📰 new paper! lnkd.in/dYdrvZAz, by @irenebalboni.bsky.social , Alessandra Rampinini, @olgakepinska.bsky.social, @berthele.bsky.social, @nargolestani.bsky.social, @nccrlanguage.bsky.social showing the importance of multimodal approaches for uncovering brain-behaviour relationships

Rozdane wczoraj przez @erc.europa.eu granty #ERCStG trafiły także do 6️⃣ polskich naukowców, którzy swoje badania będą prowadzić w Niemczech, Austrii, Francji i Szwajcarii. Czego dotyczą ich projekty? ⬇️ @aniaczark.bsky.social @magda-sznurkowska.bsky.social @olgakepinska.bsky.social

I'm more than happy to share that I have been awarded an ERC Starting Grant @erc.europa.eu for my project on fetal language acquisition. In DiverseSounds, we'll focus on prenatal language environment and its effects on neural plasticity and language development post-birth. Exciting times ahead!

“Relying on PRIME young adults limits cognitive science” www.cell.com/trends/cogni... new @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social piece with @connectedmindslab.bsky.social we highlight how a focus on young adults as a benchmark of ‘human’ behaviour has shaped cognitive science in several ways 👇

You can hear the sounds, but can you distinguish the words? 🤔 Here's the postprint version of our new, soon-to-be SSLA paper! osf.io/6zbgt Celia Gorba, Pilar Prieto and I revisit the tricky link between L2 sound & word recognition—with a fresh look at methods

Experimentology is out today!!! A group of us wrote a free online textbook for experimental methods, available at experimentology.io - the idea was to integrate open science into all aspects of the experimental workflow from planning to design, analysis, and writing.

Out now at Nat. Neuro. "Addressing artifactual bias in large, automated MRI analyses of brain development" Huge congrats to Josh Roffman team on this herculean effort. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We recently published this paper in PNAS exploring how London cab drivers plan routes. We found that entropy of streets & successor representations explain planning speed. It was fantastic working on this with Eva Griesbauer, Dan McNamee, and Hugo Spiers. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Alert! ... for the child development world! @fluxsociety.bsky.social @fitngin.bsky.social ‪ The Healthy Brain and Child Development (HBCD) Study has released its first data wave - it’s massive. Check here: docs.hbcdstudy.org and here: nbdc-datahub.org Here’s why it matters 🧠🍼

Yes, my favourite blog post! In all our studies (3 twin, 2 longitudinal), we consistently found: how well children read → how much they enjoy reading. In 2/5, we also saw some evidence for the reverse. Different samples, countries, ages, and measures—but same key finding: skills shape motivation.

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

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🚨🚨🚨Big, BIG news!!! 🎉 In Fall 2025, I'm starting as a CNRS Researcher at LPL @univ-amu.fr in Aix-en-Provence, South of France. Thrilled to join the amazing @ilcb.bsky.social community and launch my research on fetal language acquisition & brain development in multilingual contexts. 🫄🗣️🧠 Stay tuned!

It doesn't get reiterated enough that "human on a bicycle" is not only the most efficient way that a person can move, it's the most efficient form of motion ***ever observed in land animals***.

my lab (lacns.github.io) at @mpi-nl.bsky.social and @dondersinst.bsky.social is recruiting for two PhD and two postdoctoral positions funded by an @erc.europa.eu Consolidator - come join us! PhD: www.mpi.nl/career-educa... Postdoc: www.mpi.nl/career-educa... (please share widely)

Do caregivers exaggerate vowels when talking to infants? Prior findings are inconsistent () & the mechanisms unclear. We meta-analyzed 35 studies across 10 languages to disentangle systematic cross-linguistic and methodological variation. Paper: osf.io/preprints/ps... 🧵

Sind Sie deutschsprachig mit wenigen Französischkenntnisse? Dann nehmen Sie an einer wissenschaftlichen Online-Studie über Sprache von @nocelab.bsky.social teil und helfen Sie dabei, den Einfluss der Sprache auf die Kognition zu verstehen.

Thanks to everybody who chimed in! I arrived at the conclusion that (1) there's a lot of interesting stuff about interactions and (2) the figure I was looking for does not exist. So, I made it myself! Here's a simple illustration of how to control for confounding in interactions:>

We are looking for a Phd student for a project on modeling second language learning using adaptive cognitive tutors. Please share with anyone who might be interested! phd.arts.au.dk/applicants/o...

I made a site today that lets you compare the net worth of billionaires and corporations to the GDP of entire countries. Check it out. I want to raise awareness of the scale. There are many people - and tons of companies - with more wealth than the annual economic output of individual EU nations

I'm pleased to announce the release of scales 1.4.0 for #rstats. While scales mainly exists to serve #ggplot2, this release packs a bunch of improvements that is good to be aware of. Read more in the blog post

Excellent tutorial on fitting voxel-wise encoding models to #fMRI data by Dupré La Tour & @gallantlab.org! Check out their step by step walk through! Paper: osf.io/preprints/ps... Code: github.com/gallantlab/v...

