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Asifa Majid

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Professor of Cognitive Science, University of Oxford @oxexppsy.bsky.social

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Hugo Spiers @hugospiers.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
If you're in London in Sept and haven't seen our £50M Lab UCL PEARL... ...why not come down in Sept have a look around and pick up £30 as a participant in our next crazy neurocience & architecture study - Minds in Motion: mindsinmotioncrowd.netlify.app
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Minds in Motion | UCL Research Study — September 2026
Minds in Motion: a UCL neuroarchitecture study at UCL PEARL, September 2026. Choose a Crowd session or EEG session and book your place.
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The Experimental Psychology Society @exppsychsoc.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Have you missed a recent EPS Prize Talk? Would you like to re-watch one you have seen recently? On the EPS YouTube channel, you can catch up and re-watch as much as you'd like! Why not take a visit? shorturl.at/RP8kP
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EPS Prize Lecture Videos - YouTube
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Matt Goldrick @mattgoldrick.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Hey #CogSci2026! I'm so honored to be receiving this year's Elman Prize! Please join @m2b2.bsky.social and me Friday 2-3:30pm in Gavea A for two joint talks: "Multilingualism in Cognitive Science" and "Multilingualism for Cognitive Science and Society" 1/4 @cogscisociety.bsky.social
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Cognitive Science Society @cogscisociety.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Judith Fan @judithfan.bsky.social takes the #CogSci2026 stage for her Gleitman Prize Talk, exploring how drawings, data visualizations and physical representations help us uncover useful abstractions.
Judith Ellen Fan stands at a lectern delivering a presentation during CogSci 2026.
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Asifa Majid @asifamajid.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
It's hard to believe that OECS has now published 200 articles!🎉 A huge thank you to everyone who has contributed to OECS—our authors, reviewers, readers, and fantastic section editors, and especially @mcxfrank.bsky.social frank.bsky.social and @hbaum.bsky.social Excited for the next chapter!
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Mike Frank @mcxfrank.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Nearly four years ago we asked ourselves, "what would it look like to have a field-leading, completely free reference work for cognitive science"? It's been so fun editing OECS with @asifamajid.bsky.social and @hbaum.bsky.social. I can't believe we have published 200 (!!) articles! oecs.mit.edu
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Philip Laughlin @philiplaughlin.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Today's #OA spotlight is extra special. Just this week, @mitpress.bsky.social published the 200th article in our OPEN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF COGNITIVE SCIENCE. Congrats to @mcxfrank.bsky.social & @asifamajid.bsky.social! We've come far since the 2023 @cogscisociety.bsky.social in Rotterdam! oecs.mit.edu
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Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science
The Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science is a new, multidisciplinary guide to understanding the mind: a freely-available, growing collection of peer-reviewed articles introducing key topics to a bro...
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The Experimental Psychology Society @exppsychsoc.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
We are pleased to announce the winner of the President’s Poster Commendation Prize for #EPSEssex 2026 is Andreia Santiago. Congratulations Andreia! For full information, please visit: eps.ac.uk/presidents-p...
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President’s Poster Commendation Prize Winner – EPS Essex 2026
We are pleased to announce the winner of the President’s Poster Commendation Prize for the EPS Essex 2026 meeting is Andreia Santiago. Andreia’s Research Study Poster is entitled ‘What do measures …
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Daniel Yon @danieljamesyon.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Real pleasure to be at #EPSEssex and the symposium celebrating 80 years of the @exppsychsoc.bsky.social - alongside Bob Logie, Anna Franklin, @bhisma.bsky.social, @angeladebruin.bsky.social and Sophie Scott. Thank you @asifamajid.bsky.social!
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The Experimental Psychology Society @exppsychsoc.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
The EPS, in collaboration with the British Science Association, awards an annual prize to the best final year undergraduate project in experimental psychology submitted from a UK psychology honours degree programme. Nominations are due by 10th July 2026. For more info: eps.ac.uk/eps-british-...
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EPS / British Science Association Undergraduate Project Prize
The Experimental Psychology Society (EPS) in collaboration with the British Science Association awards an annual prize to the best final year undergraduate project in experimental psychology submit…
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Prof Kate Watkins @kateewatkins.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Thrilled to receive this support and excited to start! @stannescollege.bsky.social @oxexppsy.bsky.social
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Bodo Winter @bodowinter.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
New paper out. My favorite finding is the distributional semantic comparison of "hundred/thousand/million/billion etc." to indefinite hyperbolic numerals ("gazillion", "umpteen" etc.) ⬇️ And: Did you know that jigsaw puzzles are lying to you? 👀
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Andrew Perfors @perfors.net · 17/06/2026
Another fun paper! We asked what words people find easiest to predict in a sentence, which is a good way to study how we represent lexical concepts. Found that people rely on more than just predictive statistics - it's more about which words are central in our semantic association networks.
