Nora Newcombe
@noranewcombe.bsky.social
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Cognitive and developmental scientist at Temple University
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Dr. Nadine Gaab
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Check out this piece in
@newyorker.com
ā#Dyslexia and the
#Reading
Wars,ā by David Owen. I had the pleasure of meeting David this summer at the GaabLab and chatting with him about dyslexia, the brain, and the critical importance of early identification.
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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Dyslexia and the Reading Wars
Proven methods for teaching the readers who struggle most have been known for decades. Why do we often fail to use them?
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/12/29/dyslexia-and-the-reading-wars
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Pritzker professors claim NU funding deal violates federal law
Since it was announced in November, Northwesternās deal with the Trump administration has caused some students, faculty and alumni to express concern surrounding NUās autonomy after it gave into feder...
https://dailynorthwestern.com/2025/12/21/campus/pritzker-professors-question-legality-of-northwestern-funding-deal-with-trump-administration/?fbclid=IwZnRzaAO2M_FleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAo2NjI4NTY4Mzc5AAEe_B42GZjsH5SDcx8gUbJWXDIrCkpj6bAlrLVYELWT0uM1jvMpHczl5WR5imM_aem_Cy2E_h1w6dFovXDU7qhpww
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Jeremy Berg
2 days ago
From
@science.org
Breakthrough of the Year: Solar Energy
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Visualizing the data meant more to me than a thousand words.
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Pam Davis-Kean, PhD
5 days ago
I also want to share some resources that were created for the community based on AMPPS papers. First, there is a new article out in the APS Observer that puts together 9 practical guides for research methods including papers and tutorials
www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...
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Nine Practical Guides to Support Your Research in 2026
TheĀ ObserverĀ has compiledĀ a list of 2025 guides, tutorials, and manualsĀ designed to support psychological scientists as they expand their toolboxes of research practices and methods.
https://www.psychologicalscience.org/publications/observer/2025-ampps-research-guides.html
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Super great science journalism! Covers many points of view and made me think.
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Mike Frank
5 days ago
Very excited to share the first empirical paper from LEVANTE: we describe the LEVANTE core tasks, a set of nine open source tasks for measuring learning and development in kids ages 5-12 years.
osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Hugo Spiers
5 days ago
What has my research lab been up to in 2025? Time for a wrap up of our research! This image is a gathering of key figures from our 2025 publications: Links to publications in the replies:
#spierslab
#research
#neuroskyence
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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist
6 days ago
Ending a $5 million research study when it is 70% complete does not save $1 million, it wastes $4 million. When a project loses federal funding before completion, finding alternative resources is challenging. Most philanthropies do not have comparable resources. š§Ŗ
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Talia Lerner
5 days ago
I ā¤ļø basal ganglia A new GRC program is up with some really exciting short talks added!
www.grc.org/basal-gangli...
I can't wait to welcome all the speakers and participants. The meeting is full, but we may still be able to take a few off the waitlist.
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2026 Basal Ganglia Conference GRC
The 2026 Gordon Research Conference on Basal Ganglia will be held in Lucca (Barga), Lucca Italy. Apply today to reserve your spot.
https://www.grc.org/basal-ganglia-conference/2026/
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Lots to think about here. I'm hoping it's the start of something important.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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This student group agrees US universities are too elitist ā but aims to transform, not destroy them
Class Action, a grassroots network formed after the affirmative action ruling, seeks to be critical of universities in their current form
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/18/class-action-organization-universities?utm_term=6943ecd52f83dbcd5e95779802061433&utm_campaign=GuardianTodayUS&utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&CMP=GTUS_email
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rogier kievit
5 days ago
I've used Lavaan almost every (work)day for 15 years, but this open source labour of love has never received proper institutional support. I'm delighted to be a small part of an 1.5M OpenScienceNL award, led by Jorgensen, to completely revamp and futureproof Lavaan
www.openscience.nl/en/news/45-p...
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Begging the question = avoiding the question. If you want to ask a question, you invite it. Or pose it. The other usage drives me bananas.
