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Manuel Pulido

@manuel-pulido.bsky.social
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Applied Psycholinguist · Second Language Acquisition & Processing. ERP · Eye-tracking · Assistant Prof of Spanish & Linguistics at Penn State. Opinions are my own

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Manuel Pulido @manuel-pulido.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
What does it take to adopt novel uses of English singular they? In a new study, we found that the interpretation of singular they, even among speakers willing to adopt non-binary language, is influenced by cognitive resources 🧠 See the paper for more details 📄 Open access link below 🆓
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Jon Freeman @freemanjb.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
🚨 NSF is already quietly eliminating the SBE Directorate, despite Congress’ mandate that NSF support the behavioral & social sciences. Steps to counter this are in motion. If you - have an SBE proposal under review - serve on an SBE grant panel You can help! Fill out this form: shorturl.at/xuKw2
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Share Your Story: Impacts of the Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE) at the National Science Foundation (NSF)
Following the release of the President's Budget Request (PBR) on April 3rd, NSF quickly and quietly took steps to begin to dismantle the SBE Directorate. The Federation of Associations in the Behavioral and Brain Sciences (FABBS) wants to hear about how the SBE Directorate at NSF has supported your research and career. Your stories help FABBS communicate to policymakers and the public what’s at stake when the federal government fails to fund critical sciences. We may follow up for clarification, but we will not share your name or institution publicly without your permission.
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Representative Seth Magaziner @magaziner.house.gov · 27/01/2026
Reminder that, as of the latest reports, Liam Ramos is still in prison in Texas - now for 5 days. His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record.
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languagemit.bsky.social @languagemit.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
New book! I have written a book, called Syntax: A cognitive approach, published by MIT Press. This is open access; MIT Press will post a link soon, but until then, the book is available on my website: tedlab.mit.edu/tedlab_websi...
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Manuel Pulido @manuel-pulido.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Why do some advanced L2 learners process grammar in real time—and others don’t? 🤔 New paper w López-Beltrán, Dussias & @mh-christiansen.bsky.social We find that chunking ability -not working memory- predicts online sensitivity to L2 morphosyntax. 📄 doi.org/10.1177/0267... (Open Access)
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Sage Journals: Discover world-class research
Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.
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ASHA Journals @ashajournals.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Parent report of English proficiency and exposure converged with bilingual children's performance on English standardized tests of vocabulary and morphosyntax, suggesting that parent report is a valuable tool. on.asha.org/3MwfNaY
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Parent Report of Bilingual Children's English Proficiency and Exposure Predicts English Vocabulary and Morphosyntax
Purpose: The current pilot study examined whether parent report of bilingual children's English proficiency and exposure predicted children's per...
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Dr. Ethan Kutlu @ethankutlu.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
While the first year of life is crucial for language development, our team found that sound categorization continues to develop throughout the early school years. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Longitudinal Changes in the Structure of Speech Categorization Across School Age Years: Children Become More Gradient and More Consistent
A critical aspect of spoken language development is learning to categorize the sounds of the child's language(s). This process was thought to develop early during infancy to set the stage for the la...
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ASHA Journals @ashajournals.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Since central auditory processing disorder tests rely heavily on language, authors here aimed to evaluate the impact of test language on CAPD assessment performance in Spanish–English bilingual speakers. on.asha.org/48ScGDo
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Language-Appropriate Assessment Improves Central Auditory Processing Evaluation of Spanish–English Bilinguals
Purpose: Although central auditory processing disorder (CAPD) evaluations assess specific auditory skills necessary for efficient processing and ...
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Cecilia Grierson ⭐️⭐️⭐️ @ceciliaencina.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
