Reposted by Language Learning MattersBrainFacts @brainfacts.org · 29/09/2026We’d love your feedback! Please take 5 minutes to fill out our survey about your experience with BrainFacts. Your insights will help us enhance the website and continue our mission of empowering everyone to understand the brain. Thank you! vist.ly/5kbefbrainfacts.orgWebsite Survey: BrainFacts Wants Your InputWebsite Survey: BrainFacts Wants Your Input 013
Reposted by Language Learning MattersTobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 29/09/2026A pretty enormous part of expertise is knowing what work not to do. 39511
Reposted by Language Learning MattersChenxin Li, PhD @chenxinli2.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Requiring scientists to be political neutral is to require scientists to shut up when the facts are inconvenient. 16524
Reposted by Language Learning MattersNicola Pitchford @npitchford.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Just another evening of stopping in the local car park to goggle at the sunset. Clouds like some lush 18th-century allegory of luxury & perdition. 0271
Reposted by Language Learning MattersErin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Sometimes it feels like the main sin of the humanities in this moment is to think humanity is fascinating and worthy of study. 26420
Reposted by Language Learning MattersNicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I’m seeing a lot of posts about talking to your sons in light of the Cornell article. And yes. Talk to your sons. Here are some things you should say, based on anti-violence research about what they need to hear: 81147537
Reposted by Language Learning MattersOasis Mentality @eddiestats.bsky.social · 28/09/2026New (old) Stevie just dropped #StevieWonder #Musicsky #Detroit #Motown #soul #songsintheleyoflife pitchfork.com/story/stevie...pitchfork.comStevie Wonder Unvaults Four Songs in the Key of Life Tracks“We didn’t add these songs to the album, but they were part of what I was feeling and discovering as we made it,” says Wonder 03015
Reposted by Language Learning MattersI Heart Noise @iheartnoise.bandcamp.com · 28/09/2026www.disabilityscoop.com/2026/09/28/t...disabilityscoop.comTrump Administration Gets OK To Scale Back Disability ProtectionsThe government will do away with rules requiring that people with disabilities be served in the community under a settlement with a handful of states that advocates say sidesteps decades of precedent. 233
Reposted by Language Learning MattersOrain Noticias @orainnoticias.bsky.social · 28/09/2026CIENCIA | Seis premios Nobel contagiarán su pasión científica en el festival Passion for Knowledge orain.eus/es/actualida...orain.eusSeis premios Nobel contagiarán su pasión científica en el festival Passion for KnowledgeSeis premios Nobel contagiarán su pasión científica en el festival Passion for Knowledge. Durante esta semana, habrá conferencias de científicos de referencia mundial, entre los que estará Marcus du S... 011
Language Learning Matters @llmllc.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Stevie Wonder makes everything better —or makes everything proceed as is with a better soundtrack at least. 140
Reposted by Language Learning MattersOlivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 27/09/2026There really are problems that are not because of money and not solvable by throwing money at people. 5161
Reposted by Language Learning MattersDr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social · 27/09/2026The problem isn't rogue #AI models, it's *negligent companies*. If a biomedical firm put their product in public water supply because they wanted to test it 'in the real world', they'd be treated as criminal at corporate & individual level. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...theguardian.comOpenAI halts training of latest models as reports mount of AI agents going rogueDecision follows disclosures that OpenAI agents searching government websites had acted in unexpected ways 20815323
Language Learning Matters @llmllc.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Wordle in 4. ⬜️⬜️🟩⬜️⬜️ ⬜️🟩🟩⬜️⬜️ ⬜️🟩🟩🟩⬜️ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 000
Reposted by Language Learning MattersDr. Katja Thieme (she/they) @katjathieme.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Similar dynamic applies to teaching. We‘re in the room together—instructors & students—expecting honest contributions from each other. How to enforce this? Well. Those who willfully undermine that expectation are not actually in a position to demand detailed advance roadmaps for what happens next. 1208
Reposted by Language Learning Matters 𝓙𝓮𝓭𝓲 𝓢𝓴𝔂𝔀𝓪𝓵𝓴𝓮𝓻 🇺🇸 🌊🌊🌊 @jedi-skywalker.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Ms. Rachel: “We’re putting kids in detention centers where they have water that makes them sick and they’re being traumatized and the pediatricians I’m talking to are saying they’re being tortured. We’re torturing kids 0-3 when their brain’s rapidly developing. It’s a choice” 9381154
Reposted by Language Learning Matters Liℤℤy Kodpuak née Acid Lich (can’t spell sheaves without she) @acidlich.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Bringing durian to my job interview 610819
Reposted by Language Learning MattersBerna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026the ice coffee thing reminds me of some academics judging whether a grad student takes their defense seriously based on how dressed up they are. the whole point of a defense/interview is to have a solid opportunity for in-depth evaluation so you don't have to resort to thin-sliced heuristic signals. 57710
