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Debra Titone

@dtitone.bsky.social
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language & cognitive scientist at @mcgill.ca; co-founder of @wicscanada.bsky.social; she/her

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Debra Titone @dtitone.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Two #Developmental TT positions at McGill.. Could include people who study #language and #multilingualism. Please forward to colleagues/advanced trainees who might wish to join us in Montreal, Canada! mcgill.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/McGill_Caree...
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Tenure-Track Position (Assistant Professor), Developmental Psychology, Department of Psychology
Please refer to the How to Apply for a Job (for External Candidates) job aid for instructions on how to apply. If you are an active McGill employee (ie: currently in an active contract or position at ...
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Mark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
On 9/11, the people of Gander stepped up. They showed the very best of Canada.
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Anna Weinberg @annaweinberg.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
📣 *Two* tenure-track Assistant Prof jobs in @mcgillpsych.bsky.social! 🧠 Developmental Psychology 🧩 Child Clinical Psychology Great colleagues/department, strong interdisciplinary ties (MUHC, The Neuro), in a city worth moving for. Apply within 40 days—please spread the word! Links in thread:
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sepex.bsky.social @sepex.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Women in Cognitive Science+Europe (WiCS+E) en SEPEX-BAPS, Valencia. Os remitimos información sobre el evento pre-conferencia de WiCS+Europe en el próximo Congreso de SEPEX-BAPS. La Junta Directiva de la SEPEX ***** Síguenos en ***** Bluesky: [@sepex.bsky.social] LinkedIn: X: [@SEPEX13] Facebook: […
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Women in Cognitive Science+Europe (WiCS+E) en SEPEX-BAPS, Valencia.
Os remitimos información sobre el evento pre-conferencia de WiCS+Europe en el próximo Congreso de SEPEX-BAPS. La Junta Directiva de la SEPEX ***** Síguenos en ***** Bluesky: [@sepex.bsky.social] LinkedIn: X: [@SEPEX13] Facebook: [ Women in Cognitive Science+Europe (WiCS+E) estará presente en el próximo congreso SEPEX-BAPS 2026 con un evento precongreso que tendrá lugar el miércoles 9 de septiembre, de 10:00 a 12:00…
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Debra Titone @dtitone.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Just requested my vote from abroad ballot, and this website made it super easy to do. Deadline August sometime, so do it soon if you are a US citizen living abroad! www.votefromabroad.org
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Request Absentee Ballots for US Citizens | VoteFromAbroad.org
Helping US Citizens Request Their Absentee Ballot to Vote from Outside the US | VoteFromAbroad.org
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Michael Pleyer @symbolicstorage.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
🚨 New Publication Alert!🚨 Polysemy and metaphorical extension in an artificial language learning experiment (w/ @elizabethqingzhang.bsky.social & Marek Placiński). Out now in #OpenAcess in Language and Cognition. 🧵1/ #language #linguistics doi.org/10.1017/lang...
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Gigi Luk @gigiluk.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
🤩 Join us in person or online for Christos Pliatsikas' talk: May 29, Friday, 11am EDT (Montreal time) "Bilingualism and Neuroplasticity: What we know, what to do next?" ✅ Registration: tinyurl.com/3y3s4hp4
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Gavin Buckingham @drgbuckingham.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Oooh this one makes my head feel funny (by, you guessed it, Akiyoshi Kitaoka)
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Debra Titone @dtitone.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
And now I can cancel the tsn subscription happy..
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Debra Titone @dtitone.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Yup.. and in my day all those job apps required physically mailing a photocopied stack of one’s materials. I can still taste the glue from all those envelope seals and postage stamps..
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Debra Titone @dtitone.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Interesting paper in press on #bilingualism and #schizophrenia/#psychosis www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Rethinking language, cognition and assessment in psychosis: How bilingualism challenges psychiatry and how natural language processing can help - Schizophrenia
Schizophrenia - Rethinking language, cognition and assessment in psychosis: How bilingualism challenges psychiatry and how natural language processing can help
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PsychoPy @psychopy.org · 09/02/2026
👩‍💻 We're commemorating Women's Month with @wicseurope.bsky.social 🧠 As part of their Building Inclusive Computational Skills initiative, you can sign up to PsychoPy training every Wednesday in March. Find out more 👉️ workshops.psychopy.org#women-in-cog... #DiversityInSTEM #WomenInSTEM #PsychoPy
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Debra Titone @dtitone.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Nice paper..
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André Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
‘A life defined by kindness and service’ — Former Liberal cabinet minister Kirsty Duncan dies at 59 after battle with cancer www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... via @theglobeandmail.com
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Former Liberal cabinet minister Kirsty Duncan dies at 59 after battle with cancer
Duncan was elected as the Liberal MP for the Toronto riding of Etobicoke North five times between 2008 and 2025
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Debra Titone @dtitone.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
@cjep.bsky.social paper on gender equity in cognitive science @nserc-resnet.bsky.social funding, highlighting progress in past 6 years. Led by @mcgillscience.bsky.social psych trainee Michelle Yang; co-authored w/ @pennypexman.bsky.social. A @wicscanada.bsky.social effort. doi.org/10.1037/cep0...
