Our new paper is now out showing how time perception in animals is linked to their ecology. Using data from 237 species we show temporal perception is faster in species that fly and pursuit predators www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🌐

lots of good points have already been made on using AI Agents for cheating (e.g. the latest Canvas-bot), it degrades learning, etc. One additional thing I'd like to point out: if you use this stuff, you're not being clever, you're just an asshole. to explain:

🚨🚨 My lab is hiring a Postdoc! 🚨🚨 Postdoc opening in my lab at Harvard Psych (start: Summer/Fall 2026). We study identity, group dynamics, language, & politics. Rolling review begins 3/14 Apply: academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/15806 Please repost + tag folks who might be a good fit! 👇

what even is the fucking point

"Tech killed online education" is a heck of an outcome.

When we started @lingthusiasm.com, we benefitted from grad school funding that let us cover a few startup costs, and we recognize that not everyone has those resources That's why in 2020, @superlinguo.bsky.social and I started the LingComm Grants, to help up-and-coming linguistics communicators

Great, remote classes and cancelled daycare and school, the worst of all possible worlds for working academic parents

Research plug: we're currently seeking (bilateraly, congenitally) blind adults & Deaf adults for a *paid* online research study (screen reader compatible) on how individuals experience words across perceptual modalities. Ping [email protected] if interested! Reposts welcome! #Blind #Deaf

Are you a junior faculty member interested in spending 2-4 weeks at Princeton Psych? Consider applying for our Microsabbatical program! It’s a fully funded visit for professional development and creating long-term collaborations. psych.princeton.edu/diversity/mi...

You may have heard it before, but let me repeat: repetition of statements makes people more likely to rate them as true (even if they are false, and even if you knew they were false initially). Thanks for the talk, @lkfazio.bsky.social !

i am in this photo many times and i don't like it

“Humans across multiple languages spontaneously associate the nonwords kiki & bouba with spiky & round shapes, respectively...We tested the bouba-kiki effect in baby chickens. Similar to humans, they spontaneously chose a spiky shape when hearing a kiki sound & a round shape when hearing a bouba.”😲🧪

NSF Update Funding curve overall. A little bit of progress in the past week, but only a little bit. Now by Directorate... 1/11

Hey has anyone tried to daisy-chain all the free credit monitoring they’re handing out like candy these days? I think I could get halfway to retirement from academic data breaches this year alone if I stacked them end to end…

new theory of mind test: how you name your files when you & many others will be submitting the same thing. scale ranges from "myfile Final(3).docx" to "jones_review_smith_feb2026.pdf" pilot testing shows wide variation from age 18-80. shared variance with chaos/organization scale

lol just had "NAs" autocorrect to "Nasty". gonna have to get a sign to tap.

I have continued to update my Data Consultants table. It currently includes 96 businesses. So if you are looking for help with data wrangling, visualization, analysis, reporting, dashboarding, training, and more, consider checking out these consultants! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Highly recommend this CSH course! loved participating in this as a postdoc the first time they had it in 2014, excited to join this year as a speaker! maybe i'll wear the same dress for the group photo;).

google just autochanged the word "sections" to "secretions" in something i was writing and i SWEAR TO GOD we gotta stop training these things on the internet before i go back to quill and ink

Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin

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.

Students need to remember that Inigo Montoya method for emails and greetings: "Hello, my name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.” Polite Greeting Name Relevant Personal Link Manage Expectations Keep it BRIEF.

am i the only 1 who wishes ppl would remind me that we've interacted before if it's plausible i've forgotten? I've had like 3-4 emails that seems like 'cold emails' ab research opportunities but then it turns out we've exchanged emails in the past & it's awkward to not have realized this? just me?

“Isn’t it very dangerous [to remove] the recommendations for certain infant vaccines… What, I wondered, are the consequences of under-vaccinating millions of babies in a country where working parents have no other choice but to put their literal newborns in a room full of other babies all day?”

We are hiring next year in semantics- one year positions of course less exciting and good for the field than straight up tenure track postings, but on the other hand hiring in something that isn’t computational feels like a win anymore in linguistics. Come bring some innovative takes on meaning!

Just out—a piece I wrote a piece for the APS Observer (@psychscience.bsky.social) in which I share recommendations and resources for running a research lab at a small, liberal arts college. I hope it helps others in the same boat! www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...

