Straight to the top of my reading pile: Some of my favourite linguists @superlinguo.bsky.social, Hildebrandt & @suzyjstyles.bsky.social with a new paper on spontaneous multimodal iconicity in earthquake narratives doi.org/10.1080/0726... #iconicity #ideophones

I included a parsing question in my Cognitive exam. The sentences featured pirates and mermaids, and encouraged students to include illustrations to help explain their answer - More than 50 students included drawings 🥹

"to democratize art is not every person having a cute drawing made in seconds, to democratize art is every person having time and health to learn and make art if they chose to, and mainly to have the means to think and relate introspectively with art."

This looks like fire! 🔥

"AI art Ghibli trend" but it's Miyazaki's reaction and actually art

Proud to be a life member of @lingsocam.bsky.social, who has just come out with:"Four Reasons Why English Should Not be the Official Language of the United States: Statement Against White House Executive Order “Designating English as the Official Language of The U.S.” www.lsadc.org/content.asp?...

I won't highlight them all, but here's an obvious one: "The literature review is thorough but could be more focused. Some references (e.g., classic Piagetian theories of childhood play) seem tangential to the primary argument and could be condensed" We simply don't reference these theories.

The Indigenous People of North America have decided to go back to calling the Gulf of Mexico, “Chalchiuhtlicueyecatl”. It is what the Nahuatl People originally called it as it is the domain of the goddess Chalchiuhtlicue, who is assoc w/water bodies, including the Gulf of Mexico.

Applications for SCIENCE IRL grants are due *tomorrow*!! Send us your swinging-for-the-fences scicomm that - Reaches science disinterested people - Does not require your audience to come to you - Effectively hooks people with science - Gives people ACTION they can take

New postdoc opportunity from Sloan to study how AI impacts scientific research. We have a great community growing around AI/STS at Princeton and I would be very happy to consider supporting applications as a mentor - please email if you are interested! sloan.org/programs/dig...

🚨Paper alert 🚨 Need a social cognition task for measuring individual- and community-level variation? We are excited to share the TANGO-CC with you! 👀 Paper: doi.org/10.1177/2515... w/ @mcxfrank.bsky.social @patkanngiesser.bsky.social @kirstensutherland.bsky.social @elmanubohn.bsky.social...

The OSF is available for preservation of datasets that need saving. osf.io Contact [email protected] if you need assistance

Hey if anyone is considering backing up any datasets for some reason today, the Open Science Framework has free storage up to 5G/private repository, and up to 50G/public repository. (The OSF is run by a 501c3 (Center for Open Science), so if you do this you might also consider making a donation.)

"A story of stories: a large-scale cross-linguistic study of young children’s narratives" Very honored to contribute to this large-scale project on the development of narrative skills in mono- and bilinguals. 2000+ narratives, 1000+ children, 30+ languages www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-5...

What made ancient wolves into dogs? For one hypothesis, where wolves tamed themselves through scavenging our trash, one objection was it would take too long. A new study shows nope, they could do it. Good boy.  www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti...

📣 PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT 🔬 I made this short comic to explain what the #NIH cuts mean in practice because behind the abstract label of #overheadcosts are real people, doing important work! #AcademicSky #resist #organize #scicomm

In an alarming new twist, husbo has started asking “did you actually write this?” after consulting AI agents about my pubs Styles & Gawne (2017) ‘When can you TICKLE the CAR? The semantics of object-sound metaphors in English’ is the most on-brand paper @superlinguo.bsky.social and I never wrote!

Apps are due FRIDAY for the Science IRL grant We're funding projects that tackle humanity's big science-centric problems, while reaching people who are NOT engaging with science. Bring me your creative, unique projects that put science where there currently is none. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Hearing from a govt contractor that Dept of Education is terminating What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) contracts. WWC is a website that rigorously evaluates education policies, programs, and products to determine what's effective and not. It's an invaluable tool for school, district, state leaders

I have been serving on the WWC Stem panel and I am heartbroken over this. 💔 All that work we all did to review works in support of our schools and learners…especially AIR folks who spent the most time on this. Just devastating. 😔 What a waste of taxpayer dollars to cancel crucial works in progress.

“Your work is your rebellion” 💪 www.reddit.com/r/labrats/co...

Call for nominations for the Stanton Prize by the Society for Philosophy and Psychology 📣 It goes to an early-career scholar who is active in the SPP and has made significant contributions to interdisciplinary research in phil, psych, or related disciplines. More here: tinyurl.com/stantonprize...

A few weeks ago, I gave a talk on On the Wrong Side at a British university. A perpetrator under investigation saw advertising for the talk and wrote me a long email, including confessions of past and intended future violence. I absolutely cannot convince the school to accept the email as evidence.

