The agency who generates official diversity statistics for the US scientific workforce was forced to give up its pilot data, which show it's been misrepresenting its data to avoid adding LGBTQ+ questions. National Center for Science & Engineering Stats is obstructing LGBTQ+ equity in science. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Role-filler independence — the capacity to bind arbitrary entities to distinct roles — is a core aspect of linguistic processing. Does it also arise in visual perception? Alon Hafri says 'yes' in his new paper, now in press @ Open Mind 👇

A phone in a basket looks very different from a knife in a cup. Would you ever confuse them? In a new paper @ Open Mind, Chaz Firestone Mick Bonner Barbara Landau and I show that you would — with implications for the relation between language & vision. osf.io/preprints/psya…

going to give this lecture in the fall just to see what happens

How do apes master social complexities? 🐒 ChristopherKrupenye shares fascinating studies unveiling apes cognitive abilities, from enduring memories of social partners to cross-modal representations & even perspectives! #CO3_2024 #ApeCognition #SocialIntelligence Christopher Krupenye

Just went to sign up: turns out it's open to anyone from Oxbridge *OR* the Ivy League.

whoa this kinda worked

every pic on social media rn

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John Morrison And finally megan peters 🧠 on bsky & 🐘neuromatch.social boldly going where no psychophysicist has gone before (and bringing big Johns Hopkins University vibes with Peirce and Jastrow!)