After a plane journey in shackles, an Iranian woman found herself in the middle of Africa in a country she did not know existed. She is one of thousands deported from the US on the back of shadowy dea...

iStock A lawsuit filed under the U.S. False Claims Act accuses four major publishers of perpetrating a decade-long scheme to defraud the government by charging exorbitant article processing charges…

Auch ich habe jetzt das Wahlkampfmaterial mit Björn Höcke gesehen. Eine über vierstündige Begegnung mit “Ben” auf seinem Kanal “ungeskriptet” , in der sich der Thüringer Landesvorsitzende der AfD vor...

As with Peter Mandelson, so in the science world: the Epstein files are not telling us anything that most ordinary punters didn’t already know, but are revealing the full, rotten, appalling extent …

Zimmerer, V., Tsoukala, A., Çokal, D., Sevilla, G., Douglas, M., Jones, W., ... & Hinzen, W. (2026). The relationship between language disorder and thought disorder: comparing micro-and macrostruc...

Linguistic profiles in neurological and psychiatric conditions offer critical insights into the relationship between language and broader cognitive fu…

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References to phantom studies comes after White House pledge to practice “gold standard” science

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If you wish to show your support for the letter below regarding apparent inaction by the Royal Society in the face of breaches of its code of conduct by Elon Musk FRS, please sign below. I invite anyo...

Scientists are struggling to respond to a Trump administration order to review papers already submitted for publication for content now banned by the federal government, according to interviews with six researchers.

Dr Vitor Zimmerer, Lecturer (Teaching) Language and Cognition (Division of Psychology and Language Sciences) discusses teaching students how to meaningfully use Generative AI

Being invited to the international stroke conference in Saudi Arabia was one of the best things to happen last year. I previously wrote about how much I enjoyed the event, how impressed I was with...

The UK Dementia Research Institute at UCL is seeking a Data Research Assistant to join their Core Informatics team working with large datasets.

Exclusive: Age, disability, marital status and nationality influence decisions to investigate claims, prompting fears of ‘hurt first, fix later’ approach

Sederias I, Krakovitch A, Stojanovik V, Zimmerer VC (2024). Overuse of familiar phrases by individuals with Williams syndrome masks differences in language processing. Journal of Child Language . Pub...

Pauses in speech are indicators of cognitive effort during language production and have been examined to inform theories of lexical, grammatical and d…

A week after he died, it seems there is little of which to make sense. But there is plenty to treasure about Sebastián Bello Lepe, Seb, and I’d like to share my experience with this excellent per...