Debra Titone
@dtitone.bsky.social
language & cognitive scientist at @mcgill.ca; co-founder of @wicscanada.bsky.social; Editor of @cjep.bsky.social; she/her
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Debra Titone
@dtitone.bsky.social
· Dec 13
@cjep.bsky.social paper on gender equity in cognitive science @nserc-resnet.bsky.social funding, highlighting progress in past 6 years.
Led by @mcgillscience.bsky.social psych trainee Michelle Yang; co-authored w/ @pennypexman.bsky.social. A @wicscanada.bsky.social effort.
doi.org/10.1037/cep0...
Led by @mcgillscience.bsky.social psych trainee Michelle Yang; co-authored w/ @pennypexman.bsky.social. A @wicscanada.bsky.social effort.
doi.org/10.1037/cep0...
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‘A life defined by kindness and service’ — Former Liberal cabinet minister Kirsty Duncan dies at 59 after battle with cancer www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... via @theglobeandmail.com
Former Liberal cabinet minister Kirsty Duncan dies at 59 after battle with cancer
Duncan was elected as the Liberal MP for the Toronto riding of Etobicoke North five times between 2008 and 2025
www.theglobeandmail.com
January 27, 2026 at 4:17 AM
‘A life defined by kindness and service’ — Former Liberal cabinet minister Kirsty Duncan dies at 59 after battle with cancer www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... via @theglobeandmail.com
@cjep.bsky.social paper on gender equity in cognitive science @nserc-resnet.bsky.social funding, highlighting progress in past 6 years.
Led by @mcgillscience.bsky.social psych trainee Michelle Yang; co-authored w/ @pennypexman.bsky.social. A @wicscanada.bsky.social effort.
doi.org/10.1037/cep0...
Led by @mcgillscience.bsky.social psych trainee Michelle Yang; co-authored w/ @pennypexman.bsky.social. A @wicscanada.bsky.social effort.
doi.org/10.1037/cep0...
December 13, 2025 at 6:43 PM
@cjep.bsky.social paper on gender equity in cognitive science @nserc-resnet.bsky.social funding, highlighting progress in past 6 years.
Led by @mcgillscience.bsky.social psych trainee Michelle Yang; co-authored w/ @pennypexman.bsky.social. A @wicscanada.bsky.social effort.
doi.org/10.1037/cep0...
Led by @mcgillscience.bsky.social psych trainee Michelle Yang; co-authored w/ @pennypexman.bsky.social. A @wicscanada.bsky.social effort.
doi.org/10.1037/cep0...
Amazing data visualization guide…
Big new blogpost!
My guide to data visualization, which includes a very long table of contents, tons of charts, and more.
--> Why data visualization matters and how to make charts more effective, clear, transparent, and sometimes, beautiful.
www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/salonis-gu...
My guide to data visualization, which includes a very long table of contents, tons of charts, and more.
--> Why data visualization matters and how to make charts more effective, clear, transparent, and sometimes, beautiful.
www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/salonis-gu...
December 10, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Amazing data visualization guide…
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Call for Nominations for Editor of Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology (2026-2030)
The Board of Directors of the CPA has opened nominations for the Editorship of the Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology for the years 2026 through 2030.
More information: buff.ly/BOdMS9S
The Board of Directors of the CPA has opened nominations for the Editorship of the Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology for the years 2026 through 2030.
More information: buff.ly/BOdMS9S
November 26, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Call for Nominations for Editor of Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology (2026-2030)
The Board of Directors of the CPA has opened nominations for the Editorship of the Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology for the years 2026 through 2030.
More information: buff.ly/BOdMS9S
The Board of Directors of the CPA has opened nominations for the Editorship of the Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology for the years 2026 through 2030.
More information: buff.ly/BOdMS9S
Excited that this paper on biscriptality in L2 reading is out, which leverages ENRO data (meco-read.com/about-enro/). Led by doctoral student Naima Mansuri and co-authored w/ great trainees (@estehr.bsky.social, @antonioiniesta.bsky.social, and others not here).
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
How does one’s first language writing script modulate second language reading: evidence from the English Reading Online Project (ENRO) | Applied Psycholinguistics | Cambridge Core
How does one’s first language writing script modulate second language reading: evidence from the English Reading Online Project (ENRO) - Volume 46
www.cambridge.org
November 20, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Excited that this paper on biscriptality in L2 reading is out, which leverages ENRO data (meco-read.com/about-enro/). Led by doctoral student Naima Mansuri and co-authored w/ great trainees (@estehr.bsky.social, @antonioiniesta.bsky.social, and others not here).
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Honoured to have welcomed Dr. Ellen Bialystok to the CRBLM yesterday for a fantastic talk and rich exchange of ideas in a packed house. Thanks to co-organizers and hosts @gigiluk.bsky.social and @dtitone.bsky.social of the Montreal Bilingualism Initiative
November 7, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Honoured to have welcomed Dr. Ellen Bialystok to the CRBLM yesterday for a fantastic talk and rich exchange of ideas in a packed house. Thanks to co-organizers and hosts @gigiluk.bsky.social and @dtitone.bsky.social of the Montreal Bilingualism Initiative
Is there still time to contribute?