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Arielle Keller
7 days ago
Our paper on the āļø "summer slide" š is out now
@pnas.org
!
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Summer slide is a replicable phenomenon across diverse datasets that's more than "forgetting" school material in vacation months, but effects of socioeconomic inequality are ā”ļø 7x bigger! ⬠ļø
#PsychSciSky
#DevPsy
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Dr. Candice Mills
8 days ago
If you've ever visited
ChildrenHelpingScience.com
, please consider donating below! There's a campaign for matching contributions, and every bit helps.
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The APS Advocacy Task Force is mobilizing scientists to communicate their stories, their research, and the real-world impact of their work. Learn more about APS's
#WhyPsychScience
video competition and submit by Jan 12!
#AcademicSky
#PsychSciSky
www.psychologicalscience.org/2025-why-psy...
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Share Your Story and Your Science Competition
Participate in APS's social media video competition designed to bring the importance of psychological science to the public.Ā Deadline: January 12, 2026
https://www.psychologicalscience.org/2025-why-psych-science
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Charles Ornstein
8 days ago
Read the story by
@annamaria.bsky.social
and Brett Murphy with photos by Peter DeCampo.
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Trump Officials Celebrated With Cake After Slashing Aid. Then People Died of Cholera.
Behind closed doors in Washington, top advisers made a series of decisions that had devastating repercussions for the poorest country on earth. We went to South Sudan and found people who died as a re...
https://www.propublica.org/article/usaid-cholera-deaths-trump-humanitarian-aid-cuts-south-sudan
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Jeremy Berg
8 days ago
This is an incredibly revealing op-ed [Gift Link]
wapo.st/4aQQABT
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Opinion | I was a red state governor. What I saw at Harvard surprised me.
The spirit of association remains alive in unexpected places.
https://wapo.st/4aQQABT
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Charles Driver
8 days ago
The Department of Psychology
@uzh-ch.bsky.social
has an open position for a tenured Lecturer (Research) «Psychological Data Management and -Stewardship»
jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancie...
#psychjobs
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UZH: Lecturer Research «Psychological Data Management and -Stewardship»
The Department of Psychology at the University of Zurich invites applications for a tenured Lecturer Research position for «Psychological Data Management and -Stewardship». We are seeking an enthusias...
https://jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancies/lecturer-research-psychological-data-management-and-stewardship/d6fb889b-04b6-49f5-9e9e-c3733b422ccc
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Ian Hussey
8 days ago
Huh I wonder if there were any other global events happening in in 2008. Guess weāll never know.
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Today's installment of Science is Amazing. My mother-in=law and a couple of good friends died in their 60s from metastatic melanoma. For a while now, there's been hope, and now there's more!
wyss.harvard.edu/news/first-i...
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First-in-human clinical trial of personalized, biomaterial-based cancer vaccine demonstrates feasibility, safety, and immune activation
By Benjamin BoettnerĀ (BOSTON) ā The first-in-human phase I clinical trial assessing the feasibility and safety of WDVAX, an immunostimulatory biomaterial-based cancer vaccine, in a cohort of 21 patie...
https://wyss.harvard.edu/news/first-in-human-clinical-trial-of-personalized-biomaterial-based-cancer-vaccine-demonstrates-feasibility-safety-and-immune-activation/?utm_source=SilverpopMailing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Daily%20Gazette%2020251215%20(1)
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Couldn't believe my eyes-- a new opportunity at NSF, in these times?!
www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
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Collaboratory to Advance Mathematics Education and Learning for K-12
https://www.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/collaboratory-advance-mathematics-education-learning-k-12
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Very penetrating analyses and very sad graphs! Many take-home messages, among them that math is a very cumulative subject. Displaced learning curves are hard to boost.
www.brookings.edu/articles/lea...
