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Today we’re announcing the biggest infrastructure project in our nation’s history, high speed rail! Reaching speeds of up to 300 km/h, it will cut travel times in half and connect key cities in the Toronto-Quebec City corridor.

submitted 8 days ago • 6 comments

Crazy graphic, from Angus Reid

submitted 8 days ago • 40 comments

Pretty bad email day over here.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

And when tragedy strikes all we’ll be told is that the plane unexpectedly flewn into the ocean.

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Hello! I'm looking to hire a post-doc, to start this Summer or Fall. It'd be great if you could share this widely with people you think might be interested. More details on the position & how to apply: bit.ly/cocodev_post... Official posting here: academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/14723

submitted 14 days ago • 3 comments

Super Bowl Confetti Made Entirely From Shredded Concussion Studies theonion.com/super-b...

submitted 17 days ago • 46 comments

I don’t think I would ever make fun of Canadians even if I wanted to. I think if you grew up in the 80s or 90s in the US, you’ve always had, at least, the sneaking suspicion that they are MUCH funnier than we are.

submitted 23 days ago • 430 comments

📣 The Cognitive Development Society (CDS) is now on Bluesky! Please follow them @cogdevsoc.bsky.social for news about the 2026 conference in Montreal and more! cogdevsoc.org

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A fascinating 2023/24 study of publishing timelines over 140,000 academics in STEMM showing discipline & country-specific attrition of academic careers from the publication of first paper. The probability of continuing after 19y just 38-43%. Interactive maps at: public.tableau.com/app/profile/... 🧪

submitted 46 days ago • 6 comments

Back after a social media mental health break..I may reconsider..and take another one soon! In the meantime, this is what keeps me going.

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

This is the reason I live where I do..but..sometimes one needs to travel south!

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Many of my friends are heading for "Bluer Skies" from other social media posts. Bravo! Here's my photo for today. Appreciation and gratitude daily!

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⏳ Time is running out! Just ONE WEEK left to submit your nominations for the prestigious Glushko Dissertation Prize! Deadline: January 18 – Don’t miss it!

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Why major in philosophy? - can be smug after only 2-3 classes - only major where you finish knowing less than when you started - generally better beards than psychology - can't find a job, but then again what even is a job?

submitted 48 days ago • 18 comments

New year, new paper! 4- and 5-year-olds can represent abstract relations (i.e., sameness and difference) predicated on an abstract dimension (i.e., kind membership) in a relational match-to-sample task. Moreover, noun label training facilitates task performance. direct.mit.edu/opmi/article...

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You might think that having just one word for "yesterday" and "tomorrow" would make learning harder, but we find the opposite - that children learning the Hindi word "kal" understand its use to refer to past & future events earlier than English-speaking kids understand "yesterday" and "tomorrow".

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Join us as we celebrate Ruth Byrne, Seana Coulson, Adele Goldberg, Arthur Graesser, Ping Li, and Asli Ozyurek – our esteemed ✨Cognitive Science Society Fellows of 2025!✨ Visit cognitivesciencesociety.org/fellows to learn more!

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Out now! @drbarner.bsky.social & I find that Hindi kids learn yesterday & tomorrow earlier than English kids, despite having only word 'kal' to reference both the past and future. We argue that kids rely on tense info (over associations w/ events) to learn. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

submitted 57 days ago • 1 comment

Resignation of the Journal of Human Evolution Editorial Board: We are saddened to announce the resignations of The Joint Editors-in-Chief, all Emeritus Editors retired or active in the field, and all but one Associate Editor. Press release below.

submitted 62 days ago • 60 comments

We’re seeking nominations for up to five outstanding dissertations in cognitive science for the Glushko Dissertation Prize! Each prize will be accompanied by a ✨$10,000 award✨ Self-nominations are welcome! Learn more and nominate at cognitivesciencesociety.org/glushko-diss... 🗓️ Deadline: Jan. 18

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The minute is called that because it's the first minute (small) part of the hour The second-order minute part of the hour is called...the second And before we had milliseconds, there was a period when a second was divided into 60 "thirds" (!!) From the "time" episode of @lingthusiasm.bsky.social:

submitted 67 days ago • 9 comments

Prolific is dead. Long live prolific.

submitted 68 days ago • 0 comments

a short thread of Nicolas Cage resembling various philosophers 1. Spinoza

submitted 70 days ago • 90 comments

I don’t know how many possible dreams there are, but what are the odds that both me and my partner should be woken up on the same morning by dreams of being attacked by cows?

submitted 71 days ago • 1 comment

Bill Labov died this morning. I'm not coherent enough to talk about how important and influential and brilliant he was. I am very sad. I was so lucky to know him, and I am grateful every day that he (and Gillian, and Walt, etc) built an academic field where kindness is expected.

submitted 71 days ago • 24 comments

Now out in J. of Semantics. We show that listeners assume speakers are competent by default, over-computing implicatures when speakers are ignorant if they're placed under cognitive load. academic.oup.com/jos/advance-...

submitted 72 days ago • 0 comments

Non-passionate minds also welcome at this point, mind you. But seriously - reviewing CogSci papers is a great way to quickly learn about a bunch of new work and provide constructive feedback that helps folks refine their work!

submitted 74 days ago • 1 comment

Sounds like a no brainer @jayvanbavel.bsky.social. Here's some fuel to the fire. My colleagues' research on reference letters found that their linguistic content was more closely related to the characteristics of the letter writer than the candidate... www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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