A year after getting covid, which resulted in Long Covid, I was finally able to mostly breathe again after various rehab programs. I’ve now got Covid and can’t breathe again. I was vaccinated 4 weeks ago and mask regularly. Can we please stop doing this to each other? 😞 #LongCovid

It still fails the Ferry rebus puzzle test: Today’s puzzle from ChatGPT: 🎯 Goal: Solve the rebus to find a theory of language development. 🧀 ➕ 🐝 ➕ 👂 ➕ 🔑

I have been having ChatGPT generate rebus puzzles for me to solve. Today’s psychology related puzzle: 🧠 + 👶 + 🔄 + “Pi” + 👂👁️

Funded PhD opportunity with @sjblakemore.bsky.social and I, at Cambridge. We are looking for someone interested in developmental science, to start in the coming academic year. Please share it with anyone you think might be interested (see details attached 😁). drive.google.com/file/d/1RIvg...

Adobe has strong opinions on the standing of neuroscience as a scientific field.

We've got quite a few different studies going on at the Child Study Centre at the minute! Here's two of our studies. If you want to get involved send us a message or email [email protected] :)

bit of good news: approved technical staff position! link below. please be in touch if this matches your skills & interests! drive.google.com/file/d/16J2J... (hr listing posted harvard-internal now; external soon, per guidelines), happy for ?s & plan on quick turnaround! #CogSciSky #PsychSciSky 🐦🐦

Should I stand on a street corner with an apology banner?

An otter along the River Mersey! 😍😍😍 #Didsbury #RiverMersey

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The CSC is excited to learn about dyslexia in monolingual and bilingual children from Prof. Manon Jones at out LuCiD seminar this morning! Find out more about our seminar series here: www.lucid.ac.uk/seminars-new...

New study for 3- and 4-year-olds at Manchester’s Child Study Centre!

Is your child 3- to 4.5-years-old? Take part in our study to help our understanding of language development! This 30-minute study will use a fun, game-based activity using stickers and blocks. To find out more information, please email: [email protected].

Come join us! We (me, Jill Lany, Perrine Brusini, and Gert Westermann) are recruiting a #devpsych PhD student to Lancaster Uni to join our ongoing Levehulme funded research project on how word learning shapes visual representations in infants! Please share! More info : tinyurl.com/ynbfkhbj

📢 We are delighted to announce our keynote speakers for LCICD 2025! We will be joined by Karen Adolph, Diane Poulin-Dubois, and Judit Gervain. Abstract submission is OPEN now. Submit: wp.lancs.ac.uk/lcicd/abstra... #PsychSciSky Thank you to sponsors @nirx-nirs.bsky.social

If you live in AK, AL, IN, FL, KS, KY, LA, ME, MO, OH, and SC, your reps are on the Senate HELP Committee which has jurisdiction over NIH. Write to them pointing out the jobs and money coming to your state from NIH: www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-... describe impact of NIH cuts on....

Send help to the geologists trying to review the linguistic grants about grammatical gender 🫣

I took the window bird feeder down because of the storm. This decision was not appreciated by everyone. #birds

Szilvia Linnert and I have a six-week funded research placement advertised for undergrads (from uk universities in the middle of their degree) with the Wellcome Trust placement scheme. The project will be doing EEG with infants and adults on object categorisation! Please share! tinyurl.com/3wbsffpk

Now at 6 months + with Long Covid and today I started the English National Opera breathing rehabilitation programme. Hopefully this will help with my persistent shortness of breath 🤞

The new Didsbury Waterfall

It’s still December and the Cadbury eggs have already arrived?

I found a second Danny Devito life size cutout just down the road (the first one being mine, sent to watch over me while I was sick with covid). Can anyone beat South Manchester in Danny Devito density?

The Indiana Jones of Hallmark Christmas movies. There’s a mystery quest with clues that require an expert old Norse linguist. In a bold take on the state of academia, the linguist was found at his side gig selling Christmas trees.

Some quite old research shows that misaligned maps (here, looking at the map requires a mental rotation to align it with the perspective of the viewer) result in navigation problems. I wonder if that’s gotten worse in the age of auto-aligning phone maps?

The @childstudycentre.bsky.social is now on BlueSky! Follow us to hear about language, social, and cognitive development research from the University of Manchester 🐝🐝🐝

I don’t think even Elton John can fix marmite.

More evidence published of the huge costs of long Covid (LC) for the economy. We know vaccines reduce risk of developing LC yet JCVI DO NOT factor LC into decision and cost benefit analysis for Covid vaccines 🧪 www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2024/no...

We’ve had a patch of cold weather and I dug out my cold, wet weather coat. Apparently I last wore it on the @ucu.org.uk picket line. The sticker is still holding strong. What is this glue made of?!? @umucu.bsky.social

Here in Manchester it snowed all night and we woke up to a magical winter wonderland ❄️❄️❄️

Sharing this new blog post so I can spot all the typos. You're useless survey isn't cost free, so please stop asking me to fill them out. statsepi.substack.com/p/your-usele...

My marking of essays about cultural evolution in non-humans was interrupted by a squirrel innovating a new way to access my bird feeder (jumping down from the roof). Let’s hope this behaviour doesn’t spread to the other squirrels. #culturalevolution #squirrels

I stress woke up at 4am. I am not comforted.

The big election day question, is my vote going to be challenged? So far, I have not received any notifications!

Read about our new paper on children’s interpretation of comparative words like bigger, smaller, and taller. #devpsych #devsci #psychscisky #language #cogpsy #linguistics

Our new paper (doi.org/10.1111/cdev... ) looked at when children figure out the meaning of words like bigger, smaller, and taller. We built something out of blocks and then asked children to build something (“Can you build one that’s bigger?”).

My smoke alarm has been going off randomly and been declared faulty by the manufacturer. To stop it from going off before I take it to ewaste recycling, I cut the wires and disconnected the batteries. But it still goes off. Is it haunted? Should I smash it with a hammer? Douse it with water?

The 2022 PA ballots were a nice demonstration of why you shouldn’t rely on Google Translate for important government documents. Fixed now in 2024. #FiestaVerde

I am fascinated by the genre of Hallmark films that feature scientists and academics (Christmas tree scientist! Christmas historian!) and this year we are finally getting a Christmas linguist!

At my #LongCovid clinic appointment yesterday, I asked about treatment clinical trials and was told there aren’t any. This is in a major research hub city with a high long covid burden. Research says we need trials, but where are they?

There was a park with some baby goats near the Long Covid clinic. It was a nice (and very much needed) mood booster, but a bit depressing that we don’t have any more substantial treatments yet for #longcovid . The baby animals can only do so much!

🚨We’re hiring! 🚨 Our Leverhulme Trust funded project looking is hiring a postdoctoral researcher! The project will use eye-tracking and EEG to look at how 6- to 18-month-olds learn words. The position is based at Lancaster University. Please share! More info: hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

Poster time at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society conference #cns2024