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Illustration of how multi-modality supports honesty

We argue that multimodal communication plays a key role in maintaining signal honesty across all communication systems, acting as an alternative to intrinsic costs, which have been critiqued as being insufficient to explain “cheap” signals (like human language) 2/2

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Our #IASL26 conference on statistical learning aims to bring together scientists from different disciplines who study how humans👨‍👧🧑‍🦳, as well as other species 🐒🦜 and systems 🤖🔠, learn regularities.

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Dyslexia shows atypical phonological processing and speech tracking, yet comprehension is preserved. We argue this reflects adaptive compensation, via hemispheric rebalancing and greater reliance on lexico-semantic processing.

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How sleep redraws phonemic categories after auditory selective adaptation - Psychonomic Bulletin & Review After information has either been perceived or brought into working memory from long-term memory, it may remain active for hours or days. There is extensive evidence that sleep can consolidate newly l...

✍️ #BCBLpaper in #PsychonomicBulletin&Review | How sleep redraws phonemic categories after auditory selective adaptation.

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It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans.

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This is so true, and it highlights how annoying it is that outlets like the New York Times and The Atlantic obsessively fixate on the Ivies. Most U.S. students attend public universities, and those institutions change lives at a scale the Ivies can’t touch.

U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”

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Manuel Carreiras, Director científico del BCBL: «La dislexia se diagnostica muy tarde, cuando el niño ya ha sufrido un montón» | El Diario Vasco «Queremos diagnosticar este trastorno antes de que aparezca», explica este experto, que ha recibido el Premio Nacional de Dislexia

🗣️ “Queremos diagnosticar la dislexia antes de que aparezca”.

Manuel Carreiras, director científico de #BCBL, repasa en @diariovascobsky.bsky.social su trayectoria investigadora vinculada a este trastorno tras recibir el Premio Nacional de Dislexia en 2025.

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Manuel Carreiras, Director científico del BCBL: «La dislexia se diagnostica muy tarde, cuando el niño ya ha sufrido un montón» | El Diario Vasco «Queremos diagnosticar este trastorno antes de que aparezca», explica este experto, que ha recibido el Premio Nacional de Dislexia

🗣️ “Dislexia agertu aurretik diagnostikatu nahi dugu”.

Manuel Carreirasek, #BCBL|ko zuzendari zientifikoak, nahasmendu honekin lotuta egin duen ikerketa-ibilbidea errepasatu du @diariovascobsky.bsky.socialen, 2025eko Dislexia Sari Nazionala jaso ondoren.

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Opportunity for early career researchers to spend 3 years working with us in Oxford. Cool surroundings, interesting people. Eligibility: need some UK academic connection. Get in touch if interested! Details: www.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/news/2025/11...

Recurrent neural networks as neuro-computational models of human speech recognition Author summary Human brains deal with a constantly evolving stream of information acquired by the senses. The transitory nature of this input requires strategies for integrating information over time....

✍️ A new paper led by McMaster University with the collaboration of #BCBL researcher @jimmagnuson.bsky.social has been published in @plos.org #ComputationalBiology.

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Join us Monday, September 15th from 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm ET for a talk by Simona Mancini, Ikerbasque Research Associate Professor / Neurolinguistics and Aphasia group leader at the Basque Center on Cognition Brain and Language.

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Interested in doing a PhD with me and lacns.github.io? Or with any of the incredible fellows in the IMPRS School of Cognition www.maxplanckschools.org/cognition-en - apply before Dec 1st at cognition.maxplanckschools.org/en/application

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Join our ERC project CORTICAL RHYTHMS 🧠 to study how brain rhythms shape second language learning (spoken & signed) with MEG/MRI.
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Great piece on the administration's attack on our epistemic infrastructure--and shout-out to my work-- by @peterbakernyt.bsky.social in today's paper.

Michael's points out that so many of this administration's attacks are on "epistemic infrastructure" (museums, libraries, universities, agencies that collect data).

Farm to faculty: How federal research funding changes lives and boosts Minnesota's economy When I was growing up on a farm near Cambridge, I never met a scientist. I didn’t know what scientific research was or how people became scientists. I graduated from

My contribution to the @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social effort to communicate the value of federal science funding:

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Do we adapt when the structure of our environment changes?

Check out our new preprint: doi.org/10.31234/osf...

Really looking forward to this!

(PDF) The Tracking Umbrella: Diverse Interpretations Under a Common Neural Term PDF | Neural tracking, the alignment of brain activity with the temporal dynamics of sensory input, is a crucial mechanism underlying perception,... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ...

Neural tracking: evoked or oscillatory? 🎧🧠 The #TrackingUmbrella paper argues it’s not either/or — both perspectives reveal how our brains align with speech, music, and more. Method matters. Let’s rethink how we measure and interpret tracking! tinyurl.com/ywbe7rrz

Have others experienced major problems with collecting data via Prolific (@joinprolific.bsky.social)? For a lexical decision study we ran 3 years ago, we excluded less than 2% of participants for clear non-compliance/random responding. Now it's closer to 25% for the exact same study.

US-CAN Doctoral Excellence Award Western University, in vibrant London, Ontario, delivers an academic and student experience second to none.

My university has announced a special international graduate fellowship for PhD students whose acceptance at a US university has been rescinded. Check it out: grad.uwo.ca/finances/wes...

Trump’s ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ tour was a calculated celebration of the dystopian The detention center visit seemed to represent a landmark in a defining issue since even before his first term: migration

Imagine if you and your children fled from immediately life-threatening conditions (or simply poverty!) to the USA, only to be thrown into a camp — or onto a plane to South Sudan. We need to wake up and speak up. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Trump’s ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ tour was a calculated celebration of the dystopian The detention center visit seemed to represent a landmark in a defining issue since even before his first term: migration

Do we understand that we actually have concentration camps in the USA now? The cruel, casual dehumanization of our neighbors is happening, now, with ‘jokes’ about alligators killing prisoners at Alligator Alcatraz.

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The MIT stopword list has MANY open class words in it. That's a no no. Here's a new stopword list tagged with part-of-speech that includes idioms and other collocatives. reilly-lab.github.io/Jamie_Stopwo...

Join @nihfellowsunited.bsky.social in calling your legislator on 5/13 to tell them to sign onto letters opposing cuts to the NIH, cosponsored by Senators @warren.senate.gov, @padilla.senate.gov, and Tillis, as well as Representatives @ocasio-cortez.house.gov and @carson.house.gov.

Improving Performance, Accountability and Responsiveness in the Civil Service The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is proposing a rule to increase career employee accountability. Agency supervisors report great difficulty removing employees for poor performance or misconduc...

You can comment on this proposed policy change by May 23rd.

The proposed policy defines science agency grant making program officers, among other positions, as “policy-making” and removes civil service protections.

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HAPPY 75th, NSF!

We’re celebrating this milestone by highlighting some of NSF’s most transformative accomplishments—innovations that have shaped our world and continue to drive progress in health, technology, the environment, and beyond.

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