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Shravan Vasishth

@shravanvasishth.bsky.social
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Professor of Psycholinguistics, University of Potsdam, Germany. Outside of work: Classical guitar, beginning student of piano. I like our cats, on occasion. Web page: vasishth.github.io

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Shravan Vasishth @shravanvasishth.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Applications are open for the 2027 summer school on statistical methods for linguistics and psychology: All details are here: smlp.science
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The Eleventh Summer School on Statistical Methods for Linguistics and Psychology
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Dario Paape @dariopaape.eurosky.social · 25/09/2026
Updated preprint with @tallinzen.bsky.social and @shravanvasishth.bsky.social : "LLM surprisal is necessary but not sufficient to capture English garden-path effects: Evidence from joint latent modeling of reading paradigms" arxiv.org/abs/2602.04489
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Prof Gerhard @profgerhard.eurosky.social · 04/08/2026
www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticket...
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Gerhard Jäger (Tübingen University / Germany): Linguistics Talk
Join us for a linguistics talk by Gerhard Jäger (Tübingen University), our first international talk, exploring other sides to "computational linguistics"…
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Charles Margossian @charlesm993.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
📘 With the release of our textbook "Bayesian Workflow" (avehtari.github.io/Bayesian-Wor...), I figured I'd also share the content of my graduate course on the topic at UBC. 🌎 charlesm93.github.io/stat547/ The course contains overlapping and complementary material, homeworks and reading.
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Bayesian Workflow book: Website – Bayesian Workflow book
Website for the Bayesian Workflow book by Gelman, Vehtari, McElreath, et al. — case studies, code, and exercises in R and Stan.
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languagemit.bsky.social @languagemit.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
—— Open Mind is MIT Press’s Diamond Open Access Cognitive Science journal. We now have our first Impact Factor: 2.9 as of June 2026 Submit your papers to Open Mind direct.mit.edu/opmi
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Shravan Vasishth @shravanvasishth.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
I just learned that one easy fix to preventing github from allowing the user to deploy a web page from the root directory in the main branch. Just move your html page and any subdirectories into the docs directory and deploy the web page from there.
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Suyog Chandramouli @suyoghc.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Excited to share that @shravanvasishth.bsky.social will be visiting @princeton.edu virtually tomorrow (Tuesday, April 7) 🗣️ Talk: "Can Context Eliminate Garden-Pathing? A Bayesian Approach" 12:00 PM ET 🛠️Workshop: "Theory-Informed Model Specification" 11:00 AM ET The zoom is open to all!
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Shravan Vasishth @shravanvasishth.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
I'm giving a talk over zoom tomorrow at Princeton, their noon. Before that, I will give a workshop on multinomial processing trees. Details here: psych.princeton.edu/news-events/...
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Shravan Vasishth - Professor, University of Potsdam
Can Context Eliminate Garden-Pathing? A Bayesian ApproachGarden-path sentences are constructions that temporarily mislead the reader into building an incorrect parse of a sentence. Consider how you mi...
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Shravan Vasishth @shravanvasishth.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
I have extended the deadline to 3 April 6PM Central European Time, as there was some confusion about when exactly applications close.
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Shravan Vasishth @shravanvasishth.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Tomorrow is the last day to sign up for the tenth summer school on statistical methods for linguistics and psychology (Aug 24-28, 2026, in Potsdam, Germany): vasishth.github.io/smlp2026/
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The Tenth Summer School on Statistical Methods for Linguistics and Psychology
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Shravan Vasishth @shravanvasishth.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Ever since Microsoft took over github they keep messing up the workflow. I have to go manually switch off their stupid Actions (which they enable by default), which breaks my websites for my data and other resources. WTF?
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Shravan Vasishth @shravanvasishth.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Apparently @planetmoney.bsky.social does not know the difference between reproducing an analysis using the provided code and data, and replicating an experiment's results with a new experiment: www.npr.org/2026/02/27/n...
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Don't hate the replicator, hate the game : Planet Money
The world of science has been stuck in an existential crisis over whether we actually know the things we thought we knew. Re-running an old study today doesn't always yield the same result. Same with ...
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Dario Paape @dariopaape.eurosky.social · 17/02/2026
New open-access paper with @shravanvasishth.bsky.social: "Context ameliorates but does not eliminate garden-pathing: Novel insights from latent-process modeling" doi.org/10.1016/j.jm...
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Shravan Vasishth @shravanvasishth.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
New preprint led by Pia Schoknecht: Local coherence effects are task sensitive: Evidence from event-related potentials in German doi.org/10.31234/osf...
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Dario Paape @dariopaape.eurosky.social · 05/02/2026
New preprint with @tallinzen.bsky.social and @shravanvasishth.bsky.social: We jointly model reading data from four tasks (SPR, BSPR, eye tracking, Maze) with a latent-process mixture, and find that it outperforms LLM surprisal in terms of predictive fit: arxiv.org/abs/2602.04489
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Shravan Vasishth @shravanvasishth.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Applications for the summer school on statistical methods for linguistics and psychology (Potsdam, Germany) are now open: vasishth.github.io/smlp2026/
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The Tenth Summer School on Statistical Methods for Linguistics and Psychology
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Shravan Vasishth @shravanvasishth.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Short-term fellowships for 2026 at the University of Potsdam, Germany (linguistics and psychology): linguistlist.org/issues/36/38...
