Anna Mai
@annamai.bsky.social
phonology & neuroscience @ MPI Psycholinguistics
see: annamai.net
see also: translinguists.org
see: annamai.net
see also: translinguists.org
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New video on what to consider when designing language classes! Fifth in a series by the Fieldwork Group at Yale about how linguistics could support community-based language projects. Please share with anyone who might be interested. www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWr2...
Designing language courses: working with a linguist
YouTube video by Yale Linguistics
www.youtube.com
October 30, 2025 at 6:37 PM
New video on what to consider when designing language classes! Fifth in a series by the Fieldwork Group at Yale about how linguistics could support community-based language projects. Please share with anyone who might be interested. www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWr2...
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Hello vision scientists & linguists! The Journal of Vision is publishing a special issue on “The Vision-Language Interface.” Send in your research about reading, perceptual learning, sign language, dyslexia, etc! jov.arvojournals.org/ss/visionlan... #neuroskyence #VisionScience #PsychSciSky
October 23, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Hello vision scientists & linguists! The Journal of Vision is publishing a special issue on “The Vision-Language Interface.” Send in your research about reading, perceptual learning, sign language, dyslexia, etc! jov.arvojournals.org/ss/visionlan... #neuroskyence #VisionScience #PsychSciSky
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HI. It's me.
WE'RE READY TO LAUNCH. 2-4 Sept 2026. LavLang23.
Keynote Speakers
• Dr. Nikki Lane (Duke University)
• Dr. Kevin Guyan (UoE, School of Business)
• Prof. Erez Levon (Universität Bern)
• Dr. Stamatina Katsiveli (American College of Greece)
• Eddie Ungless (UoE, School of Informatics)
WE'RE READY TO LAUNCH. 2-4 Sept 2026. LavLang23.
Keynote Speakers
• Dr. Nikki Lane (Duke University)
• Dr. Kevin Guyan (UoE, School of Business)
• Prof. Erez Levon (Universität Bern)
• Dr. Stamatina Katsiveli (American College of Greece)
• Eddie Ungless (UoE, School of Informatics)
October 8, 2025 at 3:31 PM
HI. It's me.
WE'RE READY TO LAUNCH. 2-4 Sept 2026. LavLang23.
Keynote Speakers
• Dr. Nikki Lane (Duke University)
• Dr. Kevin Guyan (UoE, School of Business)
• Prof. Erez Levon (Universität Bern)
• Dr. Stamatina Katsiveli (American College of Greece)
• Eddie Ungless (UoE, School of Informatics)
WE'RE READY TO LAUNCH. 2-4 Sept 2026. LavLang23.
Keynote Speakers
• Dr. Nikki Lane (Duke University)
• Dr. Kevin Guyan (UoE, School of Business)
• Prof. Erez Levon (Universität Bern)
• Dr. Stamatina Katsiveli (American College of Greece)
• Eddie Ungless (UoE, School of Informatics)
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We're seeking the next Director of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics! Lead cutting-edge research in language & cognition. Nominations (incl. self) due 19 Dec 2025.
mpi.nl/career-education/vacancies/vacancy/nominations-and-self-nominations-sought-position-director-max
mpi.nl/career-education/vacancies/vacancy/nominations-and-self-nominations-sought-position-director-max
October 3, 2025 at 7:53 AM
We're seeking the next Director of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics! Lead cutting-edge research in language & cognition. Nominations (incl. self) due 19 Dec 2025.
mpi.nl/career-education/vacancies/vacancy/nominations-and-self-nominations-sought-position-director-max
mpi.nl/career-education/vacancies/vacancy/nominations-and-self-nominations-sought-position-director-max
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Excited to present this (now-published) project at the 11am poster session today. Poster C36 for the elevator version! #SNL2025
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Decoding words during sentence production with ECoG reveals syntactic role encoding and structure-dependent temporal dynamics - Communications Psychology
Using electrical recordings taken from the surface of the brain, researchers decode what words neurosurgical patients are saying and show that the brain plans words in a different order than they are ...
www.nature.com
September 13, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Excited to present this (now-published) project at the 11am poster session today. Poster C36 for the elevator version! #SNL2025
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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Day 1 of #snl2025 was a blast! I’m so thankful that many smart and fun scientists came all this way to share in our passion for brains and languages.
