"Using productive classroom talk during interactive book #reading did not result in greater improvements in children's #language competence compared to ‘general’ interactive book reading." www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Educational attainment acts as a buffer for individuals with lower cognitive abilities, substantially reducing their risk of mental disorders. #education #mentalhealth #cognition journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

This is kind of crazy: exposure in infancy to a tonal #language like Mandarin creates lasting structural changes in the brain's white matter that persist even if the language is no longer used. #research www.nature.com/articles/s42...

I spoke with people role-playing ICE raids in video games to help educate people on their rights and what to do in real-life situations. Tonight, they're holding an event in Fortnite www.wired.com/story/activi...

New article in Nature showing that the superior temporal gyrus (STG) encodes language-specific features stronger when listening to the native language. Bilinguals on the other hand shared this higher-level tuning across both of their familiar languages @changlabucsf.bsky.social #neuroskyence

The link between the gut #microbiome and autism is not backed by science, researchers say. Read the full opinion piece in @cp-neuron.bsky.social: spkl.io/63322AbxpA#microbiome @wiringthebrain.bsky.social, @statsepi.bsky.social, & @deevybee.bsky.social

“We tend to forget how remarkable other animals are, which are much smaller than us." #bats #engineering #design techcrunch.com/2025/11/12/w...

"We also report that sperm whales have diphthongal patterns on individual codas: with rising, falling, rising-falling and falling-rising formant patterns observed" #Whales #language pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

'people who are multilingual are half as likely to show signs of accelerated biological ageing than are those who speak just one language.' Good thing that schools, universities and governments are so actively promoting modern languages then, isn't it? 1/2

I will do everything I can to avoid getting confronted by the blankness of my yet unsaid. What I wanted to say already happened, and I’m moving on. Letting go of the dull ache of expectation. Becoming one with the void. Rather than expanding my pettiness onto it, filling it with my spent affections.

"Education #research suffers from a certain kind of evidential laxity: a tendency to accept claims on the basis of face validity, theoretical elegance, or ideological appeal rather than rigorous empirical testing." via @carlhendrick.substack.com #education open.substack.com/pub/carlhend...

"For the first time, I began to question whether I truly belonged in the U.S. I even became self-conscious about my accent and appearance." www.science.org/content/arti...

We Americans, Conservative and Liberal, demand that those with the duty to defend our Constitution do it now.

"Scientists propose that lengthening childhood in early humans might have come 1st, driving cultural transmission and social learning. Over time, this dynamic may have supported brain expansion, rather than the brain growing first and pushing for extended development" www.earth.com/news/human-c...

“I spent three nights and three days in federal custody. During that time, I was never told what I was charged with, was not allowed to shower despite being covered in tear gas and pepper spray, had no phone call to my family, and no access to an attorney.” - George Retes, U.S. citizen and veteran.

“The jobs that low-skilled migrants do…let people in other parts of the economy take on more skilled work. Florence Jaumotte of the IMF and colleagues find that in rich countries a 1 pct pt rise in migrants’ share of the adult population ultimately raises GDP per person by 2%.”

For my practitioner friends, people who managed Title I funds (among others) were laid off today.

"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.