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dankleinman.bsky.social
Research scientist at Yale Child Study Center (formerly Haskins Labs). PhD. Interested in language, dyslexia, bilingualism, EEG, stats. Proponent of summary limericks. I probably drink more tea than you. Posts are ~50% science; opinions are 100% my own.
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BREAKING: A federal judge in Massachusetts (the Reagan-appointed William Young) has declared the Trump administration's cuts to NIH grants — ostensibly over Trump's EOs on gender ideology and DEI — are "illegal" and "void." He's ordering many grants restored.

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Check out our preprint (linked again here: osf.io/preprints/ps...) where we measured neural sensitivity to changes in semantic space while listening to a podcast. Not only do we look at word-to-word but larger chunks too (2-gram, 5-gram, 10-gram) to examine meaning construction at multiple levels.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

This sounds like a dystopian version of the classic Loftus & Palmer experiment: “How fast was Sen. Padilla moving when he {ran at, lunged at, bum-rushed, posed a question to} Secretary Noem?”

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Very last minute - but check out this workshop happening this Thursday and Friday on how we might build theories that account for variability and universality in human minds and brains. Remote attendence is an option! cps-vo.org/group/cise-s...

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

the nytimes doesn't get LA and never will

submitted 9 days ago • 16 comments

It's one thing to look at my calendar and realize it's relatively meeting-free. It's another thing to discover that the microphone I use for Zoom meetings at home is the centerpiece of an elaborate cobweb built by an enterprising spider.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

“Data Thug” James Heathers and the center behind Retraction Watch have launched a project to root out fraudulent medical studies which bias meta-analyses and lead to flawed medical guidance and (thus) deaths. They have the expertise & the funding — can’t wait to see what horrible things they find!

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

A 23-Year-Old Crypto Bro Is Now Vetoing NSF Grants While Staring At His Water Bottle Picture this: You're a researcher who has spent years developing a grant proposal, gone through layers of expert review, and received National Science Foundation (NSF) approval. Then some kid barely out of college…

submitted 15 days ago • 19 comments

The EO has to be interpreted in light of the (decades long) Republican attack on science. This has nothing to do with improving science. They're using legitImate criticism from within science to (ironically) decrease the credibility of science. They then have no obligation to listen to scientists.

submitted 24 days ago • 10 comments

I get a lot of spam from fake journals, but this one — which has a… unique subject line; has no journal title (only an acronym, here redacted); and for which the main argument seems to be that my submission within 24 hours would improve the sender’s (“my”) ranking — managed to set itself apart.

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

New NIH Guide Notice about foreign subawards grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

submitted 47 days ago • 7 comments

🚨 This MUST READ essay and call to action spells out, in very clear terms, how the Trump administration could get away with slashing the NIH budget. NIH scientists and Dems in congress need to read and understand it. This is where we win or lose the battle to save the NIH and US science. 🧪 🧠 🧬 🔊

submitted 50 days ago • 3 comments

ATTENTION: NSF GRANT RECIPIENTS We received a heads up from a trusted source that you should proactively download/print/screen shot any documentation on research.gov pertaining to your NSF awards, both those that are current and any that have closed in the last 5-6 years. 1/n

submitted 54 days ago • 25 comments

This is far from the worst thing going on in the country right now, but it’s still bad. Historically, nothing good has ever come from a government making a list of Jews. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/n...

submitted 54 days ago • 0 comments

At an elementary school today for work, I overheard a 4th grader say: “Passover only starts at night, so I eat as much bread as I can for lunch!” Confused, I ask: “Didn’t it start Saturday?” “My mom told me that every day, it starts when the sun goes down and stops when it comes up!” 🥺

submitted 64 days ago • 1 comment

Has anyone checked the other site for GOP Passover posts? Because boy was this one a gem.

submitted 66 days ago • 31 comments

I'm teaching an undergrad EEG/MEG/iEEG methods course and created a pair of interactive webpages to help build intuition about the Fourier Transform. dbrang.github.io/Fourier-Wave... dbrang.github.io/Fourier-Wave...

submitted 78 days ago • 3 comments

7yo: I need to make a poster about bees His parents, both scientists: <drops everything> OUR TIME HAS COME

submitted 80 days ago • 11 comments

A great example of poor measurement. As someone else noted, this appears not to be an ordinal spiciness scale, but rather an interval chili scale – which is unheard of, is not well explained, and is not a unit that's useful to diners. On the plus side, I suspect that som tum was *excellent*.

submitted 88 days ago • 1 comment

I've been watching the Duke Farms Eagle Cam recently, which shows a pair of adult eagles alternately taking care of three recently hatched eaglets. Today, I wondered whether I could tell the adult eagles apart. www.dukefarms.org/eagle-cam/

submitted 102 days ago • 1 comment

NEW: The NIH has begun terminating grants for active projects studying gender identity, DEI, environmental justice, climate change, among other topics. At least 16 termination letters have already been sent — and hundreds more are coming, people inside NIH tell me. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

submitted 104 days ago • 37 comments

I am incredibly proud to share my first, first-author paper as a postdoc with @benhayden.bsky.social . How does the human hippocampus, known for encoding concepts, represent the meanings of words while listening to narrative speech? www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

submitted 110 days ago • 12 comments

I wrote this for my US friends and colleagues, but also for all of us. Lessons from the past. open.substack.com/pub/verakemp...

submitted 113 days ago • 2 comments