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Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science bot @oecs-bot.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Because the eye’s high-acuity region is so small, where we look serves as a precise, moment-by-moment window into our cognitive goals and intentions. Eye Movements by Mary Hayhoe doi.org/10.21428/e2759450.a42adb11 #CognitiveScience
Figure from the OECS article "Eye Movements".
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Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science bot @oecs-bot.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Human cognition extends beyond the brain into external tools, though debates persist over whether these artifacts amplify our minds or simply… Cognitive Artifacts by Valeria Giardino doi.org/10.21428/e2759450.5e3d3713 #CognitiveScience
Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science: "Cognitive Artifacts" by Valeria Giardino. A cognitive artifact is any artificial device designed to aid some mental process. Cognitive artifacts are everywhere; they are used all the time in everyday life for many different purposes. You are
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Stan Carey @stancarey.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Loved this chat about words for smells, with @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social and @asifamajid.bsky.social (27 mins.) www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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BBC Radio 4 - Word of Mouth, Smell
Michael Rosen on the words used to describe the qualities of smells in different languages
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The Experimental Psychology Society @exppsychsoc.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
The meeting programme and information about the conference dinner is now available for #EPSEssex! Please visit our webpage: eps.ac.uk/next-meeting/
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Next Meeting
EPS Meeting: University of Essex. 1st – 3rd July 2026. This meeting will celebrate the EPS’ 80th Anniversary with a symposium entitled, ‘Where is experimental psychology now, and where …
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Asifa Majid @asifamajid.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Lovely tribute to a pioneer in the study of visual perception across cultures.
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Herdwick Sheep @herdwicksheep.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
We’ve always felt smell is an underappreciated sense..
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Michael Rosen @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
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Sandie Cleland @sandiecleland.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
New preprint of a series of studies that surprised us(!) We report six studies investigating SNARC effects for non-symbolic representations of quantity. Contrary to our previous findings, we find SNARC effects for colour decision to non-symbolic quantities osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Mike Frank @mcxfrank.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Come join us! We have two research coordinator positions open with the Stanford IRISS predoctoral program, a program designed to mentor students for graduate study: LEVANTE: careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/iriss-p... BabyView: careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/iriss-p... (deadline 5/1)
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IRiSS Predoctoral Researcher in School of Humanities and Sciences, Stanford, California, United States
The Stanford Institute for Research in the Social Sciences (IRiSS) is seeking Predoctoral Researchers to participate in our 2026-2027 cohort. The...
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The Experimental Psychology Society @exppsychsoc.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
We are pleased to announce the winner of the President’s Poster Commendation Prize for the EPS Newcastle 2026 meeting is Karen Hoang. Congratulations @karenhoang.bsky.social! For full information, please visit: eps.ac.uk/presidents-p...
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President’s Poster Commendation Prize Winner – EPS Newcastle 2026
We are pleased to announce the winner of the President’s Poster Commendation Prize for the EPS Newcastle 2026 meeting is Karen Hoang. Karen’s Research Study Poster is entitled ‘The development of e…
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The Experimental Psychology Society @exppsychsoc.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
The next EPS Meeting will be at the University of Essex from 1st – 3rd July 2026. This meeting will include the 33rd EPS Prize lecture and the 15th Frith Prize Talk. Portals for this meeting will open on Monday 13th April 2026 at 10am (UK time) and for at least 24 hours. eps.ac.uk/next-meeting/
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Next Meeting
EPS Meeting: University of Essex. 1st – 3rd July 2026. This meeting will include the 33rd EPS Prize lecture by Melissa Colloff (and accompanying symposium organised by Markus Bindemann). This meeti…
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Nora Newcombe @noranewcombe.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
This book has just been published, open access, edited by Ken Cheng and me. It contains multiple chapters originating in a wonderful Strungmann Forum held in Frankfurt around a year ago. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
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Challenges in Navigation Research
This open access book explores navigation across species using a multidisciplinary approach to address challenges in research and clinical applications.
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Matt Zwolinski @mattzwolinski.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
A free, searchable index of 212,000+ philosophy book reviews. Covers 1,200+ journals going back to the 1890s. Filter by subfield, journal, author, reviewer, year, or access type. Built it because I kept wishing this existed. Now it does. philreviews.org
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PhilReviews
A comprehensive, searchable database of 212,000+ philosophy book reviews across 1,480 academic journals.
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Fernanda Ferreira @fernandaedi.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Super thrilled that my article "Prosody" is now available to read in the Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science! oecs.mit.edu/pub/1w4cqquc... Thanks to @asifamajid.bsky.social and @mcxfrank.bsky.social for the opportunity and for creating such an amazing resource for our community!
