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Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language (BCBL) @bcbl.bsky.social · 24d

✍️ A new paper led by McMaster University with the collaboration of #BCBL researcher @jimmagnuson.bsky.social has been published in @plos.org #ComputationalBiology.

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Recurrent neural networks as neuro-computational models of human speech recognition

Author summary Human brains deal with a constantly evolving stream of information acquired by the senses. The transitory nature of this input requires strategies for integrating information over time....

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Swathi Kiran@Center for Brain Recovery at BU @swathikiran.bsky.social · Sep 3

Join us Monday, September 15th from 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm ET for a talk by Simona Mancini, Ikerbasque Research Associate Professor / Neurolinguistics and Aphasia group leader at the Basque Center on Cognition Brain and Language.

Register now at https://bit.ly/45LjrF1

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andrea e. martin @andreaeyleen.bsky.social · Sep 3

Interested in doing a PhD with me and lacns.github.io? Or with any of the incredible fellows in the IMPRS School of Cognition www.maxplanckschools.org/cognition-en - apply before Dec 1st at cognition.maxplanckschools.org/en/application

Language and Computation in Neural Systems

We are an international group of scientists consisting of linguists, cognitive scientists, cognitive neuroscientists, computational neuroscientists, computational modellers, computational scientists, ...

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Nicola Molinaro @nicolaml.bsky.social · Aug 19

📢 PhD opening @bcbl_ (San Sebastián, Spain)
Join our ERC project CORTICAL RHYTHMS 🧠 to study how brain rhythms shape second language learning (spoken & signed) with MEG/MRI.
📅 Start Jan 2026 | ⏳ Apply by Sept 15, 2025
👉 tinyurl.com/bdwkumn3

PhD CANDIDATE POSITION – ERC ADVANCED GRANT PROJECT - CORTICAL RHYTHMS (Second Language Learning)

at the BCBL- Basque Center on Cognition Brain and Language (San Sebastián, Basque Country, Spain) www.bcbl.eu

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Michael Patrick Lynch @michael-p-lynch.bsky.social · Aug 3

Great piece on the administration's attack on our epistemic infrastructure--and shout-out to my work-- by @peterbakernyt.bsky.social in today's paper.

Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · Aug 3

Trump's war on facts has reached a new level and the message is clear: Government officials who deal in data now fear they have to toe the line and adopt his version of reality no matter how false or risk losing their jobs. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/u...

Trump’s Efforts to Control Information Echo an Authoritarian Playbook

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Emily Myers @emilymyers.bsky.social · Aug 3

Michael's points out that so many of this administration's attacks are on "epistemic infrastructure" (museums, libraries, universities, agencies that collect data).

Michael Patrick Lynch @michael-p-lynch.bsky.social · Aug 3

Great piece on the administration's attack on our epistemic infrastructure--and shout-out to my work-- by @peterbakernyt.bsky.social in today's paper.

Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · Aug 3

Trump's war on facts has reached a new level and the message is clear: Government officials who deal in data now fear they have to toe the line and adopt his version of reality no matter how false or risk losing their jobs. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/u...

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jim magnuson @jimmagnuson.bsky.social · Jul 31

My contribution to the @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social effort to communicate the value of federal science funding:

www.hometownsource.com/county_news_...

Farm to faculty: How federal research funding changes lives and boosts Minnesota's economy

When I was growing up on a farm near Cambridge, I never met a scientist. I didn’t know what scientific research was or how people became scientists. I graduated from

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BogaertsLab @bogaertslab.bsky.social · Jul 19

Do we adapt when the structure of our environment changes?

Check out our new preprint: doi.org/10.31234/osf...

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Jenny Saffran @jennysaffran.bsky.social · Jul 18

Really looking forward to this!

BogaertsLab @bogaertslab.bsky.social · Jul 18

📣🗓️ The 6th Interdisciplinary Advances in Statistical Learning Conference #IASL26 will be held June 10-12 in San Sebastián.

Our keynotes:
@jennysaffran.bsky.social with 30 years of SL work since 1996.
@noranewcombe.bsky.social on learning and spatial cognition.
@pyoudeyer.bsky.social on curiosity.

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Nicola Molinaro @nicolaml.bsky.social · Jul 17

Neural tracking: evoked or oscillatory? 🎧🧠 The #TrackingUmbrella paper argues it’s not either/or — both perspectives reveal how our brains align with speech, music, and more. Method matters. Let’s rethink how we measure and interpret tracking! tinyurl.com/ywbe7rrz

(PDF) The Tracking Umbrella: Diverse Interpretations Under a Common Neural Term

PDF | Neural tracking, the alignment of brain activity with the temporal dynamics of sensory input, is a crucial mechanism underlying perception,... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ...

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jim magnuson @jimmagnuson.bsky.social · Jul 16

Have others experienced major problems with collecting data via Prolific (@joinprolific.bsky.social)? For a lexical decision study we ran 3 years ago, we excluded less than 2% of participants for clear non-compliance/random responding. Now it's closer to 25% for the exact same study.

