Dr. Cong Zhang
congzhang.bsky.social
Dr. Cong Zhang
@congzhang.bsky.social
Lecturer in Phonetics & Phonology @NewcastleECLS || Postdoc @Radboud | DPhil @Oxford | MA @NewcastleSELLL | BA @beiwai | LingEngineer @Rokid || ❤️ #Prosody# #LabPhon# #SpeechTech#
At @UKIS
June 17, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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June 12, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Yeah, mine was like that. I wanted to book a hotel and I had to email the agency. They didn't respond for three days and of course the room was gone. Then I proposed a second one, a third one. Ended up spending almost doubled the amount. And it involved multiple people's time too. I just can't...
June 12, 2025 at 10:43 AM
No loss of sanity? Not approved. (Our travel has to go through a slow and expensive agent so I totally feel your pain)
June 12, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Reposted by Dr. Cong Zhang
Oh I could talk about this all day. Here’s my biggest piece of advice: Create a very short “screener” survey (a pre-consent, pre-recruitment activity) where you ask about anything that would be relevant for eligibility and make at least one question a trap or attention check.

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April 3, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Thanks for coming Stephen! It was so nice to see a familiar face there. And maybe we can write more papers together! 😉
March 26, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Isn't it to give whoever sends an email an idea why they're not receiving a reply within a reasonable amount of time? I often find them quite useful :)
March 11, 2025 at 11:21 AM