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Susanne Fuchs
@susfuchs.bsky.social
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Phonetician interested in biological processes underlying human and non-human animals; Respiration; Motor Control; Cross-Modal Correspondence, Multimodality; Lover of Gardening
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odor.bsky.social
Schimpansen können offenbar rational denken – das zeigt eine neue Studie der Universität Utrecht, die im Fachjournal "Science" veröffentlicht wurde. Damit stellen die Forscher die lange geltende Annahme infrage, dass nur Menschen zu solchem Denken fähig sind.
www.focus.de/wissen/forsc...
Wissenschaftler beobachten Schimpansen – und machen bahnbrechende Beobachtung
Eine Studie der Universität Utrecht zeigt, dass Schimpansen offenbar rational denken und neue Beweise abwägen können. Diese Entdeckung stellt unser altes Menschenbild infrage.
www.focus.de
November 11, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Reposted by Susanne Fuchs
wimpouw.bsky.social
Our paper @sarabogels.bsky.social covering our pre-registered multi-year research is now finally out in Cognition. We show that in conversations people reduce their multimodal signals non-linearly; the steeper this non-linear drop-off the more communicative success.

www.wimpouw.com/files/Bogels...
A busy figure showing how reduction of different types of multimodal signals reduces over experimental rounds (with a comparison of how a non-linear signal following a power law can be transformed to a linear slope using a log-transformation).
November 11, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Reposted by Susanne Fuchs
gabrielaughey.bsky.social
Always shocking to see these kinds of data collected together. "[publishers made]US$12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024" - That's $12 billion diverted away from actual research or materially supporting the community - these are disgusting numbers.
hansonmark.bsky.social Mark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social · 18h
We wrote the Strain on scientific publishing to highlight the problems of time & trust. With a fantastic group of co-authors, we present The Drain of Scientific Publishing:

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Drain: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Strain: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
Oligopoly: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
A table showing profit margins of major publishers. A snippet of text related to this table is below. 1. The four-fold drain 1.1 Money Currently, academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it. The dominant four are Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley and Taylor & Francis, which collectively generated over US$7.1 billion in revenue from journal publishing in 2024 alone, and over US$12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024 (Table 1A). Their profit margins have always been over 30% in the last five years, and for the largest publisher (Elsevier) always over 37%. Against many comparators, across many sectors, scientific publishing is one of the most consistently profitable industries (Table S1). These financial arrangements make a substantial difference to science budgets. In 2024, 46% of Elsevier revenues and 53% of Taylor & Francis revenues were generated in North America, meaning that North American researchers were charged over US$2.27 billion by just two for-profit publishers. The Canadian research councils and the US National Science Foundation were allocated US$9.3 billion in that year. A figure detailing the drain on researcher time. 1. The four-fold drain 1.2 Time The number of papers published each year is growing faster than the scientific workforce, with the number of papers per researcher almost doubling between 1996 and 2022 (Figure 1A). This reflects the fact that publishers’ commercial desire to publish (sell) more material has aligned well with the competitive prestige culture in which publications help secure jobs, grants, promotions, and awards. To the extent that this growth is driven by a pressure for profit, rather than scholarly imperatives, it distorts the way researchers spend their time. The publishing system depends on unpaid reviewer labour, estimated to be over 130 million unpaid hours annually in 2020 alone (9). Researchers have complained about the demands of peer-review for decades, but the scale of the problem is now worse, with editors reporting widespread difficulties recruiting reviewers. The growth in publications involves not only the authors’ time, but that of academic editors and reviewers who are dealing with so many review demands. Even more seriously, the imperative to produce ever more articles reshapes the nature of scientific inquiry. Evidence across multiple fields shows that more papers result in ‘ossification’, not new ideas (10). It may seem paradoxical that more papers can slow progress until one considers how it affects researchers’ time. While rewards remain tied to volume, prestige, and impact of publications, researchers will be nudged away from riskier, local, interdisciplinary, and long-term work. The result is a treadmill of constant activity with limited progress whereas core scholarly practices – such as reading, reflecting and engaging with others’ contributions – is de-prioritized. What looks like productivity often masks intellectual exhaustion built on a demoralizing, narrowing scientific vision. A table of profit margins across industries. The section of text related to this table is below: 1. The four-fold drain 1.1 Money Currently, academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it. The dominant four are Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley and Taylor & Francis, which collectively generated over US$7.1 billion in revenue from journal publishing in 2024 alone, and over US$12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024 (Table 1A). Their profit margins have always been over 30% in the last five years, and for the largest publisher (Elsevier) always over 37%. Against many comparators, across many sectors, scientific publishing is one of the most consistently profitable industries (Table S1). These financial arrangements make a substantial difference to science budgets. In 2024, 46% of Elsevier revenues and 53% of Taylor & Francis revenues were generated in North America, meaning that North American researchers were charged over US$2.27 billion by just two for-profit publishers. The Canadian research councils and the US National Science Foundation were allocated US$9.3 billion in that year. The costs of inaction are plain: wasted public funds, lost researcher time, compromised scientific integrity and eroded public trust. Today, the system rewards commercial publishers first, and science second. Without bold action from the funders we risk continuing to pour resources into a system that prioritizes profit over the advancement of scientific knowledge.
November 11, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Reposted by Susanne Fuchs
labphon-zas.bsky.social
If you are interested in f0, have a look at the new paper from our lab on f0 across generations in 717 German speakers. pubs.aip.org/asa/jel/arti...
Register effects of imagined addressees on f0 across generations
This study analyzed fundamental frequency (f0) data from 717 German speakers, collected via the Plapper smartphone app, to investigate phonetic variation as a f
pubs.aip.org
November 11, 2025 at 9:20 PM
susfuchs.bsky.social
😢Friedemann Pulvermueller passed away. www.geisteswissenschaften.fu-berlin.de/en/dcl/veran...
Obituary for Prof. Dr. Dr. Friedemann Pulvermüller
www.geisteswissenschaften.fu-berlin.de
October 22, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Reposted by Susanne Fuchs
wimpouw.bsky.social
www.openaccess.nl/en/netherlan...

