Dan Kleinman

I study language-related topics including dyslexia and bilingual language switching, and post mainly about science, wordplay, and tea. I follow academics, journalists, and anyone who knows a lot about a topic and isn’t afraid to show it (lawyers, music theorists). Always happy to learn new things!

This one doesn't just wander into my head. It's lodged there as chapter one of my inner monologue on how to be a parent. Do the thing. Live in the moment. You only get finite chances and they run out quicker than you'd ever imagine.

Hiring a postdoc in quantitative methods for a study examining predictors of treatment response in childhood apraxia of speech. You get use R! and Bayes! and IRT! Boston (hybrid) or remote. massgeneralbrigham.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/MGBExternal/...

📣 Postdocs at Yale FDS! 📣 Tremendous freedom for work on the foundations of data science with faculty across campus, multi-year, great salary. Deadline 11/6. Spread the word! Application: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/32396 More about Yale FDS: fds.yale.edu

Ok, so if you've been following along my weekend I've seen this study/preprint shared around a bunch and I decided the people needed a replication opportunity it is here: persist-study.pages.dev Based on this: news.berkeley.edu/2026/10/09/u...

🚨 TT Job Alert 🚨 Florida is hiring a new TT asst prof in developmental psychology! Area/age open, early/middle childhood preferred. Come for the gators, stay for the awesome colleagues 🐊 Apply here (deadline 10/15): explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/54...

🚨 Job alert 🚨 Our department @vuamsterdam.bsky.social is hiring an Assistant Professor in Cognitive Neuroscience! Join our lovely community here in beautiful Amsterdam! 🧠🔥 Deadline: October 15 workingat.vu.nl/vacancies/as...

If you really must spear a bear, Use this method and take special care: Get close with a pike Which you brace once you strike; Its momentum will take it from there. #summarylimerick

These are great opportunities that can lead to tenure-track positions in the UC system. Happy to support a PPFP application if there’s a good research fit!

Applications are open for the 2027 summer school on statistical methods for linguistics and psychology: All details are here: smlp.science

It's always a delight to see psycholinguistics stimuli that make use of the richness of human language. Today's example: Playing a recording to newborn infants of someone saying "The uptight mollusk drew a polearm." #snl2026 doi.org/10.1111/desc...

#snl2026 keynote speaker John O'Keefe: "Philosophers love to ask questions like 'What is it like to be a bat?' And we actually know quite a bit now what it's like to be a bat."

In a Geneva park before #snl2026, I talked to a man who, upon finding out what I do, immediately began discussing Benjamin Libet’s studies of consciousness and free will. I asked if he was a philosopher: “Only in the way that all curious people are philosophical.” Not like that, they’re not!

Ever since this happened, I have never given journals sole ownerhip of my supplemental materials .. eiko-fried.com/blog/supplem...

Me, every time I retrieve a broken EEG cap from a data collection site to bring back to New Haven:

If you are the editor of a journal which enforces a hard limit on word count or pages for submissions, please ensure that limit is clearly spelled out in the instructions to authors. Being hit with a surprise limit on the final screen of the submission process is not a great feeling!

Appropriately enough, this would change the Great Lakes mnemonic from HOMES to SHAME.

✨Excited to announce a new post-doctoral position in my lab, focussed on the neural capacity limits of language processing using magnetoencephalography! Apply here: wp.nyu.edu/neurolinglab...

Our first paper introducing the concept of sufficient frequency in word learning is out in JEP:General. 🧵👶💬https://psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/2028-07021-001.html

Open until filled (🚨🚨apply now!🚨🚨): Postdoc, speech acoustics and major depressive disorder, with me!, Northwestern Linguistics (working with folks in Psychology and Psychiatry). faculty.wcas.northwestern.edu/matt-goldric...

The fact that, every time I configure a Mac, I have to uncheck a box which says "Natural scrolling" to get the trackpad to work properly. *My* scrolling direction – the default in the pre-smartphone era – is the one that's natural!

If this NP were any heavier, it would have its own gravitational field.

Just ordered a new Mac for work and was quoted a delivery window of mid-October to early November (12.5-14.5 weeks). Ouch!

For neuroscience PhDs with a strong interest in teaching and mentoring: MIT is hiring a scientific program manager to support activities around a new NIH neuroscience PhD training grant. Salary range $91k - $129k #NeuroJobs careers.peopleclick.com/careerscp/cl...

Contrast this with Michael Crichton’s unrealistic and shabby shorthand for “scientific genius” in The Andromeda Strain, in which a Very Intelligent Scientist publishes a paper so important that it’s printed in both Science *and* Nature.

Just discovered that one of the iPhone’s emoji suggestions for “duck” is 🤬. This cracks me up because Apple auto-corrects a certain swear word to “duck”. Did their model learn a co-occurrence relationship between “duck” and 🤬??

Not a visual illusion, but looking at the images in this thread makes me feel like my brain is glitching.