In a world where would-be burglars case a house for weeks making careful note of when lights turn on and off every day, my dad has devised a low-tech way of confounding their schemes
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PI + parent = professional cat-herder • inclusiveness • he/him • studying both brain health and communication at Northeastern University Textbook: The Neuroscience of Language (Cambridge University Press) http://jonathanpeelle.net
Driving with my dad is entertaining because he narrates and corrects the navigation the entire time
Kermit Lost with a Map
ALT: Kermit Lost with a Map
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What do 10 year olds do for music? There are no walkmen or iPods. My daughter just wants to chill with music and I don’t know hat to get her. (Bonus points for Apple Music because we get that anyway.)
Several interviews mention "union interpreters," because organized workers often had no/little English. Can anyone point me to a social history of this practice? #langsky #laborhistory
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Just got an email from a collaborator that the revision of our paper was submitted. I don’t think I knew we submitted the first time much less got reviews! 🧪
Lol
ALT: Lol
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Some of you may know Peter Denes from popularizing the "speech chain" as a framework for communication (Denes & Pinson, 1963; 1993). I came across this video of him demonstrating speech synthesis—amazing for the time, and oh how far we've come! www.youtube.com/watch?v=K05X...
1967 | Dr. Peter B Denes Demonstrating Computer Speech on Bell Labs' Honeywell DDP 224
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We need to change norms around sexual harassment Yesterday Tessa West spoke up about a sexual harassment complaint she filed against John Jost. Not only is he a senior colleague in the dept of psychology, but he is one of the most prominant figures in the field of social and political psychology.
I am approximately “if I were a motorcycle cop I would absolutely blast the CHiPs theme song every time I put my lights on” years old youtu.be/D5-bD372v5s?...
CHiPs' - Theme Song (Intro)
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New blog post! Odds ratios are...a bit weird. Here I explain two problems (interpretation, non-collapsibility) and provide some simple recommendations for improved reporting. www.the100.ci/2026/07/30/r...
Reviewer notes: Odds ratios are really odd
When psychological researchers investigate binary outcomes, they routinely report odds ratios to quantify the strength of an effect or an association. This is quite understandable given that psycholog...
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My thoughts about Tony Fauci. He was very demanding to work for because he was involved in so many things, but his staff deeply respected him and relished working with him, even with some challenges. They appreciated his demands for high standards in everything that they did. 1/2
Jenna Norton@jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 7d agoNot every NIH institute director is uniformly loved by their staff. But I’ve never heard criticism of Tony Fauci. (side note: @jeremymberg.bsky.social is another former IC director who seems universally loved by his staff.) Some comments I’ve heard from colleagues today: “He’s an American hero.”
So, what happens if I'm a parent and I know that my kid needs highly paid teachers, a library full of books with diverse characters, trans-inclusive bathrooms and extracurriculars, and a curriculum unpacking topics like systemic racism, colonial oppression, economic inequality, and climate change?
I enjoyed speaking with Ken Barrett last week about the neuroscience of language for his Brainland podcast. We took a quick tour through 170 years of neurology and cognitive neuroscience (and he asked about the Lombard effect) shows.acast.com/brainland/ep... #neuroscienceoflanguage
SPEAK! On the neuroscience of language... | BRAINLAND
In conversation with Jonathan Peelle
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I just rebuilt my website using Quarto 🎉 My publication list generates itself from my Zotero library, and papers include links to materials and OA versions. The website's first post is on how to build your own, featuring an app that does all the coding for you: dsquintana.com/posts/quarto...
Further analysis of Packalen & Bhattacharya article, where they claimed #NIH-funded research was slow to pick up on new ideas. I argue that their approach is flawed, and I present an analysis that shows the exact opposite. pubpeer.com/publications...
PubPeer - NIH funding and the pursuit of edge science
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I told my daughter (6) that she’s our Sneezy because she sneezes every morning. Who am I, I asked? Without missing a beat my so. (6) replied “Grumpy!”
Snow White's Seven Dwarfs: Heigh-Ho March
Alt: Snow White's Seven Dwarfs: Heigh-Ho March
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Does Not Rhyme -through -cough -though -rough -bough Does Rhyme -pony -bologna
I was very proud of myself for setting a nice out of office reply and not checking email while on vacation last week. Turns out I only got like 3 emails none of which were urgent. But in PRINCIPLE I rocked it
OK I haven't been to Olive Garden in a couple of years but I am pretty sure I didn't get ID'd
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w agoScalise: "For God's sake -- you can't get pasta at Olive Garden without a picture ID! Why not be able to show a picture ID to vote?"
happy Tuesday to everyone except the reviewer who gave my recent grant on ameliorating speech-in-noise challenges an 8 on significance
Presumably some linguist has already smurfed this
Jonathan Peelle@jpeelle.bsky.social · 2w agoOn a drive yesterday I overheard my kids watching the Smurfs (new version) which got me thinking about how the writers use the word “smurf”. I’m not sure what the rules are because it’s ALMOST always a verb but sometimes it’s a smurf.
On a drive yesterday I overheard my kids watching the Smurfs (new version) which got me thinking about how the writers use the word “smurf”. I’m not sure what the rules are because it’s ALMOST always a verb but sometimes it’s a smurf.
Papa Smurf Shrugs: I Don't Know!
Alt: Papa Smurf Shrugs: I Don't Know!
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Quotes from my kids on family vacation - “this is the worst day ever” - “you ruined my night!” - “what do you mean we can’t have ANOTHER dessert today” - “I hate this whole day” and also - “this was the BEST VACATION EVERRRRRR!!!!!!”
“Dad, you’re a good cook! I mean for *prepared* foods.” – my 9-year-old mastering Reviewer 2 energy
it's so hard to predict the outcomes of parenting, so generally good to not be too self-congratulatory, but the sole exception is reading. if it takes a pair of pliers to get a book out of your kid's hands, you get to self-congratulate all you want. we deserve this
Joseph Rezek@rezekjoe.bsky.social · 3w agoI let my daughter, 9, stay up a little late to finish reading her third Nancy Drew mystery, by the lamp at her bed. Is it 1955? 1985? What is happening? Not a phone in sight, literacy thriving; don’t let the world fall apart.