official ad to follow soon but heads up: 1-2 postdocs slots in my lab, hopefully w/fall start! reposts welcome, details to follow. babies! word learning! cognitive & linguistic skills! #CogSciSky #DevPsychSky 🐦🐦 (lab info: bergelsonlab.fas.harvard.edu/prospectives) also recruiting grads this fall!

Am I too old? I just attended a conference session where a speaker zoomed into the session, turned off their camera and turned on an AI bot to give the talk, and the slides were clearly AI-generated with minimal data. 😬 Is this our new normal?

I’ll be recruiting my first PhD student to start in Fall 2027 and would love for folks to send interested students my way!

And a second paper by @begumyilmaz.bsky.social! We examined the effect of manipulating parental gesture use on parents’ math talk and child math performance.

New study led by our PhD student Begüm Yılmaz! @begumyilmaz.bsky.social @dilaykaradoller.bsky.social Müge Caferoğlu @tilbegoksun.bsky.social @ecedemirlira.bsky.social "Parental gestural math input and children's math skills: An intervention study" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I can't make it to #CDS2025 unfortunately, but my very talented first-year PhD student Noah Scott is presenting Saturday at Poster Session 3 (1:15–2:30pm), P3-98 "Real-time language processing and the brain: Structural contributions of the dorsal language pathway". Please go say hi!

New paper led by the very talented @begumyilmaz.bsky.social from our Koc+Iowa collaboration. We find specific links between spatial and math tasks that are robust across children born term and born preterm.

🧠 The DEN Lab (@UIowa) is hiring a Lab Coordinator! A wonderful opportunity for recent grads preparing for grad school. Come do meaningful developmental cog neuro research with us in Iowa City, a vibrant college town with rich intellectual and cultural life! jobs.uiowa.edu/research/vie...

I am going to shamelessly plug my husband's work on students' mathematical reasoning in advanced science. To my peers interested in child math development, consider this as a window into the tail end of children's academic journey 😊 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

I feel very privileged to have trained with Prof. Kağıtçıbaşı during my undergraduate years. She was not only an exceptional scholar but also a remarkable teacher. Learn more about Prof. Kağıtçıbaşı, a pioneer in cross-cultural psychology and SPSP’s Heritage Initiative: spsp.org/membership/a...

Summer, please stay... But also—this RRR dance clip is queued up for my interpersonal synchrony lecture and I’m so ready! 🧩🧠✨ #RRR www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAzl...

Recent paper from our lab led by Işıl: Early parental multimodal input is differentially associated with later vocabulary knowledge for preterm & full-term infants @ecedemirlira.bsky.social @aslierciyes.bsky.social @mkobas.bsky.social @kudilvebilis.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Today, we had the pleasure of hosting Dr. Ece Demir-Lira @ecedemirlira.bsky.social, director of DEN Lab at the University of Iowa, for a talk titled “An Introduction to Two-Person Neuroscience: Theory and Practice”!🧠

📣📣 A recent paper by Dilay Karadöller, Ece Demir-Lira, & Tilbe Göksun: Full-Term Children with Lower Vocabulary Scores Receive More Multimodal Math Input Than Preterm Children www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @dilaykaradoller.bsky.social @ecedemirlira.bsky.social @tilbegoksun.bsky.social

I am so excited to be a part of this wonderful paper led by the very talented @mkobas.bsky.social and my fav collaborator @tilbegoksun.bsky.social. I am generally a big fan of beautiful descriptive statistics and Mert did an amazing job in this paper! Enjoy!

Our commentary on Karadöller, Sümer, and Özyürek paper: "Promoting a multimodal first language acquisition framework" @ecedemirlira.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/eprint/9PHBG... @dilaykaradoller.bsky.social @asliozyurek.bsky.social

Researchers at Annenberg and @umdscience.bsky.social show that proposed NIH funding cuts lead to an estimated $16 billion in economic loss and 68,000 jobs lost nationwide. Learn about their project and view the interactive map here:

“The ecosystem of research and the creation of new knowledge in universities has been so powerful for American prosperity, American freedom, American ingenuity. To have that disrupted by government overreach is a disaster for this country.” —Wesleyan University President Michael Roth on @msnbc.com

Another wonderful collaboration with the best team! Congrats Ibrahim for leading this effort.