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Marc Joanisse @drmarcj.bsky.social · Jul 8

My university has announced a special international graduate fellowship for PhD students whose acceptance at a US university has been rescinded. Check it out: grad.uwo.ca/finances/wes...

US-CAN Doctoral Excellence Award

Western University, in vibrant London, Ontario, delivers an academic and student experience second to none.

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jim magnuson @jimmagnuson.bsky.social · Jul 7

Imagine if you and your children fled from immediately life-threatening conditions (or simply poverty!) to the USA, only to be thrown into a camp — or onto a plane to South Sudan. We need to wake up and speak up. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Trump’s ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ tour was a calculated celebration of the dystopian

The detention center visit seemed to represent a landmark in a defining issue since even before his first term: migration

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jim magnuson @jimmagnuson.bsky.social · Jul 7

Do we understand that we actually have concentration camps in the USA now? The cruel, casual dehumanization of our neighbors is happening, now, with ‘jokes’ about alligators killing prisoners at Alligator Alcatraz.

Trump’s ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ tour was a calculated celebration of the dystopian

The detention center visit seemed to represent a landmark in a defining issue since even before his first term: migration

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jim magnuson @jimmagnuson.bsky.social · May 11

You are a busy beaver

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Jamie Reilly 🦜 @reilly-coglab.com · May 11

The MIT stopword list has MANY open class words in it. That's a no no. Here's a new stopword list tagged with part-of-speech that includes idioms and other collocatives. reilly-lab.github.io/Jamie_Stopwo...

Procedures for Generating Temple_Stopwords25 Stopword List

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Ian L Morgan @ianlmorgan.bsky.social · May 10

Join @nihfellowsunited.bsky.social in calling your legislator on 5/13 to tell them to sign onto letters opposing cuts to the NIH, cosponsored by Senators @warren.senate.gov, @padilla.senate.gov, and Tillis, as well as Representatives @ocasio-cortez.house.gov and @carson.house.gov.

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Simon Fischer-Baum @cogsimon.bsky.social · May 11

You can comment on this proposed policy change by May 23rd.

The proposed policy defines science agency grant making program officers, among other positions, as “policy-making” and removes civil service protections.

www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

Improving Performance, Accountability and Responsiveness in the Civil Service

The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is proposing a rule to increase career employee accountability. Agency supervisors report great difficulty removing employees for poor performance or misconduc...

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.bsky.social · May 10

HAPPY 75th, NSF!

We’re celebrating this milestone by highlighting some of NSF’s most transformative accomplishments—innovations that have shaped our world and continue to drive progress in health, technology, the environment, and beyond.

Read on 🧵(1/11):

A chocolate cake with red and white decorations and lit candles shaped as the number 75. Bold text reads: ‘The NSF Turns 75 Today. What has it done over the past 7 decades?’ The background is a celebratory red with a spray-paint texture.

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Joao Barbosa @jbarbosa.org · May 10

Please RT🙏

Reach out if you want to help understand cognition by modelling, analyzing and/or collect large scale intracortical data from 👩🐒🐁

We're a friendly, diverse group (n>25) w/ this terrace 😎 in the center of Paris! See👇 for + info about the lab

We have funding to support your application!

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Maryellen MacDonald @maryellenmacdonald.bsky.social · May 9

My book reveals the mostly hidden effects of talking *on talkers.* Talking boosts focus & learning, regulates emotions, changes perception, & more. The reason lies in how utterance planning for talking works. It's a book for gen'l audiences, but w scientific claims for production & its consequences

More Than Words by Maryellen MacDonald, PhD: 9780593545270 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

"This beautifully written book by Maryellen MacDonald demonstrates how 'word-work' shapes both our experience of the world and the very brain that produced our capacity to articulate and generate our ...

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Jenny Saffran @jennysaffran.bsky.social · May 3

Fun new study by Ellie Breitfeld!

Cognition @cognitionjournal.bsky.social · May 3

How do children figure out what new words mean? This study shows that preschoolers use the locations in which they encounter new labels/objects (e.g. in the kitchen or outside) to infer information about them (e.g., if they can be eaten vs. thrown).

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jim magnuson @jimmagnuson.bsky.social · Apr 26

Russell, come visit so you can shop in Coventry for your dream Japanese work van

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Athanassios Protopapas @protopap.bsky.social · Apr 23

Skilled readers use information from upcoming words to boost efficiency, but at what cost? We discovered that nearby words interfere with lexical activation of the fixated word, calling for a more nuanced approach to the role of preview in fluent reading. dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jm...

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Jamie Reilly 🦜 @reilly-coglab.com · Apr 19

New R package almost birthed - SemanticDistance - computes two semantic distance metrics (experiential and embedding) for any rolling chunk size (ngram-to-ngram, word-to-word, turn-to-turn, ngram-to-word). You give it your language sample. It does the rest, including lemmatize and stopword omit

screenshot of semantic distance R package information

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