Human Brain Mapping | Neuroimaging Journal | Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

🚨 Want to help shape the field? 👶🧠 ℹ️ Fill out the form below to serve as a reviewer for #FITNG2025! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

"In moments like these, we stand united & raise our voices to defend science & reaffirm its vital role in society. It is science that has given us the technologies we rely on, the prosperity we enjoy, & the medical advances that save lives." @patrick-cramer.maxplanck.de in support of US colleagues🎯🧪

If only we had studies on autism and vaccines using nationally-complete healthcare data showing no association between the two. Like, uh, this one from Denmark.

Introducing a new tool from @tsbolt.bsky.social, find-viz (FMRI Interactive Navigation and Discovery Viewer)! It’s a browser-based visualization tool built with one purpose in mind: get researchers to spend more time looking at their fMRI data 🧠 @ohbmofficial.bsky.social @ohbmtrainees.bsky.social

👉 Know someone who might be interested in our Summer School? Don’t hesitate to share!

Very pleased to share the fMRI pipeline paper from the fetal release or the developing human connectome project, a true labour of love and incredible work from Slava Karolis #dhcp #connectome #fmri direct.mit.edu/imag/article...

Seems the hippocampus can basically think for itself 😲🤣 seriously tho, very cool work! 👇 #neuroskyence

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Viktor Pfaffenrot, David G. Norris, et al: Characterizing BOLD activation patterns in the human hippocampus with laminar fMRI doi.org/10.1162/imag...

"200 yrs ago, the State we now call Mexico was established. After 300 yrs of the Spanish Conquista, in 1862, 65% of the population spoke an indigenous language. Today, we speakers of indigenous languages make up 6.5%… Our languages are not dying, they are being killed." - Yásnaya Aguilar #LangSky

Come work with us in Cambridge! www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50879/

Excited to share our latest work, out now @jneurolang.bsky.social . We find "fuzzier" representations of phonemes in middle-aged adults despite normal hearing, driven in part by peripheral neural coding deficits. In collaboration with @soundbrainlab.bsky.social direct.mit.edu/nol/article/...

The role of executive function in the processing and acquisition of syntax. New publication by Malathi Thothathiri, Evan Kidd & @carorowland.bsky.social doi.org/10.1098/rsos.201497

Hey, that's us! @brainlanglab.bsky.social

"Codeswitching" by Anne L. Beatty-Martínez, M. Carmen Parafita Couto, Felix K. Ameka, and Enoch O. Aboh is now available. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

⏰ One more day to contribute to the "Ultrasound meets MRI" meeting in #Vienna. Get ready to shape the future of combining fetal MRI and ultrasound to improve outcomes in fetal medicine. 👉 www.conventiongroup.at/events-en/ul... #meduniwien #usmeetsmri #fetal #radiology #ultrasound #mri #radsky

A year ago our faculty commissioned & adopted guidance on GenAI and research integrity. Preamble below, pdf at osf.io/preprints/os..., text also at ideophone.org/generative-a... Key to these guidelines is a values-first rather than a technology-first approach, based on NL code of research conduct

I'm hiring! 2 x PhDs and 1 x PostDoc, to work with me at Uni Zurich on a project investigating how semantic patterns differ by geographic region. Linguistic typology, data science, spatial analysis, phylogenetic methods, potential fieldwork... REPOST 🙏 www.comparativelinguistics.uzh.ch/en/jobs.html

Out this week @cogscisociety.bsky.social! @samhforbes.bsky.social & I ”urge extreme caution in the use of LLMs in classrooms lest we further normalize: pupils losing their privacy, reducing contact between learner and educator, deskilling teachers & polluting the environment” doi.org/10.1111/cogs...

🤔 How do individual differences in fetal, infant, and toddler (FIT) neurodevelopment shape long-term #brain and #behavioral outcomes? 💡 A new paper from the FIT’NG community explores this question and the challenges of measuring early brain #development. 🌐 Read more: doi.org/10.1016/j.dc...

Delighted to have the Version of Record of our work published by @elife.bsky.social. Please take a look at how we answered the question of whether the auditory cortex accommodates multilingual phonological experience (spoiler: it does, and very interestingly so!) 🗣️👂🧠

BREAKING & BIG: Today in PARIS, citizens voted in a referendum to PEDESTRIANIZE 500 MORE of the city's streets, giving fresh momentum to efforts by city leaders to create people-places, curb car usage, and improve air quality. 66% of Parisians voted in favour of the measure, official results showed!

saying you’ll stand up for attacks on science in the US while honouring the person responsible for the attacks is like handing out bandages to people who are being savaged by your pet dog, while doing nothing to restrain him

🚨 #Internship alert in #MachineLearning I am recruiting a BSc (or MSc) student in #ComputerScience #DataScience for an internship this Spring On-site @univie.ac.at or remotely Possibility to develop a BSc/MSc thesis project Please share around & reach out if you have any questions! More details 🔽

A lot of global academic conferencing is centered around the US, and US academic orgs have to be thinking very seriously now. You cannot continue to carry on with in person conferencing as if foreign scholars have no impediments to travel. I know we like to pretend everything is "normal" again but..

I am looking for a PhD student to work on my ERC-funded project to investigate the format of thought in the absence of language in baboons and bees. Details here: tinyurl.com/5ff9hcjj Apply here: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/Docto...

Canada joins Horizon Europe programme