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A white and gray dog touches a yellow dot hanging on the wall with his nose. Text says ManyDogs 2 - Join the Team!

🚨 Calling all dog behavior & cognition researchers - ManyDogs Project is launching ManyDogs 2!

🔍🐕‍🦺We're studying overimitation: Do dogs copy irrelevant actions just b/c their favorite human does them?

Email manydogsproject2@gmail.com to collaborate globally and contribute to reproducible science!

@ambridge.bsky.social is currently working on a ManyLanguages proposal on "Semantic Affectedness as a Universal of Passive Constructions”.

Methodological details depend on the target languages, so Ben has asked us to help find experts. Get in touch with Ben if you would like to be involved 🤓

Just to add the grant was awarded to @aggieerin.bsky.social !🥳

Exciting!!!

🎉ManyLanguages received some funding to work on a data collection website that would engage participants in citizen science by sharing their language results with them. 🧠🌍 More details will be shared with the network soon on how to get involved.

Good morning/afternoon/evening/night everyone! Here's a little update on our Big Team Science paper titled 'Big Team Science for language science: Opportunities and Challenges': it has been accepted (pending minor corrections) by *Linguistics* (the journal)🎉. Preprint: osf.io/3pkj6

#linguistics I'm looking for recent meta analyses in experimental linguistics that explicitly show publication bias. Please share your work here!

#linguistics folks, do submit your 2-page Expression of Interests by 31st May. This is an exciting opportunity! Be a part of impactful #bigteamscience in #linguistics.

Always wondered whether an important finding is generalizable to ManyLanguages? This is the chance to take your linguistic research to the next level with Big Team Science. Lead your own project and work together with hundreds of researchers to answer important questions about human language.

🚨 2nd Call for Proposals is NOW OPEN!
We're inviting submissions of a 2-page Expression of Interest by May 31, 2025 🗓️

👉 Get all the details here: many-languages.com/studies.html

Any psychoacoustics folks out there who have experience with modelling psychometric functions for speech perception? We are looking for some analysis experts for our first @manylanguagesc.bsky.social big team science project. Give me a shout if interested

The first ManyLanguages project is under way. If you want to get in involved and share your expertise, please get in touch with the leadership team. I will be the analysis lead and would love to get a few quant people together to think about how to tackle the analysis. Get in touch with me!

All of this is largely possible due to the tenacious spirit of @timoroettger.bsky.social. Please join us in solving a long standing problem in #phonetics, #phonology and #speech #perception #bts #manylanguages @manylanguagesc.bsky.social #diversity #replication #generalizable #science

✨Our team is expanding. Join us at #ManyTones!

So excited to be working under the leadership of @chenzi.bsky.social and amazing team leads @xinbingluo.bsky.social @aggieerin.bsky.social @congzhang.bsky.social on the #ManyTones project chenchenzi.github.io/manytones/ #bts @manylanguagesc.bsky.social #diversity #replication #generalizable #science

Very happy to be representing @manyprimates.bsky.social. Join us to discuss all things Big Team Science!

Postdoctoral Research Fellow connected to "ICONIC" (277523) | University of Oslo Job title: Postdoctoral Research Fellow connected to "ICONIC" (277523), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Saturday, May 31, 2025

🚨🚨🚨 I'm hiring a Postdoc for a 3-year position to come work with me at the University of Oslo using iterative learning experiments to understand the evolution of sound symbolism. Please share widely.

🔴 Deadline is May 31st '25
⏲️ Desired starting date is Fall '25

shorturl.at/vSTZx

Why do a multilab study?

Robust evidence
Credible evidence when using transparent open practices
Large and diverse data set
Highly valuable data for reuse
Lowering the risk for any one researcher
Exchanging methodological expertise and training
Foster a collaborative culture

@xinbingluo.bsky.social here's our 2nd member of the team!

