Shravan Vasishth
@shravanvasishth.bsky.social
Professor of Psycholinguistics, University of Potsdam, Germany.
Outside of work: Classical guitar, beginning student of piano. I like our cats, on occasion.
Web page: vasishth.github.io
Outside of work: Classical guitar, beginning student of piano. I like our cats, on occasion.
Web page: vasishth.github.io
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The Tenth Summer School on Statistical Methods for Linguistics and Psychology
vasishth.github.io
Applications for the summer school on statistical methods for linguistics and psychology (Potsdam, Germany) are now open:
vasishth.github.io/smlp2026/
vasishth.github.io/smlp2026/
Applications for the summer school on statistical methods for linguistics and psychology (Potsdam, Germany) are now open:
vasishth.github.io/smlp2026/
vasishth.github.io/smlp2026/
The Tenth Summer School on Statistical Methods for Linguistics and Psychology
vasishth.github.io
October 14, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Applications for the summer school on statistical methods for linguistics and psychology (Potsdam, Germany) are now open:
vasishth.github.io/smlp2026/
vasishth.github.io/smlp2026/
a rare sighting of all three authors of The Book, all in one place:
October 10, 2025 at 1:32 PM
a rare sighting of all three authors of The Book, all in one place:
New preprint investigating whether lossy-context surprisal can account for the locality and expectation effects found in Russian, Hindi, and Persian reading data: osf.io/preprints/ps...
OSF
osf.io
September 13, 2025 at 6:10 PM
New preprint investigating whether lossy-context surprisal can account for the locality and expectation effects found in Russian, Hindi, and Persian reading data: osf.io/preprints/ps...
We are done with the ninth Statistical Methods for Linguistics and Psychology (SMLP) summer school, Potsdam, Germany. The tenth edition is planned for 24-28 August 2026.
August 31, 2025 at 8:00 AM
We are done with the ninth Statistical Methods for Linguistics and Psychology (SMLP) summer school, Potsdam, Germany. The tenth edition is planned for 24-28 August 2026.
The physical book copies have arrived: www.routledge.com/Introduction...
August 14, 2025 at 3:29 PM
The physical book copies have arrived: www.routledge.com/Introduction...
Reposted by Shravan Vasishth
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...
lingbuzz.net
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...
Next week onwards, I'm teaching a five-day introductory course on Bayesian Data Analysis in Gent. Newly recorded video lectures to accompany the course are now online: vasishth.github.io/LecturesIntr...
Shravan Vasishth's Intro Bayes course home page
vasishth.github.io
July 10, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Next week onwards, I'm teaching a five-day introductory course on Bayesian Data Analysis in Gent. Newly recorded video lectures to accompany the course are now online: vasishth.github.io/LecturesIntr...
In person (no streaming/zoom) sentence processing workshop at Potsdam with Tal Linzen, Brian Dillon, Titus von der Malsburg, Oezge Bakay, William Timkey, Pia Schoknecht, Michael Vrazitulis, and Johan Hennert:
vasishth.github.io/sentproc-wor...
vasishth.github.io/sentproc-wor...
Sentence processing workshop, May 27, 2025
vasishth.github.io
May 22, 2025 at 7:06 AM
In person (no streaming/zoom) sentence processing workshop at Potsdam with Tal Linzen, Brian Dillon, Titus von der Malsburg, Oezge Bakay, William Timkey, Pia Schoknecht, Michael Vrazitulis, and Johan Hennert:
vasishth.github.io/sentproc-wor...
vasishth.github.io/sentproc-wor...
Three year postdoc position in Cognitive Science, Potsdam, Germany:
www.uni-potsdam.de/en/verwaltun...
www.uni-potsdam.de/en/verwaltun...
Temporary positions for academic staff
Temporary positions for academic staff at the University of Potsdam
www.uni-potsdam.de
May 16, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Three year postdoc position in Cognitive Science, Potsdam, Germany:
www.uni-potsdam.de/en/verwaltun...
www.uni-potsdam.de/en/verwaltun...
New study on local coherence, led by Pia Schoknecht :
The time course of local coherence effects: Evidence from self-paced reading times and event-related potentials
osf.io/preprints/os...
The time course of local coherence effects: Evidence from self-paced reading times and event-related potentials
osf.io/preprints/os...
OSF
osf.io
May 11, 2025 at 7:00 AM
New study on local coherence, led by Pia Schoknecht :
The time course of local coherence effects: Evidence from self-paced reading times and event-related potentials
osf.io/preprints/os...
The time course of local coherence effects: Evidence from self-paced reading times and event-related potentials
osf.io/preprints/os...
Scientists wanting to move to Europe from the US take note of this funding opportunity:
erc.europa.eu/news-events/...
erc.europa.eu/news-events/...
