It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans. 🧵 1 of 9

This is so true, and it highlights how annoying it is that outlets like the New York Times and The Atlantic obsessively fixate on the Ivies. Most U.S. students attend public universities, and those institutions change lives at a scale the Ivies can’t touch.

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🗣️ “Queremos diagnosticar la dislexia antes de que aparezca”. Manuel Carreiras, director científico de #BCBL, repasa en @diariovascobsky.bsky.social su trayectoria investigadora vinculada a este trastorno tras recibir el Premio Nacional de Dislexia en 2025. 👀👇 www.diariovasco.com/sociedad/sal...

🗣️ “Dislexia agertu aurretik diagnostikatu nahi dugu”. Manuel Carreirasek, #BCBL|ko zuzendari zientifikoak, nahasmendu honekin lotuta egin duen ikerketa-ibilbidea errepasatu du @diariovascobsky.bsky.socialen, 2025eko Dislexia Sari Nazionala jaso ondoren. 👀👇 www.diariovasco.com/sociedad/sal...

Opportunity for early career researchers to spend 3 years working with us in Oxford. Cool surroundings, interesting people. Eligibility: need some UK academic connection. Get in touch if interested! Details: www.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/news/2025/11...

✍️ A new paper led by McMaster University with the collaboration of #BCBL researcher @jimmagnuson.bsky.social has been published in @plos.org #ComputationalBiology. +info ⬇️ journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

Join us Monday, September 15th from 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm ET for a talk by Simona Mancini, Ikerbasque Research Associate Professor / Neurolinguistics and Aphasia group leader at the Basque Center on Cognition Brain and Language. Register now at https://bit.ly/45LjrF1

Interested in doing a PhD with me and lacns.github.io? Or with any of the incredible fellows in the IMPRS School of Cognition www.maxplanckschools.org/cognition-en - apply before Dec 1st at cognition.maxplanckschools.org/en/application

📢 PhD opening @bcbl_ (San Sebastián, Spain) Join our ERC project CORTICAL RHYTHMS 🧠 to study how brain rhythms shape second language learning (spoken & signed) with MEG/MRI. 📅 Start Jan 2026 | ⏳ Apply by Sept 15, 2025 👉 tinyurl.com/bdwkumn3

Great piece on the administration's attack on our epistemic infrastructure--and shout-out to my work-- by @peterbakernyt.bsky.social in today's paper.

Michael's points out that so many of this administration's attacks are on "epistemic infrastructure" (museums, libraries, universities, agencies that collect data).

My contribution to the @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social effort to communicate the value of federal science funding: www.hometownsource.com/county_news_...

Do we adapt when the structure of our environment changes? Check out our new preprint: doi.org/10.31234/osf...

Really looking forward to this!

Neural tracking: evoked or oscillatory? 🎧🧠 The #TrackingUmbrella paper argues it’s not either/or — both perspectives reveal how our brains align with speech, music, and more. Method matters. Let’s rethink how we measure and interpret tracking! tinyurl.com/ywbe7rrz

Have others experienced major problems with collecting data via Prolific (@joinprolific.bsky.social)? For a lexical decision study we ran 3 years ago, we excluded less than 2% of participants for clear non-compliance/random responding. Now it's closer to 25% for the exact same study.

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...

Do we understand that we actually have concentration camps in the USA now? The cruel, casual dehumanization of our neighbors is happening, now, with ‘jokes’ about alligators killing prisoners at Alligator Alcatraz.

The MIT stopword list has MANY open class words in it. That's a no no. Here's a new stopword list tagged with part-of-speech that includes idioms and other collocatives. reilly-lab.github.io/Jamie_Stopwo...

Join @nihfellowsunited.bsky.social in calling your legislator on 5/13 to tell them to sign onto letters opposing cuts to the NIH, cosponsored by Senators @warren.senate.gov, @padilla.senate.gov, and Tillis, as well as Representatives @ocasio-cortez.house.gov and @carson.house.gov.

You can comment on this proposed policy change by May 23rd. The proposed policy defines science agency grant making program officers, among other positions, as “policy-making” and removes civil service protections. www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

HAPPY 75th, NSF! We’re celebrating this milestone by highlighting some of NSF’s most transformative accomplishments—innovations that have shaped our world and continue to drive progress in health, technology, the environment, and beyond. Read on 🧵(1/11):

Please RT🙏 Reach out if you want to help understand cognition by modelling, analyzing and/or collect large scale intracortical data from 👩🐒🐁 We're a friendly, diverse group (n>25) w/ this terrace 😎 in the center of Paris! See👇 for + info about the lab We have funding to support your application!

