Fernanda Ferreira

draft lab ai policy, feel free to use, modify, or discuss! todd.gureckislab.org/2026/03/06/g...

Markwayne Mullin Reportedly Fingered Nostrils of Colleagues and Their Spouses During Visit to Israel

what fresh hell

Can’t wait to read it!

Publishers Marketplace deal report: WHY WE HEAR WHAT WE HEAR By Samuel Mehr Non-fiction: Science/Technology March 3, 2026 Cognitive scientist and director of the Music Lab Samuel Mehr's WHY WE HEAR WHAT WE HEAR, an exploration of the cognitive and neuroscientific connections between music and human behavior, that demonstrates how musicality is a core component of the human mind, to Evan Hansen-Bundy at Bloomsbury, for publication in 2028, by Eric Simonoff at WME (NA).

uh, here goes nothing

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s Son Emerges as Leading Choice to Be His Successor

It appears we may have replaced Ayatollah Khamenei with Ayatollah Khamenei

I wrote a short article on AI Model Evaluation for the Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science 📕👇

Hope this is helpful for anyone who wants a super broad, beginner-friendly intro to the topic!

Thanks @mcxfrank.bsky.social and @asifamajid.bsky.social for this amazing initiative!

New working paper I’ve got out (w/ Tom Griffiths @cocoscilab.bsky.social )

Still a work in progress, but we’re excited about the idea and are currently working to extend it. Thanks, Gary, for sharing it!

Every anti-vaxxer I encounter seems to love weird unregulated supplements. They hate Big Pharma but they love Little Pharma, Big Pharma’s younger sibling who grew up without any adult supervision.

three black bike racks of the kind that let you attach your top fender

City of Davis and UC Davis mainly use these. They're my favorite

once your email storage is full you should be allowed to graduate from it. no more emails for you. you’ve seen enough emails. you’re free now

Congratulations to the Gold Medal-winning US Olympic hockey team, especially for their good sportsmanship, class and good judgement.

I mean the women’s team, of course.

An email from the Journal of Gastroenterology. Dear Doctor. Ferreira Fernanda, We hope you're doing well! "World Journal of Gastoenterology (ISSN 2766-788X) (IF: 5.598) invites you to submit your papers for upcoming issue. As an esteemed researcher, we invite you to contribute your valuable work to our upcoming publication."

I'm usually not even aware of these messages but today I decided to glance at my junk folder and saw this. I have studied filler-gap processing - maybe they'd like something on movement?

bsky.app/profile/cdel...

A new preprint, co-authored with @johnwkrakauer.bsky.social:

The Deliberation Taboo

Cognitive science is, nominally, the science of thinking. We argue that the field has no theory of what thinking is and, even worse, that the topic has largely dropped out of focus. 1/

osf.io/preprints/ps...

Cross-Linguistic Constraints on Subjecthood in Causative Psych Verbs: An Experimental Investigation of Korean, Mandarin Chinese and English Author(s): Kim, Jihyun; Marsden, Heather | Abstract: This study investigates whether crosslinguistic constraints on subject selection in physical causative constructions extend to causative psychologi...

We're delighted to announce another publication in Glossa Psycholinguistics!

Now available is 'Cross-Linguistic Constraints on Subjecthood in Causative Psych Verbs: An Experimental Investigation of Korean, Mandarin Chinese and English' by Kim and Marsden:

escholarship.org/uc/item/04v9...

Written English has barely changed in 300 years. If you can read Harry Potter, you can read Robinson Crusoe (1719).

Im am very thrilled to share a new preprint I wrote with @teddyturesky.bsky.social: “The #Reading Brain from Womb to Classroom: Typical and Atypical Development and Implications for a Preventative Education Model”
We’d love your feedback and perspective.
You can find it here: lnkd.in/e57CEUAW

Congratulations! So richly deserved!

I'm SO tired of people looking for "the neuroscience of X" (meaning uninformative neuroimaging pictures) when *the psychology of X* is right there, doing a perfectly good job...

Linguist friends: Sadly, Barbara Partee's partner Volodja recently passed away. She has to send a death certificate to Russia and is asking if anyone traveling there in the near future could carry it with them, since sending from w/i Russia by a fast reliable service seems the very best option.

Please reply to me and I'll pass the info along (she's not on Bluesky)

Linguist friends: Sadly, Barbara Partee's partner Volodja recently passed away. She has to send a death certificate to Russia and is asking if anyone traveling there in the near future could carry it with them, since sending from w/i Russia by a fast reliable service seems the very best option.

But at the time my hands were covered in bread dough! I needed her help!

I asked Siri to set a 15-minute timer, which she did, and I followed up with "and don't fuck it up" (because I keep finding that timers haven't actually been set). She replied "it's cancelled." AGI achieved?

I see that only a tiny fraction of you, my Bluesky friends, also follow @jeopardyofficial.bsky.social on here. Why not go follow right now? My guess is the more eyeballs we get here, the more attention we can give Bluesky relative to other social media platforms!

I am looking to hire 2-3 post-docs over the course of the next few months to work on questions related to cognitive control in humans, broadly construed. EEG, TMS, DBS, sEEG, fMRI or related methodological experience preferred.
Apply here:

jobs.uiowa.edu/jobSearch/po...

Lab website: wessellab.org

Liberation Books bookstore right next to the House of Cheese Ltd.

Yes, exactly!

A yellow bookmark with an image of Karl Marx and this text in red font: FOR THE POLITICS IN YOUR FUTURE Liberation Books 160 Spence St (at Broadway) Ph.774-0637 Books - Periodicals - Records - Lecture Series Labour History, Women's Studies, Economics, Literature, Ecology, Political Theory, etc.

When I was an undergraduate I did a weekly volunteer shift at Winnipeg's main progressive bookstore, Liberation Books. Someone just emailed me an image of the bookmarks we used to give out with our books. What a blast from the past!

Sleepy time bear

It's Friday night baby

My PhD student Adrian Zhou is working on this very construction!