New paper: Evidence of crossmodal compensation in the conceptual representation of blind people: while they share visual associations with sighted people, blind people more strongly associate concepts with touch direct.mit.edu/opmi/article...

A new twist to the idea that future tense use affects decision making👇 Cole Robertson @seangroberts.bsky.social et al show it’s not future tense that drives psychological discounting but how people express the possibility of future events happening (modality). authors.elsevier.com/c/1m4gJ2Hx2-...

@durhampsych.bsky.social current has 5 (FIVE!!) PhD studentships being advertised! 3 to work with me on children as agents of cultural evolution 2 to work with @drboothroyd.bsky.social on examining school-based body image interventions. Please share and apply! www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...

New podcast! @dannybate.bsky.social and I chat about Scottish Gaelic, mediaeval sea kingdoms, the spread and retreat of Gaelic in Scotland, influence from Pictish, sounds borrowed from Old Norse, and much more 🐦🐦 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a... or wherever you get your podcasts :)

New scoping review and critical discourse analysis of guidance documents on open science (OS) urges researchers to be “more precise about the specific approach they take to OS and more humble about the effects it can have.” Preprint by @jeroenderidder.bsky.social and colleagues: osf.io/zr35u_v1

"It is crucial to make psychology inclusive of all the world's people but vitally important to do this in ways that are respectful, ethical & empirically accurate. I weigh the promises & pitfalls of research in small-scale societies & discuss how we can improve our research practices moving forward"

Super excited to share our new multimodal corpus analysis, "Iconic Words Are Associated With Iconic Gestures" 🥳 Project led by our PhD student Ell Wilding and in collab w/ @jeannettel.bsky.social & @mperlman.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1111/cogs...

Berkeley linguistics is hiring an Assistant Professor in language revitalization! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05022

New paper: Validation of the Coffee Knowledge Test for Assessing Expertise in Coffee with Jonas Yde Junge, @icroij.bsky.social, Line Ahm Mielby, and Ulla Kidmose doi.org/10.1111/joss... #OpenAccess

1/5 Odor intensity isn’t just about concentration! We have a new preprint to prove it: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... In cahoots with @jmainland.bsky.social, @alexkoulakov.bsky.social, Rick Gerkin, Khristina Samoilova and others not on bluesky. 🧪 Which of these molecules smells stronger?

Remembering the Whorf quote about how languages cut reality up in different ways. A Danish supermarket has a “pålæg” fridge—essentially things that go on (open-faced) sandwiches (see pic of pic).It’s where you find ham & salmon & various patés. But not cheese, which has its own slice of reality.

Long read on Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, who we had the honor of interviewing on the History of Africana Philosophy podcast a while back: www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...

I'm sorry to hear of the passing of Robin Lakoff, hugely influential. The first work of hers I encountered was Talking Power, which we read in an undergrad class for Myrdene Anderson

Susan Carey mic-drop at #cogsci2025. "There are no innate concepts: Discuss"

Brilliant keynote by @laurennross.bsky.social at #cogsci2025 on cognitive science and its philosophy. Lauren pointed out the myriad ways in which cogsci and philosophy support and benefit one another, using explanation and causal reasoning as case studies. Thank you for a great talk!! 🙏

Josh Tenenbaum's inspiring keynote at #cogsci2025 on growing vs scaling AI, the big questions of cognitive science, and the many open questions for the field.

Doug’s papers on concepts and categories (along with Smith, Murphy) had a heavy influence on me during PhD! So happy his work was recognized!!! And such a powerful speech too 🙏

Congrats to Doug Medin on becoming the next Rumelhart prize winner! 🏆 My “academic grandpa” through multiple pathways! #cogsci2025

Pleased to present our new preprint on sleep and circadian rhythms among the Orang Asli of Peninsular Malaysia. This is a fascinating system for exploring sleep biology. Lots of variation in light exposure, housing type, and subsistence. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧵 below.

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Huge congratulations to the brilliant Nora Newcombe, recipient of the 2025 David E. Rumelhart Prize! 🏅#CogSci2025

Notes from @noranewcombe.bsky.social 's beautiful Rumelhart Prize "tasting menu" - congratulations Nora!!! #CogSci2025

It's amazing that we can communicate with so many researchers across the world in English, but how do we do that and still allow local languages to thrive in different contexts? www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Looking for a new Editor-in-Chief for one of the oldest psychology journals in the UK. Established over 75 years ago, QJEP is looking for someone with vision and verve to steer it through the next years. Open call!

Sad to hear that Margaret Boden, pioneer in cognitive science and artificial intelligence, has passed away. Just a few days ago, someone reactivated the post below. I warmly recommend watching the video. Thank you Margaret for founding and shaping our field. www.sussex.ac.uk/broadcast/re...