A hub primarily for librarians and research support professionals in the Netherlands to exchange knowledge, resources and developments in open access book publishing.

Date: October 28, 2025

Time: 12:00-13:30

Location: Online
Netherlands Open Access Books Community Launch Webinar | Open Access
www.openaccess.nl
October 14, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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msf.de
Diesen Mittwoch steht im Bundestag ein Mandatsentwurf zur Abstimmung, bei dem - anders als früher - nicht mehr ausgeschlossen wird, dass Deutschland die libyschen Küstenwache unterstützt. Obwohl diese systematisch Menschrechtsverletzungen begeht. Wir fordern eine klare Ablehnung des Mandats. [1/2]
Hilfsorganisationen verurteilen Verlängerung des IRINI-Mandats durch Bundesregierung
Unterstützung der libyschen Küstenwache fördert Gewalt, illegale Rückführungen und gefährdet Menschenleben auf See. Mandat sieht diese Option erstmals vor.
www.aerzte-ohne-grenzen.de
October 14, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Reposted by Susanne Fuchs
awrench.bsky.social
Happy World Octopus Day. Here's a recent paper demonstrating octopuses have a sense of body ownership similar to mamals and rodents.
www.cell.com/current-biol...
Rubber arm illusion in octopus
The feeling of a body as belonging to oneself is called the sense of body ownership and the centerpiece of conscious experience. Kawashima and Ikeda investigated the sense of body ownership in an octo...
www.cell.com
October 8, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Reposted by Susanne Fuchs
modeltransfer.bsky.social
The Leibniz Center for Science and Society (LCSS) at @unihannover.bsky.social invites international researchers in science studies & higher educ research to apply for the fellowship program “Disruptions in Science and Society” (research stays: 1–18 months).

www.lcss.uni-hannover.de/en/fellowshi...
October 8, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Reposted by Susanne Fuchs
lingsocam.bsky.social
Big news! Starting in 2027, @cambup-linguistics.cambridge.org will publish the Journal of Black Language and Culture (JBLAC)—a new LSA journal highlighting the richness of Black language & culture across the globe.
Learn more: www.lsadc.org/content.asp?... @acharityhudley.bsky.social
October 6, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Reposted by Susanne Fuchs
ilcb.bsky.social
🎉 ILCB Annual Welcome Back Party – 10 October 2025

Join us at LPL Aix-en-Provence for a morning of science, networking, and celebration as we kick off the new academic year!

🔗 Confirm your attendance (mandatory): www.ilcb.fr/event/garden...

www.linkedin.com/posts/instit...
#ilcb #welcomeback2025 | Institut ILCB
🎉 ILCB Annual Welcome Back Party – 10 October 2025 Join us at Salle B 011, 5 avenue Pasteur, Aix-en-Provence for a morning of science, networking, and celebration as we kick off the new academic yea...
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October 3, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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wimpouw.bsky.social
www.envisionbox.org has been shortlisted for the Leo Waaijers Open Science price: ukb.nl/en/news/shor...