Piel de gallina‼️ VAMOS PALESTINA 🇵🇸 CARAJO‼️ #GlobalSumudFlotilla #FreePalestine #StopGenocide
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PHD Comics @phdcomics.com · 27/05/2025
Ready for Summer? 🌞
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Today, U.S. Department of Education will resume collecting on defaulted student loans. It sounds hard to believe, but college used to be free. This is the real story behind skyrocketing student debt. (Spoiler: It has a lot to do with Ronald Reagan)
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The Real Story Behind Skyrocketing Student Debt | Robert Reich
Heather McGhee, Co-Chair of Color of Change, and Ian Haney Lopez, author of "Dog Whistle Politics", explain how racism h
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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 28/04/2025
🚨 BREAKING: The mega power outage in Spain and Portugal threatens to last 10 more hours. Read the developing story here: ow.ly/ce9150VIRn9
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Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸 @chris.mstdn.chrisalemany.ca.ap.brid.gy · 28/04/2025
Spanish news calling it the largest outage in recent history. Power outages across most across Spain and Portugal continues. Causes tbd. #power #electricity #spain #españa elpais.com/economia/2025-04-28/apag…
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Apagón eléctrico masivo en España y Portugal
El Gobierno investiga el motivo y el alcance de la falta de suministro, aunque todavía sin una conclusión
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Elon backtracked on DOGE savings goals from $1 trillion to $150 billion. But watchdogs report only $12.6 billion in verifiable savings. That represents just 0.173% of the U.S. federal budget for 2025. We're losing vital government services for basically nothing in return.
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Michael W. Kraus @mwkraus.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
I am teaching my phd writing workshop course this quarter, question: are there any words/phrases said to you by an advisor/mentor that stuck with you, were memorable, or particularly helpful? If so please reply below!
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Previous to the FDA, folks would put chalk and plaster of Paris in milk to make it appear white. They could also add formaldehyde to cover the smell and taste of spoiled milk.
A screenshot of a Reuters article stating that the US FDA suspended milk quality test workforce cuts.
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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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Floris de Lange @predictivebrain.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
In @elife.bsky.social: Stimulus dependencies—rather than next-word prediction—can explain pre-onset brain encoding during natural listening doi.org/10.7554/eLif...
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Stimulus dependencies—rather than next-word prediction—can explain pre-onset brain encoding during natural listening
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
The irony of the richest man in the world almost single-handedly destroying an agency designed to help the world’s poor, so that the U.S. federal budget has more room for another giant tax cut for the richest man in the world and his pals, should not be lost on anyone. [Cartoon by Mike Luckovich]
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Fernanda Ferreira @fernandaedi.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
That’s one heck of a garden-path sentence.
Headline in the New York Times, March 26, 2025: “Elmo and Elon Musk are Cited as G.O.P. Lawmakers Lay Into PBS and NPR”. Photo of politician holding up a picture of Elmo accompanies the story.
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Tristan Yates @tristansyates.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Why do we not remember being a baby? One idea is that the hippocampus, which is essential for episodic memory in adults, is too immature to form individual memories in infancy. We tested this using awake infant fMRI, new in @science.org #ScienceResearch www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Hippocampal encoding of memories in human infants
Humans lack memories for specific events from the first few years of life. We investigated the mechanistic basis of this infantile amnesia by scanning the brains of awake infants with functional magne...
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Robert Kelchen @robertkelchen.com · 20/03/2025
Two noteworthy things about the White House press release ahead of today's announcement regarding ED: (1) It's all about K-12, while most federal money goes to higher ed. (2) Most of the links are to NCES reports...and NCES is now down to about three employees. www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...
Since 1979, the U.S. Department of Education has spent over $3 trillion with virtually nothing to show for it. Despite per-pupil spending having increased by more than 245% over that period, there has been virtually no measurable improvement in student achievement:

    Math and reading scores for 13-year-olds are at the lowest level in decades.
    Six-in-ten fourth graders and nearly three-quarters of eighth graders are not proficient in math.
    Seven-in-ten fourth and eighth graders are not proficient in reading, while 40% of fourth grade students don’t even meet basic reading levels.
    Standardized test scores have remained flat for decades.
    U.S. students rank 28 out of 37 OECD member countries in math.

President Donald J. Trump and his administration believe we can, and must, be better.

Instead of maintaining the status quo that is failing American students, the Trump Administration’s bold plan will return education where it belongs — with individual states, which are best positioned to administer effective programs and services that benefit their own unique populations and needs.

Instead of a bloated federal system that burdens schools with regulations and paperwork, the Trump Administration believes states should be empowered to expand educational freedom and opportunity for all families.

Why would we keep doing the same thing over and over again and expect a different result?
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Kevin McManus @kmcmanus.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Great to see this report of a new #OpenAccess journal in #linguistics, founded by Mike Putnam (@syntaxpunk.bsky.social) and David Natvig. The journal, #Continua, published by #PennState Libraries, focuses on #words and the mental #lexicon www.psu.edu/news/univers...
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University Libraries launches Continua, a new open-access linguistics journal | Penn State University
Penn State University Libraries’ Open Publishing has launched Continua, an open-access, peer-reviewed journal exploring interdisciplinary linguistics research. The journal will focus on research that ...
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Bookshelfie ⭐️ @bookshelfie.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
#booksky #wordoftheday
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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 18/03/2025
Navajo Code Talkers disappear from military websites after Trump DEI order www.axios.com/local/salt-l...?
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Navajo Code Talkers get "DEI" label as military info disappears under Trump order
Also vanishing: The Civil War regiment from "Glory," women pilots from WWII and a Medal of Honor winner.
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Adele Goldberg @adelegoldberg.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Free Mahmoud Khalil!!!
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Zeteo @zeteo.com · 10/03/2025
Columbia University pushed out professor @katherinefranke.bsky.social because of her pro-Palestine advocacy. She joins @premthakker.bsky.social to discuss the systematic free speech crackdown at Columbia and across the US. Watch the full conversation: zeteo.com/p/columbia-t...
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Glennyrodge @glennyrodge.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
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Melissa Baese-Berk @m2b2.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Here's what linguistics experts think about the recent executive order declaring English as the official language of the US (spoiler: they don't think it's a great idea): www.lsadc.org/content.asp?... I'm so proud to be a member of the executive committee of @lingsocam.bsky.social!
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Four Reasons English Should Not be the Official Language: Statement Against White House Executive Order Designating English as the Official Language of The Un
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Manuel Pulido @manuel-pulido.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Words stick together in our minds—think #collocations like strong coffee but not powerful coffee. ☕ But how do collocations connect to one another? Using eye-tracking, we (M Macis, S Sonbul & myself) explore how we process "nested collocations". New paper in JEP: LMC! 🔗 doi.org/10.1037/xlm0...
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Morten H. Christiansen @mh-christiansen.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
What is human #StatisticalLearning for? The standard assumption is that the goal of SL is to learn the regularities in the environment to guide behavior. In our new Psych Review paper, we argue that SL instead is provides the basis for novelty detection within an information foraging system 1/2
Depiction comparing standard views of statistical learning with a sponge and the new information foraging view with an octopus
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Morten H. Christiansen @mh-christiansen.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
We argue that the environment is constantly in flux and thus that SL therefore cannot be the end goal but rather provides a baseline against which novelty can be detected from random noise. We discuss the implications of this perspective for #CognitiveScience 2/2 doi.org/10.1037/rev0...
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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 13/02/2025
Because of four decades of bad faith narratives by rich folks who want your taxes to go up and their taxes to go down, most folks don’t know this: career federal workers are heroes who work extremely hard every day and go above and beyond all across America to improve your lives.
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Prof Julia Steinberger 🌹🌱🌍 #ClimateAction #Fightfascism @jksteinberger.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
As promised, here are the slides I shared with students to convince them to NOT use chatGPT and other artificial stupidity. TL;DR? AI is evil, unsustainable and stupid, and I'd much rather they use their own brains, make their own mistakes, and actually learn something. 🪄
NO CHATGPT Or other artificial stupidity: motivation
First, clarity on distinguishing AIs:
Non-generative: grammar aid, translation, dictionary, text-to-audio (e.g. Natural Reader): no problem
As long as you use the appropriate tools (least intensive in data and server energy use).
Why? Because you provide the content. Your brain is doing the most important work
Generative: ChatGPT & Co. 
You only supply the prompt, the AI supplies the content.
Why is this delegation of work problematic?
3 domains: ethical, environmental, intellectual engagement.

(Caveat: generative is probably ok for computer programming, where it can be useful and save time. Not relevant to this class.)
1) AI and ethics
Mass theft of all and everything
«learning» on books, articles, blogs, social media, images, music, cultural production, without  permission of authors/creators, and leading to their mass joblessness. Profits are not reditributed to originators. 
Permanent destruction of the mental health of underpaid precarious tech workers in the Global South (Kenya, Philippines …):
«correction» to avoid production of violent and pedophile contents etc, tech workers are obliged to watch and correct super violent contents for days on end, leading to extreme psychological suffering and trauma, from which recovery is doubtful. No or little compensation (certainly not at the level of the suffering inflicted). 
In short, an industry built on theft of real human creation and sacrifice of real human health, profiting a few megafortunes. 
2) AI and (un)sustainability

Massive consumption of electricity, water, server capacity for generative AI. 
Outcome: keep fossil fuel companies in business, using up new renewable capacity, without any satisfaction of basic human needs.
Massive misappropriation of the finance necessary for climate and ecological action (renewable generation, efficiency and retrofit for buildings, public transit, infrastructures for cycling etc) towards AI industry. 
Overall: undermine climate action, reinforce fossil industry, waste resources necessary for human development. 
3) AI and intellectual engagement

