💡 The idea that children drive language change is widely accepted — but does it hold up? New research co-authored by Dr Vera Kempe challenges this view, showing little evidence that child-led innovations spread through communities. Read more: www.mpi.nl/publications...

Super proud of this work and very grateful for all the amazing people who provided valuable feedback along the way @remivantrijp.bsky.social @sheinalew.bsky.social @cedricboeckx.bsky.social @inbalarnon.bsky.social ❤️❤️❤️🙏

So rewarding to work with these two brilliant people to check whether the existing evidence supports the persistent claim that children's simplifying errors drive language change. It doesn't. psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d... @limorraviv.bsky.social @damianblasi.bsky.social

I remember the great kindness with which Wietske welcomed us into the scientific community when a bunch of us clueless ECRs crawled out from behind the Iron Curtain in the early 90s. RIP Wietske Vonk www.mpi.nl/news/wietske...

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...

Staying with me after yesterday's #uklvc15 poster session is Schaeffler et al.'s point that Child-Directed Speech was different in soviet East Germany than in the West. Less influence on individualism influences CDS phonetic features! #acquisition #linguistics #sociolinguistics #contextmatters

No evidence for generational differences in the conventionalisation of face emojis. New paper by Kempe and @limorraviv.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1016/j.ch...

🤔Compared to GenX/Boomers or Millennials, do GenZ have larger online social networks and, as a result, greater agreement with their peers on what emojis mean? Find the answer in this fun little paper with @limorraviv.bsky.social ⬇️: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Read and repost: open.substack.com/pub/christin...

@alastaircampbell2.bsky.social Seriously?

An abbreviation (ABB) in a journal article (JA) or Grant Application (GA) is rarely worth the words it saves. Every ABB requires cognitive resources (CR) and at my age by the time I'm halfway through a JA or GA I no longer have the CR to remember what your ABB stood for.

This is an incredibly informative resource for anyone following the depredations of the orange, mapped against five broad areas of authoritarianism in the US today. It's hard to keep up with the daily outrages.👇🏼

Congrats to Marisa Casillas, @ruthefoushee.bsky.social, Humbertina Gómez Pérez, Juan Méndez Girón, Gilles Polian, Kennedy Casey & Penelope Brown on their work adapting the MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventories for Tseltal, out today in LDR ldr.lps.library.cmu.edu/article/id/8...

Read new work by Pelin Küçükerdoğan and Deniz Tahiroğlu on children's metaphor comprehension in Language Development Research! ldr.lps.library.cmu.edu/article/id/8...

Not sure who wants to know this but after a year of interacting with ChatGPT 4o with memory I asked it to score my personality on all the models (Big5, HEXACO, Dark+Light Triad). All I can say - it knows me very well.

Excited to share this newly published paper on child-directed speech in the Ku Waru and Nungon languages of Papua New Guinea. Congratulations to Hannah Sarvasy, Alan Rumsey, Josua Dahmen, John Onga, and Stephanie Yam! ldr.lps.library.cmu.edu/article/id/8...

The lessons from Lysenkoism: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Congratulations to Mary Beth Neff and Ingrid Lossius Falkum on publication of their new paper "Decoupling literalist behavior from children’s early metaphor comprehension abilities" in LDR as part of a special issue on development of metaphor comprehension. ldr.lps.library.cmu.edu/article/id/8...

Experimentology is out today!!! A group of us wrote a free online textbook for experimental methods, available at experimentology.io - the idea was to integrate open science into all aspects of the experimental workflow from planning to design, analysis, and writing.

Congrats to Anat Prior & Gal Pedael on publication of their new paper on bilingual language development in Language Development Research! It illustrates differential effects of type and token frequencies in the input on children's lexical & morphol. knowledge. ldr.lps.library.cmu.edu/article/id/7...

#Odesa is on fire.The city's historic center is on the UNESCO World Heritage List. "High-culture" Russians are barbarians in reality.What they can't steal,they destroy The attention of the world is on the Middle East these days.Russia continues going unpunished, will continue destroying #Ukraine

Scientists have come under pressure in the information age; with fascist myth-making and autocratic political movements leading the anti-science aggression. @lewan.bsky.social put together a team to provide key info & guidance. I have some thoughts: www.protagonist-science.com/p/the-anti-a... 1/

Amazing collective effort!

Another superb quantitative analysis by @chrischirp.bsky.social of how Trump regime is increasingly suppressing dissent christinapagel.substack.com/p/americas-d... But midnight hasn't struck yet. So takehome message: "Keep dissenting – exercise your rights today to preserve them for tomorrow."

