Fernanda Ferreira

A new preprint, co-authored with @johnwkrakauer.bsky.social:

The Deliberation Taboo

Cognitive science is, nominally, the science of thinking. We argue that the field has no theory of what thinking is and, even worse, that the topic has largely dropped out of focus. 1/

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Cross-Linguistic Constraints on Subjecthood in Causative Psych Verbs: An Experimental Investigation of Korean, Mandarin Chinese and English Author(s): Kim, Jihyun; Marsden, Heather | Abstract: This study investigates whether crosslinguistic constraints on subject selection in physical causative constructions extend to causative psychologi...

We're delighted to announce another publication in Glossa Psycholinguistics!

Now available is 'Cross-Linguistic Constraints on Subjecthood in Causative Psych Verbs: An Experimental Investigation of Korean, Mandarin Chinese and English' by Kim and Marsden:

escholarship.org/uc/item/04v9...

Written English has barely changed in 300 years. If you can read Harry Potter, you can read Robinson Crusoe (1719).

Im am very thrilled to share a new preprint I wrote with @teddyturesky.bsky.social: “The #Reading Brain from Womb to Classroom: Typical and Atypical Development and Implications for a Preventative Education Model”
We’d love your feedback and perspective.
You can find it here: lnkd.in/e57CEUAW

Congratulations! So richly deserved!

I'm SO tired of people looking for "the neuroscience of X" (meaning uninformative neuroimaging pictures) when *the psychology of X* is right there, doing a perfectly good job...

Linguist friends: Sadly, Barbara Partee's partner Volodja recently passed away. She has to send a death certificate to Russia and is asking if anyone traveling there in the near future could carry it with them, since sending from w/i Russia by a fast reliable service seems the very best option.

Please reply to me and I'll pass the info along (she's not on Bluesky)

Linguist friends: Sadly, Barbara Partee's partner Volodja recently passed away. She has to send a death certificate to Russia and is asking if anyone traveling there in the near future could carry it with them, since sending from w/i Russia by a fast reliable service seems the very best option.

But at the time my hands were covered in bread dough! I needed her help!

I asked Siri to set a 15-minute timer, which she did, and I followed up with "and don't fuck it up" (because I keep finding that timers haven't actually been set). She replied "it's cancelled." AGI achieved?

I see that only a tiny fraction of you, my Bluesky friends, also follow @jeopardyofficial.bsky.social on here. Why not go follow right now? My guess is the more eyeballs we get here, the more attention we can give Bluesky relative to other social media platforms!

I am looking to hire 2-3 post-docs over the course of the next few months to work on questions related to cognitive control in humans, broadly construed. EEG, TMS, DBS, sEEG, fMRI or related methodological experience preferred.
Apply here:

jobs.uiowa.edu/jobSearch/po...

Lab website: wessellab.org

Liberation Books bookstore right next to the House of Cheese Ltd.

Yes, exactly!

A yellow bookmark with an image of Karl Marx and this text in red font: FOR THE POLITICS IN YOUR FUTURE Liberation Books 160 Spence St (at Broadway) Ph.774-0637 Books - Periodicals - Records - Lecture Series Labour History, Women's Studies, Economics, Literature, Ecology, Political Theory, etc.

When I was an undergraduate I did a weekly volunteer shift at Winnipeg's main progressive bookstore, Liberation Books. Someone just emailed me an image of the bookmarks we used to give out with our books. What a blast from the past!

Sleepy time bear

It's Friday night baby

My PhD student Adrian Zhou is working on this very construction!

Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick

From the paper: "Overall, broad claims of generalized learning gains resulting from AI/LLMs appear premature; the current evidence is insufficient to support robust policy or practice recommendations."

Universities (including mine), take note.

Started reading the piece and got so excited when I saw your name! Great discussion!

Why Kids Are Starting to Sound Like Their Grandparents

had a fun chat w/ @samcorbin.bsky.social about language change! she cut out i think fully 45 minutes where we just talked about Mean Girls (2004) but blessedly kept in the fun pronoun stuff

A "don't panic" message is a sure sign it's time to panic

Davis Summer Population Genomics Program Want to learn population genetics? Please fill out this form to indicate your potential interest in a 2-week intensive online summer population genetics course taught by Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra and Graham...

Fun news! @gcbias.bsky.social and I are teaching a 2-week online population genetics workshop this summer to raise money for the Center for Population Biology at UC Davis. We're trying to gauge interest -- please fill this out if you might be interested! And please share broadly!

U.K. might lose a prime minister because a guy who worked for him knew another guy who hung out with Epstein. Meanwhile the U.S. opposition party is telling our President, who was Epstein's best friend, that his secret police should get better training so their public street murders look less messy.

A loaf of bread resting in a cooling rack.

Super boule

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue

I think it's best for everyone to understand that the unified class project of billionaires right now is to do to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers.

“Democracy dies in darkness” turns out to have been a goal, not a warning.

one thing the trump era has made clear, i think, is that the american people themselves are far more committed to the values of our founding documents than our elites

Yes, and institutional norms nourish this mindset: promotion cases based on grant $ brought in, tussles over space because square footage —> prestige, assumption that more lab trainees (esp if supported on grants) means more and better science getting done. It’s a toxic culture.