky.social · 25/02/2025We have another online study on Children Helping Science for adults with a baby between 2 and 24 months old! childrenhelpingscience.com/studies/7012... 032
Reposted by Dr Lena M BlottAmrei Bahr @amreibahr.bsky.social · 13/03/2025Wie wäre es mal mit #Existenzstrategie statt #Exzellenzstrategie? Auch Wissenschaftler_innen wollen verlässlich Miete zahlen können, ihre Kinder ernähren & in finanziellen Notlagen nicht vollkommen aufgeschmissen sein. Plus: Existenzängste bremsen Forschung aus. Deshalb: #ExitExzellenz! #IchBinHanna 110422
Reposted by Dr Lena M BlottChanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 12/03/2025Research from 2022 that every Democrat apologist should chew on: “We do not find any evidence that accommodative strategies reduce radical right support. If anything, our results suggest that they lead to more voters defecting to the radical right.“ www.cambridge.org/core/journal...cambridge.orgDoes accommodation work? Mainstream party strategies and the success of radical right parties | Political Science Research and Methods | Cambridge CoreDoes accommodation work? Mainstream party strategies and the success of radical right parties - Volume 11 Issue 1 4324051017
Reposted by Dr Lena M BlottAlissa Ferry @alissaferry.bsky.social · 10/03/2025Come join us! We (me, Jill Lany, Perrine Brusini, and Gert Westermann) are recruiting a #devpsych PhD student to Lancaster Uni to join our ongoing Levehulme funded research project on how word learning shapes visual representations in infants! Please share! More info : tinyurl.com/ynbfkhbjtinyurl.comPhD - Lancaster University 044
Reposted by Dr Lena M BlottDoctors TARDIS @doctorstardis.bsky.social · 10/03/2025We can upload 3 minute videos now. YOU KNOW THE RULE 18290784576
Reposted by Dr Lena M BlottLeah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 09/03/2025when the teams are "imperfect woman who demanded basic safety standards for herself and the rest of the crew and cast" vs "sexual harassers, the system that protects them, and the entire right-wing media ecosystem" I hope we're all clear which side we need to be on 51111130
Reposted by Dr Lena M BlottMichael Pleyer @symbolicstorage.bsky.social · 08/03/2025JOB ALERT in #language and #linguistics! Postdoc Position at the Center for Language Evolution Studies, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland. Job offer here: www.umk.pl/en/jobs/?tas... We are now looking at a broader candidate pool so do consider applying! Please repost & share widely! 16269
Reposted by Dr Lena M BlottBernd Ulrich @derbernd.bsky.social · 08/03/2025Es ist in Deutschland ja so: Jede Subvention der Autoindustrie gilt als Marktwirtschaft. Und jede Investition in unsere Kinder als Sozialismus. #Groko 313540892
Reposted by Dr Lena M BlottLouie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 09/03/2025Big brains of #KidLitUK - someone's asking for books that provide authentic disability representation. What are your top recs? Across all spectrums of disability. 6216465
Dr Lena M Blott @lenamblott.bsky.social · 09/03/2025At the playground with the 5yo. Daddy: You can lie on this hammock here if you want. M: I did a poo on my monkey in the night. D: What?! Really?? M: No! You said I can lie on here. #lexical #ambiguity #linguistics 25712
Reposted by Dr Lena M BlottDer Volksverpetzer @volksverpetzer.de · 04/03/2025München, Solingen, Magdeburg: Zu allen Anschlägen gab es einen Brennpunkt in der ARD. Zur gestrigen Amokfahrt in #Mannheim bisher nicht. Warum wohl? www.volksverpetzer.de/aktuelles/ma...volksverpetzer.deMannheim: Als die Herkunft bekannt wurde, machte man die Livestreams ausMünchen, Solingen, Magdeburg: Zu allen Anschlägen gab es einen Brennpunkt in der ARD. Zur gestrigen Amokfahrt in Mannheim bisher nicht. 611860580
Reposted by Dr Lena M BlottErica Flaten (She/Her) @flatenerica.bsky.social · 28/02/2025Anyone in the developmental psychology/infant research community know of any existing parent-report questionnaires on infant babbling (i.e., syllable production), specifically for English families? #DevSci 031
Reposted by Dr Lena M BlottLaura Breimann @laurabreimann.bsky.social · 21/02/2025My German election ballot only arrived today, a long shot but is anyone traveling from Boston to Berlin today who could take it? Any leads @germanyinboston.bsky.social ? 15278169
Reposted by Dr Lena M BlottIan Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 22/02/2025Good morning. After a rough few days, this week's Blind Date was perfectly timed to fill you with joy. Couldn't wipe the smile off my face. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...theguardian.comBlind date: ‘I was hoping to meet a total babe. She was a total babe’Gráinne, 31, a software engineer and musician, meets Alexander, 34, a civil servant 881477137
Reposted by Dr Lena M BlottFelipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 19/02/2025I think most people are intuitively aware of this but something like the official White House account posting an “ASMR” video of shackled immigrants is not just cruel for its own sake, it’s intentional envelope-pushing to ramp up to desensitization over inhumane detention, camps, and deaths 361171255019
