Language and pain what's up with that? You can help @ValeriaBellan Ina Bornkessel-Schl. @CaitHowlett Hayley Leake et al find out Pain free ppl and ppl living with persistent pain wanted to take a survey survey.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_5o… (image added to grab your attention, nothing to do with study😉)

Enjoyed a magnificent performance of the #MagicFlute at #AdlFest this afternoon. Stunning production by Komische Oper Berlin, Barry Kosky and 1927! The only disappointing aspect: Hamlet failed to put in an appearance! 🤣

Out now: our new hypothesis and theory paper! We argue that language-related negativities — including the N400 — reflect precision-weighted prediction errors. frontiersin.org/article/10.338…

Looking forward does not mean forgetting about the past: ERP evidence for the interplay of predictive coding and interference during language processing biorxiv.org/content/10.110… -- more exciting N400 & prediction error work from Ina Bornkessel-Schl. & co... tip of the iceberg ?

Super interesting new work by Damian Blasi, @BalthasarBickel and colleagues!

Our new open access journal Neurobiology of Language -- in collaboration with @SNLMTG and The MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social -- will be rolling out momentarily! Kate Prof Kate Watkins and I are thrilled that we are nearing the start line!

Delighted and honoured to be on the editorial board for this exciting new journal!

Salome is one of my favourite operas. Thrilled to see it on stage for the first time today – thanks Opera Australia! Stunning performance by Lise Lindstrom ... I still have goose bumps! Also loved Alexander Krasnov as Jochanaan. Life is good. 🌻

Seeking participants for an online survey investigating language and pain! Anyone over the age of 18, with or without persistent pain can participate. You can help @ValeriaBellan Ina Bornkessel-Schl. Hayley Leake Noigroup and I by taking the survey! survey.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_ew…

If you haven't looked at Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel 's Data Science in a Box (datasciencebox.org), it's a complete introductory stats course that she taught at Duke University and it's all open source. Let me know if you'd like to use @RStudio Cloud as the platform too... it's free.

A postdoc position is available in my lab, the Language Neuroscience Lab at Vanderbilt University. Looking for a talented neuroimager who can play a key role on NIH-funded projects exploring functional reorganization of language processing in aphasia. langneurosci.org/join/

A shout-out to Kathryn Pettit for sending us their wonderful #CentralOtago #PinotNoir in these reusable sleeves rather than in styrofoam packaging! 👏👏 Will be taking these with us on upcoming trips to protect any take-home wine in our suitcases! 🍾🍷🌻

Just created my first raincloud plots for a paper that I’m working on. They’re super useful for visualising data and very easy to create thanks to the paper and tutorial scripts. Thanks Micah G. Allen and colleagues!

For open science advocates, how can we talk to scientists who oppose open science reforms? Here's my attempt to summarize my own positive personal experience of these reforms: babieslearninglanguage.blogspot.com/2019/04/a-most…

Submissions rolling in already. Send us yours!

Check out our special issue on story comprehension and the neurobiology of language! Thanks @KaterinaDKand for initiating this and for doing the heavy lifting in regard to the editorial work.

Bravo Opera Australia for a brilliant performance of Il Viaggio a Reims in Melbourne today. Spectacular production, many wonderful singers ... and Daniel Smith was absolutely amazing. Thanks for a great and truly entertaining afternoon at the opera!

Please help! Kākāpō Recovery needs extra funding for the aspergillosis outbreak, which has killed 6 #kakapo and threatens many more. We need to pay for flights, blood tests, diagnostics & treatment. Please RT and consider donating: doc.govt.nz/kakapo-donate. Thank you! #kakapo2019