🚨 New Publication Alert!🚨 Polysemy and metaphorical extension in an artificial language learning experiment (w/ @elizabethqingzhang.bsky.social & Marek Placiński). Out now in #OpenAcess in Language and Cognition. 🧵1/ #language #linguistics doi.org/10.1017/lang...

🤩 Join us in person or online for Christos Pliatsikas' talk: May 29, Friday, 11am EDT (Montreal time) "Bilingualism and Neuroplasticity: What we know, what to do next?" ✅ Registration: tinyurl.com/3y3s4hp4

Oooh this one makes my head feel funny (by, you guessed it, Akiyoshi Kitaoka)

And now I can cancel the tsn subscription happy..

Yup.. and in my day all those job apps required physically mailing a photocopied stack of one’s materials. I can still taste the glue from all those envelope seals and postage stamps..

Interesting paper in press on #bilingualism and #schizophrenia/#psychosis www.nature.com/articles/s41...

👩‍💻 We're commemorating Women's Month with @wicseurope.bsky.social 🧠 As part of their Building Inclusive Computational Skills initiative, you can sign up to PsychoPy training every Wednesday in March. Find out more 👉️ workshops.psychopy.org#women-in-cog... #DiversityInSTEM #WomenInSTEM #PsychoPy

Nice paper..

‘A life defined by kindness and service’ — Former Liberal cabinet minister Kirsty Duncan dies at 59 after battle with cancer www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... via @theglobeandmail.com

@cjep.bsky.social paper on gender equity in cognitive science @nserc-resnet.bsky.social funding, highlighting progress in past 6 years. Led by @mcgillscience.bsky.social psych trainee Michelle Yang; co-authored w/ @pennypexman.bsky.social. A @wicscanada.bsky.social effort. doi.org/10.1037/cep0...

Amazing data visualization guide…

Call for Nominations for Editor of Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology (2026-2030) The Board of Directors of the CPA has opened nominations for the Editorship of the Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology for the years 2026 through 2030. More information: buff.ly/BOdMS9S

Excited that this paper on biscriptality in L2 reading is out, which leverages ENRO data (meco-read.com/about-enro/). Led by doctoral student Naima Mansuri and co-authored w/ great trainees (@estehr.bsky.social, @antonioiniesta.bsky.social, and others not here). www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Honoured to have welcomed Dr. Ellen Bialystok to the CRBLM yesterday for a fantastic talk and rich exchange of ideas in a packed house. Thanks to co-organizers and hosts @gigiluk.bsky.social and @dtitone.bsky.social of the Montreal Bilingualism Initiative

Is there still time to contribute?

An update on my column: Parliamentary committee drops most contentious parts of its demand for data on research funding. It now wants aggregated, not disaggregated data. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

Cool idiom study! #language #cognition featuredcontent.psychonomic.org/breaking-new...

Wondering if anyone can point me to a guide or set of resources on "how to create compelling/accessible data figure plots" for #psychology or #linguistics students. Ditto for "creating compelling/accessible data tables". Thank you.

It's a shame it took me almost a month to find out Margaret Boden died. And it's a shame it took most media a month to write about one of the greatest philosophers of the last century. #philosophy #philsci #ai #cogsci www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/s...

New review paper on theory of mind/mentalizing and spontaneous speech/language. Led by Chaimaa El Mouslih, and co-authored with @vegashodgins.bsky.social and @lenapl.bsky.social www.mdpi.com/2076-328X/15...

It’s @nphillipsca.bsky.social !

A formulaic crisis on Canada Day.. theonion.com/idiom-shorta...

A failure of the interocular suppression paradigm to assess sexual preferences in two studies - Légère, Lalumière, Sawatsky, Gray, & Krupp New online-first in the Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology buff.ly/gPaKkvj @apajournals.bsky.social‬

This looks useful!

We recently got an AI generated review. Tell-tale signs: comments go paragraph by paragraph; number of papers cited or other irrelevant details described; anodyne/insipid comments. Others? Authors and Editors, beware..

New study from the Women in Supramolecular Chemistry (WISC) revealing the unique challenges resulting from being First Gen (first generation of a family to access Higher Education) in science and showing how these persist at every stage of a career in academia: pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

So did everyone watch #conclave last night or was it just me?

Language matters: training care staff to minimize elderspeak in assisted living/nursing homes led to reductions in non-compliance and use of antipsychotics among patients. Sometimes the “affected” person isn’t the problem. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/03/h...

