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roberthartsuiker.bsky.social
Psycholinguist | Professor of Psychology, Ghent University | President of ESCoP | Research Director | Cyclist | Swimmer | Runner | Hiker
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#cartoon #goldeonoldie uit 2017 die gewoon achteraf bekeken recht in de roos was. (Via www.lectrr.com)

Dear Volodymyr Zelenskyy, dear Ukrainian friends, you are not alone.

🚨 New paper alert! Kasper Van Craeyenest, Bram De keersmaecker, @roberthartsuiker.bsky.social, and I empirically tested whether filled pauses like um and uh serve a communicative function. 🧵👇 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/0163...

Useful post by @vkempe.bsky.social about life in communist bloc "if autocracies take hold, those who grow up within them will not be able to recognise the system for what it is" "Scholars...are not able to fight for the...freedom to pursue what they do not know about" substack.com/home/post/p-...

We need to protect ourselves. Please sign and share our petition demanding an EU army: actionnetwork.org/petitions/eu... 💜

Europa muss jetzt zusammenstehen und die Ukraine verteidigen 🇺🇦🇪🇺 voltschweiz.org/neuigkeiten/...

Where do disfluencies come from? Our new study (with @roberthartsuiker.bsky.social and @cogsenoussi.bsky.social) uses Drift Diffusion Modelling (DDM) to investigate semantic interference and disfluency in a Picture-Word Interference task.👇👇👇 🔗 doi.org/10.3758/s134...

Wonderful charity concert for Ukraine 🇺🇦, Zavel church, Brussels

Word production has typically been studied using two distinct approaches. A Perspective in Nature Reviews Psychology draws from both approaches to discuss how speakers assess whether production is going smoothly, adjust to difficulties and fix errors. https://go.nature.com/40Oc0sS 🔒

It’s time to show some unity in Europe! Please repost if you support the continent 🇪🇺.

Do large language models develop "emergent" models of the world? My latest Substack posts explore this claim and more generally the nature of "world models": LLMs and World Models, Part 1: aiguide.substack.com/p/llms-and-w... LLMs and World Models, Part 2: aiguide.substack.com/p/llms-and-w...

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

BAMB! is happening again in 2025. Learn how to model your behavioural data, next to the beach in Barcelona! keynotes this year from @athenaakrami.bsky.social and Peter Dayan.

Deadline 27 Feb: Lecturer/senior lecturer (≈assist./assoc. prof), speech, language and communication or speech and language pathology., Speech & Language Sciences, Newcastle University jobs.ncl.ac.uk/job/Newcastl...

Volt Belgium has a new board! Congratulations to new co-president @emassaut.bsky.social and all elected board members!

"Methods based on infant speech segmentation, applied to 8 years of humpback recordings, uncovered in whale song the same statistical structure that is a hallmark of human language." Cool new paper by @inbalarnon.bsky.social, @simonkirby.bsky.social, @ellengarland.bsky.social out in @science.org. 🧪

If you're interested in psycholinguistics, check out @fernandaedi.bsky.social's new book! An eBook version (not paperback) is now available & costs only $6.99 now (what a bargain)! It covers a wide range of topics, incl. some new/controversial topics (e.g., bilingual advantage, LLMs). Check it out!

Bilingualism: Language and Cognition is looking for a new Co-Editor-in-Chief! We are looking for someone with expertise in experimental linguistics and psycholinguistics and a focus on the linguistic side of bilingualism research. See www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Hey, my new book is out - read it as consolation for that terrible presentation: bit.ly/OOYM

Niels Van Santen wrote a guide to the use of information theoretical measures in psychology/psychometrics. Any feedback is most welcome!

#cartoon #elonmusk #hitlergroet (via www.lectrr.com)

Come hang out with me and Kong Meng Liew -- will share what I've learned working with @reviewerzero.bsky.social about giving and receiving peer reviews

Open rank search for an instructional professor in computational linguistics in our department!!

