Dr Lena M Blott
Psycholinguist at Uni Mannheim. Academic Mama. Hunter of vintage treasures.
- Reposted by Dr Lena M BlottIn my ongoing attempts to give you a break from *gestures widely* THE HORRORS: Let's talk about the utterly bizarre science of cats' purring. Here's a weird starting point: There are NO cats (Felidae) that can BOTH roar AND purr. Cats that roar = genus Panthera Cats that purr = genus Felis
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- I've been looking for an easy-to-follow explainer on how LLMs work for a class I'm teaching this term, but this series is so much more than that. Worth sharing with students (and everyone else)!
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- Reposted by Dr Lena M BlottIt’s the same with academic writing. The difficulty doesn’t lie in formulating grammatical sentences, but in deciding what it is you actually want to say. Writing is part of the process by which you figure that out, and isn’t something that can be outsourced to a machine.
- Reposted by Dr Lena M Blott🚨 New paper alert 🚨 Using LLMs as data annotators, you can produce any scientific result you want. We call this **LLM Hacking**. Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2509.08825
- Reposted by Dr Lena M BlottDid you know that from tomorrow, Qualtrics is offering synthetic panels (AI-generated participants)? Follow me down a rabbit hole I'm calling "doing science is tough and I'm so busy, can't we just make up participants?"
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- Beautiful thread
- An die deutsche #Linguistics #Linguistik crowd: Kann es sein, dass die Leipzig corpora gerade down sind? Wenn ja, weiß da jemand vielleicht, wann man da wieder Zugriff haben kann?
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- Reposted by Dr Lena M BlottResearch from 2022 that every Democrat apologist should chew on: “We do not find any evidence that accommodative strategies reduce radical right support. If anything, our results suggest that they lead to more voters defecting to the radical right.“ www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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- Reposted by Dr Lena M BlottWe can upload 3 minute videos now. YOU KNOW THE RULE
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- Reposted by Dr Lena M BlottJOB ALERT in #language and #linguistics! Postdoc Position at the Center for Language Evolution Studies, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland. Job offer here: www.umk.pl/en/jobs/?tas... We are now looking at a broader candidate pool so do consider applying! Please repost & share widely!
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- At the playground with the 5yo. Daddy: You can lie on this hammock here if you want. M: I did a poo on my monkey in the night. D: What?! Really?? M: No! You said I can lie on here. #lexical #ambiguity #linguistics
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- Reposted by Dr Lena M BlottMy German election ballot only arrived today, a long shot but is anyone traveling from Boston to Berlin today who could take it? Any leads @germanyinboston.bsky.social ?
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- Reposted by Dr Lena M BlottI think most people are intuitively aware of this but something like the official White House account posting an “ASMR” video of shackled immigrants is not just cruel for its own sake, it’s intentional envelope-pushing to ramp up to desensitization over inhumane detention, camps, and deaths
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- Was really enjoying Bluesky for a moment there. And now it's like 5% jokes, 5% wholesome content and 90% the collapse of the United States. I cannot afford going back to my doomscrolling habit, help.
- Reposted by Dr Lena M BlottI know this site only reaches a subset of neuro/ cog professors. If you know a young professor in the area who would benefit from a week of targeted learning about doing good science, good mentoring, networking etc, it would be great if you could forward them: compneurosci.com/Neuro4Pros/i...
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- Ein bisschen Hoffnung! www.zeit.de/gesellschaft...
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- Ok, Semester geht übernächste Woche wieder los und dann noch zwei Wochen bis zur Wahl. Würde gerne meine Student*innen zum Wählen motivieren zwecks Vermeidung von Faschismus. Frage: Wie macht ihr das so? Zeigt ihr z.B. Wahlomat?
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- Make it stop please.
- Nothing like the adrenaline you get when you think you might have lost your child's favourite stuffy 😭
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- Q for fellow academic parents: when will I stop kidding myself with plans like "I'll work on this thing when I have a few uninterrupted hours"? #academicsky #parenthood
- Gotta love museum bluesky
- Reposted by Dr Lena M BlottPlease tell your kids, every damn day if necessary, that chatGPT is not a goddamn search engine and you shouldn’t believe a word it says. Tell the adults too, but it’s especially imperative to inoculate kids against this
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- Reposted by Dr Lena M BlottLike many other European social democratic parties, Labour is moving right on immigration, certainly driven by the recent success of Reform. We have researched this question for years now. There is an abundance of evidence of why this isn't a good strategy. A thread summarizing some of our research
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- Seeing the shark scientists on here giving talks in their fabulous shark costumes I kind of wish there was an obvious costume that says "language science"
