Ethan Weed
@ethanweed.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Linguistics at AarhusUniversity, Denmark. Research interests: reading, dyslexia, autism. Favorite way to spend an afternoon at work: fussing over a figure in #Rstats.
https://ethanweed.github.io/pythonbook/landingpage.html
3-year postdoc at The Language Acquisition and Language Processing Lab (LALP), with a focus on toddlers at risk for autism and DLD, hosted by @vulchanovamila.bsky.social
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
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Postdoctoral Fellow at the Language acquisition and language processing lab (287298) | NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Job title: Postdoctoral Fellow at the Language acquisition and language processing lab (287298), Employer: NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Deadline: Sunday, November 16, 2025
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November 7, 2025 at 6:41 AM
3-year postdoc at The Language Acquisition and Language Processing Lab (LALP), with a focus on toddlers at risk for autism and DLD, hosted by @vulchanovamila.bsky.social
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
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Whoever Ethan Eweed is, I congratulate him on his nomination.
August 27, 2025 at 5:28 AM
Whoever Ethan Eweed is, I congratulate him on his nomination.
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"PhD-level experts in your back pocket" is a completely nonsensical description of AI but a pretty good description of social media if you follow the right people
August 9, 2025 at 11:07 PM
"PhD-level experts in your back pocket" is a completely nonsensical description of AI but a pretty good description of social media if you follow the right people
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Got Butterflies in your Stomach? I am super excited to share the first major study of my postdoc @the-ecg.bsky.social - Now out in @natmentalhealth.nature.com! We report a multidimensional mental health signature of stomach-brain coupling in the largest sample to date www.nature.com/articles/s44...
July 30, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Got Butterflies in your Stomach? I am super excited to share the first major study of my postdoc @the-ecg.bsky.social - Now out in @natmentalhealth.nature.com! We report a multidimensional mental health signature of stomach-brain coupling in the largest sample to date www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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Major updates to our ConversationAlign R package - submitted to CRAN and JOSS today. If you're interested in computing alignment and main effects for >40 psycholinguistic dimensions in naturalistic conversation, this is the package for you reilly-conceptscognitionlab.github.io/Conversation...
ConversationAlign
Reads conversation transcripts into R, cleans and formats them, and yokes user-specified psycholinguistic database values to each word. ConversationAlign computes alignment indices between two interlo...
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July 10, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Major updates to our ConversationAlign R package - submitted to CRAN and JOSS today. If you're interested in computing alignment and main effects for >40 psycholinguistic dimensions in naturalistic conversation, this is the package for you reilly-conceptscognitionlab.github.io/Conversation...
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The final kick is 😍😍😍
Beatrice Chebet just ran a sub 14 minute 5k youtu.be/KjCjtg_rVxU?...
Beatrice Chebet DEMOLISHES WORLD RECORD in women's 5000m at Prefontaine Classic | NBC Sports
YouTube video by NBC Sports
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July 6, 2025 at 12:20 AM
The final kick is 😍😍😍
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In preparation of teaching and supervision coming years I have created a webpage that provides a bit of a landing page for students to see what me and my colleagues are up to, to help carve out projects: www.wimpouw.com/collaborate....
July 3, 2025 at 11:11 AM
In preparation of teaching and supervision coming years I have created a webpage that provides a bit of a landing page for students to see what me and my colleagues are up to, to help carve out projects: www.wimpouw.com/collaborate....
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Experimentology is out today!!! A group of us wrote a free online textbook for experimental methods, available at experimentology.io - the idea was to integrate open science into all aspects of the experimental workflow from planning to design, analysis, and writing.
July 1, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Experimentology is out today!!! A group of us wrote a free online textbook for experimental methods, available at experimentology.io - the idea was to integrate open science into all aspects of the experimental workflow from planning to design, analysis, and writing.
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I am once again pitching my romantic comedy:
- two academics start dating
- discover they are each other's terrible reviewer
- hijinks ensue
Working title: Love is Double-Blind
- two academics start dating
- discover they are each other's terrible reviewer
- hijinks ensue
Working title: Love is Double-Blind
June 18, 2025 at 10:55 AM
I am once again pitching my romantic comedy:
- two academics start dating
- discover they are each other's terrible reviewer
- hijinks ensue
Working title: Love is Double-Blind
- two academics start dating
- discover they are each other's terrible reviewer
- hijinks ensue
Working title: Love is Double-Blind
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How can we visualise the agency of art and artists in past societies? Mine and @dparrott.bsky.social's session at @tag2025york.bsky.social intends to bring together exciting new research to explore this question! Interested? Why not submit an abstract!✋ 🎨🖌️🏺
June 17, 2025 at 11:44 AM
How can we visualise the agency of art and artists in past societies? Mine and @dparrott.bsky.social's session at @tag2025york.bsky.social intends to bring together exciting new research to explore this question! Interested? Why not submit an abstract!✋ 🎨🖌️🏺
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Introducing the tidynorm package! It's got convenience functions for applying your favorite vowel normalization methods to point measures, formant tracks, and DCT coefficients in a tidyverse workflow, as well as a flexible framework for defining your own normalization methods!
