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Olga Kepinska

@olgakepinska.bsky.social
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multilingualism, language acquisition & neurolinguistics. researcher @cnrs.fr @univ-amu.fr @ilcb.bsky.social; previously postdoc @brainlanglab.bsky.social @univie.ac.at, UCSF/UConn brainLENSlab, LUCL Leiden & LIBC Leiden. olgakepinska.com

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Simon Fisher @profsimonfisher.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Help spread the word about the fully funded 4-yr PhD places available at the Max Planck School of Cognition. Pursue a passion for research & advance the understanding of cognition, mentored by a network of world renowned scientists. @maxplanck.de @mps-cognition.bsky.social More info & how to apply:
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Application; application procedure; FAQs; handbook
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Feral Millennial Communists of Late Stage Capitalism @feralcommie.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
A glacier collapses in Nepal. Villages disappear. Hundreds are dead. More are missing. Somewhere else it's fires. Somewhere else drought. Somewhere else floods. And every time we treat it as another isolated disaster. Climate collapse isn't coming. We're living through the fucking thing.
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Alex Fornito @alexfornito.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Not sure how to visualise your connectome data? Check our latest led by @m-gajwani.bsky.social & C Adamson on NeuroMarvl: an open source web-based platform for visualising and sharing connectomes! Paper: tinyurl.com/2t7ftu9d Software: tinyurl.com/yrv3xja3 @nsb-lab.bsky.social
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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
It is beyond the time point where people can claim ignorance of Musk’s behaviors. Anyone who uses his products, purchases anything from him is making a moral or ethical decision on where they stand on issues of neo Nazism, racism and fascism.
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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 25/07/2026
Admirable clarity @science.org
The Trump administration hates academic science funding, full stop. They hate where that money goes, and they hate who it goes to. They want to keep all that money for themselves, to hand out to favored cronies who can help them get elected and to steer yet more money and more power back into their hands.

That’s it. That’s the story
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Daniela Tafani @danielatafani.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
@irisvanrooij.bsky.social @olivia.science Drug dealers giving drugs away to kids—what a surprise
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Marc L Seal @parkvillegeek.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Benchmarking fMRI Denoising Pipelines Human Brain Mapping | Neuroimaging Journal | Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Benchmarking <fc>fMRI</fc> Denoising Pipelines
This paper benchmarked fMRI denoising pipelines on task- and resting-state, single- and multi-echo fMRI datasets, in a modern 1-step regression framework, with pre-whitening and time-shifted physiolo...
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ᴅʀ. ᴍᴏᴡɪɴᴄᴋᴇʟ'ꜱ @drmowinckels.io · 03/07/2026
ggseg now draws brains without sf. It installs needing compiled GDAL, GEOS, or PROJ — so it runs on locked-down laptops, HPC clusters, and in the browser (webR/shinylive). Same geom_brain(), identical figures. How & why 👉 ggsegverse.github.io/news/2026-06... #rstats #neuroimaging #ggsegverse
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sf is now optional: ggseg installs (almost) anywhere – ggsegverse
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Everybody in the "climate space" (which means everyone on earth...) needs to understand these mind-blowing figures. Google's "total electricity consumption jumped from 31 terawatt hours (TWh) in 2024 to 43 TWh in 2025." In ONE year. The AI corporate arms race is eating the world.
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 29/06/2026
When billionaires preach "abundance," remember that the richest man in the world killed the poorest children in the world just for the LOLs. And if these AI fascists get their way, most of us will join the starvation class. www.thenerdreich.com/a-silicon-va...
