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Mark Anderson

@mandercorn.bsky.social
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Reading and writing about reading and writing, and thinking about teaching kids how to read and write, and the beautiful complexities of multilingualism and learning to read and write. languageandliteracy.blog

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Mark Anderson @mandercorn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
“That’s the danger,” he said, “where it’s bots fighting bots, agents fighting agents, a horrible dystopic future nobody wants to live in.” #AI www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/b...
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Battle of Hospital A.I. vs. Insurer A.I. Is Pushing Medical Costs Higher (Gift Article)
The use of artificial intelligence by hospitals and health insurers is escalating their longstanding feud over paying for medical care.
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Lady with an opinion @ladymitopinion.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I’m tired of our justice system being predicated on the idea that people are innocent until they run out of money
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Miser @misernyc.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
NYC DOT is hiring for a ton of jobs to scale up bike lane and greenway implementation, if anyone is interested. We really need them fully staffed with great people, so please pass around. cityjobs.nyc.gov/jobs?q=micro...
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Mark Anderson @mandercorn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"a substantial share of out-of-catchment mobility is driven by families with migrant backgrounds and medium-to-low incomes. This pattern complicates dominant assumptions in the literature" #research www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
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Mark Anderson @mandercorn.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
"Water is the key medium for much of the naturally occurring art within the subway. It acts as both builder and destroyer." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/19/o...
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Opinion | Please Stand Clear of the Accidental Art Museum
Under New York’s streets, the subway system corrodes, is fixed — and breaks again. What’s left is art, the M.T.A. Modern.
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Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Japan just hit a new longevity milestone. More than 100,000 people in the country are over 100 years old.
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Japan just hit a new longevity milestone
More than 100,000 people in the country are over 100 years old
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 15/09/2026
No New Yorker should lose their life just trying to get around our city. We refuse to accept preventable tragedy as an inevitable part of living in New York.  That's why we’ve announced more than 100 policies to make our streets safer over the next 10 years.
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Mark Anderson @mandercorn.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Reading for pleasure can improve wellbeing, Cambridge study finds share.google/M3W8yOWx6Lpy...
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Reading for pleasure can improve wellbeing, Cambridge study finds
University of Cambridge academics say reading at any age improves brain and mental health.
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Jeff Greene @jeffgreene.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
#GenAI is like a bandsaw. It can be used to build beautiful things or it can cut off your hand. Young children should be shown what it is but not use it. Older children, when they show enough maturity, can learn to use it with expert supervision. Adults who don't have training shouldn't use it.
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Devin Montes Cutting Wood with a Band Saw
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Pedro De Bruyckere @thebandb.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
How strongly can language ability in childhood predict where people end up 30 years later? Quite strongly, according to a fascinating longitudinal study. But, as always, correlation is not causation. wp.me/p2nWPo-6cl
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I resigned from ExxonMobil today. I spent the last three years doing fossil fuel extraction research at both BP and ExxonMobil. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing to maximize extraction while the window to act closes, and gambling with our lives. More below.
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 10/09/2026
I have no words. Pew can't even fill in the 3rd, 4th, and 5th-ranked countries for this year because there weren't any. bsky.app/profile/patr...
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Marcel Moran @marcelmoran.com · 05/09/2026
Warming happens in a spatially heterogeneous way. Stunning cartography here:
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Goodnews @goodnews.computer · 04/09/2026
Take a break from being depressed that everything you love is being destroyed by slop for a moment and let me tell you about the beautiful symbiotic relationship between graffiti writers, train yard workers, and model train enthusiasts.
A hand holding a model train with a replica of the same graffiti on the full scale train car behind it.A model train with two graffiti pieces on opposite sides.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 05/09/2026
Oh my god, someone took the fully mapped brain off a fruit fly that was released by Google and loaded it into a Minecraft simulation.
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Jim Heys @jim-heys.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I’m very excited to share our new paper, led by the very talented Jack Bowler, a postdoc in the lab! www.nature.com/articles/s41... We all know that the way we learn something matters. But how does a training curriculum actually shape how the brain learns to solve a problem? a 🧵 1/N
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Structured experience shapes strategy learning and neural dynamics in the medial entorhinal cortex - Nature Neuroscience
The authors use recurrent neural networks to predict how structured prior experience shapes neural dynamics as mice learn flexible timing strategies during complex context-dependent behavior.
