Women in Cognitive Science+Europe (WiCS+E) en SEPEX-BAPS, Valencia. Os remitimos información sobre el evento pre-conferencia de WiCS+Europe en el próximo Congreso de SEPEX-BAPS. La Junta Directiva de la SEPEX ***** Síguenos en ***** Bluesky: [@sepex.bsky.social] LinkedIn: X: [@SEPEX13] Facebook: […

Women in Cognitive Science+Europe (WiCS+E) en SEPEX-BAPS, Valencia.

Os remitimos información sobre el evento pre-conferencia de WiCS+Europe en el próximo Congreso de SEPEX-BAPS. La Junta Directiva de la SEPEX ***** Síguenos en ***** Bluesky: [@sepex.bsky.social] LinkedIn: X: [@SEPEX13] Facebook: [ Women in Cognitive Science+Europe (WiCS+E) estará presente en el próximo congreso SEPEX-BAPS 2026 con un evento precongreso que tendrá lugar el miércoles 9 de septiembre, de 10:00 a 12:00…

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Just requested my vote from abroad ballot, and this website made it super easy to do. Deadline August sometime, so do it soon if you are a US citizen living abroad! www.votefromabroad.org

🚨 New Publication Alert!🚨 Polysemy and metaphorical extension in an artificial language learning experiment (w/ @elizabethqingzhang.bsky.social & Marek Placiński). Out now in #OpenAcess in Language and Cognition. 🧵1/ #language #linguistics doi.org/10.1017/lang...

🤩 Join us in person or online for Christos Pliatsikas' talk: May 29, Friday, 11am EDT (Montreal time) "Bilingualism and Neuroplasticity: What we know, what to do next?" ✅ Registration: tinyurl.com/3y3s4hp4

Oooh this one makes my head feel funny (by, you guessed it, Akiyoshi Kitaoka)

And now I can cancel the tsn subscription happy..

Yup.. and in my day all those job apps required physically mailing a photocopied stack of one’s materials. I can still taste the glue from all those envelope seals and postage stamps..

Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦@watershedlab.bsky.social · 5mo ago

In academia, we're good at talking about successes, but sweep unfunded grants & unsuccessful job apps under the rug. It can be a tough road, filled w/ failure* For anyone discouraged about the process, here's my failure CV #AcademicSky 🧪 *None are really failures if you learn from them

Interesting paper in press on #bilingualism and #schizophrenia/#psychosis www.nature.com/articles/s41...

👩‍💻 We're commemorating Women's Month with @wicseurope.bsky.social 🧠 As part of their Building Inclusive Computational Skills initiative, you can sign up to PsychoPy training every Wednesday in March. Find out more 👉️ workshops.psychopy.org#women-in-cog... #DiversityInSTEM #WomenInSTEM #PsychoPy

Nice paper..

Mark Anderson@mandercorn.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Scientists studied students in Ahmedabad to see if living in a city with so many languages makes the brain "sharper" at focusing and memory. #language #research #multilingual www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

‘A life defined by kindness and service’ — Former Liberal cabinet minister Kirsty Duncan dies at 59 after battle with cancer www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... via @theglobeandmail.com

Former Liberal cabinet minister Kirsty Duncan dies at 59 after battle with cancer

Duncan was elected as the Liberal MP for the Toronto riding of Etobicoke North five times between 2008 and 2025

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@cjep.bsky.social paper on gender equity in cognitive science @nserc-resnet.bsky.social funding, highlighting progress in past 6 years. Led by @mcgillscience.bsky.social psych trainee Michelle Yang; co-authored w/ @pennypexman.bsky.social. A @wicscanada.bsky.social effort. doi.org/10.1037/cep0...

Amazing data visualization guide…

Saloni@scientificdiscovery.dev · 8mo ago

Big new blogpost! My guide to data visualization, which includes a very long table of contents, tons of charts, and more. --> Why data visualization matters and how to make charts more effective, clear, transparent, and sometimes, beautiful. www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/salonis-gu...

Call for Nominations for Editor of Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology (2026-2030) The Board of Directors of the CPA has opened nominations for the Editorship of the Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology for the years 2026 through 2030. More information: buff.ly/BOdMS9S

Excited that this paper on biscriptality in L2 reading is out, which leverages ENRO data (meco-read.com/about-enro/). Led by doctoral student Naima Mansuri and co-authored w/ great trainees (@estehr.bsky.social, @antonioiniesta.bsky.social, and others not here). www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Honoured to have welcomed Dr. Ellen Bialystok to the CRBLM yesterday for a fantastic talk and rich exchange of ideas in a packed house. Thanks to co-organizers and hosts @gigiluk.bsky.social and @dtitone.bsky.social of the Montreal Bilingualism Initiative

Is there still time to contribute?

