New blogpost about a teaching experiment I'm doing this quarter: a "socratic tutor" bot to help students gain understanding of specific reading assignments.
babieslearninglanguage.blogspot.com/2026/02/an-l...
Please tell friends & colleagues about our unique course “Genetics & Neurobiology of Language” July 27-Aug 3 2026. Expert tutors, interactive talks, panel discussions, all in a beautiful setting. Scholarships available: meetings.cshl.edu/courses.aspx...
@cshlnews.bsky.social @cshlbanbury.bsky.social
I'm excited to announce that I had my first (co-authored) book published today! "The Rational Use of Cognitive Resources" with Falk Lieder and Tom Griffiths (@cocoscilab.bsky.social ). You can read it for free! (see thread)
To mark the 80th anniversary of the Experimental Psychology Society, we invite proposals for a special anniversary symposium reflecting on the current state of experimental psychology and its future trajectory.
Please see below for information on how to submit a proposal!
eps.ac.uk/eps-80th-ann...
The wet weather produces some beautiful photos!
Thank you to estherjohnsonphotography on Instagram for this wonderful shot of the Clarendon Building. 📸
I wrote a short article on AI Model Evaluation for the Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science 📕👇
Hope this is helpful for anyone who wants a super broad, beginner-friendly intro to the topic!
Thanks @mcxfrank.bsky.social and @asifamajid.bsky.social for this amazing initiative!
2026 big update to the psycholinguistic database page! If you know of corpora, lexical databases, or other resources that I've missed, please LMK. Trying to keep this thing relatively current and could use the help www.reilly-coglab.com/data
This is a great paper going deep on the connection between language (and linguistic diversity) and the mind! 👀👂👇🌍 Highly recommended (like every paper from @enorcliffe.bsky.social and @asifamajid.bsky.social)!
Also in the same issue Constructing Meaning from Language: Visual Knowledge in People Born Blind and in Large Language Models from Marina Bedny's lab www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
New paper with @enorcliffe.bsky.social The Lexical Typology of Sensory Perception
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
New article in the Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science @oecs-bot.bsky.social on Motor Learning.
Thank you @mcxfrank.bsky.social @asifamajid.bsky.social for the opportunity to contribute!
oecs.mit.edu/pub/l3hscpvx...
New paper: Evidence of crossmodal compensation in the conceptual representation of blind people: while they share visual associations with sighted people, blind people more strongly associate concepts with touch direct.mit.edu/opmi/article...
Keep a look out for Cole and Sean @seangroberts.bsky.social discussing their odyssey to understand this phenomenon on @becauselanguage.com Coming soon!
In fact, future tense use causes less not more temporal discounting journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
A new twist to the idea that future tense use affects decision making👇 Cole Robertson @seangroberts.bsky.social et al show it’s not future tense that drives psychological discounting but how people express the possibility of future events happening (modality). authors.elsevier.com/c/1m4gJ2Hx2-...
@durhampsych.bsky.social current has 5 (FIVE!!) PhD studentships being advertised!
3 to work with me on children as agents of cultural evolution
2 to work with @drboothroyd.bsky.social on examining school-based body image interventions.
Please share and apply!
www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...
New podcast! @dannybate.bsky.social and I chat about Scottish Gaelic, mediaeval sea kingdoms, the spread and retreat of Gaelic in Scotland, influence from Pictish, sounds borrowed from Old Norse, and much more 🐦🐦 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a... or wherever you get your podcasts :)
appreciate the translation 😆
Fab!
New scoping review and critical discourse analysis of guidance documents on open science (OS) urges researchers to be “more precise about the specific approach they take to OS and more humble about the effects it can have.”
Preprint by @jeroenderidder.bsky.social and colleagues: osf.io/zr35u_v1
Awesome! I'm assuming it's for English, or does it work in multiple languages?
"It is crucial to make psychology inclusive of all the world's people but vitally important to do this in ways that are respectful, ethical & empirically accurate. I weigh the promises & pitfalls of research in small-scale societies & discuss how we can improve our research practices moving forward"
Super excited to share our new multimodal corpus analysis, "Iconic Words Are Associated With Iconic Gestures" 🥳
Project led by our PhD student Ell Wilding and in collab w/ @jeannettel.bsky.social & @mperlman.bsky.social:
doi.org/10.1111/cogs...
Berkeley linguistics is hiring an Assistant Professor in language revitalization!
aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05022
New paper: Validation of the Coffee Knowledge Test for Assessing Expertise in Coffee with Jonas Yde Junge, @icroij.bsky.social, Line Ahm Mielby, and Ulla Kidmose doi.org/10.1111/joss... #OpenAccess
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Odor intensity isn’t just about concentration! We have a new preprint to prove it: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
In cahoots with @jmainland.bsky.social, @alexkoulakov.bsky.social, Rick Gerkin, Khristina Samoilova and others not on bluesky. 🧪
Which of these molecules smells stronger?
Remembering the Whorf quote about how languages cut reality up in different ways. A Danish supermarket has a “pålæg” fridge—essentially things that go on (open-faced) sandwiches (see pic of pic).It’s where you find ham & salmon & various patés. But not cheese, which has its own slice of reality.
Long read on Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, who we had the honor of interviewing on the History of Africana Philosophy podcast a while back:
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...
I'm sorry to hear of the passing of Robin Lakoff, hugely influential. The first work of hers I encountered was Talking Power, which we read in an undergrad class for Myrdene Anderson
Susan Carey mic-drop at #cogsci2025. "There are no innate concepts: Discuss"