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Jason Kerwin @jkerwin.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
How do kids actually learn to read? We tackle this question in a new paper that studies a program that tripled (!!) reading gains in Ghanaian 1st-grade classrooms. Its impacts match a model of cumulative reading ability, which we will assess with future waves of data.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 03/09/2026
This is demonstrably, measurably improving the health of the people who live there. Most notably, it increases the respiratory *& cognitive* health of children. They literally do better in school. If this country really gave a shit about children, this would be at the top of the public-policy list.
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James Longhurst @jameslonghurst.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
"I felt feverish with fury."
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Bangjie Wang @bangjiewang.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Excited to share our new preprint on how the cerebellum specializes for language even in the absence of contralateral neocortical inputs, with @aniladmello.bsky.social and our collaborators @evfedorenko.bsky.social, @gretatuckute.bsky.social, @hopekean.bsky.social! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 1/
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Mark Anderson @mandercorn.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
"Ultimately, he feels more sorry for the students than for himself." www.wired.com/story/teache...
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They Dedicated Their Lives to Teaching. Then the Deepfakes Started
The deepfake epidemic in schools is affecting more than students. Four teachers tell WIRED about becoming targets of sexualized, AI-generated content—and how difficult it was to find accountability.
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Mark Anderson @mandercorn.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
"Iovine: We’re talking about #AI. He’s the guy to ask. Dr. Dre: I don’t see it as a threat. I think the only people that see it as a threat are the people who have trouble creating. Iovine: That’s all you have to know." www.nytimes.com/2026/08/23/b...
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Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine Think A.I. Is Good for Music (Gift Article)
The hit-making duo turned tech moguls also have thoughts about why corporate America isn’t collaborative enough.
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The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
New in the store: coffee mugs! Available in 11-oz and 15-oz sizes. Perfect for fueling your morning commute or for making a statement during your next Zoom meeting. We're continuing to build out our new store as we move away from Shopify. thewaroncars.store/products/cof...
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Coffee Mug
Caffeinate before your morning commute in our official coffee (or tea or whatever beverage you prefer) mug. Also perfect for Zoom meetings. Just make sure our logo is facing your camera before you tak...
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Mark Anderson @mandercorn.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Assessing macro- and micro-level narrative structures in a wordless-picture task accurately detects developmental language disorder in Mandarin-speaking children; combining these measures yields the sensitivity and specificity necessary for a reliable diagnosis. www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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Diagnostic accuracy of narrative-related skills in identifying Chinese Mandarin-speaking school-age children with developmental language disorder
Macro- and micro-structures of narratives index different aspects of the language system. Thus, measures of narratives at macro- and micro-structures have the potential to discriminate the status o...
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Mark Anderson @mandercorn.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
L2 reading proficiency in Korean–English bilinguals does not reorganize core reading networks. Instead, it shifts brain control from effortful frontal executive control and subvocal rehearsal (in beginners and intermediates) towards specialized sound hubs. #language www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Proficiency-Dependent Reorganisation of Language and Control Networks during Second Language Processing: An fMRI Study of Korean-English Bilinguals
Second language (L2) processing engages both language-specific and domain-general control systems, yet how these systems vary with L2 proficiency remains unclear. We used functional magnetic resonance...
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Adeel Razi @adeelrazi.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Our new paper in @natureportfolio.nature.com. Psychedelics don’t simply disorder the brain. We found hidden, context-sensitive organisation beneath the apparent chaos -- strongest in people reporting more positive, profound experiences and a reduced sense of separation from the world. 🧵👇
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Avoiding AI is about to be a superpower.
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Mark Anderson @mandercorn.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
No Kings in America Since 1776 gwcunning.com/bay-area-bac...
A photo of a flag hung outside a bedroom window, "No Kings in America Since 1776"
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Cambridge University Press - Linguistics @cambup-linguistics.cambridge.org · 17/08/2026
Explore the most read research in Studies in Second Language Acquisition: 📚 cup.org/4qDkkaA #linguistics #LangSky 🐦🐦
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
The problem with hiring “AI natives” is that if you aren’t careful then all you’ve done is hire people who were very good at asking ChatGPT to do their homework.
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Ryan Panela @ryanapanela.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Now published in Acta Psychologica, our research examines how background noise shapes event segmentation during continuous speech listening and its consequences for memory. doi.org/10.1016/j.ac... @alexbarnett.bsky.social | Yulia Lamekina | @barense.bsky.social | @bjherrmann.bsky.social
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Mark Anderson @mandercorn.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
"The dividing line, as Kirby sees it, lies between species that learn their vocal signals culturally and those whose calls are genetically built-in" #language www.scientificamerican.com/article/bird...
