ManyLanguages
ManyLanguages is a globally distributed network of language science laboratories that coordinates data collection for democratically selected studies.
http://many-languages.com
account managed by @congzhang.bsky.social and @timoroettger.bsky.social
- We’re trialling a new social activity: #ManyLanguagesChallengeOfTheMonth Running large-scale projects means encountering puzzles, hiccups, and the occasional “why is this happening” moment.
- Instead of suffering in silence, let’s share them. We’d love to hear your stories, opinions, comments—or, in rare and glorious cases, actual solutions.
- January #ManyLanguagesChallengeOfTheMonth: We’re looking at how internet bandwidth differences across locations can become a hurdle for experiments. (1/4)
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View full threadThis is an especially important topic for ManyLanguages as we aim to include as many languages, communities, and cultural contexts as possible. Your experiences can help us build more resilient, inclusive, and globally workable research tools. (4/4)
- ManyLanguages is on two social platforms: ✨ LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/1107... ✨ Bluesky (this page): bsky.app/profile/many... Follow us to stay in the loop, join discussions, and help us spread the word about Big Team Science.
- Reposted by ManyLanguagesThe next one (though it's adults only) is a team-science project with @manylanguagesc.bsky.social looking at passives. We're keen to get as many diverse languages as possible so please get in touch if you'd like to join as a coordinator or a co-investigator for your language bsky.app/profile/many...
- The recently accepted ManyLanguages project CLAPS - A Crosslinguistic Approach to Passive Semantics led by @ambridge.bsky.social is looking to fill four key leadership roles (Analysis Lead, Scaling Coordinator, Translation Coordinator, Ethics Coordinator). ⏰Deadline: 30th Jan.
- Reposted by ManyLanguagesDear exp linguist, for my advanced stats class, I am looking for articles that - are experimental linguistics-ish - report on linear mixed models that did not converge with the intended random effect structure (using lme4) - published open data and scripts Please @ me, I would appreciate it!
- Reposted by ManyLanguagesOne of the major extrinsic hurdles to increasing outreach for @manylanguagesc.bsky.social has been structural and institutional requirements for potential collaborators to be `first authors' and/or 'last authors' for them to even be considered candidates for positions. <long rant coming>
- Reposted by ManyLanguages📣 Big news from RoSE! We’re launching a new RoSE × FORRT collaborative research project 🎉 With @rosenetwork.bsky.social and @forrt.bsky.social, we’re starting a Big Team Science review on evidence for using statistical packages in teaching & learning. Watch this space 👀 #statsed #openscience
- The recently accepted ManyLanguages project CLAPS - A Crosslinguistic Approach to Passive Semantics led by @ambridge.bsky.social is looking to fill four key leadership roles (Analysis Lead, Scaling Coordinator, Translation Coordinator, Ethics Coordinator). ⏰Deadline: 30th Jan.
- ⭕Analysis Lead: - Propose analytical goals and strategy - Propose a sample size justification that is appropriate for the analysis plan - Write analyses scripts (including simulations) and set up reproducible and version-controlled documentation (e.g., GitHub)
- ⭕Scaling Coordinator: - Increase the coverage of underrepresented languages / cultures - Ensure typological diversity and proportional representation of languages - Actively recruit team members and labs outside of virtual academic commons
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View full threadIf you are interested, check out the description of all roles and the project here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
- New BTS paper out🎉! 'Investigating object orientation effects across 18 languages' in Current Psychology. Check it out here: doi.org/10.1007/s121...
- 🔔Today🕒 17:30–18:25 UTC 🔔at the BTS conference [𝐏𝐚𝐧𝐞𝐥 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐮𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧] 𝐈𝐧𝐜𝐥𝐮𝐝𝐞, 𝐬𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐞, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡 𝐨𝐮𝐭 – 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐲𝐗 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐬 📹Zoom link: stanford.zoom.us/j/9171930450...
- 🔔Today🕒 14:30–14:55 UTC 🔔at the BTS conference 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐲𝐓𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐬: 𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐟𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐟𝐫𝐞𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐲 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐛𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐚𝐜𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐬 𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐮𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐬 📹Zoom link: us06web.zoom.us/j/8288025439...
