Mike Frank

mcxfrank.bsky.social

16 October 2026 20:07

Wordbank, my lab's open database of children's vocabulary development, has a new home. There's a new website, a new data release, and wordbankr is back on CRAN. A few details 🧵 wordbank.stanford.edu/

Francesco Poli

francescopoli.bsky.social

15 October 2026 07:16

So excited to share that I will be starting my research group at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology! 🥳 My lab will study curiosity and exploration across biological (and artificial) minds. I will recruit a PhD, a postdoc and an RA in the coming months, so please spread the word!

Penny Pexman

pennypexman.bsky.social

05 October 2026 02:40

New paper out today @jamapediatrics.com with a stellar team: we tracked parent technoference and found relationships with infant vocabulary development: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

James Poniewozik

poniewozik.bsky.social

03 October 2026 02:09

I wrote about how FNL was a heartbreaker when it premiered 20 years ago, and it's a heartbreaker to watch today [giftie] www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/a...

Simon Fisher

profsimonfisher.bsky.social

25 September 2026 00:56

To make sense of speech, listeners must segment sound streams into pieces. Across languages, people do so based more on consonants than vowels. A new @science.org study investigates the phenomenon via EEG recording in humans & dogs, finding that dogs also show consonant bias in word segmentation.🗣️🐶🧪