I'm a data scientist @ourworldindata.org and I need help from a botanist or someone local to Kyoto, Japan! 🌸

We present one of the world’s longest climate records: 1,200 years of peak cherry blossom dates in Kyoto.

The researcher who maintained it, Prof. Yasuyuki Aono, sadly passed away last year.

Northumbria Pay and Pension Petition: Stop the Steal! If Northumbria does this, other universities will too.  These cuts will harm thousands of people, their students, families, and their local communities now and into the future.

www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/no...

Rethinking Bilingual Language Control When bilinguals speak, they often manage two kinds of language interference. One type happens across languages. For example, when describing the colour of a sunflower, a Dutch-English bilingual might ...

And the short summary here: www.growkudos.com/publications...

Free, open access version here: osf.io/preprints/ps...

This in in stark contrast to previous studies and theories indicating a unified mechanism of language control. With Dutch-, Arabic-, and Chinese-English bilinguals as well as a simulations we believe these results are robust.

You can read the full article ($) here: psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d...

A plot showing increased reaction times for trials involving switching languages and for incongruent Stroop trials, but no interaction between the two.

Our paper, "control processes of cross- and within-language interference" is out in JEP:LMC! We shows that speakers likely resolve interference within languages (e.g. saying yellow instead of black) and between languages (e.g. saying yellow instead of geel) using different processes.