Nieuw artikel over Poëzie en kunstmatige intelligentie: www.aup-online.com/content/jour...
(Open-access versie hier: research.tilburguniversity.edu/en/publicati...)
Proud supervisor moment 😊
Another reason to stop eating chickens
Mansplainer!!1!
Wil je promoveren op jongeren die wél lezen in tijden van digitalisering en ontlezing? Ik zoek twee promovendi binnen mijn Vidi-project 'Anatomy of the #Bookish'! Solliciteren kan tot 1 maart.
www.ru.nl/werken-bij/v...
"Ich askid ChatGPT." Well *Ich* askid the stones, and the forest, and the starres, and the mountaynes, and what thei seyde was learninge, and dreames, and growinge thinges, and makinge art, and a worlde wher we talke to each othir and care about each othir.
I take an abolitionist stance toward LLMs. And I do not use the word lightly.
In academic circles, there is often an a priori rejection of "absolutist" arguments as illegitimate, "unscientific" or "counterproductive".
Sometimes abolition *is* the correct stance. That shouldn't be controversial.
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...
In our new paper Line Kruse shows that The Demonstrative Choice Task (DCT) can be used to predict depression across a number of languages. dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...
I was mesmerized by the idea that something static can convey not only motion but also temporality, and I decided to test it empirically. It wasn’t an easy task, as the way our data was organized didn’t make it straightforward. But now, here is our paper!
♥️ www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
Was it recorded by any chance? 🙏🏼
"Discourse genre predicts demonstrative use in text: Experimental evidence from Dutch and Mandarin"
📢New paper from: David Peeters, Suzanne Schuurman, Tianning Zhai, Emiel Krahmer, Yan Gu, & Alfons Maes
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
A new study presents experimental evidence, from both Dutch and Mandarin, that discourse genre is the main predictor of writers’ demonstrative use in text.
In written language, demonstratives such as 'this' and 'that' allow writers to produce coherent texts and readers to build up a consistent mental model of the message that is conveyed. But what makes a writer decide to use one demonstrative (e.g., this) over another (e.g., that)?
Some new insights about demonstratives:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
If your university still exists and you are teaching from our book - please know we now have 140 multiple choice exam questions ready for use, to be found on the companion website for teachers (or drop me an email) 🤓
Stockholm syndroom
Beating stress: Evidence for recalibration of word stress perception. Final version by Ronny Bujok,
@davidpeeters.bsky.social , Antje S. Meyer & Hans Rutger Bosker
doi.org/10.3758/s13414-025-03088-5
Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia
Our demands, see link
Hello & HAPPY FRIDAY, as promised an open letter by my lovely colleagues and myself. Everybody, feel free to sign this even if you are not NL-based and ‼️ share ‼️ (anonymous signature is poss):
Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia
openletter.earth/open-letter-...
📣 "Universities are not spokespersons for the AI industry...we need to resist being coopted and corrupted...We need to increase Critical AI Literacy in students, in scientists & in other professionals. This is the role that universities are duty bound to play in times of planetary crises"📣
Book cover by Simon Kirby
Delighted to announce the publication of a collaborative effort, co-led by @limorraviv.bsky.social @mpi-nl.bsky.social, showcasing the ways in which researchers have made language evolution an empirical issue: A handbook of experimental approaches to the fascinating problem of language evolution 🧪
Jeanette Littlemore en Petra Schumacher o.a. hebben hier heel slimme dingen over geschreven. En psycholing. onderzoek laat zien dat fysieke afstand niet zo belangrijk is voor de keuze tussen dit en dat. Die aanname wordt inmiddels soms de ‘folk view’ genoemd…
Mooi! En fascinerend hoe de semantici de psycholinguistische literatuur nog altijd niet weten te vinden
Welcome to the dark side
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Today we strike! My first day off since 2017 - Thanks @eppobruins.bsky.social
1.2 billion in cuts to higher ed & science in this year’s budget. Who knows what the next one brings? Plus: attacks on 🇳🇱 academia’s international character & suggestions that gov't should have more instruments to steer course offering in higher ed.
🟥 Protest! 10 April, 12.30, Willemsplein, Tilburg!
