Jess Ramos-Sanchez

Economic sanctions now: the EU is Israel’s largest investor - SOMO SOMO’s analysis of trade and foreign investment into and from Israel reveals how deeply intertwined the European and Israeli economies are.

The Netherlands is the largest EU investor in Israel, accounting for two-thirds of all EU investments. It’s also Israel’s top global investment partner, receiving 6x more Israeli capital than the US.

www.somo.nl/economic-san...

Exploration Behavior Is Consistent and Associated With Foraging Behavior in Island Songbirds We tested the neophobia threshold hypothesis in six landbird species, including four Darwin's finches. Exploration behavior was consistent over time and contexts, with species exhibiting greater fora...

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Although some researchers manage to perfectly adhere to preregistrations, it is common to need to deviate. Not all deviations are consequential, but some are, and it is important to evaluate the impact of deviations on the severity of a test. online.ucpress.edu/collabra/art...

We live in an age of spectacular fascism. Not only do they build concentration camps, but they are actually showing off with them. The camp embodies a political paradigm in which law is unapologetically instrumentalized for political purposes - thus conveying that in this new order, might is right.

Constructing language: a framework for explaining acquisition Explaining how children build a language system is a central goal of research in language acquisition, with broad implications for language evolution, adult language processing, and artificial intelli...

Children are incredible language learning machines. But how do they do it? Our latest paper, just published in TICS, synthesizes decades of evidence to propose four components that must be built into any theory of how children learn language. 1/
www.cell.com/trends/cogni... @mpi-nl.bsky.social

🚨 Postdoc Opportunity!!!
The Toronto Early Cognition Lab (@UofT) is hiring a postdoc to study early optimism in infants & young children.
Work w/ multi-method approach, amazing undergrads & grads.
Start: Fall 2025 or later.
Details: jessica.sommerville@utoronto.ca
RTs appreciated 💫

In this new preprint, in review @elife.bsky.social, we show what processing steps make up the reaction time using single trial #EEG modelling in a contrast #decision task.

In this 🧵 I'm telling the story behind it as I think it is quite interesting and I can't write it like this in the paper...

Volatility-driven learning in human infants Infants estimate environmental volatility to learn optimally, with early individual differences linked to temperament.

Out now in Science Advances! We find that infants estimate environmental volatility to learn optimally, with early individual differences linked to temperament. This has be so much fun to work on and ended up being my favourite personal paper! So excited it's out!

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

WTools: A MATLAB-based toolbox for time-frequency analysis of infant data Electroencephalography (EEG) is an established method for investigating neurocognitive functions during human development. In cognitive neuroscience, time-frequency analysis of the EEG is a widely use...

🚨NEW PAPER🚨 We are proud to introduce WTools, a new toolbox for time-frequency analysis that is particularly suited for infant EEG.
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By @ambrafer.bsky.social @marcobuiatti.bsky.social @eugenioparise.bsky.social @cimecunitrento.bsky.social

#Spain, the only large EU member state with a centre-left government, has recently been in the headlines for rejecting the increased NATO spending target.

But it also stands out for its liberal migration policy (much to the benefit of its economy) - and for increasing its development aid spending.

Do kids show adult-like working memory patterns?

🧠 We analyzed nearly 1M observations from 9K+ Dutch students in a real-world adaptive learning platform.
✅ Benchmark effects in children
📊 Bayesian modeling + big adaptive data = new insights

⬇️ Authors & links

#WorkingMemory #DevPsych

NATO: The Most Dangerous Organisation on Earth The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation is the only real military bloc in the world – one whose mandate and ambitions stretch far beyond the North Atlantic and, in fact, constitute the greatest threat ...

NATO uses the language of human rights & collective security to conceal the underlying motivations for its birth and current existence. It would be worthwhile to set aside this rhetoric and look at the actual record of this military –not human rights– alliance

thetricontinental.org/dossier-nato...

The 'unsustainable' reason behind who can have nuclear weapons, and who can’t Israel has said its attack on Iran on Friday was partially aimed at destroying its nuclear infrastructure. But it's far from the only country to have developed its capacity in recent years.

While the treaty contained a detailed regime regarding non-proliferation by states that didn't have nuclear weapons, it lacked clear details/timeframe for countries to implement disarmament, who show no sign of fulfilling that obligation after more than half a century

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I won't wave your national flag, but I will stand with you Written in Ottawa, Ontario and Santa Cruz, California

Speaking of waving nation state flags, i wrote this in March:

"Less and less do I understand great numbers of individuals needing to identify the power of our collective human and nonhuman capacities to sustain one another with jingoistic and garishly-coloured settler state flags."

Probably a bad idea to put emotionally fragile men in charge of society’s violence workers

Our new IMR paper on the great replacement theory is now open-access. We find that about 20% (!) of German adults believe that white majorities are being deliberately replaced by non-white immigrants in a secretive attempt by malevolent elites to undermine their own country.

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Our work, out at Cell, shows that the brain’s dopamine signals teach each individual a unique learning trajectory. Collaborative experiment-theory effort, led by Sam Liebana in the lab. The first experiment my lab started just shy of 6y ago & v excited to see it out: www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

We feed you.
They hunt us.

