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Sara Nović @novicsara.bsky.social · 1d

As a deaf person with a deaf kid, I'm the first to admit IDEA isn't perfect. I fight people's (often willful) misinterpretations of the Least Restrictive Environment every day. Just gave a lecture at BU about how change is needed. Deleting all legal oversight in the middle of the night isn't it.

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Ekaterina Pronizius @epronizius.bsky.social · 19d

@clauslamm.bsky.social & I contributed to a global study that analyzed 21 million trials across 30 languages, revealing semantic priming [SP] as a robust cognitive mechanism across cultures and writing systems.
Lead by @aggieerin.bsky.social and @slewis5920.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Measuring the semantic priming effect across many languages - Nature Human Behaviour

In this Stage 2 Registered Report, Buchanan et al. show evidence confirming the phenomenon of semantic priming across speakers of 19 diverse languages.

doi.org

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Erin Campbell @erinecampbell.bsky.social · 23d

as in: don't send them research statements / CVs, just start showing up at faculty meetings?

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Ian Hussey @ianhussey.mmmdata.io · 28d

Proposal for how to fix family wise error rates.

For every uncorrected p value you must add an extra letter to the claim.

“Eating chocolate maaaaaaaaay be associated with lower rates of stroke”

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Erin Campbell @erinecampbell.bsky.social · Sep 12

At #SNL2025? Go check out this poster with @zedsehyr.bsky.social

Poster "Does sensory and linguistic experience shape ERP signatures in deaf signers?". Poster displays images of ERP traces and topo plots.
Research goal: Determine whether canonical ERP components are modality-neutral or shaped by language and sensory experience. Participants were 22 deaf ASL signers and 26 hearing English speakers. EEG was recorded while participants completed 6 tasks from the ERPCORE battery.

Deaf signers show larger, more bilateral N170 for object recognition. Deaf signers show typical but more negative N2pc. Deaf signers show typical but smaller P3 with variable timing. Deaf signers show smaller and bilateral LRP. Deaf signers show smaller ERN than hearing. Deaf signers show typical but smaller N400. Sign N400 similar to word N400, marked by later onset.

Overall, canonical ERPs were observed in both groups, with group differences in distribution, timing, and amplitude.

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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · Sep 10

psych departments post a faculty job that has nothing to do with AI challenge

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Peter Cheung @bostonaruban.bsky.social · Sep 10

Bicycles Deliver the Freedom that Auto Ads Promise.

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Thomas Lin Pedersen @thomasp85.com · Sep 11

I am beyond excited to announce that ggplot2 4.0.0 has just landed on CRAN.

It's not every day we have a new major #ggplot2 release but it is a fitting 18 year birthday present for the package.

Get an overview of the release in this blog post and be on the lookout for more in-depth posts #rstats

ggplot2 4.0.0

A new major version of ggplot2 has been released on CRAN. Find out what is new here.

www.tidyverse.org

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Jodi Cohen @jodiscohen.bsky.social · Sep 10

BREAKING: Trump’s Education Dept. cancels grants that help students who are both deaf and blind.

“How low can you go?” said one person who works with DeafBlind students and their families.

W/ @jsmithrichards.bsky.social for @propublica.org

www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Programs for Students With Hearing and Vision Loss Harmed by Trump’s Anti-Diversity Push

Citing concerns about DEI, the U.S. Department of Education has halted funding for programs that support students with combined hearing and vision loss in eight states. “How low can you go?” one advoc...

www.propublica.org

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bergelsonlab @bergelsonlab.bsky.social · Aug 19

lil blogpost ab a cool paper led by the amazing @erinecampbell.bsky.social thnx to NSF. also features a coda ab the very active threat to science funding we’re facing (cc @standupforscience.bsky.social) & a ht to @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social’s good work. thnx @infantstudies.bsky.social!

International Congress of Infant Studies @infantstudies.bsky.social · Aug 19

New on the Baby Blog - From the mouths of babes: Saying the (im)perceptible by Elika Bergelson @bergelsonlab.bsky.social #EarlyYears #DevPsySky #PsychSciSky #science #research #infantstudies infantstudies.org/from-the-mou...

Text: Latest from the Baby Blog - From the mouths of babes: Saying the (im)perceptible by Elika Bergelson against an image background of three infants giggling together on the left corner and a toddler drawing a picture of a globe on the right

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Erin Campbell @erinecampbell.bsky.social · Jul 31

Thanks for putting this together! May I join?

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Andrea Sommese @asommese.bsky.social · Jul 14

Data collection is underway!

We're using mobile eye tracking to study action comprehension in dogs. Django is helping us understand how dogs see and interpret our actions — more coming soon! 🐶👁️ #Science #DogResearch #CognitiveScience

Thanks @asab.org for funding this project!

