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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 27/09/2026

another day, another bit of evidence that the scientists who willingly hand over proprietary information to AI firms may experience some consequences

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David Barner @drbarner.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

So, the pet inspector at LAX is A. Ventura.

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Martin Zettersten @mzettersten.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Our department at UC San Diego is hiring a new tenure-track Assistant Professor. Open area, research addressing foundational issues in cogsci using modern computational methods. I love my department, and you will too. Apply!! apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF04633 #cogscisci #cogsci #DevPsyc #PsychSciSky

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Assistant Professor in Cognitive Science

University of California, San Diego is hiring. Apply now!

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 20/09/2026

Fully electric aviation has some major challenges (mostly: batteries are heavy and don't get lighter as they get used up) but I love the idea of decreasing aircraft emissions through a hybrid approach, perhaps as a step toward new, clever solutions for fully electric air transport in the future.

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David Barner @drbarner.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I couldn’t comprehend the scale of this until they explained the 4.5 billion swimming pool thing, which made it SO much easier to visualize.

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Zoe Drayson @zoedrayson.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Attention philosophers of language who also work in theoretical linguistics: the Philosophy department and the Linguistics department at UC Davis are jointly hiring a TT Assistant Professor. Apply! recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07874

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Department of Philosophy/Linguistics - Philosophy of Language/Computational Linguistics

University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!

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Lindsey Powell @lindseypowell.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

UCSD Psychology is hiring!! We’re seeking a new assistant professor colleague who studies high-level human cognition, broadly construed. Please share and/or apply! apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF04646

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Assistant Professor in High-level Human Cognition

University of California, San Diego is hiring. Apply now!

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David Barner @drbarner.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The baggage crew at YUL Montreal is so incredibly slow that I’m (low key?) relieved my bags are delayed and will be delivered to my house.

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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 05/09/2026

I got a text from an academic who's sure the editorial rejection they received, from a v good journal that I also publish in and review for, is AI-written, or at least heavily AI-edited. I read the letter and can't say I disagree with friend's assessment If editors are doing this too, boy I dunno

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David Barner @drbarner.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Some people don't realize how brutally obvious it is that they're using AI to do their jobs.

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Gasper Begus @begus.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Berkeley Linguistics is hiring a semanticist! Consider applying and spreading the word! Our department was founded 125 years ago as the first linguistics department in the country. This is a nice celebration of Berkeley linguistics legacy! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05458

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Assistant Professor - Semantics - Linguistics

University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

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David Barner @drbarner.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Also: If we could vascularize, add some eyeballs, flippers, etc. these could make pretty intriguing aquarium pets.

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David Barner @drbarner.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Getting strong post-twitter collapse vibes from the OSF implosion, sorting through the Mastodon’s of the repo world…

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Uri Simonsohn @urisohn.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Here is what i think the head-to-head comparison of ResearchBox vs Zenodo look like as OSF replacements. If I am missing an important attribute, let me know, will update accordingly.

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Lisa DeBruine @debruine.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

You can use this R function to download all of the files associated with an OSF project. Improvements are coming in the next version to include registrations. Should we add a function to download all your public and private projects? osf_file_download(“abcde”) www.scienceverse.org/metacheck/

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Check Research Outputs for Best Practices

A modular, extendable system for checking research outputs for best practices using text search, R code, and/or (optional) LLM queries.

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Brian Nosek @briannosek.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Over the next several months, we will phase out some popular OSF features. These changes do not affect current public content, which remains safe and accessible. We have prepared support material to help users adapt. I am very sorry for the disruption to your work. Please read this post for details.

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OSF Changes | Center for Open Science

We are preparing substantial changes to OSF that will reduce its functionality, focus OSF on its unique strengths, and move toward an integrated model with complementary services. As part of that shif...

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Sholto David @sholtodavid.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

A tool used to rephrase plagiarised text changed "final solution" to "mass killing of an ethnic group" in a chemistry paper. Now retracted thanks to a PubPeer user who spotted this. pubpeer.com/publications...

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Ebru Evcen @ebruevcen.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

so lucky to have worked with @drbarner.bsky.social and everyone in the lab and beyond @urvi.bsky.social @kostaboskovic.bsky.social @knle.bsky.social. You've always inspired me with your super cool work, and I've grown so much with you all 🧡

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Ebru Evcen @ebruevcen.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I'm very happy to share that I'll be joining @bergelsonlab.bsky.social at Harvard as a postdoc in September!! We'll work on how babies learn word meanings, and tons more!

