Tanja C Roembke

Finding our ROLE: How and why to reframe essentialist approaches to language Essentialist categorizations of language users, such as native speaker, are widely used but lack empirical validity and reinforce social inequities. T…

I am so pleased that my first paper out this year is this multi-coauthored gem with my collaborators in the ROLE Collective. It was so wonderful to serve as a small part of this effort to understand the terms we use as language researchers and their impacts!

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The influence of bilingualism on statistical word learning: a registered report Abstract. While statistical word learning has been the focus of many studies on monolinguals, it has received little attention in bilinguals. The results o

@matildellen.bsky.social bravely decided to do a registered report with @pci-regreports.bsky.social as the first manuscript of her PhD -- 2+ years later, it's out! It's on how bilingualism affects statistical word learning, and the results were quite unexpected. Read more:

Sign up for the next virtual #GeWoNN Journal Club Meeting!

We are thrilled to have @juliafstrand.bsky.social give us a guest talk on error prevention in psychological research!

Linguists, psychologists, and language researchers are all welcome! 😊

Register here: forms.gle/YoZpPxrRxXcG...

Congratulations to our #GeWoNN members on their accepted symposia at the #teap2026 Conference! 

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Are you a US-based PhD student WITHOUT summer funding who is interested in adolescent development, trans youth, and/or gender? Reach out to me about applying to join my lab in Summer 2026 for the VIPS program! psych.princeton.edu/diversity/vi...

The Spoken Language group @bcbl.bsky.social is currently recruiting for these positions:

👉PhD students (expressions of interest are welcome on a rolling basis)
👉Postdoctoral Researcher (start date: Nov '26 - Sep '27) tinyurl.com/3um3bjze
👉Research Assistant tinyurl.com/y5uebra6

Please share ☺️

If you have a syllabus for a psych grad methods course that covers both experimental and non-experimental methods, I'd love to take a peek! 👀

Job Opportunity at Royal Holloway University of London: Postdoctoral Research Fellow Applications are invited for a 3-year, full-time Postdoctoral Research Fellow position in the Department of Psychology at Royal Holloway, University of London.This position is funded by an ESRC resear...

** New ** Seeking Postdoctoral Research Fellow (3 yrs) for ESRC project on skilled reading in Arabic. Based in my lab at @rhulpsychology.bsky.social and collaborating with @denisdrieghe.bsky.social (Soton) and Sami Boudelaa (UAE). Please share! jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

📢PhD fellowships

The Spoken Language group at #BCBL (Spain) offers sponsorship for the #INPhINIT Predoctoral Fellowships

Potential PhD projects can be related to:
🗣️Speech perception
🧠Language learning

ℹ️Info about the position and application process: tinyurl.com/2kcfsjr3

📆Deadline: October 30

Posting on behalf of Tamar Gollan, who is not on Bluesky:

A postdoc position is open and available immediately in Dr. Tamar Gollan’s Laboratory of Aging Bilingualism at the University of California, San Diego, funded by NIH & NSF. See link for details!

psychiatry.ucsd.edu/about/LAB_Go...

Call for collaborators! 🧵

The TL;DR: we seek collaborators on a #ManyLabs #RegisteredReport about what causes rapid forgetting.

In-principle accepted Stage 1: osf.io/ahjn5

Expressions of interest: cardiffunipsych.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Further details in the 🧵:

📢 SAVE THE DATE for #TeaP2026 in Tübingen 😍 Symposium submissions open on October 1! 🎉 For details, check out our website: coms.app/teap26/ 👍🏼

The “Bilingual Advantage” in Word Learning: A Meta-Analysis Hosted on the Open Science Framework

📢 Researchers in bilingualism & word learning!
I'm doing a meta-analysis on the bilingual advantage & seeking unpublished data comparing bilinguals vs monolinguals.
Summary stats or raw data welcome (confidential).
Pre-reg 👉 osf.io/6a7yg/
DM me or share if you know someone! 🙏

Just attended @isbilingualism.bsky.social
in San Sebastián with my supervisor @troembke.bsky.social.
I presented my meta-analysis on bilingual advantage in word learning there.
Great talks and interesting people. Grateful for the experience!
#Bilingualism #LanguageLearning #Psycholinguistics

🚀 My first PhD paper is out! 🚀
"How do multiple meanings affect word learning and remapping?" was published in Memory & Cognition!
Big thanks to my supervisors and co-authors (Iring Koch & @troembke.bsky.social).
Curious? Read it here: rdcu.be/eeY9o
#CognitivePsychology #WordLearning #Bilingualism

🚨 TRUST Open Lecture – Join Us! 🚨

Is #standardisation in research boosting #replicability or slowing scientific progress? 🤔

📅 March 31 (Mon), 2025
⏰ 16:00–18:00 CET
📍 Hörsaal H112, IBW-Gebäude, University of Cologne

💻 Live-stream available! Registration info here:
sites.google.com/view/gewonn/...

