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Fernanda Ferreira @fernandaedi.bsky.social · 1d

So glad we’re once again living in a meritocracy.

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 1d

Bari Weiss introduced herself to CBS News staff today on the network's 9AM call, saying she wants to "win," which requires restoring trust to CBS. She also said she was excited for staff to get to know the Free Press, and ended her remarks by saying: "Let's do the fucking news."

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Fernanda Ferreira @fernandaedi.bsky.social · 5d

I always tell this story when I hear debates about sharing. My PhD student was about to submit a paper and so got ready to upload code and data. She decided to run the code again to make sure everything was fit for others to see/use, and she found an error! Sharing encourages carefulness.

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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 6d

You might think that the mayor of Yellowknife, the capital of Canada's vast Northwest Territories, would be a fan of giant pickups.

Nope. He's disgusted by car bloat.

www.linkedin.com/posts/benjam...

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Fernanda Ferreira @fernandaedi.bsky.social · 5d

We’re a shoeless household, but I get that there are cultural differences and floors can be washed. But chairs are meant to be sat in, and no one’s wiping them down between users!

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Fernanda Ferreira @fernandaedi.bsky.social · 5d

A minor thing compared to what we’re currently dealing with, but I will never understand people who put their feet up on chairs in public places. Don’t they know where their shoes have been?

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Fernanda Ferreira @fernandaedi.bsky.social · 7d

Posting on behalf of Tamar Gollan, who is not on Bluesky:

A postdoc position is open and available immediately in Dr. Tamar Gollan’s Laboratory of Aging Bilingualism at the University of California, San Diego, funded by NIH & NSF. See link for details!

psychiatry.ucsd.edu/about/LAB_Go...

psychiatry.ucsd.edu

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Fernanda Ferreira @fernandaedi.bsky.social · 8d

Think you prefer videos to articles? Wait until you're assigned to do some workplace training course.

Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 9d

The real generational divide is people who refuse to watch a video if it could be an article versus people who refuse to read an article if it could be a video

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Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 12d

This may be the most important paper ever published about NIH funded research.

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

What if NIH had been 40% smaller?

Replaying history with less NIH funding shows widespread impacts on drug-linked research

www.science.org

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Maryellen MacDonald @maryellenmacdonald.bsky.social · 14d

So fun to talk about talking with @kleonard.bsky.social of Chicago's The Second City Improv on the "Getting to Yes, And" Podcast. A wonderful discussion about the value of talking, listening, comedy, improvisation! On the podcast apps or here on YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=MElx...

Master The Art Of Talking With Anyone Easily

YouTube video by Yes, And The Second City

www.youtube.com

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Fernanda Ferreira @fernandaedi.bsky.social · 14d

My insurance policy arrived today

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Fernanda Ferreira @fernandaedi.bsky.social · 15d

New paper: We argue that linearization in language production is a foraging process, with speakers navigating semantic and spatial clusters. Lead author: Karina Tachihara, former UC Davis postdoc, now faculty at UIUC!

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Planning to be incremental: Scene descriptions reveal meaningful clustering in language production

How do speakers plan complex descriptions and then execute those plans? In this work, we attempt to answer this question by asking subjects to describ…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Fernanda Ferreira @fernandaedi.bsky.social · 29d

UCDavis Psych is hiring an Assistant Professor in Human Cognition or Cognitive Neuroscience 🧠✨

Come join a vibrant, collaborative dept and live in a fun college town near Sacramento, San Francisco, Napa, and Lake Tahoe. Applications due Oct.21.

Please share widely!

recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07300

Assistant Professor of Psychology - Human Cognition or Cognitive Neuroscience

University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!

recruit.ucdavis.edu

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Fernanda Ferreira @fernandaedi.bsky.social · 21d

The street I live on is narrow and curved. When I drive (which isn't often, since I normally bike), childless me drives super slowly in case the neighborhood kids are playing in the street. The kids' parents zoom into their driveways at top speed. I truly don't get it.