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Elon Musk's USAID Cuts: A Silicon Valley Genocide
World's First Trillionaire is Killing the World's Poorest Children
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Aidan Wright @aidangcw.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
New review, forthcoming in the Annual Review of Developmental Psychology: "From Seconds to Seasons and Days to Decades: Timescales in Development." Let me walk you through some key points. 👇 BC its a review, these are based on many others' work. osf.io/preprints/ps... 1/
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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Doctors 25% more likely to miss a diagnosis on a patient within 3 months after Ai is implemented. The results indicate Ai has an immediate negative effect on professionals skillsets vs prolonged reliance. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Is AI ruining our skills? Early results are in — and they’re not good
Reliance on artificial-intelligence tools degrades the abilities of physicians and software engineers, studies show.
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Kristof Strijkers @strijkers.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Team day (the LSD-team of the LPL) at our place in Auriol and with a hike in the Saint-Baume. Great atmosphere, great people, great team! 🫶
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Scott Marek @smarek0502.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
What matters most for childhood brain organization? We analyzed 649 variables. The answer: Socioeconomics (SES); with brain patterns pointing at sleep & stress as drivers. Even brain-IQ associations were better explained by SES. In Science today: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Martin Haspelmath @haspelmath.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
"CLDF Meta" (meta.clld.org) links to data from over 800 CLDF datasets that have been released on Zenodo (e.g. WALS, APiCS and Grambank). There are links to data on over 9000 languoids, e.g. 98 entries on Ambulas (to take a random language). Great work by my colleague Johannes Englisch!
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Anna Graff @annagraff.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Check out our new paper! (1/5) www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... @err-ring.bsky.social @kkshimizu1.bsky.social @markstoneking.bsky.social @balthasarbickel.bsky.social @chiarabarbieri.bsky.social @isle-uzh.bsky.social @nccrlanguage.bsky.social
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An inverse correlation between structural linguistic and human genetic diversity | PNAS
Linguistic structures show uneven global distributions, but it remains unknown to what extent such distributions are driven by human population his...
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Olga Kepinska @olgakepinska.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
🚨 We're hiring! 🚨 I'm looking for a postdoctoral researcher to join my ERC-funded project on fetal brain development in multilingual contexts. 🧠 🤰🗣️ 📍Aix-en-Provence/Marseille, France 📅 Start: September 2026 Full ad: olgakepinska.com/wp-content/u... Please reach out with any questions!
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 31/03/2026
Some first-rate science writing: For this story, @jdrakephd.bsky.social carefully read our recent paper and then we spent a very fun 90 minutes or so talking on zoom. His article that gets right to the heart of our model, explains it clearly, and then explores why it will matter in the future.
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The System That Decides What Science Gets Published Is Breaking Down
The peer review system that validates scientific research is trapped in a self-defeating cycle. A new mathematical model shows why—and what comes next.
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PLOS Biology @plosbiology.org · 30/03/2026
How do #prenatal & #postnatal periods shape the developing human #cortex? This study uses #neonatal MRI to show that time in the womb drives widespread, uniform maturation, whereas time after birth produces more region- & depth-specific changes across the cortex @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/47o6rpk
Left: Intracortical intensity profiles were extracted at each vertex of infant structural MRI scans. Intensities were sampled at 12 equivolumetric intracortical surfaces, spanning from the pial boundary (blue) to the white matter boundary (yellow), capturing signal variations across cortical depths, defined as microstructure profiles. Top right: Systematic changes in profile shape with respect to (i) center of gravity and (ii) variance. To illustrate this relationship, all profiles (across participants and regions) were sorted according to the respective moment, then averaged within 100 bins. Bottom right: Parcel-wise central moment distributions mapped on the dHCP 40-week surface template (see S1 Data). Excluded regions (i.e., von Economo areas LA1, LA2, LC1, LC2, LC3, LD, and LE and the cortical wall) are shown in gray.
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Simon Fisher @profsimonfisher.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Heritability is a statistical description of sources of trait variation in a specific set of people under a specific set of environmental conditions. It doesn’t show how malleable the trait is, doesn't index an underlying feature of human biology, & can’t say anything about you as an individual.
