Duane Watson

In a new paper, Mike Tanenhaus and I articulate the rationale behind different experimental tasks in the visual world paradigm and give recommendations for future studies. “Rethinking task importance in the Visual World Paradigm“ (Brain Research, in press). pure.mpg.de/rest/items/i...

We finally worked tomato-tomato into a title. Check out a new paper on dialectal variation and phonological encoding! (With wonderful colleagues Brett Myers, Cass Jacobs, and Andrés Buxó-Lugo).

The SPARK Society supports scholars of color in the cognitive sciences.

Learn about the SPARK Society and get involved if you can! www.sparksociety.org

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We are stronger together! Our society has always been about community building. We will continue. We will support each other.

the SPARK society has been an essential lifeline for me as a young academic of color. more than ever we have to protect things like this!!!

Unfortunately, the NSF grant that supports our work has been terminated. This is a setback, but our mission has not changed. We will continue to work hard on making cognitive science a more inclusive field. Stay tuned for upcoming events.

I'll be presenting data from a project run in parallel to the one presented in @vrtliceralde.bsky.social's talk yesterday, this time exploring how individual differences in 10- to 15-year-olds affect language processing. Work with @duanegwatson.bsky.social.

Poster session 2 at #hsp2025 today!

Learned today that @duanegwatson.bsky.social and I have been awarded NSF funding to investigate the effects of reading exposure on second language processing! I can’t put into words my gratitude to all the people at NSF who continue to do the good work. Feeling especially proud to be #firstgen 🍾

“Frequently derogatory”? 😮💀

Plastic black ammo box locked with a 5-letter combination lock

There's lots I can't control right now but I did create a fun escape room/puzzle box activity as a review for my undergrad social cognition class and watching them race through the puzzles today brought me joy 😍 1/

No, but I will now!

Love me some Hoffman

I’m right there with you, bud.

My personal relaxing youtube alternatives to doom scrolling:

1) people chopping wood, preferably in Alaska.
2) EV road trips
3) espresso making content
4) hog hunting in Australia (they’re invasive).

What are yours?

All of those suggestions to circle back in the new year are now circling back.

Great piece by @manvir.bsky.social!

Unraveling the Power and Influence of Language The study of framing effects is a multidisciplinary line of research that investigates when, how, and why language influences those who receive a message and how it impacts their response. This scienc...

In the latest PSPI, @sflusberg.bsky.social and his team provide a comprehensive review of framing-effects research, including describing a survey of common framing effects and a taxonomy of linguistic framing techniques.

They call it winter “break” because it breaks the parents

Cover of the report - it's in a blue/purple color scheme and shows an abstract illustration of a molecule and the title of the report "Understanding and Addressing Misinformation About Science Consensus Study Report"

Out now - National Academies consensus report on Understanding and Addressing Misinformation About Science 🧪

It was a privilege to serve as one of the 15 committee members from a wide range of scientific disciplines who put this report together. Quick 🧵1/

www.nationalacademies.org/our-work/und...

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Linguists! We're hiring an Assistant Professor (tenure track) in phonology (secondary specializations welcome) at McGill linguistics, deadline January 13. Come work with us!

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✨i'm hiring a lab manager, with a start date of ~September 2025! to express interest, please complete this google form: forms.gle/GLyAbuD779Rz...

looking for someone to join our multi-disciplinary team, using OPM, EEG, iEEG and computational techniques to study speech and language processing! 🧠

I promise one day I’ll have a bunch of science thoughts to post, but right now I want to show you the cat tower I’m working on! It started as a simple frame 🧵1

Wow. Now do gesture research.

It’s interesting that we have discourse all the time on how LORs are the most biased sources for things like grad admissions, but they seem to be what’s mitigating the effects of bias in people’s subjective evaluations of objective metrics

Racial bias can taint the academic tenure process—at one particular point Black and Hispanic professors fare worse when voters include colleagues who are less familiar with their work, new study finds

"Race did not appear to influence the typical first step of the review process [dept. vote]... [but]...when the college committees were evaluating faculty with lower h-indices, evidence of bias against Black & Hispanic scholars surfaced - especially for women" 1/
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Women are under-represented at senior levels in #academia globally, & across all #science 🧪 disciplines, as shown by these "scissor-shaped curves" ✂️

So how can we ever achieve #gender #equality?

We discuss various strategies in this #Cell Commentary

#WomeninSTEM

www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
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Good question. I learned survey design in grad school. I don't know if there's a quick go to resource.

Relatedly, academics who aren't psychologists/social scientists often don't appreciate how difficult it is to design a good survey.

This was me designing a survey when I was an undergrad.

Saagar Enjeti tweets: "Probably a cold take but IMO Tokyo is the male fashion capital of the world: whether it’s western wear, suits, street wear the aesthetic is refined to the highest possible level From the salaryman to the rebel teen they are impeccably dressed It also helps no one is fat"

Why is Tokyo so fashionable? Some theories. 🧵