Want to be a part of the historic 50th annual Penn Linguistics Conference, to be held Feb 28 - March 1, 2026? Make sure to submit your abstract by the Nov 1st deadline. Read more here: sites.google.com/sas.upenn.ed...

Paper in Language and Cognition with @marktorrance.bsky.social and @seriousstats.bsky.social We show that semantic contrast shapes timing of pre-planning in speech and writing. doi.org/10.1017/lang... If you're into how context shapes how we plan language, check it out!

This morning my ChatGPT quota was inexplicably exhausted. It took a while but I pieced it together. Voice mode somehow got activated when I went to bed. The bot then engaged in a 10 hour conversation with my snoring dog, answering questions the pup wasn’t asking and praising him for his insight.

Apparently Bluesky is seeing an influx of new users. Welcome! If you're interested in science, journalism, and/or science writing, here are a bunch of folks worth following. go.bsky.app/7Z8u31b

We know that we’ve achieved diversity (with representation) when there is change in how and why things are done. Change in systems and structures. If the status quo is preserved it means there’s no diversity.

If you think that professors exist as repositories of knowledge that students ask for answers, you’re missing the entire point of a college education. We’re here to teach students how to do research, how to analyze and argue, how to think for themselves — how to find the answers on their own.

University administration: "We need you to complete 26 hours of lab safety training 🧪 each year so that everyone is safe and responsible." Also university administration:

DLD is different in each child, but looking back many parents remember a time that their child's language stood out, like Nichole here who noticed her child struggling with literacy and spoken sentences. This example is of a child, but it affects adults too. #DLDday #DevLangDis radld.org

You can't see DLD, so let Frankie show you what it is like. #DLDday

Two weeks to the deadline for #PUMP @BUCLD 50 registration! All BUCLD 50 attendees can join in! You can register at: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Learn more about PUMP@BUCLD 50 at: www.bu.edu/bucld/attend... #BUCLD50 #Mentorship #LanguageDevelopment #Networking #AcademicGrowth

Exactly. Successful movements work on two levels 1.Protestors do everything to keep the issue at top of mind.Unfortunately cos of what the media choose to report this means being annoying 2.In the background politicians/diplomats negotiate change, empowered by the issue being top of mind in the news

In the latest Child Lang. Bulletin, we introduced IASCL's Repository of Research Papers on Underrepresented Languages, a resource designed for easy access and sharing of research on the acquisition of children learning underrepresented languages. Read more here: www.childlanguage.org/underreprese...

Join us for our student workshop by the founders of Science Homecoming at #BUCLD50! Dr. Cantlon will give the presentation “Writing to Defend American Science” at the student workshop on Thursday, November 6th, 2025, 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM. #ScienceHomecoming #BostonUniversity #LanguageDevelopment

Question for the child development researchers hive mind - how much do you pay parents for filling in an online questionnaire about their children. And does it depend how long the questionnaire is? Thanks!!

#DLDday is coming, so I’m starting a thread over a few days. DLD (Developmental Language Disorder) is all about spoken language. Words and sentences are tricky for people with DLD. And people don’t grow out of it. #DevLangDis @radld.bsky.social

As a primatologist, Jane Goodall was a huge inspiration to me. I admired the way she describes chimpanzee behavior with such detail and empathy, and she’s inspired so many people and advocated for chimpanzee conservation and welfare. However, I'm dismayed at what her narrative leaves out (1/10)

End of a 3 year era. Kick off of our MEDAL final conference in beautiful Tartu... medal.ut.ee/event/final-...

Know someone whose excellence in research and contributions to the CogSci community should be recognized? Nominate them to be a Fellow of the Cognitive Science Society! Deadline: Nov 1 More info: cognitivesciencesociety.org/fellows/

Fabulous review here! Essential reading for language and literacty bods

I knew something was going to happen, as my husband (a clinical researcher) was involved in planning COVID studies. As a school leader, I was finding out as much as I could and planning in any way I could. 1/2 bsky.app/profile/tesm...

When I was 7, my teacher told us to write an article about “world cultures” for school over the weekend. I remembered it late on Sunday so in a panic I made up something called the "Icelandic Fish Festival", figuring said teacher wouldn’t know either way.

"A compelling and thought-provoking analysis of human sociality and the origins of language." The Interaction Engine by Stephen C. Levinson (@mpi-nl.bsky.social), Out Now & #OpenAccess https://cup.org/4nusznG #OA #Linguistics #LangSky 🐦🐦

Cat Davies reports to the UK covid-19 inquiry this week "early childhood .... was significantly disrupted...Normally, when one support system falters, families can turn to alternatives... the pandemic removed almost all options simultaneously". medium.com/@ahcresearch...

Twenty-four years ago today, our paper “A forkhead-domain gene is mutated in a severe speech and language disorder” was published: www.nature.com/articles/350.... A personal thread about the ups & downs of the journey we took to get to that point....1/n 🗣️🧬🧪

This weekend I gave another workshop on #ShamelessSelfPromotion and now you all can apply what I am preaching by self-nominating as new Max Planck Director, for example in psycholinguistics Go for it, especially if you think you aren't 'good enough' www.mpg.de/directors www.mpi.nl/news/help-sh...

