@samahrahim.bsky.social
PhD student in the Language and Cognition lab at Stanford. samahabdelrahim.github.io
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
01.02.2026 22:01 — 👍 58 🔁 29 💬 5 📌 1
Abstract of the paper
Figure 1 - experimental setup
Figure 2 - accuracy over time
Figure 3 - semantic similarity within/across games
I always thought preschoolers were too egocentric to do well on communication tasks where they had to talk about novel referents. Old papers reported they'd say stuff like "this one looks like my uncle's hat."
@vboyce.bsky.social shows that this is wrong!
osf.io/preprints/ps...
Learn how to teach students that confidence is not equivalent to accuracy with a new Teaching Current Directions #Teaching #AI #cogpsyc
We’ve proven machines can learn to use language, but it took brute force to get there.
Meanwhile, animal communication evolved over millions of years under real-world constraints, shaping systems that are adaptable and efficient.
What can #AI learn from nature? 🧠
Read more: bit.ly/ai-biomimicry
“Our findings suggest the capacity to form secondary representations of pretend objects is within the cognitive potential of, at least, an enculturated ape & likely dates back 6-9 million years, to our common evolutionary ancestors.” Amalia Bastos & @chriskrupenye.bsky.social today in @science.org.🧪
05.02.2026 20:06 — 👍 39 🔁 15 💬 3 📌 1
Great apes may use playful teasing to learn about their social relationships. In a new paper, Erica Cartmill & I propose a bond-testing hypothesis for ape teasing. Out today in Phil Trans Biology: royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/article...
06.02.2026 18:37 — 👍 10 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0Could sometimes be a lack of understanding of what science is or how it works rather than a conscious anti science stance. Although it does lead to the same outcome at the end.
04.02.2026 07:53 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Publication bias is bad, sure.
But has anyone studied publication bias in studies on publication bias?
(They have. There isn’t.)
doi.org/10.1136/bmj....
Next up: publication bias in studies on studies on studies of publication bias.
#AcademicHumor #metascience #nerdhumor
Hey @andrameneganzin.bsky.social, this is such a great paper on why defining, capturing, and (most of all) analyzing the emergence of 'behavioural modernity' still is such an important topic link.springer.com/article/10.1.... Congrats.
15.12.2025 19:37 — 👍 7 🔁 6 💬 3 📌 0
The urgent need for African research collaboration on medicine quality
" #Africa cannot regulate what it cannot see, and it cannot see what it has not studied"
@sociologyoxford.bsky.social #Health #PublicHealth
Humans are using more water than the Earth can support, with many water sources already damaged beyond repair, the report found
20.01.2026 18:54 — 👍 67 🔁 49 💬 4 📌 101/7 Look, Mom, no hands!
They have studied the age at which chimpanzees take the most risks (jumping and doing crazy things from tree to tree). It turns out that they have a peak in childhood, and it decreases as they grow older. This tells us something very interesting about ourselves.
𝗨𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗦𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗰 𝗨𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴
Great book about what understanding means in science. Highly recommend it.
Amazing historical account of cases studies in physics but applies to physical sciences more broadly.
Slow/repetitive at times but lots of gems if you stick with it.
Why isn’t modern AI built around principles from cognitive science or neuroscience? Starting a substack (infinitefaculty.substack.com/p/why-isnt-m...) by writing down my thoughts on that question: as part of a first series of posts giving my current thoughts on the relation between these fields. 1/3
16.12.2025 15:40 — 👍 117 🔁 34 💬 4 📌 5
A common problem w/ studies testing non-WEIRD groups is they compare multiple groups using the same WEIRD measure. How can we compare groups w/ apples-apples measures w/o distorting cross-cultural differences? We explore this in this new paper! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
16.12.2025 06:11 — 👍 44 🔁 18 💬 1 📌 2
A close up photo of a chimpanzee's eyes
“It is a profound gift to know that when a chimpanzee stares into a person’s eyes, they too could be reflecting on their beliefs about humans.” - Brian Hare (photo by Innocent Ampeire) www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
30.10.2025 18:17 — 👍 71 🔁 12 💬 1 📌 1
“Critically assessing the literature, we found it beset by conceptual & methodological flaws & limitations, undermining claims that the gut microbiome is causally involved in etiology/pathophysiology of autism”
Crucial PSA from @wiringthebrain.bsky.social @statsepi.bsky.social @deevybee.bsky.social🧪
So, this marks our first 50 years. Thank you all for participating in the #BUCLD50 and for the contributions and support of our community! With all of you, we look forward to the next 50 years.
Photos and other exciting materials are on the way!
##BUCLD50 #BUCLD #LanguageDevelopment
Hi, I am looking for native Korean speakers to participate as paid subjects in a 7-minute online study. If you are a native Korean speaker, know someone, or would just like to help 💙, please use this link to sign up/share with others. OR feel free to reach out! 🙏
app.prolific.com/register/par...
Congrats Marianna 🥳 very delightful to read your thoughts on the process and would love to chat about it at some point.
08.12.2023 03:25 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Could have been worse 😂 for someone who moved here 2021 😅
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