But mostly, a journey that should take half an hour ends up taking 10 years. Traffic.
Marc Joanisse
@drmarcj.bsky.social
Cognitive Neuroscience of Reading and Language, U Western Ontario
I’m excited to announce that I will be giving a talk at #CogSci2026 this week! Friday, July 24 Concepts II Session “Similarity Ratings Reveal Expert-Novice Differences in Knowledge Organization “ Brazil East: 15:45 EDT: 14:45 PDT: 11:45am Where: Ipanema room and online
The end of reading. Adults read more than ever, but it's short and shallow texts (like this post, alas) rather than long-form text. It's worse in the US, but I imagine it's just a preview of how things are headed for the rest of us 🎁🔗 www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
The End of Reading Is Here
Optimists once believed that universal literacy was inevitable. Now it seems that the age of reading might be a short anomaly in human history.
theatlantic.com
At #WesternU’s Mary J. Wright Child and Youth Development Clinic, school and clinical psychologist Katelyn Bryant and PhD student Abigail Withers are working with community partners to expand access to youth psychological care, helping families get answers sooner and at a lower cost. #AllinWesternU
Mary J. Wright Clinic expands psychology acces - Western News
Western University’s Mary J. Wright Child and Youth Development Clinic provides accessible psychological care for children and families in London, Ont.
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Flying out of London Ont airport with a short connection in Toronto
Austin Powers: I Also Like To Live Dangerously
ALT: Austin Powers: I Also Like To Live Dangerously
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A grad student once compared citing my own work in a paper to liking my own Instagram posts. I think about that a lot.
Does the brain actively predict the next word? Or is it just an artifact of how context-free meanings of previous words naturally anticipate those of upcoming words?
ines-schoenmann.bsky.social@ines-schoenmann.bsky.social · 3mo agoNew peer-reviewed paper w/ @mheilbron.bsky.social, @predictivebrain.bsky.social & Jakub Szewczyk! Pre-onset brain encoding has been taken as evidence that brains–like LLMs–predict upcoming words. We show that the same signatures arise in systems that cannot predict. (elifesciences.org) (1/8)
Do you think Facebook Marketplace people go on Hinge and say "Is this still available?"
One more week to submit your abstract! There are some heavy hitters as keynotes, but I will also be there giving a "theme talk"
BogaertsLab@bogaertslab.bsky.social · 5mo agoOur #IASL26 conference on statistical learning aims to bring together scientists from different disciplines who study how humans👨👧🧑🦳, as well as other species 🐒🦜 and systems 🤖🔠, learn regularities. ↖️🔍🔎↗️ If your work touches on this theme from any angle, we would love to receive your abstract!
Language areas in the cerebellar mapped by @coltoncasto.bsky.social: www.thetransmitter.org/language/cer... Very consistent with @carobellum.bsky.social functional atlas, but providing deeper details. By now the "terra incognita" of the cerebellum isn't so "incognita" anymore!
Cerebellum responds to language like cortical areas
One of four language-responsive cerebellar regions may encode meaningful information, much like the cortical language network in the left hemisphere, according to a new study.
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I'm starting to think Kid Rock is not actually a kid. Has anyone checked his long-form birth certificate?
One time in 2006 a student wanted to be excused from the final so she could work on Stephen Harper's Conservative Party leadership campaign. Somehow this situation feels way, way different?
Michael Hendricks 🇨🇦@michaelhendricks.bsky.social · 6mo agoYou've got to put the fact you're an Olympic athlete in the first sentence. No prof is getting that far into an email.
Cautionary tale on collecting open science w/human data: ABCD developmental brain dataset was hijacked for race science after investigators failed to safeguard information: 🎁🔗 www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/u...
Genetic Data From Over 20,000 U.S. Children Misused for ‘Race Science’
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You know you've really screwed up your Reactionary Free Speech University™ when Pinker's all, "whoa you guys are nuts"
Michael Caley@michaelcaley.bsky.social · 7mo agothis is a rollicking great read it's a story of a bunch of tenured idealists who believed that they were building a university dedicated to free speech and free inquiry, but then lost control of their project to... the right-wing megadonors who funded the university www.politico.com/news/magazin...
