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Chiara Saponaro @chiarasaponaro.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

New paper out! 🎉 Can preverbal logical inferences scaffold the early acquisition of logical words? We asked this question with Mahham Fayyaz, Grace Pavalko and Nicolò Cesana-Arlotti, focusing on disjunction: escholarship.org/uc/item/3pf7....

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Chiara Saponaro @chiarasaponaro.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

📄 New paper alert! "Be precise if you must: Asymmetric patterns in the comprehension and production of distributivity across development" - out now, open access, in Applied Psycholinguistics, with Desiré Carioti & Maria Teresa Guasti. 🔗 doi.org/10.1017/S014...

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Andrea de Varda @andreadevarda.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Like the human brain, LLMs use separate sets of units for language, formal reasoning, social reasoning, and intuitive physical reasoning. A modular organization of cognition may be a fundamental principle of intelligence!

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Institute for Replication @i4replication.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

1/ Can AI help researchers check whether published social science results actually reproduce? In our new PNAS paper, we tested this directly in the AI Replication Games: 288 researchers, 103 teams, and real replication packages from quantitative social science.

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Yang Tan Collective @yangtancollective.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Congratulations to Yang ICoN fellow Andrea de Varda @andreadevarda.bsky.social, who has been named a winner of the prestigious Glushko Dissertation Prize! 👏👏 🔗 cognitivesciencesociety.org/glushko-dissertation-prize/ @cogscisociety.bsky.social

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Chiara Saponaro @chiarasaponaro.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Can we process meaning unconsciously? Our new study suggests: not really… unless language has a way to express it!🧵 New paper out with Andrea Nadalini, Daniel Casasanto, @davidecrepaldi.bsky.social and Roberto Bottini

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Andrea de Varda @andreadevarda.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Some words sound like what they mean. In IconicITA we show that the (psycho)linguistic factors that modulate which words are most iconic are similar between English and Italian. Lots more details in the paper!

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Caroline Rowland @carorowland.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

So excited to see that IASCL now has a group Zotero library of research on language acquisition in under-represented languages. 👏👏. All information here: www.childlanguage.org/underreprese...

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Repository of Papers on Underrepresented Languages — IASCL

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 28/06/2025

Viktor Orban banned pride events in Hungary, the people took it as a challenge and just had the largest pride march in their country's history.

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 02/05/2025

🔔BREAKING🔔 The NSF has frozen all research grant awards—cutting off life-saving science midstream and demanding ideological screenings for future funding. This is censorship disguised as oversight. Here’s how you can help us spread the word ➡️🧵(1/3): www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Exclusive: NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing ones

US science funder also plans to screen grant applications for compliance with ‘agency priorities’.

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