My university has announced a special international graduate fellowship for PhD students whose acceptance at a US university has been rescinded. Check it out: grad.uwo.ca/finances/wes...

How can you not be romantic about baseball?

PhD Candidate Position – ERC Advanced Grant Project- Cortical rhythms (at risk), BCBL, Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain We will explore whether the cortical tracking of speech (CTS) can predict later reading deficits in Developmental Dyslexia. Application deadline: 30 June 2025

C'est moi! Je donne ma première présentation en français depuis 35 ans !

C'est assez hallucinant de voir un communiqué signé par 5 sociétés médicales qui soit à ce point bourré d'affirmations péremptoires non soutenues par les données scientifiques. www.sfsp.fr/images/25042... Exit la distinction corrélation-causalité, toute prudence a été abandonnée (comparé au 🧵

Can I get an F in the chat for PP's entire career?

and, unclench

University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada has not 1, not 2, but THREE TT psychology positions! Indigenous and/or Black scholar, open area careers.uoguelph.ca/job/Guelph-A... Applied social and Open area teaching careers.uoguelph.ca/job/Guelph-A... Come join us!

Call for Undergraduate and Graduate Student Fellows, 2025-2026! We want to give you money to do cutting-edge computational research. Apply by May 1, 2025. Details here: ccss.arts.ubc.ca/opportunitie...

In town for #CNS2025? Do I have a show for you! tunehatch.com/shows/132960... #neuroscience

Apropos of nothing, the distribution of moose across North America brilliantmaps.com/many-moose-m...

I referred to something as a "TikTok reel" in front of my Gen-Zers and now I'm being clowned on mercilessly. Send help

👏👏👏 to the “woke max planck director” @davidpoeppel.bsky.social! “We’re living in a time and an environment in which there are certain shared values that are non-negotiable. And that includes sexist behavior, mobbing; harassment of any kind.”

📣 Brock #PsychSciSky are hiring a Tenure-Track Teaching-Intensive Asst Prof to teach our 2nd year stats course and a few other stats/methods courses. Pluses: beautiful Niagara, CANADA, strong faculty union, ample TA support, collaborative colleagues. brocku.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/brocku_caree...

Really looking forward to discussing the operation of size constancy in visual perception and visually guided action as part of the Psychonomic Society's One World Seminar Series on Feb 26 at 11:15am to 1pm Eastern Time. 🧪🧠 Abstract and registration here. us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

I keep seeing people post that Canadian universities should scoop up all the American academics who are losing their research funding. I’m guessing these people have no idea what’s going on in Canadian universities after decades of deliberate underfunding.

You're boiling eggs wrong, apparently. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

This Trudeau guy's not bad. Maybe he'd like to run for leader of the Liberal Party?

The date he tweeted that though

The enshittification of Prolific

Postdoc alert! We have a postdoc position open on our T32 training grant in lang sci at UConn (for US Citizens only, regrettably). Work with one or more of our mentorship team (including me!) Details here, and feel free to reach out w/ questions. cncct.research.uconn.edu/postdoc-trai...

Somehow, some way, there's a NY Times piece about sports fans who hang out at Joe Kool's in London Ontario: www.nytimes.com/2025/01/12/b...

I am looking for a post-doc on neuroimaging analysis. Come & join my team at UEA (Norwich, UK). The post is for 32 months starting from April. Norwich is a wonderful & affordable city. ➡Apply: vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancies/13... ⏰Deadline: 13 February 2025 Questions: [email protected]

After a year of Google Photos hounding me about running out of storage space, I have discovered this little gem: photos.google.com/quotamanagem... > Convert existing photos & videos to Storage saver

Fans of #structuredliteracy, #reading and public radio: I'll be the guest of CBC's "Just Asking" call-in show this afternoon at 5 pm ET. Answering questions about teaching kids to read. Will I say something "out of pocket", as the kids say? Time will tell! www.cbc.ca/radio/justas...

See now *this* is the content we need here

Remarkable, heartbreaking story about genetics, FTD, and labs that engage patients in their research: www.nytimes.com/2024/12/22/h...

Look maybe our research subjects cry or soil themselves at relatively high rates but at least we in #DevPsychSky are never left wondering whether babies are faking the data by asking ChatGPT #SoBlessed

1st Italian Conference on Computational Social Science. Join us in Trento this coming January!

Really enjoyed writing this article with Nathan Lau! psyche.co/ideas/if-you...

Not that it matters, but when the right wing ghouls arrive, and you start following them, I will happily block them and unfollow you

Wow @j-metsala.bsky.social !

I have only seen people giving this logo heat, but I like it for its unrepentant lifting of the 1984 LA Olympics logo, its use of Eurostile, and the background color which makes the whole thing look like a 5.25” floppy disk sleeve

When did these guys quit doing satire?

A class-action lawsuit was filed today in Massachusetts against the publisher, Heinemann, its top authors Lucy Calkins, Irene Fountas and Gay Su Pinnell, and Columbia University. www.apmreports.org/story/2024/1...

Thank you to everyone who has followed us here on @bsky.app. Check out our Starter Pack to follow our Editorial Board members too! go.bsky.app/Cgzeqzm

Are you new here and interested in following more Science of Reading people? Here is a starter pack from @jodidevries.bsky.social! #SOR go.bsky.app/DrhYgSX

I feel so honored by the publication of this special issue of Neuropsychologia. Thanks so much to my friends and colleagues who put this together. And thanks to all the contributors. There are so many wonderful articles. I can't tell you how delighted I am. 🧪🧠 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

American friends: "Hey I bet you're happy you're in Canada right now huh?" Me: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Quick fyi for when the nutters inevitably show up looking for an audience for their trash: block lists exist!

Here's an infographic on some EEG-reading work happening in my lab. All credit goes to talented @westernuniversity.bsky.social PhD students Niki Sinha and Deanne Wah #scicomm

Chat I think I typed my name in wrong

The #Rays released photos of the damage inside Tropicana Field in the days following Hurricane Milton, and it's catastrophic.

With Bluesky a-hoppin', now's a good time to advertise that faculty (inc. me!) at UConn (both in Language and Cognition and Speech and Hearing) are recruiting PhD students. Fantastic Lang. Sci. community, some cool training grants. psychology.uconn.edu/phd/language...

🚨 New paper alert! 🚨 Large scale study shows verbal and symbolic skills in kindergarten predict language, reading, and mathematics outcomes. Longitudinal evidence of direct and indirect relationships. W/ Pham, Archibald, @numcog.bsky.social, Oram, Stager authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

Postdoc position! Come work with us at Western University studying EEG and speech perception in children with/without reading and language disorders. Our CIHR-funded team includes L. Batterink, @blakebutler.bsky.social @christinavbdn.bsky.social & J. Oram: grad.uwo.ca/doc/postdoc/...

Province of Ontario rolls out new rules for mobile devices in schools. Expectation: outright ban on phones in younger kids and hard restrictions in high schoolers. Reality: kids in grade 6 will need to keep their phone on silent, older kids should follow teachers instructions.

Pro-tip for people with noisy EEG data: fancy ICA, re-referencing, baseline correction and artifact rejection will not fix bad data, it just makes it worse: www.nature.com/articles/s41...