Olga Kepinska
@olgakepinska.bsky.social
multilingualism, language acquisition & neurolinguistics. researcher @cnrs.fr @univ-amu.fr @ilcb.bsky.social; previously postdoc @brainlanglab.bsky.social @univie.ac.at, UCSF/UConn brainLENSlab, LUCL Leiden & LIBC Leiden. https://olgakepinska
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Olga Kepinska
@olgakepinska.bsky.social
· Jun 26
🚨🚨🚨Big, BIG news!!! 🎉 In Fall 2025, I'm starting as a CNRS Researcher at LPL @univ-amu.fr in Aix-en-Provence, South of France. Thrilled to join the amazing @ilcb.bsky.social community and launch my research on fetal language acquisition & brain development in multilingual contexts. 🫄🗣️🧠 Stay tuned!
Reposted by Olga Kepinska
This is 🤯
All publicly available. Looks like an amazing new histology-based human probabilistic atlas and parcellation tool.
#neuroskyence #mri #brainmapping
A probabilistic histological atlas of the human brain for MRI segmentation | Nature share.google/5AD0iW7pxgb4...
All publicly available. Looks like an amazing new histology-based human probabilistic atlas and parcellation tool.
#neuroskyence #mri #brainmapping
A probabilistic histological atlas of the human brain for MRI segmentation | Nature share.google/5AD0iW7pxgb4...
A probabilistic histological atlas of the human brain for MRI segmentation - Nature
NextBrain is an open source, probabilistic atlas of the entire human brain, assembled using artificial-intelligence-enabled registration and segmentation methods to reconstruct the multimodal serial h...
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November 6, 2025 at 5:35 AM
This is 🤯
All publicly available. Looks like an amazing new histology-based human probabilistic atlas and parcellation tool.
#neuroskyence #mri #brainmapping
A probabilistic histological atlas of the human brain for MRI segmentation | Nature share.google/5AD0iW7pxgb4...
All publicly available. Looks like an amazing new histology-based human probabilistic atlas and parcellation tool.
#neuroskyence #mri #brainmapping
A probabilistic histological atlas of the human brain for MRI segmentation | Nature share.google/5AD0iW7pxgb4...
Reposted by Olga Kepinska
New issue of Nature - with NINE studies on #brain #development from the BRAIN Initiative Cell Atlas Network (BICAN) 🧠🧪🔬
An amazing set of resources for all scientists working on the brain!
🧠 Immersive feature:
www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
🧠 Perspective:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
An amazing set of resources for all scientists working on the brain!
🧠 Immersive feature:
www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
🧠 Perspective:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
November 5, 2025 at 6:53 PM
New issue of Nature - with NINE studies on #brain #development from the BRAIN Initiative Cell Atlas Network (BICAN) 🧠🧪🔬
An amazing set of resources for all scientists working on the brain!
🧠 Immersive feature:
www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
🧠 Perspective:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
An amazing set of resources for all scientists working on the brain!
🧠 Immersive feature:
www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
🧠 Perspective:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Reposted by Olga Kepinska
📰 new paper! lnkd.in/dYdrvZAz, by @irenebalboni.bsky.social , Alessandra Rampinini, @olgakepinska.bsky.social, @berthele.bsky.social, @nargolestani.bsky.social, @nccrlanguage.bsky.social showing the importance of multimodal approaches for uncovering brain-behaviour relationships
LinkedIn
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lnkd.in
September 17, 2025 at 1:41 PM
📰 new paper! lnkd.in/dYdrvZAz, by @irenebalboni.bsky.social , Alessandra Rampinini, @olgakepinska.bsky.social, @berthele.bsky.social, @nargolestani.bsky.social, @nccrlanguage.bsky.social showing the importance of multimodal approaches for uncovering brain-behaviour relationships
Reposted by Olga Kepinska
Rozdane wczoraj przez @erc.europa.eu granty #ERCStG trafiły także do 6️⃣ polskich naukowców, którzy swoje badania będą prowadzić w Niemczech, Austrii, Francji i Szwajcarii. Czego dotyczą ich projekty? ⬇️
@aniaczark.bsky.social @magda-sznurkowska.bsky.social @olgakepinska.bsky.social
@aniaczark.bsky.social @magda-sznurkowska.bsky.social @olgakepinska.bsky.social
Granty ERC również dla Polaków w zagranicznych ośrodkach
Rozdane w czwartek granty ERC Starting trafiły także do sześciorga polskich naukowców pracujących w zagranicznych ośrodkach: w Niemczech, Austrii, Szwajcarii i Francji. Zajmą się mobilnością społeczną...
