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Gwen Brekelmans
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Teaching focussed senior lecturer in psychology at QMUL. Research interests: language learning, speech perception. She/her 🏳️‍🌈
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andreaeyleen.bsky.social
OPEN PHD POSITION - Come join our group! The IMPRS at @mpi-nl.bsky.social is offering an PhD position on modelling structured meaning in the brain, supervised by me and Helen De Hoop at the Centre for Language Studies in the @dondersinst.bsky.social -
www.mpi.nl/imprs-phd-fe... #NeuroJobs #cogsci
IMPRS PhD Fellowships 2026 | Max Planck Institute
www.mpi.nl
October 23, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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hmking-linguist.bsky.social
Ten more days to check out The Barbican's

Voiced: The Festival for #EndangeredLanguages

🗣💬 #langsky

www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/202...
barbican 1-31 Oct VOICED The Festival for Endangered Languages Experience visual art, literature, spoken word and sound installations from indigenous artists in the first UK festival of this kind Details of some of the events are listed here, which can be found at: https://www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/2025/series/voiced-the-festival-for-endangered-languages
October 21, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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drelsje.bsky.social
🧩Learning to talk & read isn’t just about effort or teaching—it’s shaped by biology, experience & context

🧠Our new review links genetics, neuroscience, psychology & education to show why some children find language or reading easier.

📖 doi.org/10.31234/osf...

🖼️genes→brain→cognition→behaviour 🧵👇
Figure 2 in the review: Levels of analysis from genes and brain systems to cognition and behaviour. The child both influences and is influenced by parents through genetically shaped interactions, and by the wider school and social environment. Figure design by Neil Usher. Figure from this review paper: https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/w23yz_v1
October 6, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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teruniahamat.bsky.social
Excited to share my first PhD article, published in Scientific Data 👉 rdcu.be/eIRqD

We present the Shared Book Reading Corpus: 44 caregiver-infant dyads, 3 camera views (headcams + overview), speech transcriptions & developmental measures.

Access on Databrary for discovery & reuse! ✨

#OpenScience
October 2, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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susannebrouwer.bsky.social
PhD Position: Accented Speech Processing - Apply now!

Come work with Mirjam Broersma, @davidpeeters.bsky.social, and me at the Centre for Language Studies, Radboud University in the Netherlands.

Application deadline: 19 October 2025

For more information, see
www.ru.nl/en/working-a...
PhD Position: Accented Speech Processing | Radboud University
Do you want to work as a PhD: Accented Speech Processing at the Faculty of Arts? Check our vacancy!
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October 2, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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queenmarycbb.bsky.social
Today we had the launch event for our Centre for Brain & Behaviour! Lots of cool research from our PIs and contributions from companies, charities, and publishers. Great fruitful discussion and exchanges. Watch this space!
September 29, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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t-fun.bsky.social
Flash talks at the #TFUNfest2025 this afternoon! Next up is @gwenbrekel.bsky.social who is sharing preliminary results on what students value in relation to equality and diversity in their teaching...
September 17, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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carorowland.bsky.social
So excited to see that IASCL now has a group Zotero library of research on language acquisition in under-represented languages. 👏👏. All information here: www.childlanguage.org/underreprese...
Repository of Papers on Underrepresented Languages — IASCL
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September 1, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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mattgoldrick.bsky.social
🚨Postdoctoral fellowship in corpus phonetics / data science for speech with me and Ann Bradlow. Position is open immediately. Apply now! 🚨 Details: faculty.wcas.northwestern.edu/matt-goldric...
August 28, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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carorowland.bsky.social
Children are incredible language learning machines. But how do they do it? Our latest paper, just published in TICS, synthesizes decades of evidence to propose four components that must be built into any theory of how children learn language. 1/
www.cell.com/trends/cogni... @mpi-nl.bsky.social
Constructing language: a framework for explaining acquisition
Explaining how children build a language system is a central goal of research in language acquisition, with broad implications for language evolution, adult language processing, and artificial intelli...
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June 27, 2025 at 5:17 AM
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bps-dartp.bsky.social
What an incredible first day! Some fantastic talks, discussions, and networking - we can't wait to do it all again tomorrow! Check out our LinkedIn post for a few photos from the day... #dartp2025

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What an incredible first day! | British Psychological Society Division of Academics, Researchers, and Teachers in Psychology (DARTP)
What an incredible first day! Some fantastic talks, discussions, and networking - we can't wait to do it all again tomorrow! Here's a few photos from the day... #dartp2025
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June 23, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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annavolkmer.bsky.social
We are doing a survey to understand why other professionals do/don't refer people with Primary Progressive Aphasia for speech-language support

We want Drs, nurses, psychologists, social workers, OTs, PTs & any other profession.

