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Duane Watson

@duanegwatson.bsky.social
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Professor, psycholinguist

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Psychonomic Society @psychonomicsociety.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
PS is excited to announce the launch of "Individual Differences in Cognition” (IDIC), an open-access journal on research in cognitive psychology, science, and neuroscience. Co-Editors-in-Chief are Andrew R.A. Conway & Michael J. Kane. Manuscripts accepted this spring. More information coming soon!
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Michael J. Kane @michaeljkane.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Andy Conway and I are honored to serve as inaugural co-Editors of this new Psychonomics journal, focused on the rigorous study of individual differences in cognition. Please spread the word to potentially interested colleagues; we hope that you will send us your best relevant work!
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Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦 @watershedlab.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Is there really ever a time where 'utilized' is a better word than 'used'? (I mean, obviously if you're a writer getting paid by the letter)
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Falk Huettig @falkhuettig.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
In a new paper, Mike Tanenhaus and I articulate the rationale behind different experimental tasks in the visual world paradigm and give recommendations for future studies. “Rethinking task importance in the Visual World Paradigm“ (Brain Research, in press). pure.mpg.de/rest/items/i...
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Duane Watson @duanegwatson.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
We finally worked tomato-tomato into a title. Check out a new paper on dialectal variation and phonological encoding! (With wonderful colleagues Brett Myers, Cass Jacobs, and Andrés Buxó-Lugo).
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Nichol Castro @nicholcastro.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
The SPARK Society supports scholars of color in the cognitive sciences. Learn about the SPARK Society and get involved if you can! www.sparksociety.org You can also help the SPARK Society achieve their mission by donating at buy.stripe.com/3cs03h1be38D...
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SPARK Society
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Jeni Kubota @jenikubota.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
We are stronger together! Our society has always been about community building. We will continue. We will support each other.
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a nguyễn @scientifical.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
the SPARK society has been an essential lifeline for me as a young academic of color. more than ever we have to protect things like this!!!
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The Spark Society @sparksociety.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Unfortunately, the NSF grant that supports our work has been terminated. This is a setback, but our mission has not changed. We will continue to work hard on making cognitive science a more inclusive field. Stay tuned for upcoming events.
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Michelle Perdomo @prosodactyl.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
I'll be presenting data from a project run in parallel to the one presented in @vrtliceralde.bsky.social's talk yesterday, this time exploring how individual differences in 10- to 15-year-olds affect language processing. Work with @duanegwatson.bsky.social. Poster session 2 at #hsp2025 today!
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Michelle Perdomo @prosodactyl.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Learned today that @duanegwatson.bsky.social and I have been awarded NSF funding to investigate the effects of reading exposure on second language processing! I can’t put into words my gratitude to all the people at NSF who continue to do the good work. Feeling especially proud to be #firstgen 🍾
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Lisa Fazio @lkfazio.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
There's lots I can't control right now but I did create a fun escape room/puzzle box activity as a review for my undergrad social cognition class and watching them race through the puzzles today brought me joy 😍 1/
Plastic black ammo box locked with a 5-letter combination lock
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Duane Watson @duanegwatson.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
My personal relaxing youtube alternatives to doom scrolling: 1) people chopping wood, preferably in Alaska. 2) EV road trips 3) espresso making content 4) hog hunting in Australia (they’re invasive). What are yours?
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Duane Watson @duanegwatson.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
All of those suggestions to circle back in the new year are now circling back.
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Asifa Majid @asifamajid.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
Great piece by @manvir.bsky.social!
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Association for Psychological Science @psychscience.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
In the latest PSPI, @sflusberg.bsky.social and his team provide a comprehensive review of framing-effects research, including describing a survey of common framing effects and a taxonomy of linguistic framing techniques.
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Unraveling the Power and Influence of Language
The study of framing effects is a multidisciplinary line of research that investigates when, how, and why language influences those who receive a message and how it impacts their response. This scienc...
