Check out this piece in @newyorker.com “#Dyslexia and the #Reading Wars,” 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...

From @science.org Breakthrough of the Year: Solar Energy

Visualizing the data meant more to me than a thousand words.

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...

Super great science journalism! Covers many points of view and made me think.

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... 🧵

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

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. 🧪 www.forbes.com/sites/brucel...

I ❤️ 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.

Lots to think about here. I'm hoping it's the start of something important. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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...

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.

Our paper on the ☀️ "summer slide" 🛝 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 ➡️ 7x bigger! ⬅️ #PsychSciSky #DevPsy 🧵👇

If you've ever visited ChildrenHelpingScience.com, please consider donating below! There's a campaign for matching contributions, and every bit helps.

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...

Read the story by @annamaria.bsky.social and Brett Murphy with photos by Peter DeCampo.

This is an incredibly revealing op-ed [Gift Link] wapo.st/4aQQABT 1/7

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

Huh I wonder if there were any other global events happening in in 2008. Guess we’ll never know.

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...

Couldn't believe my eyes-- a new opportunity at NSF, in these times?! www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

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...

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...

A new video in the What We'll Never Know series, featuring Jessica Cantlon's groundbreaking research on improving spatial intelligence 🧪@sciencehomecoming.bsky.social @cantlonlab.bsky.social

Hopkins Cog Sci is hiring! We have two open faculty positions: one in vision, and one language. Please repost!

Science is amazing! open.substack.com/pub/climatea...

Happy #CSEdWeek! So far this week I’ve shared videos, op-eds, and infographics about our lab’s research on gender equity in CS. Today I want to share the research itself! Data lovers, rejoice—today is your day! (1/14) #WomeninSTEM #AcademicSky #PsychSciSky #DevPsychSky #SocialPsyc #EduSky #CompSky

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:🧵https://buff.ly/Cr0jLml

There's new guidance with respect to #foreignawards at #NIH. Please share with your networks. #foreignsubs #funding

Reason enough for me to schedule a trip to Portland, Maine! www.npr.org/2025/12/07/n...

I was a student at Antioch during this time. commonthread.antioch.edu/magazine/the...

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...

Ece Yuksel presented her poster “Age differences in spatial navigation across real and virtual worlds: A mixed-methods approach” at Psychonomic Society 2025, for which she was awarded the Graduate Travel Award. See all SCANN Lab Psychonomic posters here: scannlab.org/psynom-2025

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!

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

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....

Noisy data + single smoothing curve = overly precise conclusions about where the peaks land. www.cam.ac.uk/stories/five...

Currently dorking out over this graph about child mortality with my brother. Just mind boggling to take in.

Documenting a National Disaster

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

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. 🔗 t.co/jX6214ZY2X

Among things to worry about, flammable skin care was not on my list!

Great interdisciplinary perspective! Cognitive Technologies and Their Histories - Chrisomalis - Topics in Cognitive Science - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Inspiring work in troubled times I’ve Been Doing This Work for 25 Years and I’ve Never Seen Such Fear’ www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/o...

Harvard gets its research funding back through defiance and lawsuits.

Beautifully written, and not just personal. Lots of insights into what's awry with medicine.

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?