These are worrying trends because there are direct links between decreasing reading habits, decreasing literacy, and decreasing intelligence theguardian.com/books/2024/nov…

Out now! Introducing Evolutionary Pragmatics: How Language Emerges from Use. Super happy to be part of this cool edited volume. routledge.com/Introducing-Ev…

I like linguistic ambiguity more than most people

"An good way to learn German is to try reading children's books to familiarise yourself with basic grammar and vocabulary" German children's book:

I truly genuinely detest the academic job market.

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bye academia

me torturing the same sims for decades

These are the same albums

A good time to remind everyone that The Sims 1 originally came with a list of recommend reading, so don't even THINK about loading into Create-a-Sim until you've read Notes on the Synthesis of Form by Christopher W. Alexander

if you took a picture inside my head this is what it would look like

Hot off the press! We are delighted to share the latest issue of the BPS Cognitive Psychology Bulletin explore.bps.org.uk/content/bpscog… Thank you to all our contributors. It has been a pleasure to work on this issue with Dr Harriet Smith and Nick Perham

So Very excited about new paper with Simon Kirby and Ellen Garland. We used infant-inspired tools to analyze humpback whale song, finding recurring parts that follow a Zifpian distribution science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Sharing on behalf of Emma Aquadro from Nottingham Trent University, who is investigating the psychosocial experiences of children who have experienced parental separation. If you are a parent or caregiver that can help Emma, please take part in her short survey. Please RT too!

Literacy at Work, sent off to DeGruyter! eeek.

Alltagsrassismus, kurz erklärt

Can't even describe how much I hate what AI has done to the process of grading student work. I hate finding it, I hate the paranoia it fosters, I hate the confrontations with students who have used it. Nothing else in my experience has ever changed my job this much for the worse

One of my recent articles published in Frontiers in Language Sciences just reached a new impact milestone. Here is the link if you would like to read our research: frontiersin.org/article/141956…

PENTACLE feat. Gen Z serisinin altıncısı bugün yayında! TED Üniversitesi İngiliz Dili ve Edebiyatı Bölümünde Başak Ağın’ın verdiği Çevreci Beşerî Bilimlere Giriş dersi için hazırlanan Maddeci Ekoeleştiri / Material Ecocriticism posteri linkte 👇 thepentacle.org/2025/04/13/pen…

I am also pleased to share the second study of my PhD exploring language and cognition in adults with and without DLD, with Prof. Ewa Dabrowska and Dr Miquel Llompart - now published in the Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research: #DevLangDis link.growkudos.com/1eob2bplkhs