The Cognition Group in the Psychology dept at Exeter are at risk of redundancy because "basic cognitive psychology research does not align with the current priorities of funding bodies" If you think this is overtly wrong and misguided, please sign this open letter docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Open Letter in Support of the Cognition Group, University of Exeter

To Executive members of the University of Exeter, including Vice Chancellor Prof. Lisa Roberts, Senior Vice-President and Provost Prof. Dan Charman, Pro Vice Chancellor and Executive Dean Prof. Sallie...

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The Low Verbal Investigatory Survey (LVIS) Version 5.0 is now available! This caregiver report measure is free and provides information about communicative capacity in autism. LVIS 5.0 has simplified scoring and a cut point for MLV status. autismlanguagelab.psychology.uconn.edu/low-verbal-i...

Low Verbal Investigatory Survey (LVIS) | Connecticut Autism and Language Lab (CALL) | Department of Psychological Sciences | University of Connecticut

UPDATED SCORING! See the link below! Approximately 30% of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are considered minimally verbal, but measuring their ...

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Just submitted my OMB comment (due 7/14) I found this guidance from Genexi very helpful. She suggests mentioning specific sections outright. It's rather dense: www.federalregister.gov/documents/20... but there's a nice summary with section #s here aas.org/posts/news/2... h/t @aas.org #SaveScience

Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance

The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) proposes to revise the Guidance for Federal Financial Assistance to improve government- wide policies and requirements related to the management of grants, co...

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Mark Peifer (He, him)@peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 2mo ago

There is a straightforward mechanism for the public to comment. Former NIH program office Elizabeth Ginexi has written an exceptionally helpful guide on how to so, with detailed suggestions. 3/n elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/what-we-ne...

official ad to follow soon but heads up: 1-2 postdocs slots in my lab, hopefully w/fall start! reposts welcome, details to follow. babies! word learning! cognitive & linguistic skills! #CogSciSky #DevPsychSky 🐦🐦 (lab info: bergelsonlab.fas.harvard.edu/prospectives) also recruiting grads this fall!

Open Mind, the free OA competitor to Cognition (El$evier) founded by Richard Aslin, has nearly caught up to it impact-factor-wise Submit your best work! It's a great journal with fast and constructive review, a great ed board, and lots of cool work Open Mind is the future of cogsci journals!

—— Open Mind is MIT Press’s Diamond Open Access Cognitive Science journal. We now have our first Impact Factor: 2.9 as of June 2026 Submit your papers to Open Mind direct.mit.edu/opmi

🔚 #StatLearn2026 comes to an end. Researchers from all over the world have discussed #statisticallearning and its underlying mechanisms from behaviour to neuroscience, across various domains. It has been a pleasure to organize a new edition of this event. 🤩

Today, our #SCIMaP team released an impact analysis of the White House proposed FY 2027 NIH and NSF budgets. Bottom-line: if enacted, cuts to science and medical research would lead to $35B in economic losses and 150,000 lost jobs in communities all across the US. scienceimpacts.org 🧵

Congrats to my colleague Diane Lillo-Martin for her election as an AAAS Fellow! She was my faculty mentor when I arrived at UConn and is the best of the best!

Diane Lillo-Martin@dclm.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Very honored to have been elected as a AAAS Fellow. My thanks to Section Z Linguistics for all the good work you do.

📢 New paper in JEP:HPP Speech perception gradiency (sensitivity to fine-grained phonetic detail) has been shown to enhance speech perception flexibility (recovery from misleading information) in L1 English. But does it play the same role in L2? doi.org/10.1037/xhp0... @bcbl.bsky.social

We argue that multimodal communication plays a key role in maintaining signal honesty across all communication systems, acting as an alternative to intrinsic costs, which have been critiqued as being insufficient to explain “cheap” signals (like human language) 2/2 👉Call for commentaries to follow

Our #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!

Morten H. Christiansen@mh-christiansen.bsky.social · 5mo ago

📣 You only have one week left to submit your 200-word abstract for the 2026 installment of the International Conference on Interdisciplinary Advances in Statistical Learning (#StatLearnBCBL), which will take place in San Sebastian, Spain June 10-12 #IASL26 www.bcbl.eu/events/stati...

📢 New in Trends in Neurosciences Dyslexia shows atypical phonological processing and speech tracking, yet comprehension is preserved. We argue this reflects adaptive compensation, via hemispheric rebalancing and greater reliance on lexico-semantic processing. authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

✍️ #BCBLpaper in #PsychonomicBulletin&Review | How sleep redraws phonemic categories after auditory selective adaptation. Dumay, N. & Samuel, A. +info ⬇️ link.springer.com/article/10.3...

How sleep redraws phonemic categories after auditory selective adaptation - Psychonomic Bulletin & Review

After information has either been perceived or brought into working memory from long-term memory, it may remain active for hours or days. There is extensive evidence that sleep can consolidate newly l...

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It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans. 🧵 1 of 9

This is so true, and it highlights how annoying it is that outlets like the New York Times and The Atlantic obsessively fixate on the Ivies. Most U.S. students attend public universities, and those institutions change lives at a scale the Ivies can’t touch.

