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Rachel Ryskin @ryskin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

These are great opportunities that can lead to tenure-track positions in the UC system. Happy to support a PPFP application if there’s a good research fit!

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bergelsonlab @handle.invalid · 30/09/2026

hey #CogSciSky, wake up, a new class demo just dropped

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Tom McCoy @rtommccoy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

A nor'easter is a storm with winds from the northeast So you might think a sou'wester would be a storm with winds from the southwest. But it's not!! It's a type of hat!! Language strikes again

An image of a sou'wester - a yellow waterproof rain hat - sourced from Wikipedia

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Marc Coutanche @marccoutanche.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

🧠🧵 New paper accepted at @jocn.bsky.social! Led by @amyqixx.bsky.social We found that memory traces carry an "echo" of how they were last accessed: the way you retrieve a concept leaves a measurable signature in the brain the next time you recognize it. doi.org/10.1162/JOCN... 1/9

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Memory Traces Reflect How They Were Last Accessed

Abstract. Episodic memories are known to change with each act of retrieval. We hypothesize that accessing semantic knowledge in different ways during episodic retrieval—from unique perceptual features...

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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

How to go straight from dinner to cake. [📹 josephsmachines] Original post

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t. @hapax.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

agreeing w post via my second-favorite moment in the whole once and future king btw

"The best thing for being sad," replied Merlyn, beginning to puff and blow, "is to learn something. That is the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then—to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the thing for you. Look at what a lot of things there are to learn—pure science, the only purity there is. You can learn astronomy in a lifetime, natural history in three, literature in six. And then, after you have exhausted a milliard lifetimes in biology and medicine and theo-criticism and geography and history and economics—why, you can start to make a cartwheel out of the appropriate wood, or spend fifty years learning to begin to learn to beat your adversary at fencing. After that you can start again on mathematics, until it is time to learn to plough."

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grushaprasad.bsky.social @grushaprasad.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Excited to share a preprint of work done in collaboration with @emilynguist.bsky.social ! osf.io/preprints/ps... TLDR: some effect sizes are larger in lab than on web-based platforms. So when evaluating quantitative predictions, considering the testing platform can be important! 1/n

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M.J. Crockett @mjcrockett.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

This is more than the NSF social sciences division - now on the chopping block - awarded in grants last year. Think about that: a single AI company has the money to fund more social science research than the US govt.

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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 16/07/2026

calling all researchers who collect data from humans 🧠🧪 we are running a very brief survey (<1 min) about jsPsych, the software ecosystem for browser-based data collection. if you use jsPsych, or if you collect data with any other software, please fill it out at tinyurl.com/jspsych-census!

I am writing on behalf of the leadership of jsPsych, the software ecosystem for browser-based data collection used in experiments and surveys from many labs worldwide.

It has been difficult for us to figure out how widespread jsPsych usage is, because the software is freely available online and we do not collect any information about downloads, users, experiments posted online, etc. While the software has been cited in thousands of articles, jsPsych usage is likely more widespread than those citations imply, because not every project using jsPsych leads to a citation, and because there are also often substantial delays between actual jsPsych usage and a publication. As such, we are conducting a very brief census of jsPsych users.

If you collect data from humans using jsPsych or any other type of software, we would appreciate your filling out a very brief survey (<1 min) at tinyurl.com/jspsych-census. This will help us to understand how many people, labs, and institutions are current or former users of jsPsych, information that will help support the long-term sustainability of the jsPsych ecosystem.

We would also appreciate it if you could circulate this message to your lab, your department listserv, and your collaborators, to help ensure that it reaches as many members of the research community as possible. The survey is being distributed by Josh de Leeuw, Melissa Kline Struhl, and myself. Please contact me (sam@auckland.ac.nz) off-list if you have any questions about it.

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Emily Morgan @emilynguist.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

"The challenges of this age aren't about replacing expertise but learning to share it" (from later in the thread)

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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 20/06/2026

Open Mind, the free OA competitor to Cognition (El$evier) founded by Richard Aslin, has nearly caught up to it impact-factor-wise Submit your best work! It's a great journal with fast and constructive review, a great ed board, and lots of cool work Open Mind is the future of cogsci journals!

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Mike Frank @mcxfrank.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

What is a psychological theory? Here's our take on this tricky and controversial question in this week's Experimentology chapter summary. Many things called "theories" in psychology aren't actually theories — they're frameworks. 🧵 experimentology.io

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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com · 14/05/2026

The academic equivalent of always reblog Tom Holland lip syncing to Umbrella is always reblog The Snake Fight Portion of Your Thesis Defense

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Kevin Reuning @reuning.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Im begging the NYT to spend time talking to people who actually teach and work at universities. Especially ones that don't have billion dollar endowments. My issues are AI use, crumbling infrastructure, vanishing staff, unfunded state mandates, a customer service model of education...