- Reposted by ManyLanguagesThere's still time to register for the 2025 Big Team Science Conference (October 6-8, live on Zoom)! All fees are OPTIONAL, so you can pay what you'd like (or nothing at all!) to gain access to a ton of amazing BTS content. bigteamscienceconference.github.io/registration/
- Reposted by ManyLanguagesJoin me at the Big Team Science Conference, where I'll be presenting live via Zoom on Monday, October 6 from 17:30-18:25 UTC (time converter).
- Reposted by ManyLanguagesOur full 2025 program and schedule are now up on our website! We've got so many great presentations lined up, you won't want to miss it! bigteamscienceconference.github.io/program/
- Reposted by ManyLanguagesThe project also provides a large open dataset for future psycholinguistic research. If you are interested in large-scale collaborations, check out the ManyLanguages community @manylanguagesc.bsky.social Powered by @psysciacc.bsky.social and @scanunit.bsky.social Please RT and enjoy
- The ManyTones project is looking for several lead positions. See poster for details. 📢📣✨ Get involved! 🎉🤝🌟
- 📢Come visit ManyLanguages at AMLaP 2025! Erin Buchanan @aggieerin.bsky.social will present at the *Big Data workshop* before the conference about a large scale language study and discuss how #BigTeamScience can improve our linguistic studies (amlap2025.ff.cuni.cz). You can also check out our poster!
- Reposted by ManyLanguages🚨 Calling all dog behavior & cognition researchers - ManyDogs Project is launching ManyDogs 2! 🔍🐕🦺We're studying overimitation: Do dogs copy irrelevant actions just b/c their favorite human does them? Email manydogsproject2@gmail.com to collaborate globally and contribute to reproducible science!
- @ambridge.bsky.social is currently working on a ManyLanguages proposal on "Semantic Affectedness as a Universal of Passive Constructions”. Methodological details depend on the target languages, so Ben has asked us to help find experts. Get in touch with Ben if you would like to be involved 🤓
- 🎉ManyLanguages received some funding to work on a data collection website that would engage participants in citizen science by sharing their language results with them. 🧠🌍 More details will be shared with the network soon on how to get involved.
- Just to add the grant was awarded to @aggieerin.bsky.social !🥳
- Exciting!!!
- 🚨 SAVE THE DATE! 🗓️ The 2025 Big Team Science Conference will be October 6-8! More information coming soon about invited speakers, submissions, and schedule. Get excited! (hosted by your BTS friends @manybabies.org @psysciacc.bsky.social @abrir.bsky.social)
- Good morning/afternoon/evening/night everyone! Here's a little update on our Big Team Science paper titled 'Big Team Science for language science: Opportunities and Challenges': it has been accepted (pending minor corrections) by *Linguistics* (the journal)🎉. Preprint: osf.io/3pkj6
- Reposted by ManyLanguages#linguistics I'm looking for recent meta analyses in experimental linguistics that explicitly show publication bias. Please share your work here!
- Reposted by ManyLanguages#linguistics folks, do submit your 2-page Expression of Interests by 31st May. This is an exciting opportunity! Be a part of impactful #bigteamscience in #linguistics.
- 🚨 2nd Call for Proposals is NOW OPEN! We're inviting submissions of a 2-page Expression of Interest by May 31, 2025 🗓️ 👉 Get all the details here: many-languages.com/studies.html
- Always wondered whether an important finding is generalizable to ManyLanguages? This is the chance to take your linguistic research to the next level with Big Team Science. Lead your own project and work together with hundreds of researchers to answer important questions about human language.
- 🚨 2nd Call for Proposals is NOW OPEN! We're inviting submissions of a 2-page Expression of Interest by May 31, 2025 🗓️ 👉 Get all the details here: many-languages.com/studies.html
- 🚨 2nd Call for Proposals is NOW OPEN! We're inviting submissions of a 2-page Expression of Interest by May 31, 2025 🗓️ 👉 Get all the details here: many-languages.com/studies.html
- Reposted by ManyLanguagesAny psychoacoustics folks out there who have experience with modelling psychometric functions for speech perception? We are looking for some analysis experts for our first @manylanguagesc.bsky.social big team science project. Give me a shout if interested
- Reposted by ManyLanguagesThe first ManyLanguages project is under way. If you want to get in involved and share your expertise, please get in touch with the leadership team. I will be the analysis lead and would love to get a few quant people together to think about how to tackle the analysis. Get in touch with me!
