Manuel Pulido

Language-Appropriate Assessment Improves Central Auditory Processing Evaluation of Spanish–English Bilinguals Purpose: Although central auditory processing disorder (CAPD) evaluations assess specific auditory skills necessary for efficient processing and ...

Since central auditory processing disorder tests rely heavily on language, authors here aimed to evaluate the impact of test language on CAPD assessment performance in Spanish–English bilingual speakers.

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#GlobalSumudFlotilla #FreePalestine #StopGenocide

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The Real Story Behind Skyrocketing Student Debt | Robert Reich Heather McGhee, Co-Chair of Color of Change, and Ian Haney Lopez, author of "Dog Whistle Politics", explain how racism h

Today, U.S. Department of Education will resume collecting on defaulted student loans.

It sounds hard to believe, but college used to be free.

This is the real story behind skyrocketing student debt. (Spoiler: It has a lot to do with Ronald Reagan)

🚨 BREAKING: The mega power outage in Spain and Portugal threatens to last 10 more hours.

Read the developing story here: ow.ly/ce9150VIRn9

Apagón eléctrico masivo en España y Portugal El Gobierno investiga el motivo y el alcance de la falta de suministro, aunque todavía sin una conclusión

Spanish news calling it the largest outage in recent history. Power outages across most across Spain and Portugal continues. Causes tbd.
#power #electricity #spain #españa
https://elpais.com/economia/2025-04-28/apagon-electrico-masivo-en-espana.html

Elon backtracked on DOGE savings goals from $1 trillion to $150 billion.

But watchdogs report only $12.6 billion in verifiable savings.

That represents just 0.173% of the U.S. federal budget for 2025.

We're losing vital government services for basically nothing in return.

I am teaching my phd writing workshop course this quarter, question: are there any words/phrases said to you by an advisor/mentor that stuck with you, were memorable, or particularly helpful? If so please reply below!

A screenshot of a Reuters article stating that the US FDA suspended milk quality test workforce cuts.

Previous to the FDA, folks would put chalk and plaster of Paris in milk to make it appear white. They could also add formaldehyde to cover the smell and taste of spoiled milk.

screenshot of semantic distance R package information

New R package almost birthed - SemanticDistance - computes two semantic distance metrics (experiential and embedding) for any rolling chunk size (ngram-to-ngram, word-to-word, turn-to-turn, ngram-to-word). You give it your language sample. It does the rest, including lemmatize and stopword omit

In @elife.bsky.social: Stimulus dependencies—rather than next-word prediction—can explain pre-onset brain encoding during natural listening doi.org/10.7554/eLif...

The irony of the richest man in the world almost single-handedly destroying an agency designed to help the world’s poor, so that the U.S. federal budget has more room for another giant tax cut for the richest man in the world and his pals, should not be lost on anyone. [Cartoon by Mike Luckovich]

Headline in the New York Times, March 26, 2025: “Elmo and Elon Musk are Cited as G.O.P. Lawmakers Lay Into PBS and NPR”. Photo of politician holding up a picture of Elmo accompanies the story.

That’s one heck of a garden-path sentence.

Hippocampal encoding of memories in human infants Humans lack memories for specific events from the first few years of life. We investigated the mechanistic basis of this infantile amnesia by scanning the brains of awake infants with functional magne...

Why do we not remember being a baby? One idea is that the hippocampus, which is essential for episodic memory in adults, is too immature to form individual memories in infancy. We tested this using awake infant fMRI, new in @science.org #ScienceResearch www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Since 1979, the U.S. Department of Education has spent over $3 trillion with virtually nothing to show for it. Despite per-pupil spending having increased by more than 245% over that period, there has been virtually no measurable improvement in student achievement: Math and reading scores for 13-year-olds are at the lowest level in decades. Six-in-ten fourth graders and nearly three-quarters of eighth graders are not proficient in math. Seven-in-ten fourth and eighth graders are not proficient in reading, while 40% of fourth grade students don’t even meet basic reading levels. Standardized test scores have remained flat for decades. U.S. students rank 28 out of 37 OECD member countries in math. President Donald J. Trump and his administration believe we can, and must, be better. Instead of maintaining the status quo that is failing American students, the Trump Administration’s bold plan will return education where it belongs — with individual states, which are best positioned to administer effective programs and services that benefit their own unique populations and needs. Instead of a bloated federal system that burdens schools with regulations and paperwork, the Trump Administration believes states should be empowered to expand educational freedom and opportunity for all families. Why would we keep doing the same thing over and over again and expect a different result?

Two noteworthy things about the White House press release ahead of today's announcement regarding ED:

(1) It's all about K-12, while most federal money goes to higher ed.
(2) Most of the links are to NCES reports...and NCES is now down to about three employees.

www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...

University Libraries launches Continua, a new open-access linguistics journal | Penn State University Penn State University Libraries’ Open Publishing has launched Continua, an open-access, peer-reviewed journal exploring interdisciplinary linguistics research. The journal will focus on research that ...

Great to see this report of a new #OpenAccess journal in #linguistics, founded by Mike Putnam (@syntaxpunk.bsky.social) and David Natvig. The journal, #Continua, published by #PennState Libraries, focuses on #words and the mental #lexicon www.psu.edu/news/univers...

#booksky #wordoftheday

Navajo Code Talkers get "DEI" label as military info disappears under Trump order Also vanishing: The Civil War regiment from "Glory," women pilots from WWII and a Medal of Honor winner.

Navajo Code Talkers disappear from military websites after Trump DEI order www.axios.com/local/salt-l...?

Free Mahmoud Khalil!!!

Columbia University pushed out professor @katherinefranke.bsky.social because of her pro-Palestine advocacy. She joins @premthakker.bsky.social to discuss the systematic free speech crackdown at Columbia and across the US.

Watch the full conversation: zeteo.com/p/columbia-t...

Here's what linguistics experts think about the recent executive order declaring English as the official language of the US (spoiler: they don't think it's a great idea):

www.lsadc.org/content.asp?...

I'm so proud to be a member of the executive committee of @lingsocam.bsky.social!

& in case you hit a paywall, here’s the open-access (green) accepted version: drive.google.com/file/d/1-eaq...

Words stick together in our minds—think #collocations like strong coffee but not powerful coffee. ☕ But how do collocations connect to one another? Using eye-tracking, we (M Macis, S Sonbul & myself) explore how we process "nested collocations". New paper in JEP: LMC! 🔗 doi.org/10.1037/xlm0...

Depiction comparing standard views of statistical learning with a sponge and the new information foraging view with an octopus

What is human #StatisticalLearning for? The standard assumption is that the goal of SL is to learn the regularities in the environment to guide behavior. In our new Psych Review paper, we argue that SL instead is provides the basis for novelty detection within an information foraging system
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We argue that the environment is constantly in flux and thus that SL therefore cannot be the end goal but rather provides a baseline against which novelty can be detected from random noise. We discuss the implications of this perspective for #CognitiveScience 2/2

doi.org/10.1037/rev0...

Because of four decades of bad faith narratives by rich folks who want your taxes to go up and their taxes to go down, most folks don’t know this: career federal workers are heroes who work extremely hard every day and go above and beyond all across America to improve your lives.

As promised, here are the slides I shared with students to convince them to NOT use chatGPT and other artificial stupidity.

TL;DR? AI is evil, unsustainable and stupid, and I'd much rather they use their own brains, make their own mistakes, and actually learn something. 🪄