iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Reposted by Radim Lacina

UCL Press Journals @uclpressjournals.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The Journal of #ExperimentalPragmatics is live 🎉 Free to publish. Free to read. Transparent by design. ✅ Diamond #OpenAccess ✅ Community-led peer review (VAE model) ✅ A dedicated home for experimental pragmatics Explore the journal 🔗 bit.ly/4rry75l

044

Reposted by Radim Lacina

Vilém Zouhar @zouhar.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I'm on the faculty job market for Fall 2027 assistant professorship. I work on the science of AI/NLP evaluation, which is currently undergoing a crisis. Get in touch! My research statement is public: vilda.net

1144

Radim Lacina @radlacina.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

A fun little paper! I got the opportunity to publish my BA thesis that I wrote with Matt Husband back in 2019 in the very last issue of Linguistica Brunensia. It asks a very speculative question - can gender influence focus alternatives? (spoiler: it doesn't) journals.phil.muni.cz/linguistica-...

040

Reposted by Radim Lacina

Radek Šimík @radeksimik.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

So happy to see this volume/handbook published! It was a long journey, but hopefully it was worth it - 13 chapters on topics in the semantics of Slavic languages that have been or are emerging as crucial for the field of formal semantics, from top experts in the field. Enjoy! #osl #openaccess

093

Radim Lacina @radlacina.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Happy that this paper by Rhiana Horovská got published in JSL, it was her MA thesis that I was happy to co-supervise! TL;DR is that Czech 🇨🇿 reflexives are weirdly constrained by person and distributivity/collectivity! The paper is behind a pay wall, so email me for a copy! ojs.ung.si/index.php/JS...

020

Radim Lacina @radlacina.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

How good are LLMs at pragmatics in languages with little training data? In Czech 🇨🇿, current models do great on implicature and presupposition, but are still bad on information structure! This might be because it is marked by word order in Czech unlike in English 🤔 link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

link.springer.com

Benchmarking Pragmatic Reasoning of Large Language Models in the Czech Language

Understanding how large language models recover meaning from context, beyond the literal content of an utterance, is an important part of evaluating their language abilities. Existing benchmarks for p...

120

Radim Lacina @radlacina.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Does the aim with which we're reading matter? We ran identical stimuli with different post-SPR tasks - judgements, open and yes/no questions. RTs differed massively and varied wrap-up effects were seen. The good news is that classic psychling effects are stable across tasks! osf.io/preprints/ps...

241

Reposted by Radim Lacina

"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Fascism is not new, in a sense, it is old: fascism is the emergence of our old, pre-liberal, pre-enlightenment emotional gestures, bubbling through the cracks of modern society: suspicion of outsiders, the desire for uniformity, for a strong leader, for conquest of the out-group.

1782877

Reposted by Radim Lacina

Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Checkmate, Nige.

14778231994

Radim Lacina @radlacina.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Byl jednou jeden [lingvista]FOCUS. [Ten lingvista]TOPIC se jmenoval Vilém Mathesius.

030

Reposted by Radim Lacina

Mal Shah @compositiomality.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Quantifiers could be associated with different algorithms/hyperintensions from person to person, even if they all agree on truth conditions. Are they, in fact, variant in that way? We find evidence for “no! Everyone represents them the same!” Preprint here: ssrn.com/abstract=719...

ssrn.com

Individual differences reveal underlying similarities in meaning: quantifier-dependent choices in verification procedure are consistent across individuals

Previous literature has investigated how quantificational sentences like 'Most of the dots are blue' are understood, using visual tasks which force pa

3153

Reposted by Radim Lacina

Moritz Peter Fritschle @moritzfritschle.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

The euro banknotes seem to get a new look, and the @ecb.europa.eu has hosted a survey, asking which desing is the preferred one. I really like the stork on the 50€ banknote. surveys.ecb.europa.eu/10b/banknote...

three buildings with storks on a 50 € note

65928

Reposted by Radim Lacina

Dahlem Center for Linguistics @dclberlin.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Individual Differences in Pragmatic Processing Where? Seminarzentrum at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social When? 10-11 September 2026 More details? www.geisteswissenschaften.fu-berlin.de/en/v/exrean/... @erc.europa.eu

Conference poster for Individual Differences in Pragmatic Processing held at Freie Universität Berlin on 10-11 September 2026

171

Radim Lacina @radlacina.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Turkish 🇹🇷 native speakers needed! I'm running a pilot sentence comprehension study in Turkish with an Erasmus student from Boğaziçi, it's only a short one (10 min tops I promise!). Please share and take part! Teşekkürler! farm.pcibex.net/p/eESOzY/

farm.pcibex.net

Experiment

145

Reposted by Radim Lacina

Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Hubby, a statistician, trying to help out a friend from education w analysis of her survey data: Friend: I dropped all incomplete observations from the data Hubby: Uh, maybe send me the raw data to see how we should handle missing data Friend: Here, raw data, but I dropped everyone who seemed fishy

7985

Reposted by Radim Lacina

Bienále české lingvistiky 2026 @bcl2026.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

🚨 Dnes je poslední den pro odeslání Vašich příspěvků na Bienále! Today is the deadline for abstract submissions to the Biennial!

