Do parents exaggerate the pronunciation of words they believe their infants don’t know yet? Our new paper suggests no. ❌ w/ @julienmayor.bsky.social & @nataliakartushina.bsky.social 🧵 1/ #DevSci #langsky #devpsy

Today at 11am @interacting-minds.bsky.social, we have Aaro Tupasela, senior research fellow, Department of Sociology, University of Helsinki coming to give a talk: Building health data spaces for research in Finland - Some cautionary tales for the EHDS

Now I'm also looking for a research software engineer to implement a pile of research results to R packages loo, posterior, bayesplot, projpred, priorsense, brms or/and Python packages ArviZ, Bambi and Kulprit. Apply by email with no specific deadline (see contact info at users.aalto.fi/~ave/)

This year Demis Hassabis predicted AI could cure all disease in a decade. But other scientists like Claus Wilke & Derek Lowe say biology is far more complex, or progress will be limited by clinical trials & economics. In a new 4hr podcast episode of *Hard Drugs*, we answer: Will AI solve medicine?

Just out - "Art Beyond Cognition: Reframing Neanderthal art through social connectivity and cultural transmission" by Straffon & Tennie

Silly 2012 me visiting a village in New Mexico that had been inhabited continuously for 1000 years: err, is that impressive? My not so impressive hometown is at least 2000 year old... that was idiotic, but I now discovered that the oldest hominin remains in my hometown are 800000 year old 1/

italian pools: take a shower before the pool. NO NAKED SHOWERS! scandinavian pools: take a shower before the pool. ONLY NAKED SHOWERS! japanese onsen: the personnel will chase you if you try to cover yourself your nakedness with the tiny towel provided and inform you it's only for the head

Revision posted! An evolutionary model of identity signaling with nested/overlapping/intersectional identities, complex multidimensional signaling capabilities, and a primer on ancient Mesopotamia. What more could you ask for? osf.io/preprints/so...

Re-posting this because I really like it and I think we need to understand identity from a functionalist perspective more than ever. osf.io/preprints/ps...

I happened to (re)read an autobiography of an Italian ethnographer, Fosco Maraini, amazing (biased) character. His childhood and ebullient youth climbing mountains meshing with intellectuals, his trips to Tibet and Japan, the japanese prison camp for being an anti-fascist and much more. BUT 1/

1. We ( @jbakcoleman.bsky.social, @cailinmeister.bsky.social, @jevinwest.bsky.social, and I) have a new preprint up on the arXiv. There we explore how social media companies and other online information technology firms are able to manipulate scientific research about the effects of their products.

It never gets old, does it?

Great piece on the absurdity of brute force multiverse analyses. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Fully-funded 4-year #PhD in Cultural Evolution! Join my @erc.europa.eu project exploring how compression & compositionality drive cultural innovation: hmc-lab.com/ERCPhDCultur... Apply by Nov 12! Maybe of interest to folks from #COSMOS2025 or @eslr.bsky.social? Please feel free to share! 🙏

🌍Introducing BabyBabelLM: A Multilingual Benchmark of Developmentally Plausible Training Data! LLMs learn from vastly more data than humans ever experience. BabyLM challenges this paradigm by focusing on developmentally plausible data We extend this effort to 45 new languages!

Thinking of your academic paper as less your magnum opus and more as a line of dialogue in a greater conversation can take the pressure off scientific publishing. Here are my most recent thoughts on "Science as a Conversation": niklaselmqvist.medium.com/science-as-a...

Happy with this popular science article about our work (with @lindadrijvers.bsky.social and @judithholler.bsky.social), showing that listeners use co-speech hand gestures to predict upcoming meaning ✋ www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...

Conversational turn-taking feels effortless, but it's a complex dance. We find social context—who you're talking to and what you're talking about—fundamentally changes conversational dynamics in both autistic & TD children. 1/ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... w @chrismmcox.bsky.social

I haven't given any news a while, I've been nose deep into this novel preprint with my excellent collaborators @stepalminteri.bsky.social, @urihertz.bsky.social and Bahador Bahrami: "Uncovering the semantics of teaching in experiential learning with Large Language Models". doi.org/10.31234/osf...

The first publication of the #ERC project ‘LaDy’ is a fact and it’s an important one I think: We show that word processing and meaning prediction is fundamentally different during social interaction compared to using language individually! 👀 short 🧵/1 psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202... #OpenAccess

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...

The proper looks of autumn

In Ch 19 (nyu-cdsc.github.io/learningr/as...) of his 2nd edition, Kruschke used *residual* SD as a standardizer for group differences from a multilevel ANCOVA. Is there any precedent for using a *residual* SD as a standardizer for a standardized mean difference effect size? #RStats

The kids’ find of the day was my great great grandfather’s clock in silver. About 40 years ago I inherited it, it didn’t work and I tried to open it to fix it. Still open since and not working :-)

🫁❤️New preprint out: The social, decoupled self We show effects of interpersonal synchronization of physiological rhythms on intrapersonal cardiorespiratory coupling: when we sync our breathing, our breathing–heart rhythms decouple, with a perturbed phase-relationship www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

How do multilingual babies acquire their languages? In Africa, multilingualism is the norm. In our new study with 9-11 month old Ghanaian babies learning up to 5 languages simultaneously, we found that they were able to recognize words in text passages in Akan, one of their languages.