JUST dropped! Neuron review with Matt Birnie on the evolving neurobiology of early-life stress. Where is our field? what are our challenges? where and how do we move forward? www.cell.com/neuron/fullt... would love your thoughts🧠🧪 @cp-trendsneuro.bsky.social @cate-cholamine.bsky.social

New publication alert from our former post-doc Dilay Karadöller, Ece Demir-Lira & Tilbe Göksun! @dilaykaradoller.bsky.social @ecedemirlira.bsky.social @tilbegoksun.bsky.social Read the article 👇 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

U.S. scientists: Have you contacted Congress this week? #AcademicSky #PsychSciSky #Science Here’s a guide to help: www.psychologicalscience.org/act-now

Multifaceted nature of early vocabulary development: Connecting child characteristics with parental input types. Final version by Tilbe Göksun & al. @dilaykaradoller.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/cdep.12524 Paper: tinyurl.com/4kut2n9s

The US House Congressional Rapid Response Task Force and Litigation Working Group is looking for instances where the impoundment and restriction of NIH/NSF funds is having a negative impact. Submit examples here: delauro.house.gov/constituent-... delauro.house.gov/constituent-...

Very handy visual aids for contacting representatives or media - Cards for each state on funding for NSF and NIH

Hey #Chicago! It's time to take a stand for #science. We are rallying on March 7 at noon at the Federal Plaza. Start making your signs! Info standupforscience2025.org/chicago-il/ RSVP (optional) www.eventbrite.com/e/stand-up-f... #standupforscience #scienceforall @standupforscience.bsky.social

A wonderful example of science communication 💜https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/opinion/columnists/iowa-view/2025/02/13/indirect-costs-collaboration-nih-cancer-research-thrive-medicine-doge/78474634007/

Join us! Science Homecoming helps scientists reconnect with communities by writing about the importance of science funding in their hometown newspapers. We’ve mapped every small newspaper in the U.S. and provide resources to get you started. Help science get back home 🧪🔬🧬 🏠 sciencehomecoming.com

Another great approach for scientist opeds, writing for your hometown paper about the importance of science funding. (Ungated copy in the original thread)

I wrote a column in my hometown newspaper about the importance of keeping SCIENCE FUNDING in our community 🧪 More soon about the power of writing back HOME 🏠 www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/15/g...

What is your university doing to protect, support, or at least community with faculty right now?

Wonderful explainer on indirect costs by Dick Aslin open.substack.com/pub/dickasli...

This indeed effects science globally. Cost-cutting logic does not work. NIH returns $2.5 on every $1 invested.

The NIH capping the indirect cost rate (IDC) for grants at 15% can best be described as a direct assault on Universities. It’s such a bureaucratic, innocuous sounding thing that actually means that research universities will be kneecapped. Thousands of employees across the US will lose their jobs.

Looking forward to this!

I think this drawing of Laura Bell is the sweetest thing I have seen in a while 🧠❤️, and the ideal graphical abstract for the paper we published about #EEG and #fNIRS last October www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #brain

Remember when Hillary got pilloried for using a private email server because it compromised gov't info? Musk's team is allegedly moving sensitive data onto their own servers. We need Dem Congress people on TV shouting about this and we need rallies & protests all over this country!

this is what we want to see. tariff the shit out of elon’s companies www.businesstoday.in/world/canada...

Now updated with the breaking news that Elon Musk's team has been granted full access to the Treasury Department's federal payment system.

🗣️ Language is widely distributed throughout the brain 🧠 In a recent correspondence in @natrevneurosci.bsky.social, we suggest that there is no 'language network' in the brain. What appears as such is an inevitable illusion created in part by the methods we use. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I am thrilled to announce that my @soneatlab.bsky.social @universityofessex.bsky.social is now accepting attendance requests & abstract submissions for our 2025 #fNIRS #hyperscanning workshop (May 19-20) in collaboration with @artinis.bsky.social. Deadline 28 February. pvrticka.com/2025-soneat-...

Scoop: Elon Musk’s lackeys have taken over the Office of Personnel Management—essentially the human resources function for the entire federal government. One expert found the takeover reminiscent of Stalin. www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

Breaking news: A judge temporarily blocked President Trump from imposing a sweeping pause on federal spending, after the new White House policy disrupted programs that fund schools, provide housing and ensure low-income Americans have access to healthcare.

University of Chicago is asking researchers to halt purchases, starting new experiments, and travel in light of the federal pause on grants

Dear fellow scientists, Go talk to the press about what is going on. Talk to local news about how it will impact jobs. Be specific, but don't pity yourself. Instead focus on how your own situation affects local jobs, the national economy, beating the growing scientific race with China. Suggestions:

While President Trump illegally pauses federal funding from Congress, the Senate must not be business as usual. We do not consent to this lawless power grab.

Current guidance from Stanford leadership regarding OMB memo:

It is very easy to call your representatives’ offices. They have to log your calls and the call numbers are meaningful. You don’t even have to try to convince anyone; just call and tell them your concerns. They are there to represent you. Let them know what that means. www.usa.gov/elected-offi...

That bewildering OMB memo now being reported by the WaPost, much of it focusing on...how bewildered people in DC are as well. White House pauses all federal grants, sparking confusion www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...