An interesting set of book recommendations (though the headline seems misguided) www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

Happy to share our new preprint exploring the everyday social ecology of preschoolers! We applied an automated multimodal pipeline to 267 hours of naturalistic egocentric video from 107 children (ages 3–5) to capture the changing natural statistics of everyday interactions: doi.org/10.31234/osf...

A fantastic opportunity for a computational neuroscience lab. Come and join our amazing department! You’ll be surrounded by outstanding systems, cellular and molecular neuroscientists tackling fundamental questions about how the brain works. 🧠📈🧪

Excited to be editing a Developmental Science special issue on Culture, Context, and Brain Development with Heather Bortfeld, Laura Katus, and Bruce Rawlings. Seeking papers from diverse contexts using novel approaches! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal... Please share!

official ad to follow soon but heads up: 1-2 postdocs slots in my lab, hopefully w/fall start! reposts welcome, details to follow. babies! word learning! cognitive & linguistic skills! #CogSciSky #DevPsychSky 🐦🐦 (lab info: bergelsonlab.fas.harvard.edu/prospectives) also recruiting grads this fall!

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What matters most for childhood brain organization? We analyzed 649 variables. The answer: Socioeconomics (SES); with brain patterns pointing at sleep & stress as drivers. Even brain-IQ associations were better explained by SES. In Science today: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

📰 A team from the University of Geneva, Pasteur Institute and the NCCR Evolving Language shows that virtually all animal species have been vocalizing in a common rhythm for hundreds of millions of years. New article on our website. evolvinglanguage.ch/the-universa...

💥 We are looking for talent! At #BCBL we have 2 research assistants positions available to work on #Bibalance and #DisorderedSpeech projects. 📆 Submission deadline: 26th of June +info👇 www.bcbl.eu/es/unete-a-n...

*New preprint*: "1Learning about ‘Inflation’: Mapping Caregivers’ Mentalizing and Pedagogical Strategies that Support 8-9-year-old Children’s Learning of Abstract Concepts" by @galrozic.bsky.social, Dora Szegedi, @antoniahamilton.bsky.social, Peter Fonagy and myself. doi.org/10.31234/osf...

Southgate Enterprise I always think about Star Trek when I visit Southgate London Underground station. The station building and the outside benches remind me of the Starship Enterprise. The cut out design didn't work with the main station which already looks like a classic flying saucer.

New review paper led by our PI Tilbe Göksun, Demet Özer, Burcu Arslan, Gyulten Hyusein, and Emir Akbuğa! @tilbegoksun.bsky.social @gyultenhyusein.bsky.social "Gesture Use Across Different Concepts: Focusing on Cross‐Linguistic Diversity" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The green economy, which is worth more than £100bn a year, benefits all of the UK. 1.1m jobs depend on it, paying above-average wages. Who says so? @greenparty.org.uk? That head-in-the-clouds loony lefty @zackpolanski.bsky.social? Nope. It's only *the CBI*! 👍 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

@edithkaan.bsky.social @iwinther.bsky.social and I are editing a special issue "Bridging psycholinguistic and computational approaches to bilingualism". Have a look at mmmm2026.github.io/LAB/ if you're interested!

Semantic knowledge is key for human innovation and cultural evolution! Our paper (thread in repost), led by fantastic @anilyaman.bsky.social & rising star @ts-brain.bsky.social is out in @pnas.org! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... I will present this work at APS Barcelona (29/5), happy to chat!

Now out in Nature Neuroscience: "Fixation duration on natural scenes is explained by memory encoding not processing demand". www.nature.com/articles/s41... Our eyes don't linger because recognition is hard; they linger to remember. Let me take you on a quick tour. 🧵

💥 Last chance to send your candidacy for our latest work offer! At #BCBL we have a Research Assistant position available to work in “Neurolinguistics and Aphasia” and “Neurobiology of Language” groups. 📅 Application deadline: 31/05/2026 +info👇 www.bcbl.eu/es/unete-a-n...

(1/2) Hiring! 🤸🧠🐩 Postdoc position in my new group @univie.ac.at & Messerli Research Institute on the neuro-cognitive foundations and evolution of sociality across humans, dogs, and other carnivorans. 📍 Vienna 📅 Application deadline: 26 July 2026 ℹ️ shortifyme.co/p3NjN

1/ I’m excited to share our new @NatureHumBehav paper “Social Functioning in Autism: A Systematic Review & Meta-analysis” 🧵We synthesized 35 yrs of autism research to ask a fundamental Question: How is social functioning organized, developed, and altered in autism? Free link: rdcu.be/figGl

📢 #ERCPlus Grants What are they & who are they for? Join ERC President @marialep.bsky.social and Philippe Cupers for insights into this new funding scheme. 🗓 2 June | 15.00 CEST 🎥 Live webinar + Q&A: buff.ly/RlSufCb 🔗 More: buff.ly/9B8oyXa #ChooseEurope @scienceinnovation.ec.europa.eu

Job posting! MIT Brain and Cognitive Sciences are hiring a Neuroscience Research Methodologist - responsible for open science practices and data management across all the areas of the department. See 🧵for link and details.

go and work w @alpar.bsky.social in copenhagen for a 2y postdoc on comparing llms and humans on metaphor processing (including eye-tracking fun stuff): employment.ku.dk/faculty/?sho...

Still lots of time until the deadline. Come work with us!

