Sebastian Sauppe

Image of the mechanical ladder outside the Louvre Text below says WENN'S MAL WIEDER SCHNELL GEHEN MUSS (When you need to move fast) Underneath is more German text which translates as "The Böcker Agilo transports your treasures weighing up to 400kg at 42m/min - quiet as a whisper."

The German company that makes the mechanical ladder used in the Louvre heist has used the image to advertise, with the text 'When you need to move fast'

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Many thanks to Lilián Guerrero for inviting me to give lectures at UNAM in Mexico City! (The lecture materials are here: zenodo.org/records/1743...)

Sentence Processing by Matthew Wagers: https://doi.org/10.21428/e2759450.624d819a

Abstract painting of two people gesturing

"A compelling and thought-provoking analysis of human sociality and the origins of language."

The Interaction Engine by Stephen C. Levinson (@mpi-nl.bsky.social), Out Now & #OpenAccess

https://cup.org/4nusznG

#OA #Linguistics #LangSky 🐦🐦

The Time Course of Phonological Encoding: Insights from Time-Resolved MVPA To produce a word, speakers need to decide which concept to express, select an appropriate item from the mental lexicon, and spell out its phonological form. The temporal dynamics of these processes r...

The time course of phonological encoding: Insights from time-resolved MVPA. New paper by @glicalzi.bsky.social , Antje S. Meyer & @stan-vd-burght.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0546-25.2025
Paper: tinyurl.com/yjw47vzz

A scatterplot of the number of rejections (y axis) by year (x axis)

Here are my published articles in each year and the number of times each was rejected before publication

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! 👀

If you don’t teach your students your subject, you’re not doing your job.

If you teach your students to ask AI first, you’re ensuring they’ll never be *needed* for any job.

You’re also guaranteeing that knowledge of your subject slowly dies.

Asking ChatGPT is gaining neither knowledge nor skills.

Linguistik: Wie sich Sprachen in der Vergangenheit vermischt haben Genetische Analysen liefern Hinweise darauf, wie linguistische Entlehnungen entstehen.

Wenn sich Bevölkerungsgruppen miteinander vermischen, nähern sich auch ihre Sprachen an. Genetische Analysen liefern Hinweise darauf, wie linguistische Entlehnungen entstehen. #repost

How I, a non-developer, read the tutorial you, a developer, wrote for me, a beginner - annie's blog “Hello! I am a developer. Here is my relevant experience: I code in Hoobijag and sometimes jabbernocks and of course ABCDE++++ (but never ABCDE+/^+ are you kidding? ha!)  and I like working with ...

"How I, a non-developer, read the tutorial you, a developer, wrote for me, a beginner" by Annie Mueller 😅 😂 😭

anniemueller.com/posts/how-i-...

Seit 1949 haben 52 Jahre lang Regierungen unter CDU-Kanzlerschaft regiert, wie derzeit auch. CDU/AfD liegen im aktuellen Stimmungsbild bei weit über 50 %. Ganze Talkshowformate (Lanz!) sind inzwischen konservative Heimspiele. Wo drückte sich in der BRD je der Mangel an konservativen Meinungen aus?

Increasing alignment of large language models with language processing in the human brain - Nature Computational Science Larger LLMs’ self-attention more accurately predicts readers’ regressive saccades and fMRI responses in language regions, whereas instruction tuning adds no benefit.

📢Out now! @jixingli.bsky.social, @lamb-cityuhk.bsky.social and colleagues assess whether instruction tuning can enhance LLM's ability to capture linguistic information in the human brain. www.nature.com/articles/s43... #compneuro #ArtificialIntelligence

SNF fordert Verzicht auf Kürzungen In seiner Stellungnahme zum «Entlastungspaket 27» spricht sich der SNF gegen die vorgeschlagenen Kürzungen von zehn Prozent pro Jahr aus.

🏛️ Der Bundesrat will im BFI-Bereich trotz zahlreicher Einwände sparen. Auch beim SNF sind in den nächsten Jahren Kürzungen von jeweils über 10 Prozent vorgesehen. Dies gefährdet vor allem die Innovationskraft und Wettbewerbsfähigkeit der Wirtschaft.
ℹ️ sohub.io/4pv7

recent picture of Martin Volk

It is with deep sorrow that we bid farewell to Prof. Dr. Martin Volk, who passed away on 15 September 2025 at the age of 64 after a brief and sudden illness. www.cl.uzh.ch/en/about-us/...

