These for-profit utility companies need to do a better job of raking their transmission towers.

As always, we are powered by the Janeway systems platform, hosted by @escholarship.bsky.social of the University of California, copyedited and typeset by our production team Sandy Chung, @fernandaedi.bsky.social and Silicon Chips, and supported by the psycholinguistics community!

... and next up we have 'Crossover as an early filter to pronoun resolution in English' by Lyu, Yin, and Kaiser: escholarship.org/uc/item/31m0...

We're excited to announce the publication of two more articles in Glossa Psycholinguistics! First up is 'How to understand silence: Voice mismatches in ellipsis in English' by Bruening, Koppy, Palaz, Tomioka and Tollan. Read it here: escholarship.org/uc/item/4jb2...

Aarabi, M.H. Neuroimaging runs on helium, helium runs through Hormuz. Nat Neurosci 29, 1777–1778 (2026). doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Haley Stevens's accent has people talking. Is it really a Michigan accent? (spoiler: yes. It really is - tho see the note below) I had fun talking with the New York Times about one of my very specific niches of expertise (Michigan English). www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/u...

How Haley Stevens’s Accent Became a Flashpoint in Michigan’s Senate Race (Gift Article)

How the politics of raised a’s and disappearing g’s briefly came to dominate the Michigan Senate race.

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It's summer publishing season at GPx 😎🏖️ So happy to announce the publication of 'The prosodic perception‐production link: Impact of auditory‐perceptual acuity on prosodic cue production under cognitive load' by Hofmann, Tuomainen, Hanne, Veríssimo & Wartenburger: escholarship.org/uc/item/7n54...

🧵 New paper out in JPSP: Morality Cut Both Ways. Can reading facts make you moralize an issue — or lose a moral conviction? We ran 6 studies, 4,464 participants. The results were surprising. 👇 #MoralPsychology #Attitudes. @icedteas.bsky.social 1/8

If p < 0.05, you "reject the null." That's what many stats courses teach you to do. This week's Experimentology chapter argues that this binary, dichotomous frame can sometimes be useful but is the wrong default for psych experiments — there is a broader toolkit available! 🧵 experimentology.io

🥳New paper from the #ERC ‘LaDy’ project! link.springer.com/article/10.3... We had people categorize words alone vs. in pairs and observed that social interaction made abstract words more concrete. @cnrs-dr12.bsky.social @cnrs.fr @erc.europa.eu @univ-amu.fr @ilcb.bsky.social 🧵1/4

The impact of social interaction on abstract concepts - Psychonomic Bulletin & Review

Social interaction is argued to play a crucial role for grounding abstract knowledge, yet empirical evidence is scarce. To investigate whether social interaction affects the processing of abstract wor...

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We're delighted to announce the publication of a new article in Glossa Psycholinguistics! Now available is 'Morphological variation and priming in Hungarian spontaneous dialogue' by Rácz. Get it here: escholarship.org/uc/item/0jp5...

I’m watching Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy and for a second I thought this was Scott Bessent.

This news gutted me. I don’t won’t go into details, but Raul was publicly, bravely KIND to me at a very low point in my professional life when so others were cowardly, weak, and mean. He owed me nothing. He gave because he wanted to. A rare occurrence in my life. jovanevery.co.uk/in-memoriam-...

In memoriam: Raul Pacheco-Vega - Jo VanEvery

Raul had been conscious of his mortality for a long time. Many years ago he came to terms with his workaholism and took serious steps to change his behaviour for the sake of his health. I know he stil...

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We're delighted to announce the publication of a new article in Glossa Psycholinguistics! Now available is 'Processing of Russian and Czech polar questions: Evidence for the effect of question bias' by Razguliaeva, Onoeva, Šimík, Meyer, and Hrdinková. Get it here: escholarship.org/uc/item/09g3...

This is the list of candidates for governor of California.

I have news: starting July 1, I'm a retiree! To help me sort out my feelings and plans, I've started a blog. If you're interested, here's my first post: sabbaticalforever2026.blogspot.com/2026/05/fern...

Fernanda's Forever Sabbatical Starts Soon

In one month I will be retired from my position as a Distinguished Professor at the University of California, Davis. I’ve been a professor f...

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What are people using these days for posting blogs?

imagine being an elite university or major newspaper or an elected member of Congress and realizing that you don't have the moral backbone of, to quote this marvelous post, a group popular 40 years ago and best known for lip syncing and also one of them is dead.

It speaks so badly of our attention economy that John Fetterman is the topic of endless conversation for being an unhinged jerk, while Andy Kim from right next door gets such little hype for being a decent human being

New preprint w @carenwalker.bsky.social & @drbarner.bsky.social! We test the "minimal representations" hypothesis that explains gaps in 3yos modal reasoning. Against it, we find that even 2½yos reason about mutually exclusive possibilities... when goals are clear to them. osf.io/preprints/ps... 1/6

Aside from testing the MR view, we offer a new theoretical take on why kids fail. Kids conceptualize the goal of object retrieval tasks exactly as adults do betting. When we bet on horses, we don't spread bets across all options, but try to pick a winner. When FORCED to spread bets, kids succeed.

Urvi Maheshwari ツ@urvi.bsky.social · 2mo ago

New preprint w @carenwalker.bsky.social & @drbarner.bsky.social! We test the "minimal representations" hypothesis that explains gaps in 3yos modal reasoning. Against it, we find that even 2½yos reason about mutually exclusive possibilities... when goals are clear to them. osf.io/preprints/ps... 1/6

My high school English teacher told me I could have been one of the best students he’d ever taught if I had applied myself a bit more. I’ve been applying myself ever since.

Written by Uju ✍🏽@writtenbyuju.bsky.social · 3mo ago

What happened to you that changed the entire trajectory of your life?

Cubans are starving and have gone weeks without electricity and clean water due to Trump's blockade of any oil reaching the island. Here's why we aren't covering this.

Excited to share I will be joining UC Davis as an assistant professor starting July 2027! Thank you dearly to all mentors and friends who have supported me over the years ❤️ and Cal Poly friends, I'll miss you!

We've ironed out our bugs and are back to publishing great science :D We're delighted to announce the publication of 'Don’t overthink! Round number expressions are interpreted sharp' by Katzir & Ariel! escholarship.org/uc/item/6hb7...

Don’t overthink! Round number expressions are interpreted sharp

Author(s): Katzir, Nicole; Ariel, Mira | Abstract: The interpretation of round numerals inspired two competing hypotheses. The first, the preferred-approximation hypothesis, claims that round numerals...

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What is a psychological theory? Here's our take on this tricky and controversial question in this week's Experimentology chapter summary. Many things called "theories" in psychology aren't actually theories — they're frameworks. 🧵 experimentology.io

Now out, open access! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Syntactic and Prosodic Phrasal Alignment in Naturalistic Language

Prosody is an intrinsic element of language production, linking together multiple levels of linguistic representation to shape both the structure and interpretation of utterances. However, common the....

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Fernanda Ferreira@fernandaedi.bsky.social · 3mo ago

New paper in press at Cognitive Science, with postdoc Julie Bannon and PhD student Barb Hlachova! For decades, we’ve known that syntactic and prosodic boundaries tend to align. But how close is that alignment in unrehearsed speech?

Every damn NYT article that talks about Harvard, Stanford, and Oberlin ignores how many great public universities there are across the country.