Dr Lena M Blott
@lenamblott.bsky.social
Psycholinguist at Uni Mannheim. Academic Mama. Hunter of vintage treasures.
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![[Scene is a kitchen - a middle aged woman called JANET is boiling peas at the stove. A younger more colourfully dressed woman named LIZ approached her.]
JANET:
Ugh...
LIZ:
What's up?
JANET:
I am so bored of cooking peas!
LIZ:
Have you tried...
AI peas?
JANET:
AI peas?
LIZ:
They're peas with AI!
[Liz holds up to us a packet of peas labelled: Pea-i AI - Peas with AI].
LIZ:
Al-powered peas harness the potential of your peas
JANET:
What
LIZ [Now a voiceover as we cut to a whizzy technology diagram of peas all connected by meaningless dotted lines]
Why not take your peas to the next level with Al Peas' new Al tools to power your peas?
[Show a techno diagram of a pea with a label reading 'AI' pointing to a random zone in it]
LIZ:
Each pea has Al in a way we haven't quite worked out yet but it's fine
[Show Janet and Liz now in a Matrix-style world of peas]
LIZ:
With Al peas you can supercharge productivity and make AI work for your peas!
JANET:
What
LIZ:
Shut up
LIZ:
Our game-changing Pea-Al gives you the freedom to unlock the potential of the power of the future of your peas workflow
From opening the bag of peas
to boiling the peas
to eating the peas
To spending millions on adding Al to the peas and then having to work out what that even means.
JANET:
Is it really necessary to-
LIZ [Grabbing Janet by the collar]:
THE PEAS HAVE GOT AI, JANET
[Cut to an advert ending screen, with the bag of peas and the slogan:
AI PEAS: Just 'Peas' for god's sake buy the AI peas.
[Ends]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreiayqa37f7kik7l7s7fbtfp2sir5ckb662ry2lylinyjrfa2rkvvka@jpeg)
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The advice I give young people on choice of degree programme. Choose something you love. You’ve got the rest of your life to be frustrated and miserable.
October 9, 2025 at 7:59 PM
The advice I give young people on choice of degree programme. Choose something you love. You’ve got the rest of your life to be frustrated and miserable.
Beautiful thread
This could be a long and rambling thread. Be patient with me.
I bought an old mahogany bureau on Ebay. I didn't really want a bureau as we're meant to be downsizing, but it was a beautiful piece & obviously very old. Google lens suggests the brass chased handles are Queen Anne. That's 1702-1714 😯
I bought an old mahogany bureau on Ebay. I didn't really want a bureau as we're meant to be downsizing, but it was a beautiful piece & obviously very old. Google lens suggests the brass chased handles are Queen Anne. That's 1702-1714 😯
October 5, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Beautiful thread
An die deutsche #Linguistics #Linguistik crowd: Kann es sein, dass die Leipzig corpora gerade down sind? Wenn ja, weiß da jemand vielleicht, wann man da wieder Zugriff haben kann?
September 8, 2025 at 9:31 AM
An die deutsche #Linguistics #Linguistik crowd: Kann es sein, dass die Leipzig corpora gerade down sind? Wenn ja, weiß da jemand vielleicht, wann man da wieder Zugriff haben kann?
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Psycholinguists and psychologists: Is there good R packages for distributing items across conditions? For example, I have 60 stimuli and some preliminary data on item-level accuracy. I'd like to create 3 lists of 20 items that are matched in accuracy without coding it myself. 👀
March 31, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Psycholinguists and psychologists: Is there good R packages for distributing items across conditions? For example, I have 60 stimuli and some preliminary data on item-level accuracy. I'd like to create 3 lists of 20 items that are matched in accuracy without coding it myself. 👀
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We have another online study on Children Helping Science for adults with a baby between 2 and 24 months old! childrenhelpingscience.com/studies/7012...
February 25, 2025 at 2:13 PM
We have another online study on Children Helping Science for adults with a baby between 2 and 24 months old! childrenhelpingscience.com/studies/7012...
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Wie wäre es mal mit #Existenzstrategie statt #Exzellenzstrategie? Auch Wissenschaftler_innen wollen verlässlich Miete zahlen können, ihre Kinder ernähren & in finanziellen Notlagen nicht vollkommen aufgeschmissen sein. Plus: Existenzängste bremsen Forschung aus. Deshalb: #ExitExzellenz! #IchBinHanna
Du vergisst Existenzangst, was wäre die deutsche Exzellenzforschung ohne sie.