If you ever want to feel truly lost for words, try explaining the taste of root beer to someone who has never tasted it.

Delighted that Sakshi Ghai's efforts in leading this manifesto are recognised by @improvingpsych.org! @sakshighai.bsky.social @lehersingh.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s44...

We are very pleased to have received the 2025 SIPS Commendations for our ReproducibiliTea reading lists rpt-rl.netlify.app and ReproducibiliTea podcast soundcloud.com/reproducibil... ✨

Many great resources in this list! Congratulations to all of the 2025 winners, and honored that Data Management in Large-Scale Education Research received one of the 2025 SIPS Commendations!

So many great programs, papers and resources! Congratulations to the award winners!

A Borges story about a guy who gets AI to summarize all the world’s information for him, and then summarize the summary, until the AI has the whole world summarized into a single word. He sits alone at his desk, staring at the word, repeating it endlessly, certain he is experiencing everything

The Animal Vibration Lab @ox.ac.uk will be at the @royalsociety.org summer science exhibition this week! Sense elephant vibrations, face off with a tarantula, and handle seismic monitoring tools to uncover how vibrations help animals communicate and sense their environment 👇 bit.ly/3FYIhqX

It's been a ton of fun to work with @mcxfrank.bsky.social and @asifamajid.bsky.social on this. I'm so lucky to get to support projects like this (and @manybabies.org and @btscon.bsky.social and ...)!

The Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science (OECS) now features over 100 published articles! Editors-in-Chief @mcxfrank.bsky.social & @asifamajid.bsky.social share their vision for this open, online reference developed to guide the next generation of exploration in cognition & intelligence:

Uploaded two preprints with fantastic colleagues: one on handedness, the other on sexual dimorphism, both tackling different aspects of human evolution 🧠💪 👉 Handedness: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 👉 Dimorphism: ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

I just finished @maryellenmacdonald.bsky.social's (audio)book today. I really LOVED it! The book argues that talking involves hard work, & regularly meeting this extra cognitive demand has broad impacts on our daily lives (e.g., thinking, attention, learning, aging, mental health, prejudice). (1/2)

this is a beautiful last post on her blog 'Do the things you love for yourself and your loved ones will find something good you left behind' helendecruz.substack.com/p/cant-take-...

Yesterday Helen de Cruz died. She was in the past my colleague at Oxford Brookes, and both in her life and work she was an example and advocate of true human flourishing. A sad day and a great loss. dailynous.com/2025/06/20/h...

In July, we will be travelling to Dundee for our joint scientific meeting with the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Science, which will include many prize talks, symposia, posters and much, much more! For full information, please visit: eps.ac.uk/next-meeting/

trying Veo3 video generation, which has "a better understanding of real world physics, and is smarter at turning your text prompts into video clips." here is: "a man throws a stuffed animal (children's toy) at a tower of wooden jenga blocks, hitting the tower and causing the blocks to scatter"

Excited for this! Submissions for posters and roundtable session are still open for #APSGlobal due June 24.

Apply to be an Associate Editor for Advances in Psychological Science Open (APSO), APS's new open access journal in the field of #psychology!

If you are in neuroscience and interested in applying for a position in Sweden at Karolinska Institutet (either one of the 20 assistant professorships or the "distinguish professor" track - se previous post by me), read more about neuroscience at KI here: ki.se/en/research/... Come join us!

So grateful to @rad-institute.bsky.social for supporting our Exploratory Workshop on The Lost Odors of Nature: The Impact of Climate Change on Human Olfactory Experience

APS is pleased to offer some assistance to defray costs for APS members participating in the 2025 APS Global Summit. Learn more here: www.psychologicalscience.org/conventions/... Reminder: Submissions for this virtual event are due June 17 #APSGlobal

Announcing the featured speakers for the 2025 APS Global Psychological Science Summit! #APSGlobal www.psychologicalscience.org/conventions/... The APS Global Summit will take place virtually October 21-23, 2025. Stay tuned for more info about submissions, coming SOON.

Submissions are OPEN for the 2025 APS Global Psychological Science Summit! #APSGlobal Submit a standard poster, research proposal poster, or roundtable session by June 17!

Considering a return to study in the life/environmental sciences at Masters/PhD level after time away? Working and wondering if full/part-time study is the next step for your career? Our RePOWER workshop on 13th June in Oxford/online will provide advice and support. iles.web.ox.ac.uk/repower-retu...

As we age, we move slower and less precisely—but how much, exactly? We analyzed one of the largest datasets on motor control to date—2,185 adults performing a reaching task. Findings • Reaction time: –1.2 ms/year • Movement time: –2.3 ms/year • Precision: –0.02°/year tinyurl.com/f9v66jut 1/2

I taught a graduate level Cognition class this past semester using OECS for the course materials. 10/10 do recommend!