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Computational cognitive neuroscience of language @bcbl + @uconn

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Emily Myers @emilymyers.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Join UConn's NIDCD-funded Cognitive Neuroscience of Communication T32 training program. Fall 2027: 1 postdoc slot. Fall 2028: 3 PhD slots, 1 postdoc. Mentors include: K. Cuevas, IM. Eigsti, F. Hoeft, D. Houston, N. Landi, J. Magnuson, J. Mozeiko, E. Myers, E. Skoe. cncct.research.uconn.edu
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Home | Cognitive Neuroscience of Communication--Connecticut: CNC-CT | Cognitive Neuroscience of Communication–Connecticut: CNC-CT | University of Connecticut
While significant progress has been made in understanding the underlying mechanisms that affect communication in various conditions, and in developing asses ...
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Emily Myers @emilymyers.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Check out this labor of love from my lab--a language science magazine created by undergrads and grads, intended for participants & community members. I might be biased but I think it's TOPS.
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Gavin Buckingham @drgbuckingham.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
The Cognition Group in the Psychology dept at Exeter are at risk of redundancy because "basic cognitive psychology research does not align with the current priorities of funding bodies" If you think this is overtly wrong and misguided, please sign this open letter docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Open Letter in Support of the Cognition Group, University of Exeter
To Executive members of the University of Exeter, including Vice Chancellor Prof. Lisa Roberts, Senior Vice-President and Provost Prof. Dan Charman, Pro Vice Chancellor and Executive Dean Prof. Sallie...
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Elena Tenenbaum @elenatenenbaum.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
The Low Verbal Investigatory Survey (LVIS) Version 5.0 is now available! This caregiver report measure is free and provides information about communicative capacity in autism. LVIS 5.0 has simplified scoring and a cut point for MLV status. autismlanguagelab.psychology.uconn.edu/low-verbal-i...
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Low Verbal Investigatory Survey (LVIS) | Connecticut Autism and Language Lab (CALL) | Department of Psychological Sciences | University of Connecticut
UPDATED SCORING! See the link below! Approximately 30% of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are considered minimally verbal, but measuring their ...
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bergelsonlab @bergelsonlab.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Just submitted my OMB comment (due 7/14) I found this guidance from Genexi very helpful. She suggests mentioning specific sections outright. It's rather dense: www.federalregister.gov/documents/20... but there's a nice summary with section #s here aas.org/posts/news/2... h/t @aas.org #SaveScience
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Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) proposes to revise the Guidance for Federal Financial Assistance to improve government- wide policies and requirements related to the management of grants, co...
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bergelsonlab @bergelsonlab.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
official ad to follow soon but heads up: 1-2 postdocs slots in my lab, hopefully w/fall start! reposts welcome, details to follow. babies! word learning! cognitive & linguistic skills! #CogSciSky #DevPsychSky 🐦🐦 (lab info: bergelsonlab.fas.harvard.edu/prospectives) also recruiting grads this fall!
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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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Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language (BCBL) @bcbl.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
🔚 #StatLearn2026 comes to an end. Researchers from all over the world have discussed #statisticallearning and its underlying mechanisms from behaviour to neuroscience, across various domains. It has been a pleasure to organize a new edition of this event. 🤩
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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Today, our #SCIMaP team released an impact analysis of the White House proposed FY 2027 NIH and NSF budgets. Bottom-line: if enacted, cuts to science and medical research would lead to $35B in economic losses and 150,000 lost jobs in communities all across the US. scienceimpacts.org 🧵
Landing page for scienceimpacts.org
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Emily Myers @emilymyers.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Congrats to my colleague Diane Lillo-Martin for her election as an AAAS Fellow! She was my faculty mentor when I arrived at UConn and is the best of the best!
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Brian Wong @brianwwl.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
📢 New paper in JEP:HPP Speech perception gradiency (sensitivity to fine-grained phonetic detail) has been shown to enhance speech perception flexibility (recovery from misleading information) in L1 English. But does it play the same role in L2? doi.org/10.1037/xhp0... @bcbl.bsky.social
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Morten H. Christiansen @mh-christiansen.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
We argue that multimodal communication plays a key role in maintaining signal honesty across all communication systems, acting as an alternative to intrinsic costs, which have been critiqued as being insufficient to explain “cheap” signals (like human language) 2/2 👉Call for commentaries to follow
Illustration of how multi-modality supports honesty
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BogaertsLab @bogaertslab.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Our #IASL26 conference on statistical learning aims to bring together scientists from different disciplines who study how humans👨‍👧🧑‍🦳, as well as other species 🐒🦜 and systems 🤖🔠, learn regularities. ↖️🔍🔎↗️ If your work touches on this theme from any angle, we would love to receive your abstract!
