Come join us! We have two research coordinator positions open with the Stanford IRISS predoctoral program, a program designed to mentor students for graduate study:
LEVANTE: careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/iriss-p...
BabyView: careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/iriss-p...
(deadline 5/1)
We are pleased to announce the winner of the President’s Poster Commendation Prize for the EPS Newcastle 2026 meeting is Karen Hoang.
Congratulations @karenhoang.bsky.social!
For full information, please visit:
eps.ac.uk/presidents-p...
The next EPS Meeting will be at the University of Essex from 1st – 3rd July 2026.
This meeting will include the 33rd EPS Prize lecture and the 15th Frith Prize Talk.
Portals for this meeting will open on Monday 13th April 2026 at 10am (UK time) and for at least 24 hours.
eps.ac.uk/next-meeting/
This book has just been published, open access, edited by Ken Cheng and me. It contains multiple chapters originating in a wonderful Strungmann Forum held in Frankfurt around a year ago.
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
A free, searchable index of 212,000+ philosophy book reviews.
Covers 1,200+ journals going back to the 1890s. Filter by subfield, journal, author, reviewer, year, or access type.
Built it because I kept wishing this existed. Now it does.
philreviews.org
Super thrilled that my article "Prosody" is now available to read in the Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science!
oecs.mit.edu/pub/1w4cqquc...
Thanks to @asifamajid.bsky.social and @mcxfrank.bsky.social for the opportunity and for creating such an amazing resource for our community!
New blogpost about a teaching experiment I'm doing this quarter: a "socratic tutor" bot to help students gain understanding of specific reading assignments.
babieslearninglanguage.blogspot.com/2026/02/an-l...
Group photograph of faculty and participants of the very first Cold Spring Harbor summer course on Genetics and Neurobiology of Language in 2014, taken as the sun was going down at the Banbury Campus, Lloyd Harbor.
Please tell friends & colleagues about our unique course “Genetics & Neurobiology of Language” July 27-Aug 3 2026. Expert tutors, interactive talks, panel discussions, all in a beautiful setting. Scholarships available: meetings.cshl.edu/courses.aspx...
@cshlnews.bsky.social @cshlbanbury.bsky.social
Book cover. A silhouette of a person's head filled with colorful geometric shapes—perhaps symbolizing cognitive resources or deployment thereof. The style is attractive and modern, if generic. text: The Rational Use of Cognitive Resources Falk Lieder, Frederick Callaway, Thomas L. Griffithts
I'm excited to announce that I had my first (co-authored) book published today! "The Rational Use of Cognitive Resources" with Falk Lieder and Tom Griffiths (@cocoscilab.bsky.social ). You can read it for free! (see thread)
To mark the 80th anniversary of the Experimental Psychology Society, we invite proposals for a special anniversary symposium reflecting on the current state of experimental psychology and its future trajectory.
Please see below for information on how to submit a proposal!
eps.ac.uk/eps-80th-ann...
The Clarendon Building with large windows lit up reflected on a calm puddle of water
The wet weather produces some beautiful photos!
Thank you to estherjohnsonphotography on Instagram for this wonderful shot of the Clarendon Building. 📸
I wrote a short article on AI Model Evaluation for the Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science 📕👇
Hope this is helpful for anyone who wants a super broad, beginner-friendly intro to the topic!
Thanks @mcxfrank.bsky.social and @asifamajid.bsky.social for this amazing initiative!
2026 big update to the psycholinguistic database page! If you know of corpora, lexical databases, or other resources that I've missed, please LMK. Trying to keep this thing relatively current and could use the help www.reilly-coglab.com/data
This is a great paper going deep on the connection between language (and linguistic diversity) and the mind! 👀👂👇🌍 Highly recommended (like every paper from @enorcliffe.bsky.social and @asifamajid.bsky.social)!
Also in the same issue Constructing Meaning from Language: Visual Knowledge in People Born Blind and in Large Language Models from Marina Bedny's lab www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
New paper with @enorcliffe.bsky.social The Lexical Typology of Sensory Perception
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
New article in the Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science @oecs-bot.bsky.social on Motor Learning.
Thank you @mcxfrank.bsky.social @asifamajid.bsky.social for the opportunity to contribute!
oecs.mit.edu/pub/l3hscpvx...
Sensory ratings across sensory modalities and semantic categories show blind people associate touch more strongly with (most) concepts than sighted people
New paper: Evidence of crossmodal compensation in the conceptual representation of blind people: while they share visual associations with sighted people, blind people more strongly associate concepts with touch direct.mit.edu/opmi/article...
Keep a look out for Cole and Sean @seangroberts.bsky.social discussing their odyssey to understand this phenomenon on @becauselanguage.com Coming soon!
In fact, future tense use causes less not more temporal discounting journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
A new twist to the idea that future tense use affects decision making👇 Cole Robertson @seangroberts.bsky.social et al show it’s not future tense that drives psychological discounting but how people express the possibility of future events happening (modality). authors.elsevier.com/c/1m4gJ2Hx2-...
@durhampsych.bsky.social current has 5 (FIVE!!) PhD studentships being advertised!
3 to work with me on children as agents of cultural evolution
2 to work with @drboothroyd.bsky.social on examining school-based body image interventions.
Please share and apply!
www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...
New podcast! @dannybate.bsky.social and I chat about Scottish Gaelic, mediaeval sea kingdoms, the spread and retreat of Gaelic in Scotland, influence from Pictish, sounds borrowed from Old Norse, and much more 🐦🐦 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a... or wherever you get your podcasts :)
appreciate the translation 😆
Fab!
Open Science as Confused: Contradictory and Conflicting Discourses in Open Science Guidance to Researchers Abstract The open science (OS) movement is growing, with increasing policies, guidelines, tools and infrastructures being developed to support researchers who engage in OS practices. However, there is no widely accepted single definition of OS. Different initiatives and countries employ a variety of characterizations. To chart how OS is understood in different parts of the world, we conducted a scoping review and critical discourse analysis of OS guidance documents aimed at researchers. Our search led to the inclusion of 69 national and international documents, with most originating from North America, Europe, and Latin America. Our results show that OS discourses are exaggerated, framing OS as the solution to address all scientific and societal problems. Furthermore, they provide often conflicting ideas about what OS can achieve. Many guidance documents frame OS as a tool to promote economic growth and efficiency. Others see OS as necessary to safeguard research quality and reproducibility through transparency. In contrast, few documents address knowledge equity and inclusion. Taking this into account, we see dominant OS discourses reproducing knowledge equity problems already present in research, rather than tackling them. We urge researchers be more precise about the specific approach they take to OS and more humble about the effects it can have – both positive, and negative. #OpenSci
New scoping review and critical discourse analysis of guidance documents on open science (OS) urges researchers to be “more precise about the specific approach they take to OS and more humble about the effects it can have.”
Preprint by @jeroenderidder.bsky.social and colleagues: osf.io/zr35u_v1
Awesome! I'm assuming it's for English, or does it work in multiple languages?
"It is crucial to make psychology inclusive of all the world's people but vitally important to do this in ways that are respectful, ethical & empirically accurate. I weigh the promises & pitfalls of research in small-scale societies & discuss how we can improve our research practices moving forward"
