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Natalie Boll-Avetisyan

@natalieboll.bsky.social
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Prof @ UniPotsdam | Developmental Psycholinguist | BabyLab Potsdam | Associate Editor @ Bilingualism: Language and Cognition

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Brian Nosek @briannosek.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Over the next several months, we will phase out some popular OSF features. These changes do not affect current public content, which remains safe and accessible. We have prepared support material to help users adapt. I am very sorry for the disruption to your work. Please read this post for details.
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OSF Changes | Center for Open Science
We are preparing substantial changes to OSF that will reduce its functionality, focus OSF on its unique strengths, and move toward an integrated model with complementary services. As part of that shif...
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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...
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Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning
Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.
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Natalie Boll-Avetisyan @natalieboll.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
I fully agree! Same experience from both perspectives! 😀
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Dan Isbell @danielrisbell.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Journal of Psycholinguistic Research is doing some major shaping up; Brysbaert and Folk outline new editorial guidelines to promote robust, reproducible quantitative research with strong conceptual foundations: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Editorial Journal of Psycholinguistic Research - Journal of Psycholinguistic Research
Journal of Psycholinguistic Research -
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Natalie Boll-Avetisyan @natalieboll.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
I've always enjoyed semester breaks for their concentrated quietness. Now this is my first week of a semester break being full Prof. In Germany, profs teach 4 seminars/semester. During the last months I felt like in a whirlwind. And now all of a sudden I have time for research again. That contrast!
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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Amazing sob story: "ChatGPT deleted all the work I hadn't done" www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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When two years of academic work vanished with a single click
After turning off ChatGPT’s ‘data consent’ option, Marcel Bucher lost the work behind grant applications, teaching materials and publication drafts. Here’s what happened next.
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Karen Campbell @karampbell.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Opportunity to move to Canada. 🍁 The Lifespan Institute @brocku.ca is looking to hire a Canada Excellence Research Chair In Healthy Development Across the Lifespan. More info in the job ad (salary negotiable). brocku.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/brocku_caree....
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Canada Excellence Research Chair (CERC) in Healthy Development Across the Lifespan at the rank of Professor or Associate Professor, Tenured
This position is part of the BUFA (Employee Group) Brock University is located on the traditional territory of the Haudenosaunee and Anishinaabe peoples, many of whom continue to live and work here to...
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Rob Hartsuiker @roberthartsuiker.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Ik vind deze campagne erg belangrijk - doe je ook mee? actie.degoedezaak.org/petitions/bo...
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Boycot het Trump-WK in de VS
Nu deelnemen aan een sportevenement alsof er niets aan de hand is, legitimeert Trumps expansieve politiek. Laat ons land en onze voetballers aan de goede kant van de geschiedenis staan. Hou onze jonge...
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Garvin Brod @garvinbrod.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Curious about how smartphones shape children’s development? We’re recruiting a Postdoctoral Researcher for 3(+2) years for a cutting-edge randomized controlled trial conducted in collaboration with @orbenamy.bsky.social and her team. iwm-tuebingen.de/en/career/jo...
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IWM Tübingen
Post-Doctoral Researcher (m/f/d)
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Michael Franke @meanwhileina.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Come work with us!! Two full substitute professorships for Computational Linguistics (1 year) and General Linguistics (1.5 years) at the University of Tübingen. @unituebingen.bsky.social uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet... uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet...
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Substitute Professorship in Computational Linguistics (m/f/d, W3, 100%)
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Natalie Boll-Avetisyan @natalieboll.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
A blood test for predicting Alzheimer disease 20 years prior to first symptoms with a certainty of almost 100%. And changes in lifestyle can delay the onset of symptoms.
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The Breakthrough Blood Test for Alzheimer's Disease
The p-Tau217 Biomarker for Prediction and Prevention
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Natalie Boll-Avetisyan @natalieboll.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Interested in doing an international PhD in Neuro- or Psycholinguistics? See call for applications in the IDEALAB with 8 projects, 2 with me on infant lang development phd-idealab.com/application/...
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Projects – IDEALAB
International Doctorate for Experimental Approaches to Language And Brain
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Natalie Boll-Avetisyan @natalieboll.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
New study results on robots interacting with infants! Very likely, we will share a living with humanoid robots in near future. If robotd move into households with young children, they will likely interact. Therefore, we were curious whether infants would learn language from robots. 1/3
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Michael Buckle, Ph.D. @drmikebuckle.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Interesting study on ketamine
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Natalie Boll-Avetisyan @natalieboll.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
How do multilingual babies acquire their languages? In Africa, multilingualism is the norm. In our new study with 9-11 month old Ghanaian babies learning up to 5 languages simultaneously, we found that they were able to recognize words in text passages in Akan, one of their languages.
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Tongue root harmony cues for speech segmentation in multilingually raised infants learning languages with and without vowel harmony in Ghana (Africa) | Bilingualism: Language and Cognition | Cambridge...