- So excited to be working under the leadership of @chenzi.bsky.social and amazing team leads @xinbingluo.bsky.social @aggieerin.bsky.social @congzhang.bsky.social on the #ManyTones project chenchenzi.github.io/manytones/ #bts @manylanguagesc.bsky.social #diversity #replication #generalizable #science
- Reposted by ManyLanguagesAll of this is largely possible due to the tenacious spirit of @timoroettger.bsky.social. Please join us in solving a long standing problem in #phonetics, #phonology and #speech #perception #bts #manylanguages @manylanguagesc.bsky.social #diversity #replication #generalizable #science
- So excited to be working under the leadership of @chenzi.bsky.social and amazing team leads @xinbingluo.bsky.social @aggieerin.bsky.social @congzhang.bsky.social on the #ManyTones project chenchenzi.github.io/manytones/ #bts @manylanguagesc.bsky.social #diversity #replication #generalizable #science
- Reposted by ManyLanguages✨Our team is expanding. Join us at #ManyTones!
- So excited to be working under the leadership of @chenzi.bsky.social and amazing team leads @xinbingluo.bsky.social @aggieerin.bsky.social @congzhang.bsky.social on the #ManyTones project chenchenzi.github.io/manytones/ #bts @manylanguagesc.bsky.social #diversity #replication #generalizable #science
- Reposted by ManyLanguagesSo excited to be working under the leadership of @chenzi.bsky.social and amazing team leads @xinbingluo.bsky.social @aggieerin.bsky.social @congzhang.bsky.social on the #ManyTones project chenchenzi.github.io/manytones/ #bts @manylanguagesc.bsky.social #diversity #replication #generalizable #science
- Reposted by ManyLanguagesVery happy to be representing @manyprimates.bsky.social. Join us to discuss all things Big Team Science!
- 🚨 Exciting announcement for #EHBEA2025🚨 We will have a FREE pre-conference panel on Big Team Science! Curious about Big Team Science? 🤔 How initiatives like ManyLabs, ManyPrimates, and ManyBabies come together? This panel aims to demystify large-scale collaborations! 🧵👇[1/4] @ehbea.bsky.social
- Reposted by ManyLanguages🚨🚨🚨 I'm hiring a Postdoc for a 3-year position to come work with me at the University of Oslo using iterative learning experiments to understand the evolution of sound symbolism. Please share widely. 🔴 Deadline is May 31st '25 ⏲️ Desired starting date is Fall '25 shorturl.at/vSTZx
- Reposted by ManyLanguagesWhy do a multilab study? Robust evidence Credible evidence when using transparent open practices Large and diverse data set Highly valuable data for reuse Lowering the risk for any one researcher Exchanging methodological expertise and training Foster a collaborative culture
- 🆕New project approved🎉 Exciting news! We’ve just accepted our first-ever ManyLanguages Project: 📌 Perception of Fundamental Frequency Perturbations Across Many Languages
- 🧑🎓Led by: @chenzi.bsky.social (University of Oxford), Xinbing Luo (University of Cambridge), and @academicmargin.bsky.social (Jadavpur University).
- @xinbingluo.bsky.social here's our 2nd member of the team!
- Reposted by ManyLanguagesI'm hiring! I'm looking for 1️⃣ pre-doc and 2️⃣ post-docs. If you're fascinated by media effects, quantitative methods, and open science, please consider applying 🙂 International applications welcome! Application Pre-doc: jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancie... Application Post-doc: jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancie...
- Reposted by ManyLanguagesThe crisis in British higher education is acute + painful right now. If you are in it you already know this, but for those who are not I want to share what is going on. As strikes start at Newcastle Uni + others will doubtless follow, now is a time for solidarity + resistance
- Reposted by ManyLanguagesManyLanguages starts its first BigTeamScience project: ManyTones. Get in touch with the lead team if you want to be involved.
- Reposted by ManyLanguages🎉
- Reposted by ManyLanguagesSuper excited that our project is accepted and is officially launching 🎊 Stay tuned for more details!
- Some relevant news from the recently held @btscon.bsky.social: Yuto Ozaki presented a talk titled: “Global collaboration in exploring cross-cultural acoustic regularities between music and spoken language”. See the recording below 📼 www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKdl...
