As a deaf person with a deaf kid, I'm the first to admit IDEA isn't perfect. I fight people's (often willful) misinterpretations of the Least Restrictive Environment every day. Just gave a lecture at BU about how change is needed. Deleting all legal oversight in the middle of the night isn't it.

@clauslamm.bsky.social & I contributed to a global study that analyzed 21 million trials across 30 languages, revealing semantic priming [SP] as a robust cognitive mechanism across cultures and writing systems. Lead by @aggieerin.bsky.social and @slewis5920.bsky.social doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Proposal for how to fix family wise error rates. For every uncorrected p value you must add an extra letter to the claim. “Eating chocolate maaaaaaaaay be associated with lower rates of stroke”

At #SNL2025? Go check out this poster with @zedsehyr.bsky.social

psych departments post a faculty job that has nothing to do with AI challenge

Bicycles Deliver the Freedom that Auto Ads Promise.

I am beyond excited to announce that ggplot2 4.0.0 has just landed on CRAN. It's not every day we have a new major #ggplot2 release but it is a fitting 18 year birthday present for the package. Get an overview of the release in this blog post and be on the lookout for more in-depth posts #rstats

BREAKING: Trump’s Education Dept. cancels grants that help students who are both deaf and blind. “How low can you go?” said one person who works with DeafBlind students and their families. W/ @jsmithrichards.bsky.social for @propublica.org www.propublica.org/article/trum...

lil blogpost ab a cool paper led by the amazing @erinecampbell.bsky.social thnx to NSF. also features a coda ab the very active threat to science funding we’re facing (cc @standupforscience.bsky.social) & a ht to @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social’s good work. thnx @infantstudies.bsky.social!

Data collection is underway! We're using mobile eye tracking to study action comprehension in dogs. Django is helping us understand how dogs see and interpret our actions — more coming soon! 🐶👁️ #Science #DogResearch #CognitiveScience Thanks @asab.org for funding this project!

I was finally able to make these visualizations of what what "light", "dark" and other modifiers do to colors jofrhwld.github.io/blog/posts/2...

NASA is more than rockets and moonwalks. NASA is behind much of our everyday technology. From space discovery, to Air Jordans, to CAT scans, NASA has played a role. We get it all on less than a penny of every federal dollar. Now their science may be gutted by 50%. #NASADidThat

At the Science Fair for canceled grants, I had the privilege of speaking with @naomicaselli.bsky.social. Her team (which includes deaf researchers) were making breakthroughs to better identify & address language deprivation — when the Trump administration terminated their grant.

Okay y’all, gather round for a chat. It’s been a roller coaster, and I thought I’d share what we’ve learned. 🧵 (1/16) bsky.app/profile/luck...

Session Submission and registration is now open for BTSCON2025! bigteamscienceconference.github.io/submissions/ @abrir.bsky.social @psysciacc.bsky.social @manybabies.org

Severe blows to the ‘deaf-scientist pipeline’ must not mean abandoning its best practices. Here is how to support current and future students, says Wyatte C. Hall https://go.nature.com/4eDVjqp

every year my lab does a re-read + edit of our Handbook, a documentation resource for how we do science this year we also updated our Public Handbook, an open-access version for folks wanting to improve their own docs it's at handbook-public.themusiclab.org and available for noncommercial re-use

Exciting news - three years after visiting @amymlieberman.bsky.social in Boston for 6 wonderful weeks, our project on joint attention and sign familiarity in ASL has been published!

its amazing how chatgpt knows everything about subjects I know nothing about, but is wrong like 40% of the time in things im an expert on. not going to think about this any further

As we age, we move slower and less precisely—but how much, exactly? We analyzed one of the largest datasets on motor control to date—2,185 adults performing a reaching task. Findings • Reaction time: –1.2 ms/year • Movement time: –2.3 ms/year • Precision: –0.02°/year tinyurl.com/f9v66jut 1/2

those of us staring down the @bucld.bsky.social #BUCLD50 deadline feel seen.

I'm happy to share a new paper from my PhD research! Exciting work about how visual info helps us process sound, and an example of federal funding that benefits all of us - from your health to community health. doi.org/10.1152/jn.0... With @jmgrohneuro.bsky.social & Jesse Herche Thread: 🧵👇 1/10

Daz @drdazzy.bsky.social and I are current board members of SLLS (slls.eu/board/) and are seeking feedback about TISLR conferences Anyone who's interested in signed languages can respond even if you haven't been to TISLR. Please share widely! Thank you for your time! gu.live/RWCkP

Blind toddlers often experience language delays. Blind adults do not. In our new paper at @langdevres.bsky.social, we ask whether differences in language input could help them catch up: Do parents speak differently to blind children than sighted children? (Barely... read on for details) 🧪1/N

I had way too much fun making these 【 #openscience | #metascience | #opensource | #psychsky 】

Listen to @naomicaselli.bsky.social explain the results of this paper! We're so excited to have it out in the world 😊