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Prosody
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Mike Frank @mcxfrank.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
New blogpost about a teaching experiment I'm doing this quarter: a "socratic tutor" bot to help students gain understanding of specific reading assignments. babieslearninglanguage.blogspot.com/2026/02/an-l...
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An LLM-backed "socratic tutor" to replace reading responses
Blog about fatherhood, langauge, developmental psychology, and cognitive science.
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Simon Fisher @profsimonfisher.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Please tell friends & colleagues about our unique course “Genetics & Neurobiology of Language” July 27-Aug 3 2026. Expert tutors, interactive talks, panel discussions, all in a beautiful setting. Scholarships available: meetings.cshl.edu/courses.aspx... @cshlnews.bsky.social @cshlbanbury.bsky.social
Group photograph of faculty and participants of the very first Cold Spring Harbor summer course on Genetics and Neurobiology of Language in 2014, taken as the sun was going down at the Banbury Campus, Lloyd Harbor.
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Fred Callaway @fredcallaway.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
I'm excited to announce that I had my first (co-authored) book published today! "The Rational Use of Cognitive Resources" with Falk Lieder and Tom Griffiths (@cocoscilab.bsky.social ). You can read it for free! (see thread)
Book cover. A silhouette of a person's head filled with colorful geometric shapes—perhaps symbolizing cognitive resources or deployment thereof. The style is attractive and modern, if generic.

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The Rational Use of Cognitive Resources
Falk Lieder, Frederick Callaway, Thomas L. Griffithts
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The Experimental Psychology Society @exppsychsoc.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
To mark the 80th anniversary of the Experimental Psychology Society, we invite proposals for a special anniversary symposium reflecting on the current state of experimental psychology and its future trajectory. Please see below for information on how to submit a proposal! eps.ac.uk/eps-80th-ann...
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EPS 80th Anniversary Symposium – Call for Proposals
To mark the 80th anniversary of the Experimental Psychology Society, we invite proposals for a special anniversary symposium that reflects on the current state of experimental psychology and its fu…
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Bodleian Libraries @bodleian.ox.ac.uk · 13/02/2026
The wet weather produces some beautiful photos! Thank you to estherjohnsonphotography on Instagram for this wonderful shot of the Clarendon Building. 📸
The Clarendon Building with large windows lit up reflected on a calm puddle of water
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Jennifer Hu @jennhu.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
I wrote a short article on AI Model Evaluation for the Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science 📕👇 Hope this is helpful for anyone who wants a super broad, beginner-friendly intro to the topic! Thanks @mcxfrank.bsky.social and @asifamajid.bsky.social for this amazing initiative!
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Jamie Reilly 🦜 @reilly-coglab.com · 01/02/2026
2026 big update to the psycholinguistic database page! If you know of corpora, lexical databases, or other resources that I've missed, please LMK. Trying to keep this thing relatively current and could use the help www.reilly-coglab.com/data
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Psycholinguistic Databases, Stimuli, Utilities — Concepts & Cognition Laboratory
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Sebastian Sauppe @sebastiansauppe.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
This is a great paper going deep on the connection between language (and linguistic diversity) and the mind! 👀👂👇🌍 Highly recommended (like every paper from @enorcliffe.bsky.social and @asifamajid.bsky.social)!
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Asifa Majid @asifamajid.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
New paper with @enorcliffe.bsky.social The Lexical Typology of Sensory Perception www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
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The Lexical Typology of Sensory Perception
Sensory language has fascinated researchers, as it is here that meaning most clearly straddles biology and culture. Since the seminal work on color vocabularies, typologists have attempted to describe...
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Jonathan Tsay @tsay.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
New article in the Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science @oecs-bot.bsky.social on Motor Learning. Thank you @mcxfrank.bsky.social @asifamajid.bsky.social for the opportunity to contribute! oecs.mit.edu/pub/l3hscpvx...
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Motor Learning
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Asifa Majid @asifamajid.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
New paper: Evidence of crossmodal compensation in the conceptual representation of blind people: while they share visual associations with sighted people, blind people more strongly associate concepts with touch direct.mit.edu/opmi/article...
Sensory ratings across sensory modalities and semantic categories show blind people associate touch more strongly with (most) concepts than sighted people
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Asifa Majid @asifamajid.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
A new twist to the idea that future tense use affects decision making👇 Cole Robertson @seangroberts.bsky.social et al show it’s not future tense that drives psychological discounting but how people express the possibility of future events happening (modality). authors.elsevier.com/c/1m4gJ2Hx2-...
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Sheina Lew-Levy @sheinalew.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
@durhampsych.bsky.social current has 5 (FIVE!!) PhD studentships being advertised! 3 to work with me on children as agents of cultural evolution 2 to work with @drboothroyd.bsky.social on examining school-based body image interventions. Please share and apply! www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...