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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄 @mu-peter.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Single-celled organism with no brain is capable of Pavlovian learning Associative learning in the protozoan Stentor coeruleus 🧪 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Suggests an ancient evolutionary origin that preceded the emergence of multicellular nervous systems.
Stentor coeruleus is a single-celled organism with unexpected abilities
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NPR @npr.org · 25/03/2026
A 3-year study published in Pediatrics examined newborns in Norway. It found a clear benefit for the baby when mom gets a COVID vaccination during pregnancy. n.pr/4uXOx6X
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Yep, a mom's COVID shot during pregnancy protects her baby, a large study finds
A 3-year study published in Pediatrics examined newborns in Norway. It found a clear benefit for the baby when mom gets a COVID vaccination during pregnancy.
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Paul Kirschner @paulkirschner.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Here's a great publication hoax perpetrated by Pascal Diago, possibly comparable to the Sokal hoax (look it up if you're not familiar with it), about pregnancy cravings for prime numbers! retractionwatch.com/2026/01/30/g...
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Guest post: Forget pickles and ice cream. I published a fake paper on pregnancy cravings for prime numbers
Image generated by Google Gemini I had grown weary of the constant stream and abuse of spam invitations to submit manuscripts to journals and to attend fake conferences on the other side of the wor…
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Annie G. Bryant @anniegbryant.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
The extended version of my thesis procrastination project/subcortex visualization package is out now in both Python and R, now that I’ve graduated 🤠 This figure shows the 9 atlases included (and counting)! Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Website: anniegbryant.github.io/subcortex_vi...
Nine subcortical/cerebellar atlases included in the subcortex_visualization Python package (and subcortexVisualizationR package in R). The atlases are depicted in two-dimensional vector graphic format.
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Lillian Behm @lillianbehm.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Awake infant fMRI offers a rare window into early brain and cognitive development. In a new paper out now in Infancy, we leverage data from hundreds of infant scans from the Saxe and Turk-Browne Labs to reveal what factors drive scanning success — and how future studies can maximize data retention!
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Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Awake Infants: Insights From More Than 750 Scanning Sessions
Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) in awake infants has the potential to reveal how the early developing brain gives rise to cognition and behavior. However, awake infant fMRI poses signifi....
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Daniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
An abbreviation (ABB) in a journal article (JA) or Grant Application (GA) is rarely worth the words it saves. Every ABB requires cognitive resources (CR) and at my age by the time I'm halfway through a JA or GA I no longer have the CR to remember what your ABB stood for.
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Andrew Reid @reid-lab.org · 06/11/2025
This is 🤯 All publicly available. Looks like an amazing new histology-based human probabilistic atlas and parcellation tool. #neuroskyence #mri #brainmapping A probabilistic histological atlas of the human brain for MRI segmentation | Nature share.google/5AD0iW7pxgb4...
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A probabilistic histological atlas of the human brain for MRI segmentation - Nature
NextBrain is an open source, probabilistic atlas of the entire human brain, assembled using artificial-intelligence-enabled registration and segmentation methods to reconstruct the multimodal serial h...