Oct 17 is #DLDday Internationally! This is a great podcast to learn more about Developmental Language Disorder, a hidden but common lifelong disability that affects 2 children in every classroom of 30. #DLD #ElemEd #cdned #K12 #languagedevelopment

Postdoc (flexible start): child language development across different populations and contexts, methods including behavioral studies, large-scale data analysis, and/or computational modeling. M. Cychosz, Linguistics, Stanford Univ. postdocs.stanford.edu/prospective/...

I want to go back to college and learn stats this way!

We're seeking the next Director of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics! Lead cutting-edge research in language & cognition. Nominations (incl. self) due 19 Dec 2025. mpi.nl/career-education/vacancies/vacancy/nominations-and-self-nominations-sought-position-director-max

Nominate yourself to come run your own research dept in lovely MPI-PL in the woods. Or nominate someone amazing - your colleague, supervisor, former student.... Deadline for nominations 19th December

www.envisionbox.org has been shortlisted for the Leo Waaijers Open Science price: ukb.nl/en/news/shor... @babajideowoyele.bsky.social @jamestrujillo.bsky.social @sarkadava.bsky.social @DavideAhmar @acwiek.bsky.social Amazing Markus Küpper made an animated video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=HduI...

"Earlier- & later-diagnosed autism have different developmental trajectories & genetic profiles. The findings have important implications for how we conceptualize autism & provide a model to explain some of its diversity." @vw1234.bsky.social & an international team report today in @nature.com: 👇🧪

The real generational divide is people who refuse to watch a video if it could be an article versus people who refuse to read an article if it could be a video

Your face is an endless source of fascination and information for your baby. Thread 🧵

If you are the parent of an #autistic child and would like to help to shape #research please contact Mariana. You don’t need to be an expert in anything except your experience of being a parent of an autistic child! Your views will help to make our research relevant and family-friendly. #autism

{tinytable} 0.14.0 for #RStats makes it super easy to draw tables in html, tex, docx, typ, md & png. There are only a few functions to learn, but don't be fooled! Small 📦s can still be powerful. Check out the new gallery page for fun case studies. vincentarelbundock.github.io/tinytable/vi...

Ode to the original language model, or: Give me literally Anything* instead of Large Language Models (LLMs) *(no predictive coding either!) By Lady Byronadrea LLMartin 1/n

Ever wonder how habituation works? Here's our attempt to understand: A stimulus-computable rational model of visual habituation in infants and adults doi.org/10.7554/eLif... This is the thesis of two wonderful students: @anjiecao.bsky.social @galraz.bsky.social, w/ @rebeccasaxe.bsky.social

Microsoft will no longer allow Israel to use its cloud services to enable its mass surveillance of occupied Palestinians – "the first known case of a US technology company withdrawing services provided to the Israeli military since the beginning of its war on Gaza"

Okay so someone in the DfE said "kids are disengaged, lets add more tests" and no one in the room said "hang on a minute...."?

-It's safe for pregnant people to take Tylenol -It's safe to give your child Children's Tylenol -It's fine to get a combined MMR -It's fine to get an MMRV (MMR+ chicken pox) -It's potentially dangerous to wait until 12 to get the Hep B shot -It's safe to follow the vaccine schedule as is.

Very excited to announce that yesterday I submitted my PhD thesis: The Linguistic Life of the Kufr Qassem Deaf Community: Language Emergence, Variation, Change, and Persistence. I dedicate this thesis to my people: the resilient Palestinian people

New paper alert! Systematic epidemiological analyses of up to 39,000 people illuminate biological/clinical links between impaired musical rhythm abilities & disorders affecting speech-language development. International collaboration led by @drsrishtin.bsky.social, out in @natcomms.nature.com. 👇🧪

Since today is the #EuropeanDayOfLanguages, let's not forget that you are not required to keep your languages separate, pure, intact or in any way feel inadequate about your way of using your own language/s. And don't let anyone take away your co-ownership of the languages you have.

This is me. Always 2 books on the go. One in English: average time to read 1 week. One in Dutch: average time 6 months! In English, words translate straight into pictures in my mind. In Dutch, I 1st have to process the words then translate them to pictures. Totally different experience & timeframe.

Oh good, in the year of reading of our lord we're thinking about adding more reading testing? Nothing encourages reading for pleasure like tests. Kids love it. Especially teenagers. They lap it up. they live for tests.

From age two, children use pronouns to predict who will speak next in conversation. New paper by Imme Lammertink & al. with @carorowland.bsky.social doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2025.106358

Learning the moment-to-moment, fast-paced dance of turn-taking in conversation is tricky. Imme, Maartje, Middy and I show how 2 year old (Dutch) kids track pronoun use to predict who is gonna speak next in an interaction. Just published in JECP. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

In a new paper, Mike Tanenhaus and I articulate the rationale behind different experimental tasks in the visual world paradigm and give recommendations for future studies. “Rethinking task importance in the Visual World Paradigm“ (Brain Research, in press). pure.mpg.de/rest/items/i...

This is such a nuanced and big-hearted piece on the evolution of autism as a diagnosis, by an anthropologist of mental health who is also the dad of a now-grown daughter on the spectrum. Great reading (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/o...