** We are hiring ** Associate Prof / Full Prof position in Cognitive Neuroscience. Amazing department, rated top in the UK for research power in Psychology, Psychiatry and Neuroscience. Can hire internationally, so flagging for USA colleagues (all countries welcome). Come join us in London

A study on sample diversity in > 5500 psycholinguistic studies "find that representation of Global South researchers & contexts has grown, but this growth is centered in a handful of countries, and Africa and Southeast Asia remain severely underrepresented." www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Glad to see this study w @jbpilet.bsky.social out in Party Politics: via an experiment in Belgium, we show that claims by a mainstream party (N-VA) to rule with the radical right (VB) legitimizes the latter, while not electorally benefitting the former journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

New paper alert! 🚩🚩 Deep learning agents (RNNs and LLMs) show the same learnablility bias reported in humans, where more structured and compositional languages are easier to learn and lead to better (and more human-like!) generalizations. Read more here 👇👇🤩

Deadline 23 Jan: Postdoc, comp. modeling speech percept., PI James McQueen, Radboud University / Donders Centre for Cognition www.ru.nl/en/working-a...

📣 Vacancy for Assistant Professor of Cognitive Science at Department of Linguistics, Cognitive Science and Semiotics, Aarhus University, Denmark. (Deadline January 6) international.au.dk/about/profil...

Open until filled: Teaching-research postdoctoral fellowship (multiple positions), Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/240...

Goed zo! Welke politieke partij vertrekt nog meer van haatkanaal X.

"The Illusion-Illusion: Vision Language Models See Illusions Where There are None" osf.io/preprints/ps... (this is a more systematic examination of the thing I was looking at a few days ago)

Frontiers in Psychology and Journal of Intelligence (MDPI) included.

Somebody recently posted a series of visual illusion illusions - versions of the Muller-Lyer illusion and so on, where humans easily see that, say, the bottom line is shorter than the top line, but where GenAI happily confabulates that they are equally long... Can someone help me find this again?

We have a new opening for a three-year postdoc position in the Department of Experimental Psychology at Ghent University: jobs.ugent.be/job/Ghent-Do...

Elsevier sees collecting and selling academics’ data as its core business. This post gives some insights into what data is collected and what might be valuable about it 👇

Goed stukje over onze ‘strijder’ @sophieintveld.bsky.social

🐺 Le loup rétrogradé d’espèce « strictement protégée » à « protégée » sous pression des droites radicales européennes. Une décision sans fondement scientifique, qui fragilise la biodiversité. Volt appelle à préserver la nature et à favoriser la coexistence plutôt que l’affrontement. 🌿 #Biodiversité

2 PhD fellowships in language and linguistics at the Uni of Oslo. Fully funded 3 years, plus if you submit in time an extra year to work on publications and do some teaching. Area open; project has to fit a research group. Deadline 28 Feb. Please repost. #linguistics www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Ik heb de petitie tegen de motie-Becker gesteund? U ook? Staat u ook achter onze landgenoten met een migratieachtergrond? En indien u een migratieachtergrond heeft, laat dan je stem horen! petities.nl/petitions/ie...

The search for new (co-)editor of Language has started! Please circulate widely. And do reach out if you have questions and/or are interested in applying. I did this job for six years — it was hard work, but also very rewarding.

Niet dat extreemrechts subiet van mening gaat veranderen door deze petitie, maar misschien wel de #SP, het #CDA en #CU. En dat mensen die door de Becker-motie zich tweederangsburger voelen, zich gesteund weten. petities.nl/petitions/ie...

Omtzigt recyclet hier zijn leugen over Engelstalige opleidingen tot klinisch psycholoog waar we hem ruim een jaar geleden ook al moesten corrigeren. Opleidingen tot klinisch psycholoog zijn al in het Nederlands - daar is ingrijpen van NSC niet bij nodig. www.trouw.nl/opinie/omtzi...

Vanavond!

We are offering two PhD Fellowships to promote collaborations between the MPI, Centre for Language Studies and Donders Institute. The hiring departments are Multimodal Language and Language & Genetics. The application deadline is 6 Jan 2025. More info: www.mpi.nl/imprs-phd-fe...

Don't miss the Nijmegen Lectures, a unique 3-day series of talks & discussion by renowned psychologists @fernandaedi.bsky.social & Victor Ferreira, Jan 7-9, 2025! Topics will span the psycholinguistic continuum from intention to articulation. More info & registration here: www.mpi.nl/events/nijme...