Dario Paape
@dariopaape.bsky.social
psycholinguistics @ Potsdam, Germany
https://d-paape.github.io
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Today's random insight during a lab meeting on visual world experiments was that there's probably a deeper reason why clip art is perfect for psychology experiments. Even found a paper arguing that clip art is "the visual representation of common sense categories": doi.org/10.1177/1470...
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November 13, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Today's random insight during a lab meeting on visual world experiments was that there's probably a deeper reason why clip art is perfect for psychology experiments. Even found a paper arguing that clip art is "the visual representation of common sense categories": doi.org/10.1177/1470...
Geht es nur mir so oder ist das seltsam, weil es sich anhört, als wäre er schon Manager? (Quelle: FAZ)
November 12, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Geht es nur mir so oder ist das seltsam, weil es sich anhört, als wäre er schon Manager? (Quelle: FAZ)
Gut, dass es Dünger extra für Qualitätsblumen gibt
November 5, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Gut, dass es Dünger extra für Qualitätsblumen gibt
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Actually, we recently spooked away some ghosts with warnings and other scary things (with @semihaktepe.bsky.social)
October 30, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Actually, we recently spooked away some ghosts with warnings and other scary things (with @semihaktepe.bsky.social)
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Can AI simulations of human research participants advance cognitive science? In @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social, @lmesseri.bsky.social & I analyze this vision. We show how “AI Surrogates” entrench practices that limit the generalizability of cognitive science while aspiring to do the opposite. 1/
AI Surrogates and illusions of generalizability in cognitive science
Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) have generated enthusiasm for using AI simulations of human research participants to generate new know…
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October 21, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Can AI simulations of human research participants advance cognitive science? In @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social, @lmesseri.bsky.social & I analyze this vision. We show how “AI Surrogates” entrench practices that limit the generalizability of cognitive science while aspiring to do the opposite. 1/
Making Apfelstrudel and the recipe says to adjust the amount of breadcrumbs according to "how much the butter can soak up". Am I having a stroke or should it be the other way around? This even appears twice in the recipe. #linguistics
October 13, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Making Apfelstrudel and the recipe says to adjust the amount of breadcrumbs according to "how much the butter can soak up". Am I having a stroke or should it be the other way around? This even appears twice in the recipe. #linguistics
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Computer Science is no longer just about building systems or proving theorems--it's about observation and experiments.
In my latest blog post, I argue it’s time we had our own "Econometrics," a discipline devoted to empirical rigor.
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In my latest blog post, I argue it’s time we had our own "Econometrics," a discipline devoted to empirical rigor.
doomscrollingbabel.manoel.xyz/p/the-missin...
October 5, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Computer Science is no longer just about building systems or proving theorems--it's about observation and experiments.
In my latest blog post, I argue it’s time we had our own "Econometrics," a discipline devoted to empirical rigor.
doomscrollingbabel.manoel.xyz/p/the-missin...
In my latest blog post, I argue it’s time we had our own "Econometrics," a discipline devoted to empirical rigor.
doomscrollingbabel.manoel.xyz/p/the-missin...
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If you mash the audio example buttons on the wikipedia page for the IPA vowel sounds you can create a choir of mildly disgusted men
September 20, 2025 at 6:52 PM
If you mash the audio example buttons on the wikipedia page for the IPA vowel sounds you can create a choir of mildly disgusted men
So if someone is "X poor" and you promise to make them "X rich", is X the difference between their $$$ and some average, and you're promising to basically flip the sign of that difference? I want to understand precisely what the bear is offering here. #linguistics
September 21, 2025 at 6:55 PM
So if someone is "X poor" and you promise to make them "X rich", is X the difference between their $$$ and some average, and you're promising to basically flip the sign of that difference? I want to understand precisely what the bear is offering here. #linguistics
Can we accurately model reading time patterns by assuming that readers predict upcoming words, but that their memory of the sentence context that the prediction is based on is imperfect? New preprint led by Johan Hennert: osf.io/preprints/ps...
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September 14, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Can we accurately model reading time patterns by assuming that readers predict upcoming words, but that their memory of the sentence context that the prediction is based on is imperfect? New preprint led by Johan Hennert: osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
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doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
1/n
September 6, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
1/n
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
1/n
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Newsletter: My 16,000 word opus - How To Argue With An AI Booster, a comprehensive guide to arguing with AI boosters, addressing both their bad faith debate style and their specific (and flimsy) arguments as to why generative AI is the future.
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August 25, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Newsletter: My 16,000 word opus - How To Argue With An AI Booster, a comprehensive guide to arguing with AI boosters, addressing both their bad faith debate style and their specific (and flimsy) arguments as to why generative AI is the future.
www.wheresyoured.at/how-to-argue...