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Jonathan Peelle @jpeelle.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
They call it winter “break” because it breaks the parents
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Lisa Fazio @lkfazio.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Out now - National Academies consensus report on Understanding and Addressing Misinformation About Science 🧪 It was a privilege to serve as one of the 15 committee members from a wide range of scientific disciplines who put this report together. Quick 🧵1/ www.nationalacademies.org/our-work/und...
Cover of the report - it's in a blue/purple color scheme and shows an abstract illustration of a molecule and the title of the report "Understanding and Addressing Misinformation About Science Consensus Study Report"
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Morgan Sonderegger @msonderegger.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Linguists! We're hiring an Assistant Professor (tenure track) in phonology (secondary specializations welcome) at McGill linguistics, deadline January 13. Come work with us! mcgill.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/McGill...
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Assistant Professor
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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Laura Gwilliams @lauragwilliams.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
✨i'm hiring a lab manager, with a start date of ~September 2025! to express interest, please complete this google form: forms.gle/GLyAbuD779Rz... looking for someone to join our multi-disciplinary team, using OPM, EEG, iEEG and computational techniques to study speech and language processing! 🧠
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Sean Polyn @polynsean.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
I promise one day I’ll have a bunch of science thoughts to post, but right now I want to show you the cat tower I’m working on! It started as a simple frame 🧵1
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Duane Watson @duanegwatson.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Wow. Now do gesture research.
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paolo @paolopalma.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
It’s interesting that we have discourse all the time on how LORs are the most biased sources for things like grad admissions, but they seem to be what’s mitigating the effects of bias in people’s subjective evaluations of objective metrics
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Amanda Fanniff, PhD @amandafanniff.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
"Race did not appear to influence the typical first step of the review process [dept. vote]... [but]...when the college committees were evaluating faculty with lower h-indices, evidence of bias against Black & Hispanic scholars surfaced - especially for women" 1/ www.science.org/content/arti...
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Racial bias can taint the academic tenure process—at one particular point
Black and Hispanic professors fare worse when voters include colleagues who are less familiar with their work, new study finds
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Johanna Joyce @johannajoyce.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Women are under-represented at senior levels in #academia globally, & across all #science 🧪 disciplines, as shown by these "scissor-shaped curves" ✂️ So how can we ever achieve #gender #equality? We discuss various strategies in this #Cell Commentary #WomeninSTEM www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... 🧵 1/
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Duane Watson @duanegwatson.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
This was me designing a survey when I was an undergrad.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Why is Tokyo so fashionable? Some theories. 🧵
Saagar Enjeti tweets: "Probably a cold take but IMO Tokyo is the male fashion capital of the world: whether it’s western wear, suits, street wear the aesthetic is refined to the highest possible level

From the salaryman to the rebel teen they are impeccably dressed

It also helps no one is fat"
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Duane Watson @duanegwatson.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
I switched to an EV recently, and it’s hard to express how much better it is than an ICE car (smooth, quiet, responsive). When I occasionally drive my wife’s non-EV, it feels like a Flintstone car.
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Colin McKerracher @colinmckerracher.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Sales Of Combustion Vehicles Are Slowing/Falling/Faltering
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Linda Skitka @lindaskitka.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Endorse every bit of this. Plus do not be tempted to use a smaller font size than 12 pt or reduce your margins to squeeze in more content. It’s hell for reviewers, and no one wants grumpy reviewers.
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Reviewer Zero @reviewerzero.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
What strategies can you use to provide effective peer reviews? Join us for a virtual workshop with @blackinneuro.bsky.social! We'll discuss the structure & content of peer reviews & provide advice about how to write your first review. Register here: blackinneuro47.wildapricot.org/event-5883989
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Fernanda Ferreira @fernandaedi.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Check out our latest work (led by @norabeier.bsky.social) focusing on how we talk to AI! Do we prosodically mark new information just as we do when we talk to humans? The answer is yes, we pretty much do!
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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 31/05/2018
Are you a tenured associate wondering whether it's time to go up for full? A thread of thoughts. Full profs, please chime in. 1/N
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Duane Watson @duanegwatson.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Is this going to be the hot goss at Psychonomics this week?