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Learning curves: Post-COVID learning trajectories differ by the grade a student was in when the pandemic hit | Brookings
Lauren Bauer and Eileen Powell assess whether the effect of COVID-related disruptions differed depending on the grade a student was in during the 2019ā20 school year.
https://www.brookings.edu/articles/learning-curves-post-covid-learning-trajectories-differ-by-the-grade-a-student-was-in-when-the-pandemic-hit/?utm_campaign=Brookings%20Brief&utm_medium=email&utm_content=394270629&utm_source=hs_email
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Daily Northwestern continues the trend of college newspapers outdoing traditional ones in reporting on the shameful deals with Trump--
dailynorthwestern.com/2025/12/12/c...
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Northwestern faculty raise concerns over new federal deal
When Spanish and Portuguese Prof. Jorge Coronado heard Northwestern had struck a deal with the Trump administration to unfreeze federal funding to the University, he said he was disappointed but not s...
https://dailynorthwestern.com/2025/12/12/campus/its-incomprehensible-northwestern-faculty-raise-concerns-over-new-federal-deal/?fbclid=IwY2xjawOqNSZleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBicmlkETEwUTRJY2NNNFBZd3FFWVZyc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHnoOWQZCtqt060mkMF-AZG7kKQasU9I7EwmVPDVyRHogQTw-kva6Ehixz217_aem_Gop5IpRcpPYCWd0pGN5Tyg
10 days ago
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What We'll Never Know
11 days ago
A new video in the What We'll Never Know series, featuring Jessica Cantlon's groundbreaking research on improving spatial intelligence š§Ŗ@sciencehomecoming.bsky.social
@cantlonlab.bsky.social
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Mick Bonner
11 days ago
Hopkins Cog Sci is hiring! We have two open faculty positions: one in vision, and one language. Please repost!
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Science is amazing!
open.substack.com/pub/climatea...
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Your Daily Dose of Climate Hope: December 12, 2025
Self-fertilizing wheat!
https://open.substack.com/pub/climateactapp/p/your-daily-dose-of-climate-hope-december-db9?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
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Dr. Allison Master
12 days ago
Happy
#CSEdWeek
! So far this week Iāve shared videos, op-eds, and infographics about our labās research on gender equity in CS. Today I want to share the research itself! Data lovers, rejoiceātoday is your day! (1/14)
#WomeninSTEM
#AcademicSky
#PsychSciSky
#DevPsychSky
#SocialPsyc
#EduSky
#CompSky
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koenfucius
12 days ago
Adversarial collaboration by
@jordanaxt.bsky.social
et al suggests implicit racial bias has a small (2.5%) additional effect on discriminatory behaviour, but explicit racial attitude predicts 45% of discrimination:
buff.ly/0ws4BAL
TL;DR:š§µhttps://buff.ly/Cr0jLml
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Theresa Kim, PhD, MS
27 days ago
There's new guidance with respect to
#foreignawards
at
#NIH
. Please share with your networks.
#foreignsubs
#funding
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www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/salonis-gu...
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Saloni's guide to data visualization
Why data visualization matters, and how to make charts more effective, clear, transparent, and sometimes, beautiful.
https://www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/salonis-guide-to-data-visualization?utm_campaign=post
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Reason enough for me to schedule a trip to Portland, Maine!
www.npr.org/2025/12/07/n...
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From 400-year-old globes to cosmic shrouds: A Maine library brings maps to life
From 400-year-old globes to cosmic funeral shrouds, how the Osher Map Library in Maine shows people that maps aren't just for navigation ā but windows into history, culture, and how we see the world.
https://www.npr.org/2025/12/07/nx-s1-5619794/maps-globes-maine-library
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I was a student at Antioch during this time.
commonthread.antioch.edu/magazine/the...
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The FBIās Plot to Discredit Antioch - Common Thread
In the late ā60s, J. Edgar Hoover signed off on a plan to infiltrate Antioch University, spy on its alumni, and use this intel to discredit Antioch in the eyes of the public. A decade later, documents...
https://commonthread.antioch.edu/magazine/the-fbis-plot-to-discredit-antioch/
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Eylül Turan
18 days ago
New paper alert! We examined the effects of a teacher-delivered quantitative language intervention. In just 3 weeks, dual-language learners improved in their quantitative language skills. It was a privilege to work with such a great team! Free access:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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SCANN Lab
19 days ago
Ece Yuksel presented her poster āAge differences in spatial navigation across real and virtual worlds: A mixed-methods approachā at Psychonomic Society 2025, for which she was awarded the Graduate Travel Award. See all SCANN Lab Psychonomic posters here:
scannlab.org/psynom-2025
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William Ngiam | äø„ē„„å Ø
22 days ago
Do you have an open working memory dataset and want it to be findable and reused? You can now add it to the Open WM Data Hub:
williamngiam.github.io/OpenWMData
! The collection of datasets tagged with useful metadata is steadily growing thanks to a small team of volunteers!
