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Ryan Rhodes @langofmind.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

I brought my mom in for a guest lecture today. She did zero prep and killed it

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Ryan Rhodes @langofmind.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Working on a new board game prototype for the first time in a long time...

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Ryan Rhodes @langofmind.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

First day of xenolinguistics class! I have the coolest job in the world 👽🌍

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Ryan Rhodes @langofmind.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

It's a new year, so I thought I'd do a thread highlighting some of the content from my Cog Sci YouTube channel - Language of Mind! I'm really into language, the brain, cognition, and the connection between them - and I love science communication. So I made YouTube videos!

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Ryan Rhodes @langofmind.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Every semester I offer an extra credit assignment where students have to explain a concept from class to someone outside of class (a parent, sibling, roommate, friend) and report back what they learned. This semester I received this gem. This kid gets it 👇

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Ryan Rhodes @langofmind.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Yes Ronald Fisher, please tell me more about your lady tasting problem

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Ryan Rhodes @langofmind.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

A student has just informed me that this is called a "drug rug"

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Ryan Rhodes @langofmind.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Just came across this meme in my old course files. I don't remember making it, I think it came from a student. Hope they got an A+

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Ryan Rhodes @langofmind.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

One of my students was handing out little plastic dinosaurs! Officially the best day of the semester

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Ryan Rhodes @langofmind.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Why did every dinosaur book I had as a kid show dinosaurs chilling in front of a volcano? Why was that like a dinosaur-specific thing? We still have volcanoes now, why don't kids books show okapis or Malayan tapirs chilling in front of a volcano?

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Ryan Rhodes @langofmind.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Just started a new Pathfinder game set in a kind of early 20th century fantasy setting (our first session took place on a train!). Vibes similar to Legend of Korra meets classic D&D. I thought the setting lent itself to a colorful, Moebius aesthetic, so I decided to draw my wizard 👇

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Ryan Rhodes @langofmind.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

I'm pretty sure this is the actual plot of Idiocracy. We have arrived

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Ryan Rhodes @langofmind.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

What's the status of Chomsky's Y-model these days? Are people still assuming a basic architecture like this?

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Ryan Rhodes @langofmind.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

My wife and I couldn't agree on a theme for the baby's first birthday, so we went with both themes: Autumn, and Indo-European Migration

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Ryan Rhodes @langofmind.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Mike Tyson is so real for this

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Ryan Rhodes @langofmind.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

If you made it to the end of this meme dump, congratulations! You're something of a scientist yourself

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Ryan Rhodes @langofmind.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Memes have taken on a life of their own as a form of communication, which raises all kinds of interesting scientific questions:

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Ryan Rhodes @langofmind.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

The list wouldn't be complete without some Chomsky memes:

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Ryan Rhodes @langofmind.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

If you're more into historical linguistics:

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Ryan Rhodes @langofmind.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

I'm particularly into sound, so here are some phonetics/phonology memes

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Ryan Rhodes @langofmind.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

There's always drama between subfields:

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Ryan Rhodes @langofmind.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

How about some language memes?

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Ryan Rhodes @langofmind.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

The last few years have been frustrating, as LLMs dominate almost every aspect of cog sci and linguistics, but hey - at least it generated some decent memes:

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Ryan Rhodes @langofmind.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Since we're talking philosophy, what happens when we cross a trolley problem with p-zombies and the transporter problem?

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Ryan Rhodes @langofmind.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

On the theme of minds and computers...

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Ryan Rhodes @langofmind.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

(we had a tendency to start trouble on the old site)

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Ryan Rhodes @langofmind.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

This spawned a bunch of "is a rock a computer" memes (many of them from @matspike.bsky.social):

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Ryan Rhodes @langofmind.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Some context for these next few: A few years ago on twitter, Lex Fridman made a comment about computers that struck a lot of philosophers as "deepity" (something that sounds profound, but makes no sense). Grady Booch wasn't having it:

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Ryan Rhodes @langofmind.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

An absolute banger from @matspike.bsky.social, on the eternal relevance of the frame problem:

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Ryan Rhodes @langofmind.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Cog sci has an odd relationship with behaviorism. The field formed largely as a move away from behaviorism, but at the same time we owe them a lot. Anyway, here are some behaviorist memes

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Ryan Rhodes @langofmind.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Another from a student, about the state of the field (a personal favorite of mine):

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Ryan Rhodes @langofmind.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

A student's take on the relationship between mind and brain:

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Ryan Rhodes @langofmind.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Another student creation, in response to Searle's Chinese Room thought experiment:

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Ryan Rhodes @langofmind.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

How it feels to be a cognitive scientist:

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Ryan Rhodes @langofmind.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Here's another by a student that really captures the vibe of my courses:

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Ryan Rhodes @langofmind.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

I teach courses on language and cognitive science, and for the last few years I've been collecting memes. Here's a dump of the best cog sci memes I've come across. I'll start with the absolute best: the ones made by my students!

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Ryan Rhodes @langofmind.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

A student left me this drawing of me as a cat on the blackboard. Now I have to give her a glowing letter of rec

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Ryan Rhodes @langofmind.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

I really love the emphasis on the one word contributing exactly zero to the meaning

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Ryan Rhodes @langofmind.bsky.social · 04/11/2024

The gray countries in this map formerly used DST. What in tf was Ecuador doing with Daylight Saving Time? Just changing their clocks for fun??

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