Reposted by Language Learning MattersMike Frank @mcxfrank.bsky.social · 25/09/2026We've just released a new version of childes-db, my lab's interface to the CHILDES database of child language transcripts. It lets you work with CHILDES data from R through a versioned, reproducible API. A few updates 🧵 childes-db.stanford.edu/ 12912
Language Learning Matters @llmllc.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Counterpoint: yes, yes it does matter. If you want to turn into a blob who’s willingly forfeited your ability to learn, that’s fine, but leave the kids out of it. 031
Reposted by Language Learning MattersMatt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 23/09/2026It is not easy to shock me with the mendacity of EdTech entrepreneurs. But I had to take breaks from these testimonials to what is actually happening inside Alpha Schools.buildcognitiveresonance.substack.comFOURTH REPORT: Former Alpha School students speak out“A science experiment that’s been framed as a school” - “pretty much a concentration camp” - “cool the first few months and then it just becomes shit” 1018066
Reposted by Language Learning MattersRose/T.A. Summers @rosepetals1984.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I read with not surprise, but absolute horror, dread, and feeling heartsick. It's point blank financial exploitation and child abuse. And they should not be in any kind of educational capacity at all. Heck, the kids tell it very plainly here. 053
Language Learning Matters @llmllc.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Wordle in 3 again. ⬜️🟨🟨⬜️⬜️ ⬜️🟩🟩⬜️🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 120
Reposted by Language Learning MattersBerna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026with deepest regards to all other champions, i must say there's only one absolute unit on this page and it's the 2018 champion. meet beadnose, everyone! www.nps.gov/katm/learn/n... 1415
Reposted by Language Learning MattersCharles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026The Alpha School to Horowitz Andreesen Academy pipeline 381
Language Learning Matters @llmllc.bsky.social · 21/09/2026I know AI is supposed to make things faster, but it makes them roughly 5x as slow & I’m hoping I don’t have to do this more than once. (No, I didn’t have the choice not to use it because it’s baked into the stupid system.) 010
Reposted by Language Learning MattersDr Darcey Gillie @dfgillie.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Me to security person at Dublin Airport: I was given a lemon as a prize today. Can I bring my lemon through security? Security person (solemnly): Yes, you may bring your prize lemon through security. 1443093
Reposted by Language Learning MattersSean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Science will always be a target for movements that rely on constructing their own version of reality. 622948
Reposted by Language Learning MattersJason Bailey @jasondashbailey.com · 21/09/2026None of us can top E.B. White on this argument 6813137
Reposted by Language Learning MattersStiles @lakesstiles.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Simple coastal stile. 1797
Language Learning Matters @llmllc.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Sign languages are cool. They haven’t figured out how to LLM* them plausibly yet, have they? *Yes, LLM is now a verb because language isn’t static & I can do what I want. Y’all understand me, don’t you? Exactly. 160
Reposted by Language Learning MattersChaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Thys! "a model that assigns value primarily on the basis of whether a degree program can be mapped to high-paying jobs overlooks the value of other work that universities perform...." mississippitoday.org/2026/09/18/w...mississippitoday.orgOle Miss students translate World War I letters - Mississippi TodayThe Ole Miss students' translation of the World War I letters reminds us that a university education cannot always be measured in salaries or job placements, writer says. 013328
Reposted by Language Learning MattersThe Phantom Tollbooth Quotes @phantomtollbot.bsky.social · 19/09/2026"That's absurd," objected Milo, whose head was spinning from all the numbers and questions. "That may be true," he acknowledged, "but it's completely accurate, and as long as the answer is right, who cares if the question is wrong? If you want sense, you'll have to make it yourself." 0145
Reposted by Language Learning MattersTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 19/09/2026ah yes it famously doesn’t matter what we call things. In the long history of human society one thing we learned is that naming isn’t political. 830222
Reposted by Language Learning MattersBerna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026you think metascience units sound good on paper but are skeptical that they will be misused by this government. i think they sound horrifying on paper and am skeptical that they could do any good in anyone's hands. we are not the same.aip.orgResearchers Skeptical of NSF Metascience PlanThe agency issued a memo last week laying out several grantmaking changes, including a new office for metascience. 23613
Language Learning Matters @llmllc.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Got a craving for grits & collards, but they didn’t have berza, only acelga. Por lo menos había polenta, porque si no, … 😭 000