March 13, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Wie wäre es mal mit #Existenzstrategie statt #Exzellenzstrategie? Auch Wissenschaftler_innen wollen verlässlich Miete zahlen können, ihre Kinder ernähren & in finanziellen Notlagen nicht vollkommen aufgeschmissen sein. Plus: Existenzängste bremsen Forschung aus. Deshalb: #ExitExzellenz! #IchBinHanna
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Research from 2022 that every Democrat apologist should chew on:
“We do not find any evidence that accommodative strategies reduce radical right support. If anything, our results suggest that they lead to more voters defecting to the radical right.“
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
“We do not find any evidence that accommodative strategies reduce radical right support. If anything, our results suggest that they lead to more voters defecting to the radical right.“
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Does accommodation work? Mainstream party strategies and the success of radical right parties | Political Science Research and Methods | Cambridge Core
Does accommodation work? Mainstream party strategies and the success of radical right parties - Volume 11 Issue 1
www.cambridge.org
March 12, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Research from 2022 that every Democrat apologist should chew on:
“We do not find any evidence that accommodative strategies reduce radical right support. If anything, our results suggest that they lead to more voters defecting to the radical right.“
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
“We do not find any evidence that accommodative strategies reduce radical right support. If anything, our results suggest that they lead to more voters defecting to the radical right.“
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Come join us! We (me, Jill Lany, Perrine Brusini, and Gert Westermann) are recruiting a #devpsych PhD student to Lancaster Uni to join our ongoing Levehulme funded research project on how word learning shapes visual representations in infants! Please share! More info : tinyurl.com/ynbfkhbj
PhD - Lancaster University
tinyurl.com
March 10, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Come join us! We (me, Jill Lany, Perrine Brusini, and Gert Westermann) are recruiting a #devpsych PhD student to Lancaster Uni to join our ongoing Levehulme funded research project on how word learning shapes visual representations in infants! Please share! More info : tinyurl.com/ynbfkhbj
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We can upload 3 minute videos now.
YOU KNOW THE RULE
YOU KNOW THE RULE
March 10, 2025 at 7:52 PM
We can upload 3 minute videos now.
YOU KNOW THE RULE
YOU KNOW THE RULE
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when the teams are "imperfect woman who demanded basic safety standards for herself and the rest of the crew and cast" vs "sexual harassers, the system that protects them, and the entire right-wing media ecosystem" I hope we're all clear which side we need to be on
March 9, 2025 at 4:01 PM
when the teams are "imperfect woman who demanded basic safety standards for herself and the rest of the crew and cast" vs "sexual harassers, the system that protects them, and the entire right-wing media ecosystem" I hope we're all clear which side we need to be on
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JOB ALERT in #language and #linguistics!
Postdoc Position at the Center for Language Evolution Studies, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland.
Job offer here: www.umk.pl/en/jobs/?tas...
We are now looking at a broader candidate pool so do consider applying!
Please repost & share widely!
Postdoc Position at the Center for Language Evolution Studies, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland.
Job offer here: www.umk.pl/en/jobs/?tas...
We are now looking at a broader candidate pool so do consider applying!
Please repost & share widely!
March 8, 2025 at 4:04 PM
JOB ALERT in #language and #linguistics!
Postdoc Position at the Center for Language Evolution Studies, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland.
Job offer here: www.umk.pl/en/jobs/?tas...
We are now looking at a broader candidate pool so do consider applying!
Please repost & share widely!
Postdoc Position at the Center for Language Evolution Studies, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland.
Job offer here: www.umk.pl/en/jobs/?tas...
We are now looking at a broader candidate pool so do consider applying!
Please repost & share widely!
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Es ist in Deutschland ja so: Jede Subvention der Autoindustrie gilt als Marktwirtschaft. Und jede Investition in unsere Kinder als Sozialismus. #Groko
March 8, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Es ist in Deutschland ja so: Jede Subvention der Autoindustrie gilt als Marktwirtschaft. Und jede Investition in unsere Kinder als Sozialismus. #Groko
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Big brains of #KidLitUK - someone's asking for books that provide authentic disability representation. What are your top recs? Across all spectrums of disability.
March 9, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Big brains of #KidLitUK - someone's asking for books that provide authentic disability representation. What are your top recs? Across all spectrums of disability.
At the playground with the 5yo.
Daddy: You can lie on this hammock here if you want.
M: I did a poo on my monkey in the night.
D: What?! Really??
M: No! You said I can lie on here.
#lexical #ambiguity #linguistics
Daddy: You can lie on this hammock here if you want.
M: I did a poo on my monkey in the night.
D: What?! Really??
M: No! You said I can lie on here.
#lexical #ambiguity #linguistics
March 9, 2025 at 9:39 AM
At the playground with the 5yo.
Daddy: You can lie on this hammock here if you want.
M: I did a poo on my monkey in the night.
D: What?! Really??
M: No! You said I can lie on here.
#lexical #ambiguity #linguistics
Daddy: You can lie on this hammock here if you want.
M: I did a poo on my monkey in the night.
D: What?! Really??
M: No! You said I can lie on here.
#lexical #ambiguity #linguistics
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München, Solingen, Magdeburg: Zu allen Anschlägen gab es einen Brennpunkt in der ARD. Zur gestrigen Amokfahrt in #Mannheim bisher nicht. Warum wohl? www.volksverpetzer.de/aktuelles/ma...
Mannheim: Als die Herkunft bekannt wurde, machte man die Livestreams aus
München, Solingen, Magdeburg: Zu allen Anschlägen gab es einen Brennpunkt in der ARD. Zur gestrigen Amokfahrt in Mannheim bisher nicht.
www.volksverpetzer.de
March 4, 2025 at 10:52 AM
München, Solingen, Magdeburg: Zu allen Anschlägen gab es einen Brennpunkt in der ARD. Zur gestrigen Amokfahrt in #Mannheim bisher nicht. Warum wohl? www.volksverpetzer.de/aktuelles/ma...