It's bonkers that in academic science we spend hours obsessing over the wording of a paper, but often only one person has seen the code that produced the results! 2/N

Using 3 corpora of naturalistic speech to 0-3yo children, Wojcik & Goulding (2025) found highly freq & less concrete words more evenly distributed across time, allowing us to und how temporal dynamics affect word learning outside of lab #EarlyYears #DevPsySky #infancypapers doi.org/10.1111/infa...

teaching Language Acquisition, and students voted for an end-of-semester, not-on-the-exam lecture on duolingo (or other lang learning apps) anything you'd want to include? seminal studies? fun facts? controversies? students are juniors/seniors, very engaged, and a mix of neuro/ling/ASL backgrounds

1st results from the 1st ever Sign Language of the Netherlands CDI. Results for children's comprehension and production, reliably correlate with age. All the work of the extraordinary Jenni Sander and Dilys Eikelboom @jennisander.bsky.social

Out now in @pnas.org! 🌹Is a rose by any other name still as roselike?🌹 We study the prevalence of iconicity (does a word look/sound like what it means?) and systematicity (are pronunciation/meaning relationships shared across multiple words?) in large datasets of ASL, English, and Spanish. 🧵1/N

🧪 Tip: You have the right to contest a grant termination, even though NSF says you don't. 🧵 On Friday, NSF terminated 402 grants (per Musk's DOGE). The notification letters had one of the most egregious violations of fed regulations I've seen so far in these cases: "not subject to appeal"

New paper! @bonniemclean.bsky.social & Dingemanse 2025, A multi-methods toolkit for documentary research on ideophones — reviewing a diversity of methods and analytical approaches to the documentation of #ideophones. ideophone.org/new-methods-... ⛓️‍💥 PDF pure.mpg.de/pubman/item/... #iconicity

At 10pm Tuesday, I got notice that my 3yr IMLS grant was terminated. No reason given & termination *backdated* a week (I’m told the official termination is lost in the mail). This is absolutely devastating & totally meaningless. I can’t email my PO because the entire agency is on admin leave. 1/n

New R package almost birthed - SemanticDistance - computes two semantic distance metrics (experiential and embedding) for any rolling chunk size (ngram-to-ngram, word-to-word, turn-to-turn, ngram-to-word). You give it your language sample. It does the rest, including lemmatize and stopword omit

New paper out at @openmindjournal.bsky.social!! We studied early vocab in deaf, hearing, blind, and sighted children in order to learn how sensory access (vision 👀, hearing 👂) and linguistic experiences shape how children learn words... Read on for a quick summary! 1/N

I’ve created a website to look up phonological features (frequency, age of acquisition, neighbors) of real and nonwords. rpomper.github.io/phono/ It’s still in progress (manuscript coming) please let me know if you have any recommendations or feature requests! (It takes 1-2 minutes to load)

📢 I'm excited to announce that my new R package {cocoon} is available on CRAN! This package flexibly formats statistical output in a way that can be inserted into R Markdown or Quarto documents. jeffreyrstevens.github.io/cocoon/ #RStats #Quarto @quarto.org

oh you like R? name every package

Now out (open access) at Developmental Science!! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #devpsyc #psychscisky

Yesterday I reviewed ~30 open datasets and there was a spectrum of quality. While I don't believe all data need to be identically formatted, I do think data should meet these standards and include thorough documentation (e.g., a data dictionary and project summary) to improve reusability.

When 2,500 education researchers (osf.io/89ehs) were asked why they did not want to share data: ~15% reported they were worried about errors ~30% reported it was time consuming Both concerns that can be minimized with good data management.

Ok, I love this! Consider having a “Data Cleaning Day” once a year with your team or organization to do things like ✔️ Delete archived files ✔️ Update your data inventory ✔️ Review and clean up folder access ✔️ Review data security protocols www.dataorchard.org.uk/news/introdu...

I thought I'd share the Boston University Wheelock Deaf Center position statement on the ACLU of Delaware complaint that too many deaf kids are getting the opportunity to go to bilingual schools where they can learn ASL and English 🧵

Apply by Dec 1 to the UCSD Cognitive Science PhD program: cogsci.ucsd.edu/graduates/ph.... We have an incredible community working on language + cognition + development here - if that's up your alley, check us out! I'll also be considering applications to join my new lab opening in Fall 2024 (!!)

We are building a platform for collecting and labelling sign language data, and are looking for beta testers. DM me if you're interested in using it.

If you're going to be at @TheBUCLD, come join us on Sunday! @AmeliaABecker has a great talk prepared looking at how access to language during early childhood changes the composition of children's early ASL vocabularies. #deafed #ASL #signlanguage

Best Laid Plans: A Guide to Reporting Preregistration Deviations: http://osf.io/dwx69/

I spy with my little eye @erinecampbell.bsky.social kicking #mpal conference butt!

New Paper!! dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/... tl;dr It turns out that meaningful involvement of deaf people and ASL users in creating sign language technology leads to a substantial improvement in the quality of that technology. 🧵