September 13, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Day 1 of #snl2025 was a blast! I’m so thankful that many smart and fun scientists came all this way to share in our passion for brains and languages.
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Come be my colleague!
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Haverford College is looking for a tenure-track Assistant Professor of #Linguistics, with a primary specialization in #Sociolinguistics, secondary specialization(s) open -> www.haverford.edu/provost/news...
Tenure-track Assistant Professor of Sociolinguistics
Haverford College seeks a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Linguistics.
www.haverford.edu
September 5, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Come be my colleague!
🐦🐦
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Out now in Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews!
When studying language in the brain, we often look for things that can be model systems for language (songbirds, artificial grammars, etc.). Here, we flip this on its head and argue that language itself is an excellent model system for cognition 🗣️🧏♀️🧠
When studying language in the brain, we often look for things that can be model systems for language (songbirds, artificial grammars, etc.). Here, we flip this on its head and argue that language itself is an excellent model system for cognition 🗣️🧏♀️🧠
Linguistic structure as a guiding principle for human neuroscience. New paper by @annamai.bsky.social & @andreaeyleen.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2025.106322
doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2025.106322
Redirecting
doi.org
September 8, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Out now in Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews!
When studying language in the brain, we often look for things that can be model systems for language (songbirds, artificial grammars, etc.). Here, we flip this on its head and argue that language itself is an excellent model system for cognition 🗣️🧏♀️🧠
When studying language in the brain, we often look for things that can be model systems for language (songbirds, artificial grammars, etc.). Here, we flip this on its head and argue that language itself is an excellent model system for cognition 🗣️🧏♀️🧠
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Come find my poster on how syntax and lexical probability interact in intracranial EEG today at 10:00 at #AMLaP2025 - poster 106! 🗣️
September 5, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Come find my poster on how syntax and lexical probability interact in intracranial EEG today at 10:00 at #AMLaP2025 - poster 106! 🗣️
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Interested in doing a PhD with me and lacns.github.io? Or with any of the incredible fellows in the IMPRS School of Cognition www.maxplanckschools.org/cognition-en - apply before Dec 1st at cognition.maxplanckschools.org/en/application
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
September 3, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Interested in doing a PhD with me and lacns.github.io? Or with any of the incredible fellows in the IMPRS School of Cognition www.maxplanckschools.org/cognition-en - apply before Dec 1st at cognition.maxplanckschools.org/en/application
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One highlight of LILG 2025: the official launch of the new open-access journal Gender Linguistics!
Published by our association, the journal will be a space for research at all linguistic intersections of language and gender.
Learn more: gender-linguistics.org
#linguistics #journal #launch
Published by our association, the journal will be a space for research at all linguistic intersections of language and gender.
Learn more: gender-linguistics.org
#linguistics #journal #launch
August 14, 2025 at 3:26 PM
One highlight of LILG 2025: the official launch of the new open-access journal Gender Linguistics!
Published by our association, the journal will be a space for research at all linguistic intersections of language and gender.
Learn more: gender-linguistics.org
#linguistics #journal #launch
Published by our association, the journal will be a space for research at all linguistic intersections of language and gender.
Learn more: gender-linguistics.org
#linguistics #journal #launch
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Een symposium om het Jiddisch-Nederlands Woordenboek te vieren. Ik kijk hiernaar uit!
neerlandistiek.nl/2025/08/17-s...
neerlandistiek.nl/2025/08/17-s...
