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Katerina Drakoulaki
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Postdoc researcher at Mount Holyoke College interested in rhythm, language, music, and the brain. Linguist, speech language therapist and musician with imposter syndrome.
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irisvanrooij.bsky.social
Critical AI Literacy Symposium, with Dagmar Monett, @lucyavraamidou.bsky.social & Miquel Pérez Torres, Linda Mannila, and @olivia.science

🎬 Video recording: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fxyg...

📢 Symposium website: www.ru.nl/en/about-us/...

🤔 Critical AI Literacy website: www.ru.nl/en/research/...
Critical AI Literacy: Empowering people to resist hype and harms in the age of AI -- Symposium 2025
YouTube video by Iris van Rooij
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October 14, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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abracabadger.com
Data are part of our everyday lives. 📈

Navigating data can be hard if you have #aphasia or #DLD.

Janet shares her experience in this clip. ⏯️
daraprojectcity.bsky.social Dara DataVis @daraprojectcity.bsky.social · Oct 20
We are raising awareness of aphasia by:

3. Sharing an insight into data and aphasia.

In this clip, Janet explains how aphasia affects the processing of everyday information for her.

youtu.be/XYXSxNu01gc?...

#aphasia
@sayaphasia.bsky.social
@thestrokeassoc.bsky.social
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October 20, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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ashajournals.bsky.social
We're highlighting some of our trending resources on Developmental Language Disorder #DevLangDis ahead of DLD Awareness Day. Check out these articles from across our journals! https://academy.pubs.asha.org/2025/10/you-cant-see-dld-asha-journals-honors-dld-awareness-day/ #DLDday
"You Can't See DLD": ASHA Journals Honors DLD Awareness Day! - ASHA Journals Academy
Developmental language disorder (DLD) can be challenging for school-based speech-language pathologists (SLPs)—because DLD can’t be seen. The hidden nature of this disorder has inspired the theme of th...
academy.pubs.asha.org
October 16, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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moorhouseinstitute.com
🚨 Only 4 days until #DLDday! 💜💛

And today is Myth-Busting Monday! As the countdown continues, we've tackled these common misconceptions, and more, in our latest blog 👇

🔗 www.moorhouseinstitute.com/7-myths-abou...

#DevLangDis #DLD @radld.bsky.social
October 13, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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gordonhodsonphd.bsky.social
#AcademicSky #PsychSciSky

Even psychologists get amazed when non-human animals can do things that are essential to survival (and thus NOT surprising!), like categorizing stimuli.

Our error? Humans truly overestimate our uniqueness in animal kingdom.

www.scientificamerican.com/article/dogs...
These Clever Dogs Know the Difference between ‘Pull’ and ‘Throw’ Toys
These dogs can extend words to new objects based on function the way children do in early language learning
www.scientificamerican.com
September 26, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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olivia.science
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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Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece, we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to relevant work to further inform our colleagues. Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI (black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Apple’s Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf. Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al. 2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA). Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe. Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles
September 6, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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mbreen.bsky.social
Mount Holyoke College in lovely western Massachusetts is hiring a tenure-track neuroscientist. Amazing students and fantastic faculty support - please share!
mtholyoke.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Extern...
Assistant Professor of Neuroscience and Behavior
Job no: R-0000002388 Position Title: Assistant Professor of Neuroscience and Behavior Work Type: Faculty Full time In-Person Start Date: 07/01/2026 Job Description: The Department of Neuroscience and ...
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July 28, 2025 at 1:41 PM
kdrakoulaki.bsky.social
Toying around with a new academic website. I've been prompted to say "I'm a cognitive psychologist, linguist, etc". Decided to just write "interdisciplinary scientist"

Leaning into interdisciplinarity as a benefit 🤞🏻

#postdoclife #psychscisky
May 8, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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cghlewis.bsky.social
Tips for data entry in Excel.
#databs
cghlewis.com/blog/excel_e...
Tips for data entry in Excel | Crystal Lewis
This post provides a few tips for collecting higher quality and more usable data when using Excel as a data entry tool.
cghlewis.com
April 20, 2025 at 12:32 AM
kdrakoulaki.bsky.social
Interesting read from @pitchscience.com.au newsletter: as a ECR and during the current climate I'm not optimistic, but I hope to see an institutional change on how we quantify people's contribution to science archive.md/ker9f
archive.md
March 5, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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wearesolomon.bsky.social
🔴 28/2 #Τεμπη #tempi
February 27, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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rkomesidou.bsky.social
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February 11, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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naplic.bsky.social
Just added two more DLD stars to the Developmental Language Disorder starter pack. @rkomesidou.bsky.social and @kdrakoulaki.bsky.social.
Building our #DevLangDis community!