Was asked about collinearity again, so here's Vahove's 2019 post on why it isn't a problem that needs a solution. Design the model(s) to answer a formal question and free your mind janhove.github.io/posts/2019-0...

Happy to see this work published in Psych Review. It's an impressive and important bit of theory/modeling about how we learn about decision-making under risk. Here's a slide with the super-coarse-grained summary of our results. Read the paper for (much) more. osf.io/preprints/so...

"Progress in theorising means treating our theories as works in progress in need of continuous improvement, and this sometimes also means having to kill one’s darlings." Martijn van Zomeren and @ayseuskul.bsky.social introduce the ERSP special issue on theorizing in social psychology. #SocialPsyc

so, it seems I'll be in Tokyo end of October, near Ryogoku station. Please hit me with your best recommendations :-)

so, it seems I'll be in Tokyo end of October, near Ryogoku station. Please hit me with your best recommendations :-)

Simulations are no longer just “nice to have.” They’re reshaping how we do statistics. Care to learn more? Check out our paper arxiv.org/abs/2503.24011, accepted for publication in the upcoming theme issue of Philosophical Transactions A.

Why does Western Paleolithic cave art strongly prefer animal side views and often use abbreviations? Our new paper in Topics in Cognitive Science challenges long-held assumptions about these artistic choices using cognitive science experiments. A thread 1/n onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

1. What does a Cold War-era game theory problem known as the silent duel have to do with high-risk research strategies, publication in Cell/Nature/Science glamor journals, and the academic job market? Kevin Gross and I tackle these questions in our latest arXiv preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2509.06718

They can preregister the shit causal model or protocols, etc and it’s really important not to emphasize the lack of preregistration as credibility reducing because in doing so we’ll give it credibility when they prereg some “both go up” model.

The Item Response Warehouse is a new data resource for psychometricians interested in developing methods using bigger and more diverse sets of instruments: itemresponsewarehouse.org New paper out now at BRM: doi.org/10.3758/s134...

Check out this excellent new article by Ekstrom et al., "The Phoneme as a Cognitive Tool", in the special issue of Topics in Cognitive Science, "Cognitive Technologies and their Histories", which I'm co-editing with @helenamiton.bsky.social. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

@aaronclauset.bsky.social’s work on how institution influences academic outcomes always reminds me what a catch22 department can be—at a top place, you’re doomed to wonder how much of the success you deserved; if you’re not, you‘re left wondering if your work has been overlooked. Prestige games suck

New preprint! We are pleased to share our Hierarchical Bayesian framework for Interoceptive Psychophysics! Implemented in rstan, we provide a complete suite of tools spanning model comparison, parameter recovery, multifactor designs, power analysis, and more! 🎯 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Stan / CmdStan 2.37 release! blog.mc-stan.org/2025/09/02/r... - sum_to_zero_matrix type sums to zero across both rows and columns - simplex and *_stochastic_matrix types should be now faster and more stable - new functions exposing the built-in constraint implementations 1/2

I led a consensus project on semantics last year. I was happy with the end result but made many mistakes along the way. If you're considering doing something related, read this paper; also recruit someone who knows Delphi criteria. people study this stuff journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

We talk about those issues in this paper, but long story short no experiment is going to get an unbiased valid estimate of misinformations causally effect. Full stop. arxiv.org/abs/2505.09254

Ever stared at a table of regression coefficients & wondered what you're doing with your life? Very excited to share this gentle introduction to another way of making sense of statistical models (w @vincentab.bsky.social) Preprint: doi.org/10.31234/osf... Website: j-rohrer.github.io/marginal-psy...

my scandinavian partner as I rehearse a presentation: could you please chill out? I get stressed at the enthusiasm, even from the other room. the american (I guess) ppt coach:

Reminder! Less than a week left to apply for PhD and postdoc positions in Futures of Language — 🔁 for folks interested in the intersection of language, social interaction, and technology Vacancies: markdingemanse.net/futures/news... FAQ: markdingemanse.net/futures/news... #emca #linguistics #sts

5. Today I read a paper by @sabinaleonelli.bsky.social and Alexander Mussgnug that I think illustrates this point perfectly. philsci-archive.pitt.edu/24891/1/Phil...

1. The philosophy of science sometimes gets an unearned reputation as a purely academic exercise that offers little by way of concrete tools for advancing research. This is wrong. And today, as we grapple with how AI is changing the nature of scientific activity, it's desperately wrong.

Not sure how many scientists here have tried Claude Code or similar command line coding assistants. I had a complicated family property tax problem that was best solved by a brute force Monte Carlo simulation approach, so I spent a few days coding up and analyzing a model with Claude Code.

I made this Computational Psychiatry Starter Pack a while ago and was wondering if I may be missing anyone who has joined bluesky since? I will add anyone who uses computational models to adress questions in psychiatry research. :) go.bsky.app/5PTy9Zj

It's a bit more expensive, but for a kid I would consider the framework 12: frame.work/dk/en/laptop12