Paul Fairie@paulisci.bsky.social · 9mo ago

A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women 🧵

An update on my column: Parliamentary committee drops most contentious parts of its demand for data on research funding. It now wants aggregated, not disaggregated data. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

André Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social · 9mo ago

How much are MPs entitled to know about research grants? Not as much as they think. A parliamentary committee is asking for researchers' personal information in what seems like an anti-DEI crusade, by @picardonhealth.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti... via @theglobeandmail.com

Cool idiom study! #language #cognition featuredcontent.psychonomic.org/breaking-new...

Breaking new ground (and other expressions): Unearthing presuppositional strength of idioms

If you like idioms, you’ll be… head over heels… for this research. Allow me to… break the ice… without… beating around the bush. A new study on idioms by Nicholas Griffen and Ira Noveck is… the bee…

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Wondering if anyone can point me to a guide or set of resources on "how to create compelling/accessible data figure plots" for #psychology or #linguistics students. Ditto for "creating compelling/accessible data tables". Thank you.

It's a shame it took me almost a month to find out Margaret Boden died. And it's a shame it took most media a month to write about one of the greatest philosophers of the last century. #philosophy #philsci #ai #cogsci www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/s...

Margaret Boden, Philosopher of Artificial Intelligence, Dies at 88

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New review paper on theory of mind/mentalizing and spontaneous speech/language. Led by Chaimaa El Mouslih, and co-authored with @vegashodgins.bsky.social and @lenapl.bsky.social www.mdpi.com/2076-328X/15...

It’s @nphillipsca.bsky.social !

Dementia Researcher@dementiaresearcher.bsky.social · last yr.

🎥 Watch the video podcast! Dr Marta del Campo speaks with Professor Natalie Phillips on how hearing, vision & smell relate to dementia risk and ageing. #ISTAART #relay #AAIC25 #sensoryhealth #cognition youtu.be/BqxKxLH4K8Y

A formulaic crisis on Canada Day.. theonion.com/idiom-shorta...

Idiom Shortage Leaves Nation All Sewed Up In Horse Pies

WASHINGTON—A crippling idiom shortage that has left millions of Americans struggling to express themselves spread like tugboat hens throughout the U.S. mainland Tuesday in an unparalleled lingual cris...

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A failure of the interocular suppression paradigm to assess sexual preferences in two studies - Légère, Lalumière, Sawatsky, Gray, & Krupp New online-first in the Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology buff.ly/gPaKkvj @apajournals.bsky.social‬

This looks useful!

Jamie Reilly 🦜@reilly-coglab.com · last yr.

New feature in SemanticDistance R package -- give it an unordered list of words. It appends a semantic vector to each word, computes cosine distance all word pairs arrayed as square matrix. Converts to Euclidean, finds optimal hclustering solution (k), plots a dendrogram. Does it work? You decide!

We recently got an AI generated review. Tell-tale signs: comments go paragraph by paragraph; number of papers cited or other irrelevant details described; anodyne/insipid comments. Others? Authors and Editors, beware..

Social Indicators Research@socialindicators.bsky.social · last yr.

We are seeing multiple instances of reviewers doing manuscript reviews via use of AI/LLM. If you don't want to do a review the old-fashioned way, better to decline the request. Giving someone else's manuscript to AI is a violation of intellectual property rights/laws; the manuscript isn't yours...

New study from the Women in Supramolecular Chemistry (WISC) revealing the unique challenges resulting from being First Gen (first generation of a family to access Higher Education) in science and showing how these persist at every stage of a career in academia: pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

Being a first generation university graduate, the impact on a career in science

Being in the first generation to access Higher Education (First Gen) is a barrier to academic success. First Gens face difficulties transitioning into, completing, and attaining competitive grades in ...

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So did everyone watch #conclave last night or was it just me?

Language matters: training care staff to minimize elderspeak in assisted living/nursing homes led to reductions in non-compliance and use of antipsychotics among patients. Sometimes the “affected” person isn’t the problem. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/03/h...

Honey, Sweetie, Dearie: The Perils of Elderspeak (Gift Article)

A new training program teaches aides to stop baby talk and address older people as adults.

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