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Nicola Molinaro @nicolaml.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
📢 New in Trends in Neurosciences Dyslexia shows atypical phonological processing and speech tracking, yet comprehension is preserved. We argue this reflects adaptive compensation, via hemispheric rebalancing and greater reliance on lexico-semantic processing. authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
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Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language (BCBL) @bcbl.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
✍️ #BCBLpaper in #PsychonomicBulletin&Review | How sleep redraws phonemic categories after auditory selective adaptation. Dumay, N. & Samuel, A. +info ⬇️ link.springer.com/article/10.3...
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How sleep redraws phonemic categories after auditory selective adaptation - Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
After information has either been perceived or brought into working memory from long-term memory, it may remain active for hours or days. There is extensive evidence that sleep can consolidate newly l...
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Rick Steves @ricksteves.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans. 🧵 1 of 9
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Fernanda Ferreira @fernandaedi.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
This is so true, and it highlights how annoying it is that outlets like the New York Times and The Atlantic obsessively fixate on the Ivies. Most U.S. students attend public universities, and those institutions change lives at a scale the Ivies can’t touch.
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jim magnuson @jimmagnuson.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
wtaf www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”
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Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language (BCBL) @bcbl.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
🗣️ “Queremos diagnosticar la dislexia antes de que aparezca”. Manuel Carreiras, director científico de #BCBL, repasa en @diariovascobsky.bsky.social su trayectoria investigadora vinculada a este trastorno tras recibir el Premio Nacional de Dislexia en 2025. 👀👇 www.diariovasco.com/sociedad/sal...
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Manuel Carreiras, Director científico del BCBL: «La dislexia se diagnostica muy tarde, cuando el niño ya ha sufrido un montón» | El Diario Vasco
«Queremos diagnosticar este trastorno antes de que aparezca», explica este experto, que ha recibido el Premio Nacional de Dislexia
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Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language (BCBL) @bcbl.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
🗣️ “Dislexia agertu aurretik diagnostikatu nahi dugu”. Manuel Carreirasek, #BCBL|ko zuzendari zientifikoak, nahasmendu honekin lotuta egin duen ikerketa-ibilbidea errepasatu du @diariovascobsky.bsky.socialen, 2025eko Dislexia Sari Nazionala jaso ondoren. 👀👇 www.diariovasco.com/sociedad/sal...
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Manuel Carreiras, Director científico del BCBL: «La dislexia se diagnostica muy tarde, cuando el niño ya ha sufrido un montón» | El Diario Vasco
«Queremos diagnosticar este trastorno antes de que aparezca», explica este experto, que ha recibido el Premio Nacional de Dislexia
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Colin Phillips @colinphillips.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
Opportunity for early career researchers to spend 3 years working with us in Oxford. Cool surroundings, interesting people. Eligibility: need some UK academic connection. Get in touch if interested! Details: www.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/news/2025/11...
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Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language (BCBL) @bcbl.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
✍️ A new paper led by McMaster University with the collaboration of #BCBL researcher @jimmagnuson.bsky.social has been published in @plos.org #ComputationalBiology. +info ⬇️ journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
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Recurrent neural networks as neuro-computational models of human speech recognition
Author summary Human brains deal with a constantly evolving stream of information acquired by the senses. The transitory nature of this input requires strategies for integrating information over time....
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Swathi Kiran@Center for Brain Recovery at BU @swathikiran.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Join us Monday, September 15th from 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm ET for a talk by Simona Mancini, Ikerbasque Research Associate Professor / Neurolinguistics and Aphasia group leader at the Basque Center on Cognition Brain and Language. Register now at bit.ly/45LjrF1
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andrea e. martin @andreaeyleen.eurosky.social · 03/09/2025
Interested in doing a PhD with me and lacns.github.io? Or with any of the incredible fellows in the IMPRS School of Cognition www.maxplanckschools.org/cognition-en - apply before Dec 1st at cognition.maxplanckschools.org/en/application
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Language and Computation in Neural Systems
We are an international group of scientists consisting of linguists, cognitive scientists, cognitive neuroscientists, computational neuroscientists, computational modellers, computational scientists, ...