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Debra Titone @dtitone.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Amazing data visualization guide…
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Canadian Psychological Association @canadianpsychology.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Call for Nominations for Editor of Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology (2026-2030) The Board of Directors of the CPA has opened nominations for the Editorship of the Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology for the years 2026 through 2030. More information: buff.ly/BOdMS9S
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Debra Titone @dtitone.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Excited that this paper on biscriptality in L2 reading is out, which leverages ENRO data (meco-read.com/about-enro/). Led by doctoral student Naima Mansuri and co-authored w/ great trainees (@estehr.bsky.social, @antonioiniesta.bsky.social, and others not here). www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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How does one’s first language writing script modulate second language reading: evidence from the English Reading Online Project (ENRO) | Applied Psycholinguistics | Cambridge Core
How does one’s first language writing script modulate second language reading: evidence from the English Reading Online Project (ENRO) - Volume 46
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CRBLM @crblm.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Honoured to have welcomed Dr. Ellen Bialystok to the CRBLM yesterday for a fantastic talk and rich exchange of ideas in a packed house. Thanks to co-organizers and hosts @gigiluk.bsky.social and @dtitone.bsky.social of the Montreal Bilingualism Initiative
Dr. Ellen Bialystok stands at a podium next to a screen displaying a slideshow and gives a talk to a room of 60 seated researchers and trainees.
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Debra Titone @dtitone.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Is there still time to contribute?
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André Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
An update on my column: Parliamentary committee drops most contentious parts of its demand for data on research funding. It now wants aggregated, not disaggregated data. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
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Debra Titone @dtitone.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Cool idiom study! #language #cognition featuredcontent.psychonomic.org/breaking-new...
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Breaking new ground (and other expressions): Unearthing presuppositional strength of idioms
If you like idioms, you’ll be… head over heels… for this research. Allow me to… break the ice… without… beating around the bush. A new study on idioms by Nicholas Griffen and Ira Noveck is… the bee…
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Debra Titone @dtitone.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Wondering if anyone can point me to a guide or set of resources on "how to create compelling/accessible data figure plots" for #psychology or #linguistics students. Ditto for "creating compelling/accessible data tables". Thank you.
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Kristina Šekrst @epiphenomenal.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
It's a shame it took me almost a month to find out Margaret Boden died. And it's a shame it took most media a month to write about one of the greatest philosophers of the last century. #philosophy #philsci #ai #cogsci www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/s...
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Margaret Boden, Philosopher of Artificial Intelligence, Dies at 88
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Debra Titone @dtitone.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
New review paper on theory of mind/mentalizing and spontaneous speech/language. Led by Chaimaa El Mouslih, and co-authored with @vegashodgins.bsky.social and @lenapl.bsky.social www.mdpi.com/2076-328X/15...
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Debra Titone @dtitone.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
It’s @nphillipsca.bsky.social !
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Debra Titone @dtitone.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
A formulaic crisis on Canada Day.. theonion.com/idiom-shorta...
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Idiom Shortage Leaves Nation All Sewed Up In Horse Pies
WASHINGTON—A crippling idiom shortage that has left millions of Americans struggling to express themselves spread like tugboat hens throughout the U.S. mainland Tuesday in an unparalleled lingual cris...
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Canadian Psychological Association @canadianpsychology.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
A failure of the interocular suppression paradigm to assess sexual preferences in two studies - Légère, Lalumière, Sawatsky, Gray, & Krupp New online-first in the Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology buff.ly/gPaKkvj @apajournals.bsky.social‬
Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology New Content graphic. Text at the top and bottom, CJEP logo on the right side.
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Debra Titone @dtitone.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
This looks useful!
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Debra Titone @dtitone.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
We recently got an AI generated review. Tell-tale signs: comments go paragraph by paragraph; number of papers cited or other irrelevant details described; anodyne/insipid comments. Others? Authors and Editors, beware..
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Charlie Hind @hindcharlie.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
New study from the Women in Supramolecular Chemistry (WISC) revealing the unique challenges resulting from being First Gen (first generation of a family to access Higher Education) in science and showing how these persist at every stage of a career in academia: pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
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Being a first generation university graduate, the impact on a career in science
Being in the first generation to access Higher Education (First Gen) is a barrier to academic success. First Gens face difficulties transitioning into, completing, and attaining competitive grades in ...
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Debra Titone @dtitone.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
So did everyone watch #conclave last night or was it just me?
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Debra Titone @dtitone.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Language matters: training care staff to minimize elderspeak in assisted living/nursing homes led to reductions in non-compliance and use of antipsychotics among patients. Sometimes the “affected” person isn’t the problem. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/03/h...
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Honey, Sweetie, Dearie: The Perils of Elderspeak (Gift Article)
A new training program teaches aides to stop baby talk and address older people as adults.
