it’s embarassing to tout a podcast about ME, but if anyone is interested in the many twists and turns in my career trajectory, cody kommers is a great interviewer and got me to talk about it here: codykommers.com/post/57-nancy-…

Our new paper (w. Anna Papafragou & John Trueswell) is out 🎉 In this cross-linguistic and developmental study, we show that the salience of thematic roles in language largely reflects conceptual salience of event participants in cognition onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

I'm excited to be on the Roundtable Panel with Satinder Singh (@DeepMind), Melanie Mitchell (Santa Fe Institute), and Jürgen Schmidhuber (@IDSIARobotics) tomorrow at 9:20 am PST / 16:20 GMT for the Never Ending RL workshop ICLR. Whole workshop looks fantastic. sites.google.com/view/neverendi…

Save the date! "Social Meaning and Linguistic Variation" is due to appear in July. It contains a series of articles exploring social meaning across different dimensions of language&culture, and theorizing its relation to linguistic variation more broadly cambridge.org/gb/academic/su…

The UW-Madison Infant Learning Lab is hiring a new full-time lab manager! Please pass this info along to anyone you might know who is looking to get paid to do fun research with wonderful families and students in a beautiful (and highly vaxxed) city. jobs.hr.wisc.edu/en-us/job/5090…

How do languages actually work? Linguist Nicole Holliday (@mixedlinguist) joins us today. We'll talk about the science of language—from the sociolinguistic cues we all rely on…to how much of what we learned in school about “good grammar” is actually wrong.wnpr.org/post/are-you-b…

New preprint by grad student Daoxin Li on distributional learning of recursive structures. psyarxiv.com/xhz4m

Abe says “if you are an early career scientist looking for a place to present your research on Object Perception, Attention, and Memory, then OPAM is honestly for you” #OrangeForOPAM OPAM 2026

Happy pride month, fam 🤘🏳️‍🌈 Whether you’re in or out, still discovering, or just plain confused, I’m cheering for you.

The power of stories: a surprisingly heartening experimental study shows telling stories to kids in the hospital increases oxytocin & positive emotions and decreases stress & pain. It seems the story, not just talking, matters (though that was good too). pnas.org/content/118/22…

We are organizing a Neural Network Models of Cognition affinity group on July 26th as part of the CogSci Society meeting. Please join in if you are interested in neural network models of cognition!! Andrew Lampinen cognitivesciencesociety.org/cogsci-affinit…

Beyond thrilled to share our new publication @gaablab in @fluxDCN on the #brain in infancy in association with later #language outcomes, which reflects years of dedication from team & families of children I first met as infants & re-met as kindergarteners! sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Lookit is looking for a new director! Come work with an amazing user community to shape the future of developmental science. Official posting here: careers.peopleclick.com/careerscp/clie…

Just submitted! First pandemic project by Sori Baek. Meta-analysis on attrition in infant fNIRS. Accurate knowledge of attrition is essential for #openScience biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

In honor of Pride Month, we celebrate these LGBTQIA+ innovators, like kaela, who broke ground and barriers in STEM fields. #PRIDE2021 #Thisisme

Hey, people thinking about applying for the NSF GRFP! Here are some resources! And yes, first year grad student reading this and thinking "oh but that's not me", this means you! Kindly set the imposter syndrome aside for a second and read this thread! ❤️ (1/10)

See y’all Thursday ✨🤗

Planning to submit a Psych/Neuro NSF GRFP application this Fall? We're running a pilot program to provide feedback on fellowship drafts before submission. Students from under-represented groups highly encouraged to apply. Interest form below! Pls RT! gmuchss.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_86…

Just a reminder to send us your application by 1 September!