I somehow called temporal response functions “millennial ERPs” in lab meeting and now I can’t stop thinking about that 😅🥹

Wenn du wissen willst, welches Medium eher für „das Volk“ spricht, bedenke Folgendes:

Wenn der Multimillionär Gotthardt aufhört, NIUS zu finanzieren, gehen sie sofort pleite.

Wenn kein einziger Millionär Volksverpetzer Geld gibt, ändert sich für uns nichts und wir machen weiter wie bisher.

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I'm sorry, worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable permission to my voice and likeness? For what now? In any manner for any purpose???

This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.

Curious to learn what EEG-MVPA can tell us about speech production planning? Come find me at #SNL2025 - poster A25, Friday 11:00-12:30 @stan-vd-burght.bsky.social @mpi-nl.bsky.social

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

I haven’t checked the specifics of @neilcohn.bsky.social‘s work on this now, but it looks like the pattern is also that role (agent/patient) outranks left vs right presentation. In any case, I’d expect the animacy configuration to play a larger role anyway (i.e. if P is more animate than A).

Sarah Dolscheid and colleagues could, however, also show that literacy and writing direction can play a role in speakers‘ choices sometimes: journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

doi.org/10.1016/j.ba...
doi.org/10.1371/jour...
doi.org/10.3389/fpsy...

I think some of our work on sentence production in a picture description paradigm speaks to that. When counterbalancing the agent/patient side, the roles itself, the animacy configuration and the grammar of the language appear more important for speakers‘ choices (across languages). Links below ⬇️

Screen-Shot von einem FAZ-Interview mit Markus Söder mit dem Titel „Wir haben uns zu einseitig auf Bahn und ÖPNV fixiert.“

Sage, dass du in den letzten 10 Jahren nicht einmal Bahn gefahren bist, ohne zu sagen, dass du in den letzten 10 Jahren nicht einmal Bahn gefahren bist.

Beschuldigter: gibt an, dass seine Tat politische Hintergründe hatte (er hielt die Personen für Klimaaktivist:innen)

Staatsanwaltschaft: schließt politische Motive aus

(Quelle: www.tagesanzeiger.ch/schwerer-zwi...)

Wobei beachtenswert ist, dass eben diese deutsche Regierung X massiv unterstützt - mit kostenfreiem Content und den Präsenzen der wichtigsten Ministerien + Ämter.

Zum Mitschreiben: Der neonazi-orientierte, mächtigste Desinformationskanal der Welt wird von der deutschen Bundesregierung gefördert.

My thread on the Neurology paper on sweeteners & cognitive health: skywriter.blue/pages/did:pl...

And a follow-up thread on some weird patterns in the Appendix tables: skywriter.blue/pages/did:pl...

Collated by Skywriter onto a web page for easier reading!

Sweeteners can harm cognitive health equivalent to 1.6 years of ageing, study finds Researchers say low- and no-calorie sweeteners appear to affect thinking and memory in middle age

So, this study linking sweeteners to cognitive decline:

🚩 confuses correlation + causation
🚩 has no theory
🚩 shows evidence of p-hacking
🚩 reports inconsistent CIs / p-values
🚩 measures diet only once
🚩 has a big missing data problem
🚩 adjusts outcome opaquely

www.theguardian.com/food/2025/se...

Interested in doing a PhD with me and lacns.github.io? Or with any of the incredible fellows in the IMPRS School of Cognition www.maxplanckschools.org/cognition-en - apply before Dec 1st at cognition.maxplanckschools.org/en/application

The Less You Know About AI, the More You Are Likely to Use It AI can seem magical to those with low AI literacy, a new study finds. That, in turn, might make them more willing to try it.

So new studies showcase that the more you know how GenAi works, the less likely you are to use it! 😌

This reminds me of ai advocates who claim that those who refuse to use GenAi do so because they dont know how it works, yet it’s the opposite!
The less you know the more you are likely to use GenAi