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Fernanda Ferreira @fernandaedi.bsky.social · 22d

The final scene from The Way We Were is burned in my brain, probably because I‘ve watched the movie so many times. I love how this scene captures the way they clearly longed for each other while also recognizing their fundamental incompatibility. RIP, Robert Redford.

Robert Redford is on the left, Barbra Streisand is on the right. Her hand is gently touching the back of his neck and he’s holding her arm. They’re looking at each other longingly.

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Glossa Psycholinguistics @glossapsycholx.bsky.social · 26d

And next is 'Projection inferences: On the relation between prior beliefs, at-issueness, and lexical meaning' by Degen and Tonhauser! Read it here:

escholarship.org/uc/item/7hb2...

Projection inferences: On the relation between prior beliefs, at-issueness, and lexical meaning

Author(s): Degen, Judith; Tonhauser, Judith | Abstract: Interpreters frequently draw projection inferences, that is, inferences that the speaker believes utterance content contributed in the scope of ...

escholarship.org

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Glossa Psycholinguistics @glossapsycholx.bsky.social · 26d

First up is 'Online processing of subject-initial non-canonical sentences: Interaction of syntax with information structure' by Asami and Tomioka! Read it here:

escholarship.org/uc/item/43w8...

Online processing of subject-initial non-canonical sentences: Interaction of syntax with information structure

Author(s): Asami, Daiki; Tomioka, Satoshi | Abstract: Many languages allow flexible word orders, and how humans parse and comprehend them has been one of the central questions in psycholinguistics. Mo...

escholarship.org

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Glossa Psycholinguistics @glossapsycholx.bsky.social · 26d

We're delighted to announce that we have published two more articles in Glossa Psycholinguistics!

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Fernanda Ferreira @fernandaedi.bsky.social · 26d

Almost no side effects here too except for major underarm swelling on the jabbed side

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Sexy CHOAM Nomsky costume @samthielman.com · 28d

Texas A&M has 79,000 students across all its programs, as a matter of interest. That’s more than every Ivy League undergrad college combined.

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Fernanda Ferreira @fernandaedi.bsky.social · 29d

UCDavis Psych is hiring an Assistant Professor in Human Cognition or Cognitive Neuroscience 🧠✨

Come join a vibrant, collaborative dept and live in a fun college town near Sacramento, San Francisco, Napa, and Lake Tahoe. Applications due Oct.21.

Please share widely!

recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07300

Assistant Professor of Psychology - Human Cognition or Cognitive Neuroscience

University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!

recruit.ucdavis.edu

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Fernanda Ferreira @fernandaedi.bsky.social · Sep 7

Same at our journal, Glossa Psycholinguistics! Submissions are up but the articles are genuine.

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Fernanda Ferreira @fernandaedi.bsky.social · Sep 7

This is a great thread, very informative. The solution, I think, is scholar-run journals like our Glossa Psycholinguistics, as well as Glossa: General and Open Mind. These diamond OA journals are flourishing, in part because they have tons of buy-in from the relevant communities.

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Fernanda Ferreira @fernandaedi.bsky.social · Sep 7

I used the CVS in Davis on W. Covell. I booked online and there were lots of appointments to choose from!

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Fernanda Ferreira @fernandaedi.bsky.social · Sep 7

My regular UC Davis Health clinic doesn't yet have the covid vaccine either 😞, so thank goodness for CVS! And the vaccine area was super busy; the staff said they've been administering vaccines non-stop since they became available (yay!)

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Fernanda Ferreira @fernandaedi.bsky.social · Sep 6

A happy update: just got back from my Covid vaccine appt at my local CVS. No questions, no requests for proof or verification, and no charge!

Fernanda Ferreira @fernandaedi.bsky.social · Sep 2

Has anyone <65 received the new Covid-19 vaccine at a CVS based on the other allowable conditions? I'm in CA and scheduled mine based on having been a smoker (decades ago--shhh), but I'm wondering about the verification procedure. I want to be vaxxed before lecturing to 300+ in a closed room.

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