Are female economists treated differently than males in academic seminars? These authors wanted to know whether gender shapes how scholars are treated when presenting research. So they built a massive dataset of 2,000+ economics seminars, job talks, and conference presentations from 2019–2023...

Key Takeaways from NIH Director Bhattacharya's hearing from Miriam and Bethesda Declaration whistleblower Jenna Norton (speaking in personal capacity). Our analysis? "Oof." (1/3 🧵)

I'm on Capitol Hill watching NIH director Jayanta Bhattacharya testify to the Senate HELP committee. Thankfully I haven't been escorted out of this event (yet). Here's what I'm following. You can also watch live here: www.help.senate.gov/hearings/mod...

Given the news drop of elite institution in the Epstein files, I hesitate to say this about *any* institution but…if Harvard continues to hold out, it will matter. Something that he cannot buy. Nominally anyway.

NSF GRFP applicants (and mentors): Was your application Returned Without Review and deemed ineligible despite fitting in the allowed topics? 1) Write NSF 2) Write your Congressperson 3) CC us at [email protected] so we can compile + follow up Details and template at grant-witness.us/grfp-letter

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

timeline cleanse. perry wants you to know that he too looks beautiful during golden hour. #BirdSky

living in Boston in the winter means that when a guy yells “are you frickin kidding me with that bike?!” at you out his window you just smile and think to yourself “aw, he was so impressed!”

some of you never had to apply for a BESH Clinical Trial and it shows (by how much time you saved not having to explain if your intervention was more like a prosthetic or drug or meditation therapy) #NIH. hooray for the downfall of besh ct! grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

In most classes I have a credit/no credit ? at start of class where they get credit as long as we can tell they did the reading. Last time they could do it by hand on index cards or canvas. this sem, just index cards. We can already see how much more and more thoughtfully they’re answering the ?s! 🥹

Boston/cambridge get an A+ on neighborliness for this storm. We got about a foot and a half, but by 9am nearly all sidewalks en route to my t stop were totally clear, and the t was on time and *free*. ❄️😌

I like seeing summaries like this one that integrate findings from practice, theory, empirical work, and neuroscience. Each domain provides a type of evidence and when they cohere, we can have greater confidence in making practice recommendations. #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky

Should you go to academia or industry for research in AI or cognitive science? It's the most common question I get asked by PhD students, and I've written up some of my thoughts on the answer, as an epilogue to my research-focused series on these fields: infinitefaculty.substack.com/p/on-researc...

NIH needs statutory protections against partisan politicized decision-making - especially around grant terminations. This bill is a solid start to achieving those aims. degette.house.gov/media-center...

ppl often ask if I rec Baby Sign to support early language. my 1-liner is "probably doesn't do much, but it doesn't hurt" @sblldtrch.bsky.social & co new paper supports my 1-liner doi.org/10.1177/0142... [n.b. NOT the same as sign lang access for DHH kids i.e. full lg access from birth, which is A+]

🚨 New from me: Grant review at more than half of NIH's institutes could be frozen by the end of the year. That's because crucial NIH grant-review panels are slated to be empty at those institutes by Jan 2027. A wonky bureaucratic problem with big implications. A short 🧵

Last term I tried an experiment: I walked into my Tech and Design Ethics class, admitted that I had *no idea* what to do about ChatGPT - so I would let them figure it out. As in: their first project was to decide and write the ChatGPT policy for the class. Here's what happened:

niche post for my CogDev peeps: next time you have to deal w/some1 who's full of💩, just think of them like a toddler who's not a CP knower yet. You asked for 3 blueberries & they confidently gave you anywhere from 2-5 of them, but they can't help it, they just don't know any better, bless their ❤️

I just created a series of seven deep-dive videos about AI, which I've posted to youtube and now here. 😊 Targeted to laypeople, they explore how LLMs work, what they can do, and what impacts they have on learning, well-being, disinformation, the workplace, the economy, and the environment.

Amen. In person study sections >>>> zoom

It’s Penguin Awareness Day which seems like a great excuse to post the greatest ever Wikipedia edit.

The language on multiyear funding (MYF) is ineffective. Final bill anchors MYF to 2025 instead of 2024. This means MYF will likely continue at the same rate we saw last year, where NCI's payline from ~10% to 4%. This is incredibly harmful to the US research workforce - especially early career.