Gwen Brekelmans

OPEN PHD POSITION - Come join our group! The IMPRS at @mpi-nl.bsky.social is offering an PhD position on modelling structured meaning in the brain, supervised by me and Helen De Hoop at the Centre for Language Studies in the @dondersinst.bsky.social -
www.mpi.nl/imprs-phd-fe... #NeuroJobs #cogsci

barbican 1-31 Oct VOICED The Festival for Endangered Languages Experience visual art, literature, spoken word and sound installations from indigenous artists in the first UK festival of this kind

Details of some of the events are listed here, which can be found at: https://www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/2025/series/voiced-the-festival-for-endangered-languages

Ten more days to check out The Barbican's

Voiced: The Festival for #EndangeredLanguages

🗣💬 #langsky

www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/202...

Figure 2 in the review: Levels of analysis from genes and brain systems to cognition and behaviour. The child both influences and is influenced by parents through genetically shaped interactions, and by the wider school and social environment. Figure design by Neil Usher. Figure from this review paper: https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/w23yz_v1

🧩Learning to talk & read isn’t just about effort or teaching—it’s shaped by biology, experience & context

🧠Our new review links genetics, neuroscience, psychology & education to show why some children find language or reading easier.

📖 doi.org/10.31234/osf...

🖼️genes→brain→cognition→behaviour 🧵👇

Excited to share my first PhD article, published in Scientific Data 👉 rdcu.be/eIRqD

We present the Shared Book Reading Corpus: 44 caregiver-infant dyads, 3 camera views (headcams + overview), speech transcriptions & developmental measures.

Access on Databrary for discovery & reuse! ✨

#OpenScience

PhD Position: Accented Speech Processing | Radboud University Do you want to work as a PhD: Accented Speech Processing at the Faculty of Arts? Check our vacancy!

PhD Position: Accented Speech Processing - Apply now!

Come work with Mirjam Broersma, @davidpeeters.bsky.social, and me at the Centre for Language Studies, Radboud University in the Netherlands.

Application deadline: 19 October 2025

For more information, see
www.ru.nl/en/working-a...

Today we had the launch event for our Centre for Brain & Behaviour! Lots of cool research from our PIs and contributions from companies, charities, and publishers. Great fruitful discussion and exchanges. Watch this space!

Flash talks at the #TFUNfest2025 this afternoon! Next up is @gwenbrekel.bsky.social who is sharing preliminary results on what students value in relation to equality and diversity in their teaching...

So excited to see that IASCL now has a group Zotero library of research on language acquisition in under-represented languages. 👏👏. All information here: www.childlanguage.org/underreprese...

🚨Postdoctoral fellowship in corpus phonetics / data science for speech with me and Ann Bradlow. Position is open immediately. Apply now! 🚨 Details: faculty.wcas.northwestern.edu/matt-goldric...

Constructing language: a framework for explaining acquisition Explaining how children build a language system is a central goal of research in language acquisition, with broad implications for language evolution, adult language processing, and artificial intelli...

Children are incredible language learning machines. But how do they do it? Our latest paper, just published in TICS, synthesizes decades of evidence to propose four components that must be built into any theory of how children learn language. 1/
www.cell.com/trends/cogni... @mpi-nl.bsky.social

What an incredible first day! | British Psychological Society Division of Academics, Researchers, and Teachers in Psychology (DARTP) What an incredible first day! Some fantastic talks, discussions, and networking - we can't wait to do it all again tomorrow! Here's a few photos from the day... #dartp2025

What an incredible first day! Some fantastic talks, discussions, and networking - we can't wait to do it all again tomorrow! Check out our LinkedIn post for a few photos from the day... #dartp2025

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We are doing a survey to understand why other professionals do/don't refer people with Primary Progressive Aphasia for speech-language support

We want Drs, nurses, psychologists, social workers, OTs, PTs & any other profession.

The survey can be accessed here: qualtrics.ucl.ac.uk/jfe/form/SV_...

Logos for The British Academy and Green Park Job title: Director of Communications Location: 10-11 Carlton House Terrace, SW1Y 5AH Reports to: Chief Executive

OK folks - will you please help me spread this far and wide. A really exciting opportunity to be the new Director of Comms at @britishacademy.bsky.social - the national academy for humanities and social sciences. £100k. Lovely team. Reports directly to me
micro.green-park.co.uk/thebritishac...

PhD Studentship & Graduate Teaching Assistant at Birkbeck, University of London Apply now for the PhD Studentship & Graduate Teaching Assistant role on jobs.ac.uk - the leading job board for higher education jobs. View details.

There's a PhD studentship opportunity available at the Birkbeck School of Psychological Sciences! 4 years, funded by working as a graduate teaching assistant. Feel free to get in touch if you have questions. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMD691/p...

