Stefan Frank

Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia

Our demands, see link

Hello & HAPPY FRIDAY, as promised an open letter by my lovely colleagues and myself. Everybody, feel free to sign this even if you are not NL-based and ‼️ share ‼️ (anonymous signature is poss):

Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia

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Eerlijkere loonverdeling in het hoger onderwijs Zeker nu minister Bruins van OCW de grootste bezuinigingen op het hoger onderwijs in decennia heeft aangekondigd is het essentieel dat de sector zich niet tegen elkaar uit laat spelen en solidair met ...

Ik vind deze campagne erg belangrijk - doe je ook mee? actie.degoedezaak.org/petitions/ee...

Interested in a paid PhD position in the Netherlands? Join me, Annemarie van Dooren, and @arianna-bis.bsky.social on a project to develop computational models of modal verb acquisition. A job ad will be out soon, but here's a preview: yevgen.web.rug.nl/phd.pdf

The ECOLANG Multimodal Corpus of adult-child and adult-adult Language Scientific Data - The ECOLANG Multimodal Corpus of adult-child and adult-adult Language

Inaugural post on bsky: The ECOLANG Multimodal Corpus, providing audiovisual recordings and annotations of multimodal communicative behaviours by English-speaking adults in dyadic interaction with a child or another adult is now available rdcu.be/eblMF

Associate/Assistant Professor: Language and Speech Technology | Radboud University Do you want to work as a Associate/Assistant Professor: Language and Speech Technology at the Faculty of Arts? Check our vacancy!

Come work with us! Our department is hiring an associate/assistant prof in language and speech technology www.ru.nl/en/working-a...
#interspeech #speech #SpeechTech #SpeechScience

Revisiting processing complexity of nested and cross-serial dependencies Author(s): Yadav, Himanshu; Frank, Stefan; Futrell, Richard; Husain, Samar | Abstract: In two web-based experiments, we compare comprehension difficulty between Dutch and German sentences with cl...

... and next up is Yadav, Frank, Futrell, and Husain, "Revisiting processing complexity of nested and cross-serial dependencies", which can be found here...

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"students engaged in language learning exhibited an approximately threefold increased likelihood of attaining a passing grade (or achieving higher results in standardised tests) than their peers, who were not involved in language lessons" -- which is not as impressive as performing 3x better

🌟 Welcome to MultiplEYE on BlueSky! 🌟

MultiplEYE is an interdisciplinary network of research groups working on collecting #eyetracking data from reading in many languages. Visit our website to learn more: www.multipleye.eu.

Stay tuned for exciting developments and be part of our vibrant community!

'Bezuinigen? Tijd voor een open access-revolutie’ - ScienceGuide Als het kabinet wil bezuinigen op hoger onderwijs, is er een logische plek om te beginnen: open access, betogen Wim Pouw en Bert Bakker.

We wrote an opinion piece in Dutch that we should divest in for-profit publishing. Instead we should invest in Diamond Open Access, such that we keep innovating in a time of budget cuts
www.scienceguide.nl/2024/12/bezu...
@jeroenson.bsky.social

Stuur met een druk op de knop een mail naar een van de partijen die nu onderhandelen over de bezuinigingen op het hoger onderwijs!

www.fnv.nl/cao-sector/o...

CogSci 2025 Call for Reviewers CogSci is looking for abstract reviewers for the 2025 conference in San Francisco. If you are interested in this role, please complete the following form. If you have any questions, please contact cog...

Want to review for #CogSci2025? Click this thing. @cogscisociety.bsky.social
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Kom ook morgen naar het Malieveld om 13.00 om tegen de bezuinigingen op het hoger onderwijs te demonstreren!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=exxG...

After learning the publisher sold access to its data for LLM training, I resigned as editor of Language, Cognition & Neuroscience (I will continue handling papers already assigned). If any not-for-profit journal is looking for an editor who knows a bit about psycholinguistics, please get in touch!

Last chance to get meta in your cogsci reviewing!

I'm hiring a postdoc! If you have experience with computational modelling of language and an interest in bilingualism, then check out the ad here: www.ru.nl/en/working-a... (and please spread the word!)

Check out the detailed program for CogSci 2024 and get ready to join us in Rotterdam! The image features bold green text on a dark teal background, with an icon of a magnifying glass highlighting a sequence of three connected rectangles.

📢 The full detailed program for #CogSci2024 is now available for download on our website!

cognitivesciencesociety.org/program/

Als aftrap van een grootschalig protest tegen de plannen van de aankomende regering roepen we iedereen op om op zaterdag 22 juni om 14 uur op het Jaarbeursplein te Utrecht samen met landelijke studentenvakbond (LSVb) te protesteren tegen de bezuinigingen op het hoger onderwijs.

Europapa

Registration for #CogSci2024 IS OPEN and you will get the BEST RATE if you register before May 25!

cognitivesciencesociety.org/registration/

If attending poses financial challenges, we’re still offering financial hardship waiver and support for your additional family care costs! Apply by May 25!

Heel leuk: een interview met @mdhk.net , Zoë Prins en Michelle Suijkerbuijk over ons BLiMP-NL project!
www.nemokennislink.nl/publicaties/...

Call for submissions! 30th Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP), 5-7 September 2024, Edinburgh, Scotland. Present your interdisciplinary research on all aspects of language processing in a beautiful and fun city. More info at amlap2024.ed.ac.uk

We are pleased to launch ManyLanguages, a globally distributed network of laboratories that helps coordinating #BigTeamScience data collection for studies on human language

many-languages.com

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🚨 LAST CALL! Submission for #CogSci2024 will close TOMORROW! (Feb. 1st)

The #CogSci2024 deadline is coming up! ⏰ You still have a few weeks (until February, 1st) to submit!

Please do get in touch with us if you have any queries or need any support with your submission.

also announcing the annual conference on mathematical psychology and cognitive modeling MathPsuych-ICCM happening in Tilburg from July 19-22nd: mathpsych.org/conference/15/

The Bilingual Dual-Path model: simulating bilingual production, comprehension, and development osf.io/preprints/ps.... A new preprint by @yunghankhoe.bsky.social, who's new to BlueSky and would like more followers

📣 #CogSci2024 submissions now OPEN!

🔍 Review the submission guidelines
⬇️ Download the required templates
🗓️ Make note of key deadline dates

cognitivesciencesociety.org/submissions/

Become a reviewer for CogSci2024

We're on the lookout for passionate minds to join us as reviewers for #CogSci2024. This is your chance to be among the first to check out groundbreaking research while playing a crucial role in shaping the future of #CogSci

Visit cognitivesciencesociety.org/submissions/ and fill out the form today!

Open call for co-chairing CogSci2025. Deadline for expression of interest is November 15th. What would your theme be?

📣 The call is open for co-chairing the #CogSci2025 conference!

Submissions are welcome from all regions of the globe 🌎 and collaboration among varied institutions and countries is encouraged 🤝

Visit cognitivesciencesociety.org/future-confe... for details on the process and apply!

BlueSky Invites for "Global South" scholars form This form was created to facilitate the sharing of invitation codes for Blue Sky which do not seem to be reaching "Global South" scholars who may not have the same network privileges as scholars in th...

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