happy to share our new paper, out now in Neuron! led by the incredible Yizhen Zhang, we explore how the brain segments continuous speech into word-forms and uses adaptive dynamics to code for relative time - www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Are humans really the only rational animals? Our NEW PAPER 🎉 out in @science.org suggests otherwise! In a large collaboration led with my joint first author @hanna-schleihauf.bsky.social, we show that “Chimpanzees rationally revise their beliefs” 🧵

It shouldn't take an FOI request to see grant success rates. UKRI has a duty of care to researchers to supply this from the outset. We are judged, compared, promoted (or not) according to unbelievably bad odds.

🚨 New preprint 🚨 Analyzing the academic trajectories of 78,216 psychology researchers, we demonstrate a persistent gender attrition gap, with women psychologists dropping out of academia at consistently higher rates than men psychologists. Preprint: arxiv.org/pdf/2510.13273

Also, if you're "in bed with flu", it's almost certainly Covid.

New preprint 🌟 Psychology is core to cognitive science, and so it is vital we preserve it from harmful frames. @irisvanrooij.bsky.social & I use our psych and computer science expertise to analyse and craft: Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. doi.org/10.31234/osf... 🧵 1/

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

Hate seeks to divide us. But hope endures when we stand together. Our solidarity is with the Jewish community today. #britainstandstogether

an extraordinary person with an extraordinary legacy who nevertheless didn’t take herself too seriously when Gary Larson published this cartoon, she was in Africa and her institute was horribly offended and drafted a complaint the whole thing was defused when she returned - she found it funny

Jane Goodall, ethologist and conservationist, has died. She was 91

This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important

When I was a teenager there was a bus direct from my hometown in Germany to London - we had a British army base, and this direct bus connection was one of the benefits of that. One summer I went on that bus to go volunteer in an old people's home in Southend-on-Sea. I had just turned 18 and was... 🧵

Just fuck off with this. How about start the conversation by highlighting how much immigrants contribute to the UK - not least by propping up the NHS and social care system! Also - forced volunteering is not volunteering, it's unpaid labour.

Very much enjoying the culture of trust and respect implicit in the installation of room usage monitoring devices on academics' office doors today. Imagine my shock on discovering that managers' doors remain unsullied…

I wrote something about feeling like a guest in a country that is my home. bestforbritain.substack.com/p/my-place-o...

Absolutely astounded that the UCU and Unison branches at Kent and Greenwich were not consulted, and that staff only found out about the merger this morning via BBC news and Kent Online. Solidarity to all colleagues.

Why does a speech pause make us doubt, but a hand gesture make us sure? 🤔🧠 Find the answer on the @cogscisociety.bsky.social blog! cognitivesciencesociety.org/why-does-a-s... w/ @reyhanfurman.bsky.social, @tilbegoksun.bsky.social, and Terry Eskenazi @kudilvebilis.bsky.social

Another highly cited classic finding fails to replicate

Gerbrand, Wengman & Forssman (2025) found that eye-tracking, especially the preferential looking paradigm, can offer an objective complement to parental reports for predicting children’s early vocabulary development. #DevPsySky #PsychSciSky #EyeTracking #infancypapers doi.org/10.1111/infa...

In which M&S decides it no longer wants my business, and is probably going to commit discrimination on the grounds of gender reassignment in the process. www.thepinknews.com/2025/08/18/m...

I have known no peace since I went around The Netherlands by train, where the fare from Station A to Station B is exactly the same price any time of day whether you need to travelling right now or are booking ahead months from now. And you can bloop it all on contactless. Imagine. IMAGINE!

Well done everyone, you've built the worst of all possible worlds! Despite being told exactly what would happen at every stage. You'll have to raise fees *and* degrade quality *and* close some institutions. Superb stuff, 10/10, no notes. 👏👏👏👏

Holy shit. And all the more embarrassing from a place with such a stellar linguistics department

Our position paper is now out: "Learning Variability Network Exchange (LEVANTE): A Global Framework for Measuring Children's Learning Variability Through Collaborative Data Sharing". srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... (preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...) What is LEVANTE? 🧵

In today's adventure on Editorial Manager, me trying to log in to my account... 🤦‍♀️

ChatGPT talks to adults like it’s grooming them. Ohhhh wowwwww you’re so mature for your age. Nobody understands you.