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Nicola Molinaro @nicolaml.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
📢 PhD opening @bcbl_ (San Sebastián, Spain) Join our ERC project CORTICAL RHYTHMS 🧠 to study how brain rhythms shape second language learning (spoken & signed) with MEG/MRI. 📅 Start Jan 2026 | ⏳ Apply by Sept 15, 2025 👉 tinyurl.com/bdwkumn3
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PhD CANDIDATE POSITION – ERC ADVANCED GRANT PROJECT - CORTICAL RHYTHMS (Second Language Learning)
at the BCBL- Basque Center on Cognition Brain and Language (San Sebastián, Basque Country, Spain) www.bcbl.eu
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Michael Patrick Lynch @michael-p-lynch.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
Great piece on the administration's attack on our epistemic infrastructure--and shout-out to my work-- by @peterbakernyt.bsky.social in today's paper.
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Emily Myers @emilymyers.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
Michael's points out that so many of this administration's attacks are on "epistemic infrastructure" (museums, libraries, universities, agencies that collect data).
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jim magnuson @jimmagnuson.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
My contribution to the @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social effort to communicate the value of federal science funding: www.hometownsource.com/county_news_...
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Farm to faculty: How federal research funding changes lives and boosts Minnesota's economy
When I was growing up on a farm near Cambridge, I never met a scientist. I didn’t know what scientific research was or how people became scientists. I graduated from
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BogaertsLab @bogaertslab.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Do we adapt when the structure of our environment changes? Check out our new preprint: doi.org/10.31234/osf...
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Jenny Saffran @jennysaffran.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Really looking forward to this!
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Nicola Molinaro @nicolaml.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Neural tracking: evoked or oscillatory? 🎧🧠 The #TrackingUmbrella paper argues it’s not either/or — both perspectives reveal how our brains align with speech, music, and more. Method matters. Let’s rethink how we measure and interpret tracking! tinyurl.com/ywbe7rrz
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(PDF) The Tracking Umbrella: Diverse Interpretations Under a Common Neural Term
PDF | Neural tracking, the alignment of brain activity with the temporal dynamics of sensory input, is a crucial mechanism underlying perception,... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ...
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jim magnuson @jimmagnuson.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Have others experienced major problems with collecting data via Prolific (@joinprolific.bsky.social)? For a lexical decision study we ran 3 years ago, we excluded less than 2% of participants for clear non-compliance/random responding. Now it's closer to 25% for the exact same study.
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Marc Joanisse @drmarcj.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
My university has announced a special international graduate fellowship for PhD students whose acceptance at a US university has been rescinded. Check it out: grad.uwo.ca/finances/wes...
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US-CAN Doctoral Excellence Award
Western University, in vibrant London, Ontario, delivers an academic and student experience second to none.
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jim magnuson @jimmagnuson.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Do we understand that we actually have concentration camps in the USA now? The cruel, casual dehumanization of our neighbors is happening, now, with ‘jokes’ about alligators killing prisoners at Alligator Alcatraz.
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Trump’s ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ tour was a calculated celebration of the dystopian
The detention center visit seemed to represent a landmark in a defining issue since even before his first term: migration
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Jamie Reilly 🦜 @reilly-coglab.com · 11/05/2025
The MIT stopword list has MANY open class words in it. That's a no no. Here's a new stopword list tagged with part-of-speech that includes idioms and other collocatives. reilly-lab.github.io/Jamie_Stopwo...
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Procedures for Generating Temple_Stopwords25 Stopword List
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Ian L Morgan @ianlmorgan.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Join @nihfellowsunited.bsky.social in calling your legislator on 5/13 to tell them to sign onto letters opposing cuts to the NIH, cosponsored by Senators @warren.senate.gov, @padilla.senate.gov, and Tillis, as well as Representatives @ocasio-cortez.house.gov and @carson.house.gov.
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Simon Fischer-Baum @cogsimon.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
You can comment on this proposed policy change by May 23rd. The proposed policy defines science agency grant making program officers, among other positions, as “policy-making” and removes civil service protections. www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
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Improving Performance, Accountability and Responsiveness in the Civil Service
The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is proposing a rule to increase career employee accountability. Agency supervisors report great difficulty removing employees for poor performance or misconduc...
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 10/05/2025
HAPPY 75th, NSF! We’re celebrating this milestone by highlighting some of NSF’s most transformative accomplishments—innovations that have shaped our world and continue to drive progress in health, technology, the environment, and beyond. Read on 🧵(1/11):
A chocolate cake with red and white decorations and lit candles shaped as the number 75. Bold text reads: ‘The NSF Turns 75 Today. What has it done over the past 7 decades?’ The background is a celebratory red with a spray-paint texture.