Glad I could spread the word about the attacks on US science to a global group (esp since unfortunately attacks on universities are a problem worldwide). Talked about what's happening, the importance of still asking important research questions, and how to move forward. More at rdcu.be/emD0Z

While that may be the case, victim-shaming is counterproductive. They want us to go after each other. But yes, we need to teach Open Science practices not as a counter-movement but as state-of-the-art research methodology.

Join us this Thursday/Friday for Deconstructing the Universal Mind, an open webinar with an amazing group of speakers discussing recent developments in the study of cross-cultural cognition! Register here: cps-vo.org/group/cise-s...

Congratulations to Rhiannon Luyster, Taylor Boyd, Amelia Steele, Thuy Buonocore, Catherine Sancimino, and Sudha Arunchalam on the publication of their paper "Quality of remotely-collected gaze data in autistic and nonspectrum children" in LDR! ldr.lps.library.cmu.edu/article/id/6...

So then Elon goes "Kill the Bill!" and Trump goes "Elon has TDS!" so Elon goes "I'm the reason Trump won!" so Trump goes "we waste billions on Elon!" so Elon goes "Epstein!" and a corpulent flunkie goes "Deport Elon!" and Elon goes "Impeach!" And THAT'S why women are too emotional to be President.

Now officially out with nice formatting and all 🥳 "Thinking clearly about age, period, and cohort effects" -- a gentle introduction to the age-period-cohort problem and how to "solve" it through various types of assumptions. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Open Science being hijacked for political control: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I've just finished reading @anthrofuentes.bsky.social's book #SexIsASpectrum, a digestible, & evidence-packed exploration of the issues around oversimplifying and essentialising sex/gender. I wish this was a core textbook for all human science fields! press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

I'm THRILLED that our book is out. This book, with other 60 contributors from across the globe (!!!) is a love letter to the science we want to do, and a how-to guide for how to do it. Please read it and share it!

🚨New publication... Children's films contain innacurate gender stereotypes and these corresespond to children's (and adult's) implicit and explicit gendered associations. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Read thread for more details...

Check out important new work on metaphor comprehension in autistic children in Language Development Research. Kudos to Marta Ponciano Lázaro, Agustín Vicente, Jose Vicente Hernández-Conde, and Elena Castroviejo! ldr.lps.library.cmu.edu/article/id/8...

Just finished What Mental Illness Really Is… by @lucyfoulkes.bsky.social - highly recommend it for students, clinicians, patients, loved ones: presents the complexity in a clear, balanced and structured way = useful framework for all of us.

New work by Farzaneh Anjomshoae, Elena Nicoladis, and Anahita Shokrkon, Ph.D. suggests that nonword repetition may be relatively independent of vocabulary knowledge in bilinguals. Read more about this important work in Language Development Research. ldr.lps.library.cmu.edu/article/id/6...

NEW PREPRINT Iconic gestures are produced before the associated words and support prediction, but how does this work in children learning words? Check out our new paper led by @marinewang.bsky.social @eddonnellan.bsky.social: osf.io/preprints/ps...

Most college students know how to verify online content. So why don’t they do it? A new study co-authored by alumna Arshia Lodhi and Professor Patricia Brooks reveals a critical gap between knowledge and practice when it comes to fact-checking online

Do preschool children grasp metaphors? Check out new work by Ariel Starr, Taylor Petersen, and Sahana Sridhar to learn more. ldr.lps.library.cmu.edu/article/id/7...

Sharing a new paper on novel metaphor processing in autistic children by Isabel Martín-González, Kristen Frances Schroeder, Elena Castroviejo, Ingrid Lossius Falkum & Agustín Vicente. If this topic interests you, please consider submitting your work. ldr.lps.library.cmu.edu/article/id/8...

Important new work by Sarah Ferrara, Mark Aguert, and Christelle Declercq on children's understanding of metaphors just out in Language Development Research! This paper is part of a special issue on the Development of Metaphor Comprehension. ldr.lps.library.cmu.edu/article/id/8...

Excited to share work by Aki Tapionkaski and Sanna Tapionkaski presenting a new framework for understanding phonological deficits in speech, language and reading disorders. ldr.lps.library.cmu.edu/article/id/8...

Interested in the evolution of human language and in understanding the pressures that shape languages today? Come do a PhD with me! Fully funded PhD position available in my group @mpi-nl.bsky.social, application deadline June 2nd: www.mpi.nl/career-educa...

What do you call a country where this happens while the political class and media is hosting a gala dinner in D.C.? www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

my website for searching all SAGE Covid-related documents is now complete: sagesearch.info Contains over 900 documents from Jan 2020 to Feb 2022, filterable by document type, categories covered and date. There are AI-generated summaries of every doc. You can also free-text search summaries

Penguins R Us! www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

ERC doubling funding to lure researchers to the EU www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-euro...