Emily Myers
@emilymyers.bsky.social
Speech perception & brain nerd, University of Connecticut. Opinions my own, not my employer's.
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My male role models were my grandfathers and uncles. WW2 and Vietnam vets. Small business owners. Blue collar workers. A cop.
All of the “manosphere” stuff I hear is just so odd. Like, every man I grew up around — inarguably macho guys — would just call these people creeps, not “manly.”
All of the “manosphere” stuff I hear is just so odd. Like, every man I grew up around — inarguably macho guys — would just call these people creeps, not “manly.”
December 6, 2025 at 11:35 PM
My male role models were my grandfathers and uncles. WW2 and Vietnam vets. Small business owners. Blue collar workers. A cop.
All of the “manosphere” stuff I hear is just so odd. Like, every man I grew up around — inarguably macho guys — would just call these people creeps, not “manly.”
All of the “manosphere” stuff I hear is just so odd. Like, every man I grew up around — inarguably macho guys — would just call these people creeps, not “manly.”
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Connecticut researchers: Check out our tip sheet with information about how best to tell policymakers about your research and how to stay informed about state legislation. csch.uconn.edu/wp-content/u...
December 6, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Connecticut researchers: Check out our tip sheet with information about how best to tell policymakers about your research and how to stay informed about state legislation. csch.uconn.edu/wp-content/u...
The office Christmas party in Desk Set.
December 6, 2025 at 12:55 AM
The office Christmas party in Desk Set.
Idea for a new Journal of Overlooked Papers. It's a regular journal, but your citation list has to be entirely legitimate papers that have never been cited before.
Just think how many authors you'd make happy by bestowing the first citation on some forgotten paper!
Just think how many authors you'd make happy by bestowing the first citation on some forgotten paper!
December 5, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Idea for a new Journal of Overlooked Papers. It's a regular journal, but your citation list has to be entirely legitimate papers that have never been cited before.
Just think how many authors you'd make happy by bestowing the first citation on some forgotten paper!
Just think how many authors you'd make happy by bestowing the first citation on some forgotten paper!
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I am happy to pay $30 a year for USPS Prime, which delivers mail daily to my home
The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
December 5, 2025 at 7:23 PM
I am happy to pay $30 a year for USPS Prime, which delivers mail daily to my home
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Just finished my last class of the semester🎉Reminded of how much I love teaching this academic writing class for grad students. We focus on improving our writing but also reducing anxiety and becoming a more consistent & productive writer
Some of the students favorite writing tips/learnings below:
Some of the students favorite writing tips/learnings below:
December 5, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Just finished my last class of the semester🎉Reminded of how much I love teaching this academic writing class for grad students. We focus on improving our writing but also reducing anxiety and becoming a more consistent & productive writer
Some of the students favorite writing tips/learnings below:
Some of the students favorite writing tips/learnings below:
Sometimes you're just sitting in a meeting and the universe delivers a moment of pure joy.
December 5, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Sometimes you're just sitting in a meeting and the universe delivers a moment of pure joy.
What a great article… so well reported & with a lot of input from experts. I’m going to assign it to my undergrads!
second dialect acquisition in The Atlantic! I'm quoted in this piece (along w/@abbyjwalker.bsky.social & other linguists) #linguistics
Why Taylor Swift’s Accent Has Changed
And yours might too.
www.theatlantic.com
December 5, 2025 at 12:40 PM
What a great article… so well reported & with a lot of input from experts. I’m going to assign it to my undergrads!
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Interested in doing an international PhD in Neuro- or Psycholinguistics? See call for applications in the IDEALAB with 8 projects, 2 with me on infant lang development phd-idealab.com/application/...
Projects – IDEALAB
International Doctorate for Experimental Approaches to Language And Brain
phd-idealab.com
December 5, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Interested in doing an international PhD in Neuro- or Psycholinguistics? See call for applications in the IDEALAB with 8 projects, 2 with me on infant lang development phd-idealab.com/application/...
I thought that final “come with” as in “do you want to come with?” was pretty specific to northern Midwest US dialects. But I’m listening to a UK show and I’ve heard it twice. UK speakers: do you do really do “come with”??