17 september 2025: Symposium Jiddisch
Graag nodigen de Stichting Jiddische Lexicografie Amsterdam, het Instituut voor de Nederlandse Taal (INT) en het Goethe Institut Amsterdam u uit voor een feestelijk programma ter gelegenheid van d…
neerlandistiek.nl
August 13, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Een symposium om het Jiddisch-Nederlands Woordenboek te vieren. Ik kijk hiernaar uit!
neerlandistiek.nl/2025/08/17-s...
neerlandistiek.nl/2025/08/17-s...
In Oregon next month for the LSA Summer Institute? Check out Christian's course on phonetic fieldwork!
Take my course at the LSA summer institute this summer! (I actually have no idea how many people are going to register.)
June 21, 2025 at 6:29 PM
In Oregon next month for the LSA Summer Institute? Check out Christian's course on phonetic fieldwork!
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We are excited to introduce GeoGraphica! Our new article type that puts maps and visual storytelling at the center. Since "The Netherlands in Maps" ended in 2016, we’ve lacked a home for cartographic creativity. GeoGraphica brings it back. Geography, seen as well as read. More coming soon!
June 15, 2025 at 8:41 PM
We are excited to introduce GeoGraphica! Our new article type that puts maps and visual storytelling at the center. Since "The Netherlands in Maps" ended in 2016, we’ve lacked a home for cartographic creativity. GeoGraphica brings it back. Geography, seen as well as read. More coming soon!
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I'm looking to chat with nonbinary and/or trans speakers of several languages, especially including Irish, Hindi, Arabic, Hebrew, Italian, Russian, Polish, Icelandic - but also any other languages (aside from English / Spanish / French). DM or email me!
May 23, 2025 at 7:29 PM
I'm looking to chat with nonbinary and/or trans speakers of several languages, especially including Irish, Hindi, Arabic, Hebrew, Italian, Russian, Polish, Icelandic - but also any other languages (aside from English / Spanish / French). DM or email me!
Come join LaCNS!
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 21, 2025 at 6:03 AM
Come join LaCNS!
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🎉 Registration now open!
Join us at LILG 2 – Linguistic Intersections of Language and Gender.
Date: 12-13 August 2025
Location: Düsseldorf @hhu.de & online
Register here: lilg.div-ling.org/registration/
We look forward to seeing you there!
Join us at LILG 2 – Linguistic Intersections of Language and Gender.
Date: 12-13 August 2025
Location: Düsseldorf @hhu.de & online
Register here: lilg.div-ling.org/registration/
We look forward to seeing you there!
April 25, 2025 at 9:59 AM
🎉 Registration now open!
Join us at LILG 2 – Linguistic Intersections of Language and Gender.
Date: 12-13 August 2025
Location: Düsseldorf @hhu.de & online
Register here: lilg.div-ling.org/registration/
We look forward to seeing you there!
Join us at LILG 2 – Linguistic Intersections of Language and Gender.
Date: 12-13 August 2025
Location: Düsseldorf @hhu.de & online
Register here: lilg.div-ling.org/registration/
We look forward to seeing you there!
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My collaborators and I are hosting an upcoming LSA webinar on Wednesday, May 14, 2025 13:00-14:00 EDT (UTC-4) about methods of measuring gender in linguistics! If you came to our workshop at the 2024 LSA annual meeting, this will be very similar. Details here: www.lsadc.org/ev_calendar_...
The gender question: Current best practices for asking about sex/gender in linguistic research
The gender question: Current best practices for asking about sex/gender in linguistic research
Presenters: Lal Zimman, Cooper Bedin, Montreal Benesch, Marina Zhukova
As ideas about sex and gender cha...
www.lsadc.org
May 4, 2025 at 9:59 PM
My collaborators and I are hosting an upcoming LSA webinar on Wednesday, May 14, 2025 13:00-14:00 EDT (UTC-4) about methods of measuring gender in linguistics! If you came to our workshop at the 2024 LSA annual meeting, this will be very similar. Details here: www.lsadc.org/ev_calendar_...