A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women
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November 6, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Is there still time to contribute?
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An update on my column: Parliamentary committee drops most contentious parts of its demand for data on research funding. It now wants aggregated, not disaggregated data. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
November 6, 2025 at 2:29 AM
An update on my column: Parliamentary committee drops most contentious parts of its demand for data on research funding. It now wants aggregated, not disaggregated data. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
Wondering if anyone can point me to a guide or set of resources on "how to create compelling/accessible data figure plots" for #psychology or #linguistics students.
Ditto for "creating compelling/accessible data tables".
Thank you.
Ditto for "creating compelling/accessible data tables".
Thank you.
September 29, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Wondering if anyone can point me to a guide or set of resources on "how to create compelling/accessible data figure plots" for #psychology or #linguistics students.
Ditto for "creating compelling/accessible data tables".
Thank you.
Ditto for "creating compelling/accessible data tables".
Thank you.
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It's a shame it took me almost a month to find out Margaret Boden died. And it's a shame it took most media a month to write about one of the greatest philosophers of the last century.
#philosophy #philsci #ai #cogsci
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/s...
#philosophy #philsci #ai #cogsci
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/s...
Margaret Boden, Philosopher of Artificial Intelligence, Dies at 88
www.nytimes.com
August 16, 2025 at 7:01 PM
It's a shame it took me almost a month to find out Margaret Boden died. And it's a shame it took most media a month to write about one of the greatest philosophers of the last century.
#philosophy #philsci #ai #cogsci
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/s...
#philosophy #philsci #ai #cogsci
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/s...
New review paper on theory of mind/mentalizing and spontaneous speech/language. Led by Chaimaa El Mouslih, and co-authored with @vegashodgins.bsky.social and @lenapl.bsky.social
www.mdpi.com/2076-328X/15...
www.mdpi.com/2076-328X/15...
www.mdpi.com
July 28, 2025 at 12:40 PM
New review paper on theory of mind/mentalizing and spontaneous speech/language. Led by Chaimaa El Mouslih, and co-authored with @vegashodgins.bsky.social and @lenapl.bsky.social
www.mdpi.com/2076-328X/15...
www.mdpi.com/2076-328X/15...
It’s @nphillipsca.bsky.social !
🎥 Watch the video podcast! Dr Marta del Campo speaks with Professor Natalie Phillips on how hearing, vision & smell relate to dementia risk and ageing. #ISTAART #relay #AAIC25 #sensoryhealth #cognition
youtu.be/BqxKxLH4K8Y
youtu.be/BqxKxLH4K8Y
Sensory Health and Cognition PIA - RELAY Video Podcast
YouTube video by Dementia Researcher
youtu.be
July 16, 2025 at 11:32 AM
It’s @nphillipsca.bsky.social !
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A failure of the interocular suppression paradigm to assess sexual preferences in two studies
- Légère, Lalumière, Sawatsky, Gray, & Krupp
New online-first in the Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology
buff.ly/gPaKkvj
@apajournals.bsky.social
- Légère, Lalumière, Sawatsky, Gray, & Krupp
New online-first in the Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology
buff.ly/gPaKkvj
@apajournals.bsky.social
May 21, 2025 at 9:14 PM
A failure of the interocular suppression paradigm to assess sexual preferences in two studies
- Légère, Lalumière, Sawatsky, Gray, & Krupp
New online-first in the Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology
buff.ly/gPaKkvj
@apajournals.bsky.social
- Légère, Lalumière, Sawatsky, Gray, & Krupp
New online-first in the Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology
buff.ly/gPaKkvj
@apajournals.bsky.social
This looks useful!
New feature in SemanticDistance R package -- give it an unordered list of words. It appends a semantic vector to each word, computes cosine distance all word pairs arrayed as square matrix. Converts to Euclidean, finds optimal hclustering solution (k), plots a dendrogram. Does it work? You decide!
May 13, 2025 at 1:14 PM
This looks useful!
We recently got an AI generated review.
Tell-tale signs: comments go paragraph by paragraph; number of papers cited or other irrelevant details described; anodyne/insipid comments. Others?
Authors and Editors, beware..
Tell-tale signs: comments go paragraph by paragraph; number of papers cited or other irrelevant details described; anodyne/insipid comments. Others?
Authors and Editors, beware..
We are seeing multiple instances of reviewers doing manuscript reviews via use of AI/LLM.
If you don't want to do a review the old-fashioned way, better to decline the request.
Giving someone else's manuscript to AI is a violation of intellectual property rights/laws; the manuscript isn't yours...
If you don't want to do a review the old-fashioned way, better to decline the request.
Giving someone else's manuscript to AI is a violation of intellectual property rights/laws; the manuscript isn't yours...
May 11, 2025 at 7:21 PM
We recently got an AI generated review.
Tell-tale signs: comments go paragraph by paragraph; number of papers cited or other irrelevant details described; anodyne/insipid comments. Others?