041

Reposted by Radim Lacina

Colin Phillips @colinphillips.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

We are looking to fill an open-rank position in Sociolinguistics in Oxford, in conjunction with Worcester College. Come be a part of the exciting developments in language and linguistics in Oxford! www.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/news/2026/05...

Picture of the main quad at Worcester College, Oxford

12626

Reposted by Radim Lacina

Bienále české lingvistiky 2026 @bcl2026.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Prodloužili jsme termín pro odesílání příspěvků do 15. května! We have extended the submission deadline to May 15!

032

Radim Lacina @radlacina.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

My academic life in a nutshell

070

Reposted by Radim Lacina

Bienále české lingvistiky 2026 @bcl2026.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Dva týdny do uzávěrky zasílání příspěvků na Bienále! Sběr se uzavírá 30. dubna 🚨 Posílejte nám svůj výzkum skrze OpenReview zde 👇 openreview.net/group?id=BCL...

openreview.net

BCL 2026 Conference

Welcome to the OpenReview homepage for BCL 2026 Conference

042

Reposted by Radim Lacina

Bienále české lingvistiky 2026 @bcl2026.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Two weeks until submissions close! The conference call for the Biennial is closing on April 30 🚨 Keep sending us your research through our OpenReview page here 👇 openreview.net/group?id=BCL...

openreview.net

BCL 2026 Conference

Welcome to the OpenReview homepage for BCL 2026 Conference

043

Reposted by Radim Lacina

Ruben C. Arslan @ruben.the100.ci · 03/04/2026

Appreciated this history of citation indices, though of course the alternative history where citation indices were never introduced does not seem non-ruinous. open.substack.com/pub/davidoks...

open.substack.com

How citations ruined science

The making and breaking of scientific life

1158

Radim Lacina @radlacina.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Bilingualism: Language and Cognition finally assigned our paper an issue, which is as good a reason as any to plug it here again! 🇨🇿 speakers show standard attraction effects in L2 English but not in the translation-equivalent L1 Czech sentences! And only when they did the English experiment first!

cambridge.org

When the second language attracts but the first does not: A large-scale study of number agreement attraction in Czech learners of English | Bilingualism: Language and Cognition | Cambridge Core

When the second language attracts but the first does not: A large-scale study of number agreement attraction in Czech learners of English - Volume 29 Issue 2

030

Radim Lacina @radlacina.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Made it to Boston 🇺🇸 yesterday! Excited to present my work at #HSP2026 starting on Thursday - look forward to new NPI (and NCI) illusion findings! Also, if anyone wants to hang out pre-conference-style today, ping me a message!

060

Radim Lacina @radlacina.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

I would love submit to a journal like eLife if one existed in my field but I know I could not - I work in Czechia 🇨🇿 where impact factor and journal reputation (WoS or Scopus quartiles) still matter a great deal for researchers personally, but crucially also for their departments in budgetary terms.

010

Reposted by Radim Lacina

Radek Šimík @radeksimik.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Angelika Kiss and I organize a workshop on word order within this Biennial. There are so many factors competing for being expressed by word order. How does word order handle this request overload? See the workshop webpage for more information and, of course, submit! sites.google.com/view/bclword...

073

Reposted by Radim Lacina

Riccardo Fusaroli @fusaroli.eurosky.social · 19/03/2026

What do you do if a darling construct (conversational alignment) falls flat on psychometric reliability? 1) you examine the operationalization. Could you do better? We used common aggregated measures of similarity between utterances: 1/

2131

Reposted by Radim Lacina

Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

“we are trapping 21st-century minds inside 19th-century academic hierarchies.” This essay gets a lot right about problems with German science. I would add that the hierarchies and precarious contracts lead also to systemic abuse and scientific misconduct. open.substack.com/pub/realimag...

Germany does not lack talent, and it does not lack funding. But we are trapping 21st-century minds inside 19th-century academic hierarchies. We are asking brilliant young scientists to build the future of the German economy, but refusing to give them the lab space, the job security, or the scientific independence to actually do it. If we want to reclaim our place as an industrial superpower, we have to stop the rat race of trying to keep every technology and structure alive that made us successful in the 20th century. Instead, we must fix our system that pushes our most ambitious scientists away. The money is there. The talent can be there. Now, we also need the courage to fix what’s broken.

316153

Reposted by Radim Lacina

Bienále české lingvistiky 2026 @bcl2026.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

We have opened abstract submissions to the Biennial! We're looking forward to getting your abstract in our submission box 📮 on OpenReview. You can send us your abstracts until April 30. openreview.net/group?id=BCL...

openreview.net

BCL 2026 Conference

Welcome to the OpenReview homepage for BCL 2026 Conference

032

Reposted by Radim Lacina

Bienále české lingvistiky 2026 @bcl2026.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Spustili jsme odesílání příspěvků na Bienále! Očekáváme Vaše abstrakty v naší schránce 📮 na portálu OpenReview. Své příspěvky nám můžete zasílat až do 30. dubna! openreview.net/group?id=BCL...

openreview.net

BCL 2026 Conference

Welcome to the OpenReview homepage for BCL 2026 Conference

131

Radim Lacina @radlacina.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Illusion alert 🚨 We looked at NPI and NCI illusions in 🇨🇿. We aimed to distinguish between them by using negation. In English, it can't cause NPI illusions, but with NCIs it might, because those are licensed in the syntax. Surprisingly, we found strong illusions with both! 1/2 osf.io/preprints/ps...

