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Vera Kempe

@vkempe.bsky.social

Chair of Psychology of Language Learning at Abertay University. Here for language & politics. IRL also tango.

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Claudio Tennie@ctennie.bsky.social · last wk.

We need entry-threshold grant lottery systems with easy-to-estimate and easy-to-write basis - plus a basic-incoming grant basis. The latter will be very efficient in its use, the former will be just as 'good' as the current systems in its decisions, but far less wasteful in writing and reviewing.

Bart Penders@penders.bsky.social · last wk.

Back of the envelope calculations: 3600 years of research time went into the collective application process. The research will fund 3200 years of research. We are 400 research years poorer as a result of this. 1/2

London Review of Books@lrb.co.uk · 2mo ago

‘For many British children, school is a place of stress, in which exam results are overbearingly important and there is minimal scope for other forms of self-expression or creative transgression.’ @will-davies.bsky.social on what’s wrong with Britain’s youth: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

William Davies · Young People Are Different: What do Neets need?

It appears that Britain’s Neet problem is just one manifestation of wider epidemiological and psychosocial trends that...

lrb.co.uk

Dorsa Amir@dorsaamir.bsky.social · 3mo ago

When we consider children in cultural evolution, we tend to cast them as recipients of adult culture. In our BBS target article, @sheinalew.bsky.social & I argued there's more: through 'peer cultures', children actively drive cultural adaptation. Our final paper + a rich set of responses is out now!

Children as agents of cultural adaptation | Behavioral and Brain Sciences | Cambridge Core

Children as agents of cultural adaptation - Volume 49

cambridge.org

Alan Jagolinzer@jagolinzer.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Psychology Prof @lewan.uk demonstrates that online rhetoric predicts violent outcomes. youtu.be/xz2zMQLqFOY?...

Prof Stephan Lewandowsky research presentation on how social media rhetoric predicts real violence

YouTube video by Cambridge Disinformation Summit

youtu.be

emptywheel@emptywheel.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Musk has been socializing violence since long before that. Any analysis of Xitter as a tool of violence has to draw the continuity of Jan6 through to today.

Damián Blasi@damianblasi.bsky.social · 2mo ago

How many languages have existed over the Holocene—and what does that reveal about the design space of languages and cultures? Now out in @science.org www.science.org/eprint/QDZNY....

The rise and fall of language diversity through the Holocene

Characterizing the factors that have shaped linguistic diversity is fundamental for understanding human history, culture, and cognition. In this study, we combined statistical and social computational...

science.org

Trump Action Tracker@trumpactiontracker.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Detainees at Florida’s notorious “Alligator Alcatraz” immigration jail said guards were denying them food and fresh water until they signed documents presented to them in English that they did not understand. TAT: [Nationalism | Weakening civil rights]

‘Alligator Alcatraz’ detainees say guards deny them food and clean water until they sign English documents

Detainees say they’re given ‘rotten’ water and denied meals for not signing papers in English that they don’t understand

theguardian.com