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Emma James @emljames.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

We still have places left for our upcoming workshop on Supporting Vocabulary in Secondary School! An opportunity to share current practice, build networks, discuss ideas, and shape future research. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/supporting... #secondaryschool #edchat #york #vocabulary #oracy #literacy

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Maria Korochkina @mariakna.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Loved @asifamajid.bsky.social's keynote at @teap2026.bsky.social on how stymying MASKing can be for how we think about the mind. Cognition never happens in a vacuum, and context belongs in our models, so it’s about time our research caught up.

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Kathy Rastle @kathyrastle.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Brilliant piece in tes by @bobeaglestone.bsky.social arguing that a simple tweak to GCSE English Lit could dramatically improve things. Really pleased to see our work with @mariakna.bsky.social on the difficult vocabulary in the spec cited. 👏 www.tes.com/magazine/tea...

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How a small change to the English curriculum could cut teacher workload

Tweaking the requirement for GCSE students to read a 19th-century novel could add diversity while maintaining rigour and reducing teacher workload, argues Robert Eaglestone

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Kathy Rastle @kathyrastle.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

**New** chapter on “Literacy” just published in the Open Encyclopaedia of Cognitive Science. The whole series is super, accessible chapters and no paywalls, a great resource for teaching. oecs.mit.edu/pub/epclh9no...

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Maria Korochkina @mariakna.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

*New paper* in JML, in which we use a compositional distributional semantic model to show that, although morphological patterns are quasiregular, natural text contains enough structure for learning important aspects of affix meanings (open access): www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Morphemes in the wild: Modelling affix learning from the noisy landscape of natural text

Morphological knowledge serves as a powerful heuristic for vocabulary growth and contributes significantly to the speed and efficiency of reading. Whi…

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Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · 09/12/2025

Big new blogpost! My guide to data visualization, which includes a very long table of contents, tons of charts, and more. --> Why data visualization matters and how to make charts more effective, clear, transparent, and sometimes, beautiful. www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/salonis-gu...

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Maria Korochkina @mariakna.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

*New paper* showing that adults’ morpheme knowledge in English is shaped by what readers can readily pick up from spelling, even when this means relying on cues that don’t accurately reflect morphological structure or overlooking informative exemplars doi.org/10.3758/s134...

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Morpheme knowledge is shaped by information available through orthography - Psychonomic Bulletin & Review

A large portion of words in a language are formed by combining smaller meaningful units called morphemes (e.g., teach + -er → teacher). Understanding a language’s morphology is vital for skilled readi...

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Dan Willingham @dtwuva.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

If we leave the acquisition of morphological knowledge to children's reading, what information is there in books to be acquired? @kathyrastle.bsky.social has answers (open). www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Kathy Rastle @kathyrastle.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

** New resource ** We analysed the characteristics of words in 1200 books suitable for children and young people. Properties of each word (frequencies, etc) are now available in an interactive website. cyp-lex.rastlelab.com

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Discover what words children and young people encounter when they read

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Kathy Rastle @kathyrastle.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

What can children learn about morphology when they read for pleasure? We analysed the words in 1200 books suitable for children and young people to find out! Read the blog post here: www.rastlelab.com/post/what-ca...

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What can children learn about morphology from reading for fun?

A key part of becoming a skilled reader is understanding how words are built — that is, how small parts of words that carry meaning come together to form words. For example, the word unhappy is made u...

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Maria Korochkina @mariakna.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Just came across a super cool study on lexical elaboration measured using data from bilingual dictionaries: doi.org/10.1073/pnas.... There is even an interactive app that lets you explore how various concepts are elaborated across languages (relative to English): charleskemp.com/code/lexical...

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A computational analysis of lexical elaboration across languages | PNAS

Claims about lexical elaboration (e.g. Mongolian has many horse-related terms) are widespread in the scholarly and popular literature. Here, we sho...

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Marie Martel @mariefmartel.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

My study @surreypsychology.bsky.social @modilab-surrey.bsky.social is now live. Looking for typically developing children and children with #DCD / #Dyspraxia. If you are a #School in Surrey, we can come to your classroom, please get in touch! Please share widely 🙏

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Maria Korochkina @mariakna.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

*New paper* out in npj Science of Learning! @kathyrastle.bsky.social and I take a deep dive into the fascinating intricacies of morphology and introduce a new account of how readers learn about the internal structure of words. Read it here: doi.org/10.1038/s415...