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David Barner @drbarner.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

🚨🚨🚨What do Shriners have to do with new papers anyway? 🚨🚨🚨

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Melissa Kibbe @levelsof.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

New from me and Alan Leslie! We got the band back together to lay out our view on object representations in the infant mind: non-discursive indexes that operate within a language of thought, & which get development of a more complex object concept off the ground www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Martin Wiener @martinwiener.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Alpha rhythm determines speech perception rate? And speeding it up makes unintelligibly fast speech comprehensible? This is nuts! www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

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Khuyen Le @knle.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

How do children learn new words? Do they simply track word-object co-occurrences across contexts, or do they also use information about what speakers know and intend? With @mzettersten.bsky.social and @drbarner.bsky.social, I tackled this question in our new preprint! 1/🧵👇 osf.io/preprints/ps...

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David Barner @drbarner.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

New study by @knle.bsky.social and @mzettersten.bsky.social on how children use speaker knowledge to restrict cross—situational statistical learning!

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David Barner @drbarner.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Great content for my lecture on confounding variables.

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David Barner @drbarner.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Age is highly predictive of many important traits, & yet we know very little about when such knowledge emerges & how's it's acquired. Here @kostaboskovic.bsky.social begins this exploration, & finds that preschoolers make physical, social, & psychological traits from perceived age.

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Kosta Boskovic @kostaboskovic.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

We know children make many inferences about others from their race and gender from early in development. But what about from their age, another highly salient and informative characteristic of people? We explore this question in a new pre-print with @drbarner.bsky.social! osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Tomer Ullman @tomerullman.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

I wrote the Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science entry on 'Intuitive Physics': oecs.mit.edu/pub/m27ympza... --- for those who don't know it yet, OECS (@oecs-bot.bsky.social) has accessible, informative, free, serious entries on many basic topics in cognitive science

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David Barner @drbarner.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Open Mind now has an IF of 2.9 after less than 9 years of existence, an amazing accomplishment. This is just short of Cognition (3.1)!

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Natalia Vélez @natvelali.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

It feels strange to share good news, but: I’m moving to UCSD in July!! 🥳 I'm very grateful for my time at Princeton and SO excited for what comes next. We're building multiplayer games to study how teams are shaped by the problems they solve. If that sounds fun to you, I'm accepting grad students!

Paragliders hover between the cliffs and sea in Torrey Pines Gliderport, La Jolla, CA, USA. Photo credit Micah Fluhart for Unsplash.

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Neuroskeptic @neuroskeptic.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Someone has 3D printed a brain model - complete with activation lights! You can actually upload fMRI data and visualize the activations in real time right there on your desk! youtu.be/yNct2cJM9BQ?... #fmri #neuroscience

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I made a BRAIN (with real data)

YouTube video by Michael Migacev

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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

The NYU department of psychology is also reinstating the GRE as a requirement for PHD admissions. I heard Yale and Harvard are as well. Now Penn too. If you are applying to psych PHD programs this year be sure to take the exam.

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David Barner @drbarner.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

This paper explores how we reason about other people's minds when they make conditional statements, using some super creative methods cooked up by @ebruevcen.bsky.social. TL/DR, the inferences you draw about if>then statements depends crucially on the background knowledge of the speaker.

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Ebru Evcen @ebruevcen.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

New paper w/Alan Bale & @drbarner.bsky.social in Journal of Semantics!🎉 We show in 3 studies that conditionals get strengthened to "only if" depending on listeners' access to alternatives, constrained by QUD & speaker knowledge, paralleling other forms of pragmatic inference. doi.org/10.1093/jos/...

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Conditional inference and access to alternatives: the role of QUD and speaker knowledge in conditional perfection

Abstract. Conditional statements often imply meanings that extend beyond their literal content, influenced by contextual factors such as the Question Under

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Kosta Boskovic @kostaboskovic.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

For those attending @socphilpsych.bsky.social this week, I will be presenting work which follows up on this paper's findings, asking when children represent age chronologically, in Friday's poster session! Stop by and take a peak at this paper on your travels over :)

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CIDRAP @cidrap.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Shingles vaccine may protect against dementia The new study reinforces similar findings from previous observational studies. Read more: ow.ly/5yFP50ZcjJ3

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David Barner @drbarner.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Age is correlated w/ lots of physical properties like size, facial morphology, etc., but it's not identical to them. How do kids come to understand it as a chronological process? @kostaboskovic.bsky.social explores the role of numerical cues in constructing a concept of age.

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Kosta Boskovic @kostaboskovic.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Exp. 2: With this change, we found that children no longer showed a size bias. This suggests that young children differentiate age from size, and use size as a proxy for age only when more salient cues to age, such as facial morphology and numerical age, are unavailable or uninterpretable. 9/10

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Kosta Boskovic @kostaboskovic.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

With these findings, we open a new research area with many exciting questions: When is children's understanding of age represented as time spent alive? How do children use age to make predictions about others? Ongoing work in our lab explores these questions, and we hope others will too! 10/10

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Kosta Boskovic @kostaboskovic.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

New paper with @drbarner.bsky.social out now in Developmental Psychology! Despite the importance of age in our social world, little is known about how children reason about it. Do children understand age as something distinct from size from an early age? 1/10 psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d...

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