An awesome opportunity to learn about phonology & the lexicon with @canaan.bsky.social at the LSA Institute this summer in Oregon. If you're thinking about attending the institute, consider signing up!
✨Course & Instructor Spotlight ✨
Today’s feature: Canaan Breiss (University of Southern California)
📚 Leading "Phonology and the Lexicon"
📅 Registration: bit.ly/3CSbbHC
🔗 More info: center.uoregon.edu/LSA/2025
📧 Questions? Email: LSAinstitute@uoregon.edu
Today’s feature: Canaan Breiss (University of Southern California)
📚 Leading "Phonology and the Lexicon"
📅 Registration: bit.ly/3CSbbHC
🔗 More info: center.uoregon.edu/LSA/2025
📧 Questions? Email: LSAinstitute@uoregon.edu
March 29, 2025 at 9:03 AM
An awesome opportunity to learn about phonology & the lexicon with @canaan.bsky.social at the LSA Institute this summer in Oregon. If you're thinking about attending the institute, consider signing up!
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On 3 April I will be presenting Bye Bye I Love You at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen, 15-16:00. Books will be available if you tell me by 20 March that you want a copy.
The book was in many ways born there, so this return is significant!
www.mpi.nl/news/michael...
The book was in many ways born there, so this return is significant!
www.mpi.nl/news/michael...
Michael Erard’s Bye-Bye, I Love You Explores the first and last words of language | Max Planck InstituteMax Planck Institute for psycholinguistics
www.mpi.nl
March 17, 2025 at 10:38 AM
On 3 April I will be presenting Bye Bye I Love You at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen, 15-16:00. Books will be available if you tell me by 20 March that you want a copy.
The book was in many ways born there, so this return is significant!
www.mpi.nl/news/michael...
The book was in many ways born there, so this return is significant!
www.mpi.nl/news/michael...
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Well this kind of worked. The auto exposure and tracking freaked out a bit around totality, but mostly it was better than I expected.
#seestars50 #seestar #astrophotography #eclipse #lunareclipse
#seestars50 #seestar #astrophotography #eclipse #lunareclipse
March 14, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Well this kind of worked. The auto exposure and tracking freaked out a bit around totality, but mostly it was better than I expected.
#seestars50 #seestar #astrophotography #eclipse #lunareclipse
#seestars50 #seestar #astrophotography #eclipse #lunareclipse
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FYI: The due date for #LavLang31 abstract submissions has been extended to 17 March. Please share the call widely with your networks! lavlang2025.wordpress.com/submit-abstr...
March 10, 2025 at 10:40 PM
FYI: The due date for #LavLang31 abstract submissions has been extended to 17 March. Please share the call widely with your networks! lavlang2025.wordpress.com/submit-abstr...
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Fieldwork is not always safe, inclusive or equitable for LGBTQ+ people – but they are not alone.
Researchers in the Faculty of Environment have created a toolkit to support fieldworkers to make sure they plan with and for LGBTQ+ colleagues.
environment.leeds.ac.uk/news/article...
Researchers in the Faculty of Environment have created a toolkit to support fieldworkers to make sure they plan with and for LGBTQ+ colleagues.
environment.leeds.ac.uk/news/article...
New tools support LGBTQ+ inclusive fieldwork
A guide to planning safe, inclusive and equitable fieldwork for LGBTQ+ people has been launched by a research team.
environment.leeds.ac.uk
March 5, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Fieldwork is not always safe, inclusive or equitable for LGBTQ+ people – but they are not alone.
Researchers in the Faculty of Environment have created a toolkit to support fieldworkers to make sure they plan with and for LGBTQ+ colleagues.
environment.leeds.ac.uk/news/article...
Researchers in the Faculty of Environment have created a toolkit to support fieldworkers to make sure they plan with and for LGBTQ+ colleagues.
environment.leeds.ac.uk/news/article...