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Birdsong follows a fundamental law of human language
A fundamental law of human language has now been found in both songbirds and whales
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Andrew Giambrone @andrewgiambrone.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
🦟 🦟 🦟 there be mosquitoes (via @haidee.bsky.social for @thecityreporter.nyc) www.thecityreporter.nyc/2026/08/07/n...
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Rae Radford @raeradford.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
This is so true..... #BookSky
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Mark Anderson @mandercorn.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
"These findings suggest that mutual understanding depends on actively constructing a shared, low-dimensional communicative structure through interaction." #language #cognition escholarship.org/content/qt5z...
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
it's always odd when "you should expose yourself to more diverse ideas" always means a certain kind of conservatism instead of like, Indigenous art, new fusion foods, math paradoxes, or the Dvorak keyboard layout
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 03/08/2026
BREAKING: EXCLUSIVE: Five months ago, we learned that ICE seized drawings and letters from children in the Dilley ICE concentration camp. I sued under the Freedom of Information Act. Today, I got responsive documents. www.muellershewrote.com/p/breaking-e...
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BREAKING: EXCLUSIVE: ICE Seized Drawings from Children in Detention. I Sued, and Today I Got Them.
Five months ago, I filed a Freedom of Information Act Request for papers seized from children at the Dilley ICE Detention Center. Today, I got a heartbreaking response.
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Laura Phillips @lauraphillips.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Sir #DavidAttenborough “Things are going to get worse. This is the new extinction. We are in terrible, terrible trouble and the longer we wait to do something about it, the worse it is going to get." #ClimateEmergency
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David Attenborough, the voice of Our Planet: “Things are going to get worse”
The voice of some of the most stunning nature documentaries ever made is pessimistic about the future of wildlife on earth.
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Mark Anderson @mandercorn.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
I've have been trying to learn more about American Sign Language and I find it absolutely fascinating. If you are a language and literacy and multilingualism nerd, I think you should, too! Check out my new post on the topic! #language #ASL write.as/manderson/se...
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Seeing Language
I had some opportunities this past year to visit and learn from a school here in NYC that is truly unique in the city (and, from what I...
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Mark Anderson @mandercorn.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
I've have been trying to learn more about American Sign Language and I find it absolutely fascinating. If you are a language and literacy and multilingualism nerd, I think you should, too! Check out my new post on the topic! #language #ASL write.as/manderson/se...
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Seeing Language
I had some opportunities this past year to visit and learn from a school here in NYC that is truly unique in the city (and, from what I...
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Mark Anderson @mandercorn.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Unacceptable.
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Mark Anderson @mandercorn.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
While I knew about Jacob Riis at a general level, his personal romance story, which I learned about in this book, is insane! History told with rich human details is the best
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Mark Anderson @mandercorn.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
"The sanctuary people who do this work believe that closeness, preparing and sharing meals, and simply showing up for mundane tasks can reassure people in need that they are not alone" theconversation.com/sanctuary-pe...
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‘Sanctuary people’ redefine what it means to protect immigrants in uncertain times
Many faith groups supporting immigrants root their mission in the idea of ‘accompaniment,’ which springs from Catholic social teaching.
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Mark Anderson @mandercorn.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
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Hell No: Everything Is Fine Meme
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Mark Anderson @mandercorn.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
“Every time I crossed into a new discipline, I felt like an immigrant again,” she says. “I had to learn a new language, understand a new culture, and earn the trust of people who had spent their careers there.” share.google/6ER5CD4IpucW...
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Diana Grass: Listening to the body’s language
Diana Grass, a PhD student in the Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology Program, develops soft bioelectronic devices that monitor how neural communication coordinates physiology across the entire...
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Katie Drummond @katie-drummond.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Our two investigations into Madison Square Garden are now unpaywalled and free for anyone to read.
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WIRED @wired.com · 17/07/2026
A statement from WIRED leadership.
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Dr. Jeff Masters @drjeffmasters.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
From my post last year, my 4 favorite sources of wildfire smoke forecasts: 1-3 day from NOAA: airquality.weather.gov?element=apm2... rapidrefresh.noaa.gov/hrrr/HRRRsmo... 3-day from Environment Canada: weather.gc.ca/firework/ 5-10-day from NASA: fluid.nccs.nasa.gov/wxmaps/chem2...
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15 sources of wildfire smoke forecasts for North America » Yale Climate Connections
Forecasting wildfire smoke is hard. We review the best tools to help you predict when unhealthful levels of smoke are coming.
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Sean Marshall @seanyyz.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Why I’m a fan of the Oxford comma.
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BOOK REVIEW
Sylvia Plath, a New York vigilante and Shah of Iran featured in latest historical fiction
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