Marc Joanisse
Cognitive Neuroscience of Reading and Language, U Western Ontario
- Cautionary tale on collecting open science w/human data: ABCD developmental brain dataset was hijacked for race science after investigators failed to safeguard information: 🎁🔗 www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/u...
- You know you've really screwed up your Reactionary Free Speech University™ when Pinker's all, "whoa you guys are nuts"
- this is a rollicking great read it's a story of a bunch of tenured idealists who believed that they were building a university dedicated to free speech and free inquiry, but then lost control of their project to... the right-wing megadonors who funded the university www.politico.com/news/magazin...
- Proposal: two peer reviews of a manuscript is almost always enough. As reviewer: I'm sick of reluctantly agreeing to review a paper only to find out later I'm one of FOUR reviewers. This is a massive waste of resources at a time when it gets harder and harder to get people to agree to review.
- Reposted by Marc JoanisseI don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.
- New paper! In collaboration with a team in Australia, we demonstrate how beta oscillations in left prefrontal EEG reflect statistical learning of speech in children:
- An int'l team including WIN members @drmarcj.bsky.social, @laurabatterink.bsky.social + #OpenScience Research Specialist Christine Moreau published an article in CORTEX that revealed insights into neurological dynamics of how children extract patterns from speech. 🔗https://tinyurl.com/sz4tsefu
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- Reposted by Marc JoanisseInterdisciplinary Advances in Statistical Learning Conference 2026 Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain 10-12 June 2026 Abstract submission deadline: 1 March 2026
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- Local youth ruins evening of California man making 50 times his salary
- This photo of rookie Yesavage casually walking off the mound as future Hall of Famer and helmet-less Ohtani is still in motion striking out is everything. #WantItAll
- I don't understand why Garfield hates Mondays. To the best of my reckoning he has never been held accountable for anything, on any day of the week.
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- Reposted by Marc JoanisseCurious about the human ability to extract regularities from sensory input (i.e., “statistical learning”) and individual differences therein? #CognitiveScience #Learning Our #Consensus paper presents the collective insights of 27 researchers worldwide 🌎 💬 🌍 💬 🌏 💬: 🔗 doi.org/10.31234/osf...
- 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...
- How can you not be romantic about baseball?
