Honoured to receive the @infantstudies.bsky.social Service Award for running some of the social media accounts on the last day of #ICIS2026 in Panama yesterday. Massive thanks to @jkileyhamlin.bsky.social & Vanessa Lobue for the initial nomination and to Kiley for taking this picture for me! 🎉

I had the absolute privilege of interviewing one of my PhD supervisors, Prof Marilyn Vihman, as part of the Communications Committee work I do @infantstudies.bsky.social. I could listen to her talk every day, kinda miss the days (and people) in York!

International Congress of Infant Studies@infantstudies.bsky.social · last yr.

Meet the members of #ICIS, Connecting w/ our Community series #9: Emeritus Prof Marilyn Vihman shares her retirement writing plans, her research discoveries about early child speech & her advice on taking linguistics AND psychology. Full video: youtu.be/423GBdfjuew #infantstudies

(1/3) It's my turn to be on the #infantstudies Researcher Spotlight! I turned a bit of my #ICIS2024 poster on kinship terms into a blog post for the Baby Blog. If nothing else, click to see the cute images courtesy of Suzy Styles and the BLIP Lab NTU crew. Some outtakes:

International Congress of Infant Studies@infantstudies.bsky.social · 2y ago

We're ending off the year with our own ICIS Communications Committee member writing our last post of 2024 on the Baby Blog - Kinship terms of address and reference among families in Singapore by Rui Qi Choo @ruiqi26.bsky.social infantstudies.org/kinship-term... #Research #DevPsySky #infantstudies

can I code fast? no. but can I code well? also no. but does my code work? alas, no

New stroop task just dropped

Jared Hutchins@pablohutch.bsky.social · 2y ago

Another one that I show to demonstrate the perils of improper color usage.

To accompany all those Bluesky science/academia #starterpacks, how about we also share introductions to the literature of our different fields. I present here a handy guide to main types of papers in the language sciences (inspired by the amazing @xkcd.com). #language #linguistics #science #academia

Pretty amused at the droves of followers the @infantstudies.bsky.social account has been getting every day since two weeks ago (yikes, it's been 2 weeks!?). Go follow that account for research blurbs (that authors write, or, more often than not, I write and they vet) from the Infancy journal!

One of the shapes on this pumpkin is called kiki and the other one is called boo-ba. Which is, uh, witch?

University Commas xkcd.com/2995

Can it code as well as a human? Well, no. But can it increase implementation speed? Also no. But does it reduce overtime? Not as much as NOT using it does. But does it write less buggy code? Quite the opposite, actually! But does it save money? In the long run, almost certainly not. But is it more e

David Slack@slack2thefuture.bsky.social · 2y ago

The reason AI grifters push their product so hard in creative fields is that untrained eyes can’t tell how badly the output sucks. For anything with an objective standard of success, their climate-destroying plagiarism machine just straight up doesn’t fucking work. www.cio.com/article/3540...

just put the geekiest thing into the book Latin didn't have a word for 'yes'. Nor ancient British. Romans would say e.g. 'verily' (ita vero) 'Yes' in Romance languages descends from other ways of indicating agreement - 'thus' (sic) -> 'si', 'that it be' (hoc illud) -> 'oui'...

This is probably my third favourite scientific study in the world: www.sciencealert.com/people-who-p...

People Who Constantly Point Out Grammar Mistakes Are Pretty Much Jerks, Scientists Find

But you probably already knew that.

sciencealert.com

I have some coloring sheets your language and #linguistics classes might enjoy for some finals season de-stressing! Here’s one of my students’ work! sites.google.com/view/ear-sci...

Look, it me! This is a side project that began in February this year, look out for my emails if you recently published a paper in the Infancy journal!

International Congress of Infant Studies@infantstudies.bsky.social · 2y ago

Researcher Spotlight: learn a little more about the 5 new #ICIS Communications Committee members for the 2024-2027 cycle here; look out for emails contacting you for blurbs/stories/resources from Amanda, Samantha, Ixchel, Maheen & @ruiqi26.bsky.social ! 📚💡 infantstudies.org/researcher-s...

hey has anyone done this yet

People who live off scams are both pros and cons.

Oof. Brilliant. www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/cla...

Class Is Canceled Until Further Notice While I Do My Job

Dear Students — I am sorry to say that I will need to cancel all classes for an indeterminate length of time while I work on doing my job. I realiz...

mcsweeneys.net

Please teach your students (and yourself) how to fully document your studies. This is basic data management. If you don't know how to start--go to osf.io and look a prereg templates. They are a good starting point but consider whether you have documented to a point that a novice could run your study

Schroedinger’s Pandora’s Box; you don’t know if the cat’s all the evil in the world or not until you open it.

#Introduction After n months, I'm here! I'm Rui Qi (pronounced Ray Chee; my first name is two words, pls pls do not call me just 'Rui'), a researcher of bilingual Mandarin/English-speaking children's speech. I'm a Research Fellow at BLIP Lab NTU, Sg and a Psychology Lecturer at SUSS, Sg.