Reposted by Caroline RowlandMike Cook @mtrc.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Every AI/HCI paper I review now just sounds like this. 31808195
Caroline Rowland @carorowland.bsky.social · 05/10/2026There was a whole morning of science fun at MPI's babylab last weekend www.mpi.nl/news/young-v... 050
Reposted by Caroline RowlandJane B. Kulow @cvlkulow.bsky.social · 03/10/2026“It wasn’t until April 1975 that women had a word for talking about what their male bosses were doing to them.” 223775
Reposted by Caroline RowlandNikki Botting @profnikkibotting.bsky.social · 12/09/2026What do you like to #eat? What #meals do you struggle with? We are looking for people (16 years and older) to tell us! We especially want to know if you have #DLD (Developmental Language Disorder) or have always found talking and listening tricky. cityunilondon.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... 038
Reposted by Caroline RowlandCognitive Science Society @cogscisociety.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Many strong Elman Prize candidates are never nominated simply because no one thought to do it. Please repost! Your share might reach the colleague who writes the letter. Deadline: Nov 18 👇 01318
Reposted by Caroline RowlandMax Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics @mpi-nl.bsky.social · 02/10/2026When language comes too late: Developmental implications of delayed sign language exposure. New paper by @dilaykaradoller.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/cdpers/aadag021doi.orgWhen language comes too late: Developmental implications of delayed sign language exposureAbstract. Deaf children born to hearing parents—who represent the majority of deaf children—often do not have full access to the spoken language input arou 01610
Caroline Rowland @carorowland.bsky.social · 02/10/2026This is crucial. And make sure the website is thorough - any grants, marks of esteem (invited talks), research, leadership & admin, teaching & teaching admin, Open Science, SciComm... I've seen all of these weigh large in decision making in the last 2-3 years the very competitive current climate. 042
Reposted by Caroline Rowlandsamuel mehr @mehr.nz · 02/10/2026early-career academics, if you don't have a website, make yourself one. yes it's annoying but just do it it can be plain text on a white background, or google sites, or even a free Wix one with ads. nobody cares we just need to be able to look you up, quickly, bc there's like 100 other apps here 1119059
Caroline Rowland @carorowland.bsky.social · 29/09/2026As MD of MPI-PL I get an early sneak peak of the blogs written for our TalkLing blogsite by our researchers. From gendered language via seals and social media to the meaning of children's grammatical errors... All in quick easy reads here. www.mpi.nl/talklingmpi.nlTalkling. Blog about Language Science | Max Planck Institute 073
Caroline Rowland @carorowland.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Woensdag 16 okt is het Wereld TOS dag. Hoe is het om met TOS te leven? Ontdek het aan de hand van deze nieuwe TOS-profielen van Deelkracht. Wed 16 Oct is DLD awareness day. Find out what its like to live with DLD with these new profiles from Deelkracht (in Dutch) www.deelkracht.nl/tos-portrett...deelkracht.nlTOS-portretten - DeelkrachtHoe is het om een taalontwikkelingsstoornis (TOS) te hebben? Kinderen, jongeren en volwassenen met TOS beantwoorden die vragen en delen hun verhaal in videoportretten. 011
Reposted by Caroline RowlandDan Quintana @dsquintana.bsky.social · 19/09/2026And if you want to see how your OSF repos compare against this corpus in terms of usability try my OSF reusability checker app. This app also provides tips if it flags any potential issues dsquintana.shinyapps.io/osf-reusabil... 1126
Caroline Rowland @carorowland.bsky.social · 14/09/2026"The power of computational models for theory testing"! 040
Reposted by Caroline RowlandKevin Mitchell @wiringthebrain.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Loved this episode of the Many Minds podcast! open.spotify.com/episode/2NHw...open.spotify.comComing of age in NgogoMany Minds · Episode 083
Reposted by Caroline RowlandOlivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 17/10/2025Proudly published with @andreaeyleen.bsky.social: A metatheory of classical and modern connectionism. doi.org/10.1037/rev0... We touch on what has been up with connectionism as a framework for computational modelling — & for everything it seems these days with AI and LLMs — pre-2010 vs post. 1/n 69429
Reposted by Caroline RowlandIris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 13/09/2026🚨 Calling on all my Cognitive Science colleagues on here to please support the Cognitive Science program in Aarhus, Denmark, to stay international. 👇✉️ ✍️ 0168
Reposted by Caroline RowlandIris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 13/09/2026🚨 I have just signed this petition to keep the Cognitive Science program at Aarhus University (@au.dk) international. Please consider reading, boosting, and signing too. ✍️ The students will be grateful! This petition is on their initiative. 🙏 omnibus.au.dk/en/archive/s...omnibus.au.dkOPINION: AU wants international talent – but is closing the door on them at Cognitive ScienceStudents and alumni at Cognitive Science urge the Senior Management Team to reopen the decision to convert the Bachelor’s programme in Cognitive Science to Danish. Why should Arts be left without an E... 32112
Reposted by Caroline RowlandJess Miers 🦝 @jmiers230.bsky.social · 13/09/2026I did a somewhat deep dive into the recent OpenAI and Anthropic "hacks" for an upcoming interview. IMO, the AI companies are better off running with the "rogue AI" story because the real story is actually pretty embarrassing. Like making your Wi-Fi password "wifi" embarrassing. 🧵 341837794