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LINGUIST List 36.3850 Internships: Cognitive Science, General Linguistics, Language Acquisition, Neurolinguistics, Psycholinguistics: 3- to 4-month Fellowships at the University of Potsdam, CRC1287 L...
The LINGUIST List, International Linguistics Community Online.
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Shravan Vasishth @shravanvasishth.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Here is your chance to weigh in on what the psycholinguistic and machine learning community needs regarding preprocessing pipelines, software tools, and data sharing standards for eye-tracking research: An anonymous survey that lasts just 10-15 minutes: www.soscisurvey.de/OpenEye/
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Questionnaire | page 1
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Shravan Vasishth @shravanvasishth.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Applications for the summer school on statistical methods for linguistics and psychology (Potsdam, Germany) are now open: vasishth.github.io/smlp2026/
vasishth.github.io
The Tenth Summer School on Statistical Methods for Linguistics and Psychology
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Shravan Vasishth @shravanvasishth.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
a rare sighting of all three authors of The Book, all in one place:
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Shravan Vasishth @shravanvasishth.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
New preprint investigating whether lossy-context surprisal can account for the locality and expectation effects found in Russian, Hindi, and Persian reading data: osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Shravan Vasishth @shravanvasishth.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
We are done with the ninth Statistical Methods for Linguistics and Psychology (SMLP) summer school, Potsdam, Germany. The tenth edition is planned for 24-28 August 2026.
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Shravan Vasishth @shravanvasishth.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
The physical book copies have arrived: www.routledge.com/Introduction...
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Dario Paape @dariopaape.eurosky.social · 05/08/2025
New preprint with @shravanvasishth.bsky.social: We use a computational model to look at how linguistic context affects first-pass attachment and reanalysis. Assuming a tripartite mixture of reanalyzed, non-reanalyzed and inattentive trials outperforms LLM surprisal. lingbuzz.net/lingbuzz/009...
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Context ameliorates but does not eliminate garden-pathing: Novel insights from latent-process modeling - lingbuzz/009217
A theoretically important claim in psycholinguistics is that in English, linguistic context largely eliminates garden-path effects in temporary complement clause/relative clause ambiguities (e.g., Alt...
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Shravan Vasishth @shravanvasishth.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Next week onwards, I'm teaching a five-day introductory course on Bayesian Data Analysis in Gent. Newly recorded video lectures to accompany the course are now online: vasishth.github.io/LecturesIntr...
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Shravan Vasishth's Intro Bayes course home page
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Shravan Vasishth @shravanvasishth.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
In person (no streaming/zoom) sentence processing workshop at Potsdam with Tal Linzen, Brian Dillon, Titus von der Malsburg, Oezge Bakay, William Timkey, Pia Schoknecht, Michael Vrazitulis, and Johan Hennert: vasishth.github.io/sentproc-wor...
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Sentence processing workshop, May 27, 2025
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Shravan Vasishth @shravanvasishth.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Three year postdoc position in Cognitive Science, Potsdam, Germany: www.uni-potsdam.de/en/verwaltun...
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Temporary positions for academic staff
Temporary positions for academic staff at the University of Potsdam
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Shravan Vasishth @shravanvasishth.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
New study on local coherence, led by Pia Schoknecht : The time course of local coherence effects: Evidence from self-paced reading times and event-related potentials osf.io/preprints/os...
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Shravan Vasishth @shravanvasishth.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Scientists wanting to move to Europe from the US take note of this funding opportunity: erc.europa.eu/news-events/...
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Choose Europe for Science: ERC welcomes new budget for 'super grants'
The Scientific Council of the European Research Council welcomes the offer of substantial additional budget from the European Commission for the development of a new ERC funding instrument offering la...
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Shravan Vasishth @shravanvasishth.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
@cos.io Are you aware that in restructuring your website you have destroyed many repositories? The new Files directory is empty, and add-ons to github repos no longer work. WTF?
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Shravan Vasishth @shravanvasishth.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Computational Psycholinguistics Meeting 2025 cpl2025.sites.uu.nl When: December 18–19, 2025 Where: Utrecht, the Netherlands Abstract submission deadline: June 15, 2025 Organizers: Jakub Dotlačil, Lena Jäger, Bruno Nicenboim, Ece Takmaz
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Computational Psycholinguistics Meeting 2025 | Universiteit Utrecht
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Shravan Vasishth @shravanvasishth.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Without question the greatest open courseware in the world, bar none.
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Dario Paape @dariopaape.eurosky.social · 14/03/2025
At #HSP2025, I'll present work with @tallinzen.bsky.social and @shravanvasishth.bsky.social on modeling garden-pathing in a huge benchmark dataset: hsp2025.github.io/abstracts/29.... Statistically decomposing the effect into subprocesses greatly improves predictive fit over just comparing means!
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Shravan Vasishth @shravanvasishth.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
It seems our book is already available for purchase online: www.routledge.com/Introduction...