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The Business-School Scandal That Just Keeps Getting Bigger
The rot runs deeper than almost anyone has guessed.
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Linguischick @cocchino.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
The University of Texas at Austin's Dept. of Linguistics is hiring two tenure-track positions in computational linguistics with a focus on research connecting linguistics and artificial intelligence. Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/158280 (review starts Dec. 1).
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Emily Myers @emilymyers.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
I was unprepared for how much of my mid-career academic life would be spent evaluating others' work rather than creating my own. 🧵 1/
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Duane Watson @duanegwatson.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
The teens in my household don't typically like to hang out with me, but they're making an exception to watch this Tyson/Paul fight. 🤷🏽‍♂️
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Tom McCoy @rtommccoy.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
🤖🧠 I'll be considering applications for postdocs & PhD students to start at Yale in Fall 2025! If you are interested in the intersection of linguistics, cognitive science, and AI, I encourage you to apply! Postdoc link: rtmccoy.com/prospective_... PhD link: rtmccoy.com/prospective_...
Top: syntax tree for the sentence "the doctor by the lawyer saw the artist"
Bottom: a continuous vector
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M.J. Crockett @mjcrockett.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
I'm recruiting a graduate student to start in Fall 2025! Looking for applicants w/interests in cultural evolution, narratives, morality, AI, social media, & epistemic (in)justice. See here for more info: www.crockettlab.org/joining-the-... Apps due Nov 17!
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Joining the Lab — Crockett Lab
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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 14/11/2024
a moving example of haka (arguably a form of music) used in political protest, in NZ parliament also, since I like the science of this, also shows why "music bonds the group together" fundamentally misconstrues the behavior in question. it's not warm & fuzzy, haka is sending a clear message here !
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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 03/08/2022
The Office (US) characters as academics, a thread. Creed Bratton: got a TT job by mail in 1964, without an interview. somehow hasn't retired yet. Invented some method used by the entire field. Completely nuts but still friendly 1/n
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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Share of kids *not* learning a foreign language in school US 80% Germany 18% Italy 18% Finland 16% Sweden 8% Spain 4% Poland 2% France 0% Norway 0% www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
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Most European students are learning a foreign language in school while Americans lag
A median of 92% of European students are learning a language in school. Far fewer K-12 students in the U.S. participate in foreign language education.
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Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
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NIH reissues FOA to Promote Workforce Diversity
PAS-25-190 (Research Opportunities for New and “At-Risk” Investigators to Promote Workforce Diversity) has been issued to replace PAR-22-181, with effect as of Jan 08, 2025. For those o…
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Duane Watson @duanegwatson.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
Come join this @sparksociety.bsky.social webinar tomorrow! I'll be saying things. Hopefully, some of these things will be useful.
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Michael Hendricks 🇨🇦 @michaelhendricks.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
I came across a quote in an article, which I will paraphrase: the ultimate goal of neuroscience is to model the brain and derive laws that define the brain’s computational abilities. Statements like this are common and presented as self-evident, but I think they are wrong.
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Robin T. @drrobinthomas.bsky.social · 09/11/2024
Here's a starter pack for mathematical psychology! please add if you know folks who should be on here go.bsky.app/QNKpfeS
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Megan Figueroa @meganfigueroa.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
Hello new followers! I am the co-host of a podcast about linguistic discrimination called The Vocal Fries 🍟 @vocalfriespod.bsky.social Check us out! 😊
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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 14/12/2023
it's wild that R, the ubiquitous statistical computing language, was co-created by a Māori prof (Ross Ihaka) — and yet the vast majority of scientists who use R don't know this is like inventing the toaster. possibly the largest impact of a single member of an indigenous community on modern science
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Jonathan Peelle @jpeelle.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
As long as millions of new Bluesky users are wandering around looking for accounts to follow, why not check out the podcast I co-host with @juliafstrand.bsky.social?
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Steve Haroz @steveharoz.com · 10/11/2024
A starter pack with people who research visual sensation, perception, cognition, and memory. Also, a curated feed just for vision science content.
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