New paper on L2/L1 irony processing in Memory & Cognition led by @vegashodgins.bsky.social. This was a team effort, including @antonioiniesta.bsky.social and others, notably Mehrgol Tiv who collected the data several years back. rdcu.be/ekaeh #language #cognition #irony #multilingualism

I've fallen into lurker mode with this site lately but I'm still here... and this week I wrote this thing that seemed to resonate with a bunch of folks, maybe if you're into #SystemsThinking or #Complexity you'll dig it too:

Special Issue of @cjep.bsky.social on #Network Science in Experimental #Psychology is out today. psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202... Note: the SI introduction and one paper are free to read.

Just delivered my last psych of #bilingualism class of the semester.. Interacting with smart undergraduates about an important topic that I love is such a privilege.. #grateful

EPS Meeting: University of Dundee. 8th – 11th July 2025. A joint meeting with the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Science (CSBBCS). Submission portals for this meeting will open at 10am (UK Time) on April 7th 2025 for a minimum of 24 hours. eps.ac.uk/next-meeting/

The loss of a legend- Kanzi, the language-competent bonobo, has died age 44. Kanzi was exceptional in so many ways and offered us profound insights into the linguistic & cognitive capacities of great apes. He has taught us so much and will be hugely missed. www.apeinitiative.org/remembering-...

Are you a 🇨🇦 ECR (graduate student, postdoc) in Cognitive Science looking for a small grant to support a new collaborative research project? Apply for the @wicscanada.bsky.social Small Grant for Jr Scientists: wicsc.ca/wp-content/u...

Know someone who is a fantastic mentor to 🇨🇦 women in cognitive science? Nominate them for the @wicscanada.bsky.social 2025 Mentorship Award: wicsc.ca/wp-content/u...

Our Special Issue 'Network Science in Experimental Psychology' is out now! We will be featuring articles all week @dtitone.bsky.social Check out the table of contents here: psycnet.apa.org/PsycARTICLES...

📢 out now in CABN: Individual differences in subcomponents of the N400: Comprehension ability predicts contextual support effects while spelling ability predicts orthographic anomaly effects link.springer.com/article/10.3...

Check out our paper on @cjep.bsky.social 📄 Questionnaire-based Language Entropy aligns well with social network-based Entropy across different sociolinguistic realities, and contexts, validating Language Entropy as a useful tool for quantifying language diversity. 🔗 psycnet.apa.org/record/2025-...

Introduction is free to read: psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...

Special issue on Network Science in Psychology is out at the @cjep.bsky.social. Thanks to the amazing guest editors and contributors. psycnet.apa.org/PsycARTICLES... #cognition #networkscience #complexsystems #psychology

Just donated to the @mcgillscience.bsky.social Psychology Research Experience Stipend fund (PRESTi) to help our undergrads obtain paid research training. It's a 1:1 match for donations by midnight. Science training is now more important than ever. crowdfunding.mcgill.ca/ui/main/p/mc... #Canada

So happy that the amazing Jason Rothman (@jayro77.bsky.social), has joined us here. He is now added to the Bilingualism & Multilingualism Researcher Starter Pack - go.bsky.app/C5Lhp1C. If you are a #bilingualism researcher and would like to be added, please reach out..

👏The Brooklyn Public Library is doing something truly amazing with its Books Unbanned initiative! They’re offering free eCards to teens across the country who are facing book bans in their local communities. www.bklynlibrary.org/media/press/... #LibrarySky

Great paper about scientific writing

I wrote this for my US friends and colleagues, but also for all of us. Lessons from the past. open.substack.com/pub/verakemp...

Read "Propaganda" by Bernays over the weekend (who was coincidentally or not Sigmund Freud's nephew), and found myself frequently forgetting that this book was written in 1929. #language #persuasion #psychology #psycholinguistics archive.org/details/Bern...

Looking forward to this meeting on #language learning/individual differences in Chicago.. Thanks to @morganshort.bsky.social & Janet van Hell for organizing. Great speakers including @draehernandez.bsky.social, @christoslab.bsky.social, and many others. Wow.. cogneuroidall-hip.red.uic.edu

For the International Women's Month, WiCS-E & @rhulpsychology.bsky.social are hosting the online panel discussion "Addressing Gender-Based Violence in Academia" with Prof. Anne Laure Humbert (U. of Gothenburg) 📆10th March 2025 🕐1pm GMT / 2pm CET 📍Online 🔗Free Registration: shorturl.at/PLeZt

LSA joined dozens of scholarly societies in signing a letter that begins, "American science and innovation have advanced humanity for generations... But today, science is under threat." We commit to championing integrity and conveying the importance of science. unitedsciencealliance.org