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Joao Barbosa @jbarbosa.org · 10/05/2025
Please RT🙏 Reach out if you want to help understand cognition by modelling, analyzing and/or collect large scale intracortical data from 👩🐒🐁 We're a friendly, diverse group (n>25) w/ this terrace 😎 in the center of Paris! See👇 for + info about the lab We have funding to support your application!
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Maryellen MacDonald @maryellenmacdonald.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
My book reveals the mostly hidden effects of talking *on talkers.* Talking boosts focus & learning, regulates emotions, changes perception, & more. The reason lies in how utterance planning for talking works. It's a book for gen'l audiences, but w scientific claims for production & its consequences
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More Than Words by Maryellen MacDonald, PhD: 9780593545270 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
"This beautifully written book by Maryellen MacDonald demonstrates how 'word-work' shapes both our experience of the world and the very brain that produced our capacity to articulate and generate our ...
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Jenny Saffran @jennysaffran.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Fun new study by Ellie Breitfeld!
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Athanassios Protopapas @protopap.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Skilled readers use information from upcoming words to boost efficiency, but at what cost? We discovered that nearby words interfere with lexical activation of the fixated word, calling for a more nuanced approach to the role of preview in fluent reading. dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jm...
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Jamie Reilly 🦜 @reilly-coglab.com · 19/04/2025
New R package almost birthed - SemanticDistance - computes two semantic distance metrics (experiential and embedding) for any rolling chunk size (ngram-to-ngram, word-to-word, turn-to-turn, ngram-to-word). You give it your language sample. It does the rest, including lemmatize and stopword omit
screenshot of semantic distance R package information
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Anne Fausto-Sterling @birdlady.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
why am I not surprised? #cogsci #devpsy #psychscisky #blackinstem wordinblack.com/2025/04/psyc... #AmericanPsychologicalAssociation #DiversityInRecruitment #DiversityEquityInclusion #PostgraduatePrograms #PoliticalPressure #InclusionMatters
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Psychological Assn. Pauses Diversity in Recruitment Requirements
American Psychological Association bows to political pressure and suspends DEI requirements for postgraduate programs.
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Michael Patrick Lynch @michael-p-lynch.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Publication day! www.amazon.com/Truth-Politi...
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On Truth in Politics: Why Democracy Demands It
On Truth in Politics: Why Democracy Demands It [Lynch, Michael Patrick] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. On Truth in Politics: Why Democracy Demands It
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Ron Pomper @ronpomper.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
I’ve created a website to look up phonological features (frequency, age of acquisition, neighbors) of real and nonwords. rpomper.github.io/phono/ It’s still in progress (manuscript coming) please let me know if you have any recommendations or feature requests! (It takes 1-2 minutes to load)
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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 06/04/2025
In light of the recent visa withdrawals, here is a PDF with advice for international students at UCLA. I’m so sorry to have to share this. drive.google.com/file/d/1x8_z...
GOING ABOUT DAILY LIFE: The buddy system and knowing your rights
1. In every moment you can, be with a buddy. If you do not have a roommate, consider staying with someone. During the day, walk with a buddy when leaving your room.
2. Consider emailing professors to request remote/hybrid or other accommodations.
They are allowed to do so under Academic Senate rules.
3. If ICE comes to your door, do not open the door. You do not have to open your door, and you do not have to speak with them. Do not say anything. If you are alone, call someone to help you stay calm and stay silent. If they force their way in, do not resist, instead say "I do not consent to your entry."
4. You have the right to ask to see a judicially signed warrant. Unless ICE/DHS has a judicially signed warrant to search or arrest, one can refuse ICE entry. This judicial warrant must be signed by a judge; it is different from an administrative warrant which ICE often presents/has when making immigration-related arrests.
5. If you are detained, don't say anything to ICE. Don't sign anything.
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Laura Fernández-Merino @laufdezlaura.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Happy to share my very first first-author paper! In this study, we show that rhythms can shape how our brains track speech (in very simple words). Work with Marina Kalashnikova, @nicolaml.bsky.social and Mikel Lizarazu. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Temporal Structure of Music Improves the Cortical Encoding of Speech
This study demonstrates that regular musical rhythms can act as a temporal guide for brain oscillations, enhancing synchronization with the speech envelope. This effect was observed across different ...
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🦋Dr. Natalia🕊🌻🪬 @solnatamd.medsky.social · 18/03/2025
By Arthur Caplan: "many scientists and administrators now seem to think that the best response to the war on DEI is to keep their heads low and wait out four hard years." "the only way forward is speaking truth to power."
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jim magnuson @jimmagnuson.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Apropos of nothing, when we review, let's (1) refrain from HARKing (if authors shouldn't, why can reviewers?), ...
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