About the position • 3-year Ph.D. position (60%, paid according to cantonal salary scheme) • Can be extended by another 17 months • Workplace is Zurich What will be your main tasks? • Conduct a Ph.D. thesis in the field of communication, media psychology, and media effects • Publish in leading academic journals; present at conferences; engage in outreach • Teach courses on media effects, methods, and statistics at BA and MA levels • Take part in doctoral training programmes offered by UZH and IKMZ • Participate in organisational or administrative tasks as required What should you bring to the team? • Master’s degree in communication science, psychology, or a related discipline • Strong interest in research on media effects, including topics such as social media, well-being, privacy, AI, or media effects theory • Expertise in quantitative research methods • Proficiency in (or openness to learn) R, open science practices, and advanced statistics • Proficiency in English; knowledge of German is desirable but not mandatory What do we offer you? • Great background and support for high quality research • Much freedom to develop your own research interest within the topics of the division • Dynamic and supportive team with a collegial and inspiring working atmosphere • Excellent track record of the department in academic career development How to apply Please send the following documents as a single PDF file using UZH’s job portal (see link in post): • Letter of motivation (including ideas for your Ph.D. project; max. 2 pages) • Your CV (including a list of scientific publications and presentations, if applicable) • MA thesis or equivalent, research publications if already applicable • Copies of degrees and relevant transcripts Deadline for applications is March 16, 2025 Applications arriving later will also be considered if no candidate has been selected until then The position starts in April or by agreement

About the position • 3-year postdoctoral position (80%, paid according to cantonal salary scheme) • One position can be extended up to 3 years, the other up to 6 years • Workplace is Zurich What will be your main tasks? • Conduct research in the field of communication, media psychology, and media effects • Lead your own projects and collaborate in team projects • Publish in leading academic journals; present at conferences; engage in outreach • Teach courses on media effects, methods, and statistics at BA, MA, and Ph.D. levels • Take part in supporting and training predocs at the division • Engage in third party funding activities • Participate in organisational or administrative tasks as required What should you bring to the team? • Doctoral degree in communication science, psychology, or a related discipline • Strong interest in research on media effects, including topics such as social media, well-being, privacy, AI, or media effects theory • Expertise in quantitative research methods • Proficiency in (or openness to learn) R, open science practices, and advanced statistics • Proficiency in English; knowledge of German is desirable but not mandatory What do we offer you? • Great background and support for high quality research • Much freedom to develop your own research interest within the topics of the division • Dynamic and supportive team with a collegial and inspiring working atmosphere Please send the following documents as a single PDF file using UZH’s job portal (see link in post): • Letter of motivation (including ideas for future research projects; max. 2 pages) • Your CV (including a list of scientific publications and conference presentations) • Full-texts of up to three sample publications & PhD dissertation • Copies of degrees and relevant transcripts Deadline for applications is March 16, 2025 Applications arriving later will also be considered if no candidate has been selected until then The position starts in April or by agreement

I'm hiring! I'm looking for 1️⃣ pre-doc and 2️⃣ post-docs.

If you're fascinated by media effects, quantitative methods, and open science, please consider applying 🙂

International applications welcome!

Application Pre-doc: jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancie...

Application Post-doc: jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancie...

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ManyLanguages starts its first BigTeamScience project: ManyTones. Get in touch with the lead team if you want to be involved.

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Super excited that our project is accepted and is officially launching 🎊

Stay tuned for more details!

🎉 Congratulations to the team! Stay tuned for their upcoming collaboration call—follow us so you don’t miss it!

🧑‍🎓Led by: @chenzi.bsky.social (University of Oxford), Xinbing Luo (University of Cambridge), and @academicmargin.bsky.social (Jadavpur University).

🆕New project approved🎉

Exciting news! We’ve just accepted our first-ever ManyLanguages Project:
📌 Perception of Fundamental Frequency Perturbations Across Many Languages

🎉 Congratulations to the team! Stay tuned for their upcoming collaboration call—follow us so you don’t miss it!

YouTube video by Psychological Science Accelerator BTSCon 2024: ManyBabies3NIRS

Also:

Irene de la Cruz-Pavía presented work on artificial grammars, “ManyBabies3NIRS: A multi-lab replication study of infants' and adults' neural responses to repetition-based regularities using NIRS”:

Recording here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7Nb...

@manybabies.org

See the thread below for more information: bsky.app/profile/patr...