How the night started vs how it ended with my three cats

Ending the year strong. Rereading the idiot for the second time, reading a collection of Kafka’s stories, and finishing up Empire of AI which has been incredibly eye opening. The notebooks have been witnessing the learning curve and my daily, weekly, and monthly tasks.

Ha, this is the perfect opportunity to share this awesome Turkish cartoon many of us will relate to. The man: Have I died and come to heaven? The demon: Dude, what was your life like?

Someone who sold vitamins on TV for many years is telling what is medically sound. Most of those vitamins were aimed at certain conditions for older men. I will just stop my thoughts here.

I have a list of book suggestions for these companies that go through the existential crisis.

Celebrating my mom’s birthday from 6000 miles away. Cheers to the most complex human in my life! She called me ‘son’ first time last year so I am being extra celebratory with a glass of wine, a glass of grand marnier, and a cup of double shot espresso.

Please consider submitting your manuscript to our special issue in Scientific Reports (deadline March 5th, 2026) www.nature.com/collections/...

Public announcement: your cats know when you don’t feel well and they do really weird things to make you laugh. Here is my picture with my third baby where he ran inside my bag chew my notebook and moments after this photo threw up in backpack.

Deadline Jan 15: Open rank (tenure-track/tenured), language (open sub area), Cognitive Science, Johns Hopkins apply.interfolio.com/178813

An analysis of the legal deficiencies of the agreement Northwestern signed to restore funding www.theuniversityunderthreat.org/updates#h.hk...

This is honestly like a fractal fever dream inside a matrix inside a nightmare inside a matrix

A few weeks ago, I went to the Psychonomics conference in Denver. During the conference, I heard a researcher saying "bilinguals have a creativity disadvantage." I raised my questions after their talk, but I also wrote a letter to talk about my emotions. open.substack.com/pub/letterst...

Trying out a new PCP's office, and their "preferred language" dropdown on the intake form is time-traveler inclusive.

One more week to nominate an outstanding early-career researcher for the Lila R. Gleitman Prize. Visit cognitivesciencesociety.org/gleitman-pri... to learn more and nominate! #GleitmanPrize

I have had pretty rough years, but 2025 has been it. As we are approaching the end of it, I want to share my gratitude for another year of learning and the many beautiful communities that surround me. I want to acknowledge what a good teacher this year has been.

We are pleased to announce the third Reframing Our Language Experience (ROLE) Symposium 🥳 This year, the conference will take place over two days, with an in-person workshop (UNAM) on 9 April and an online conference on 10 April. Call for proposals: www.rolecollective.org/events/3rd-r...

Our department had an open house lab visit today. Over 50 students visited over 10 research labs. I am so proud of our wonderful community and am grateful to be a part of it.

🎉 Congratulations to the 2025 Cognition Outstanding Reviewer Award recipients: Recognized for exceptional clarity, depth, and insight, their reviews set the highest standard and advance our field through thoughtful, rigorous evaluation. This year’s recipients:🥁

Just a daily reminder: trans women are women. Trans people exist. Trans people are human. Human rights cannot be selective of social categories.

I was selected as one of the outstanding reviewers for Cognition. This is a great initiative for journals to acknowledge reviewers' efforts. I thank the Cognition editorial team for taking the lead on such a great initiative. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Psychology folks! I'm trying to identify broad principles of Psychology that describe phenomena in multiple subdisciplines. For example "Psychological phenomena have physiological correlates" or "Information processing is optimized for the training data." Would be delighted for suggestions!

For over sixty years, PS has been at the forefront of pioneering research in cognitive psychology. This #GivingTuesday, your support is more crucial than ever. Every donation matters. Visit buff.ly/VmgdQs2 to learn more. Thank you for your generosity.

It is my fourth year as an Associate Editor, and it still amazes me to see distinguished scholars who have never reviewed for our journal send their mentees emails cc’ing us, saying that if we take more than three months, they may not submit to our journal in the future.