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Ashley Thomas @ashleyjthomas.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Interested in applying to graduate programs or research positions in psychology? Want more information and feedback on your submission materials? Then Harvard’s Prospective Ph.D. & RA Event in Psychology (PPREP) Is for you!! psychology.fas.harvard.edu/pprep More info in the link!! Please retweet!

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PPREP Program | Department of Psychology

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Kristian G. Andersen @kgandersen.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

All academic institutions will soon realize we are in this together, facing an autocratic ruler who wants to destroy academia, science, and public health (together with media and courts - pick up a history book). There is only one solution - stand up, speak up, and, critically, collective action.

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Morgan Mouchka @morgan-mouchka.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

If you are affiliated with a UC institution of live in a community that benefits from UC institutions, please consider signing this letter calling on UC Leadership to stand up to the Trump Administration. sites.google.com/view/ucstand...

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Please forward this letter widely at https://tinyurl.com/ucstandup Click here for news updates

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

June 14, save the date. Millions of us are showing up in the streets all across the nation to protest Trump's regime. We’ll see you there. #50501movement #NoKings

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Something I've been thinking a lot about recently is how powerful abusers don't really need to convince you of any one lie but rather just flood the zone with bullshit to render it "complex" enough that nobody feels confident enough to intervene on behalf of the victim

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Emily Morgan @emilynguist.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

🥳 New paper! From Niels Verosky (not on bksy) and me: "Temporal dependencies in event onsets and event content contain redundant information about musical meter" Open Access Preprint: escholarship.org/uc/item/83s3... Cognition link (non-paywalled for 50 days): authors.elsevier.com/a/1l92z2Hx2-...

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Temporal dependencies in event onsets and event content contain redundant information about musical meter

Author(s): Verosky, Niels J; Morgan, Emily

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LSA 2025 summer institute @lsa2025uo.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

✨Course & Instructor Spotlight ✨ Today’s feature: Zenzi M. Griffin (University of Texas at Austin) 📚 Leading "Eye Tracking in Psycholinguistic Research" 📅 Registration: bit.ly/3CSbbHC 🔗 More info: center.uoregon.edu/LSA/2025 📧 Questions? LSAinstitute@uoregon.edu

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LSA 2025 summer institute @lsa2025uo.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

🎓 Student Opportunity Alert! 🎓 The NSF-funded workshop “Abstract and Item-Specific Knowledge Across Domains and Frameworks” (July 26–27 @ UO, co-located with the 2025 LSA Institute) is now accepting: 📌 Scholarship application: Due May 15, 11:59pm PST 📌 Poster abstracts: Due June 15, 11:59pm PST

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LSA 2025 summer institute @lsa2025uo.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Join us this summer — 80+ courses, 8 conferences, and linguists surrounded by Oregon’s nature. Don’t miss it! 📅 Sign up now: bit.ly/3CSbbHC 🔗 More info: center.uoregon.edu/LSA/2025 📧 Questions? LSAinstitute@uoregon.edu #LSA2025 #Linguistics #SummerInstitute #UOregon

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AAUP @aaup.org · 25/04/2025

Keep the pressure on. Never obey in advance. The Trump administration has restored the student visa registrations of thousands of foreign students studying in the United States who had minor — and often dismissed — legal infractions.

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Josh Grubbs @joshuagrubbsphd.com · 24/04/2025

Hard writing makes for easy reading “Josh, your future readers are very smart and can understand your complicated sentences, but they will also be very tired, because we are all tired, and will appreciate simple sentences.”

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bergelsonlab @handle.invalid · 23/04/2025

actual concrete action item! #AcademicSky. Help support the integrity of scientific inquiry at NIH.

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AAUP @aaup.org · 21/04/2025

Now more than ever, we must go beyond merely defending universities. We must rebuild them so that they diminish rather than exacerbate inequalities & further the public good at a time when our collective survival is more imperiled than ever before.

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To Resist Trump’s Academic Purge, Campuses Must Unite With Each Other

Trump’s attack on US universities is escalating. Here’s how we resist.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Coinciding with it's "No" letter Harvard has refashioned its university homepage into essentially an advertisement for the social benefits of university research. This is the current front page.