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Debra Titone @dtitone.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
New paper on L2/L1 irony processing in Memory & Cognition led by @vegashodgins.bsky.social. This was a team effort, including @antonioiniesta.bsky.social and others, notably Mehrgol Tiv who collected the data several years back. rdcu.be/ekaeh #language #cognition #irony #multilingualism
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Bilingual irony processing during natural reading: A within-participant look at L1 versus L2 effects using eye-movement measures
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Jen Briselli @jbriselli.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
I've fallen into lurker mode with this site lately but I'm still here... and this week I wrote this thing that seemed to resonate with a bunch of folks, maybe if you're into #SystemsThinking or #Complexity you'll dig it too:
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Letter to a Young Systems Thinker
Don’t search for the answers.
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Debra Titone @dtitone.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Special Issue of @cjep.bsky.social on #Network Science in Experimental #Psychology is out today. psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202... Note: the SI introduction and one paper are free to read.
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Debra Titone @dtitone.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Just delivered my last psych of #bilingualism class of the semester.. Interacting with smart undergraduates about an important topic that I love is such a privilege.. #grateful
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The Experimental Psychology Society @exppsychsoc.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
EPS Meeting: University of Dundee. 8th – 11th July 2025. A joint meeting with the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Science (CSBBCS). Submission portals for this meeting will open at 10am (UK Time) on April 7th 2025 for a minimum of 24 hours. eps.ac.uk/next-meeting/
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Next Meeting
EPS Meeting: University of Dundee. 8th – 11th July 2025. This will be a joint meeting with the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Science (CSBBCS), and will include the 53rd B…
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Zanna Clay @zannaclay.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
The loss of a legend- Kanzi, the language-competent bonobo, has died age 44. Kanzi was exceptional in so many ways and offered us profound insights into the linguistic & cognitive capacities of great apes. He has taught us so much and will be hugely missed. www.apeinitiative.org/remembering-...
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Women in Cognitive Science Canada+ @wicscanada.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Are you a 🇨🇦 ECR (graduate student, postdoc) in Cognitive Science looking for a small grant to support a new collaborative research project? Apply for the @wicscanada.bsky.social Small Grant for Jr Scientists: wicsc.ca/wp-content/u...
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Women in Cognitive Science Canada+ @wicscanada.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Know someone who is a fantastic mentor to 🇨🇦 women in cognitive science? Nominate them for the @wicscanada.bsky.social 2025 Mentorship Award: wicsc.ca/wp-content/u...
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Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology @cjep.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Our Special Issue 'Network Science in Experimental Psychology' is out now! We will be featuring articles all week @dtitone.bsky.social Check out the table of contents here: psycnet.apa.org/PsycARTICLES...
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lizschotter.bsky.social @lizschotter.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
📢 out now in CABN: Individual differences in subcomponents of the N400: Comprehension ability predicts contextual support effects while spelling ability predicts orthographic anomaly effects link.springer.com/article/10.3...
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Individual differences in subcomponents of the N400: Comprehension ability predicts contextual support effects while spelling ability predicts orthographic anomaly effects - Cognitive, Affective, & Be...
The N400 ERP component has been characterized as a response reflecting binding of semantic memory states to create a “multimodal conceptual representation” (Kutas & Federmeier, 2011). An assumption of...
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Antonio Iniesta @antonioiniesta.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Check out our paper on @cjep.bsky.social 📄 Questionnaire-based Language Entropy aligns well with social network-based Entropy across different sociolinguistic realities, and contexts, validating Language Entropy as a useful tool for quantifying language diversity. 🔗 psycnet.apa.org/record/2025-...
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APA PsycNet
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Debra Titone @dtitone.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Introduction is free to read: psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...
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Debra Titone @dtitone.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Special issue on Network Science in Psychology is out at the @cjep.bsky.social. Thanks to the amazing guest editors and contributors. psycnet.apa.org/PsycARTICLES... #cognition #networkscience #complexsystems #psychology
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Debra Titone @dtitone.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Just donated to the @mcgillscience.bsky.social Psychology Research Experience Stipend fund (PRESTi) to help our undergrads obtain paid research training. It's a 1:1 match for donations by midnight. Science training is now more important than ever. crowdfunding.mcgill.ca/ui/main/p/mc... #Canada
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Debra Titone @dtitone.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
So happy that the amazing Jason Rothman (@jayro77.bsky.social), has joined us here. He is now added to the Bilingualism & Multilingualism Researcher Starter Pack - go.bsky.app/C5Lhp1C. If you are a #bilingualism researcher and would like to be added, please reach out..
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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 28/02/2025
👏The Brooklyn Public Library is doing something truly amazing with its Books Unbanned initiative! They’re offering free eCards to teens across the country who are facing book bans in their local communities. www.bklynlibrary.org/media/press/... #LibrarySky
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Brooklyn Public Library Offers Free eCards to Teens Nationwide Facing Book Bans in Local Communities | Brooklyn Public Library
Librarians and Teen Volunteers Spearhead Books Unbanned Initiative to Combat Censorship
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Debra Titone @dtitone.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Great paper about scientific writing
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