First, what learning is (or should be) about:
The goal should not (only) be the reproduction of «correct» knowledge,
But mainly personal engagement and experience of thinking about topics of interest. Personal engagement = using one’s own brain. 
The most important activity for learning and intellectual engagement is the experience of making one’s own mistakes, by trial and error, corrections based on new ideas, starting over again. Learning to recognise nuances, knowledge gaps, better explanations 
This kind of learning is possible only through using your own brain, not AI. 
Also, Ais are not «intelligent». At all. 
They simply reproduce pre-existing patterns. They «bullshit», invent false references, false facts, false data, simply because those sound plausible. VERY DANGEROUS. 
If you learn how to NOT use AI, and how to research facts and data on your own, this will serve you and your communities for the rest of your life.
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Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
“This is truly a national tragedy and one that is being executed by people who do not understand the value of scientific research.” 🧪 from @science.org
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Mass firings decimate U.S. science agencies
White House dismissals and rationale challenged by dismissed scientists and lawsuits
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Bobby Po-Heng Chen 陳柏亨 @bobbychen.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
This brief tutorial on Mixed-Effects Models by Professor Marc Brysbaert could be helpful for novice researchers interested in second language acquisition! LINK 🔽
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Brian Nosek @briannosek.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Stand Up for Science rallies will be held in DC and state capitals on March 7th. Share with friends. Sign-up here to get email updates with details: www.eventbrite.com/e/stand-up-f...
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STAND UP FOR SCIENCE 2025 - DC and NATIONWIDE
Stand up for science with us on March 7th, 2025, because science is for everyone! More info at www.standupforscience2025.org
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International Symposium on Bilingualism @isbilingualism.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
👋 Welcome to the official ISB15 BlueSky account! Conference Info: 🗓 June 9 - 13, 2025 📍 San Sebastián, Spain 🔗 Registration is open! Early bird rates available until March 16: tisa.teventos.com/isb2025/en/m... Follow us for updates on speakers, sessions and more!
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Rebecca Saxe @rebeccasaxe.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Please share Dick Aslin's excellent blog on indirect costs: dickaslin.substack.com/p/are-we-pay...
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Are we paying too much for biomedical research?
Trump's attack on NIH
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Dr Hannah Hobson @hannahhobson.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
@bpsofficial.bsky.social would you share our video, made with clinicians and ppl with lived experience, about how mental health practitioners can make therapy more accessible for ppl with Developmental Language Disorder? Made for #childrensmentalhealthweek ! :) youtu.be/Ko6sFea3v0w?...
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Developmental Language Disorder (DLD): a guide for mental heath practitioners
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Cek @ckean02.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Senior undergrad starting my PhD next year. I’m absolutely terrified — I love science and I’m great at it, but that might not be enough anymore. I’ve channeled my rage into making and distributing this:
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danagablas.bsky.social @danagablas.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Applications are now open for our new summer school in 'Corpus Linguistics for Language Testing and Assessment' offered as part of our free annual Lancaster Summer Schools series. 16-20 June 2025, Lancaster University Find out more: wp.lancs.ac.uk/corpussummer...
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Darby Saxbe @darbysaxbe.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
list of banned keywords
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Usha Lee McFarling @usha.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
NEW: CDC's top advisors are demanding answers, and an in person meeting, from the agency's acting director. Why were websites taken down, when will they be back, and how is the data being protected? The removal has "dire consequences" says @danieldawes.bsky.social www.statnews.com/2025/02/01/c...
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CDC advisers push agency to explain data removal, say when info will be restored
Information on topics such as gender, teens' behavior, and infectious diseases was removed from the CDC's website.
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Sabine Winters (she/her) @sllwinters.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
The history of fascism provides valuable insights into assaults on education. (Wannabe) Authoritarians long understood the power of student movements in shaping democratic change. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Why fascists hate universities | Jason Stanley
Authoritarians and would-be authoritarians are only too aware that universities are primary sites of critique and dissent
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Susanne Ahmari @ahmarilab.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
NIH memo addresses ‘confusion’ about restrictions imposed by Trump, easing some concerns | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
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Dorsa Amir @dorsaamir.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Does the culture you grow up in shape the way you see the world? In a new Psych Review paper, @chazfirestone.bsky.social & I tackle this centuries-old question using the Müller-Lyer illusion as a case study. Come think through one of history's mysteries with us🧵(1/13):
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