Introducing tidynorm – Væl Space
Here’s a brief introduction to the new tidynorm package.
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June 16, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Introducing the tidynorm package! It's got convenience functions for applying your favorite vowel normalization methods to point measures, formant tracks, and DCT coefficients in a tidyverse workflow, as well as a flexible framework for defining your own normalization methods!
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Thanks for all your interest in sharing cognitive psych teaching! There're 3 ongoing 🧵's now:
1️⃣ syllabus & general tips 👉 tinyurl.com/ktbrk7mm
2️⃣ useful videos 👉 tinyurl.com/z43hecdz
3️⃣ demos 👉 tinyurl.com/5n7pkp38
Check out these 🧵's & pls share your favorite resources! I'll share a complied list.
1️⃣ syllabus & general tips 👉 tinyurl.com/ktbrk7mm
2️⃣ useful videos 👉 tinyurl.com/z43hecdz
3️⃣ demos 👉 tinyurl.com/5n7pkp38
Check out these 🧵's & pls share your favorite resources! I'll share a complied list.
I teach an undergrad cognitive psychology class. I've been thinking about assembling useful teaching resources (demos, videos, etc.) from other cogpsy instructors & sharing them in a single place. If there's enough interest here, I'll make a separate post & ask you to share your favorite materials.
June 15, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Thanks for all your interest in sharing cognitive psych teaching! There're 3 ongoing 🧵's now:
1️⃣ syllabus & general tips 👉 tinyurl.com/ktbrk7mm
2️⃣ useful videos 👉 tinyurl.com/z43hecdz
3️⃣ demos 👉 tinyurl.com/5n7pkp38
Check out these 🧵's & pls share your favorite resources! I'll share a complied list.
1️⃣ syllabus & general tips 👉 tinyurl.com/ktbrk7mm
2️⃣ useful videos 👉 tinyurl.com/z43hecdz
3️⃣ demos 👉 tinyurl.com/5n7pkp38
Check out these 🧵's & pls share your favorite resources! I'll share a complied list.
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Check out our preprint (linked again here: osf.io/preprints/ps...) where we measured neural sensitivity to changes in semantic space while listening to a podcast. Not only do we look at word-to-word but larger chunks too (2-gram, 5-gram, 10-gram) to examine meaning construction at multiple levels.
June 13, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Check out our preprint (linked again here: osf.io/preprints/ps...) where we measured neural sensitivity to changes in semantic space while listening to a podcast. Not only do we look at word-to-word but larger chunks too (2-gram, 5-gram, 10-gram) to examine meaning construction at multiple levels.
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In Nature Human Behaviour, Peter Gleick calls on scientists who are able and willing to do so to speak out publicly against the Trump administration’s attack on science, and argues that although dissent carries risks, it is riskier to stay silent. go.nature.com/3FIV7cC 🧪
June 13, 2025 at 1:07 AM
In Nature Human Behaviour, Peter Gleick calls on scientists who are able and willing to do so to speak out publicly against the Trump administration’s attack on science, and argues that although dissent carries risks, it is riskier to stay silent. go.nature.com/3FIV7cC 🧪
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How do children come to master the rhythm of conversation? What can we learn from autism? A thread on our new Cognitive Science paper w @chrismmcox.bsky.social (osf.io/preprints/ps...), which builds on evidence synthesis to flip previous findings. 1/
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June 11, 2025 at 4:25 PM
How do children come to master the rhythm of conversation? What can we learn from autism? A thread on our new Cognitive Science paper w @chrismmcox.bsky.social (osf.io/preprints/ps...), which builds on evidence synthesis to flip previous findings. 1/
So happy - the swallows have decided to move back into the nest on the gable end of our house. They had abandoned it for two years, and I had given up hope that they would be back, but here they are!
June 11, 2025 at 3:59 PM
So happy - the swallows have decided to move back into the nest on the gable end of our house. They had abandoned it for two years, and I had given up hope that they would be back, but here they are!