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Johanna Joyce @johannajoyce.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
New issue of Nature - with NINE studies on #brain #development from the BRAIN Initiative Cell Atlas Network (BICAN) 🧠🧪🔬 An amazing set of resources for all scientists working on the brain! 🧠 Immersive feature: www.nature.com/immersive/d4... 🧠 Perspective: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Cover of this week's Nature showing a brain rendering

Cover caption from the journal:
Brain development:
Our ability to process information into complex emotions, behaviours and decisions relies on the rich diversity of cell types that make up the human brain. Uncovering the molecular and cellular events that take place during brain development could reveal not only the mechanisms that give rise to this diversity but also shed light on how this process might go awry in neurodevelopmental disorders such as autism and schizophrenia. In this week’s issue, the BRAIN Initiative Cell Atlas Network (BICAN) builds on its previous work creating atlases of cell types in the adult mouse, non-human primate (NHP) and human brains to present cell-type atlases of the developing human, mouse and NHP brains. Across a suite of papers, nine of which are published in Nature, the researchers uncover the complex programs through which cell types emerge during brain development in humans and animals, revealing both the shared and unique features of the human brain. The latest work, along with future research directions, is summed up in a Perspective article by Tomasz Nowakowski and colleagues
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Brain and Language Lab @brainlanglab.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
📰 new paper! lnkd.in/dYdrvZAz, by @irenebalboni.bsky.social , Alessandra Rampinini, @olgakepinska.bsky.social, @berthele.bsky.social, @nargolestani.bsky.social, @nccrlanguage.bsky.social showing the importance of multimodal approaches for uncovering brain-behaviour relationships
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Forum Akademickie @forumakademickie.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Rozdane wczoraj przez @erc.europa.eu granty #ERCStG trafiły także do 6️⃣ polskich naukowców, którzy swoje badania będą prowadzić w Niemczech, Austrii, Francji i Szwajcarii. Czego dotyczą ich projekty? ⬇️ @aniaczark.bsky.social @magda-sznurkowska.bsky.social @olgakepinska.bsky.social
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Granty ERC również dla Polaków w zagranicznych ośrodkach
Rozdane w czwartek granty ERC Starting trafiły także do sześciorga polskich naukowców pracujących w zagranicznych ośrodkach: w Niemczech, Austrii, Szwajcarii i Francji. Zajmą się mobilnością społeczną...
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Olga Kepinska @olgakepinska.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
I'm more than happy to share that I have been awarded an ERC Starting Grant @erc.europa.eu for my project on fetal language acquisition. In DiverseSounds, we'll focus on prenatal language environment and its effects on neural plasticity and language development post-birth. Exciting times ahead!
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Patricia Lockwood @thepsychologist.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
“Relying on PRIME young adults limits cognitive science” www.cell.com/trends/cogni... new @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social piece with @connectedmindslab.bsky.social we highlight how a focus on young adults as a benchmark of ‘human’ behaviour has shaped cognitive science in several ways 👇
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Relying on PRIME young adults limits cognitive science
Cognitive science has made remarkable strides in understanding cognition and behaviour. However, a critical issue persists. Most studies focus on PRIME populations – young adults who are productive, r...
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Miquel Llompart @mllompart.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
You can hear the sounds, but can you distinguish the words? 🤔 Here's the postprint version of our new, soon-to-be SSLA paper! osf.io/6zbgt Celia Gorba, Pilar Prieto and I revisit the tricky link between L2 sound & word recognition—with a fresh look at methods
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Mike Frank @mcxfrank.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Experimentology is out today!!! A group of us wrote a free online textbook for experimental methods, available at experimentology.io - the idea was to integrate open science into all aspects of the experimental workflow from planning to design, analysis, and writing.
Experimentology cover: title and curves for distributions.
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Brenden Tervo-Clemmens @tervoclemmensb.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Out now at Nat. Neuro. "Addressing artifactual bias in large, automated MRI analyses of brain development" Huge congrats to Josh Roffman team on this herculean effort. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Addressing artifactual bias in large, automated MRI analyses of brain development - Nature Neuroscience
As large-scale neurodevelopmental MRI studies gain prominence, the authors identify tradeoffs between sample size and quality control that can dramatically affect results, and they evaluate a range of...
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Pablo Fernandez Velasco @pfvelasco.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
We recently published this paper in PNAS exploring how London cab drivers plan routes. We found that entropy of streets & successor representations explain planning speed. It was fantastic working on this with Eva Griesbauer, Dan McNamee, and Hugo Spiers. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Expert navigators deploy rational complexity–based decision precaching for large-scale real-world planning | PNAS
Efficient planning is a distinctive hallmark of intelligence in humans, who routinely make rapid inferences over complex world contexts. However, s...
