In this new paper led by @drcharlotte.bsky.social and myself, we explored phonological representations in monolingual and bilingual neural networks trained on speech recognition: doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

This is extremely rad. Here's developmental psychology:

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Reading Bill Labov's papers in undergrad is one of the things that ignited my love for studying language. He meant a lot even to people like me who never met him. May his legacy continue

This response from @sbearbergman.bsky.social to @hildur.bsky.social’s post has changed my week— it is so wholesome, and human, and so the energy we all need right now. And Kerstin Langenberger, the naturalist who posted “I am on my way with the necessary equipment”? This woman is the hero we need.

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A report by Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth says that several universities in the US and Canada have entered into agreements with Israel-linked security companies to suppress Palestine solidarity protests occurring on their campuses. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/es3

🚨New paper alert! We estimate babies’ vocabs w/ CDI all the time. Can it also estimate the specific words kids know? We collected CDIs and gaze data to see if kids looked more at words they reportedly knew on the CDI. Here’s what we found: 🧵https://doi.org/10.1111/infa.12641

The Manybabies4 paper is out! Infants' Social Evaluation of Helpers and Hinderers: A Large-Scale, Multi-Lab, Coordinated Replication Study onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1... 1000 babies tested in 37 labs; "Overall, 49.34% of infants preferred Helpers over Hinderers in the social condition"