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Anyone in the developmental psychology/infant research community know of any existing parent-report questionnaires on infant babbling (i.e., syllable production), specifically for English families? #DevSci
February 28, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Anyone in the developmental psychology/infant research community know of any existing parent-report questionnaires on infant babbling (i.e., syllable production), specifically for English families? #DevSci
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My German election ballot only arrived today, a long shot but is anyone traveling from Boston to Berlin today who could take it? Any leads @germanyinboston.bsky.social ?
February 21, 2025 at 5:54 PM
My German election ballot only arrived today, a long shot but is anyone traveling from Boston to Berlin today who could take it? Any leads @germanyinboston.bsky.social ?
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Good morning. After a rough few days, this week's Blind Date was perfectly timed to fill you with joy. Couldn't wipe the smile off my face. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
Blind date: ‘I was hoping to meet a total babe. She was a total babe’
Gráinne, 31, a software engineer and musician, meets Alexander, 34, a civil servant
www.theguardian.com
February 22, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Good morning. After a rough few days, this week's Blind Date was perfectly timed to fill you with joy. Couldn't wipe the smile off my face. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
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I think most people are intuitively aware of this but something like the official White House account posting an “ASMR” video of shackled immigrants is not just cruel for its own sake, it’s intentional envelope-pushing to ramp up to desensitization over inhumane detention, camps, and deaths
February 19, 2025 at 1:34 PM
I think most people are intuitively aware of this but something like the official White House account posting an “ASMR” video of shackled immigrants is not just cruel for its own sake, it’s intentional envelope-pushing to ramp up to desensitization over inhumane detention, camps, and deaths
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By the way, people should understand that the admin doesn't have to shoot or gas people to kill them. If you pile people in military-run camps in Gitmo and the Panamanian jungle without adequate food or healthcare and just wait, people will die
I think most people are intuitively aware of this but something like the official White House account posting an “ASMR” video of shackled immigrants is not just cruel for its own sake, it’s intentional envelope-pushing to ramp up to desensitization over inhumane detention, camps, and deaths
February 19, 2025 at 2:04 PM
By the way, people should understand that the admin doesn't have to shoot or gas people to kill them. If you pile people in military-run camps in Gitmo and the Panamanian jungle without adequate food or healthcare and just wait, people will die
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Liebe dt. Wissenschaftsinstitutionen, wir lesen überall starke Bekenntnisse für unsere Demokratie & großes Entsetzen über Dammbruch durch Union, der Demokratie & Menschenrechte unmittelbar gefährdet. Auch Ihr solltet dazu nun laut werden: Wissenschaft hat Demokratieverantwortung! #LauteWissenschaft
January 30, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Liebe dt. Wissenschaftsinstitutionen, wir lesen überall starke Bekenntnisse für unsere Demokratie & großes Entsetzen über Dammbruch durch Union, der Demokratie & Menschenrechte unmittelbar gefährdet. Auch Ihr solltet dazu nun laut werden: Wissenschaft hat Demokratieverantwortung! #LauteWissenschaft
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I am writing psycholinguistics lectures for 1st time in many years, I only have 3 so it's a whistlestop tour but I want to ensure multilingualism & signed languages are represented. Am struggling to find sign research re: syntactic parsing models - has it been done? Any pointers appreciated!
February 14, 2025 at 6:11 PM
I am writing psycholinguistics lectures for 1st time in many years, I only have 3 so it's a whistlestop tour but I want to ensure multilingualism & signed languages are represented. Am struggling to find sign research re: syntactic parsing models - has it been done? Any pointers appreciated!
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On Darwin Day, a reminder that Charles Darwin had an inexplicable major beef with marine iguanas, writing that they were:
"small and of a sooty black, which if possible, heightens their native ugliness" and
"the most disgusting, clumsy lizards.... Somebody calls them 'imps of darkness'"
"small and of a sooty black, which if possible, heightens their native ugliness" and
"the most disgusting, clumsy lizards.... Somebody calls them 'imps of darkness'"
February 12, 2025 at 7:18 PM
On Darwin Day, a reminder that Charles Darwin had an inexplicable major beef with marine iguanas, writing that they were:
"small and of a sooty black, which if possible, heightens their native ugliness" and
"the most disgusting, clumsy lizards.... Somebody calls them 'imps of darkness'"
"small and of a sooty black, which if possible, heightens their native ugliness" and
"the most disgusting, clumsy lizards.... Somebody calls them 'imps of darkness'"
Was really enjoying Bluesky for a moment there. And now it's like 5% jokes, 5% wholesome content and 90% the collapse of the United States. I cannot afford going back to my doomscrolling habit, help.
February 12, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Was really enjoying Bluesky for a moment there. And now it's like 5% jokes, 5% wholesome content and 90% the collapse of the United States. I cannot afford going back to my doomscrolling habit, help.