Tongue root harmony cues for speech segmentation in multilingually raised infants learning languages with and without vowel harmony in Ghana (Africa)
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Natalie Boll-Avetisyan @natalieboll.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Über unsere experimentelle Feldstudie mit Babys in Metro Manila! Tagalog lernende Babys unterscheiden Sprachlaute spät. 👇
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Amy Diehl, Ph.D. @amydiehl.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
In a study of professors, women got 378 new work requests over 4 weeks vs 118 for men. Women spent more time on service, advising & teaching; men on research. Orgs should track who is taking extra duties & ensure they are rewarded and distributed fairly. www.forbes.com/sites/kimels...
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Being Too Helpful At Work Can Hurt Your Career—Here’s How To Say No
Women are more likely to take on behind-the-scenes duties at work—extra tasks like onboarding or event planning—and it's hurting their careers. Here's how to say no.
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Natalie Boll-Avetisyan @natalieboll.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
It's official: As of today, I am tenured professor at the University of Potsdam, Germany.
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Natalie Boll-Avetisyan @natalieboll.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
If you receive an invitation to review a manuscript, it will be very helpful if you hit the link to decline if you do not want to do it. Takes 5 seconds, and the editor will not wait for no reason. If you can spare another minute, please enter reviewer suggestions. BIG THANKS if you already do!
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Kevin Wong 黃浩文 @kevinwongla.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
There’s more than one way to be bilingual. If you’ve ever understood your family’s language but struggled to speak it back—you’re not alone. This video challenges narrow definitions of fluency and makes space for the kind of bilingualism that often goes unrecognized. www.youtube.com/shorts/Qk8yV...
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Receptive Bilinguals Are Not Monolingual | The Bilingual Professor
YouTube video by The Bilingual Professor
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Sheina Lew-Levy @sheinalew.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
I'm THRILLED that our book is out. This book, with other 60 contributors from across the globe (!!!) is a love letter to the science we want to do, and a how-to guide for how to do it. Please read it and share it!
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manvir singh @manvir.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Are dance & infant-directed song human universals? Like many people, I've long thought so. But in a new paper in Current Biology, Kim Hill & I report that the Northern Aché (Paraguay) lacked both behaviors, likely losing them after cultural collapse. Open-access link: www.cell.com/current-biol...
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Loss of dance and infant-directed song among the Northern Aché
Singh and Hill report no evidence of dance or infant-directed song among the Northern Aché of Paraguay, based on 122 months of fieldwork. Their findings challenge claims of these behaviors’ universali...
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Sue Fletcher-Watson @suereviews.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
At @journalautism.bsky.social we are recruiting! Thanks to a massive increase in submissions over recent years, we are dramatically expanding our team to appoint FIVE new editors! See details of the role and how to apply here, by May 23rd. journals.sagepub.com/pb-assets/PD...
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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions - rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking steps to make sure students can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect. Let’s hope others follow suit.
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Kathy Hirsh-Pasek @kathyhirshpasek.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Decided to speak out on the state of our union. Just published in the Philadelphia Inquirer eedition.inquirer.com/infinity/art...
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Coming home to a foreign land
Coming home to a foreign land
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Marc van Oostendorp @fonolog.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Interview met de Zwitserse media. www.thunertagblatt.ch/gendern-holl...
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Debatte übers Gendern: Warum die Holländer die weibliche Form abgeschafft haben
Während im Deutschen hitzig über geschlechtergerechte Sprache gestritten wird, sieht man das in den Niederlanden entspannt – und setzt bewusst auf das generische Maskulinum.
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Rhodri Cusack @rhodricusack.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Join us as an Associate Professor in Developmental Psychology. my.corehr.com/pls/trrecrui...
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Tim Behrens @behrenstimb.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Science is under threat in the US. @elife.bsky.social have commissioned a series of articles discussing the implications and what we can do. The first three articles are now live. More to follow: elifesciences.org/articles/106... elifesciences.org/articles/106... elifesciences.org/articles/106...
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Science Under Threat in the United States: How scientists and institutions should respond
Individual researchers and university leaders need to make the case for science to their elected representatives and to the public at large.
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Tim Behrens @behrenstimb.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
The next two articles in our Science under threat series offer personal accounts from the perspective of undergraduates and patients. elifesciences.org/articles/106... elifesciences.org/articles/106... The homepage for the collection is here: elifesciences.org/collections/...
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Natalie Boll-Avetisyan @natalieboll.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
@katievonholzen.bsky.social I immediately thought of you when I read about this word learning study with cats. Top of things: pupil dilations you can see with your own eye, and decent effects! You should open a cat lab! www.science.org/content/arti...
