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Matthew Mak

@matthewmakpsy.bsky.social

Assistant Professor at Warwick University. Psycholinguist interested in language and memory. Everything word-related. Previously at York and Oxford. https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=AeqBP58AAAAJ&hl=en

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Looking for a departmental seminar speaker for the coming academic year? Look no further! Am available to give a talk on how GenAI is shaping undergraduate writing β€” we analysed 4800+ authentic submissions from the last 10 years!

04.08.2025 10:52 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Going to @exppsychsoc.bsky.social meeting next week. Gonna be my first time in Scotland! Will give a talk on my latest work analysing >4000 authentic student-authored reports to shed light on GenAI's influence on linguistic style and quality. Can't wait to share this work with the world!

30.06.2025 13:59 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

What initiatives in your department bring people together and encourage collaboration? Looking for fresh ideas to connect people! #AcademicChatter

31.03.2025 10:48 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Adult vs. children in word learning: Our latest study suggests that the effect of prior knowledge and consolidation may differ between adults and children in word learning. Noel Lam tested over 60+ kids! Impressive work.

26.03.2025 19:11 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

@warwickpsych.bsky.social is hiring two 1-year teaching-focussed assistant professors/teaching fellows (open to PhD students close to submission). Open area but one of the posts will likely be in social psy. Come join us!

warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/appcentre...

26.03.2025 19:03 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

accidentally logged into my Twitter account. Had to log out after a minute of scrolling through my thread...

20.03.2025 16:54 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Tens of thousands of psychological measures have been created, but 79% are not reused more than twice.

In a new article in NHB lead by @faridanvari.bsky.social and @ruben.the100.ci we quantify this fragmentation in psychology's measures and propose solutions.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

18.03.2025 11:43 β€” πŸ‘ 190    πŸ” 76    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 5

Great question! In priming, seeing X-Y makes processing X-Y easier next time. But in our final experiment, after reading X-Y, participants judged X in the absence of Yβ€”yet X and Y became closer in the participant's mind . So I would say this goes beyond priming, although definitely related.

25.02.2025 17:11 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you David! More to come as we are doing some follow-up!

25.02.2025 16:41 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you! So glad to hear that I'm not the only one who finds this interesting! 😊

24.02.2025 21:09 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you Jamie. As a fellow word nerd, I think Exp 5 will be of particular interest to you. We used Walsh and Rissman's (2023) innovative measure to index relatedness between two words *without* showing to participants the two words together.

24.02.2025 20:59 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

with @lewis-ball.bsky.social, @mggaskell.bsky.social , Catherine Walsh, and Alice O'Hagan.

@warwickpsych.bsky.social

24.02.2025 15:46 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Results suggest involvement of episodic memory in language comprehension and highlight the flexibility of the mental lexicon. Results also provide a simple mechanism to how the lexicon acquires its associative structure.

24.02.2025 15:45 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Involvement of episodic memory in language comprehension: Naturalistic comprehension pushes unrelated words closer in semantic space for at least 12Β h Recent experience with a word significantly influences its subsequent interpretation. For instance, encountering bank in a river-related context biase…

Very proud of this latest paper, which shows that reading two unrelated words in a meaningful sentence will push these words closer in semantic spaceβ€”an effect observed 5min, 20min, and 12 hrs after initial exposure.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

24.02.2025 15:42 β€” πŸ‘ 72    πŸ” 23    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 1
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ex-student emailed to say they won full PhD scholarships at Oxford *AND* Cambridge, then thanked me for supervision over the years. #ProudSupervisorMoment

20.02.2025 16:17 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Very happy to share our new preprint revealing no evidence for a targeted memory reactivation (TMR) effect on word-meaning priming (1/8): osf.io/preprints/ps...

