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...

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0... He assigned reading, then had them write in class. No take-home writing. He's right kids read less. But 7 hrs school + 5 hrs homework nightly? I'd avoid extra work in high school too. We ask them to memorize. They do until they don't. More on this next week.

I went from seven papers to twenty claims in one year. When the landscape moves this fast, sense-making becomes the only skill that matters. #ArtificialIntelligence #CognitiveScience #Writing #Academia​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ open.substack.com/pub/arturoh/...

On DEI and AI. #HigherEd #Academia #DEI #AIinEducation open.substack.com/pub/arturoh/...

I recently talked about the Cancer Stick of the Soul, smartphones. One of my earliest posts suggests a solution, I am reposting it here arturoh.substack.com/p/resistance... #DigitalDetox #UnplugToReconnect #ScreenFree #PhoneAddictionAwareness #Nomophobia #ProblematicPhoneUse #MindfulTechUse

What infants see first shapes what comes next. Faces built the brain. Screens are changing the input. #Neuroemergence #Development #Cognition #Parenting www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-...

“I am a different person in that language,” she said. “ I have a whole host of other things to express. I would maybe even like to direct in French.” www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/m...

We’re surrounded by data, models, and predictions — and yet some forms of understanding still refuse to be captured. I wrote about why that distinction matters right now, particularly as AI becomes a dominant way of “knowing”: arturoh.substack.com/p/what-lived... #LivedExperience #Knowledge #AI

Can’t wait to hear it! Weird thing is I can do both, words and pictures.

My new Psychology Today piece, “The Bilingual Brain: Translation as Adaptation,” was selected as an Essential Read. Grateful for the recognition — and for the chance to keep developing this idea of translation as a core human adaptation. www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-...

Thank you, @dsbarra.bsky.social!

What if AI isn’t competing with us at all, but acting as a cognitive telescope—extending what humans can perceive and understand? New piece here: open.substack.com/pub/arturoh/... #AI #Neuroscience #FlynnEffect #Adaptation

Andy Conway and I are honored to serve as inaugural co-Editors of this new Psychonomics journal, focused on the rigorous study of individual differences in cognition. Please spread the word to potentially interested colleagues; we hope that you will send us your best relevant work!

Origins of language, one of humanity’s most distinctive traits, may be best explained as a unique convergence of multiple capacities each with its own evolutionary history, involving intertwined roles of biology & culture. This framing can expand research horizons. A 🧵 on our @science.org paper.🧪1/n

So informative!

Excited to see this new journal!!

A short letter I wrote was published in today’s @nytimes.com . With so much public discussion about AI and consciousness, I wanted to emphasize that the real transformation may be happening in us, not the machines. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/o... #AI #Consciousness #CognitiveScience

They unilaterally canceled a faculty hiring initiative so successful it’s become a national model. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

Expect some embodiment twists in the science of consciousness 😎

While the first year of life is crucial for language development, our team found that sound categorization continues to develop throughout the early school years. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Friends (and friends-of-friends) in LA: Please help spread the word! On Saturday, November 15th 2p, @mameister4.bsky.social and I will be in conversation at the Burbank Library discussing bottlenecks and next steps for brain research. It's free! Register here: burbank.libnet.info/event/14639190

@sapinker.bsky.social came to town. What happened next surprised me. Read on Psychology Today: www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-... and Substack: arturoh.substack.com/publish/post... #StevenPinker #PsychologyToday #SubstackWriters #CognitiveScience #LoveOfLearning

Preparing to Meet Steven Pinker On how I rediscovered reading itself. Sometimes the mind just needs a spark. open.substack.com/pub/arturoh/... #ReadingAgain #StevenPinker #CommonKnowledge #BooksAndBrains #ListeningToThink #EdgeOfOurMinds #SubstackWriters #AcademicLife

Grateful for this growing community. Over the past week, Musings on Mastery has reached #54 for Rising in Science publications. Thank you to everyone who has read, subscribed, and shared. arturoh.substack.com #Science #Learning #Neuroscience #Writing #BilingualBrain #MindOnTheEdge

Machines specialize. Humans synthesize. Inspired by @nxthompson.bsky.social, Diogo Rau, and Michael X. Cohen. open.substack.com/pub/arturoh/... #ModernPolymath #CollectiveIntelligence #HumanAI #TheNextRenaissance #KnowledgeEconomy #FutureOfWork #MachineLearning #EmergentIntelligence

Ich möchte allen Menschen, die nicht #schwimmen können und allen, die kleine Kinder haben etwas nahelegen. Ich denke, es ist hilfreich, wenn wir alle ein paar physikalische Gegebenheiten wissen und vertanden haben, z.B. dass der Mensch ganz grundsätzlich schwimmt, wenn er eingeatmet hat. Hier /

Ayuso se está cargando a la Universidad Complutense. La ruina de la mayor universidad de España que es asfixiada y ya no puede ni pagar las nóminas a menos que logre un crédito, por Elisa Silió Afecta también a la investigación, las becas y a la calidad de la enseñanza elpais.com/educacion/20...