forumakademickie.pl
September 5, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Rozdane wczoraj przez @erc.europa.eu granty #ERCStG trafiły także do 6️⃣ polskich naukowców, którzy swoje badania będą prowadzić w Niemczech, Austrii, Francji i Szwajcarii. Czego dotyczą ich projekty? ⬇️
@aniaczark.bsky.social @magda-sznurkowska.bsky.social @olgakepinska.bsky.social
@aniaczark.bsky.social @magda-sznurkowska.bsky.social @olgakepinska.bsky.social
I'm more than happy to share that I have been awarded an ERC Starting Grant @erc.europa.eu for my project on fetal language acquisition. In DiverseSounds, we'll focus on prenatal language environment and its effects on neural plasticity and language development post-birth. Exciting times ahead!
September 8, 2025 at 8:49 AM
I'm more than happy to share that I have been awarded an ERC Starting Grant @erc.europa.eu for my project on fetal language acquisition. In DiverseSounds, we'll focus on prenatal language environment and its effects on neural plasticity and language development post-birth. Exciting times ahead!
Reposted by Olga Kepinska
“Relying on PRIME young adults limits cognitive science” www.cell.com/trends/cogni... new @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social piece with @connectedmindslab.bsky.social we highlight how a focus on young adults as a benchmark of ‘human’ behaviour has shaped cognitive science in several ways 👇
Relying on PRIME young adults limits cognitive science
Cognitive science has made remarkable strides in understanding cognition and behaviour.
However, a critical issue persists. Most studies focus on PRIME populations – young
adults who are productive, r...
www.cell.com
July 2, 2025 at 7:26 AM
“Relying on PRIME young adults limits cognitive science” www.cell.com/trends/cogni... new @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social piece with @connectedmindslab.bsky.social we highlight how a focus on young adults as a benchmark of ‘human’ behaviour has shaped cognitive science in several ways 👇
Reposted by Olga Kepinska
You can hear the sounds, but can you distinguish the words? 🤔
Here's the postprint version of our new, soon-to-be SSLA paper!
osf.io/6zbgt
Celia Gorba, Pilar Prieto and I revisit the tricky link between L2 sound & word recognition—with a fresh look at methods
Here's the postprint version of our new, soon-to-be SSLA paper!
osf.io/6zbgt
Celia Gorba, Pilar Prieto and I revisit the tricky link between L2 sound & word recognition—with a fresh look at methods
OSF
osf.io
June 25, 2025 at 1:53 PM
You can hear the sounds, but can you distinguish the words? 🤔
Here's the postprint version of our new, soon-to-be SSLA paper!
osf.io/6zbgt
Celia Gorba, Pilar Prieto and I revisit the tricky link between L2 sound & word recognition—with a fresh look at methods
Here's the postprint version of our new, soon-to-be SSLA paper!
osf.io/6zbgt
Celia Gorba, Pilar Prieto and I revisit the tricky link between L2 sound & word recognition—with a fresh look at methods
Reposted by Olga Kepinska
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.
Reposted by Olga Kepinska
Out now at Nat. Neuro.