Proposal: two peer reviews of a manuscript is almost always enough. As reviewer: I'm sick of reluctantly agreeing to review a paper only to find out later I'm one of FOUR reviewers. This is a massive waste of resources at a time when it gets harder and harder to get people to agree to review.
I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.
New paper! In collaboration with a team in Australia, we demonstrate how beta oscillations in left prefrontal EEG reflect statistical learning of speech in children:
Western Institute for Neuroscience (WIN)@westernuwin.bsky.social · 8mo agoAn int'l team including WIN members @drmarcj.bsky.social, @laurabatterink.bsky.social + #OpenScience Research Specialist Christine Moreau published an article in CORTEX that revealed insights into neurological dynamics of how children extract patterns from speech. 🔗https://tinyurl.com/sz4tsefu
'Tis the season of flooded inboxes & time to reamplify this brilliant tip from @hannahrsnyder.bsky.social.
Hannah R Snyder@hannahrsnyder.bsky.social · 2y agoAs semesters start and you find yourself repeatedly answering emails with the same questions from students, this is my annual reminder that you can make all your frequent responses email signatures and just select them from your signature list to respond. You're welcome. #academicsky
Interdisciplinary Advances in Statistical Learning Conference 2026 Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain 10-12 June 2026 Abstract submission deadline: 1 March 2026
Statistical Learning 2026
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Here's our paper in measuring individual score change in Kindergarten children using our screening measure. Check out our change score calculator described in the paper and available online. @tpham62.bsky.social @numcog.bsky.social @drmarcj.bsky.social Janis Oram www.mdpi.com/2227-7102/15...
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Local youth ruins evening of California man making 50 times his salary
Sean Devine@seandevine9.bsky.social · 9mo agoThis photo of rookie Yesavage casually walking off the mound as future Hall of Famer and helmet-less Ohtani is still in motion striking out is everything. #WantItAll
I don't understand why Garfield hates Mondays. To the best of my reckoning he has never been held accountable for anything, on any day of the week.
Do American researchers have to explain why they only recruited American participants or is that special feedback that editors/reviewers reserve for Canadian researchers? Also, I'm getting pretty sick of having to explain why it's good to have data specific to my own country.
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...
My university has announced a special international graduate fellowship for PhD students whose acceptance at a US university has been rescinded. Check it out: grad.uwo.ca/finances/wes...
US-CAN Doctoral Excellence Award
Western University, in vibrant London, Ontario, delivers an academic and student experience second to none.
grad.uwo.ca
How can you not be romantic about baseball?
Awful Announcing@awfulannouncing.bsky.social · last yr.Justin Turner is the "Fan of the Game" for the Marquee Sports Network broadcast of Pirates-Cubs...after celebrating a Seiya Suzuki home run while wearing a fake ballsack. Boog Sciambi and Jim Deshaies were silent into the next play. ⚾️📺🎙️ #MLB
PhD Candidate Position – ERC Advanced Grant Project- Cortical rhythms (at risk), BCBL, Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain We will explore whether the cortical tracking of speech (CTS) can predict later reading deficits in Developmental Dyslexia. Application deadline: 30 June 2025
FUNDED PhD CANDIDATE POSITION – ERC ADVANCED GRANT PROJECT - CORTICAL RHYTHMS (AT RISK)
at the BCBL- Basque Center on Cognition Brain and Language (San Sebastián, Basque Country, Spain) www.bcbl.eu
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C'est assez hallucinant de voir un communiqué signé par 5 sociétés médicales qui soit à ce point bourré d'affirmations péremptoires non soutenues par les données scientifiques. www.sfsp.fr/images/25042... Exit la distinction corrélation-causalité, toute prudence a été abandonnée (comparé au 🧵