Reposted by Caroline RowlandJJ Cutuli @jjcutuli.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Attn Developmental Scientists: Next and Last Episodes of 7up premiere this week. Catch 70up and, if you need to, catch up on the rest! (If you don't know, these are great teaching materials) Part 1: 9:00 PM on Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2026, on ITV1. Part Two: Airs one week later in the same time slot. 151
Reposted by Caroline RowlandTrung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 02/09/2026So Emma Woodhouse is a pretty girl who is pretty smart, pretty rich, and pretty much has no problems whatsoever. We’re off to a roaring start. 1051519269
Caroline Rowland @carorowland.bsky.social · 13/09/20266 decades long series following children from age in the 1960s to aged 70 now (7up) comes to an end this week. As a developmental psychologist I've been following this for the last 25 years and it really is fascinating. Watch 7 to 63 on YouTube and 70 up on BBC this week youtube.com/playlist?lis...youtube.comThe 7 Up Series Documentary - YouTube 180
Caroline Rowland @carorowland.bsky.social · 12/09/2026No one should be allowed to talk about "dangerous super-human AI" until they have listen to this podcast (available on Spotify etc for non-apple users). 3276
Reposted by Caroline RowlandDr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 12/09/2026because that's what the models were instructed to do by folks at open ai 413743
Reposted by Caroline RowlandBy Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12/09/2026But that's not because the chatbots are waking up and applying to join the Cult of the Dead Cow: it's because they were trained on a corpus of chat transcripts from excitable young people who love to fantasize about starring in a reboot of the movie "Hackers." 120018
Caroline Rowland @carorowland.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Okay this is the best reaction to the claims that AI is developing super-human intelligence yet. 17421
Reposted by Caroline RowlandAnna Rogers @annarogers.bsky.social · 11/09/2026ACL sustainable reviewing policy is live! aclrollingreview.org/sustainable-... This was an incredible amount of work by incredible people in & outside of peer review committee. As any policy, it has compromises and will leave some unhappy. But it'll help to not repeat the disaster of EMNLP'26. 2205
Reposted by Caroline RowlandJulia Laite @julialaite.bsky.social · 11/09/202625 years ago, almost every plane that was over the North Atlantic when the second tower was hit was forced to land in Newfoundland. A call was on the radio: they needed folks who spoke various languages to come to the stadium to help organize the sea of humanity that just showed up at our door. 23753191
Reposted by Caroline RowlandKanishka Misra @kanishka.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Understanding how learners conclude “X laughed Y” is incorrect is an age-old question, with several hypotheses, some of which have been ~impossible to disentangle! @tomyxw.bsky.social, @fredashi.bsky.social, and I use controlled rearing to shed light on this in our new EMNLP paper: 1/n 2179
Reposted by Caroline RowlandKanishka Misra @kanishka.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Here’s the paper: arxiv.org/abs/2609.017... Thanks to @adelegoldberg.bsky.social , @carorowland.bsky.social , and @qyao.bsky.social for a lot of helpful discussion!arxiv.orgDisentangling Statistical Preemption from Entrenchment in Language Models' Avoidance of OvergeneralizationHow do learners avoid overgeneralizations such as Tom laughed me without explicit negative evidence? Constructionists have posited two proposals that describe indirect negative evidence against overge... 031
Caroline Rowland @carorowland.bsky.social · 08/09/2026This is one of the best declarations - if not *the* best - I've seen. It: - uses may/could: acknowledges where there is not yet good evidence on the effect of AI on human cognition 🤷♀️ -identifies where we *do* know where there is harm/risks 😳 - gives thoughtful practical advice 💭 #PracticallyPerfect 033
Reposted by Caroline RowlandSue Cowley @suecowley.bsky.social · 06/09/2026I'm intrigued by this because someone made it up and then presumably claimed that people think these things in order to make a point about things that no one believes in such an absolutist way. Excuse me but how is that evidence based? 🤷♀️ 16226
Reposted by Caroline RowlandbioRxiv Genetics @biorxiv-genetic.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Phantom genetic nurture: assortative mating accounts for most of the apparent association between parental genotypes and childhood cognitive performance www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20… 0165
Reposted by Caroline RowlandGirish M. Duvvuri @gmduvvuri.bsky.social · 06/09/2026The open secret to pedagogy research is that small class sizes/maximizing educator attention per pupil is the simplest, most effective, and unfortunately the least attractive to administration thing you can do to improve learning outcomes. 111103297
Reposted by Caroline RowlandAdam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 23/08/2026I am annoyed that this is now my most popular post here on Bluesky. If you want more, I wrote a book about scientific racism called How to Argue With a Racist, and another one called Control: The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics. www.adamrutherford.com/allbooksadamrutherford.comAll — Adam Rutherford 1134369
Reposted by Caroline RowlandAylwyn Scally @aylwyn-scally.bsky.social · 27/08/2026This is a thoughtful piece by @ent3c.bsky.social, articulating a view of hereditarianism that I think is shared by many in anthropology, psychology & elsewhere. It's also one that I, as a geneticist working on human evolution, fundamentally disagree with. ericturkheimer.substack.com/p/the-cofnas...ericturkheimer.substack.comThe Cofnas ManifestoThe social consequences of hereditarianism 36231
