Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 12hI think that AI solving for complex problems is an existence proof that distributed solutions can work for those problems. We still need to undertand how both the brain AND the AI systems actually do it. And, there's also no guarantee that the way the brain solves a problem is the same way AI does. 1100
Reposted by Dustin A. ChacónNicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · 16h89% of SBE NSF grants were never awarded!! My field (Cognitive Neuroscience) is included in this gutting, as are so many others. Plenty of horror stories in the same space are also coming from NIH. It’s not just delaying research; it’s labs shutting down and a next gen that won’t be trained. 13929
Reposted by Dustin A. Chacónnoam @noamchompers.bsky.social · 15hi've obviously posted about this before, but it really is amazing. until recently it seemed totally reasonable (if a bit pessimistic) to go "other people's experiences are just an inscrutable epistemic quandry. there's literally no way to ever know if 'aphantasiacs' exist". and then, we just did it 2312
Reposted by Dustin A. ChacónLisa Fazio @lkfazio.bsky.social · 15hDevistating. And against Congress's directive. SBE was included in the 26 budget and the NSF section states that "no directorate shall receive more than a 5 percent reduction relative to the fiscal year 2024 enacted level." 09546
Reposted by Dustin A. ChacónRachel Ryskin @ryskin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026These 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! 089
Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Whoa my tweet went viral. I don’t have a bandcamp, but I’m trying to write an NSF grant. If you retweeted me and want to give me $2-$4 million lmk, you’d save me a lot of time and energy 3270
Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Turing said if you’re conscious, then you speak Chinese 1120
Reposted by Dustin A. Chacónhikikomorphism @hikikomorphism.bsky.social · 02/10/2026(confused) I believe LLMs are conscious, but only Deepseek LLMs, because of the Chinese Room theory 371831272
Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this: 255181774795
Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Parents, talk to your kids about garden paths before it's too late 2210
Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Whoops! Thanks for the people who reposted my study links. As usually happens, we found a bug the second I posted the links :) Stay tuned... 040
Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Preparing for the new academic year, and I swear that every platform for sharing course material (Canvas, Moodle, Blackboard...) is perfectly designed to be as unintuitive and stress-inducing as possible to my ADHD brain 070
Reposted by Dustin A. Chacónashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 12/09/2026i am incredibly excited to share our research about how paying people’s rent through mutual aid made an impact on minnesota this year we accidentally collected more data than anyone ever has for an effort like this, and can very seriously say we prevented an eviction bubble that everyone expected 3031021154
Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 12/09/2026My impression of Elizabeth Holmes in the Nathan Fielder trailer: :) ⦂) ⵓ) ꖉ) 𐌚) 0120
Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Surprise gift from my mom! 'Kind of looks like a BRAIN' 040
Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 09/09/2026The Cisco hold music is the OST of a creepy underground ice level www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLpm...youtube.comCisco Default Hold MusicYouTube video by Danny’s Phone Messages And Hold Music Channel! 010
Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 18/06/2026I'm recently single (lol) so I'm considering moving to San Francisco on a bit of a budget. I would not wish apartment hunting in San Francisco in this economy on my worst enemy. Would you guys visit me if I lived in the Pain house? 1110
Reposted by Dustin A. ChacónCharlie Vaske @seavaske.com · 05/06/2026For a picture of where SF could be if it NIMBYed as hard as Santa Cruz: the *median* income is below the low income cutoff, because housing is so scarce and rare that HUD has to perform an income adjustment to mean any sort of market rents. 181
Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 09/06/2026A little late to the party but I saw the Persona 6 trailer 👀 Can't wait to play it in 2038 050
Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 28/05/2026Congratulations to PhD student Subhs Shrestha for defending her 1st QP! 130
Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 17/05/2026'They' referring to an explicitly gendered antecedent from instagram reeler gabe.rema #linguistics 1110
Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 13/05/2026A sampling of the psycho- and neurolinguists (UCSC and NYU(AD) contingents) who are living on my Tomodachi Life island currently 060
Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 05/05/2026Some of you are going to be on my Tomodachi Life island and not even know it 290
Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 10/04/2026My neurologist is Bengali, so my appointment this afternoon was twice as long since he wanted to talk neuro shop with me and then ask me etymology questions about Perso-Arabic borrowings into Bangla 1220
