Dr Lena M Blott

Bei uns auch so! Neuer Bau eines Kindergartens 2023, aber keiner hat dran gedacht, dass man da vielleicht eine Klimaanlage mit einbaut?! Tja, und jetzt wird erwartet, dass man die Kinder früher abholt weil es ja im Kiga zu heiß sei....

Psycholinguists and psychologists: Is there good R packages for distributing items across conditions? For example, I have 60 stimuli and some preliminary data on item-level accuracy. I'd like to create 3 lists of 20 items that are matched in accuracy without coding it myself. 👀

Cartoon picture of a parent looking at a smiling baby in their arms.

We have another online study on Children Helping Science for adults with a baby between 2 and 24 months old! childrenhelpingscience.com/studies/7012...

Wie wäre es mal mit #Existenzstrategie statt #Exzellenzstrategie? Auch Wissenschaftler_innen wollen verlässlich Miete zahlen können, ihre Kinder ernähren & in finanziellen Notlagen nicht vollkommen aufgeschmissen sein. Plus: Existenzängste bremsen Forschung aus. Deshalb: #ExitExzellenz! #IchBinHanna

Research from 2022 that every Democrat apologist should chew on:
“We do not find any evidence that accommodative strategies reduce radical right support. If anything, our results suggest that they lead to more voters defecting to the radical right.“

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

PhD - Lancaster University

Come join us! We (me, Jill Lany, Perrine Brusini, and Gert Westermann) are recruiting a #devpsych PhD student to Lancaster Uni to join our ongoing Levehulme funded research project on how word learning shapes visual representations in infants! Please share! More info : tinyurl.com/ynbfkhbj

We can upload 3 minute videos now.

YOU KNOW THE RULE

when the teams are "imperfect woman who demanded basic safety standards for herself and the rest of the crew and cast" vs "sexual harassers, the system that protects them, and the entire right-wing media ecosystem" I hope we're all clear which side we need to be on

A picture of Torun oldtown at night in winter

JOB ALERT in #language and #linguistics!
Postdoc Position at the Center for Language Evolution Studies, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland.
Job offer here: www.umk.pl/en/jobs/?tas...
We are now looking at a broader candidate pool so do consider applying!
Please repost & share widely!

Es ist in Deutschland ja so: Jede Subvention der Autoindustrie gilt als Marktwirtschaft. Und jede Investition in unsere Kinder als Sozialismus. #Groko

Big brains of #KidLitUK - someone's asking for books that provide authentic disability representation. What are your top recs? Across all spectrums of disability.

Paging @jennirodd.bsky.social in case you need a new example for a lecture

At the playground with the 5yo.
Daddy: You can lie on this hammock here if you want.
M: I did a poo on my monkey in the night.
D: What?! Really??
M: No! You said I can lie on here.

#lexical #ambiguity #linguistics

Mannheim: Als die Herkunft bekannt wurde, machte man die Livestreams aus München, Solingen, Magdeburg: Zu allen Anschlägen gab es einen Brennpunkt in der ARD. Zur gestrigen Amokfahrt in Mannheim bisher nicht.

München, Solingen, Magdeburg: Zu allen Anschlägen gab es einen Brennpunkt in der ARD. Zur gestrigen Amokfahrt in #Mannheim bisher nicht. Warum wohl? www.volksverpetzer.de/aktuelles/ma...

Anyone in the developmental psychology/infant research community know of any existing parent-report questionnaires on infant babbling (i.e., syllable production), specifically for English families? #DevSci

Picture of a letter containing the ballot.

My German election ballot only arrived today, a long shot but is anyone traveling from Boston to Berlin today who could take it? Any leads @germanyinboston.bsky.social ?

Blind date: ‘I was hoping to meet a total babe. She was a total babe’ Gráinne, 31, a software engineer and musician, meets Alexander, 34, a civil servant

Good morning. After a rough few days, this week's Blind Date was perfectly timed to fill you with joy. Couldn't wipe the smile off my face. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

I think most people are intuitively aware of this but something like the official White House account posting an “ASMR” video of shackled immigrants is not just cruel for its own sake, it’s intentional envelope-pushing to ramp up to desensitization over inhumane detention, camps, and deaths

By the way, people should understand that the admin doesn't have to shoot or gas people to kill them. If you pile people in military-run camps in Gitmo and the Panamanian jungle without adequate food or healthcare and just wait, people will die

Liebe dt. Wissenschaftsinstitutionen, wir lesen überall starke Bekenntnisse für unsere Demokratie & großes Entsetzen über Dammbruch durch Union, der Demokratie & Menschenrechte unmittelbar gefährdet. Auch Ihr solltet dazu nun laut werden: Wissenschaft hat Demokratieverantwortung! #LauteWissenschaft

I am writing psycholinguistics lectures for 1st time in many years, I only have 3 so it's a whistlestop tour but I want to ensure multilingualism & signed languages are represented. Am struggling to find sign research re: syntactic parsing models - has it been done? Any pointers appreciated!

A marine iguana on algae-covered rocks

A marine iguana on black lava rocks

A marine iguana walks along the sand

On Darwin Day, a reminder that Charles Darwin had an inexplicable major beef with marine iguanas, writing that they were:

"small and of a sooty black, which if possible, heightens their native ugliness" and

"the most disgusting, clumsy lizards.... Somebody calls them 'imps of darkness'"

Was really enjoying Bluesky for a moment there. And now it's like 5% jokes, 5% wholesome content and 90% the collapse of the United States. I cannot afford going back to my doomscrolling habit, help.

I know this site only reaches a subset of neuro/ cog professors. If you know a young professor in the area who would benefit from a week of targeted learning about doing good science, good mentoring, networking etc, it would be great if you could forward them: compneurosci.com/Neuro4Pros/i...

US friends and colleagues, let me know if you are looking for European phd / postdoc positions to get out of this mess - I can explain how the systems work over here or know people who can (at least for Germany, Sweden. Spitzenkandidat, Norway and UK) and help you find possible job openings

Demonstrationen: Zehntausende Menschen demonstrieren erneut gegen Rechtsruck Bundesweit wird auch an diesem Wochenende gegen die AfD und das Manöver von Friedrich Merz protestiert. Allein in Hamburg beteiligten sich 65.000 Menschen an einer Demo.

Ein bisschen Hoffnung! www.zeit.de/gesellschaft...

Eine Rede, die Anerkennung verdient. In 1 Minute zeigt @ricardalang.bsky.social , wie man mit der AfD umgehen sollte und ja, sie spricht Friedrich Merz zurecht die Kanzlerfähigkeit ab. Hut ab vor dieser Rede!

Oh and Great British Sewing Bee!

My favourite type of feel good television, all courtesy of the brits: great pottery throwdown, portrait artist of the year, the great big tiny design challenge (it's doll's houses!)

Ok, Semester geht übernächste Woche wieder los und dann noch zwei Wochen bis zur Wahl. Würde gerne meine Student*innen zum Wählen motivieren zwecks Vermeidung von Faschismus. Frage: Wie macht ihr das so? Zeigt ihr z.B. Wahlomat?