"Addressing artifactual bias in large, automated MRI analyses of brain development"
Huge congrats to Josh Roffman team on this herculean effort.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
"Addressing artifactual bias in large, automated MRI analyses of brain development"
Huge congrats to Josh Roffman team on this herculean effort.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Addressing artifactual bias in large, automated MRI analyses of brain development - Nature Neuroscience
As large-scale neurodevelopmental MRI studies gain prominence, the authors identify tradeoffs between sample size and quality control that can dramatically affect results, and they evaluate a range of...
www.nature.com
July 1, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Out now at Nat. Neuro.
"Addressing artifactual bias in large, automated MRI analyses of brain development"
Huge congrats to Josh Roffman team on this herculean effort.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
"Addressing artifactual bias in large, automated MRI analyses of brain development"
Huge congrats to Josh Roffman team on this herculean effort.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Reposted by Olga Kepinska
We recently published this paper in PNAS exploring how London cab drivers plan routes.
We found that entropy of streets & successor representations explain planning speed.
It was fantastic working on this with Eva Griesbauer, Dan McNamee, and Hugo Spiers.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
We found that entropy of streets & successor representations explain planning speed.
It was fantastic working on this with Eva Griesbauer, Dan McNamee, and Hugo Spiers.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Expert navigators deploy rational complexity–based decision precaching for large-scale real-world planning | PNAS
Efficient planning is a distinctive hallmark of intelligence in humans, who routinely
make rapid inferences over complex world contexts. However, s...
www.pnas.org
July 1, 2025 at 4:22 PM
We recently published this paper in PNAS exploring how London cab drivers plan routes.
We found that entropy of streets & successor representations explain planning speed.
It was fantastic working on this with Eva Griesbauer, Dan McNamee, and Hugo Spiers.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
We found that entropy of streets & successor representations explain planning speed.
It was fantastic working on this with Eva Griesbauer, Dan McNamee, and Hugo Spiers.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Reposted by Olga Kepinska
Alert! ... for the child development world!
@fluxsociety.bsky.social @fitngin.bsky.social
The Healthy Brain and Child Development (HBCD) Study has released its first data wave - it’s massive.
Check here:
docs.hbcdstudy.org
and here:
nbdc-datahub.org
Here’s why it matters 🧠🍼
@fluxsociety.bsky.social @fitngin.bsky.social
The Healthy Brain and Child Development (HBCD) Study has released its first data wave - it’s massive.
Check here:
docs.hbcdstudy.org
and here:
nbdc-datahub.org
Here’s why it matters 🧠🍼
June 29, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Alert! ... for the child development world!
@fluxsociety.bsky.social @fitngin.bsky.social
The Healthy Brain and Child Development (HBCD) Study has released its first data wave - it’s massive.
Check here:
docs.hbcdstudy.org
and here:
nbdc-datahub.org
Here’s why it matters 🧠🍼
@fluxsociety.bsky.social @fitngin.bsky.social
The Healthy Brain and Child Development (HBCD) Study has released its first data wave - it’s massive.
Check here:
docs.hbcdstudy.org
and here:
nbdc-datahub.org
Here’s why it matters 🧠🍼
Reposted by Olga Kepinska
Yes, my favourite blog post!
In all our studies (3 twin, 2 longitudinal), we consistently found: how well children read → how much they enjoy reading.
In 2/5, we also saw some evidence for the reverse.
Different samples, countries, ages, and measures—but same key finding: skills shape motivation.
In all our studies (3 twin, 2 longitudinal), we consistently found: how well children read → how much they enjoy reading.
In 2/5, we also saw some evidence for the reverse.
Different samples, countries, ages, and measures—but same key finding: skills shape motivation.
June 27, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Yes, my favourite blog post!
In all our studies (3 twin, 2 longitudinal), we consistently found: how well children read → how much they enjoy reading.
In 2/5, we also saw some evidence for the reverse.
Different samples, countries, ages, and measures—but same key finding: skills shape motivation.
In all our studies (3 twin, 2 longitudinal), we consistently found: how well children read → how much they enjoy reading.
In 2/5, we also saw some evidence for the reverse.