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Damien Fair @drdamienfair.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
Alert! ... for the child development world! @fluxsociety.bsky.social @fitngin.bsky.social ‪ The Healthy Brain and Child Development (HBCD) Study has released its first data wave - it’s massive. Check here: docs.hbcdstudy.org and here: nbdc-datahub.org Here’s why it matters 🧠🍼
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Dr Elsje van Bergen @drelsje.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Yes, my favourite blog post! In all our studies (3 twin, 2 longitudinal), we consistently found: how well children read → how much they enjoy reading. In 2/5, we also saw some evidence for the reverse. Different samples, countries, ages, and measures—but same key finding: skills shape motivation.
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Caroline Rowland @carorowland.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Children are incredible language learning machines. But how do they do it? Our latest paper, just published in TICS, synthesizes decades of evidence to propose four components that must be built into any theory of how children learn language. 1/ www.cell.com/trends/cogni... @mpi-nl.bsky.social
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Constructing language: a framework for explaining acquisition
Explaining how children build a language system is a central goal of research in language acquisition, with broad implications for language evolution, adult language processing, and artificial intelli...
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Greater Lafayette Indivisible ❌ 👑 @lafayetteindivisible.com · 26/06/2025
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Olga Kepinska @olgakepinska.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
🚨🚨🚨Big, BIG news!!! 🎉 In Fall 2025, I'm starting as a CNRS Researcher at LPL @univ-amu.fr in Aix-en-Provence, South of France. Thrilled to join the amazing @ilcb.bsky.social community and launch my research on fetal language acquisition & brain development in multilingual contexts. 🫄🗣️🧠 Stay tuned!
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lumberjack wharfie @lumberjackwharfie.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
It doesn't get reiterated enough that "human on a bicycle" is not only the most efficient way that a person can move, it's the most efficient form of motion ***ever observed in land animals***.
exp-log scale chart showing various animals and forms of human motion with the X-axis being kilograms on an exponential scale and the Y-axis being cost of transport in calories per gram per kilometer on a logarithmic scale
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andrea e. martin @andreaeyleen.eurosky.social · 20/05/2025
my lab (lacns.github.io) at @mpi-nl.bsky.social and @dondersinst.bsky.social is recruiting for two PhD and two postdoctoral positions funded by an @erc.europa.eu Consolidator - come join us! PhD: www.mpi.nl/career-educa... Postdoc: www.mpi.nl/career-educa... (please share widely)
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Language and Computation in Neural Systems
We are an international group of scientists consisting of linguists, cognitive scientists, cognitive neuroscientists, computational neuroscientists, computational modellers, computational scientists, ...
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Riccardo Fusaroli @fusaroli.eurosky.social · 21/05/2025
Do caregivers exaggerate vowels when talking to infants? Prior findings are inconsistent () & the mechanisms unclear. We meta-analyzed 35 studies across 10 languages to disentangle systematic cross-linguistic and methodological variation. Paper: osf.io/preprints/ps... 🧵
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NCCR Evolving Language @nccrlanguage.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Sind Sie deutschsprachig mit wenigen Französischkenntnisse? Dann nehmen Sie an einer wissenschaftlichen Online-Studie über Sprache von @nocelab.bsky.social teil und helfen Sie dabei, den Einfluss der Sprache auf die Kognition zu verstehen.
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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 11/05/2025
Thanks to everybody who chimed in! I arrived at the conclusion that (1) there's a lot of interesting stuff about interactions and (2) the figure I was looking for does not exist. So, I made it myself! Here's a simple illustration of how to control for confounding in interactions:>
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Joshua Skewes @jcskewes.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
We are looking for a Phd student for a project on modeling second language learning using adaptive cognitive tutors. Please share with anyone who might be interested! phd.arts.au.dk/applicants/o...
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An investigation of cognitive processing in second-language learning using adaptive cognitive tutors (4+4 or 5+3), 2025-9
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