Please boost! #linguistics student here at Swarthmore is running a survey for English speakers (who don't know Mandarin / any other tone languages) about how we learn tones. Take a few minutes to help out with this student research! swarthmore.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

A weirdo question I asked my class today. DRC and Triangle Models, which is the "maluma" and which is the "takete"?

This is an AMAZING daily word puzzle game! www.minutecryptic.com

A Conversation piece @pennypexman.bsky.social and I wrote about how the sounds of names might affect hiring decisions. theconversation.com/whats-in-a-n...

I see your Pomodoro Technique, and I raise you one Isolator Technique.

Interesting podcast episode! www.theringer.com/podcasts/pla... l

I've been revising my lab manual. After a few minutes I realised that the only changes I was making was turning exclamation marks into periods. Is that a sign of progress?

ATTN Carleton University undergrad and grad students! My master's student is trying to recruit people for her thesis project. Please share this widely and consider participating if you are willing! Thanks! @carleton.ca

Attending CogSci this year? Come and see these two virtual posters from the lab!

This is now live! You can generate custom word family graphs! lab.aidanem.com/wordfamily/ At least theoretically, I'm not sure the unimproved interface is actually usable by anyone other than me.

This is still the picture Harry Potter uses for his lab website

Will you be at CSBBCS/EPS in Dundee? Come and take a look at these presentations from the lab!

How I feel starting a sentence with "Interestingly,..." when what follows isn't that interesting.

More like ChattitudeGPT 😠

here's the list of book and other recs that we compiled for @lingthusiasm.bsky.social's 100 episodiversary, that's my most current rec list! lingthusiasm.com/post/7741520...

I made a plot of my affection towards a research project based on the stage of the project.

Gonna set this as my out of office in August

The proportion of p-values between .01 and .05 declined in psychology over the last decade, a strengthening of credibility. Papers with fewer fragile p-values are cited more. Higher ranked journals assoc. with > improvement, but not higher ranked universities. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

I have been logged out of my toothbrush.

I'm looking for some good papers on interpreting different patterns of results across reaction time and response accuracy. Any suggestions? Thanks!

Today there will be *spins small wheel* 200% tariffs on *spins large wheel* sending emails to Americans I am the President

Jesusa vvept

"Curry is a cerebral athlete with world-class spatial awareness and coordination. But when he enters one of his patented 'flow' states, draining off-balance 3s from all over the court, Payne believes there's one thing that allows him to stay locked into the groove: his breathing." bit.ly/3Gw2G6n

When the author names are hidden for peer review but half the references are to one research group.

Books from #independentbookstoreday!

🚨New paper alert!🚨 Name sound symbolism, personality, and job ads! We found that the sounds in a name affected which candidate participants chose as the best fit for a job ad. With @pennypexman.bsky.social, Josh Bourdage and Tim Wingate. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🧵 Thread below!

Why do scientists disagree with each other? This new study from @justinsulik.bsky.social et al. surveys psychologists to find that scientific divides are associated with differences in researcher cognitive traits. @mi3lab.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I'm going to start using this line instead of writing Method sections.

The dentist office blasting Everybody Hurts today was a bold choice.

👋 Does anyone have any advice for students regarding publishing under their legal vs preferred English names? Would love to hear any thoughts or suggestions you might have! Thank you!

New review/theory/argumentative paper is out: "The size and shape of sound: The role of articulation and acoustics in iconicity and crossmodal correspondences". The paper delves deeply into what phonetic and cognitive mechanisms underpin spoken language iconicity. Link: doi.org/10.1121/10.0...

Check out "Hidden Codes of Language: Carleton Psychology Researcher Dr. David Sidhu Probes How We Map Meaning onto Words," from the @Carleton_U newsroom. newsroom.carleton.ca/story/sound-...

🚨New Preprint Alert!🚨 We just dropped a new paper on medRxiv that uses machine learning to rethink how we diagnose cognitive decline — and the results are 🔥. Let’s talk about brain data, hidden clusters, and how we might catch dementia before it’s diagnosed. 🧵👇 📄 doi.org/10.1101/2025...

I have an opening for a graduate student at @carleton.ca (Carleton University) in the Department of Cognitive Science for fall 2025. Project is a multimodal MRI study examining how Hearing Loss affects cognition in older adults - contact me with a CV if you’re interested & have relevant expertise!

Join us in London! The Language and Cognition Lab (with @fourtassi.bsky.social, Yan Gu) is looking for a Research Fellow for 4-years to work on how children and adults from different cultures learn in social interaction. Ad is here (www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMN891/r...). DM if you have any question!

When your R code runs without errors on the first try.

Le Monde reporting that a French scientist traveling to Houston to attend a conference was denied entry to US after a search of his phone & computer revealed messages critical of Trump's science cuts, "which [says CPB] conveyed hatred of Trump & could be qualified as terrorism". Computer confiscated

New post on the PsyArXiv Blog asks "When should I preprint my work?" blog.psyarxiv.com/2025/03/18/w... #openResearch #openAccess

Are you a 🇨🇦 ECR (graduate student, postdoc) in Cognitive Science looking for a small grant to support a new collaborative research project? Apply for the @wicscanada.bsky.social Small Grant for Jr Scientists: wicsc.ca/wp-content/u...

“The statistical model's predictions closely matched the observed values.” The model’s predictions.

What is something about graduate school or life in academia that you think undergraduate you would have benefited from knowing? I am putting together some content for a seminar class next week and would appreciate your suggestions! Also would appreciate a re-post! 😁🙏

My article on Iconicity for the Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science! @oecs-bot.bsky.social It is in general a fantastic resource for any topic related to cognitive science! oecs.mit.edu/pub/alhskwz6

Great paper about scientific writing

A beautiful visual representative of hierarchical modelling mfviz.com/hierarchical... #stats

Cover letter for a revision.

📣 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...

Cover letter when you're missing the mechanism

If you're attending Lake Ontario Visionary Establishment conference, be sure to take a look at the two fantastic posters by Pragati Parajuli (Thursday #26) and Laura Aguanno (Friday #19)! Abstracts attached below!

I will be presenting this work at @davidmsidhu.bsky.social's Cognition, Language, Sound Symbolism, Iconicity (CLaSSI) Lab this Thursday (6th) at 17:00 GMT. Feel free to send either of us a DM or email and we'll get back to you with the Zoom link ☺️

Fellowships for non-UK scientists who want to come to the UK. Happy to chat to postdocs who want to visit my lab @oxexppsy.bsky.social www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/inte...