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David Sidhu

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Assistant Professor at Carleton University 🇨🇦 | PI of the https://classilab.ca/ I study cognition, language, and multimodality (sound symbolism, iconicity, embodied cognition). Convinced that John Lennon is the bouba and Paul McCartney is the kiki.

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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 4d

JEP: General; Psych Science; Nature Human Behaviour

Photo of a Kansas City Chiefs press conference with Andy Reid, Travis Kelce, and Patrick Mahomes. Reid is wearing a gray suit and red tie with a lapel pin. Kelce is wearing a camp-style short-sleeved shirt with a bird print, along with a suede cap, and Mahomes is wearing a white collared shirt, a pink checkered double-breasted vest, and a pale pink tie.

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David Sidhu @davidmsidhu.bsky.social · 14d

Thank you! Will try all of these!

David Sidhu @davidmsidhu.bsky.social · 14d

Can you recommend some good ones? I love the Minute Cryptic and Connections, but could use some more!

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Kirby Conrod @kirbyconrod.bsky.social · 19d

Please boost! #linguistics student here at Swarthmore is running a survey for English speakers (who don't know Mandarin / any other tone languages) about how we learn tones. Take a few minutes to help out with this student research!
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David Sidhu @davidmsidhu.bsky.social · Sep 10

A weirdo question I asked my class today. DRC and Triangle Models, which is the "maluma" and which is the "takete"?

David Sidhu @davidmsidhu.bsky.social · Sep 1

This is an AMAZING daily word puzzle game!

www.minutecryptic.com

Minute Cryptic

Solve a clue with a hidden meaning

www.minutecryptic.com

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David Sidhu @davidmsidhu.bsky.social · Aug 31

David Sidhu @davidmsidhu.bsky.social · Aug 28

Kirk, Picard, Sisko... suspiciously spiky!

David Sidhu @davidmsidhu.bsky.social · Aug 28

A Conversation piece @pennypexman.bsky.social and I wrote about how the sounds of names might affect hiring decisions.

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What’s in a name? How the sound of names can bias hiring decisions

New research shows that even the sound of a name can influence how job candidates are judged.

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David Sidhu @davidmsidhu.bsky.social · Aug 8

oaf

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David Sidhu @davidmsidhu.bsky.social · Aug 7

I see your Pomodoro Technique, and I raise you one Isolator Technique.

David Sidhu @davidmsidhu.bsky.social · Aug 7

Interesting podcast episode!

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Will AI Usher In the End of Deep Thinking? - The Ringer

One of the questions I get most is that if AI tools can read faster than us, synthesize better than us, and write faster than us, what’s our place in the loop? Cal Newport, author of ‘Deep Work&...

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David Sidhu @davidmsidhu.bsky.social · Aug 6

I've been revising my lab manual. After a few minutes I realised that the only changes I was making was turning exclamation marks into periods. Is that a sign of progress?

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Dr. Kira McCabe @kiraomccabe.bsky.social · Aug 5

ATTN Carleton University undergrad and grad students! My master's student is trying to recruit people for her thesis project. Please share this widely and consider participating if you are willing! Thanks! @carleton.ca

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David Sidhu @davidmsidhu.bsky.social · Jul 29

July 31st from 12-1 PDT: Laura Aguanno will present a poster looking at whether iconic meanings of homophones are learned earlier (V1-A-1).

August 2nd from 12-1 PDT: Pei-Chu (Peggy) Liaw will present a poster on the development of name sound symbolism in children (V5-L-37).

David Sidhu @davidmsidhu.bsky.social · Jul 29

Attending CogSci this year? Come and see these two virtual posters from the lab!

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Word Family Friday @wordfamilyfriday.bsky.social · Jul 17

This is now live!
You can generate custom word family graphs!
lab.aidanem.com/wordfamily/

At least theoretically, I'm not sure the unimproved interface is actually usable by anyone other than me.

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David Sidhu @davidmsidhu.bsky.social · Jul 17

Woah! This is great!!

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Oded Rechavi @odedrechavi.bsky.social · Jul 16

This is still the picture Harry Potter uses for his lab website

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David Sidhu @davidmsidhu.bsky.social · Jul 9

💯 on the to do list!

David Sidhu @davidmsidhu.bsky.social · Jul 2

I will be presenting work along with Pragati Parajuli and @emij.bsky.social on emotional iconicity! (July 9th at 9:45 AM)

David Sidhu @davidmsidhu.bsky.social · Jul 2

Veronica Bodea will be presenting a poster of our work on the impact of embodiment on the processing of foreign language idioms! (July 8th 6:30-7:30 PM)

David Sidhu @davidmsidhu.bsky.social · Jul 2

Pei-Chu (Peggy) Liaw will be presenting our work on how the bouba/kiki effect changes based on the modality that words are presented in! (July 9th at 10:15 AM)

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David Sidhu @davidmsidhu.bsky.social · Jul 2

Will you be at CSBBCS/EPS in Dundee? Come and take a look at these presentations from the lab!

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David Sidhu @davidmsidhu.bsky.social · Jul 1

Interesting! It looks great!!