Review starts 12/1 (rolling basis): Open-rank (tenure-track/tenured) positions, cognitive psychology, cognitive neuroscience, behavioral neuroscience, Psych. + Brain Sci., Johns Hopkins University pbs.jhu.edu/about/jobs/

Spark friends! If you are here at Psychonomics, let’s get together for a casual meet up at Revival Denver Public House on Saturday at 5 pm. Come by if you want to unwind a bit, see familiar faces, and meet others in our community. Pass this along to anyone who might want to join. revival-denver.com

Come see my student, Jake Boudreau, present our work at #psynom25 on why the term “native speaker” deserves more scrutiny. We show how aging and social networks affect sentence processing.

Yes, PINE Lab is accepting doctoral applications this cycle in Psychology! Apps due Dec 1! Interested in early life human neuroplasticity? how early pre- and post-natal experiences/exposures (promotional/adverse) shape malleable brains? Current research here: drive.google.com/file/d/1wFZj...

#Iowa sky right now.

🚨I am in the most delightful position of having a postdoc land a faculty job! Which means I will be looking to hire at least one new postdoc this cycle! More to come soon but if you're interested feel free to email me or come say hi at @isdp.org in a week or two!

14 years ago today, I took the TOEFL exam in Istanbul to apply for grad school in Canada. I spoke French throughout my teens and had a degree in French–Turkish interpreting. I knew very little English and barely passed TOEFL.

While the first year of life is crucial for language development, our team found that sound categorization continues to develop throughout the early school years. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Huge thanks to @psychopy.org and especially @hirstrj.bsky.social ! After spending thousands on other tools with little support, Dr. Hirst solved all my technical problems within days. If you are using behavioral, eyetracking, and EEG systems in your lab, I recommend checking out PsychoPy.

Coming soon! gazeR will support @pupil-labs.bsky.social!

The Speech, Sign, and Systems Lab (formerly VoiceLab) is seeking motivated PhD students to join us in Fall 2026! We are part of the University of Iowa’s Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, consistently ranked among the top 5 programs in speech sciences nationwide.

Thank you @languageinsociety.bsky.social! What a great honor!

The discussion will include different perspectives as panelists are at different career stages with different experiences. We want to thank them all for being keen to participate! @parafitacouto.bsky.social @lshepperd.bsky.social @ethankutlu.bsky.social Suhail Matar & Judith Kroll

I'll also be a grad student rep (along with @reycabreraperez.bsky.social) at the *sold out* ISB "Reframing Our Language Experience" panel convened by @ethankutlu.bsky.social and @alicialuque.bsky.social on the 10th. Super excited to connect w/ folks who care abt making positive change in this area!

MAY MOST READ ARTICLES 2. "Evaluative reactions to minority languages and their varieties: Evidence from new speakers of West Frisian" by Ruth Kircher, @ethankutlu.bsky.social & @mirjamvellinga.bsky.social doi.org/10.1017/S004... #LgAttitudes#LgIdeologies#MinorityLgs #LgPlanning #LgRevitalisation

I’m collecting peer-reviewed articles that have significantly impacted #psycholinguistic theories, methodologies, or models through inclusive research practices (e.g., minoritized language users, lesser-studied languages, different modalities). What are your favorite papers from the last 15 years?

Please share with your networks that the 2nd ROLE Symposium will be held online on May 19th. More information is coming soon www.rolecollective.org/events/2nd-r... You can submit your abstracts by April 14th through this link docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Thank you @savithry.bsky.social and Sarah Phillips for all your hard work for CEDL!

Life goals (not the first inspired by @emilymyers.bsky.social).

I am thrilled to share our new paper which investigates the role of continuous measures in linguistic diversity research. We found that children who are exposed to more linguistic diversity (e.g., language, dialect, accent) are perceptually more flexible. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

UW-Madison Psychology is hiring a new assistant professor in the area of computational approaches to language (broadly construed). Please share with interested parties! jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...

Visualize and download school segregation data for every state, county, metro area, commuting zone, geo school district, and local educational agency in the US since 1991. edopportunity.org/segregation

If you have the means, please help my friend help their parents gofund.me/48a9d7ae

A #COSMIN review of content validity of measures in early #numeracy in children, published in PLoS ONE journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

bout to do a spot on CBS news Detroit about language change in Michigan! Fingers crossed that everything goes well and that my water doesn't break while on TV lmao