All 15 kgs of the grumpiest little missy Kahlua have been added. Participation tax gladly attached 🐶😊

every single woman I've brought it up with at some point has been sexually assaulted before, myself included, and not a single one of these men has ever cared about the reality of that, but now it's maybe looking like some black and brown men are moving to Britain and oh, suddenly women are people?

They’ve got no fcking idea. Signed, a Turk.

HEPI estimates that if 6% international student levy goes forward, it will cost UCL £42 million per annum, University of Manchester £27 million and KCL £22 million. Great way to support the sector in a crisis (45.2% of HEIs now forecasting a deficit). Not. HEPI link: www.hepi.ac.uk/2025/08/08/t...

Here are the 10 most common recorded cockatoo dance movements (illustrations by Zenna Lugosi). 🧪 🦜 #birds #dancing #animalbehaviour #science #parrots #cockatoos Full paper it comes from is here: journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

What a fantastic new paper out today in @pnas.org: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... - and what a great resource, summarising the climatic niche of primates and tackling the hypothesis on whether primates evolved in warm tropical forests 😍

An open letter to M&S that people can sign openletter.earth/an-appeal-to...

The moment I saw that "trans bra" M & S story I sensed it was nonsense. Seconds later, having read the Telegraph piece I knew it was worse than that. It was deliberate hate mongering completely devoid of evidence, names and facts. Superb job of debunking it here www.thepinknews.com/2025/08/06/m...

The Linguistics Discipline at La Trobe University have developed a discipline-specific position statement on the role of generative AI in our classrooms. www.superlinguo.com/post/7908973...

My master’s thesis is published in Cognitive Science! ✨🎉 Here is the summary of our results👇🏼

Do the disfluencies and gestures we produce when we speak act as metacognitive cues? Our new paper is out now to answer this question! Great work led by Begüm Yılmaz @begumyilmaz.bsky.social 👐💬 #CogPsych #PsychSciSky

Sad news. He was a groundbreaking visionary and I feel so happy to have seen his works. www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/j...

Numerical cognition in birds Review by L. Regolin, M. Loconsole, O. Rosa-Salva, K. Brosche, M. Macchinizzi, A. Felisatti & R. Rugani Web: go.nature.com/4lVxb5K PDF: rdcu.be/eyEEM

Happy 15th anniversary of the peak achievement of literary criticism, to all who celebrate

One of these days a senior politician will actually say something positive about the 10 million people living and working in the UK who happen to have been born abroad, but that day is not today

OH MY GOD 💀

Ozzy Osbourne visited my magic shop. He said he'd like to buy some stink bombs. How many? All of them. I had to go through drawers finding every last one. He bought 900 of them. To sign the credit card slip I handed him a shock pen, which he thought was hilarious and bought that too. RIP

Input to the Language Learning Infant: The Impact of Other Children onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 🧑💬👶 adult's child-directed speech ✔️ but what about other children's speech? Here, head-turn experiments show children pay greater attention to children talking among themselves than to adults

'Spirited Away' was released 24 years ago today

Around 10,000 jobs getting axed in higher education in the UK but it's ok because we've recruited 80 people via the Global Talent Fund

For the first time, a non-primate species has been proven to use gestures to signal what they want. 🐘🍎 New work led by @vestaeleuteri.bsky.social at @univie.ac.at‪ marks a key milestone in animal communication, showing elephants are capable of goal-directed intentionality. tinyurl.com/yc3a2vew

Now, government and institutions, can we make sure they all get a place, & the quality education they deserve? HIRE MORE STAFF (& stop redundancies)

By the late 80s, this was any self respecting DJ's go-to crossover Cure record; the one that even the guy doing the school disco would spin for the freaks at the party. Still one of their best pop tracks for me. www.youtube.com/watch?v=scif...

What a wonderful #ISGS10 it was! Huge thanks to the organisers. So lovely to see so many friends, learn about all the exciting research, and be back in my much missed Nijmegen 💙