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Morphology in children’s books, and what it means for learning - npj Science of Learning

npj Science of Learning - Morphology in children’s books, and what it means for learning

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Dennis Hansen @dennish.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Abandoning everything you stood for, just to not make fascist billionaires and anti-science crusaders uncomfortable - well done, @royalsociety.org - it takes talent to be SO utterly pathetic and cowardly. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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Royal Society decides not to take disciplinary action against Elon Musk

Exclusive: Fellows argue Musk has violated code of conduct but council believes investigation ‘could do more harm than good’

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Maria Korochkina @mariakna.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Our article (with @kathyrastle.bsky.social) on vocabulary in the English Lit GCSE is now out in The Use of English @englishassociation.bsky.social. We're very proud of this work and hopeful it contributes to GCSE reform for the benefit of pupils nationwide. Also available at doi.org/10.31219/osf....

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Masud Husain @masudhusain.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Why academia is sleepwalking into self-destruction. My editorial @brain1878.bsky.social If you agree with the sentiments please repost. It's important for all our sakes to stop the madness academic.oup.com/brain/articl...

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Bodo Winter @bodowinter.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

This Friday 4pm is my professorial inaugural "From Birds to Words: Onomatopoeia, Metaphor, and the Language of Birdsong" (w/ BSL interpretation). There'll be a lot of iconicity in it! If you're interested, you can register for the webinar under this link: www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edac...

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 17/02/2025

New blog post! Sometimes, when reviewing a manuscript, it's really unclear to me what precisely the authors are trying to do -- which makes it hard to evaluate the work properly. So, here's some advice for how to ensure that readers don't get lost. www.the100.ci/2025/02/17/r...

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Reviewer notes: Avoid any ambiguity about analysis aims

For any central statistical analysis that you report in your manuscript, it should be absolutely clear for readers why the analysis is being conducted in the first place – that is, the analysis goal s...

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Stephen Curry @scurry.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Now almost 450 signatories to my open letter calling on the @royalsociety.org to stand up for its values & deal with the widespread concerns raised by Elon Musk's Fellowship. Please consider signing & sharing: forms.gle/miDciq35oxyw... List of signatories here: occamstypewriter.org/scurry/2025/...

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Open letter to the President of the Royal Society – time to stand up for your values

If you wish to show your support for the letter below regarding apparent inaction by the Royal Society in the face of breaches of its code of conduct by Elon Musk FRS, please sign below. I invite anyo...

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Steve Fleming @smfleming.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Very good summary of all the insane stuff unfolding in the US- solidarity to all my colleagues over there

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Maria Korochkina @mariakna.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

This amazing book is a must-have for schools!

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Maria Korochkina @mariakna.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

And a brilliant symposium beforehand!

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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 15/12/2024

Browse a Focus issue from Nature Human Behaviour on menstruation. Authors discuss periods from a multidisciplinary perspective, including addressing menstrual myths, period poverty, and menstrual health management for diverse populations. go.nature.com/4iCnUOw 🧪

An image of the Nature Human Behaviour cover for the Menstruation Matters Focus issue.

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Jenny Richards @jennyrichards.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

We should all be worried by the 2024 Literacy Trust report, cited in this piece: just 34.6% of 8-18 yr olds enjoy reading. Reading enjoyment has more impact on cognitive development than having a degree-educated parent. We have never needed English Studies more. @englishassociation.bsky.social

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Maria Korochkina @mariakna.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Michelle Kaffenberger on our paper on literacy in #LMICs: "findings suggest a critical need to prioritize core literacy building blocks in the early schooling grades to ensure children have the skills needed to engage in later literacy instruction and further learning.' doi.org/10.1038/s415...

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Child literacy in low- and middle-income countries - Nature Human Behaviour

Despite rising school enrolments, in many places learning achievement has remained very low. Crawford et al. analyse data on half a million pupils from 48 low- and middle-income countries and find tha...

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Paul Bürkner @paulbuerkner.com · 01/10/2024

Drafts of the first chapters of my brms Book: Applied Bayesian Regression Modelling Using R and Stan are online: paulbuerkner.com/software/brm... Check it out and let me know what you think!

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Paul Bürkner - The brms Book

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Evan Peck @peck.phd · 20/11/2024

Trying something new: A 🧵 on a topic I find many students struggle with: "why do their 📊 look more professional than my 📊?" It's *lots* of tiny decisions that aren't the defaults in many libraries, so let's break down 1 simple graph by @jburnmurdoch.bsky.social 🔗 www.ft.com/content/73a1...

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Russ Poldrack @russpoldrack.org · 20/11/2024

If you are a Julia user you should be aware of this: yuri.is/not-julia/

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Why I no longer recommend Julia

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Kathy Rastle @kathyrastle.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

**New paper** in Nature Human Behaviour shows that pupils in low- and middle-income countries #LMICs are failing to acquire the most basic skills needed for reading comprehension. Evidence-aligned #phonics instruction needed to meet global literacy goals #SDGs www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Inadequate foundational decoding skills constrain global literacy goals for pupils in low- and middle-income countries - Nature Human Behaviour

Crawford et al. report data from over half a million pupils from 48 low- and middle-income countries, showing that pupils across the first three instructional years are failing to acquire the most bas...

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