Choose Europe for Science: ERC welcomes new budget for 'super grants'
The Scientific Council of the European Research Council welcomes the offer of substantial additional budget from the European Commission for the development of a new ERC funding instrument offering la...
erc.europa.eu
May 8, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Scientists wanting to move to Europe from the US take note of this funding opportunity:
erc.europa.eu/news-events/...
erc.europa.eu/news-events/...
@cos.io Are you aware that in restructuring your website you have destroyed many repositories? The new Files directory is empty, and add-ons to github repos no longer work. WTF?
March 24, 2025 at 7:22 AM
@cos.io Are you aware that in restructuring your website you have destroyed many repositories? The new Files directory is empty, and add-ons to github repos no longer work. WTF?
Computational Psycholinguistics Meeting 2025
cpl2025.sites.uu.nl
When: December 18–19, 2025
Where: Utrecht, the Netherlands
Abstract submission deadline: June 15, 2025
Organizers: Jakub Dotlačil, Lena Jäger, Bruno Nicenboim, Ece Takmaz
cpl2025.sites.uu.nl
When: December 18–19, 2025
Where: Utrecht, the Netherlands
Abstract submission deadline: June 15, 2025
Organizers: Jakub Dotlačil, Lena Jäger, Bruno Nicenboim, Ece Takmaz
Computational Psycholinguistics Meeting 2025 | Universiteit Utrecht
Universiteit Utrecht
cpl2025.sites.uu.nl
March 20, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Computational Psycholinguistics Meeting 2025
cpl2025.sites.uu.nl
When: December 18–19, 2025
Where: Utrecht, the Netherlands
Abstract submission deadline: June 15, 2025
Organizers: Jakub Dotlačil, Lena Jäger, Bruno Nicenboim, Ece Takmaz
cpl2025.sites.uu.nl
When: December 18–19, 2025
Where: Utrecht, the Netherlands
Abstract submission deadline: June 15, 2025
Organizers: Jakub Dotlačil, Lena Jäger, Bruno Nicenboim, Ece Takmaz
Without question the greatest open courseware in the world, bar none.
Today is a great day to highlight what an incredible, extensive, and diverse learning resource MIT OpenCourseWare is! 🧪 #AcademicSky
🔗 ocw.mit.edu
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MIT OpenCourseWare | Free Online Course Materials
MIT OpenCourseWare is a web based publication of virtually all MIT course content. OCW is open and available to the world and is a permanent MIT activity
ocw.mit.edu
March 15, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Without question the greatest open courseware in the world, bar none.
Reposted by Shravan Vasishth
At #HSP2025, I'll present work with @tallinzen.bsky.social and @shravanvasishth.bsky.social on modeling garden-pathing in a huge benchmark dataset: hsp2025.github.io/abstracts/29.... Statistically decomposing the effect into subprocesses greatly improves predictive fit over just comparing means!
hsp2025.github.io
March 14, 2025 at 10:17 AM
At #HSP2025, I'll present work with @tallinzen.bsky.social and @shravanvasishth.bsky.social on modeling garden-pathing in a huge benchmark dataset: hsp2025.github.io/abstracts/29.... Statistically decomposing the effect into subprocesses greatly improves predictive fit over just comparing means!
Very important Deutsche Welle documentary on the abuse of early career researchers by MPI directors. Reminds me of the Tanja Singer case, but the problems seems to be much more widespread (and probably not limited to MPI).
youtu.be/n5nEd600iM0?...
youtu.be/n5nEd600iM0?...
How Germany's elite research institution fails young scientists | DW Documentary
YouTube video by DW Documentary
youtu.be
March 13, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Very important Deutsche Welle documentary on the abuse of early career researchers by MPI directors. Reminds me of the Tanja Singer case, but the problems seems to be much more widespread (and probably not limited to MPI).
youtu.be/n5nEd600iM0?...
youtu.be/n5nEd600iM0?...
This year as well, during 14-18 July 2025, I will be teaching an introduction to Bayesian data analysis at the MILS 2025 summer school in Gent:
www.mils.ugent.be
www.mils.ugent.be
Summer school "Methods in language sciences" – Summer school "Methods in language sciences"
www.mils.ugent.be
February 16, 2025 at 8:31 AM
This year as well, during 14-18 July 2025, I will be teaching an introduction to Bayesian data analysis at the MILS 2025 summer school in Gent:
www.mils.ugent.be
www.mils.ugent.be
Our introduction to Bayesian Data Analysis underwent a major revision (it was too long at 1000 pages, so we moved some 400 pages into online). Currently in production but freely available forever:
bruno.nicenboim.me/bayescogsci/
bruno.nicenboim.me/bayescogsci/
Introduction to Bayesian Data Analysis for Cognitive Science
Introduction to Bayesian data analysis for Cognitive Science.