Proud PI! 👏 On #TeaP2025 two lab members presented their work:

Haoyu Zhou in the symposium #StatisticalLearning and its Role in #Language and #Reading acquisition.

@boevesam.bsky.social in the symposium From Babies to Semantics: Leveraging #LanguageModels for #Psycholinguistic Research.

Journal Club Welcome to the GeWoNN Journal Club! We meet once a month to discuss articles related to word and reading research. For more info, check out our past meetings or contact us at gewonn.contact.us@gmail.c...

Let #data talk! Our next journal club meeting will discuss @balazsaczel.bsky.social's commentary, "Let the data talk: embrace #exploratoryresearch".

March 20 (Thurs), 11 am-12 pm (CET), Zoom

Welcome to join us! Check out our website for more info!
sites.google.com/view/gewonn/...

Day 1 #TeaP2025 with a great talk by Prof. Wolfe & a successful symposium on Statistical Learning (thanks @troembke.bsky.social @xeniaschmalz.bsky.social).

Also, if you’re in Germany & a bit tired of ethics applications check out #Ethiktool (a software solution to support the ethical assessment)

Welcome to join our open lecture on #standardisation & #replicability in Cologne on March 31, organised by the #TRUSTNetwork, led by @benjamingagl.bsky.social, @janahasenacker.bsky.social, @troembke.bsky.social & @xeniaschmalz.bsky.social!

See 🧵below for details 👇...

International Fellowships 2025 The International Fellowships Programme enables researchers to work for two years at a UK institution with the aim of building a globally connected, mobile research and innovation workforce.

Fellowships for non-UK scientists who want to come to the UK. Happy to chat to postdocs who want to visit my lab @oxexppsy.bsky.social www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/inte...

Opinion | The Devastating Legacy of Lies in Alzheimer’s Science (Gift Article) Fraud in research needs to end.

Important read on the devastating impact of fraud in Alzheimer's research, highlighting the work of 2024 #EinsteinFoundationAward winners @elisabethbik.bsky.social and @pubpeer.com in cleaning up the scientific record. #ResearchIntegrity www.nytimes.com/2025/01/24/o...

New OA paper: "Let’s talk about language — and its role for replicability" by @xeniaschmalz.bsky.social, @marhai.bsky.social, Andrea Hildebrandt, Philipp Knöpfle, Anna Yi Leung, & @timoroettger.bsky.social, and me (originating from our @meta-rep.bsky.social group).
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I have supported many deaf graduate students and currently support a deaf post doc using this mechanism. What’s happening at NIH is terrible for science and closes doors for deaf students who face so many more challenges than their hearing peers

Want to get editing experience? If you have a PhD & are a member of a group that’s historically underrepresented in editorial roles, apply for a 1 yr editorial fellowship at one of APS’s journals (including Psych Science)! Deadline 7 Feb.
Please share!

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I’m entering the final stages of data collection on research I’m doing into disability employment. If you have a physical disability and are UK based, I’d be especially grateful to hear from you. The survey is at:

cambridge.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

#AcademicSky #Disability

🗣💬 Looking for a test of linguistic processing fluency that I could administer to both L1 & L2 speakers of English & German. I know that "proficiency" might indicate how difficult it is for someone to process language but proficiency measures among L1ers & L2ers are difficult to compare #linguistics

Beyond Perfection: The Beauty of Imperfect Language Learning Call for Papers Edited by Kevin M. Wong, PhD, and Fabrice Jaumont, PhD The Center for the Advancement of Languages, Education, and Communities invites submissions for an edited volume exploring the…

📣 I am excited to co-edit a book w/ Fabrice Jaumont on embracing the imperfection of language learning. Do you have a story, a case study, a biography that challenges the paralyzing "gold standard" of achieving native-like fluency in an L2? For submission guidelines, visit
calec.org/2024/11/28/b...

The future of science publishing

"I have yet to see a course at the graduate level on how to conduct peer review, but its neglect in the list of courses is testament to the low status of reviewing."

From this set of comments about academic publishing:

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Life goals (not the first inspired by @emilymyers.bsky.social).