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Emily Morgan @emilynguist.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Ok so how are we listing grants on our CVs that were cancelled by the Trump administration? 😬

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AAUP @aaup.org · 08/04/2025

Today is the Day! Every life-saving breakthrough in healthcare starts with research. No research, no cures. Say no to NIH funding cuts and join the fight at killthecuts.org #KillTheCuts

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Emily Morgan @emilynguist.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Does anyone have a suggestion for where an undergrad could publish a fairly direct replication of a previous psycholinguistics study? I'd love to see it published because it's an effect that I'm glad to know replicates, but it's not going to get published anywhere that prioritizes "originality".

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Emily Morgan @emilynguist.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

So what proportion of CogSci reviews were written by ChatGPT this year??

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Prof. Lucy Cheke @lucycheke.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

I am I'm this picture and I don't like it

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 21/03/2025

Spread the word: On April 5, we’re coming together to say Hands Off! and push back against Trump’s unprecedented power grab. Join us for a national day of action: handsoff2025.com/?SQ...

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Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

I can't remember the last time I saw an article just focus on this. Not that they've bent the truth or misrepresented a few facts a little, but that every single solitary thing that the GOP says on the topic is a stone cold lie with absolutely no basis in reality. ftw.usatoday.com/story/sports...

They're lying to you about transgender women and girls in sports
Michelle R. Martinelli
For The Win

They’re lying about transgender people in this world. They’re lying about what LGBTQ+ inclusion in society really means, and they’re lying about trans people in sports. They’re lying about a “transgender cult” and “transgender insanity,” about teachers indoctrinating kids with “transgender ideology” and about “making mice transgender.”

Right-wing activists, anti-trans bigots, many politicians, the president — they’re lying to you about many things but especially trans women and girls in sports. They’re lying about transgender athletes supposedly ruining women’s sports, and they’re lying about this being a ubiquitous “problem.”

They are deliberately and strategically lying about trans folks’ lives, about trans athletes and about their own disingenuous motivations for pushing these lies. They don’t care because they keep doing it.

Worse, it’s working.

They're lying about trans people, especially trans women and girls in sports, probably, in part, because the actual data doesn't support their arguments.
Yet several states have their own bans against trans athletes competing in sports consistent with their gender identity, despite expert estimates of fewer than 100 trans high school athletes nationwide. In 2022, Utah's Republican governor, Spencer Cox, vetoed an anti-transgender bill - it was eventually overruled by the legislature - and outlined his rationale. Along with the high suicide rates for trans youth, he noted that of 75,000 high school athletes in the state, four identified as trans and just one student was playing girls' sports. A whole state bill targeting four athletes, but really, one.

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Cory Shain @coryshain.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

🚨 First preprint from the lab! 🚨 Josh Rozner (w/@weissweiler.bsky.social and @kmahowald.bsky.social) uses counterfactual experiments on LMs to show that word distributions can provide a learning signal for diverse syntactic constructions, including some hard cases.

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Constructions are Revealed in Word Distributions

Construction grammar posits that constructions (form-meaning pairings) are acquired through experience with language (the distributional learning hypothesis). But how much information about…

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Grace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Me, whenever I'm asked how it's going

red button meme with options of "mention the collapse of democracy, science, and freedom in the US" vs "fine"

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LSA 2025 summer institute @lsa2025uo.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

✨Course & Instructor Spotlight ✨ Today’s feature: Adele E. Goldberg (Princeton University) 📚 Leading "A Constructionist Approach to Grammar" 📅 Registration opens next week, February 3rd! Don’t miss out! 🔗 More info: center.uoregon.edu/LSA/2025 📧 Questions? Email: LSAinstitute@uoregon.edu

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LSA 2025 summer institute @lsa2025uo.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

🚀 Registration is NOW OPEN! 🚀 The wait is over—registration for the 2025 LSA Summer Institute is officially open! 🎉 Secure your spot and join us for an incredible summer of learning, networking, and cutting-edge research in linguistics. 📅 When? July 7 – August 8, 2025 📍 Where? University of Oregon

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Adele Goldberg @adelegoldberg.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

This might be the best Linguistic Institute (summer camp for linguists) ever! and I hosted one and have taught at half a dozen They're always great, but this one...😘 center.uoregon.edu/LSA/2025/pro...

QR code for linguistic institute in Oregon

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LSA 2025 summer institute @lsa2025uo.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

✨Course & Instructor Spotlight ✨ Today’s feature: Gasper Begus (UC Berkeley) 📚 Leading "Deep Language Learning: Modeling Language from Raw Speech with fiwGAN" 📅 Registration: bit.ly/3CSbbHC 🔗 More info: center.uoregon.edu/LSA/2025 📧 Questions? Email: LSAinstitute@uoregon.edu

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