"Babies start processing #language before they are born, a new study suggests." www.scientificamerican.com/article/babi...

CHICAGO (AP) — Storming an apartment complex by helicopter as families slept. Deploying chemical agents near a public school. Handcuffing a Chicago City Council member at a hospital. apnews.com/article/chic...

America enters a new, dark chapter: "Kavanaugh Raids" on entire buildings and neighborhoods, a chapter surely to be remembered as infamously as we now view the "Palmer Raids" of the first Red Scare. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/welcome-to...

"Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers, she said." chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

NEW: I arrived in the U.S. eight weeks ago to report on how the administration’s immigration crackdown was playing out from the front lines. What I saw Thursday was the culmination of ICE’s aggressive behavior. By @tilleckert.com

There have been a wide variety of contradictory findings on whether #bilingualism enhances #cognition or not, and a recent study suggests the way researchers measure performance may be the key to solving this mystery. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

"There are benefits of working on a slower timescale. You don’t get caught up in hype waves. You can take weekends off and still publish something original." www.quantamagazine.org/to-understan...

This is how your email finds me.

Big thanks to @manymindspod.bsky.social and Dr. Marc Berman's research for inspiring my latest post. #Nature isn't just an amenity, it's essential for student #cognition. #education #neuroscience schoolecosystem.wordpress.com/2025/09/21/b...

Dear American citizens, whatever you wish more German citizens would have done in 1933, do that now.

"these results demonstrate that latent tree-structured sentence representations emerge in both humans and LLMs" languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=71128

Americans are most likely to encounter people from different economic classes in gas stations, restaurants and hotels. This mixing is least likely to happen in elementary and secondary schools, while exercising, and in supermarkets. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Check out our latest report: Educator Perceptions of HQIM Alignment, Adoption, and Implementation in Grades K-5, which captures the experiences and perceptions of district leaders, school leaders, and teachers who have implemented HQIM in Grades K-5 in TN. trrc.utk.edu/resources/hq...

"One of the rats that the team recorded even soliloquized alone inside a garbage bag—perhaps offering a Yelp review for passing comrades." www.scientificamerican.com/article/scie...

"If the authors are willing to state that their paper supports conclusion X based on argument Y, I’m happy to quote them on that – if it’s wrong that’s their problem." crookedtimber.org/2025/09/12/i...

All I saw was cheesecake boat and ocean for at least 5 minutes

"The reality is that progress is continuing apace, but it swallows up and renders ordinary some of its more visible successes. What is left behind for future progress can be pretty slow." #AI feeds.feedblitz.com/~/924658517/...

"We found that mosquitoes are drawn to those who avoid sunscreen, drink beer, and share their bed" science.slashdot.org/story/25/09/...

"For a relatively cheap investment, more green space at a school offers long-term benefits to generations of students." theconversation.com/adding-more-...

Art depicting “Sandwich Guy” now at the scene of the alleged misdemeanor.

A new model shows that evolutionary bursts, rather than slow changes, led to the emergence of almost all characteristic cephalopod traits such as tentacles. www.quantamagazine.org/the-sudden-s...

"A mural of the Statue of Liberty in shame" by JDL Street Ar in Lille , Roubaix France 🇫🇷

"Current results suggest that children with #DLD should successfully retrieve word forms and meanings across multiple sessions to support post-training retention." pubs.asha.org/doi/abs/10.1...

If you missed us at #cogsci2025, my lab presented 3 new studies showing how efficient (lossy) compression shapes individual learners, bilinguals, and action abstractions in language, further demonstrating the extraordinary applicability of this principle to human cognition! 🧵 1/n

A neo-Nazi group inspired by Donald Trump's rhetoric is expanding its reach and reshaping white extremism in America. At the helm is a Texas couple, both born to Ku Klux Klan leaders reut.rs/4ftv4ne

What a fantastic accomplishment -- and what a fantastic story! www.quantamagazine.org/at-17-hannah...

NEW: We’ve documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before Trump took office. ICE claims officers use a “minimum amount of force.” You can judge for yourself. By @nicolefoy.bsky.social @mckenziefunk.com

"This data-driven analysis selected the measurements that are most contributive in identifying #DLD in #bilingual children." pubs.asha.org/doi/abs/10.1...

"We demonstrate that language mixing can enhance reasoning: enforcing monolingual decoding reduces accuracy by 5.6 percentage points on math reasoning tasks." #LLMs #bilingual share.google/1N1cbjCjHPbB...

The details here are particularly harrowing, especially the stories of other people who were not so lucky. I don't understand why anyone would take the risk of visiting the U.S. under these circumstances.

This embroidery illustrates the Lotka–Volterra model, showing how predator and prey populations impact each other. The axes show prey 🐰 (x) and predator 🦊 (y) numbers, and each looping orbit represents a repeating cycle of population change over time. 🧶 🧮 #MathSky #embroidery #handembroidery

"The overall hardness of a #language can be seen as the sum of the difficulty of its writing system, sounds, words and grammar." www.economist.com/graphic-deta...

“Twenty-one years prior to Nicolls's arrival [in 1643], a visiting Jesuit priest learned that eighteen languages were being spoken in the little town, and that at a time when the population wasn't much more than five hundred." #history #NYC

Loved this @manymindspod.bsky.social episode with Dr. Dorsa Amir and Dr. Sheina Lew-Levy on how culture shapes development and what we can learn from diverse childhood experiences. #research #childhood #podcast pca.st/podcast/2a8e...

"Multimodal #language rehabilitation significantly facilitates second language recovery in #bilingual #aphasia, with sustained improvements in linguistic competence and psychosocial well-being." onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

LLM-based contextual embeddings showed comparable performance in predicting brain activity for both L1 and L2 readers. Thus, #LLMs may be able to model brain responses in both groups, even when the L2 readers' native #language differs from the LLM's training data. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

In some children she has worked with, who start #drugs as early as age 13, Conrod says that “the drive to self-medicate is so strong; it’s really striking. There really is this discomfort with their inner world.” www.scientificamerican.com/article/addi...

UTAH… this is not a game…

Working on slides, data, and content on a Friday night after the kids are asleep might seem weird. But here's the thing—I'm genuinely intellectually stimulated by my work. Most of the time, it doesn't feel like "work" at all. It's something I actually enjoy, when I'm in the flow.

On Sunday, Michael "Lewis Arthur" Meyer—leader of extremist group Veterans on Patrol—warned that due to the use of "weather weapons" in Texas "efforts to eliminate this military treason are being escalated” Hours later a man damaged a weather radar system in Oklahoma www.wired.com/story/texas-...

I think attention has been seriously understudied in the science of learning literature. Someone extremely well-versed in this attention literature could really enhance how we think about learning, self-regulated learning, etc. #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

"Our results suggest that word reading and #spelling are one and the same, almost, but that spoken vocabulary knowledge is more closely related to #reading than to spelling." link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Conscientious SUV Shopper Just Wants Something That Will Kill Family In Other Car In Case Of Accident theonion.com/conscie...

Donald Trump has vowed to deport millions and jail his enemies. To carry out that agenda, his administration will exploit America’s digital surveillance machine. Here are steps you can take to evade it.

"...treatment benefits extended across languages, demonstrating cross-language generalization to multiple domains of #language processing." www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

"we provide additional evidence that phonological mastery of difficult L2 contrasts is not a monolithic, unidimensional trait that can be solely captured by sound-level identification/discrimination tasks by themselves."

"These findings demonstrate that heritage language proficiency is not simply a product of individual characteristics or broad contextual factors, but is strongly associated with the ... interactional patterns and #language practices in one's immediate social network" cogsci.ucsd.edu/_files/under...