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Know someone who is a fantastic mentor to 🇨🇦 women in cognitive science? Nominate them for the @wicscanada.bsky.social 2025 Mentorship Award: wicsc.ca/wp-content/u...

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Are you a 🇨🇦 ECR (graduate student, postdoc) in Cognitive Science looking for a small grant to support a new collaborative research project? Apply for the @wicscanada.bsky.social Small Grant for Jr Scientists: wicsc.ca/wp-content/u...

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More good news for #postdoctoral researchers @westernu.bsky.social: The Western Research Scholar Awards provide $30,000 over 2 years to postdocs who have secured an externally funded fellowship (e.g., a fellowship from NSERC, SSHRC, CIHR) to work with a Western researcher. uwo.ca/research/fun...

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Delighted to announce that the Western University Postdoctoral Fellowships Program is open for 2025 applications. The 2-year Fellowships now include annual stipends of $70,000 plus benefits, plus a $5,000 research allowance. We expect to make up to 19 awards. Details: uwo.ca/research/fun...

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🚨 NEW PAPER 🚨 We show that concrete (e.g., FLAG) and abstract (e.g., DEMOCRACY) concepts differ not just in the info they contain (e.g., sensorimotor, affective, social, linguistic) but in how these conceptual dimensions interrelate. 🔗 Link: rdcu.be/eb53b

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Gains made, but still underrepresented: Women in Canadian universities from 1970 to 2022 universityaffairs.ca/features/wom...

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For kids, irony is hard. But training helps. @holkoniemi.bsky.social lead this work and showed that a quick classroom session can be effective. #OA here: doi.org/10.1017/S030...

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An absolutely scorching OpEd by Harold Varmus, Nobel laureate, on Trump's destruction of the vaunted US scientific & biomedical enterprise & on Trump's kooky picks to lead the US health & science agencies Gift link to share far & wide www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/o...

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Today we celebrate the 10th anniversary of @unesco.org's International Day of Women and Girls in Science, and I wanted to share some important facts about how far we've come and how far we need to go. 🧵(1/7) #WomenInScience

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Are you a 2024 or 2025 CSBBCS member? If so, check your member-affiliated inbox for a ballot to renew WiCSC+ for another 5 years. See our activities at wicsc.ca; follow us at @wicscanada.bsky.social, & check out our European colleagues at @wicseurope.bsky.social.. #cognition

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In the face of #AI, "Scientists need to become high-level drivers of connection, collaboration and strategy" -- Op-Ed from my @westernu.bsky.social colleague Mark Daley and #NSERC Pres. Alejandro Adem in today's @thestar.com www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

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So I just read this yesterday. Wonderful study that robustly explores the relationship between what language kids hear and what they learn. My take homes 1/

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Today is @unesconow.bsky.social International Day of Education, which celebrates the role of education for peace and development and reminds us that Education is a human right, a public good and a public responsibility. #EducationDay 🧵 (1/6)

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We “grasp” word meanings: Evidence that individual differences in motor imagery are related to judgments of word meaning, in this new paper lead by Emiko Muraki:

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Looking forward to being part of this...

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🚨 Preprint Friday! 🚨Pleased to share this novel and exciting work led by Irina Giurgea in collaboration with Penny Pexman. "An unprecedented, large-scale word ratings study of associations with motivation." Mini -🧵 below... Link to Preprint:

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Eleanor Maguire, who died 4 January at age 54, pioneered the famous London taxi-driver study and naturalistic approaches for studying spatial and episodic memory in people. By @callimcflurry.bsky.social www.thetransmitter.org/memory/remem...

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Want to learn more about the new, narrative-style tri-agency CV? Join our webinar on January 21 from 1 – 2 p.m., where we will guide you through the process of writing a compelling narrative CV that highlights your research achievements, skills, and impact: westernuniversity.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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Starting off 2025 with a family spin class. Happy New Year! 🥳🎉🕺

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It's been a great year for research, scholarship and creative activity at Western. We are excited to share our inaugural Western Research Annual Report, which highlights some of the ways our researchers, scholars and artists are having impact on our world: uwo.ca/research/ann...

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2024 has been a remarkable year for research @westernu.bsky.social, and I'm pleased to share those achievements in my first Western Research Annual Report. Proud of our research community, and the momentum we are building: www.uwo.ca/research/ann...

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I made a starter pack of Iconicity Researchers! Please message me if you’d like to be added, or have suggestions for anyone else who should be added! go.bsky.app/C2F5iKC

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Are you a #Canadian #cognitive scientist who is looking for resources to promote #equity in our discipline? Check out the resource page at the Women in Cognitive Science Canada+ website (wicsc.ca/resources/), and follow us here (@wicscanada.bsky.social)

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The Times and Sunday Times science books of the year list is out! @thetimes.com Featuring: @richarddawkins.bsky.social @sophieyeo.bsky.social Lisa Kaltenagger @charan-neuro.bsky.social Rahul Jandial Matt Parker Venki Ramakrishnan Rob Jackson www.thetimes.com/culture/book...

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Want to review for #CogSci2025? Click this thing. @cogscisociety.bsky.social docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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New preprint with @holkoniemi.bsky.social, on why verbal irony is challenging for children, and what we can learn from the fact that training helps:

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#PSDiversityandInclusion: Repairing the ruptured pipeline—a case study from Canada by Penny Pexman and Debra Titone: https://featuredcontent.psychonomic.org/psdiversityandinclusion-repairing-the-ruptured-pipeline-the-case-of-canada/

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Who is happiest person you know? 😀The Globe is looking for Canadians to nominate their happiest person for a special project. Click this link to make the nomination – and make that person even happier for being recognized! www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... via @theglobeandmail.com

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Narrative CVs are coming to 🇨🇦 Tricouncil funding programs. New resources from our @westernuniversity.bsky.social Research team: uwo.ca/research/ser...

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Looking forward to this, and to catching up with Carleton colleagues like @davidmsidhu.bsky.social 🤩

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I had an amazing time at #Psynom24 in New York City 🏙️, where I presented work @pennypexman.bsky.social @rjbinney.bsky.social Emiko Muraki and I have conducted on the contributions of social experience to concept knowledge 🗣️ See our latest paper here: doi.org/10.1016/j.co...

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From NY...Saturday night at #psynom24, @westernuniversity.bsky.social's Hannah Corenblum is presenting her poster on the "cognition effect" -- a processing advantage for concepts (especially abstract concepts) that are associated with mental states: #PsychSciSky

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Really looking forward to our #Psynom24 Super-Semantic Symposium Saturday Nov 23 - featuring Brendan Johns, @asifamajid.bsky.social @laurelbuxbaum.bsky.social, Gabriella Vigliocco, @veronicadiveica.bsky.social, and Leo Fernandino. See you in NY! @psychonomicsociety.bsky.social

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Semantics on Saturday! Kicking off the morning session on Nov 23 @psychonomicsociety.bsky.social in NYC, 🌟Emiko Muraki🌟 will be talking Aphantasia, Imagery, and Sensorimotor Simulation. See you there! #psynom2024

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If you are at Psychonomics, come by OPAM tomorrow (Thursday) to see Emma Siritzky's awesome talk at 9:40am! it is titled: "Incidental learning of task-relevant and task-irrelevant information in visual search reveals nuanced effects of decay and associative processing" www.opam.net #psynom24

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We wrote a short piece about what we’ve learned from the Calgary Semantic Decision Project since we shared it in 2017. With 🌟Emiko Muraki🌟

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I’m looking forward to seeing all these great people at #Psynom24 and happy that hashtags are alive and well on @bsky.app

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