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...

We finally worked tomato-tomato into a title. Check out a new paper on dialectal variation and phonological encoding! (With wonderful colleagues Brett Myers, Cass Jacobs, and Andrés Buxó-Lugo).

The SPARK Society supports scholars of color in the cognitive sciences. Learn about the SPARK Society and get involved if you can! www.sparksociety.org You can also help the SPARK Society achieve their mission by donating at buy.stripe.com/3cs03h1be38D...

We are stronger together! Our society has always been about community building. We will continue. We will support each other.

the SPARK society has been an essential lifeline for me as a young academic of color. more than ever we have to protect things like this!!!

Unfortunately, the NSF grant that supports our work has been terminated. This is a setback, but our mission has not changed. We will continue to work hard on making cognitive science a more inclusive field. Stay tuned for upcoming events.

I'll be presenting data from a project run in parallel to the one presented in @vrtliceralde.bsky.social's talk yesterday, this time exploring how individual differences in 10- to 15-year-olds affect language processing. Work with @duanegwatson.bsky.social. Poster session 2 at #hsp2025 today!

Learned today that @duanegwatson.bsky.social and I have been awarded NSF funding to investigate the effects of reading exposure on second language processing! I can’t put into words my gratitude to all the people at NSF who continue to do the good work. Feeling especially proud to be #firstgen 🍾

There's lots I can't control right now but I did create a fun escape room/puzzle box activity as a review for my undergrad social cognition class and watching them race through the puzzles today brought me joy 😍 1/

My personal relaxing youtube alternatives to doom scrolling: 1) people chopping wood, preferably in Alaska. 2) EV road trips 3) espresso making content 4) hog hunting in Australia (they’re invasive). What are yours?

All of those suggestions to circle back in the new year are now circling back.

Great piece by @manvir.bsky.social!

In the latest PSPI, @sflusberg.bsky.social and his team provide a comprehensive review of framing-effects research, including describing a survey of common framing effects and a taxonomy of linguistic framing techniques.

They call it winter “break” because it breaks the parents

Out now - National Academies consensus report on Understanding and Addressing Misinformation About Science 🧪 It was a privilege to serve as one of the 15 committee members from a wide range of scientific disciplines who put this report together. Quick 🧵1/ www.nationalacademies.org/our-work/und...

Linguists! We're hiring an Assistant Professor (tenure track) in phonology (secondary specializations welcome) at McGill linguistics, deadline January 13. Come work with us! mcgill.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/McGill...

✨i'm hiring a lab manager, with a start date of ~September 2025! to express interest, please complete this google form: forms.gle/GLyAbuD779Rz... looking for someone to join our multi-disciplinary team, using OPM, EEG, iEEG and computational techniques to study speech and language processing! 🧠

I promise one day I’ll have a bunch of science thoughts to post, but right now I want to show you the cat tower I’m working on! It started as a simple frame 🧵1

Wow. Now do gesture research.

It’s interesting that we have discourse all the time on how LORs are the most biased sources for things like grad admissions, but they seem to be what’s mitigating the effects of bias in people’s subjective evaluations of objective metrics

"Race did not appear to influence the typical first step of the review process [dept. vote]... [but]...when the college committees were evaluating faculty with lower h-indices, evidence of bias against Black & Hispanic scholars surfaced - especially for women" 1/ www.science.org/content/arti...

Women are under-represented at senior levels in #academia globally, & across all #science 🧪 disciplines, as shown by these "scissor-shaped curves" ✂️ So how can we ever achieve #gender #equality? We discuss various strategies in this #Cell Commentary #WomeninSTEM www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... 🧵 1/

This was me designing a survey when I was an undergrad.

Why is Tokyo so fashionable? Some theories. 🧵

I switched to an EV recently, and it’s hard to express how much better it is than an ICE car (smooth, quiet, responsive). When I occasionally drive my wife’s non-EV, it feels like a Flintstone car.