Authors and Editors, beware..
Tell-tale signs: comments go paragraph by paragraph; number of papers cited or other irrelevant details described; anodyne/insipid comments. Others?
Authors and Editors, beware..
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New study from the Women in Supramolecular Chemistry (WISC) revealing the unique challenges resulting from being First Gen (first generation of a family to access Higher Education) in science and showing how these persist at every stage of a career in academia:
pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
Being a first generation university graduate, the impact on a career in science
Being in the first generation to access Higher Education (First Gen) is a barrier to academic success. First Gens face difficulties transitioning into, completing, and attaining competitive grades in ...
pubs.rsc.org
May 9, 2025 at 2:08 PM
New study from the Women in Supramolecular Chemistry (WISC) revealing the unique challenges resulting from being First Gen (first generation of a family to access Higher Education) in science and showing how these persist at every stage of a career in academia:
pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
Language matters: training care staff to minimize elderspeak in assisted living/nursing homes led to reductions in non-compliance and use of antipsychotics among patients.
Sometimes the “affected” person isn’t the problem.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/03/h...
Sometimes the “affected” person isn’t the problem.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/03/h...
Honey, Sweetie, Dearie: The Perils of Elderspeak (Gift Article)
A new training program teaches aides to stop baby talk and address older people as adults.
www.nytimes.com
May 3, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Language matters: training care staff to minimize elderspeak in assisted living/nursing homes led to reductions in non-compliance and use of antipsychotics among patients.
Sometimes the “affected” person isn’t the problem.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/03/h...
Sometimes the “affected” person isn’t the problem.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/03/h...
New paper on L2/L1 irony processing in Memory & Cognition led by @vegashodgins.bsky.social. This was a team effort, including @antonioiniesta.bsky.social and others, notably Mehrgol Tiv who collected the data several years back.
rdcu.be/ekaeh
#language
#cognition
#irony
#multilingualism
rdcu.be/ekaeh
#language
#cognition
#irony
#multilingualism
Bilingual irony processing during natural reading: A within-participant look at L1 versus L2 effects using eye-movement measures
rdcu.be
May 1, 2025 at 2:53 AM
New paper on L2/L1 irony processing in Memory & Cognition led by @vegashodgins.bsky.social. This was a team effort, including @antonioiniesta.bsky.social and others, notably Mehrgol Tiv who collected the data several years back.
rdcu.be/ekaeh
#language
#cognition
#irony
#multilingualism
rdcu.be/ekaeh
#language
#cognition
#irony
#multilingualism
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I've fallen into lurker mode with this site lately but I'm still here... and this week I wrote this thing that seemed to resonate with a bunch of folks, maybe if you're into #SystemsThinking or #Complexity you'll dig it too:
Letter to a Young Systems Thinker
Don’t search for the answers.
medium.com
April 18, 2025 at 10:37 PM
I've fallen into lurker mode with this site lately but I'm still here... and this week I wrote this thing that seemed to resonate with a bunch of folks, maybe if you're into #SystemsThinking or #Complexity you'll dig it too:
Special Issue of @cjep.bsky.social on #Network Science in Experimental #Psychology is out today.
psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...
Note: the SI introduction and one paper are free to read.
psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...
Note: the SI introduction and one paper are free to read.
April 22, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Special Issue of @cjep.bsky.social on #Network Science in Experimental #Psychology is out today.
psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...
Note: the SI introduction and one paper are free to read.
psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...
Note: the SI introduction and one paper are free to read.
Just delivered my last psych of #bilingualism class of the semester.. Interacting with smart undergraduates about an important topic that I love is such a privilege..
#grateful
#grateful
April 10, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Just delivered my last psych of #bilingualism class of the semester.. Interacting with smart undergraduates about an important topic that I love is such a privilege..
#grateful
#grateful
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EPS Meeting: University of Dundee. 8th – 11th July 2025.
A joint meeting with the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Science (CSBBCS).
Submission portals for this meeting will open at 10am (UK Time) on April 7th 2025 for a minimum of 24 hours.
eps.ac.uk/next-meeting/
A joint meeting with the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Science (CSBBCS).
Submission portals for this meeting will open at 10am (UK Time) on April 7th 2025 for a minimum of 24 hours.
eps.ac.uk/next-meeting/
Next Meeting
EPS Meeting: University of Dundee. 8th – 11th July 2025. This will be a joint meeting with the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Science (CSBBCS), and will include the 53rd B…
eps.ac.uk
April 4, 2025 at 12:13 PM
EPS Meeting: University of Dundee. 8th – 11th July 2025.
A joint meeting with the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Science (CSBBCS).
Submission portals for this meeting will open at 10am (UK Time) on April 7th 2025 for a minimum of 24 hours.
eps.ac.uk/next-meeting/
A joint meeting with the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Science (CSBBCS).
Submission portals for this meeting will open at 10am (UK Time) on April 7th 2025 for a minimum of 24 hours.
eps.ac.uk/next-meeting/