Different samples, countries, ages, and measures—but same key finding: skills shape motivation.
Reposted by Olga Kepinska
Children are incredible language learning machines. But how do they do it? Our latest paper, just published in TICS, synthesizes decades of evidence to propose four components that must be built into any theory of how children learn language. 1/
www.cell.com/trends/cogni... @mpi-nl.bsky.social
www.cell.com/trends/cogni... @mpi-nl.bsky.social
Constructing language: a framework for explaining acquisition
Explaining how children build a language system is a central goal of research in language
acquisition, with broad implications for language evolution, adult language processing,
and artificial intelli...
www.cell.com
June 27, 2025 at 5:17 AM
Children are incredible language learning machines. But how do they do it? Our latest paper, just published in TICS, synthesizes decades of evidence to propose four components that must be built into any theory of how children learn language. 1/
www.cell.com/trends/cogni... @mpi-nl.bsky.social
www.cell.com/trends/cogni... @mpi-nl.bsky.social
Reposted by Olga Kepinska
😭
Morning friends ☀️☕️ I hope everyone is doing ok. I wish you a nice Thursday! 🦋😁💙
June 26, 2025 at 3:51 PM
😭
🚨🚨🚨Big, BIG news!!! 🎉 In Fall 2025, I'm starting as a CNRS Researcher at LPL @univ-amu.fr in Aix-en-Provence, South of France. Thrilled to join the amazing @ilcb.bsky.social community and launch my research on fetal language acquisition & brain development in multilingual contexts. 🫄🗣️🧠 Stay tuned!
June 26, 2025 at 9:09 AM
🚨🚨🚨Big, BIG news!!! 🎉 In Fall 2025, I'm starting as a CNRS Researcher at LPL @univ-amu.fr in Aix-en-Provence, South of France. Thrilled to join the amazing @ilcb.bsky.social community and launch my research on fetal language acquisition & brain development in multilingual contexts. 🫄🗣️🧠 Stay tuned!
Reposted by Olga Kepinska
It doesn't get reiterated enough that "human on a bicycle" is not only the most efficient way that a person can move, it's the most efficient form of motion ***ever observed in land animals***.
May 23, 2025 at 2:53 AM
It doesn't get reiterated enough that "human on a bicycle" is not only the most efficient way that a person can move, it's the most efficient form of motion ***ever observed in land animals***.
Reposted by Olga Kepinska
my lab (lacns.github.io) at @mpi-nl.bsky.social and @dondersinst.bsky.social is recruiting for two PhD and two postdoctoral positions funded by an @erc.europa.eu Consolidator - come join us!
PhD: www.mpi.nl/career-educa...
Postdoc: www.mpi.nl/career-educa...
(please share widely)
PhD: www.mpi.nl/career-educa...
Postdoc: www.mpi.nl/career-educa...
(please share widely)
Language and Computation in Neural Systems
We are an international group of scientists consisting of linguists, cognitive scientists, cognitive neuroscientists, computational neuroscientists, computational modellers, computational scientists, ...
lacns.github.io
May 20, 2025 at 1:49 PM
my lab (lacns.github.io) at @mpi-nl.bsky.social and @dondersinst.bsky.social is recruiting for two PhD and two postdoctoral positions funded by an @erc.europa.eu Consolidator - come join us!
PhD: www.mpi.nl/career-educa...
Postdoc: www.mpi.nl/career-educa...
(please share widely)
PhD: www.mpi.nl/career-educa...
Postdoc: www.mpi.nl/career-educa...
(please share widely)
Reposted by Olga Kepinska
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 1:46 PM
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... 🧵
Reposted by Olga Kepinska
Sind Sie deutschsprachig mit wenigen Französischkenntnisse? Dann nehmen Sie an einer wissenschaftlichen Online-Studie über Sprache von @nocelab.bsky.social teil und helfen Sie dabei, den Einfluss der Sprache auf die Kognition zu verstehen.
