Super fun paper on the role of sensorI-motor procedures in 1-to-1 set matching in blind children and adults, with the effulgent @urvi.bsky.social . Procedures that blind kids use for counting 1-1 don’t help set matching 1-1 unlike in sighted kids!

Just in: @drbarner.bsky.social & I find that blind adults and children who have symbols for large numbers, and use 1:1 correspondence to count, do not extend a similar 1:1 strategy to a set-matching task, which assesses their knowledge of Hume’s principle. A 🧵: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Super fun paper on the role of sensorI-motor procedures in 1-to-1 set matching in blind children and adults, with the effulgent @urvi.bsky.social . Procedures that blind kids use for counting 1-1 don’t help set matching 1-1 unlike in sighted kids!

My career has finally made contact with the culture wars. I can now start a podcast and start plotting an exclusive counterculture college.

OMG stop it with the AI jobs in psychology. Let the datascience bubble burst first, ok???

My paper "Base structures across lexical and notational numeral modalities" (PhilTransB) addresses a whole class of questions around the role that semiotic modality, and specifically number words vs. number symbols, plays in the structure of numerical systems.

A new paper w/ the inimitable Sebastian Holt (now at N.Western w/ Dedre Gentner). Kids are slow to learn rules that govern number words. We ask: is this because young kids CAN'T learn such rules, or b/c of the kinds of (base-10) systems they're exposed to? royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/epdf/10....

Finally a chance to celebrate this paper with @ebruevcen.bsky.social. Conditionals often have 2 meanings. The statement, “If you mow the lawn, you will get $5”, might mean that mowing the lawn is just one way to earn $5 or that it’s the ONLY way – a meaning sometimes called Conditional Perfection.

Now out in Open Mind! @drbarner.bsky.social and I find that when people hear a conditional statement like “If you mow the lawn, you’ll get $5,” they often interpret it as “only if you mow the lawn”, a pragmatic, perfected meaning. doi.org/10.1162/opmi...

Today I had a curious encounter with my 4-yo son. He told me he discovered that his Batman action figure could switch the Batman logo to something else. He showed me, touched its arm, shook it and said: “there, it changed.” The thing is: the logo is fixed and cannot change. So what had happened?

My lab is hiring a lab manager! Application deadline = 11/1, start date sometime between June & September 2026 (to be arranged with finalist). Please spread the word & apply here: opportunities.columbia.edu/jobs/a3f80f7.... #AcademicSky #PhdSky #PsychSciSky #SocialPsyc #DevPsyc #psychjobs

Philosophy Dept @ U of Toronto invites applications for 7 #philjobs incl Asst Prof – Metaphysics & Epistemology, St. George Campus (deadline: Nov 3): jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-... Asst Prof – Philosophy & Statistics, St. George Campus (deadline: Nov 4): jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-... #philsci

Thrilled to have another CogSci in the books! Curious about how children learn what age is? Check out my poster with @drbarner.bsky.social here: qr.codes/yjFi54

PsyArXiv is seeking new moderators to help combat an increase in AI submissions! If you've ever posted a preprint to PsyArXiv, please consider joining. Minimum commitment 1h/month, there's a training session this Monday @ 1pm ET. More info here: forms.gle/9LB1rEtxHAeZ... #PsychSciSky

1/ Dunno if anyone else cares about this, but a few years ago it became impossible to dumb-phone your iPhone using screentime settings (e.g., to remove web browser, etc.) b/c Safari just reappears in the App library. I recently discovered a way around this that cut my screen time by 2-3 hours a day.

Susan Carey mic-drop at #cogsci2025. "There are no innate concepts: Discuss"

Next Monday 6/30, join us for session 3 on 🛠️Problem Solving🧠 ! Register here for Zoom link: stanford.zoom.us/meeting/regi... Attending CogSci in person this July? Submit an abstract to showcase your work at our poster session! forms.gle/SHFChMAAReto...

Welcome to #MCLS2025!

🚨 5 days left! Submit your proposal for the ✨Broadening Participation in Cognitive Science✨ initiative. Grants up to $5,000 to support projects that advance accessibility & inclusion in #CogSci 🗓️Deadline: June 13 🔗 cognitivesciencesociety.org/broadening-p...

Delighted to announce our CogSci '25 workshop at the interface between cognitive science and design 🧠🖌️! We're calling it: 🏺Minds in the Making🏺 🔗 minds-making.github.io June – July 2024, free & open to the public (all career stages, all disciplines)

Fun new paper led by Sebastian Holt, training adults on artificial number systems. Most work tests only base-10 learning; we trained adults on a range of base systems & manipulated whether numbers were learned as part of a counting system, or unordered words. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

If you haven't been looking recently at the Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science (oecs.mit.edu), here's your reminder that we are a free, open access resource for learning about the science of mind. Today we are launching our new Thematic Collections to organize our growing set of articles!

