Dr. Ethan Kutlu
Assistant Professor
Director of the Cognitive Science of Language Graduate Program
Associate Editor
Personal website: ethankutlu.com
Lab website: s-cube.lab.uiowa.edu
ROLE Collective: rolecollective.org
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- Fantastic opportunity!
- Reposted by Dr. Ethan Kutlu🚨Thrilled to share I am able to hire someone (PhD preferred) with coding expertise to work on our HAPPE software for EEG! Knowledge of Matlab, Python, and EEG signal processing required. Enthusiasm for teaching/mentoring, collaboration, and developmental science preferred!
- Reposted by Dr. Ethan KutluSending this around for people in different time zones. I'm keen for it to get as much reach as possible because I think there's a great need for something like this out there! See thread below it for details, and please share widely! :)
- We are so lucky to have @mattgoldrick.bsky.social! Congrats, Matt!
- Huge congratulations to our committee member @mattgoldrick.bsky.social on receiving the Cognitive Science Society’s Elman Prize! Matt’s research and service have made lasting contributions to cognitive science. We’re thrilled to see his work recognized. cognitivesciencesociety.org/elman-prize/
- I say this more loudly today than any other day. I refuse to accept despair as the final response.
- In our recent manuscript, we invite cognitive scientists to be critical of the labels they choose to describe language users. We argued that the term native speaker is problematic as it distorts scholarly inquiry and introduces bias. Cognition link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
- First paper of 2026 in the Cognition Journal! 🥳 Led by @savithry.bsky.social, @ethankutlu.bsky.social, and co-authored with many wonderful collaborators from the ROLE Collective (www.rolecollective.org). Honored to work alongside scholars who enrich my learning and make me feel I belong.🤩🙌
- In 2022, @savithry.bsky.social and I decided to work together to form a collective of language scientists who would come together to assess and evaluate the labels we use in language sciences. The ROLE Collective, which started with less than 10 members, has grown to include over 100 scientists.
- In the paper, we don't propose a remedy (e.g., avoiding labels altogether or replacing them). Rather, we encourage scientists to be more descriptive and critical of the labels they choose. We hope that our community benefits from this article. Open access link: osf.io/preprints/ps...
- We are grateful to the editorial team at @cognitionjournal.bsky.social for a thoughtful and instructive editorial process.
- In 2020, I came to LSA in New Orleans as a 5th year PhD student. I was anxious, scared, and unsure about my future. In #LSA2026, my graduate student, Danica, presented her work on Korean-American accents and it was a humbling moment to experience how much six years can change your life.
- @kellykendro.bsky.social gave a fantastic talk on bilingualism today. We also stole the #LSA2026 sign for a photo.
- Oh, and we had more Dubai chocolate and the owner of the store now recognizes me as his regular customer.
- Here as a proud mentor, I am cutting a Dubai chocolate themed brownie for Danica!
- Reposted by Dr. Ethan Kutluhey, did y'all know that the Linguistic Society of America offers FREE registration to K12 teachers, K12 students, and Indigenous scholars of the Americas for the #LSA2026 Annual Meeting? And it's not too late to register for the hybrid/online portion of the conference!
- How the night started vs how it ended with my three cats
- Ending the year strong. Rereading the idiot for the second time, reading a collection of Kafka’s stories, and finishing up Empire of AI which has been incredibly eye opening. The notebooks have been witnessing the learning curve and my daily, weekly, and monthly tasks.
- Reposted by Dr. Ethan KutluHa, this is the perfect opportunity to share this awesome Turkish cartoon many of us will relate to. The man: Have I died and come to heaven? The demon: Dude, what was your life like?
- Someone who sold vitamins on TV for many years is telling what is medically sound. Most of those vitamins were aimed at certain conditions for older men. I will just stop my thoughts here.
- I have a list of book suggestions for these companies that go through the existential crisis.
- Celebrating my mom’s birthday from 6000 miles away. Cheers to the most complex human in my life! She called me ‘son’ first time last year so I am being extra celebratory with a glass of wine, a glass of grand marnier, and a cup of double shot espresso.
- Please consider submitting your manuscript to our special issue in Scientific Reports (deadline March 5th, 2026) www.nature.com/collections/...
- Public announcement: your cats know when you don’t feel well and they do really weird things to make you laugh. Here is my picture with my third baby where he ran inside my bag chew my notebook and moments after this photo threw up in backpack.
- Reposted by Dr. Ethan KutluDeadline Jan 15: Open rank (tenure-track/tenured), language (open sub area), Cognitive Science, Johns Hopkins apply.interfolio.com/178813
- Reposted by Dr. Ethan KutluAn analysis of the legal deficiencies of the agreement Northwestern signed to restore funding www.theuniversityunderthreat.org/updates#h.hk...
- Reposted by Dr. Ethan KutluThis is honestly like a fractal fever dream inside a matrix inside a nightmare inside a matrix
- Opinion | My Conversation With AI’s Ayn Rand AI may help higher ed with its viewpoint diversity challenges. bit.ly/4oFbeYX #EDUSky #HigherEd #AcademicSky
- A few weeks ago, I went to the Psychonomics conference in Denver. During the conference, I heard a researcher saying "bilinguals have a creativity disadvantage." I raised my questions after their talk, but I also wrote a letter to talk about my emotions. open.substack.com/pub/letterst...
- I wanted to share my emotions rather than the existing hundreds of scientific articles on this matter. Long story short, social scientists (and scientists in general) who study humans should not characterize humans as ambiguous.
- Reposted by Dr. Ethan KutluTrying out a new PCP's office, and their "preferred language" dropdown on the intake form is time-traveler inclusive.
- Reposted by Dr. Ethan KutluOne more week to nominate an outstanding early-career researcher for the Lila R. Gleitman Prize. Visit cognitivesciencesociety.org/gleitman-pri... to learn more and nominate! #GleitmanPrize
- I have had pretty rough years, but 2025 has been it. As we are approaching the end of it, I want to share my gratitude for another year of learning and the many beautiful communities that surround me. I want to acknowledge what a good teacher this year has been.
- I woke up each day thinking if I would lose another citizenship. I kept waking up with tremors. Then, one day I woke up and heard that my father was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. A month later, I was diagnosed with the early onset of Parkinson's.
- I thought it was the stress, too much coffee, or simply grief. It was not. I learned so much about myself during this process. There were days that I felt like I had to drop everything in my life, but I slowly made my peace with it. I learned to welcome bad days as I welcome good days.
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View full threadWe all go through a very rough year and I hope that you will take a second to appreciate the beauty that still surrounds us. So, as we say goodbye to 2025, I want to say thank you to all the beauty that is in this universe, and most importantly, the beauty of resistance.