On the importance of review and perspective papers

Are you a researcher based in the USA 🇺🇸 or Canada 🇨🇦 interested in pursuing curiosity-driven research in Europe? Join the ERC and Euraxess for a webinar exploring ERC funding opportunities. 👇️ 📅 20 May 2026 🕚 11:30 AM ET | 8:30 AM PT 💻 Online Find out more and register:

Karadağ, @marinabazhydai.bsky.social @gertwestermann.bsky.social (2026) coded 47 hour-long home obs videos (13, 18 & 23mos) for toddler interaction to meet communicative goals: expressive > requestive > info/help seeking > info giving intentions #infancypapers onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Are you interested in how adults learn new words and concepts? Are you based in London? Sign up for our fun experiment with your friend. You’ll get to chat with your friend and learn some new things

Many of us were taught experiments are for testing hypotheses. In Ch 1 of Experimentology, our free, open methods textbook, my coauthors and I argue differently: experiments are for estimating the magnitude of causal effects. This reframing has important consequences. 🧵 experimentology.io

Want to do an experimental PHD on the evolution of human language? Only one more week left to submit your application!

Our *Monster paper* is finally out. Begun instead of data collection during covid for Melis's PhD, expanded during Jenni's PhD, & finally now published. Some papers are worth the wait onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

PhD Position: Computational Affective Neuroscience and Ultrasonic Neuromodulation at @dondersinst.bsky.social >Passionate about ultrasonic modulation? Come and join us! funded by @erc.europa.eu HEART2ADAPT @epanlab.bsky.social in coll. with @lennartverhagen.bsky.social www.ru.nl/en/working-a...

Our companion validation paper to pypi package envisionhgdetector has been accepted for publication as Diamond Open Access book chapter in "Behavioromics" (Eds. Lucking & Mehler). Postprint here: wimpouw.com/files/gh_det...

Yes, impressive!

Abstract submission for Many Paths to Language conference at fabulous @mpi-nl.bsky.social now extended until 20th May. This 3-day conference focuses on meaningful differences in the way children acquire language. With keynotes by Allison Fitch & Amanda Seidl. www.mpi.nl/events/many-...

If you are interested in carrying out a #multimodal experiments with more or less expertise - check this out (authors of the SPP #ViCom) “Data Collection in Multimodal Language and Communication Research: A Flexible Decision Framework” is now published and is available at doi.org/10.1177/2515...

We're inviting nominations for the next Executive Editor of Topics in Cognitive Science (TopiCS). This role helps shape the journal's direction, guiding editorial priorities, policies, and the broader agenda of the field. Learn more and nominate at: cognitivesciencesociety.org/topics-journal/

It's increasingly clear to me that scholarly publications need AI disclosure statements! Here's a very thoughtful proposal about how this should be done, based on CRediT: crln.acrl.org/index.php/cr... @ocul-libraries.bsky.social

Great opportunity if interested in aphasia @isobelslt.bsky.social

Join our department to work with wonderful Megan!

On this day 70 years ago-May 1, 1956-the polio vaccine was first made widely available to the public. The vaccine’s developer, Dr. Jonas Salk, did not patent the vaccine so that it would remain available to as many people as possible in the US and internationally. Image: Harvey Georges/AP.

Last weekend I received the Troland Research Award from the @nationalacademies.org. I’m so grateful to the communities who made this work possible. It's strange to receive this award at a time when much of the work being recognized is not eligible for federal funding. My remarks 👇 and a 🧵>>

“Our findings suggest that training LLMs to be warm may come at a cost to accuracy. As these systems are deployed at unprecedented scale & take on intimate roles in people’s lives, the tradeoff warrants attention from developers, policymakers & users alike.” @lujain.bsky.social, Hafner & @rocher.lc🧪

We are looking for two Research Assistants to conduct experiments and data analyses investigating the neural mechanisms of strategic and social decision-making using head-fixed (1) and freely-moving (1) behavioural paradigms in mice. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Through an open letter that garnered more than 1,000 signatures, scientists have persuaded the European Union’s leading basic science funding body to reverse stricter resubmission rules. What will that mean going forward? #neuroskyence By Lauren Schenkman www.thetransmitter.org/policy/europ...

New peer-reviewed paper w/ @mheilbron.bsky.social, @predictivebrain.bsky.social & Jakub Szewczyk! Pre-onset brain encoding has been taken as evidence that brains–like LLMs–predict upcoming words. We show that the same signatures arise in systems that cannot predict. (elifesciences.org) (1/8)

Does verbal coordination between caregivers and their 3-4 yo children help learning new words? New paper from the lab!

The Center for Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience at WashU has an opening for a postdoctoral scholar! Deadline is May 1. ctcn.wustl.edu/postdoc-fell...

I’m advertising two position options (PhD/postdoc) within my lab - take a look below if you’re interested or send me a message ☺️ @uni-konstanz.de

📢 Another #jobalert from the new Cluster of Excellence HUMAN ORIGINS, University of Tübingen. 💼 Independent Junior Group Leader in Ethics Laboratory. 📅Deadline: April 6th, 2026 🔗 Link: shorturl.fm/EXRxc Please forward to interested potential candidates!🔄

🚨Job alert!🚨 The Cluster of Excellence HUMAN ORIGINS announces 2 junior Professor (W1) positions: A W1 Tenure track Professorship in Evolutionary Modelling (shorturl.at/FN102) and a W1 Professorship (non Tenure-track) in Primatology (shorturl.at/sH0Mk) Deadline: April 6 2026! Please share! 🔄