#OTD 119 years ago, Frieda Goldman-Eisler (1907–1982) was born 🎂 A pioneering researcher in psycholinguistics, she focused in particular on the study of pauses in speech. In 1970, she became the first professor of psycholinguistics in the UK.
#WomenInLinguistics #Histlx #LinguisticBirthdays
New ManyBabies publication!
Over 10+ years and 5,000+ babies tested, we've learned a ton about how to study the developing mind. In this comment, we discuss three such lessons that are shaping the future of ManyBabies. We'd love to hear your thoughts!
I dare you to write a paper with over 100 coauthors and have some citation software mess it all up.
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It sounds like scientists are assembling an army of cuteness.
A decade of ManyBabies research, testing thousands of babies across hundreds of labs, has shown that some, but not all findings in infant research replicate well. Collectively, these projects have sho...
this is a very diplomatic summary:
my recollection is that Musk talked smack on the UN and other orgs and bragged that he could solve world hunger with just a fraction of his cash
so they called his bluff and he refused
Labs are teaming up to run a host of huge projects that aim to bring rigour to cognitive science.
Bots are scraping open data — with risks for identification of participants, p-hacking by bots and more. Is transparency worth these risks? www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Mike Frank
Exactly this:
“If medicine is to confront medical misogyny seriously, it must do more than improve bedside manner. It must reckon with the histories through which women were made into unreliable witnesses of their own experience.”
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"While corporations urge us to embrace their supposedly inevitable tech-driven future, academics must take a principled stand and defend universities by barring toxic, addictive techn from classrooms."
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Tide is def shifting: bsky.app/profile/oliv...
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Cowardly **** has turned off QTs. So, yes, I've just finished a 120,000-word research monograph, and I typed every single one of the footnotes myself.
The history of gynaecology fuses innovation, authority and violation – and radical surgery is not the unavoidable answer to suffering
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The snowballing ability of artificial intelligence to trawl open data sets has some scientists worried about losing control of their information.
Nature reports on how labs are teaming up to run a host of huge projects that aim to bring rigour to cognitive science. #cogpsyc 🧪
“I already ban the use of generative AI in my own courses, and as a promoter of master’s theses. I explicitly tell my students they won’t learn anything by using it. [...] A general ban is necessary, but nobody dares to say so.”
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Labs are teaming up to run a host of huge projects that aim to bring rigour to cognitive science.
On the day before Elon Musk becomes the world's first trillionaire, all I can think about is that time in 2021 when the head of the UN World Food Program asked Musk to donate $6 billion to save 42 million people from starvation and he refused.