This morning my ChatGPT quota was inexplicably exhausted. It took a while but I pieced it together. Voice mode somehow got activated when I went to bed. The bot then engaged in a 10 hour conversation with my snoring dog, answering questions the pup wasn’t asking and praising him for his insight.

Deadline Dec 1: Asst prof (tenure track), speech science, Speech Lang. +Hearing, U Texas Dallas jobs.utdallas.edu/postings/30411

Harvard now gives 60% of students A’s. But this isn’t about grade inflation. It’s about meaning collapse. We’ve hit the informational singularity, where everyone can know everything, and understanding disappears #InformationalSingularity #AIandEducation #FutureOfKnowledge #HigherEd #MeaningCrisis

I spoke with 2025 Nobel winner Shimon Sakaguchi about chasing regulatory T cells since the 1980s. His advice to early-career scientists: "Nowadays you are expected to do something very, very soon and have a result. But it always takes time to arrive at something important." @sciam.bsky.social

Mike X Cohen recently wrote about why he left academia and neuroscience. Why I Haven’t Left, explores another side of that story. open.substack.com/pub/arturoh/... #MikeXCohen #AcademicLife #AIandHumanity #HigherEd #Neuroscience #Curiosity #Discovery #ResearchCulture #Meaning #NotesFromTheEdge

Dartmouth says no.

We're seeking the next Director of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics! Lead cutting-edge research in language & cognition. Nominations (incl. self) due 19 Dec 2025. mpi.nl/career-education/vacancies/vacancy/nominations-and-self-nominations-sought-position-director-max

AI isn’t a rupture but the next literacy—layered on top of talking, listening, and movement. The challenge is to integrate it without losing the skills that make us human. #AILiteracy #Education #Learning #Psychology #FutureOfWork www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-...

🎶📚 Nuevo ensayo en Substack: Desafinado: cuando el streaming y la academia perdieron el alma Lo que pasó en la música con Kike Santander está pasando en la academia: exceso, ruido y pérdida de voz propia. 👉 Léelo aquí: [link] #Música #Academia #Cultura #Substack #Desafinado

¿No es torta cubana?

It's ✨ academic job application season ✨ & I hope you'll consider applying for and/or spreading the word about CityU's ongoing search for faculty in computational linguistics, psycho-/neurolinguistics, & experimental linguistics: open-rank and rolling! www.cityu.edu.hk/hro/en/job/c... #langsky 🐦🐦

🎶📚 New Substack post: Out of Tune: When Streaming and Publishing Lost Their Soul What happened to music didn’t stay in music. We’re all living in an age of oversaturation. open.substack.com/pub/arturoh/... #Writing #Academia #Music #Streaming #Publishing #Substack #Creativity #Scholarship

‘The Power of Science to Solve Problems Is Almost Limitless’ www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/o...

While working on my own memoir, this flyer landed in my inbox: “Helping busy people tell meaningful stories.” The business of ghostwritten memoirs is booming. Despite the temptation to outsource, there are some things no one can narrate for me. #Memoir #Storytelling #HigherEd #Publishing

If you need a little hope this morning - the current tween trend involves decorating clothespins with affirming messages, then clipping them on friends' backpacks when they're not looking. Here are a few that my 11-year-old decorated this weekend ❤️

We live in an era of overproduction—AI, social media, megaphones everywhere. My new piece, “The Whisperers,” is about choosing a different path: words that don’t scream, but whisper. open.substack.com/pub/arturoh/... #AI #SocialMedia #WritingCommunity #SubstackWriters

Writing at the speed of myself. open.substack.com/pub/arturoh/... Not faster, not slower. Just mine. #WritingLife #Authenticity #Emergent

Beyond AI: Why Psychology Needs Both Numbers and Narratives | Psychology Today #AI #Psychology #Neuroscience #Humanities www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-...

Glasford & Brown show us how resources define status in academia. With AI and political attacks shaking the system, the “academic galaxy” is trembling. #AcademicGalaxy #HigherEd #AIandAcademia #ResearchFunding open.substack.com/pub/arturoh/...

We stopped at the giant ram on our roadtrip and Hugo insisted we take a picture.

Great insights!! www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...

In 1994, I found myself “behind enemy lines” at a Montreal conference on the so-called grammar gene. Years later, in Liz Bates’s classroom, I finally saw the light shorturl.at/nqGhc #CognitiveScience #Bilingualism #ScienceHistory #Psycholinguistics #Emergentism #GrammarGene #ScienceGatekeeping