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!
- 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/
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- Hello 🌞
- 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.🤩🙌
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View full threadIn 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 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.
- @kellykendro.bsky.social gave a fantastic talk on bilingualism today. We also stole the #LSA2026 sign for a photo.
- I love seeing all of you reunited!❤️🙌🏼 @kellykendro.bsky.social @ethankutlu.bsky.social Killing it like always! 🤓
- You were missed! I hope to see you at ASHA this year, Reinaldo💜
- 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.
- 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!
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- Thank you so much, Mark! I really appreciate it. I was not planning on sharing this experience because I thought it was an accident. But it seems like the pattern is becoming clear.
- The worst part is that I'm an early career scholar, and every publication counts. But on top of this all my co-authors are ECRs too with extremely delicate personal deadlines. We waited 11 months to receive feedback and we received none.
- Re: the AI slop paper shared by @thomaspellard.bsky.social and @lameensouag.bsky.social, I wrote to the editors — will update when I get a reply, and will be following closely what they do. Key point is that we should hold the *journal* accountable for this mess I have a few predictions... 1/n
- Thank you for sharing this! Recently, I decided to not submit our final manuscript which was accepted. We didn’t receive any feedback on our science and the only review we received was AI generated wording changes. It is the same journal. I emailed the editorial team too and I received no answer.
- Some news: After 10 years as a Senior Lecturer, this is my last day of work in UK academia. I will start a new position as Lab Manager in the Multimodal Language Dept at @mpi-nl.bsky.social in February. I am delighted to be back at the MPI and to work with @asliozyurek.bsky.social again! 😊 1/
- Tebrikler Reyhan hocam!
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- I was going to bring up pink trombone ☠️ I’m dying!
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- Anymoreeeee!!! We need documentation of this unfolding story
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- That’s what I’m hoping too because if there are many, @devezer.bsky.social , are you okay?
- How the night started vs how it ended with my three cats
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- They are indeed! For instance, they do this ‘lovely’ dance every morning 😆
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- Them 😬😬😬?!?!?
- 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.
- My mom used to make these - in my family we call them "filhoses", but I think they're also known as "malassadas". Sadly, she can't make them anymore, so I figured it was up to me to maintain the tradition of filhoses at Christmas. Here's my very first batch. Not too bad!
- These look beautiful and I can smell them through the picture 🥰
- 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.
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- Thank you, Valeria! I appreciate it!
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- Esem matematik youtube.com/shorts/W-BBp...
- He could have opened a butcher chain like Nusret honestly!
- Ha, 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/...
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- I love this!
- 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.
- 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.
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- What an honor to hear this from you, Matt! Thank you! At this point, I am in my warrior era and am telling the universe
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- I'm so glad that our paths crossed, Emily!
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- Thank you so much for sharing! I'm sorry to hear that this has been a difficult year for you too. Sharing is grounding (of course when you feel safe). I hope you'll continue to pause and process 💜
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- 🫂 💜 4ever✊
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- I'm practicing to be more flexible. My tremors taught me the value of stillness. They also taught me the value of feeling them. I acknowledge that between the stillness and tremors, life happens.
- We 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.
- 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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- As I face many challenges everyday, I woke up to each day thinking if I will lose another citizenship. Then, one day I woke up and hear that my father is diagnosed with Parkinson’s. A month later, I was diagnosed with the early onset of Parkinson’s.
- I thought it was the stress, the lack of sleep, and the 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 learn to welcome bad days as I welcome good ones.