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Pro tip, folks: if you make a figure for a publication, don’t just hand the copyright over to the publisher. Post it on OSF first and then give yourself permission to use it in the first publication and then all future publications. That way, no permissions issues.
June 10, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Pro tip, folks: if you make a figure for a publication, don’t just hand the copyright over to the publisher. Post it on OSF first and then give yourself permission to use it in the first publication and then all future publications. That way, no permissions issues.
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Once upon a time I couldn't replicate a published finding...and decided to do something about it.
Little did I know how long it would take to finish 😭...but here we are. I'm super proud of this paper and grateful to the other 68 (!) authors. ❤️
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Little did I know how long it would take to finish 😭...but here we are. I'm super proud of this paper and grateful to the other 68 (!) authors. ❤️
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
How strong is the rhythm of perception? A registered replication of Hickok et al. (2015) | Royal Society Open Science
Our ability to predict upcoming events is a fundamental component of human cognition.
One way in which we do so is by exploiting temporal regularities in sensory signals:
the ticking of a clock, falli...
royalsocietypublishing.org
June 11, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Once upon a time I couldn't replicate a published finding...and decided to do something about it.
Little did I know how long it would take to finish 😭...but here we are. I'm super proud of this paper and grateful to the other 68 (!) authors. ❤️
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Little did I know how long it would take to finish 😭...but here we are. I'm super proud of this paper and grateful to the other 68 (!) authors. ❤️
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
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To make it easier to share teaching resources, I'd like to start by asking what your favorite cog psych videos are.
Let me start: I love showing this visual agnosia video in class. Kevin is articulate about his recognition problems.
What's your favorite? I'll compile your responses & share them.
Let me start: I love showing this visual agnosia video in class. Kevin is articulate about his recognition problems.
What's your favorite? I'll compile your responses & share them.
June 1, 2025 at 4:06 PM
To make it easier to share teaching resources, I'd like to start by asking what your favorite cog psych videos are.
Let me start: I love showing this visual agnosia video in class. Kevin is articulate about his recognition problems.
What's your favorite? I'll compile your responses & share them.
Let me start: I love showing this visual agnosia video in class. Kevin is articulate about his recognition problems.
What's your favorite? I'll compile your responses & share them.
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I really like the backstory of this paper. I had been working w C Dideriksen & @chrismmcox.bsky.social on weird properties of Danish Infant Directed speech (srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...). I wanted to rigorously understand our findings given what was known on IDS across languages 1/
Do caregivers exaggerate vowels when talking to infants? Prior findings are inconsistent () & the mechanisms unclear. We meta-analyzed 35 studies across 10 languages to disentangle systematic cross-linguistic and methodological variation. Paper: osf.io/preprints/ps... 🧵
May 21, 2025 at 8:22 PM
I really like the backstory of this paper. I had been working w C Dideriksen & @chrismmcox.bsky.social on weird properties of Danish Infant Directed speech (srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...). I wanted to rigorously understand our findings given what was known on IDS across languages 1/
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Our daily lives are packed w complex behaviours: reading a novel & piecing together the plot; negotiating decisions w family... How do we build mathematical models of the underlying cognitive mechanisms? Our new preprint osf.io/d2v54_v1 argues for a community approach A 🧵 1/
May 9, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Our daily lives are packed w complex behaviours: reading a novel & piecing together the plot; negotiating decisions w family... How do we build mathematical models of the underlying cognitive mechanisms? Our new preprint osf.io/d2v54_v1 argues for a community approach A 🧵 1/
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Give the people what they want! Semantic distance measures!
New R package almost birthed - SemanticDistance - computes two semantic distance metrics (experiential and embedding) for any rolling chunk size (ngram-to-ngram, word-to-word, turn-to-turn, ngram-to-word). You give it your language sample. It does the rest, including lemmatize and stopword omit
April 19, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Give the people what they want! Semantic distance measures!
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Last night was the 250th anniversary of Paul Revere's midnight ride to warn the Minutemen of approaching British troops.
I want to take a moment to share an excerpt from the Declaration of Independence's grievances against King George III.
Remind you of anyone?
I want to take a moment to share an excerpt from the Declaration of Independence's grievances against King George III.
Remind you of anyone?
April 19, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Last night was the 250th anniversary of Paul Revere's midnight ride to warn the Minutemen of approaching British troops.
I want to take a moment to share an excerpt from the Declaration of Independence's grievances against King George III.
Remind you of anyone?
I want to take a moment to share an excerpt from the Declaration of Independence's grievances against King George III.
Remind you of anyone?