The survey can be accessed here: qualtrics.ucl.ac.uk/jfe/form/SV_...
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April 17, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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hetanshah.bsky.social
OK folks - will you please help me spread this far and wide. A really exciting opportunity to be the new Director of Comms at @britishacademy.bsky.social - the national academy for humanities and social sciences. £100k. Lovely team. Reports directly to me
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Logos for The British Academy and Green Park Job title: Director of Communications Location: 10-11 Carlton House Terrace, SW1Y 5AH Reports to: Chief Executive
April 8, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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adamtierney.bsky.social
There's a PhD studentship opportunity available at the Birkbeck School of Psychological Sciences! 4 years, funded by working as a graduate teaching assistant. Feel free to get in touch if you have questions. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMD691/p...
PhD Studentship & Graduate Teaching Assistant at Birkbeck, University of London
Apply now for the PhD Studentship & Graduate Teaching Assistant role on jobs.ac.uk - the leading job board for higher education jobs. View details.
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April 7, 2025 at 8:11 AM
gwenbrekel.bsky.social
As always a delight to host @emilynordmann.bsky.social and a very sunny day to boot! Thanks very much for sharing your words of wisdom with our @qmulsbbs.bsky.social teaching & scholarship staff, and for the thought-provoking seminar in the @queenmarycbb.bsky.social psychology seminar!
emilynordmann.bsky.social Prof. Emily Nordmann @emilynordmann.bsky.social · Mar 26
Have had a lovely day at QMUL talking about scholarship and lecture capture and it is always a pleasure to see @gwenbrekel.bsky.social! I was asked to talk about my career journey and advice for getting scholarship done myself & supporting others & thought I might as well write it all down 1/2
March 27, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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pernellel.bsky.social
Last stretch! Please help if you can. If you teach at a Spanish university, don’t hesitate to share with your students. I wouldn’t mind doing an online session afterwards if you want me to introduce the topic of emotion to your students (or I could do a methodological session on online surveys). Thx
pernellel.bsky.social Pernelle Lorette @pernellel.bsky.social · Feb 17
📢 Spanish speakers, we need you! (Yes, again.)
We are still on a quest to find adult native Spanish speakers from Spain for our short (15-minute) online study on emotion perception. If you can, please take part or share. Muchas gracias 🙏
survey2.sl-services.be/index.php/68...
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A cartoon-style image of Spain pointing at the viewer with a speech bubble saying "I need you"
March 5, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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jntowse.bsky.social
50 years ago Alan Baddeley and Graham Hitch propelled the term #workingmemory into the psychological lexicon, with a vision that still resonates today!
This editorial with Mark Hurlstone, @amyatkinson.bsky.social , Satoru Saito and Robert Logie, reflects on that remarkable contribution in 1974.
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November 15, 2024 at 11:07 AM
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sciencex.bsky.social
Group arts activities, such as painting and music, can significantly reduce depression and anxiety symptoms in older adults, offering a promising alternative to traditional mental health treatments. doi.org/g866dw
The art of well-being: Group activities shown to ease depression and anxiety in older adults
A new study led by Queen Mary University of London researchers reveals that group arts interventions—such as painting, music, or dance—can significantly reduce symptoms of depression and anxiety among older adults.
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March 5, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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vandeneeckhoutkoen.bsky.social
Are you thinking about doing more science communication, but not really sure where to start?

Maybe you are already communicating, but would like to explore a wider range of channels?

Or you just want an A-to-Z overview of everything #scicomm related?

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The cover for the book '50 essentials on science communication'. It features some images in red and greenish blue, showing a space shuttle, Albert Einstein mid-jump, a researcher with huge glasses, test tubes, a hand, speech bubbles, a light bulb, lots of arrows, and more.
November 7, 2024 at 8:51 AM
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skypeascientist.bsky.social
Hi! We're Skype a Scientist! We're a free program that matches scientists with classrooms, scout troops, libraries, & other groups for Q&As all about science.

Get matched with a scientist for a virtual conversation! We have 30+ types of scientist & match weekly.
www.skypeascientist.com/sign-up.html
A blue infographic gives a step by step guide on how to Skype a scientist. The steps are: 1) sign up on skypeascientist.com 2) pick a category of science your group would like to talk about (e.g. marine biology, chemistry, astronomy) 3) get a match via email 4) connect with your scientist, discuss your ur group’s needs and pick a time to chat 5) talk to your scientist!
February 26, 2025 at 3:04 AM
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queenmarycbb.bsky.social
You are all invited to"Meet the team"! We will post regularly to introduce our fantastic staff at the Department of Psychology and Centre for Brain & Behaviour. Today, we would like to introduce Gwen Brekelmans @gwenbrekel.bsky.social and Sevasti Foka.
February 27, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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justinjhlo.bsky.social
New open access paper in Speech Communication on “nasal coarticulation in Lombard speech”: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I argue that, in Lombard speech, coarticulatory vowel nasality falls amid a compressed range of nasalisation, but coarticulation is maintained

@phoneticslab.bsky.social
Nasal coarticulation in Lombard speech
Speaking in noisy environments entails a multitude of adaptations to speech production. Such modifications are expected to reduce gestural overlap bet…
www.sciencedirect.com
February 21, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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betsysneller.bsky.social
THE BUNNY PAPER HAS BEEN PUBLISHED!!

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

#linguistics 🐦
February 19, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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giorgiamichelini.bsky.social
Don’t miss the Young People’s Mental Health Creative Showcase organised by Dr Christina Carlisi’s UCL team, happening this Friday evening! www.eventbrite.com/e/ucl-young-...
UCL Young People's Mental Health Creative Showcase
An exhibition of young people's artworks on the topic of mental health and mental health research.
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February 19, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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adamtierney.bsky.social
New preprint! This paper shows that the perceptual boundary between speech and song can shift due to the surrounding context. Specifically, speech/song categorization is affected by contrastive adaptation: perceptual movement away from the previous stimulus.

osf.io/preprints/ps...
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February 7, 2025 at 3:00 PM