How do children learn the meanings of their first words? One idea is cross-situational learning: tracking which words go with which things across many situations. In a new preprint, we test this idea at scale on video from children's own perspective 🧵 arxiv.org/abs/2610.31842

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🚨Attention ICE: an alleged criminal foreigner has entered the USA using invalid documents. I presume you’ll separate him from his family, brutalize & deport him like you do random Mexican grandmothers and Afghan asylum seekers. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/28/w...

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In case anyone needs an NIH grant score commiseration thread: An R01 I've now submitted 4 times has gone from 14%-->26%-->35%-->Non-competitve ND. Almost impressive when you think about it. 🙃

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implemented the most important part of my game prototype the other day

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1/ Our brains probably don’t store a new copy of “red” when we encounter something red. Yet we can reinstate distinct memories of red objects. How do we reuse what we already know when encoding memories? Excited to share new work led by @haoliu4391.bsky.social, with @marcelomattar.bsky.social 🧠🧵

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