Caregivers Use Joint Attention to Support Sign Language Acquisition in Deaf Children Children's ability to share attention with another social partner (joint attention) plays an important role in language development. However, our understanding of the role of joint attention comes ma....

Caregivers use joint attention to support sign language acquisition in deaf children. New paper by @jennisander.bsky.social , @carorowland.bsky.social & Amy M. Lieberman.
doi.org/10.1111/desc.70034

YouTube video by LosTigresNorteVEVO Los Tigres Del Norte - La Jaula De Oro (Live At Folsom Prison)

Para todos aquellos migrantes, compatriotas que han dejado todo atrás por el deseo de una mejor vida. Por mi familia que migró hace tanto y con dolor y labor ha sacado adelanté a la familia. No son criminales ✊🏽

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Neurodivergent people are treated as noise to be filtered out in most studies supporting the “science of learning”. We are discounted as outliers. Our needs and ways of being are deemed too inconvenient to consider. So, the vast majority of studies just ignore us.

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Chimpanzees and children are curious about social interactions | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences Curiosity is adaptive, enhances learning, and reduces uncertainty. Social curiosity is defined as the motivation to gain information about the actions, relationships, and psychology of others. Little ...

New paper just dropped🎉 With novel "Curiosity Boxes", we find that chimps & children are very curious about social interactions, & some even give up a reward to gain info! Fun collaboration with @alisongopnik.bsky.social, @janengelmann.bsky.social & others royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

A chart that explains what to do If You Find A Baby Songbird Out Of The Nest. Is it hurt or did a cat get it? (Cat bites & scratches cause deadly infections.) or, Has a person kept it for over a day, given it food or water, or gotten it wet? If yes, Contact a licensed wildlife rehabilitator or wildlife care center near you. An online search can help. If no, what does it look like? Eyes not yet open. You have a hatchling. It's very young. Eyes open; feathers few & may be in tube-like sheaths. You have a nestling. Feathered; awkwardly hops or flutters; tail & wings short. You have a fledgling. Many sharp teeth; large claw on second toe. You have a velociraptor. If a hatchling or nestling, can you see the nest? If yes, Return it to its nest. The parents won’t care if they can smell you. If no, Make a nest from a basket & dried grass. Wire it to a tree. (Note: A few species, like Juncos, need a nest on the ground.) If a fledgling, is it in immediate danger? If yes, carefully move it to a safer spot nearby. If no, DO NOT INTERVENE! Though the bird looks awkward, it’s in a natural stage & the parents are still feeding it. If a velociraptor, has it seen you? If yes, back away slowly. Do not show fear. If no, run. Watch for others that may attack from the sides. FYI: Some babies (eg. swifts, most woodpeckers) only sit on the ground if in trouble. When in doubt, keep watch & contact a wildlife rehabilitator if needed!

Found a baby songbird? Here's a newly updated chart!

Illustration of BIPOC woman speaking through a megaphone, with flames coming out the other end. A large group of protestors stand beneath her.

The BIPOC Campaign Leadership Fellowship is for BIPOC social justice campaigners & staffers looking to deepen their knowledge of the latest tools, tactics, & campaign management skills. Applications due July 14.

socialmovementtechnologies.org/bipoc-campai...

#BIPOC, #socialjustice

📢We're delighted to announce the launch of #FOSTERLANG the new EU Horizon funded project aiming to boost minoritised languages and foster Europe's linguistic capital. 😍

👉 Details: www.facebook.com/Fosterlang.E...

@eurolang.bsky.social #ELEN2025 #HorizonEurope

Excited to be part of the FOSTERLANG team! Here at MPI-PL, we'll focus on enhancing Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) technology for minoritised languages, using recent advancements in multilingual machine learning and the unique corpora of data we have in The Language Archive! archive.mpi.nl/tla/

I've been posting threads of papers that come out of MPI-PL's Lang Dev Dept this year. But here Anjie has done it for me. A thread about this this amazing paper by former MPIer Christina Bergmann and colleagues!

At some point scientists need to take an interest, collectively, institutionally, in defending democracy and justice for all, and not just their own resource access

WTools: A MATLAB-based toolbox for time-frequency analysis of infant data Electroencephalography (EEG) is an established method for investigating neurocognitive functions during human development. In cognitive neuroscience, time-frequency analysis of the EEG is a widely use...

WTools: A MATLAB-based toolbox for time-frequency analysis of infant data. New paper by Amber Ferrari & al.
doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0323179

World Central Kitchen | WCK Forced to Halt Cooking in Gaza as Supplies Run Out After serving more than 130 million total meals and 26 million loaves of bread over the past 18 months, World Central Kitchen no longer has the supplies to cook meals or bake bread in Gaza.

World Central Kitchen has run out of food to serve in Gaza. Its bakery ("recently the last working bakery in Gaza") is out of flour. There are 100,000+ tons of food in staging areas within driving distance of Gaza, and Israel refuses to let them in wck.org/news/gaza-up...