I literally just finished reading Nuclear War: A Scenario yesterday, and today the government sends an absolutely ear splitting siren alert through my headphones. thankfully it was about wildfire risk, not impeding Armageddon, but really, impeccable panic-inducing timing.

Can we turn off the wildfires please? I would like to breathe again.

I’m sorry, but did someone pay a lot of money to replace a transparent window with this abomination?

Join us in Barcelona for a postdoc! We are looking for candidates with a strong NLP/ML/AI background and an interest in linguistic diversity and human and machine cognition: dub.sh/blasi_nlp_po...

Went to go play wordle today and put wordle into google and it spat out an AI overview, complete with the answer for the day. Whhhhhy? I’ve blurred out the answer in my image because no one wants spoilers!!!

The recently accepted ManyLanguages project CLAPS - A Crosslinguistic Approach to Passive Semantics led by @ambridge.bsky.social is looking to fill four key leadership roles (Analysis Lead, Scaling Coordinator, Translation Coordinator, Ethics Coordinator). ⏰Deadline: 30th Jan.

I really do love when the Design feature on PowerPoint helpfully selects an image to go with your slides.

It’s election day which means it’s time for my reminder that you shouldn’t just chuck everything into google translate. #fiestaverde

We are recruiting a PhD student in Manchester and with the University of Padua. We will be looking at auditory processing in newborns, infants, and adults using EEG and fNIRS. International students can apply and the deadline is 6 December. Please share! #Devpsychsci #devpsychsky #infantstudies

(International Strategic Partnership) Do you hear what I hear? Tracking the development of how the brain encodes temporal information in language and birdsong at The University of Manchester on FindAP...

PhD Project - (International Strategic Partnership) Do you hear what I hear? Tracking the development of how the brain encodes temporal information in language and birdsong at The University of Manche...

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samuel mehr@mehr.nz · 10mo ago

I appear to have spoken to a reporter who took seriously the gravity of NZ's science crisis does anybody have a newsroom pro subscription so that I can learn what other choice phrases I used on the record? newsroom.co.nz/2025/10/29/w...

Curious about the human ability to extract regularities from sensory input (i.e., “statistical learning”) and individual differences therein? #CognitiveScience #Learning Our #Consensus paper presents the collective insights of 27 researchers worldwide 🌎 💬 🌍 💬 🌏 💬: 🔗 doi.org/10.31234/osf...

A year after getting covid, which resulted in Long Covid, I was finally able to mostly breathe again after various rehab programs. I’ve now got Covid and can’t breathe again. I was vaccinated 4 weeks ago and mask regularly. Can we please stop doing this to each other? 😞 #LongCovid

It still fails the Ferry rebus puzzle test: Today’s puzzle from ChatGPT: 🎯 Goal: Solve the rebus to find a theory of language development. 🧀 ➕ 🐝 ➕ 👂 ➕ 🔑

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Cutting-edge AI models ‘collapse’ in face of complex problems, Apple study finds

I have been having ChatGPT generate rebus puzzles for me to solve. Today’s psychology related puzzle: 🧠 + 👶 + 🔄 + “Pi” + 👂👁️

Funded PhD opportunity with @sjblakemore.bsky.social and I, at Cambridge. We are looking for someone interested in developmental science, to start in the coming academic year. Please share it with anyone you think might be interested (see details attached 😁). drive.google.com/file/d/1RIvg...

Adobe has strong opinions on the standing of neuroscience as a scientific field.

We've got quite a few different studies going on at the Child Study Centre at the minute! Here's two of our studies. If you want to get involved send us a message or email childstudycentre@manchester.ac.uk :)

bit of good news: approved technical staff position! link below. please be in touch if this matches your skills & interests! drive.google.com/file/d/16J2J... (hr listing posted harvard-internal now; external soon, per guidelines), happy for ?s & plan on quick turnaround! #CogSciSky #PsychSciSky 🐦🐦

Should I stand on a street corner with an apology banner?

An otter along the River Mersey! 😍😍😍 #Didsbury #RiverMersey

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The CSC is excited to learn about dyslexia in monolingual and bilingual children from Prof. Manon Jones at out LuCiD seminar this morning! Find out more about our seminar series here: www.lucid.ac.uk/seminars-new...

New study for 3- and 4-year-olds at Manchester’s Child Study Centre!

University of Manchester Child Study Centre@childstudycentre.bsky.social · last yr.

Is your child 3- to 4.5-years-old? Take part in our study to help our understanding of language development! This 30-minute study will use a fun, game-based activity using stickers and blocks. To find out more information, please email: dania.elayan@student.manchester.ac.uk.

Is your child 3- to 4.5-years-old? Take part in our study to help our understanding of language development! This 30-minute study will use a fun, game-based activity using stickers and blocks. To find out more information, please email: dania.elayan@student.manchester.ac.uk.

Come join us! We (me, Jill Lany, Perrine Brusini, and Gert Westermann) are recruiting a #devpsych PhD student to Lancaster Uni to join our ongoing Levehulme funded research project on how word learning shapes visual representations in infants! Please share! More info : tinyurl.com/ynbfkhbj

PhD - Lancaster University

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📢 We are delighted to announce our keynote speakers for LCICD 2025! We will be joined by Karen Adolph, Diane Poulin-Dubois, and Judit Gervain. Abstract submission is OPEN now. Submit: wp.lancs.ac.uk/lcicd/abstra... #PsychSciSky Thank you to sponsors @nirx-nirs.bsky.social

If you live in AK, AL, IN, FL, KS, KY, LA, ME, MO, OH, and SC, your reps are on the Senate HELP Committee which has jurisdiction over NIH. Write to them pointing out the jobs and money coming to your state from NIH: www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-... describe impact of NIH cuts on....

NIH In Your State - United For Medical Research

Select a state on the map to see the impact of NIH funding across America.

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Send help to the geologists trying to review the linguistic grants about grammatical gender 🫣

I took the window bird feeder down because of the storm. This decision was not appreciated by everyone. #birds