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Inscrutability of reference still going strong. I was totally assuming that the little guy in the picture was the nurdle and immediately went "How dare you!" #linguistics
August 12, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Inscrutability of reference still going strong. I was totally assuming that the little guy in the picture was the nurdle and immediately went "How dare you!" #linguistics
New preprint with @shravanvasishth.bsky.social: We use a computational model to look at how linguistic context affects first-pass attachment and reanalysis. Assuming a tripartite mixture of reanalyzed, non-reanalyzed and inattentive trials outperforms LLM surprisal. lingbuzz.net/lingbuzz/009...
Context ameliorates but does not eliminate garden-pathing: Novel insights from latent-process modeling - lingbuzz/009217
A theoretically important claim in psycholinguistics is that in English, linguistic context largely eliminates garden-path effects in temporary complement clause/relative clause ambiguities (e.g., Alt...
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August 5, 2025 at 3:27 PM
New preprint with @shravanvasishth.bsky.social: We use a computational model to look at how linguistic context affects first-pass attachment and reanalysis. Assuming a tripartite mixture of reanalyzed, non-reanalyzed and inattentive trials outperforms LLM surprisal. lingbuzz.net/lingbuzz/009...
There‘s probably a reason that these guys aren‘t placed right next to Hagebuttentee, Kamillentee and Pfefferminztee #linguistics
August 4, 2025 at 5:27 PM
There‘s probably a reason that these guys aren‘t placed right next to Hagebuttentee, Kamillentee and Pfefferminztee #linguistics
I think this is the first time ever that I've seen this bracketing in the wild. [[pet [dog and cat]] poo] #linguistics
August 2, 2025 at 10:09 AM
I think this is the first time ever that I've seen this bracketing in the wild. [[pet [dog and cat]] poo] #linguistics
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In a stunning moment of self-delusion, the Wall Street Journal headline writers admitted that they don't know how LLM chatbots work.
July 21, 2025 at 1:48 AM
In a stunning moment of self-delusion, the Wall Street Journal headline writers admitted that they don't know how LLM chatbots work.
InStyle is perhaps one of the last places where I would have looked for linguistic pedantry. The temptation to write "1 Preis" ("Eins Preis") must have been enormous. #linguistics
July 16, 2025 at 2:26 PM
InStyle is perhaps one of the last places where I would have looked for linguistic pedantry. The temptation to write "1 Preis" ("Eins Preis") must have been enormous. #linguistics
They turned the internet into an IRL magazine and are selling it for 9 Euros
July 16, 2025 at 7:50 AM
They turned the internet into an IRL magazine and are selling it for 9 Euros
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I'm offering a 3-year PhD position with benefits (1-year extension possible). Research topic open but broadly in incremental sentence comprehension. If you're into eye-tracking, even better! No teaching until Summer 2027, light teaching after that (English). Official ad soon. Please share 🙏
July 9, 2025 at 11:05 AM
I'm offering a 3-year PhD position with benefits (1-year extension possible). Research topic open but broadly in incremental sentence comprehension. If you're into eye-tracking, even better! No teaching until Summer 2027, light teaching after that (English). Official ad soon. Please share 🙏
Wondering if the increased frequency of these kinds of headlines makes people better at processing double negation. "Trump NOT allowed to NOT allow X" #linguistics
June 30, 2025 at 5:30 AM
Wondering if the increased frequency of these kinds of headlines makes people better at processing double negation. "Trump NOT allowed to NOT allow X" #linguistics
June 29, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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The really interesting part is that the LLM (or LRM or whatever) enthusiasts quoted in the article defend the models' "reasoning" by basically saying that it's actually somehow clever of them to be wrong
The really interesting part is that the LLM (or LRM or whatever) enthusiasts quoted in the article defend the models' "reasoning" by basically saying that it's actually somehow clever of them to be wrong
June 12, 2025 at 11:13 AM
arstechnica.com/ai/2025/06/n...
The really interesting part is that the LLM (or LRM or whatever) enthusiasts quoted in the article defend the models' "reasoning" by basically saying that it's actually somehow clever of them to be wrong
The really interesting part is that the LLM (or LRM or whatever) enthusiasts quoted in the article defend the models' "reasoning" by basically saying that it's actually somehow clever of them to be wrong
JML special issue on nonveridical language comprehension, co-edited by @golfwriterkiel.bsky.social and myself - deadline is January 31, 2026. www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu... #linguistics
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May 17, 2025 at 8:11 AM
JML special issue on nonveridical language comprehension, co-edited by @golfwriterkiel.bsky.social and myself - deadline is January 31, 2026. www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu... #linguistics