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Introduction to Bayesian Data Analysis for Cognitive Science
This book introduces Bayesian data analysis and Bayesian cognitive modeling to students and researchers in cognitive science (e.g., linguistics, psycholinguistics, psychology, computer science), with ...
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Shravan Vasishth @shravanvasishth.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Very important Deutsche Welle documentary on the abuse of early career researchers by MPI directors. Reminds me of the Tanja Singer case, but the problems seems to be much more widespread (and probably not limited to MPI). youtu.be/n5nEd600iM0?...
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How Germany's elite research institution fails young scientists | DW Documentary
YouTube video by DW Documentary
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Shravan Vasishth @shravanvasishth.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
This year as well, during 14-18 July 2025, I will be teaching an introduction to Bayesian data analysis at the MILS 2025 summer school in Gent: www.mils.ugent.be
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Summer school "Methods in language sciences" – Summer school "Methods in language sciences"
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Shravan Vasishth @shravanvasishth.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Our introduction to Bayesian Data Analysis underwent a major revision (it was too long at 1000 pages, so we moved some 400 pages into online). Currently in production but freely available forever: bruno.nicenboim.me/bayescogsci/
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Introduction to Bayesian Data Analysis for Cognitive Science
Introduction to Bayesian data analysis for Cognitive Science.
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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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Shravan Vasishth @shravanvasishth.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
3rd Workshop on Eye Movements and the Assessment of Reading Comprehension June 5–7, 2025 University of Stuttgart, Germany This cross-disciplinary workshop explores how eye-tracking and machine learning can enhance real-world reading assessments. tmalsburg.github.io/Comprehensio...
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The 3rd Workshop on Eye Movements and the Assessment of Reading Comprehension
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Shravan Vasishth @shravanvasishth.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
New paper led by Pia Schoknecht: Do syntactic and semantic similarity lead to interference effects? Evidence from self-paced reading and event-related potentials using German. osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Barbara Hemforth @bhemforth.bsky.social · 24/09/2023
The @LabexEFL is offering a 3 year grant for a PhD position in Paris to work in experimental grammar! Deadline October 1st en.labex-efl.fr/post/recruit...
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Recruitment: PhD contract in Experimental Grammar
The LabEx-EFL (Laboratory of Excellence Empirical Foundations in Linguistics) is offering a 3 year PhD grant in “Experimental grammar from a crosslinguistic perspective”, full time, about net 1700...
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Jenni Rodd @jennirodd.bsky.social · 10/10/2023
My paper on improving data quality for online experiments has just been accepted. Massively improved by the reviewers - collaborative peer review at its constructive best psyarxiv.com/2fhcb
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Evangelia Adamou 🦋 @evangelia.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
📢 If you’re looking for a job in #linguistics: CNRS is hiring every year For 2025, posting of offers (tenured positions) & applications online from early December to early January It’s still time to contact a research unit to prepare your application! carrieres.cnrs.fr/en/external-...
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External competitions for researchers (M/F) - CNRS Careers
Consult job offers, access your candidate space and find out about the competition process.
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Shravan Vasishth @shravanvasishth.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Psyarxiv preprint by Hailin Hao (PhD student at USC): Similarity-Based Interference in the Processing of Classifier-Noun Dependencies in Mandarin Chinese osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Shravan Vasishth @shravanvasishth.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
The @elseveir.bsky.social Journal of Memory and Language charges some 4000 USD for making a paper open access. However, the production team can't make sure that the online version of the paper (doi.org/10.1016/j.jm...) has a complete data availability statement.
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Shravan Vasishth @shravanvasishth.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
New paper led by @dariopaape.bsky.social : Do local coherence effects exist in English reduced relative clauses? Journal of Memory and Language, 140, 2025. doi.org/10.1016/j.jm...
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Shravan Vasishth @shravanvasishth.bsky.social · 03/11/2024
I'm tentatively planning to be in the Boston area June 9-15 2025 and was thinking of spending another week in the US June 16-21. Due to my dialysis schedule it has to be a week. In case anyone wants to host me to visit their lab, feel free to contact me :)
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Shravan Vasishth @shravanvasishth.bsky.social · 20/10/2024
Three year funded PhD student position led by @juliaha.bsky.social, with co-PIs Audrey Buerki and me, on Bayesian modeling of individual differences. Applications open until filled. Details: vasishth.github.io/misc/METAREP...
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Shravan Vasishth @shravanvasishth.bsky.social · 19/10/2024
Applications are open for the ninth summer school on statistical methods for linguistics and psychology (SMLP 2025), to be held August 25-29, 2025 in Potsdam, Germany: vasishth.github.io/smlp2025/
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The Ninth Summer School on Statistical Methods for Linguistics and Psychology
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Shravan Vasishth @shravanvasishth.bsky.social · 19/10/2024
Our Introduction to Bayesian Data Analysis for Cognitive Science (with Nicenboim and Schad) is now in production with CRC Press. It will remain freely available here: bruno.nicenboim.me/bayescogsci/
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An Introduction to Bayesian Data Analysis for Cognitive Science
An introduction to Bayesian data analysis for Cognitive Science.
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