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David Sidhu

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Assistant Professor at Carleton University πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦ | PI of the https://classilab.ca/ I study cognition, language, and multimodality (sound symbolism, iconicity, embodied cognition). Convinced that John Lennon is the bouba and Paul McCartney is the kiki.

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Photo of a Kansas City Chiefs press conference with Andy Reid, Travis Kelce, and Patrick Mahomes. Reid is wearing a gray suit and red tie with a lapel pin. Kelce is wearing a camp-style short-sleeved shirt with a bird print, along with a  suede cap, and Mahomes is wearing a white collared shirt, a pink checkered double-breasted vest, and a pale pink tie.

Photo of a Kansas City Chiefs press conference with Andy Reid, Travis Kelce, and Patrick Mahomes. Reid is wearing a gray suit and red tie with a lapel pin. Kelce is wearing a camp-style short-sleeved shirt with a bird print, along with a suede cap, and Mahomes is wearing a white collared shirt, a pink checkered double-breasted vest, and a pale pink tie.

JEP: General; Psych Science; Nature Human Behaviour

08.10.2025 00:29 β€” πŸ‘ 43    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you! Will try all of these!

28.09.2025 00:44 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Can you recommend some good ones? I love the Minute Cryptic and Connections, but could use some more!

27.09.2025 21:51 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Please boost! #linguistics student here at Swarthmore is running a survey for English speakers (who don't know Mandarin / any other tone languages) about how we learn tones. Take a few minutes to help out with this student research!
swarthmore.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

22.09.2025 18:54 β€” πŸ‘ 53    πŸ” 71    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 3
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A weirdo question I asked my class today. DRC and Triangle Models, which is the "maluma" and which is the "takete"?

10.09.2025 18:50 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Minute Cryptic Solve a clue with a hidden meaning

This is an AMAZING daily word puzzle game!

www.minutecryptic.com

01.09.2025 15:49 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Kirk, Picard, Sisko... suspiciously spiky!

28.08.2025 22:57 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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What’s in a name? How the sound of names can bias hiring decisions New research shows that even the sound of a name can influence how job candidates are judged.

A Conversation piece @pennypexman.bsky.social and I wrote about how the sounds of names might affect hiring decisions.

theconversation.com/whats-in-a-n...

28.08.2025 21:47 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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08.08.2025 15:08 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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I see your Pomodoro Technique, and I raise you one Isolator Technique.

07.08.2025 23:38 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Will AI Usher In the End of Deep Thinking? - The Ringer One of the questions I get most is that if AI tools can read faster than us, synthesize better than us, and write faster than us, what’s our place in the loop? Cal Newport, author of ‘Deep Work&...

Interesting podcast episode!

www.theringer.com/podcasts/pla... l

07.08.2025 00:03 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I've been revising my lab manual. After a few minutes I realised that the only changes I was making was turning exclamation marks into periods. Is that a sign of progress?

06.08.2025 20:51 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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ATTN Carleton University undergrad and grad students! My master's student is trying to recruit people for her thesis project. Please share this widely and consider participating if you are willing! Thanks! @carleton.ca

05.08.2025 17:57 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

July 31st from 12-1 PDT: Laura Aguanno will present a poster looking at whether iconic meanings of homophones are learned earlier (V1-A-1).

August 2nd from 12-1 PDT: Pei-Chu (Peggy) Liaw will present a poster on the development of name sound symbolism in children (V5-L-37).

29.07.2025 14:05 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Attending CogSci this year? Come and see these two virtual posters from the lab!

29.07.2025 14:05 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

This is now live!
You can generate custom word family graphs!
lab.aidanem.com/wordfamily/

At least theoretically, I'm not sure the unimproved interface is actually usable by anyone other than me.

17.07.2025 15:06 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2

Woah! This is great!!

17.07.2025 09:47 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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This is still the picture Harry Potter uses for his lab website

16.07.2025 06:39 β€” πŸ‘ 129    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

πŸ’― on the to do list!

09.07.2025 14:14 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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I will be presenting work along with Pragati Parajuli and @emij.bsky.social on emotional iconicity! (July 9th at 9:45 AM)

02.07.2025 22:01 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Veronica Bodea will be presenting a poster of our work on the impact of embodiment on the processing of foreign language idioms! (July 8th 6:30-7:30 PM)

02.07.2025 22:01 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Pei-Chu (Peggy) Liaw will be presenting our work on how the bouba/kiki effect changes based on the modality that words are presented in! (July 9th at 10:15 AM)

02.07.2025 22:01 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Will you be at CSBBCS/EPS in Dundee? Come and take a look at these presentations from the lab!

02.07.2025 22:01 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Interesting! It looks great!!

01.07.2025 13:18 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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a man with a beard is wearing a hooded jacket and talking on a cell phone . ALT: a man with a beard is wearing a hooded jacket and talking on a cell phone .

How I feel starting a sentence with "Interestingly,..." when what follows isn't that interesting.

27.06.2025 21:03 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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More like ChattitudeGPT 😠

27.06.2025 16:52 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Wow! How do you get that cool blurry/holographic effect for the background?

26.06.2025 21:56 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I’m so happy to have learned the word β€œpawedness” after looking at the paper!

26.06.2025 00:41 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Lingthusiasm - 101 places to get enthusiastic about linguistics lingthusiasm: 101 places to get enthusiastic about linguistics In honour of Lingthusiasm’s 100th episodiversary, we’ve compiled this list of 101 public-facing places where linguists and linguisti...

here's the list of book and other recs that we compiled for @lingthusiasm.bsky.social's 100 episodiversary, that's my most current rec list!
lingthusiasm.com/post/7741520...

22.06.2025 14:20 β€” πŸ‘ 31    πŸ” 13    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 1

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