Reposted by Dr Lena M BlottFelipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 19/02/2025By the way, people should understand that the admin doesn't have to shoot or gas people to kill them. If you pile people in military-run camps in Gitmo and the Panamanian jungle without adequate food or healthcare and just wait, people will die 17986347
Reposted by Dr Lena M BlottAmrei Bahr @amreibahr.bsky.social · 30/01/2025Liebe dt. Wissenschaftsinstitutionen, wir lesen überall starke Bekenntnisse für unsere Demokratie & großes Entsetzen über Dammbruch durch Union, der Demokratie & Menschenrechte unmittelbar gefährdet. Auch Ihr solltet dazu nun laut werden: Wissenschaft hat Demokratieverantwortung! #LauteWissenschaft 336189
Reposted by Dr Lena M BlottProf. Emily Nordmann @emilynordmann.bsky.social · 14/02/2025I am writing psycholinguistics lectures for 1st time in many years, I only have 3 so it's a whistlestop tour but I want to ensure multilingualism & signed languages are represented. Am struggling to find sign research re: syntactic parsing models - has it been done? Any pointers appreciated! 3176
Reposted by Dr Lena M BlottKatie O'Reilly @drkatfish.bsky.social · 12/02/2025On Darwin Day, a reminder that Charles Darwin had an inexplicable major beef with marine iguanas, writing that they were: "small and of a sooty black, which if possible, heightens their native ugliness" and "the most disgusting, clumsy lizards.... Somebody calls them 'imps of darkness'" 2278
Dr Lena M Blott @lenamblott.bsky.social · 12/02/2025Was really enjoying Bluesky for a moment there. And now it's like 5% jokes, 5% wholesome content and 90% the collapse of the United States. I cannot afford going back to my doomscrolling habit, help. 3190
Reposted by Dr Lena M BlottKonrad Kording @kordinglab.bsky.social · 05/02/2025I know this site only reaches a subset of neuro/ cog professors. If you know a young professor in the area who would benefit from a week of targeted learning about doing good science, good mentoring, networking etc, it would be great if you could forward them: compneurosci.com/Neuro4Pros/i...compneurosci.comNeuro4Pros summer schoolNeUroscience Computational LEAdership Retreat (NUCLEAR): happiness and success 713674
Reposted by Dr Lena M BlottGeorg Henning @georghenning.bsky.social · 02/02/2025US friends and colleagues, let me know if you are looking for European phd / postdoc positions to get out of this mess - I can explain how the systems work over here or know people who can (at least for Germany, Sweden. Spitzenkandidat, Norway and UK) and help you find possible job openings 3157
Dr Lena M Blott @lenamblott.bsky.social · 01/02/2025Ein bisschen Hoffnung! www.zeit.de/gesellschaft...zeit.deDemonstrationen: Zehntausende Menschen demonstrieren erneut gegen RechtsruckBundesweit wird auch an diesem Wochenende gegen die AfD und das Manöver von Friedrich Merz protestiert. Allein in Hamburg beteiligten sich 65.000 Menschen an einer Demo. 010
Reposted by Dr Lena M BlottPeter Jelinek @peterjelinek.bsky.social · 30/01/2025Eine Rede, die Anerkennung verdient. In 1 Minute zeigt @ricardalang.bsky.social , wie man mit der AfD umgehen sollte und ja, sie spricht Friedrich Merz zurecht die Kanzlerfähigkeit ab. Hut ab vor dieser Rede! 17972762480
Dr Lena M Blott @lenamblott.bsky.social · 30/01/2025Ok, Semester geht übernächste Woche wieder los und dann noch zwei Wochen bis zur Wahl. Würde gerne meine Student*innen zum Wählen motivieren zwecks Vermeidung von Faschismus. Frage: Wie macht ihr das so? Zeigt ihr z.B. Wahlomat? 000
Reposted by Dr Lena M BlottAmanda Van Horne @telllab.bsky.social · 31/12/2024#Crowdsourcing I'm looking for current overview book chapter(s)/articles or systematic reviews on adult and child online language processing (emphasis on sentence processing rather than lexical procesing). Target audience = 1st/2nd year grad student level. #linguistics #devpsy #cogpsyc 123
Reposted by Dr Lena M BlottDr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 26/12/2024ngl a lot of AI pick mes in academia are just exposing how poor their teaching/writing is without realising. 0365
Reposted by Dr Lena M BlottCNN @cnn.com · 25/12/2024Human rights advocates have warned that Palestinian children are bearing the brunt of Israel’s bombardment and siege.cnn.comThree Palestinian babies die due to freezing temperatures in Gaza as winter sets in | CNNA newborn baby froze to death in a tent encampment in Al-Mawasi, in southern Gaza, on Wednesday, highlighting the stark challenges to survival faced by Palestinian children displaced from their homes ... 68618278
Dr Lena M Blott @lenamblott.bsky.social · 15/12/2024Nothing like the adrenaline you get when you think you might have lost your child's favourite stuffy 😭 020
Reposted by Dr Lena M BlottShiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 14/12/2024read the rest, it's great onehundredpages.wordpress.com/2013/06/12/d...onehundredpages.wordpress.comDon’t make fun of renowned Dan BrownRenowned author Dan Brown woke up in his luxurious four-poster bed in his expensive $10 million house – and immediately he felt angry. Most people would have thought that the 48-year-old man had no… 1412224
Dr Lena M Blott @lenamblott.bsky.social · 10/12/2024Q for fellow academic parents: when will I stop kidding myself with plans like "I'll work on this thing when I have a few uninterrupted hours"? #academicsky #parenthood 480