March 12, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Sind Sie deutschsprachig mit wenigen Französischkenntnisse? Dann nehmen Sie an einer wissenschaftlichen Online-Studie über Sprache von @nocelab.bsky.social teil und helfen Sie dabei, den Einfluss der Sprache auf die Kognition zu verstehen.
Reposted by Olga Kepinska
Thanks to everybody who chimed in!
I arrived at the conclusion that (1) there's a lot of interesting stuff about interactions and (2) the figure I was looking for does not exist.
So, I made it myself! Here's a simple illustration of how to control for confounding in interactions:>
I arrived at the conclusion that (1) there's a lot of interesting stuff about interactions and (2) the figure I was looking for does not exist.
So, I made it myself! Here's a simple illustration of how to control for confounding in interactions:>
May 11, 2025 at 5:34 AM
Thanks to everybody who chimed in!
I arrived at the conclusion that (1) there's a lot of interesting stuff about interactions and (2) the figure I was looking for does not exist.
So, I made it myself! Here's a simple illustration of how to control for confounding in interactions:>
I arrived at the conclusion that (1) there's a lot of interesting stuff about interactions and (2) the figure I was looking for does not exist.
So, I made it myself! Here's a simple illustration of how to control for confounding in interactions:>
Reposted by Olga Kepinska
We are looking for a Phd student for a project on modeling second language learning using adaptive cognitive tutors.
Please share with anyone who might be interested! phd.arts.au.dk/applicants/o...
Please share with anyone who might be interested! phd.arts.au.dk/applicants/o...
An investigation of cognitive processing in second-language learning using adaptive cognitive tutors (4+4 or 5+3), 2025-9
phd.arts.au.dk
January 31, 2025 at 12:56 PM
We are looking for a Phd student for a project on modeling second language learning using adaptive cognitive tutors.
Please share with anyone who might be interested! phd.arts.au.dk/applicants/o...
Please share with anyone who might be interested! phd.arts.au.dk/applicants/o...
Reposted by Olga Kepinska
I made a site today that lets you compare the net worth of billionaires and corporations to the GDP of entire countries. Check it out.
I want to raise awareness of the scale. There are many people - and tons of companies - with more wealth than the annual economic output of individual EU nations
I want to raise awareness of the scale. There are many people - and tons of companies - with more wealth than the annual economic output of individual EU nations
Exploring Global Wealth
Compare GDP, net worth, and market cap of countries, billionaires, and companies on a unified scale
actuallyusefulai.com
April 1, 2025 at 2:20 AM
I made a site today that lets you compare the net worth of billionaires and corporations to the GDP of entire countries. Check it out.
I want to raise awareness of the scale. There are many people - and tons of companies - with more wealth than the annual economic output of individual EU nations
I want to raise awareness of the scale. There are many people - and tons of companies - with more wealth than the annual economic output of individual EU nations
Reposted by Olga Kepinska
I'm pleased to announce the release of scales 1.4.0 for #rstats. While scales mainly exists to serve #ggplot2, this release packs a bunch of improvements that is good to be aware of.
Read more in the blog post
Read more in the blog post
scales 1.4.0
The new 1.4.0 release of the scales package adds some colourful updates. Read about colour manipulation, palettes and new label functions.
www.tidyverse.org
April 24, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Reposted by Olga Kepinska
Excellent tutorial on fitting voxel-wise encoding models to #fMRI data by Dupré La Tour & @gallantlab.org! Check out their step by step walk through!
Paper: osf.io/preprints/ps...
Code: github.com/gallantlab/v...
Paper: osf.io/preprints/ps...
Code: github.com/gallantlab/v...
April 7, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Excellent tutorial on fitting voxel-wise encoding models to #fMRI data by Dupré La Tour & @gallantlab.org! Check out their step by step walk through!
Paper: osf.io/preprints/ps...
Code: github.com/gallantlab/v...
Paper: osf.io/preprints/ps...
Code: github.com/gallantlab/v...