Alan Allport@alanallport.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Really important to stress that the Crown Jewels of the US higher education system were never the Ivies or elite SLACs (other countries have equivalents of these) but the well-funded, large, cheap, and excellently staffed public state university systems bringing high quality education to the masses.

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U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols

The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”

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🗣️ “Queremos diagnosticar la dislexia antes de que aparezca”. Manuel Carreiras, director científico de #BCBL, repasa en @diariovascobsky.bsky.social su trayectoria investigadora vinculada a este trastorno tras recibir el Premio Nacional de Dislexia en 2025. 👀👇 www.diariovasco.com/sociedad/sal...

Manuel Carreiras, Director científico del BCBL: «La dislexia se diagnostica muy tarde, cuando el niño ya ha sufrido un montón» | El Diario Vasco

«Queremos diagnosticar este trastorno antes de que aparezca», explica este experto, que ha recibido el Premio Nacional de Dislexia

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🗣️ “Dislexia agertu aurretik diagnostikatu nahi dugu”. Manuel Carreirasek, #BCBL|ko zuzendari zientifikoak, nahasmendu honekin lotuta egin duen ikerketa-ibilbidea errepasatu du @diariovascobsky.bsky.socialen, 2025eko Dislexia Sari Nazionala jaso ondoren. 👀👇 www.diariovasco.com/sociedad/sal...

Manuel Carreiras, Director científico del BCBL: «La dislexia se diagnostica muy tarde, cuando el niño ya ha sufrido un montón» | El Diario Vasco

«Queremos diagnosticar este trastorno antes de que aparezca», explica este experto, que ha recibido el Premio Nacional de Dislexia

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Opportunity for early career researchers to spend 3 years working with us in Oxford. Cool surroundings, interesting people. Eligibility: need some UK academic connection. Get in touch if interested! Details: www.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/news/2025/11...

✍️ A new paper led by McMaster University with the collaboration of #BCBL researcher @jimmagnuson.bsky.social has been published in @plos.org #ComputationalBiology. +info ⬇️ journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

Recurrent neural networks as neuro-computational models of human speech recognition

Author summary Human brains deal with a constantly evolving stream of information acquired by the senses. The transitory nature of this input requires strategies for integrating information over time....

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Join us Monday, September 15th from 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm ET for a talk by Simona Mancini, Ikerbasque Research Associate Professor / Neurolinguistics and Aphasia group leader at the Basque Center on Cognition Brain and Language. Register now at https://bit.ly/45LjrF1

Interested in doing a PhD with me and lacns.github.io? Or with any of the incredible fellows in the IMPRS School of Cognition www.maxplanckschools.org/cognition-en - apply before Dec 1st at cognition.maxplanckschools.org/en/application

📢 PhD opening @bcbl_ (San Sebastián, Spain) Join our ERC project CORTICAL RHYTHMS 🧠 to study how brain rhythms shape second language learning (spoken & signed) with MEG/MRI. 📅 Start Jan 2026 | ⏳ Apply by Sept 15, 2025 👉 tinyurl.com/bdwkumn3

Great piece on the administration's attack on our epistemic infrastructure--and shout-out to my work-- by @peterbakernyt.bsky.social in today's paper.

Peter Baker@peterbakernyt.bsky.social · last yr.

Trump's war on facts has reached a new level and the message is clear: Government officials who deal in data now fear they have to toe the line and adopt his version of reality no matter how false or risk losing their jobs. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/u...

Michael's points out that so many of this administration's attacks are on "epistemic infrastructure" (museums, libraries, universities, agencies that collect data).

Michael Patrick Lynch@michael-p-lynch.bsky.social · last yr.

Great piece on the administration's attack on our epistemic infrastructure--and shout-out to my work-- by @peterbakernyt.bsky.social in today's paper.

My contribution to the @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social effort to communicate the value of federal science funding: www.hometownsource.com/county_news_...

Farm to faculty: How federal research funding changes lives and boosts Minnesota's economy

When I was growing up on a farm near Cambridge, I never met a scientist. I didn’t know what scientific research was or how people became scientists. I graduated from

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Do we adapt when the structure of our environment changes? Check out our new preprint: doi.org/10.31234/osf...

Really looking forward to this!

BogaertsLab@bogaertslab.bsky.social · last yr.

📣🗓️ The 6th Interdisciplinary Advances in Statistical Learning Conference #IASL26 will be held June 10-12 in San Sebastián. Our keynotes: @jennysaffran.bsky.social with 30 years of SL work since 1996. @noranewcombe.bsky.social on learning and spatial cognition. @pyoudeyer.bsky.social on curiosity.

Neural tracking: evoked or oscillatory? 🎧🧠 The #TrackingUmbrella paper argues it’s not either/or — both perspectives reveal how our brains align with speech, music, and more. Method matters. Let’s rethink how we measure and interpret tracking! tinyurl.com/ywbe7rrz

(PDF) The Tracking Umbrella: Diverse Interpretations Under a Common Neural Term

PDF | Neural tracking, the alignment of brain activity with the temporal dynamics of sensory input, is a crucial mechanism underlying perception,... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ...

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Have others experienced major problems with collecting data via Prolific (@joinprolific.bsky.social)? For a lexical decision study we ran 3 years ago, we excluded less than 2% of participants for clear non-compliance/random responding. Now it's closer to 25% for the exact same study.