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Cats beat babies at word-association game
Study suggests our feline friends are listening to us more than we think
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Prof Sam Illingworth @samillingworth.com · 21/03/2025
🗣️ Want to learn a new language? Skip the subtitles! A study found adults tuned into a new language's rhythm after just 5 minutes - but written text disrupted this ability. 🔗 www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #SciComm 🧪 #LanguageLearning
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Tuning in to the prosody of a novel language is easier without orthography | Bilingualism: Language and Cognition | Cambridge Core
Tuning in to the prosody of a novel language is easier without orthography
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Kelton Minor @keltonminor.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
There are days in life that shake you. I’m shattered 💔 to share that I just found out that the US Government terminated my 2024 NIH Director’s Early Independence Award (~$2 million), threatening my long-promised assistant professor job at Columbia University & academic career... 1/🧵
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Stephanie M. Lee @stephaniemlee.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
"On October 8, 1931, a law went into effect requiring every Italian university professor to sign an oath pledging their loyalty to the government of Benito Mussolini. Out of over 1,200 professors in the country, only 12 refused. All of them were immediately fired." www.chronicle.com/article/what...
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Opinion | What Autocrats Want From Academics: Servility
In 1931, Italian scholars were made to take loyalty oaths. Will that happen to us?
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 21/03/2025
The current administration is straight up censoring the scientific record by requiring authors to alter an already-accepted research paper because it uses banned words such as "gender" and "equitable" and presents data broken down by sexual orientation.
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Tristan Yates @tristansyates.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Why do we not remember being a baby? One idea is that the hippocampus, which is essential for episodic memory in adults, is too immature to form individual memories in infancy. We tested this using awake infant fMRI, new in @science.org #ScienceResearch www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Hippocampal encoding of memories in human infants
Humans lack memories for specific events from the first few years of life. We investigated the mechanistic basis of this infantile amnesia by scanning the brains of awake infants with functional magne...
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Natalie Boll-Avetisyan @natalieboll.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Appeal by the International Academic Community in Support of Serbian Students & Professors - you can sign it, too: forms.office.com/pages/respon...
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Microsoft Forms
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Giacomo Novembre @giacomonovembre.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
🚨 We’re hiring! 🚨 A postdoc position is available at my lab (npa.iit.it) in Rome! Join us to explore: 🎵 Neural bases of musicality (humans, infants, macaques) 💃🕺 Dance & joint music-making 🤝 Spontaneous social behavior ⬇️ Apply through the link below! ⬇️
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
If this doesn't feel like fascism to you because things are still mostly normal at work and school and the vacation is still planned, congratulations you've just learned what fascism is like. It is insidious. It will initially target only the most vulnerable — people who probably aren't like you.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
A reminder for these times.
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Karla Holmboe @karlaholmboe.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
I currently have two fully-funded PhD opportunities in my lab - both providing a chance to work on the incredible LEAF data set that we have been collecting the last couple of years (220 children followed longitudinally from 10-30 months on measures of attention and early EF). Please share!
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Jan Skudlarek @janskudlarek.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Es ist die Stunde für Europa. Wenn sich das europäische Projekt je zu beweisen hatte, dann jetzt.
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Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu · 28/02/2025
Your dignity honors the bravery of the Ukrainian people. Be strong, be brave, be fearless. You are never alone, dear President Zelenskyy. We will continue working with you for a just and lasting peace.
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Donald Tusk @donald-tusk.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Dear Volodymyr Zelenskyy, dear Ukrainian friends, you are not alone.
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
More class in his pinky than Trump has shown his entire life.
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Natalie Boll-Avetisyan @natalieboll.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Press release about our new study in German : Wieviele Sprachen kann man gleichzeitig lernen? How many languages can we learn at the same time? www.uni-potsdam.de/de/nachricht...
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Wie viele Sprachen kann man gleichzeitig lernen? – Ghanaische Babys wachsen mit zwei bis sechs Sprachen auf
Medieninformation 26-02-2025 / Nr. 019
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Vera Kempe @vkempe.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
I wrote this for my US friends and colleagues, but also for all of us. Lessons from the past. open.substack.com/pub/verakemp...
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Scholarship Under Autocracy
We Have Been Here Before
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Natalie Boll-Avetisyan @natalieboll.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Did you ever wonder how on earth it is possible for people in Africa to speak up to 12 languages fluently? Our new study 🎉shows that the seeds of multilingualism in Africa are planted early. Infants 👶growing up in Ghana hear between 2 and 6 languages on a regular/daily basis. 1/3 ☺️
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ScienceDirect.com | Science, health and medical journals, full text articles and books.
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 21/02/2025
How we're feeling today... Join us to #standupforscience2025 on March 7th—and share any sign ideas you have below! 👇
white background, black and white mouth cutout that says "I shouldn't have to make a sign that defunding science is wrong... but here we are" and the standupforscience2025.org link.
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Caroline Rowland @carorowland.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Amazing *free* online course on conducting child language research in understudied communities: Expanding Research in Language Development (WERLD). By the incredible Marisa Casillas with a line up of fabulous guest lecturers. chatterlab.uchicago.edu/werld2025/
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Shravan Vasishth @shravanvasishth.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Applications for the ninth summer school on statistical methods for linguistics and psychology close on April 1, 2025. Every year people contact me saying they missed the call, so here it is again :) vasishth.github.io/smlp2025/
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The Ninth Summer School on Statistical Methods for Linguistics and Psychology
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