go.bsky.app/FMV4dou
February 9, 2025 at 9:54 AM
kdrakoulaki.bsky.social
I got it in my hands!
It's so absurd to see the whole book when I've only interacted with single digital chapters for 2,5 years!
Cool experience with awesome co-editors and co-authors.
I guess now I have something that says Music Psychology with my name on it 😁
#impostorsyndrome #musicscience
Two pages of the physical book that got recently published in Greek on Music Psychology
February 1, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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nichola-slp.bsky.social
#SLPeeps might want to contribute to this research, looking at vocab and word learning in 8- to 12-year-olds with a langauge disorder. #BskySpeechies #DevLangDis #SLP #SLT
lindsaycslt.bsky.social Lindsay Clarke @lindsaycslt.bsky.social · Jan 28
SLTs/SLPs working with children with Language Disorder - I'd love your input to my survey on vocabulary and word learning intervention for children aged 8-12. For participant info and survey: forms.gle/7o3A4RcesFf4...
Please share!
#DevLangDis #DLD #SLCN
Speech and Language Therapists’ vocabulary and word learning intervention practices for children with Language Disorders
forms.gle
January 29, 2025 at 10:57 PM
kdrakoulaki.bsky.social
Hmm I wonder if some political and financial events caused this 🤔

Hmm I wonder
daphnetolis.bsky.social Daphne Tolis @daphnetolis.bsky.social · Jan 28
A map with EU Members States showing how attached EU citizens feel to the #EuropeanUnion.

🇱🇺 Luxembourg tops the chart with 82% feeling attached to the EU

🇬🇷 Greece is the least attached to the EU with 37% of its citizens feeling attached to the EU
January 29, 2025 at 3:36 AM
kdrakoulaki.bsky.social
If #preregistrations were obligatory for all publications, some academics would not even have a #phd

I wonder about what people *write* they did and what they *actually* did, and how well some people don't feel obligated for these two to be the same.
Tired of lessons to avoid.
#academiclife
January 27, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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nstamouli.bsky.social Nektaria Stamouli @nstamouli.bsky.social · Jan 26
One of the biggest rallies in recent years took place in Athens today with Greeks demanding justice for the #Tempi train crash
Rallies took place in more than 110 cities in Greece and all over the world

www.politico.eu/article/gree...
Thousands protest over deadly train crash in Greece
Clashes erupted at the end of the protests in Athens and Thessaloniki.
www.politico.eu
January 26, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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michaelvaraklas.bsky.social
A video from the #Tempi #protest in #Athens, #Greece, Sunday, Jan. 26, 2025.
January 26, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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lydiaemman.bsky.social
Massive demo outside Greek parliament today as public outrage reignites over country’s deadliest train crash

New details have emerged about the 2023 #Tempi tragedy, including reports that cargo train involved in collision was carrying flammable materials

Catch my coverage on @npr.org newscast
January 26, 2025 at 11:07 AM
kdrakoulaki.bsky.social
Instead of overthinking academic bullying, I should be thrilled (and exhausted and relieved) for the publication of the first Music Psychology edited volume in **Greek**, making #musiccognition accessible for Greek undergrad students.

#academicsky #music
January 24, 2025 at 2:06 AM
kdrakoulaki.bsky.social
After a terrible morning of academic bullying, I'm so happy I get to randomly listen to traditional mourning songs from Epirus Greece to get my students discuss the blurry boundaries between language and music.

Examples from other cultures welcome!

#musiccognition #psychsky
#ecr #music
January 23, 2025 at 10:03 PM
kdrakoulaki.bsky.social
Wow awesome that such initiatives are happening!
#devlangdis
nichola-slp.bsky.social Nichola Shelton @nichola-slp.bsky.social · Jan 21
The Intervention Consensus for Language Disorders (TICLD) group are running a short survey on resources used in the teaching of Rx for children with #DevLangDis in SLP programs, and taxonomies used to describe those interventions. #SLPeeps
ticld.bsky.social TICLD @ticld.bsky.social · Jan 21
As part of the TICLD programme of research we aim to develop a taxonomy to precisely and comprehensively specify the active ingredients of oral language SLT interventions for children with or at risk for (D)LD.

Please click on the link below to complete our survey
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January 22, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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cghlewis.bsky.social
Also, 😉
January 10, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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emilynordmann.bsky.social
Stop Getting Emails on Holidays You Celebrate With This One Weird Hack: Don't Check Your Email On Holidays You Celebrate.

#AcademicSky
December 26, 2024 at 10:24 PM