141

Reposted by Radim Lacina

Calle Börstell @cborstell.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

✅️ 🐋 have vowels ✅️ 🐣 have bouba/Kiki prefs ❓️ 🫎 pass Wug test ❓️ 🦙 do center embedding ❓️ 🐌 experience garden paths #linguistics

0164

Reposted by Radim Lacina

Bienále české lingvistiky 2026 @bcl2026.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

We're happy to announce our Call for Papers! You may submit to (1) one of the thematic workshops, (2) the general poster session, which is thematically unrestricted and (3) the student poster session which will also feature the Best Student Poster Award. Submissions open from March 2 to April 30.

053

Reposted by Radim Lacina

Bienále české lingvistiky 2026 @bcl2026.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

S radostí oznamujeme výzvu k zaslání příspěvků na naše Bienále! Příspěvky bude možno zasílat do 1) tematických panelů, 2) obecné posterové sekce a 3) studentské posterové sekce, která bude spojena s Cenou za nejlepší poster. Portál OpenReview se otevře 2. března a sběr příspěvků uzavřeme 30. dubna.

051

Reposted by Radim Lacina

Radek Šimík @radeksimik.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

This will include a word order workshop organized by Angelika Kiss and me, featuring an invited talk by Marieke Schouwstra (@uva.nl). We’re hoping for a rich and diverse program, the call will follow soon

041

Radim Lacina @radlacina.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Just picked this up from our uni library, looking forward to reading and reviewing Dan Parker's new book on agreement attraction!

130

Radim Lacina @radlacina.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

My project ProSync got funded! Together with Pavel Caha at @masarykuniversity.bsky.social 🇨🇿 and Jakub Dotlačil at @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social 🇳🇱 , I will aim to integrate nanosyntax with experiments and computational modelling to figure out the role of syncretism in online agreement establishment!

140

Reposted by Radim Lacina

Bienále české lingvistiky 2026 @bcl2026.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

The Programme Committee has selected the workshop for this year's Biennial! We're looking forward to all the great submissions you'll surely be sending to be presented there. We thank all the organisers as well as the workshop reviewers 👏 sites.google.com/mail.muni.cz...

sites.google.com

BCL2026 - Workshops

The main part of BCL2026's programme will consist of fifteen workshops, selected by the Program Committee after peer review. Their abstracts in both English and Czech can be found as PDF files via the...

031

Reposted by Radim Lacina

Bienále české lingvistiky 2026 @bcl2026.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Programový výbor vybral panely na letošní Bienále! Těšíme se na skvělé příspěvky, které do nich pošlete. Děkujeme všem jejich organizátorům i posuzovatelům 👏 Seznam panelů najdete zde: sites.google.com/mail.muni.cz...

sites.google.com

BČL2026 - Panely

Program Bienále bude tvořit patnáct tematických panelů, které po recenzním řízení vybral Programový výbor. Jejich anotace v českém i anglickém jazyce naleznete jako PDF soubory. Dostanete se k nim pro...

162

Radim Lacina @radlacina.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Just out in Language & Cognition! An exploration into the activation of both proper alternatives as well as antonyms in implicature derivation. We focus on how negation as an implicature-cancelling environment impacts what alternatives are activated! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

020

Reposted by Radim Lacina

Sam Thielmonster @samthielman.com · 22/01/2026

I just thought everyone should see this

Dr Kareem Carr
man: i wish to publish
@kareem_carr
Jan 21
reviewer 2: your paper is no good
man: i'll do anything to improve
reviewer 2: it's simple. you must read the work of the great scientist Pagliarini
man: *bursts into tears* but i am Pagliarini
Andre Pagliarini
@apagliar
Jan 21
a first: in rejecting an article I submitted to a journal, reviewer 2 noted I failed to engage the work of one Andre Pagliarini
Jan 21, 2026 • 3:47 PM UTC

43252965990

Radim Lacina @radlacina.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

A very nice piece of work! It's puzzled me for a long time why Russian shows attraction from "pluralless" genitives, especially since we didn't find the same effect in Czech. @utkuturk.com here provides a neat explanation!

050

Radim Lacina @radlacina.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

"At the symbolic (and allegorical) level, /h/ is a reference to the creator who breathes into his creation." Damn, I've been doing linguistics wrong the whole time!

0132

Reposted by Radim Lacina

Lameen Souag @lameensouag.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Hey, did you know that Greek lost the phoneme /h/ because of secularism? You see, /h/ intrinsically symbolises the Creator. And hydrogen. This journal is published by @springernature.com , and is hosted by @nature.com. How did this incoherent nonsense make it into print?

811646