Out today! "How Does a Deep Neural Network Look at Lexical Stress in English Words?" w/ I. Allouche, I. Asael, R. Rousso, V. Dassa, A. Bradlow, S.-E. Kim & @keshet.bsky.social doi.org/10.1121/10.0... 1/

In Episode 4 of HELLO Lab Presents, we try to distill some of what we know (or think we know) about word learning for parents. youtu.be/jJCP69FkNWM

The Aging & Development training program at WashU has an opening for a postdoc! psychaging.wustl.edu

Things are finally thawing here but I’m starting to worry that this icicle is load-bearing.

Very cool idea to view research studies as opportunities for science communication! A more thoughtful approach to debriefing and other aspects of research might help the public better understand how science works and why it is valuable. #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky doi.org/10.1037/xge0...

Deadline 15 Feb: 2 postdoc positions, neurocognition of bilingualism, UiT Arctic Uni. Norway. Position (1) www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... Position (2) www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Birnam Wood do come to Dunsinane

“This represents an -18 pt swing in favor of outside temp in a district where furnace easily defeated outside temp earlier this year.”

We are so lucky to have @petridishes.bsky.social .

My dept - Psychology & Education at Mount Holyoke College - is searching for a 1-yr visitor in developmental psych. 3/2 teaching load with research support mtholyoke.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/External/job...

Another excellent @99pi.org episode on my favorite punctuation mark—the Em dash. If you get an email from me *without* an Em dash—that’s how you know it’s fake. 99percentinvisible.org/episode/658-...

/tʃiɹz/ 🍻

Hey, there it is. Nice little spot on @wcvb5.bsky.social youtu.be/9lIT1oZLEUY?...

Submitted an R01 yesterday with a colleague. I spent 70 hrs on it & I bet she spent as much time or more. =140 hrs of faculty time. I'm not even complaining! If we are lucky enough to get this, it's a lot of $ and responsibility. But the grant churn can be grueling.

So the update from the train derailment is that there is no evidence of propane leakage yet, but some leaks in tanks holding "food grade animal fat." I hope all of those health benefits of beef tallow are real! www.wfsb.com/2026/02/05/t...

Deadline Mar 20: Postdoc, fNIRS+bilingual language development w/ M. Kalashnikova, Basque Center on Cognition, Brain, + Language calls.bcbl.eu/index.php?op...

There's nothing like the news that a train carrying natural gas has derailed into the river just upstream of your house to really get the heart pumping.

Some people will be tempted to think that having the state dictate faculty teaching loads we can repair trust in institutions and avoid authoritarianism when in actuality having the state dictate faculty teaching is part of an authoritarian program.

Quick somebody tell me which saint I pray to that will enable me to flip this tortilla de patatas.

“Democracy dies in darkness” turns out to have been a goal, not a warning.

Soon hiring a lab manager! Looking for someone who is really interested in language neuroscience, who is organised, motivated, a great communicator, and who works well in a research team. Express interest by submitting this form: tinyurl.com/glysn-labman... Reposts appreciated!

Academic friends: Has anybody created a tool where you can upload a list of references and have the accessible pdfs delivered to you? And if not, why not? Sincerely, Can't believe I am spending so much time hunting down my own pubs.

2026 big update to the psycholinguistic database page! If you know of corpora, lexical databases, or other resources that I've missed, please LMK. Trying to keep this thing relatively current and could use the help www.reilly-coglab.com/data

Postdoc, "neural, cognitive, and social communication systems which contribute to recovery of language in the year following stroke" w/ T. Schnur, UT Health Sciences, Houston. careers.uth.tmc.edu/us/en/job/25...

🧠 Not all brain age algorithms are equal! In our new study, one algorithm (Pyment) outperformed other models in youth. Algorithms fail when your sample's age range is narrow or mismatched with training data. So, choose wisely... onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #BrainAge #Neuroimaging

Irritated to report that we have found the temperature at which the heating system can’t compete with the cold.

If I were a blue state governor, I’d be looking into adding a bunch of tenure lines at my state schools. I know that seems like “kick ‘em when they’re down,” but it’s more like “let academics who can escape to where they can do real work.” Builds up your own schools AND protect US academic output.

Djuna Barnes, Django Reinhardt… was there a trend for Dj- names at the turn of the last century? Can anybody think of another?? Obviously there’s nothing more important to discuss today… en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Djuna_B...

Am thankfully inside so not experiencing the wind, blowing in the same bare place, but sheesh.

Excited to share our new publication “The Spatio-Temporal Dynamics of Phoneme Encoding in Aging and Aphasia”, published in JNeurosci 🧠 ➡️ www.jneurosci.org/content/46/4... with @lauragwilliams.bsky.social & @mvandermosten.bsky.social 🤝 Check out @stanfordbrain.bsky.social ’s summary of it ⬇️

Another study by @cvanbuck.bsky.social. Results similar to our preprint: pupil size is a reliable overall measure of bright/ dark processing, but this effect does not (or only very weakly) correlate with individual differences in #mentalimagery / #aphantasia doi.org/10.1016/j.ne... #psychology

New PhD and post-doc job openings! Join me and Prof. Nina Kazanina @ Uni Geneva, Switzerland, to take part in an exciting project on relations and binding in language and vision, explored with cutting-edge neurophysiology (#iEEG and MEG). Full details in the job offer below.

One question on my mind is whether fellowships will now allow BESH-type studies. For a bit pretty much any "learning" or "training" study was out of bounds for F31s/F32s b/c they were classified as clinical trials.

This is good news for NIH-funded behavioral scientists and for the public; it resolves an unfortunate Catch-22 situation that inflated administrative burden and occasionally excluded basic behavioral science from funding opportunities: grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

We could have 4 JWST’s or a science mission at every planet. The NIH could be funded for two years. Or 1.5 years or so of USAID funding, if it still existed. This is how they’re spending our tax dollars. This is our money.

Hey, help us out with this search and repost this announcement. Thanks.

If you're looking for a PhD and you're interested in the cerebellum, predictions, language, and MEG, please apply by 1st March! We have two open positions. More details here: benediktzoefel.wixsite.com/home/phd

Renamed for Trump, thought it was a gas Soon found out had departing Glass.

Trying to explain the concept of “indoor recess” to the dog.

an eggcorn is when you approximate a misheard word with other words and it still makes sense

As someone with 25-year NIH funded lab, I endorse. Linking NIH and DHS/ICE funding in the same bill is blood money

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Well, which is it? Excellent or extraordinary?

peppering half the roads for A/B testing purposes

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage.

1. ICE must leave Minneapolis. 2. Congress should not fund this version of ICE - that is seeking confirmation, chaos and dystopia.

@nedlamont.com no dhs in ct. They are murderous thugs.

It wasn’t surprising that the grocery store was slammed in advance of this storm. What *was* surprising is what had been cleared out. Heavy cream, bananas, salad greens? What are we cooking, friends?

New postdoc position with the LEVANTE project! We're looking for someone with language development / reading knowledge to help work on our international adaptations of language assessments. Please forward to interested candidates

I just woke up from a nap and somehow while I was asleep, everyone on the whaling boat has figured out we are not going to the right place.