@babajideowoyele.bsky.social @jamestrujillo.bsky.social @sarkadava.bsky.social @DavideAhmar @acwiek.bsky.social

Amazing Markus Küpper made an animated video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HduI...
EnvisionBOX overview2025
YouTube video by Wim Pouw
www.youtube.com
October 2, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Reposted by Susanne Fuchs
mdhk.net
Huge congrats to the envisionBOX team for the Open Science award nomination! 🎉

My tutorial on speech analysis tools in Python from the Unboxing Multimodality summer school (github.com/mdhk/unboxin...) is now also available at envisionbox.org

Thanks for the invitation & this great initiative! 👏
October 2, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Reposted by Susanne Fuchs
katbrownwrites.com
“An emotional research team became tearful as they described how data shows the disease was slowed by 75% in patients.”

What an absolutely incredible, joyous achievement for everyone involved. Hurrah for science and scientists! www.bbc.com/news/article...
Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time
One of the most devastating diseases finally has a treatment that could transform lives, tearful doctors tell BBC
www.bbc.com
September 24, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Reposted by Susanne Fuchs
asa-news.bsky.social
In JASA, a pair of researchers from the University of Minnesota analyzed years of Taylor Swift’s recorded interviews to track how her dialect has evolved. Read the @aip-publishing.bsky.social press release: publishing.aip.org/publications...
Tracking the Evolution of Taylor Swift’s Dialect - AIP Publishing LLC
WASHINGTON, Sept. 23, 2025 — Taylor Swift is one of the biggest pop singers in history, influencing millions of fans with her music. Thanks to years of […]
publishing.aip.org
September 24, 2025 at 6:10 PM
susfuchs.bsky.social
Lovely garden
September 21, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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phono-logical.bsky.social
Good listen! History and Philosophy of the Language Sciences Podcast Ep. 14 (March ’21): James McElvenny interviews Michael Ashby about the emergence and development of phonetics in the 19th and early 20th century hiphilangsci.net/2021/03/31/p...
hiphilangsci.bsky.social HiPhiLangSci @hiphilangsci.bsky.social · Sep 12
If you’re interested in the history of phonetics, have a listen to episode 14 of our podcast where James McElvenny (@jamesmcelvenny.bsky.social) talks with Michael Ashby!

🎙️ hiphilangsci.net/2021/03/31/p...

#Histlx
September 13, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Reposted by Susanne Fuchs
sea-watch.org
Die Regierungen, die Menschen im Meer ertrinken lassen, sind mitschuldig am Massaker in #Gaza. Die Drohnen, die eingesetzt werden, um Menschen zurück in die libyschen Folterlager zu drängen, werden an Palästinenser:innen getestet. Hände weg von der #Sumudflotilla.
September 12, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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cathelaing.bsky.social
Happening now on Radio 4! 🤓
bwthornton.bsky.social B&W Thornton of Stratford-upon-Avon @bwthornton.bsky.social · Sep 10
#Radio Crash Bang Wallop: The Sound of Words
Word of Mouth
Thur 15:30
BBC Radio 4
@michaelrosenyes.bsky.social and Dr Catherine Laing discuss onomatopoeia and other words that sound like their meanings. Produced by Becky Ripley.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 4 - Word of Mouth, Crash Bang Wallop: The Sound of Words
Michael Rosen and Dr Catherine Laing discuss words that sound like their meanings.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 11, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Reposted by Susanne Fuchs
symbolicstorage.bsky.social
🚨 New Publication Alert! 🚨
Out now in #Language and #Linguistics Compass with
@stefanhartmann.bsky.social
& Antonio Benítez-Burraco:
"The role of play in language structure, acquisition and evolution" (this time with a working link)
compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
The Role of Play in Language Structure, Acquisition and Evolution
Similarly to language, play is an essential component of human behaviour and culture. However, the links between play and language have been underexamined and often neglected beyond the aesthetic use...
compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
September 11, 2025 at 10:52 AM
susfuchs.bsky.social
Mein erstes selbstgemachtes Parika/chilipulver wird das. Bin gespannt
September 7, 2025 at 10:31 AM
susfuchs.bsky.social
Breakfast
September 7, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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gavinlamb.org
Assistant Professor - Language Revitalization - Linguistics, UC Berkeley: research interests or skills in "..language documentation, description, and analysis; sociolinguistics; anthropological linguistics; language acquisition; language education; areal and language-family expertise" (Oct 31)
Assistant Professor - Language Revitalization - Linguistics
University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!
aprecruit.berkeley.edu
September 6, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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manymindspod.bsky.social
A new academic year is ramping up. Have you considered adding us to your syllabus?

Podcasts episodes are a great way to add variety & boost engagement, and they offer a launchpad for exploration. A number of instructors have used our episodes to good effect!

(Let us know if you're among them!)
September 5, 2025 at 5:39 PM
susfuchs.bsky.social
Cool!
September 3, 2025 at 1:05 PM