Reposted by Caroline RowlandEuropean Research Council (ERC) @erc.europa.eu · 06/09/2026705 million euro in ERC Starting Grants has just been awarded to 421 researchers across Europe. In the coming months many will start to hire staff and set up their own research groups. Keep an eye 👀 on the ERC team positions advertised on the #Euraxess website. 👉 buff.ly/7xrOtMp 04514
Reposted by Caroline RowlandIris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 06/09/2026As for tractability of cognition and the role of structure specifically, yes, that is my 20+ yrs research line. bsky.app/profile/iris... 0172
Reposted by Caroline RowlandRichard McElreath 🐈⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 04/09/2026It's a systemic problem in science reporting that these summaries exaggerate the evidence. In the actual candy study, the participants were all students, status was manipulated in the lab by telling some students they were better than others, and "nearly twice" means 1 piece vs 2 pieces. 1329166
Caroline Rowland @carorowland.bsky.social · 04/09/2026This is my favourite. Bel je oma terug = phone your grandma back. #FeelGoodStreetFurniture 060
Reposted by Caroline RowlandAndrew D Wilson @adw.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Look forward to the sequel, Final_revised_revision, with all the bits she had to glue on to get past Reviewer 2 042
Reposted by Caroline RowlandJo Kibble (Political Animal) @politicanimal.bsky.social · 02/09/2026If a robot called Jeeves doesn’t intone ‘I could not advise it, sir’ to most requests and then accidentally on purpose dispose of a rather fetching white blazer you had worn to great acclaim in Cannes, it is not worthy of the name. 99614
Caroline Rowland @carorowland.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Like many others, I doubt we would be having these conversations if we hadn't started using the term "Artificial Intelligence" to refer to these machines. This whole debate is fascinating simply because it shows how deeply language affects how we think about things (Whorf-Sapir anyone?). 140
Caroline Rowland @carorowland.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Language Development Research journal is fully non-profit and run by scientists for scientists. And the community support it and read articles publisbed there #JustSaying #RealAlternative. ldr.lps.library.cmu.eduldr.lps.library.cmu.eduLanguage Development Research 030
Reposted by Caroline RowlandPhilip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Earlier in the summer I suggested I’d do a thread on this gnarly paper. Better late than never. (Yes, it's more WTF biology.) 🧵 /1 www.nature.com/articles/s41...nature.comSubnuclear genome compartmentalization controls bivalent chromatin activity - NatureKnowledge of the spatial location of a gene is necessary to understand its epigenomic regulation. 17925
Caroline Rowland @carorowland.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Now the 3rd L+ summer/winter school on Language acquisition has come to an end, it's a good time to feature this article, summarisng lessons learned from arranging a school that tried to be truly global, with speakers & attendees from all over the world www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....tandfonline.comTowards Diversifying Early Language Development Research: The First Truly Global International Summer/Winter School on Language Acquisition (/L+/) 2021With a long-term aim of empowering researchers everywhere to contribute to work on language development, we organized the First Truly Global /L+/ International Summer/ Winter School on Language Acq... 080
Reposted by Caroline RowlandMarvin Lavechin @marvinlavechin.bsky.social · 25/08/2026[1/5] Remember BabAR? With @wiernik.bsky.social, we took it and asked whether it could be used to measure how a child's babbling develops over time. We tested it in kids with Down, fragile X, and Angelman syndromes, where this development often looks different. 🧵 (preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...)osf.ioOSF 1121
Reposted by Caroline Rowland@SciTube.io @scitube.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Debunking the myths around sign languages. Adam Schembri, Kearsy Cormier and colleagues explore common misconceptions about sign languages and what research reveals about how they really work. Watch: scitube.io/adam-schembr... #SignLanguage #Linguisticsscitube.ioProfessor Adam Schembri – Professor Kearsy Cormier | Debunking the Myths Around Sign Languages - SciTubeSign languages are rich, complex languages used by deaf communities all over the world. Yet despite decades of research showing this clearly, many people still hold on to outdated misunderstandings ab... 033
Caroline Rowland @carorowland.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Truly fabulous introduction to analysis in R by Giulia Calignano at the Lplus summer/winter school this evening . www.lplusschool.org 130
Caroline Rowland @carorowland.bsky.social · 28/08/2026So I read the article and got mad ... then I read all the funny replies and quote comments & felt a bit better. So now I'll just content myself by waving at all the Yale professors from "heavily unionised for decades" Europe 👋 Join a Union. Also mentor your postdocs properly. Both are possible ✊️ 051
Reposted by Caroline RowlandDermot Lynott @dermotlynott.bsky.social · 28/08/2026For the avoidance of doubt, this is complete BS. if you are a post-doc (or worker of any description frankly) and you have the option of joining a union, you absolutely should. 56621