Reposted by Dustin A. ChacónMaija Tervola @maijatervola.bsky.social · 18/03/2026A very interesting research setup on grammatical differences and how brain processes them. Done with a couple of understudied languages, Hindi and Nepal. Finnish has a similar differential object marking depending on quantitative definiteness of the object. And a thorough Bsky-summary, thanks! 0103
Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 17/03/2026In other news, the proofs are up for my new paper, with a dream team of Subhs Shrestha, @linguistbrian.bsky.social, Diogo Almeida, Alec Marantz, and Rajesh Bhatt! direct.mit.edu/nol/article/...direct.mit.eduSame Sentences, Different Grammars, Different Brain Responses?: An MEG Study on Case and Agreement Encoding in Hindi and Nepali Split-Ergative StructuresAbstract. At first glance, the brain’s language network appears to be universal, but languages clearly differ. Does the brain adapt to the specific details of individual grammatical systems? Here, we ... 1295
Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 17/03/2026At UCSC, our Psycholing 2 is a crash course on sentence processing for about 5 weeks, and then a practicum to do a novel research project for another 5 weeks. The 'final' is a poster presentation where each group gets to learn about what each other did. 171
Reposted by Dustin A. ChacónGOD SUEDE YOU! BLACK EMPEROR @suede.bsky.social · 27/02/2026The world upon seeing Pombonmedia.tenor.coma woman is holding a puppy in her arms and says i 've only had arto for a day and a halfAlt: Rosa from Brooklyn 99 holding a puppy and saying "if anything happened to him, I would kill everyone in this room and then myself" 420286
Reposted by Dustin A. ChacónRTGame 👑 @rtgame.bsky.social · 27/02/2026I would give my life for Pombon 151089103
Reposted by Dustin A. ChacónTyler @loop528.bsky.social · 27/02/2026She’s the cousin he comes out to on one of their annual Thanksgiving walks 0735
Reposted by Dustin A. ChacónAlex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 24/01/2026Really just the absolute floor of demands that ICE must be abolished, dismantled, and everyone involved with its creation held accountable. 112418
Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 22/01/2026Oh hey paper acceptance! I didn't see it because I couldn't log into my old UGA e-mail lol 🫠 070
Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 22/01/2026Did you know there’s a horror movie coming out about a translation error? 271
Reposted by Dustin A. Chacónthicc husband and father @lukeisamazing.bsky.social · 22/01/2026yes, Dems are 100% ok with it. if they weren’t, they wouldn’t have voted for it dozens of times or tried to hit Republicans from the right for not being “serious about the border” during the 2024 election or be totally abdicate fighting against it now. but they did all that, they’re social fascists 161631361
Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 22/01/2026Democrats already warming up there 'ICE for all *who want it*' platform for 2028 040
Reposted by Dustin A. ChacónMax Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 22/01/2026"Should we vote to give more money to the people shooting my constituents in the face?" is not a complicated political question. And yet, Democrats don't seem able to answer it. 18178561924
Reposted by Dustin A. ChacónMargaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 22/01/2026Another friend put it to me like this: "ICE has made the classic Nazi mistake. They've invaded a winter people in the winter." 68167373384
Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 12/01/2026Whoever took my gym bag at Santa Cruz Athletic Club at ~11:30 AM this morning, then spent ~$2,000 at a hardware store on my credit cards and withdrew more from the ATM, can you please at least return my cards, my weightlifting equipment, and my hearing aids please? 380
Reposted by Dustin A. ChacónJanet Frick @jfrickuga.bsky.social · 09/01/2026Raise your hand if you’re doing more in-class writing and activities on paper and the whiteboard. 281
Reposted by Dustin A. ChacónMinnesotan Kaiju @whisperingpines.bsky.social · 07/01/2026It is now confirmed from multiple sources that ICE shot a legal observer dead on Portland in Minneapolis between 34th and 33rd street. The victim is dead 16345812191
Reposted by Dustin A. Chacóngeoffrey @parsnip.bsky.social · 01/01/2026andy cohen's "am i excited about 2026? [pregnant pause] yeah. i... yeah. i mean, what's the alternative?" is the realest thing i've seen all night 31125155
Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 01/01/2026Strict/sloppy ambiguity from Andy Cohen and Anderson Cooper on CNN’s NYE event: “Agree or disagree, if I went to the gym every I’d have an ass like the guys on Heated Rivalry” Andy Cohen, Anderson Cooper, and BJ Novak all hold up signs that say “disagree” 380
Reposted by Dustin A. ChacónPsyArXivBot @psyarxivbot.bsky.social · 31/12/2025Multilingualism WithOut Words: A non-lexicalist model of bilingualism: osf.io/a5e3u 061
Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 31/12/2025why don't they make dental treats for humans 081
Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 29/12/2025What if instead of computers having mice they had RATS 110