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Shravan Vasishth @shravanvasishth.bsky.social · 4h

Applications are open for the 2027 summer school on statistical methods for linguistics and psychology: All details are here: smlp.science

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The Eleventh Summer School on Statistical Methods for Linguistics and Psychology

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Dan Kleinman @dankleinman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It's always a delight to see psycholinguistics stimuli that make use of the richness of human language. Today's example: Playing a recording to newborn infants of someone saying "The uptight mollusk drew a polearm." #snl2026 doi.org/10.1111/desc...

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Newborns’ Brains Detect Foreign Rhythm in Native‐Language Speech

Humans begin tuning in to the prosody of their native language even before birth. Previous studies with newborns have reported language-specific processing of forward versus backward speech and of in...

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Dan Kleinman @dankleinman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

#snl2026 keynote speaker John O'Keefe: "Philosophers love to ask questions like 'What is it like to be a bat?' And we actually know quite a bit now what it's like to be a bat."

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Dan Kleinman @dankleinman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

In a Geneva park before #snl2026, I talked to a man who, upon finding out what I do, immediately began discussing Benjamin Libet’s studies of consciousness and free will. I asked if he was a philosopher: “Only in the way that all curious people are philosophical.” Not like that, they’re not!

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Dan Kleinman @dankleinman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I continue to do my part in recommending In-N-Out even though I haven’t lived in a state with one for the past decade. Is it the best burger? No. Is it the best fast food burger? Arguably, yes. Is going there an identifiably Californian experience? Absolutely.

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Dan Kleinman @dankleinman.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Me, every time I retrieve a broken EEG cap from a data collection site to bring back to New Haven:

A screenshot from the original TV special “How the Grinch Stole Christmas”. The Grinch, wearing a red Santa hat and coat, is carrying off a decorated Christmas tree from a home. The text, quoting from the video, says: “I’m taking it home to my workshop, my dear. I’ll fix it up there, then I’ll bring it back here.”

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Dan Kleinman @dankleinman.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

If you are the editor of a journal which enforces a hard limit on word count or pages for submissions, please ensure that limit is clearly spelled out in the instructions to authors. Being hit with a surprise limit on the final screen of the submission process is not a great feeling!

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Dan Kleinman @dankleinman.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Appropriately enough, this would change the Great Lakes mnemonic from HOMES to SHAME.

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Liina Pylkkänen @liinapy.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

✨Excited to announce a new post-doctoral position in my lab, focussed on the neural capacity limits of language processing using magnetoencephalography! Apply here: wp.nyu.edu/neurolinglab...

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Postdoctoral position – NYU Neurolinguistics Lab

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Dan Kleinman @dankleinman.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

It's 2026. Why is Microsoft 365 for Mac still so terrible? 1) Excel only updates some cells when they are offscreen. This has been true for at least *a decade*. When I update a formula and copy/paste over a range, I reflexively skip to row ~1M and then back up so I can see the effect. Insanity!

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Caroline Rowland @carorowland.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Our first paper introducing the concept of sufficient frequency in word learning is out in JEP:General. 🧵👶💬https://psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/2028-07021-001.html

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APA PsycNet

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Dan Kleinman @dankleinman.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Since when did MATLAB make the default color scheme green-on-black? I'm trying to process EEG data, and instead I feel like I'm in the Matrix.

Screenshot of MATLAB code comments. The window is black and the text on top is green.

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Matt Goldrick @mattgoldrick.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Open until filled (🚨🚨apply now!🚨🚨): Postdoc, speech acoustics and major depressive disorder, with me!, Northwestern Linguistics (working with folks in Psychology and Psychiatry). faculty.wcas.northwestern.edu/matt-goldric...

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Dan Kleinman @dankleinman.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

The fact that, every time I configure a Mac, I have to uncheck a box which says "Natural scrolling" to get the trackpad to work properly. *My* scrolling direction – the default in the pre-smartphone era – is the one that's natural!

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Dan Kleinman @dankleinman.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

If this NP were any heavier, it would have its own gravitational field.

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Dan Kleinman @dankleinman.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Just ordered a new Mac for work and was quoted a delivery window of mid-October to early November (12.5-14.5 weeks). Ouch!

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Max Heiman @heiman.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

For neuroscience PhDs with a strong interest in teaching and mentoring: MIT is hiring a scientific program manager to support activities around a new NIH neuroscience PhD training grant. Salary range $91k - $129k #NeuroJobs careers.peopleclick.com/careerscp/cl...