UC San Diego Psychology hosted the first Southern California Meeting for Investigations in Developmental Science (SoCal MInDS) this Saturday. We were joined by wonderful folks from the southernmost UC campuses, SDSU, CSULA, Occidental College, and USC.

OMG Fodor was right!

Please spread the word: we’re hiring! “Three-year Limited Term Assistant Professor position in the Division of Linguistics beginning on July 1, 2025 … in generative syntax, with expertise in experimental syntax, psycholinguistics and/or neurolinguistics” careers.ucalgary.ca/jobs/1609537...

How are humans able to make sense of time? Not with special biology but with “time tools”—ideas, practices, and artifacts that render time more concrete. My new paper explores this vast, varied toolkit—one that makes use of knots, nuts, hands, flowers, mountains, shadows, and much more. (link 👇)

Now out. This one was quite the ride & in the end we followed reviewer suggestions to change stats, add new exps, & ultimately found something unexpected: people are less sensitive to mental states of speakers when computing implicatures in-person vs. online. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Athulya Aravind and I wrote a chapter on Pragmatic Development for the Cambridge Companion to Child Syntax. Comments are welcome! Link: lingbuzz.net/lingbuzz/008...

New in Journal of Pragmatics we find that overall online tasks offer a valid test of pragmatic inference (like implicature) but also surprisingly that ppl are less sensitive to speaker knowledge states when tested in person vs. in static online modalities like text. osf.io/preprints/ps...

My 16-yr-old lost her last baby tooth last night, and the tooth fairy (who in our family is from Canada) left a CDN $20 under her pillow. #inflation #CanadaTariffs

Don't shoot the messenger, right?

Was just reminded of this very amusing and ironic response to our 2016 quest for Fair Open Access at Cognition. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Pretty bad email day over here.

Hello! I'm looking to hire a post-doc, to start this Summer or Fall. It'd be great if you could share this widely with people you think might be interested. More details on the position & how to apply: bit.ly/cocodev_post... Official posting here: academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/14723

📣 The Cognitive Development Society (CDS) is now on Bluesky! Please follow them @cogdevsoc.bsky.social for news about the 2026 conference in Montreal and more! cogdevsoc.org

A fascinating 2023/24 study of publishing timelines over 140,000 academics in STEMM showing discipline & country-specific attrition of academic careers from the publication of first paper. The probability of continuing after 19y just 38-43%. Interactive maps at: public.tableau.com/app/profile/... 🧪

Back after a social media mental health break..I may reconsider..and take another one soon! In the meantime, this is what keeps me going.

This is the reason I live where I do..but..sometimes one needs to travel south!

Many of my friends are heading for "Bluer Skies" from other social media posts. Bravo! Here's my photo for today. Appreciation and gratitude daily!

⏳ Time is running out! Just ONE WEEK left to submit your nominations for the prestigious Glushko Dissertation Prize! Deadline: January 18 – Don’t miss it!

Why major in philosophy? - can be smug after only 2-3 classes - only major where you finish knowing less than when you started - generally better beards than psychology - can't find a job, but then again what even is a job?

New year, new paper! 4- and 5-year-olds can represent abstract relations (i.e., sameness and difference) predicated on an abstract dimension (i.e., kind membership) in a relational match-to-sample task. Moreover, noun label training facilitates task performance. direct.mit.edu/opmi/article...

You might think that having just one word for "yesterday" and "tomorrow" would make learning harder, but we find the opposite - that children learning the Hindi word "kal" understand its use to refer to past & future events earlier than English-speaking kids understand "yesterday" and "tomorrow".

Join us as we celebrate Ruth Byrne, Seana Coulson, Adele Goldberg, Arthur Graesser, Ping Li, and Asli Ozyurek – our esteemed ✨Cognitive Science Society Fellows of 2025!✨ Visit cognitivesciencesociety.org/fellows to learn more!

Out now! @drbarner.bsky.social & I find that Hindi kids learn yesterday & tomorrow earlier than English kids, despite having only word 'kal' to reference both the past and future. We argue that kids rely on tense info (over associations w/ events) to learn. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Resignation of the Journal of Human Evolution Editorial Board: We are saddened to announce the resignations of The Joint Editors-in-Chief, all Emeritus Editors retired or active in the field, and all but one Associate Editor. Press release below.

We’re seeking nominations for up to five outstanding dissertations in cognitive science for the Glushko Dissertation Prize! Each prize will be accompanied by a ✨$10,000 award✨ Self-nominations are welcome! Learn more and nominate at cognitivesciencesociety.org/glushko-diss... 🗓️ Deadline: Jan. 18

The minute is called that because it's the first minute (small) part of the hour The second-order minute part of the hour is called...the second And before we had milliseconds, there was a period when a second was divided into 60 "thirds" (!!) From the "time" episode of @lingthusiasm.bsky.social:

Prolific is dead. Long live prolific.