- Also: Irene de la Cruz-Pavía presented work on artificial grammars, “ManyBabies3NIRS: A multi-lab replication study of infants' and adults' neural responses to repetition-based regularities using NIRS”: Recording here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7Nb... @manybabies.org
- A starter pack for Big Team Science!
- Big team science: go.bsky.app/Uf93G7Fat://did:plc:6jpcai657eypxl22kp3cakrl/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3lagyeesfph2j
- Reposted by ManyLanguagesBig team science: go.bsky.app/Uf93G7Fat://did:plc:6jpcai657eypxl22kp3cakrl/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3lagyeesfph2j
- Reposted by ManyLanguagesWe’ve made a big team science leaders starter pack! Please let me know if you want to be added or know someone who should be! go.bsky.app/PdvS9kCat://did:plc:6jpcai657eypxl22kp3cakrl/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3lagypwwunk2q
- A new preprint discussing opportunities and challenges of big team language science #linguistics
- 🚨New preprint🚨 "Big Team Science for language science: Opportunities and Challenges" osf.io/3pkj6/ Led by @faytak.bsky.social @sarkadava.bsky.social @chenzi.bsky.social @onurunki.bsky.social @aggieerin.bsky.social #langsky #linguistics
- Reposted by ManyLanguagesWe are excited to announce that Priya Silverstein (@priyasilverstein.com) has been elected as the next President of SIPS with Yu-Fang Yang (@ufangyang.bsky.social) as Co-Chair. Priya and Yu-Fang begin their terms on Oct 1, 2024. We are certain that both will provide strong leadership going forward.
- Reposted by ManyLanguagesReminder we a currently soliciting proposal for new PSA studies! We have two potential submission deadlines (September 15th and December 5th). See the full call for all the deets!
- Reposted by ManyLanguagesIntroducing the Missing Majority dashboard, an automatically updating resource that tracks the global representation of behavioral science first authors over time. remi-theriault.com/dashboards/m... Wanna know how your favorite journal performs? Check it out 😁 Let us know what you think!
- We have received several interesting proposals for our 1st call "Replicating Experimental Linguistic Phenomena across ManyLanguages". We are now looking for reviewers, particularly experimental syntacticians who have exp with non-WEIRD populations. Get in touch, if that is you!
- Reposted by ManyLanguagesHey @manybabies.org @manylanguagesc.bsky.social meet many bugs!
- We have already received some exciting proposals, but we would like to give you a few more days: Deadline extended till 21st of April. Send us your expressions-of-interest statements 🙏
- A friendly reminder that we are approaching the first deadline for an initial expression of interest letter. Submit your proposal until the 15th of April and do Big Team Science across ManyLanguages with us 🎉
- Great news! 🎉 ManyLanguages now accepts proposal for #BigTeamScience projects which aim at replicating experimental linguistic phenomena across many languages. Read more here: t.co/62sBzDql2S
- 🎉 We have already 100+ members. If you haven't yet, come and join the party!
- We are pleased to launch ManyLanguages, a globally distributed network of laboratories that helps coordinating #BigTeamScience data collection for studies on human language many-languages.com 🧵1/3
- Reposted by ManyLanguagesIt's not too late to register for our virtual workshop on Project Management, which will be held tomorrow Feb. 21, 16:00-17:30 UTC! @mcxfrank.bsky.social will share tips and best practices for shepherding a project from start to finish. Details and registration link here: manybabies.org/events/
- Great news! 🎉 ManyLanguages now accepts proposal for #BigTeamScience projects which aim at replicating experimental linguistic phenomena across many languages. Read more here: t.co/62sBzDql2S
- 🗓️ Important deadlines: 15th of April: Submission of expression-of-interest statement. 31st of July: Submission of full proposal.
- Over 50+ researchers joined our platform already 🥳 Come and join us!
- Join ManyLanguages now! Find our instructions on how to become a member here: many-languages.com/join.html and watch this space for more exciting announcements. We hope to see you on our Canvas platform soon. 🧵3/3
- Reposted by ManyLanguagesAnother MANY MANY! This time, Many Languages! Check it out and join.
- We are pleased to launch ManyLanguages, a globally distributed network of laboratories that helps coordinating #BigTeamScience data collection for studies on human language many-languages.com 🧵1/3