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Scientific Program Manager

MIT - Scientific Program Manager - Cambridge MA 02139

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Dan Kleinman @dankleinman.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Contrast this with Michael Crichton’s unrealistic and shabby shorthand for “scientific genius” in The Andromeda Strain, in which a Very Intelligent Scientist publishes a paper so important that it’s printed in both Science *and* Nature.

A highlighted excerpt from The Andromeda Strain: “He explained [his ideas] in a short paper entitled “Sterilization of Spacecraft”, printed in Science and later reprinted in the British journal Nature.”

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Dan Kleinman @dankleinman.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Just discovered that one of the iPhone’s emoji suggestions for “duck” is 🤬. This cracks me up because Apple auto-corrects a certain swear word to “duck”. Did their model learn a co-occurrence relationship between “duck” and 🤬??

A screenshot from an iPhone text conversation. Another texter wrote “Apple stop censoring me!!” That message has been highlighted for a tapback response. Within the set of options, the user has searched for “duck”. Apple suggestions 5 options: A baby duck, a baby duck hatching, a mallard, a bird face, and a censored swearing face.

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Dan Kleinman @dankleinman.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Not a visual illusion, but looking at the images in this thread makes me feel like my brain is glitching.

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Dan Kleinman @dankleinman.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Currently reading "The Score" by @add-hawk.bsky.social, a book about (many topics including) how we are prone to internalizing and pursuing goals based on metrics that are easy to measure. I'm only 1/3 of the way through the book, but I am already seeing this everywhere. 3 examples from *today*:

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Dan Kleinman @dankleinman.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Back in my happy place. San Diego never gets old.

A view from a park on a hill. A few people are lying on towels or blankets on a grassy hill. Below, in the distance, you can see the neighborhood of Pacific Beach and Mission Bay; farther out, the Pacific Ocean. Above, a blue sky with fluffy white clouds.

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Tim Verstynen @tdverstynen.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Jessica (@cantlonlab.bsky.social) lost her funding because she dared to include gender as a relevant variable in studying how people learn math. Only the enemies of truth seek to suppress the search for it. (Gift link) www.nytimes.com/2026/07/10/c...

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She Studied Ways to Make People Smarter. Then Her Grant Was Cut. (Gift Article)

Jessica Cantlon had a grant with the U.S. Navy to explore whether people could improve spatial problem-solving skills through training. Then the program was cut.

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Dan Kleinman @dankleinman.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Do you know a motivated postbac looking for a RA position before grad school? They should apply to our job posting at Yale! Under Nicole Landi, they would join a team doing semiannual behavioral + EEG testing in schools to understand neurobiological bases of dyslexia. tinyurl.com/landilab2026

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Dan Kleinman @dankleinman.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Bad: Seeing one’s research miscited by other scientists Much worse: Seeing one’s research cited as evidence for extraterrestrial life on the History Channel

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Dan Kleinman @dankleinman.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

A nice demonstration of how controlling for predictors affects results, and why that is not always desirable. As I tell students: Before you even begin to interpret the answers you get from a model, make sure you’re asking the right questions!

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Dan Kleinman @dankleinman.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

One of the most interesting and unique job positions I’ve ever seen. A librarian/park ranger job (‽‽), with full-time hours and pay; duties (event programming) would be performed primarily in a field that currently has no structures apart from a bathroom. Must be comfortable with forests and ticks.

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Dan Kleinman @dankleinman.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

I never remember whether the {ggplot} parameter is "group" or "grouping". Is #AccidentalArt still a thing? #rstats

An R plot gone badly wrong. It looks like a toddler took a blue marker and drew all over a figure of black points against a white background. There are strange wavy grey lines in the background.

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TK (Takashi DY) Kozai @bioniclab.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

🪼 Your tax dollars paid a scientist to squeeze jellyfish through cheesecloth. Osamu Shimomura processed tens of thousands on an NSF grant to understand why they glow. He found a protein that glowed green under UV light. Called it "green protein." Nobody cared. For decades.

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Stanford AAUP @stanfordaaup.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

This is a very helpful resource from the former EiC of Science: a template for commenting on the proposed changes to OMB regulations that threaten the continued existence of US Science.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 29/05/2026

Of all the harm this administration has done to US science, today's proposed changes to the way federal grants are awarded and administered is the most damaging yet. The text of the federal register document is impenetrably tedious by design, so here's an excellent summary of what it says.

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Dan Kleinman @dankleinman.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Can we add this as a cash advance/reimbursement option to Workday?