As always a delight to host @emilynordmann.bsky.social and a very sunny day to boot! Thanks very much for sharing your words of wisdom with our @qmulsbbs.bsky.social teaching & scholarship staff, and for the thought-provoking seminar in the @queenmarycbb.bsky.social psychology seminar!

Last stretch! Please help if you can. If you teach at a Spanish university, don’t hesitate to share with your students. I wouldn’t mind doing an online session afterwards if you want me to introduce the topic of emotion to your students (or I could do a methodological session on online surveys). Thx

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50 years ago Alan Baddeley and Graham Hitch propelled the term #workingmemory into the psychological lexicon, with a vision that still resonates today!
This editorial with Mark Hurlstone, @amyatkinson.bsky.social , Satoru Saito and Robert Logie, reflects on that remarkable contribution in 1974.

The art of well-being: Group activities shown to ease depression and anxiety in older adults A new study led by Queen Mary University of London researchers reveals that group arts interventions—such as painting, music, or dance—can significantly reduce symptoms of depression and anxiety among older adults.

Group arts activities, such as painting and music, can significantly reduce depression and anxiety symptoms in older adults, offering a promising alternative to traditional mental health treatments. doi.org/g866dw

The cover for the book '50 essentials on science communication'. It features some images in red and greenish blue, showing a space shuttle, Albert Einstein mid-jump, a researcher with huge glasses, test tubes, a hand, speech bubbles, a light bulb, lots of arrows, and more.

Are you thinking about doing more science communication, but not really sure where to start?

Maybe you are already communicating, but would like to explore a wider range of channels?

Or you just want an A-to-Z overview of everything #scicomm related?

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A blue infographic gives a step by step guide on how to Skype a scientist. The steps are: 1) sign up on skypeascientist.com 2) pick a category of science your group would like to talk about (e.g. marine biology, chemistry, astronomy) 3) get a match via email 4) connect with your scientist, discuss your ur group’s needs and pick a time to chat 5) talk to your scientist!

Hi! We're Skype a Scientist! We're a free program that matches scientists with classrooms, scout troops, libraries, & other groups for Q&As all about science.

Get matched with a scientist for a virtual conversation! We have 30+ types of scientist & match weekly.
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You are all invited to"Meet the team"! We will post regularly to introduce our fantastic staff at the Department of Psychology and Centre for Brain & Behaviour. Today, we would like to introduce Gwen Brekelmans @gwenbrekel.bsky.social and Sevasti Foka.

Nasal coarticulation in Lombard speech Speaking in noisy environments entails a multitude of adaptations to speech production. Such modifications are expected to reduce gestural overlap bet…

New open access paper in Speech Communication on “nasal coarticulation in Lombard speech”: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I argue that, in Lombard speech, coarticulatory vowel nasality falls amid a compressed range of nasalisation, but coarticulation is maintained

@phoneticslab.bsky.social

THE BUNNY PAPER HAS BEEN PUBLISHED!!

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

#linguistics 🐦

UCL Young People's Mental Health Creative Showcase An exhibition of young people's artworks on the topic of mental health and mental health research.

Don’t miss the Young People’s Mental Health Creative Showcase organised by Dr Christina Carlisi’s UCL team, happening this Friday evening! www.eventbrite.com/e/ucl-young-...

New preprint! This paper shows that the perceptual boundary between speech and song can shift due to the surrounding context. Specifically, speech/song categorization is affected by contrastive adaptation: perceptual movement away from the previous stimulus.

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A picture of a humpback whale just below the sea surface taken by Marc Quintin

A thread explaining our new discovery about humpback whale song published today in Science... We found key statistical properties that characterise all human languages in another species for the first time. We have more in common with whales than we previously thought! doi.org/10.1126/scie...

The British Sign Language Corpus offers video data documenting BSL use in the UK. It supports research into BSL structure, use, and change, aiding education, interpreter training, and linguistics. Explore it here: bslcorpusproject.org

The absolute unit sheep; an Exmoor Horn ram

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The Child Language Symposium 2025 will be hosted by the University of Reading on September 8th-10th.

Our call for papers is now open and will close on 28th February. Submit your abstract for a poster, an oral presentation, a symposium, or a lightening talk. Pls RT

research.reading.ac.uk/cls2025/

Diversity in research on the psychology of language: A large-scale examination of sampling bias The human capacity for language cannot be fully understood without appreciation of its ability to adapt to startling diversity. Narrow sampling theref…

A study on sample diversity in > 5500 psycholinguistic studies "find that representation of Global South researchers & contexts has grown, but this growth is centered in a handful of countries, and Africa and Southeast Asia remain severely underrepresented."
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