I've thought for some time that analyzing Wordle play is an interesting challenge for cognitive science. This article starts to scratch the surface.
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/u...
✨ Some personal news: I’m happy to share that I’ll be joining the University of Denver as an Assistant Professor of Psychology ✨
I heard yesterday there are now over 12k comments. Great, but not enough! Comment, if you haven’t already.
Cytogeneticist Dr. Barbara McClintock won the 1983 #Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for her study of corn chromosomes--revolutionizing the field of cytogenetics.
She is the only woman to be awarded an unshared Nobel Prize in this category. She was born #OTD in 1902. #WomenInSTEM
We are looking to fill a PhD position for an exciting project on the development of memory consolidation karriere.charite.de/tarifvertraege. This project is part of the DFG-funded CRC www.sfb1315.de/de/sfb1315-2/ and is a collaboration between my lab, Claudia Buss, and @yeeleeshing.bsky.social.
Join me for a live Ask Me Anything TODAY (June 16 at 5pm ET) about the science of learning, including my colleagues Dr. @veronicayan.bsky.social, Dr. Janell Blunt, and Dr. Michelle Rivers. PLUS, we'll be making an exciting announcement about our book! #EduSky #LTHE berklee.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Terrific work dissecting the neurobiological basis of the multiple ‘sensitive’ periods underlying language development across childhood, by @mellwoodlowe.bsky.social @apmackey.bsky.social @ted-satterthwaite.bsky.social & colleagues 🧪🧠🗣️
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
magazine.hms.harvard.edu/articles/wha...
Interview with Emery Brown -- fascinating, slightly scary
Another fun paper! We asked what words people find easiest to predict in a sentence, which is a good way to study how we represent lexical concepts. Found that people rely on more than just predictive statistics - it's more about which words are central in our semantic association networks.
📄 New paper out in Collabra: Psychology. This work (with @perfors.net) shows how subtle differences in language use between humans & LLMs can be captured by measures of vocabulary centrality.
🔗 doi.org/10.1525/coll...
@ucpress.bsky.social
David Blanchflower BSc
Andrew Wang
The question of which words are the most central or important to a language has been explored in various ways. In this study, we propose definitions of core vocabulary that are based on how language i...
The OMB has proposed rules that would, among other things, have political appointees override peer review and allow sudden grant termination.
This morning I wrote a comment on this proposal in my own words. It only took a few minutes.
You can do the same:
www.regulations.gov/document/OMB...