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OpenWMData
A collection of publicly available working memory datasets
https://williamngiam.github.io/OpenWMData
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Kevin Mitchell
19 days ago
LEAP-InovAND a multiscale resource to explore genetics, brain imaging and clinical data in autism
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
- very interesting study on subtypes of autism defined by symptomatology and genetics
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Ruben C. Arslan
20 days ago
Now I have to link Drew's paper. His trifecta is "malleable", "fundamental", and "would not have developed eventually in the absence of the intervention". My guess is that this intervention failed the last part.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Persistence and Fadeout in the Impacts of Child and Adolescent Interventions
Many interventions targeting cognitive skills or socioemotional skills and behaviors demonstrate initially promising but then quickly disappearing impacts. Our article seeks to identify the key fea...
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19345747.2016.1232459
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Adam Kucharski
20 days ago
Noisy data + single smoothing curve = overly precise conclusions about where the peaks land.
www.cam.ac.uk/stories/five...
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Snowden St.
21 days ago
Currently dorking out over this graph about child mortality with my brother. Just mind boggling to take in.
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Documenting a National Disaster
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21 days ago
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Dirk Bernhardt-Walther
22 days ago
What makes visual stimuli memorable? Wilma Bainbridge,
@keisukefukuda.bsky.social
, Lore Goetschalckx, and I investigate the role of processing fluency for memorability in a new review paper in Nature Reviews Psychology. Check it out!
rdcu.be/eSyjz
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Memorability of visual stimuli and the role of processing efficiency
Nature Reviews Psychology - Certain items are better remembered than others across individuals, a property known as memorability. In this Review, Bainbridge and colleagues detail memorability...
https://rdcu.be/eSyjz
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Moriah Sokolowski
22 days ago
New paper from my postdoc with
@brianlevine.bsky.social
now out in
#PersonalityandIndividualDifferences
! We examined how different types of visual imagery relate to
#STEM
occupations across genders using a dimensional approach to code occupational attributes. š
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https://sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S019188692500515X
https://t.co/jX6214ZY2X
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Among things to worry about, flammable skin care was not on my list!
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Great interdisciplinary perspective! Cognitive Technologies and Their Histories - Chrisomalis - Topics in Cognitive Science - Wiley Online Library
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Cognitive Technologies and Their Histories
Cognitive technologies are socially acquired and culturally evolved systems whose primary function is cognitive. There is a tremendous untapped opportunity for a broad range of disciplines across the....
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/tops.70035?campaign=wolearlyview
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Inspiring work in troubled times Iāve Been Doing This Work for 25 Years and Iāve Never Seen Such Fearā
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/o...
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Opinion | āIāve Been Doing This Work for 25 Years and Iāve Never Seen Such Fearā
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/opinion/chicago-ice-new-life-centers.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
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Scott Horton
24 days ago
Harvard gets its research funding back through defiance and lawsuits.
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Majority of Harvardās Research Funding Has Been Restored
As of Tuesday, Harvard University had recouped most of the federal research funding it lost when the Trump administration froze its access to grants earlier this year, multiple local news organization...
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-takes/2025/10/15/majority-harvards-research-funding-has-been-restored
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Beautifully written, and not just personal. Lots of insights into what's awry with medicine.
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Paul Gowder
25 days ago
TL;DR: basically the same contemptible garbage as all the other schools, anti-trans, anti-protest, more restrictive on admissions than the court held in SFFA. 75 million dollar tribute payment. At least no surveillance of teaching evaluations I guess?
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