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Fees and Funding - Durham University
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David Adger @davidadger.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
New podcast! @dannybate.bsky.social and I chat about Scottish Gaelic, mediaeval sea kingdoms, the spread and retreat of Gaelic in Scotland, influence from Pictish, sounds borrowed from Old Norse, and much more 🐦🐦 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a... or wherever you get your podcasts :)
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Scottish Gaelic and David Adger
Podcast Episode · A Language I Love Is... · 10/09/2025 · 1h 1m
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Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
New scoping review and critical discourse analysis of guidance documents on open science (OS) urges researchers to be “more precise about the specific approach they take to OS and more humble about the effects it can have.” Preprint by @jeroenderidder.bsky.social and colleagues: osf.io/zr35u_v1
Open Science as Confused: Contradictory and Conflicting Discourses in Open Science Guidance to Researchers

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The open science (OS) movement is growing, with increasing policies, guidelines, tools and infrastructures being developed to support researchers who engage in OS practices. However, there is no widely accepted single definition of OS. Different initiatives and countries employ a variety of characterizations. To chart how OS is understood in different parts of the world, we conducted a scoping review and critical discourse analysis of OS guidance documents aimed at researchers. Our search led to the inclusion of 69 national and international documents, with most originating from North America, Europe, and Latin America. Our results show that OS discourses are exaggerated, framing OS as the solution to address all scientific and societal problems. Furthermore, they provide often conflicting ideas about what OS can achieve. Many guidance documents frame OS as a tool to promote economic growth and efficiency. Others see OS as necessary to safeguard research quality and reproducibility through transparency. In contrast, few documents address knowledge equity and inclusion. Taking this into account, we see dominant OS discourses reproducing knowledge equity problems already present in research, rather than tackling them. We urge researchers be more precise about the specific approach they take to OS and more humble about the effects it can have – both positive, and negative.

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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
"It is crucial to make psychology inclusive of all the world's people but vitally important to do this in ways that are respectful, ethical & empirically accurate. I weigh the promises & pitfalls of research in small-scale societies & discuss how we can improve our research practices moving forward"
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Psychology Within and Without the State | Annual Reviews
Psychological research in small-scale societies is crucial for what it stands to tell us about human psychological diversity. However, people in these communities, typically Indigenous communities in ...
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Bodo Winter @bodowinter.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Super excited to share our new multimodal corpus analysis, "Iconic Words Are Associated With Iconic Gestures" 🥳 Project led by our PhD student Ell Wilding and in collab w/ @jeannettel.bsky.social & @mperlman.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1111/cogs...
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Iconic Words Are Associated With Iconic Gestures
Iconicity ratings studies have established that there are many English words which native speakers judge as “iconic,” that is, as sounding like what they mean. Here, we explore whether these iconic E...
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Gasper Begus @begus.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Berkeley linguistics is hiring an Assistant Professor in language revitalization! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05022
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Assistant Professor - Language Revitalization - Linguistics
University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!
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Asifa Majid @asifamajid.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
New paper: Validation of the Coffee Knowledge Test for Assessing Expertise in Coffee with Jonas Yde Junge, @icroij.bsky.social, Line Ahm Mielby, and Ulla Kidmose doi.org/10.1111/joss... #OpenAccess
Graphical abstract for Coffee Knowledge Test
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Bob Pellegrino @kingfunk.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
1/5 Odor intensity isn’t just about concentration! We have a new preprint to prove it: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... In cahoots with @jmainland.bsky.social, @alexkoulakov.bsky.social, Rick Gerkin, Khristina Samoilova and others not on bluesky. 🧪 Which of these molecules smells stronger?
Chemical structure of acetophenone and 2-heptanone
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Lane Greene @lanegreene.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
Remembering the Whorf quote about how languages cut reality up in different ways. A Danish supermarket has a “pålæg” fridge—essentially things that go on (open-faced) sandwiches (see pic of pic).It’s where you find ham & salmon & various patés. But not cheese, which has its own slice of reality.
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Peter Adamson @histphilosophy.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Long read on Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, who we had the honor of interviewing on the History of Africana Philosophy podcast a while back: www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...
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Take away our language and we will forget who we are: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o and the language of conquest
The long read: The late Kenyan novelist and activist believed erasing language was the most lasting weapon of oppression. Here, Aminatta Forna recalls the man and introduces his essay on decolonisatio...
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anthony k webster🐿 @ethnopoetics.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
I'm sorry to hear of the passing of Robin Lakoff, hugely influential. The first work of hers I encountered was Talking Power, which we read in an undergrad class for Myrdene Anderson
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