bruno.nicenboim.me
February 13, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Our introduction to Bayesian Data Analysis underwent a major revision (it was too long at 1000 pages, so we moved some 400 pages into online). Currently in production but freely available forever:
bruno.nicenboim.me/bayescogsci/
bruno.nicenboim.me/bayescogsci/
Applications for the ninth summer school on statistical methods for linguistics and psychology close on April 1, 2025. Every year people contact me saying they missed the call, so here it is again :)
vasishth.github.io/smlp2025/
vasishth.github.io/smlp2025/
The Ninth Summer School on Statistical Methods for Linguistics and Psychology
vasishth.github.io
February 13, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Applications for the ninth summer school on statistical methods for linguistics and psychology close on April 1, 2025. Every year people contact me saying they missed the call, so here it is again :)
vasishth.github.io/smlp2025/
vasishth.github.io/smlp2025/
3rd Workshop on Eye Movements and the Assessment of Reading Comprehension
June 5–7, 2025
University of Stuttgart, Germany
This cross-disciplinary workshop explores how eye-tracking and machine learning can enhance real-world reading assessments.
tmalsburg.github.io/Comprehensio...
June 5–7, 2025
University of Stuttgart, Germany
This cross-disciplinary workshop explores how eye-tracking and machine learning can enhance real-world reading assessments.
tmalsburg.github.io/Comprehensio...
The 3rd Workshop on Eye Movements and the Assessment of Reading Comprehension
tmalsburg.github.io
February 13, 2025 at 8:31 AM
3rd Workshop on Eye Movements and the Assessment of Reading Comprehension
June 5–7, 2025
University of Stuttgart, Germany
This cross-disciplinary workshop explores how eye-tracking and machine learning can enhance real-world reading assessments.
tmalsburg.github.io/Comprehensio...
June 5–7, 2025
University of Stuttgart, Germany
This cross-disciplinary workshop explores how eye-tracking and machine learning can enhance real-world reading assessments.
tmalsburg.github.io/Comprehensio...
New paper led by Pia Schoknecht: Do syntactic and semantic similarity lead to interference effects? Evidence from self-paced reading and event-related potentials using German.
osf.io/preprints/ps...
osf.io/preprints/ps...
OSF
osf.io
December 6, 2024 at 5:32 AM
New paper led by Pia Schoknecht: Do syntactic and semantic similarity lead to interference effects? Evidence from self-paced reading and event-related potentials using German.
osf.io/preprints/ps...
osf.io/preprints/ps...
Reposted by Shravan Vasishth
The
@LabexEFL
is offering a 3 year grant for a PhD position in Paris to work in experimental grammar! Deadline October 1st
en.labex-efl.fr/post/recruit...
@LabexEFL
is offering a 3 year grant for a PhD position in Paris to work in experimental grammar! Deadline October 1st
en.labex-efl.fr/post/recruit...
Recruitment: PhD contract in Experimental Grammar
The LabEx-EFL (Laboratory of Excellence Empirical Foundations in Linguistics) is offering a 3 year PhD grant in “Experimental grammar from a crosslinguistic perspective”, full time, about net 1700...
en.labex-efl.fr
September 24, 2023 at 2:23 PM
The
@LabexEFL
is offering a 3 year grant for a PhD position in Paris to work in experimental grammar! Deadline October 1st
en.labex-efl.fr/post/recruit...
@LabexEFL
is offering a 3 year grant for a PhD position in Paris to work in experimental grammar! Deadline October 1st
en.labex-efl.fr/post/recruit...
Reposted by Shravan Vasishth
My paper on improving data quality for online experiments has just been accepted.
Massively improved by the reviewers - collaborative peer review at its constructive best
psyarxiv.com/2fhcb
Massively improved by the reviewers - collaborative peer review at its constructive best
psyarxiv.com/2fhcb
psyarxiv.com
October 10, 2023 at 1:54 PM
My paper on improving data quality for online experiments has just been accepted.
Massively improved by the reviewers - collaborative peer review at its constructive best
psyarxiv.com/2fhcb
Massively improved by the reviewers - collaborative peer review at its constructive best
psyarxiv.com/2fhcb
Reposted by Shravan Vasishth
📢 If you’re looking for a job in #linguistics: CNRS is hiring every year
For 2025, posting of offers (tenured positions) & applications online from early December to early January
It’s still time to contact a research unit to prepare your application!
carrieres.cnrs.fr/en/external-...
For 2025, posting of offers (tenured positions) & applications online from early December to early January
It’s still time to contact a research unit to prepare your application!
carrieres.cnrs.fr/en/external-...
External competitions for researchers (M/F) - CNRS Careers
Consult job offers, access your candidate space and find out about the competition process.
carrieres.cnrs.fr
November 21, 2024 at 12:30 PM
📢 If you’re looking for a job in #linguistics: CNRS is hiring every year
For 2025, posting of offers (tenured positions) & applications online from early December to early January
It’s still time to contact a research unit to prepare your application!
carrieres.cnrs.fr/en/external-...
For 2025, posting of offers (tenured positions) & applications online from early December to early January
It’s still time to contact a research unit to prepare your application!
carrieres.cnrs.fr/en/external-...