Sales Of Combustion Vehicles Are Slowing/Falling/Faltering

Endorse every bit of this. Plus do not be tempted to use a smaller font size than 12 pt or reduce your margins to squeeze in more content. It’s hell for reviewers, and no one wants grumpy reviewers.

What strategies can you use to provide effective peer reviews? Join us for a virtual workshop with @blackinneuro.bsky.social! We'll discuss the structure & content of peer reviews & provide advice about how to write your first review. Register here: blackinneuro47.wildapricot.org/event-5883989

Check out our latest work (led by @norabeier.bsky.social) focusing on how we talk to AI! Do we prosodically mark new information just as we do when we talk to humans? The answer is yes, we pretty much do!

Are you a tenured associate wondering whether it's time to go up for full? A thread of thoughts. Full profs, please chime in. 1/N

Is this going to be the hot goss at Psychonomics this week?

The University of Texas at Austin's Dept. of Linguistics is hiring two tenure-track positions in computational linguistics with a focus on research connecting linguistics and artificial intelligence. Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/158280 (review starts Dec. 1).

I was unprepared for how much of my mid-career academic life would be spent evaluating others' work rather than creating my own. 🧵 1/

The teens in my household don't typically like to hang out with me, but they're making an exception to watch this Tyson/Paul fight. 🤷🏽‍♂️

🤖🧠 I'll be considering applications for postdocs & PhD students to start at Yale in Fall 2025! If you are interested in the intersection of linguistics, cognitive science, and AI, I encourage you to apply! Postdoc link: rtmccoy.com/prospective_... PhD link: rtmccoy.com/prospective_...

I'm recruiting a graduate student to start in Fall 2025! Looking for applicants w/interests in cultural evolution, narratives, morality, AI, social media, & epistemic (in)justice. See here for more info: www.crockettlab.org/joining-the-... Apps due Nov 17!

a moving example of haka (arguably a form of music) used in political protest, in NZ parliament also, since I like the science of this, also shows why "music bonds the group together" fundamentally misconstrues the behavior in question. it's not warm & fuzzy, haka is sending a clear message here !

The Office (US) characters as academics, a thread. Creed Bratton: got a TT job by mail in 1964, without an interview. somehow hasn't retired yet. Invented some method used by the entire field. Completely nuts but still friendly 1/n

Share of kids *not* learning a foreign language in school US 80% Germany 18% Italy 18% Finland 16% Sweden 8% Spain 4% Poland 2% France 0% Norway 0% www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

Come join this @sparksociety.bsky.social webinar tomorrow! I'll be saying things. Hopefully, some of these things will be useful.

I came across a quote in an article, which I will paraphrase: the ultimate goal of neuroscience is to model the brain and derive laws that define the brain’s computational abilities. Statements like this are common and presented as self-evident, but I think they are wrong.

Here's a starter pack for mathematical psychology! please add if you know folks who should be on here go.bsky.app/QNKpfeS

Hello new followers! I am the co-host of a podcast about linguistic discrimination called The Vocal Fries 🍟 @vocalfriespod.bsky.social Check us out! 😊

it's wild that R, the ubiquitous statistical computing language, was co-created by a Māori prof (Ross Ihaka) — and yet the vast majority of scientists who use R don't know this is like inventing the toaster. possibly the largest impact of a single member of an indigenous community on modern science

As long as millions of new Bluesky users are wandering around looking for accounts to follow, why not check out the podcast I co-host with @juliafstrand.bsky.social?

A starter pack with people who research visual sensation, perception, cognition, and memory. Also, a curated feed just for vision science content.

I'm here for all of the food debates. Savory cornbread or sweet? Ketchup on steak? Best tomato sandwich? Crunchy peanut butter? Split Oreo? How to say pecan? Fold pizza? Crispy bacon or chewy? Ketchup on fries or dip them? What do you call the end piece of a bread loaf?

Is there a psycholinguistics starter pack?

Now that more people are coming here, a reminder I found helpful: bluesky doesn’t work like Twitter did. There isn’t an algorithm. You build your feed and network by following people, so to the extent you like seeing people’s posts, follow liberally.