My book reveals the mostly hidden effects of talking *on talkers.* Talking boosts focus & learning, regulates emotions, changes perception, & more. The reason lies in how utterance planning for talking works. It's a book for gen'l audiences, but w scientific claims for production & its consequences

Fun new study by Ellie Breitfeld!

Skilled readers use information from upcoming words to boost efficiency, but at what cost? We discovered that nearby words interfere with lexical activation of the fixated word, calling for a more nuanced approach to the role of preview in fluent reading. dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jm...

New R package almost birthed - SemanticDistance - computes two semantic distance metrics (experiential and embedding) for any rolling chunk size (ngram-to-ngram, word-to-word, turn-to-turn, ngram-to-word). You give it your language sample. It does the rest, including lemmatize and stopword omit

why am I not surprised? #cogsci #devpsy #psychscisky #blackinstem wordinblack.com/2025/04/psyc... #AmericanPsychologicalAssociation #DiversityInRecruitment #DiversityEquityInclusion #PostgraduatePrograms #PoliticalPressure #InclusionMatters

Publication day! www.amazon.com/Truth-Politi...

I’ve created a website to look up phonological features (frequency, age of acquisition, neighbors) of real and nonwords. rpomper.github.io/phono/ It’s still in progress (manuscript coming) please let me know if you have any recommendations or feature requests! (It takes 1-2 minutes to load)

In light of the recent visa withdrawals, here is a PDF with advice for international students at UCLA. I’m so sorry to have to share this. drive.google.com/file/d/1x8_z...

Happy to share my very first first-author paper! In this study, we show that rhythms can shape how our brains track speech (in very simple words). Work with Marina Kalashnikova, @nicolaml.bsky.social and Mikel Lizarazu. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

By Arthur Caplan: "many scientists and administrators now seem to think that the best response to the war on DEI is to keep their heads low and wait out four hard years." "the only way forward is speaking truth to power."

Apropos of nothing, when we review, let's (1) refrain from HARKing (if authors shouldn't, why can reviewers?), ...

✍️ #BCBLpaper in #ChildDevelopment | The contribution of the amount of linguistic exposure to #bilingual #language development: Longitudinal evidence from preschool years. Pérez-Navarro, J. and Lallier, M. (@marielallierbcbl.bsky.social) +info⬇️ srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Our theoretical note 'Statistical Learning Subserves a Higher Purpose: Novelty Detection in an Information Foraging System' is now out in Psych Review. #StatisticalLearning We argue that our environment (including our linguistic environment) is far from fixed: It's dynamic, and we interact with it.

Great post on NIH and universities’ indirect costs. Among Aslin’s many great points is this gem: private contractors like SpaceX also charge indirect costs to the govt. And it appears (note THEIR rates aren’t public) they get way more than unis do. dickaslin.substack.com?utm_source=n...

Executive wants to frame the NIH indirects cut as $4B in savings. But given that NIH returns $2.5 on every $1 investment, this would actually cost US economy a net $6 BILLION (per year!). Not to mention the human costs of wrecking education and research sectors and the communities they serve.

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...

Loving the starter packs and would love to put one together full of #compneuro trainees on here! Please share and comment if you want to be added or tag your trainees and I’ll put one together😊 #neuroscience #neuroskyence

Come an join our team at BCBL in Spain! A few days to apply for an exciting PhD position to investigate perceptual awareness using psychophysics, fMRI and decoded neurofeedback. Apply here: shorturl.at/vDtQH Deadline: December 1, 2024 Pls retweet!

Please join us at @UConn for an amazing lineup of speakers on 'Variation and Diversity in Language Acquisition and Processing' on Nov. 14 & 15. Program: events.uconn.edu/live/files/1... Registration is free but required (by Nov. 1): events.uconn.edu/institute-fo...

Looking for a PhD student to join my Comp Neuro group at BCBL in Spain for a funded position investigating the bases of human statistical learning using neural networks, EEG, and MEG: www.bcbl.eu/en/join-us/j...