From last November to March, the court papers say, Mr. Rush asked for, and received, “a significant quantity of foreign currency and tens of millions of dollars in gold bars for work-related expenses.”

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Craig Kaplan @triggerloop.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

To explain this for my non-science followers. Such a proposal would be to create a black box around review of scientific proposals - this reduction in transparency is what you would do if you wanted to make political or partisan decisions about funding and not scientific ones

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Dan Kleinman @dankleinman.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Academia has its problems, but it’s also a place where I can send a collaborator a long email with questions about how to deal with collinearity in a set of statistical models, and receive a thoughtful reply that begins with “This is a very interesting topic” and know they actually mean it.

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Stephanie M. Lee @stephaniemlee.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

NEW: They Got the Best NIH Scores of Their Careers. A Year Later, They Still Don’t Have Funding. As the NIH bankrolls new research at a significantly slower-than-usual pace, I talked to scientists left in the lurch about the toll on their research and careers: www.chronicle.com/article/they...

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They Got the Best NIH Scores of Their Careers. A Year Later, They Still Don’t Have Funding.

The NIH’s spending on new medical research is significantly slower than in previous years, leaving confused scientists in the lurch.

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Dan Kleinman @dankleinman.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

The Supreme Court handed down a decision today concerning a convicted murderer who "introduced evidence of intellectual disability" by submitting multiple IQ scores close to a threshold below which courts have said it would be "cruel and unusual punishment" to execute them.

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Jordan S. Carroll 🌹 @jordanscarroll.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

the academic bargain has been this: you sacrifice $100k+ of lost income & savings to go to grad school to get a TT job making less than an avg. middle manager, if you're VERY lucky, but to counterbalance that you get job security forever. w\o that last part the ROI on academic labor makes no sense.

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Dan Kleinman @dankleinman.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Friends don’t let friends use Teams. Every time I click on a Teams meeting link, my calendar misparses the password and I join several minutes late because I have to hunt around for it in the 2,000-character Notes field. If someone schedules a 1:1 Teams meeting with me, I make it a Zoom meeting.

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Dan Kleinman @dankleinman.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

One of the greatest headlines I've seen, courtesy of today's NYT.

My Art Will Go On: Titanic Artifacts May Soon Be Auctioned

The last time a sale was proposed, the idea drew objections from the U.S. and French governments, and from UNESCO and other cultural institutions.

By Marc Davis

[There is a picture to the right of a statue recovered from the Titanic.]

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Dan Kleinman @dankleinman.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Reviewing a resubmitted manuscript that puts me in mind of the old Mencken quote about democracy. A modest reformulation: "Peer review is the theory that readers know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard."

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Dan Kleinman @dankleinman.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

“The replication crisis, if there is one, cannot be established by the methods used to declare it.” Really interesting, thought-provoking stuff. (And the callback in the paper title is perfect).

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Dan Kleinman @dankleinman.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Me, to my RAs: “Before you run an experiment, it’s important to sit through the tasks yourself so you know what participants are going through.” A participant, giving me unsolicited feedback during an EEG task: “I should use this to put myself to sleep at night.” (Guess I didn’t actually know…!)

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Dan Kleinman @dankleinman.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Years ago, I bought a cloud backup subscription (Backblaze) for several family members. About once a year, I get a panicked phone call – "I overwrote a file"; "Our hard drive died". Telling them they have a current backup and we can restore any/all of their files is the best feeling in the world.

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lizschotter.bsky.social @lizschotter.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

📢 BREAKING! TiCS just published a paper by @lamalab.bsky.social and me that synthesizes co-registration (and related) studies of reading that resolve the apparent paradox that the eyes move faster through the text than the brain can understand it!

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Dan Kleinman @dankleinman.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

When I arrived at @pomonacollege.bsky.social, I was an English major because that was the subject I knew and liked best from high school. I left with a major in Linguistics & Cognitive Science, a field I had never heard of before college. Students can’t demand that which they know nothing of!

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Dan Kleinman @dankleinman.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Had a conversation with someone a while back about whether/when it is acceptable to review a manuscript and then decline to review a revision. This is as clear a case as they come.

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Anna (Anya) Ivanova @neuranna.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Language, Intelligence & Thought lab is looking for a lab manager! This is a 2-year postbac position that will allow you to gain experience in human neuroscience, cognitive science, and AI research prior to applying to PhD programs. Express interest here: forms.gle/npXEGUjGUbp5...

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