So much this!
Humans learn language with astonishingly little and different input than these systems. Their comprehension and production gradually develop. We don’t depend on processing every bit of language that’s ever been produced.
sending money to @blackmamasmatter.bsky.social everytime he tries to deflect this question
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in another celebration of #CDS2026
Obnoxious Toddler Really Rubbing His Childlike Sense Of Wonder In Everyone’s Faces — theonion.com/obnoxious-to...
first heading to teach this quarter's class on Developmental Psychology, then off to the airport to make it to #CDS2026 with this gem of a "zoom out" take in my pocket..
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these are parents and CHILDREN
A new Teaching Current Directions highlights a paper from @julia-a-leonard.bsky.social and @reutshachnai.bsky.social and offers an opportunity to teach students about cutting‑edge research on #parenting. #Psychology #Teaching
A developmental psychology Onion headline! 🤣
the hardest part about being a parent is that on days when it's tough for me to get out of bed and put my shoulder to the wheel, i also still have to motivate three tween/teens that it's worth it to do the same.
love this work, for others studying parent/child language interactions.. consider the implications of the finding here that alignment is more a *skill* than a *trait*
anyone else EXTREMELY tired of their employer trying to shove AI into our faces? do they really want us to do more while thinking less? like making stupid surveys with this kind of childish starter question:
my intro research methods students wouldn't fall for this crap.
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The third graders in Steubenville, Ohio, beat all the odds and became the strongest little readers in the state.
This week on Reveal, we look at how this school in an economically disadvantaged town became a success—and how a new law puts it all at risk.
This is the most resonant higher ed piece I’ve read in a long time
i feel seen..
New blog post!
"When we think about languages, we often think of them as if they had an existence of their own, independent of those who speak them. But that is not the case. It is we, the speakers, who bring languages to life every day – who shape them and give them meaning..."
At least 3,800 kids, including 20 infants, have been detained since Donald Trump returned to office.
The tenure track is hard, no doubt. What can make it a bit easier is to have senior colleagues who willingly share their knowledge and wisdom, provide constructive feedback, and generally are committed to your success. I am lucky to have exactly that.
Be that senior colleague. Pass it on.
how is this helping to solve the problems caused by the grotesque wealth gaps in our country, let alone our county? @rokhanna.bsky.social do you have suggestions?
Who needs more plants? In Seattle?
Maybe everyone.
"We have checked our inventory thoroughly, and we no longer have any shits left to give. We only had a small amount of shits left at the end of last year, and now we’ve found that the most recent news cycles have completely emptied us out."
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/faq...
love how this is putting the peices together. elegant work.
Dear Author, I am Honglin Bao (www.hbao.info), a data science PhD student in Knowledge Lab (https://knowledgelab.org/) at the University of Chicago, working on a study about “The Capabilities and Potential of AI for Automating Scientific Idealization: A Large-Scale Human-in-the-Loop Study” (under UChicago IRB25-1372). As AI plays an increasingly significant role in scientific discovery, this project aims to evaluate how far AI helps scientists extend their work in new directions – or if it is not useful in this regard. This is a research project – it has no commercial purpose. I will share the final draft, technical details, and aggregate results from scientists once the study is complete. We came across your preprint "Principles of music perception" and applied custom AI models on it in accordance with the terms of the preprint license, which generated five new extensions (i.e., ideas proposed by AI based on the same context as your paper). Our pilot study of 400 scientists (excluding you) indicates that around 60% found at least one of the proposed extensions thought-provoking and actionable. However, the remaining reported that AI only generates seemingly plausible but vague sentences. We solicit your help in evaluating whether you think AI is useful or not, since we believe you are the best judge of new ideas proposed from your own paper. No matter where you stand regarding AI and science: From principally believing that AI is prone to producing fake and morally problematic science to finding it useful, or something in between, we hope to receive evaluations that reflect a spectrum of views. The AI-proposed extensions are included in the survey link below. If you consent to review them and participate in the survey, we would appreciate it if you could do so within the next 14 days (it will take you < 10mins). If you do not consent, we will not use your research in this study. If you find these ideas valuable, you are welcome to purs…
Please remove my data from your study. I want nothing to do with this — and I would also point out that if you had done appropriate background work in the selection of articles you fed to the plagiarism machine, you would have found that the preprint of mine you used is way out of date and has been updated substantially since it was first posted. ——— Samuel Mehr School of Psychology, University of Auckland and Child Study Center, Yale University Be a citizen scientist at themusiclab.org!
somebody at UChicago is feeding preprints to LLMs without authors' consent, in a research study
they have the gall to suggest to authors they've opted-in that they volunteer to evaluate the LLMs' suggestions regarding their own work.
lol, lmao even. here is the invite and my reply
hard same
i love this.. yay for humans.
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this would make a good example for teaching factor analysis.. @notawfuljess.bsky.social do you do FA examples on your blog?