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Josef Fruehwald @jofrhwld.bsky.social · Jul 14

I was finally able to make these visualizations of what what "light", "dark" and other modifiers do to colors jofrhwld.github.io/blog/posts/2...

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Erin Campbell @erinecampbell.bsky.social · Jul 14

ooooh, can you share the % that end up being real / still-valid addresses?

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Dr. Raven the Science Maven @ravenscimaven.bsky.social · Jul 10

NASA is more than rockets and moonwalks. NASA is behind much of our everyday technology. From space discovery, to Air Jordans, to CAT scans, NASA has played a role. We get it all on less than a penny of every federal dollar. Now their science may be gutted by 50%.
#NASADidThat

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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · Jul 10

At the Science Fair for canceled grants, I had the privilege of speaking with @naomicaselli.bsky.social. Her team (which includes deaf researchers) were making breakthroughs to better identify & address language deprivation — when the Trump administration terminated their grant.

Jenna Norton and Naomi Caselli in front of Naomi’s poster at the science fair for canceled grants.

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Naomi Caselli @naomicaselli.bsky.social · Jul 10

Okay y’all, gather round for a chat. It’s been a roller coaster, and I thought I’d share what we’ve learned. 🧵 (1/16)
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · Jul 8

BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.

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Big Team Science Conference @btscon.bsky.social · Jul 7

Session Submission and registration is now open for BTSCON2025!

bigteamscienceconference.github.io/submissions/

@abrir.bsky.social @psysciacc.bsky.social @manybabies.org

BTSCON 2025 is now seeking submission proposals for their annual conference. All session submissions are due on July 31st. You can submit on the website https://bigteamscienceconference.github.io/submissions/. We are also excited to say that registration is also now live!
BTSCON 2025 is now seeking submission proposals for their annual conference. All session submissions are due on July 31st. You can submit on the website https://bigteamscienceconference.github.io/submissions/. We are also excited to say that registration is also now live!

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Nature @nature.com · Jul 8

Severe blows to the ‘deaf-scientist pipeline’ must not mean abandoning its best practices. Here is how to support current and future students, says Wyatte C. Hall

https://go.nature.com/4eDVjqp

Deaf scientists hit by drastic NIH cuts — the research community must support them

Severe blows to the ‘deaf-scientist pipeline’ must not mean abandoning its best practices. Here is how to support current and future students.

go.nature.com

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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · Jun 23

every year my lab does a re-read + edit of our Handbook, a documentation resource for how we do science

this year we also updated our Public Handbook, an open-access version for folks wanting to improve their own docs

it's at handbook-public.themusiclab.org and available for noncommercial re-use

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Jenni Sander @jennisander.bsky.social · Jun 10

Exciting news - three years after visiting @amymlieberman.bsky.social in Boston for 6 wonderful weeks, our project on joint attention and sign familiarity in ASL has been published!

Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics @mpi-nl.bsky.social · Jun 10

Caregivers use joint attention to support sign language acquisition in deaf children. New paper by @jennisander.bsky.social , @carorowland.bsky.social & Amy M. Lieberman.
doi.org/10.1111/desc.70034

Caregivers Use Joint Attention to Support Sign Language Acquisition in Deaf Children

Children's ability to share attention with another social partner (joint attention) plays an important role in language development. However, our understanding of the role of joint attention comes ma....

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Mike Ginn @shutupmikeginn.bsky.social · Mar 8

its amazing how chatgpt knows everything about subjects I know nothing about, but is wrong like 40% of the time in things im an expert on. not going to think about this any further

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Jonathan Tsay @tsay.bsky.social · May 8

As we age, we move slower and less precisely—but how much, exactly?

We analyzed one of the largest datasets on motor control to date—2,185 adults performing a reaching task.

Findings
• Reaction time: –1.2 ms/year
• Movement time: –2.3 ms/year
• Precision: –0.02°/year

tinyurl.com/f9v66jut

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bergelsonlab @bergelsonlab.bsky.social · May 19

those of us staring down the @bucld.bsky.social #BUCLD50 deadline feel seen.

John Pearson @jmxpearson.bsky.social · May 19

Posted on the bulletin board in the department:

A picture of a bedraggled cat captioned “i fear i have edited my own soul down to 500 words.”

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Meredith Schmehl, PhD @meredithschmehl.com · May 14

I'm happy to share a new paper from my PhD research!

Exciting work about how visual info helps us process sound, and an example of federal funding that benefits all of us - from your health to community health.

doi.org/10.1152/jn.0...

With @jmgrohneuro.bsky.social & Jesse Herche

Thread: 🧵👇

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