December 5, 2025 at 2:06 AM
I thought that final “come with” as in “do you want to come with?” was pretty specific to northern Midwest US dialects. But I’m listening to a UK show and I’ve heard it twice. UK speakers: do you do really do “come with”??
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We're hiring at the Associate Professor level in Social Psychology! Join us in our vibrant and wonderful department and area. Contact Markus Brauer, search committee chair, for details (markus.brauer@wisc.edu). Job ad here: shorturl.at/nnvv8
Associate Professor - Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Current Employees: If you are currently employed at any of the Universities of Wisconsin, log in to Workday to apply through the internal application process.Job Category:FacultyEmployment Type:Regula...
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December 4, 2025 at 5:39 PM
We're hiring at the Associate Professor level in Social Psychology! Join us in our vibrant and wonderful department and area. Contact Markus Brauer, search committee chair, for details (markus.brauer@wisc.edu). Job ad here: shorturl.at/nnvv8
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Great question!
1) First and foremost, we evaluate a candidate based on the departmental guidelines and expectations provided. We don't hold the candidate to arbitrary standards, or even to those of our own institution unless asked to do so. We assess the materials against the guidelines provided.
1) First and foremost, we evaluate a candidate based on the departmental guidelines and expectations provided. We don't hold the candidate to arbitrary standards, or even to those of our own institution unless asked to do so. We assess the materials against the guidelines provided.
Dear senior profs who have written tenure letters.
Can you help demystify the process for some junior profs up for tenure soon?
What do you look for? How do you make your evaluation?
We are told that the letters are the most important part of the file, but not what letter writers look for.
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Can you help demystify the process for some junior profs up for tenure soon?
What do you look for? How do you make your evaluation?
We are told that the letters are the most important part of the file, but not what letter writers look for.
1/
December 4, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Great question!
1) First and foremost, we evaluate a candidate based on the departmental guidelines and expectations provided. We don't hold the candidate to arbitrary standards, or even to those of our own institution unless asked to do so. We assess the materials against the guidelines provided.
1) First and foremost, we evaluate a candidate based on the departmental guidelines and expectations provided. We don't hold the candidate to arbitrary standards, or even to those of our own institution unless asked to do so. We assess the materials against the guidelines provided.
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We are hiring an assistant professor in cognitive neural systems in the department of psychology at the university of arizona. please use this link to check out the requirements and apply!
arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
Assistant Professor, Psychology (T/TE)
Duties & Responsibilities:Publishing peer-reviewed scholarly works.Maintaining an active research program.Obtaining extramural funding.Teaching un...
arizona.csod.com
December 4, 2025 at 7:24 PM
We are hiring an assistant professor in cognitive neural systems in the department of psychology at the university of arizona. please use this link to check out the requirements and apply!
arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
“Cat” as a mass noun.
December 4, 2025 at 1:35 PM
“Cat” as a mass noun.
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Deadline 4 Jan: Postdoc, variability and vowel harmony, metaphony (phonetic and psycholinguistic approaches), Potsdam (w/ A. Gafos) docs.google.com/document/d/1...
December 3, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Deadline 4 Jan: Postdoc, variability and vowel harmony, metaphony (phonetic and psycholinguistic approaches), Potsdam (w/ A. Gafos) docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Cruelty is anhedonic. It rarely delivers the euphoria promised because, in the abstract, what feels righteous and joyful inevitably reveals itself to be sordid and small. Then it's "No not like that". "No not enough". "No the real battle, the forever war to make this feel good starts now". Forever.
Note how these awful people are getting exactly the exclusions of children that they demanded and *that still isn’t enough for them*: they demand everyone be delighted about it and kiss their arses for being brilliant.
December 4, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Cruelty is anhedonic. It rarely delivers the euphoria promised because, in the abstract, what feels righteous and joyful inevitably reveals itself to be sordid and small. Then it's "No not like that". "No not enough". "No the real battle, the forever war to make this feel good starts now". Forever.
I don't think hold any belief more strongly than the belief that "Paste & Match Formatting" should be DEFAULT.
December 3, 2025 at 9:50 PM
I don't think hold any belief more strongly than the belief that "Paste & Match Formatting" should be DEFAULT.
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You know that thing Coco Chanel said about accessories?
“Before you leave the house, look in the mirror and take one thing off”
We should all do that but with about 50% of the text we put in slide decks.