19.02.2025 12:27 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
Department for Education. Effectiveness of school mental health awareness interventions
Universal approaches in English secondary schools
February 2025

Department for Education. Effectiveness of school mental health awareness interventions Universal approaches in English secondary schools February 2025

Important new evidence published today: large-scale DofE trial (N=12,166) found that two universal MH awareness interventions, in secondary schools, led to an *increase* in emotional symptoms at long term (9-12 month) follow up

tinyurl.com/4ffday8y

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10.02.2025 12:05 β€” πŸ‘ 159    πŸ” 87    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 16
Poster advertisement for 1-day seminar at Warwick University on Doing Police Research, approaches and challenges. Seminar date 29 April 2025. Open to postgrads and early career researchers conducting police-related research.

Poster advertisement for 1-day seminar at Warwick University on Doing Police Research, approaches and challenges. Seminar date 29 April 2025. Open to postgrads and early career researchers conducting police-related research.

On Tues 29 Apr, Warwick Uni's COPR is hosting a free 1-day seminar for postgrads/ECRs conducting police research. Build networks & present to a friendly multidisciplinary audience. Travel bursaries available. Abstract deadline: 7 Mar
warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fa...

@mgsesrcdtp.bsky.social

06.02.2025 11:31 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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PhD scholarship announcement πŸ“£ www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLI727/p... Come and join my lab at U of Warwick. DM me for details and to discuss project ideas. Please RT!

15.01.2025 22:21 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 14    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2

@warwickpsych.bsky.social

04.02.2025 17:26 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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@thomhills.bsky.social looking chuffed with his baby: Behavioural Network Science: Language, Mind, Society. Go ask your library to stock this masterpiece!

04.02.2025 17:25 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Yes, I was about to mention Kate's lexical legacy, which basically argues that experiencing words in more diverse contexts may enrich lexical quality. Empirical evidence is mixed, although there are huge methodological differences.

29.01.2025 12:00 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Assistant or Associate Professor (Teaching & Online Programmes) (110079-0125) - University of Warwick Title: Assistant or Associate Professor (Teaching & Online Programmes) (110079-0125). Application Deadline: . Position Type: Permanent

Warwick Psychology is looking to appoint a permanent Assistant/Associate Professor, with a specific focus on leading an online MSc conversion programme. Come join us! warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/appcentre...

25.01.2025 14:33 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Next Meeting EPS Meeting:Β Lancaster University. 2nd – 4th April 2025. This meeting will include the joint 23rd EPS Mid-Career Prize Lecture by Jennifer Rodd (with an accompanying symposium organised by Jo …

The April @exppsychsoc.bsky.social meeting opens for submissions on Monday. I'm giving a prize lecture & Jo Taylor has organised an amazing symposium: Recent perspectives on the mental lexicon.

eps.ac.uk/next-meeting/

17.01.2025 14:51 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 13    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Starting 2025 with a (small) grant success. Very excited to start this new project looking at AI and language production in big/naturalistic data! More info to follow. #academia #ECR #lucky

06.01.2025 13:20 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Gotta be SJC entrance!

23.12.2024 14:43 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Feeling grateful to have made it through my first full term as an Assistant Professor! Survived student evaluations with a 4.5/5 rating and no negative commentsβ€”almost brought me to tears (the good kind).🀩 One of my favourite comments was "Nice guy, relatable" πŸ˜‚ #proud #academia #UKhigherEd.

06.12.2024 17:31 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

perfect timing as giving a lecture on sound symbolism on Friday

04.12.2024 16:04 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Thrilled to join the Experimental Psychology Society (EPS) as a committee member! Looking forward to contributing to EPS's incredible work!

(Is EPS not on bsky yet??)

04.12.2024 09:55 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Oxford scientist resigns from Royal Society over Elon Musk’s continuing fellowship Prof Dorothy Bishop said fellowship was β€˜a contradiction of all the values’ of UK’s national academy of sciences

Prof Dorothy Bishop resigns from Royal Society over Elon Musk’s continuing fellowship

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

25.11.2024 18:49 β€” πŸ‘ 26    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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