Get in dorks, we're going protesting! STAND UP FOR SCIENCE WITH US ON MARCH 7TH, 2025 WASHINGTON DC AND EVERY STATE CAPITOL Because science is for everyone! Find us at www.standupforscience2025.org #standupforscience2025 #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence

Excellent opportunity for aspiring science illustrators!! 👏🏾 😍❤️🎉 I would apply in a heartbeat if I could. Don't delay, deadline is approaching www.esf.edu/clbs/opportu... #scicomm #academicsky #scienceillustration #sciencecommunication

Last week I asked cognitive psychology students to share something they learned that had a high cognitive load at first, but after practice, became more routine, allowing them to pay attention to other things… Friends, their answers were delightful - I learned so much about this fabulous cohort 🧵

Because I can’t help myself let’s have one more shot of #Reflections for #BlueskyArtShow #CityScape #Abstract

Same-same but different - also a gorgeous day in august Merdeka 118 in Kuala Lumpur #BlueskyArtShow #Reflections

#BlueSkyArtShow The theme is #Reflections Inside Lindy Lee’s Auroboros at NGA

I enjoy spec fiction, where the protagonists all wear glasses

I use a Macbook for work and updated it yesterday. The update automatically turned on Apple Intelligence and I had to turn it off. I can't think of any other product in modern history that has been so sweatily shoved onto customers by companies. Is there any precedent for this kind of desperation?

I had no idea this existed - so freakin' cool!

New method of cooking eggs just dropped. In the tradition of all the best cooking blogs, the recipe comes right at the end after an extensive fluid dynamics preamble 😂 tldr. periodic eggs: 2min 100 ℃ 2min 30 ℃ Repeat for 32 mins

'Scientists with retracted publications had younger publication age, higher self-citation rates, and larger publication volume than those without any retracted publications' journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Find someone who is as into you as this macaque is into his deer friend 🥰

So, what to do when a worthy and valuable idea (Open Access) has been hijacked? For now, a simple step is to check publisher policies before submitting work. Submit only to those (like the Royal Society) that place no embargo on your accepted manuscript. (7/7)

FYI if you only support diversity, equity and inclusion when you don’t have any pushback then you do not actually support it.

Superb methodological rigour going down here 💕

Sitting in a cafe revising a manuscript that is almost ready for submission. 65M pauses as he walks past and says “well, you’re working hard aren’t you!” Clearly #SciencingWhileFemale was not on his boomer bingo card for today. Who else is having a #GenderedExperience today? #AcademicChatter

Recursion has landed

"meaningful mayo" 😆🤩

We CT scanned thousands of vertebrates from US natural history collections and made them freely available. Countless people have used the data for research (>200 pubs) and to learn anatomy/morphology. www.morphosource.org/projects/000...

Tag yourself! What kind of research burger are you? @academic-chatter.bsky.social Link to main thread: bsky.app/profile/suzy...

Start of term - let’s share academic resources! How about the Research Burger! 🧵 osf.io/sj3mz/

Friends, for something to be open source, we need to see 1. The data it was trained & evaluated on 2. The code 3. Model architecture 4. Model weights. DeepSeek only gives 3, 4. And I'll see the day that anyone gives us #1 without being forced to do so, because all of them are stealing data.

As someone who has reported on AI for 7 years and covered China tech as well, I think the biggest lesson to be drawn from DeepSeek is the huge cracks it illustrates with the current dominant paradigm of AI development. A long thread. 1/

When #scicomm = learning by laughing! Last Saturday, I took part in an improv show by The Catalyst (thecatalyst.ch) - an Anglophone sci-tertainment collective based in Lausanne, CH. I gave a 5-min layperson-friendly talk on #workingmemory, which the improvisers then used as inspiration for a skit 🧠🎭

Balanced + useful information is often difficult to find, making sources of trustworthy communication paramount. #HardingPrize is awarded to those who gather info to help others make decisions without telling them what to do Nominations now open tinyurl.com/52whxhzf @smclondon.bsky.social

Call for entries 📣 The international €350K #EinsteinFoundationAward honors researchers and institutions across all scientific disciplines working to advance #research quality. Deadline: 30 April 2025 - please share! 🌍 (1/2) ➡️ award.einsteinfoundation.de #OpenScience #reproducibility

Current listening: fantastic @kensycoop.bsky.social interview with Nicola Allen, talking about the molecular neuroscience of glial cells! Good thing I prepped my Brain Cells colouring page in advance 😉 manyminds.libsyn.com/the-other-ha...