TAKE. IT. OUT.
“Before you leave the house, look in the mirror and take one thing off”
We should all do that but with about 50% of the text we put in slide decks.
TAKE. IT. OUT.
December 3, 2025 at 7:06 PM
You know that thing Coco Chanel said about accessories?
“Before you leave the house, look in the mirror and take one thing off”
We should all do that but with about 50% of the text we put in slide decks.
TAKE. IT. OUT.
“Before you leave the house, look in the mirror and take one thing off”
We should all do that but with about 50% of the text we put in slide decks.
TAKE. IT. OUT.
The gall! I'm always astonished when researchers refuse to review *for the journal that is publishing them.* This is next level.
It is my fourth year as an Associate Editor, and it still amazes me to see distinguished scholars who have never reviewed for our journal send their mentees emails cc’ing us, saying that if we take more than three months, they may not submit to our journal in the future.
December 2, 2025 at 7:51 PM
The gall! I'm always astonished when researchers refuse to review *for the journal that is publishing them.* This is next level.
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New York Times article on science funding with some depressing but familiar curves with interactive graphics.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
The U.S. Is Funding Fewer Grants in Every Area of Science and Medicine (Gift Article)
A quiet policy change means the government is making fewer bets on long-term science.
www.nytimes.com
December 2, 2025 at 11:57 AM
New York Times article on science funding with some depressing but familiar curves with interactive graphics.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Review starts 12/1 (rolling basis): Open-rank (tenure-track/tenured) positions, cognitive psychology, cognitive neuroscience, behavioral neuroscience, Psych. + Brain Sci., Johns Hopkins University pbs.jhu.edu/about/jobs/
December 2, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Review starts 12/1 (rolling basis): Open-rank (tenure-track/tenured) positions, cognitive psychology, cognitive neuroscience, behavioral neuroscience, Psych. + Brain Sci., Johns Hopkins University pbs.jhu.edu/about/jobs/
So looking forward to Gretchen’s pics this month… @juliesedivy.bsky.social ‘s book is an absolute favorite!
Day 1 of #BooksAreMyJam!
Blueberry Maple jam, with Linguaphile: A life of language love by Julie Sedivy.
A classic Canadian flavour duo + this book about @juliesedivy.bsky.social's relationship with language through her childhood in Montreal, later research as a linguist, and more
Blueberry Maple jam, with Linguaphile: A life of language love by Julie Sedivy.
A classic Canadian flavour duo + this book about @juliesedivy.bsky.social's relationship with language through her childhood in Montreal, later research as a linguist, and more
December 1, 2025 at 5:16 PM
So looking forward to Gretchen’s pics this month… @juliesedivy.bsky.social ‘s book is an absolute favorite!
{Mariah Carey voice}:
🎶All I want for Christmas...
...Is yooooooooooooouuuuuuuu...
...r review of this manuscript submission even though I know you are burnt out and ready for break 🎶
🎶All I want for Christmas...
...Is yooooooooooooouuuuuuuu...
...r review of this manuscript submission even though I know you are burnt out and ready for break 🎶
Hey, I just met you...
And this is crazy...
Do me a favor???
Review this paper?
And this is crazy...
Do me a favor???
Review this paper?
I just stopped by to deliver this freshly baked strawberry-rhubarb pie. I’ll be long gone before you discover the review invitation I baked into it.
December 1, 2025 at 4:20 PM
{Mariah Carey voice}:
🎶All I want for Christmas...
...Is yooooooooooooouuuuuuuu...
...r review of this manuscript submission even though I know you are burnt out and ready for break 🎶
🎶All I want for Christmas...
...Is yooooooooooooouuuuuuuu...
...r review of this manuscript submission even though I know you are burnt out and ready for break 🎶
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At this point, Dylan, I can rage against it being slightly overcast.
December 1, 2025 at 2:20 PM
At this point, Dylan, I can rage against it being slightly overcast.
The tough thing about having your kid home from college is sometimes you suggest going for a jog on a freezing, blustery day and she has the temerity to *call your bluff.*
November 29, 2025 at 6:16 PM
The tough thing about having your kid home from college is sometimes you suggest going for a jog on a freezing, blustery day and she has the temerity to *call your bluff.*