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Arturo Hernandez
@draehernandez.bsky.social
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Interested in bilingualism and the brain.
Author of Mastery: How Learning Transforms Our Brains, Minds and Bodies
Editor-In-Chief @ Perspectives on Psychological Science
https://www.hernandezarturo.com
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ethankutlu.bsky.social
While the first year of life is crucial for language development, our team found that sound categorization continues to develop throughout the early school years.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Longitudinal Changes in the Structure of Speech Categorization Across School Age Years: Children Become More Gradient and More Consistent
A critical aspect of spoken language development is learning to categorize the sounds of the child's language(s). This process was thought to develop early during infancy to set the stage for the la...
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November 4, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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nicolecrust.bsky.social
Friends (and friends-of-friends) in LA: Please help spread the word!

On Saturday, November 15th 2p, @mameister4.bsky.social and I will be in conversation at the Burbank Library discussing bottlenecks and next steps for brain research.

It's free! Register here:
burbank.libnet.info/event/14639190
Flyer with our pictures, a brain, and event details: 2-3:30p Saturday November 15th, Buena Vist Branch Library
November 3, 2025 at 8:48 PM
draehernandez.bsky.social
@sapinker.bsky.social came to town. What happened next surprised me.

Read on Psychology Today:
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-...

and Substack:
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#StevenPinker #PsychologyToday #SubstackWriters #CognitiveScience #LoveOfLearning
Close Encounters of the Cognitive Kind
A Personal Perspective: When I introduced Steven Pinker, it felt like our worldviews couldn't have been more different. Here's why that dissonance was exactly the point.
www.psychologytoday.com
November 4, 2025 at 8:49 PM
draehernandez.bsky.social
Preparing to Meet Steven Pinker

On how I rediscovered reading itself.

Sometimes the mind just needs a spark.

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#ReadingAgain #StevenPinker #CommonKnowledge #BooksAndBrains #ListeningToThink #EdgeOfOurMinds #SubstackWriters #AcademicLife
Preparing to Meet Steven Pinker
How I Started Reading Books Again
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October 30, 2025 at 1:24 PM
draehernandez.bsky.social
Grateful for this growing community.

Over the past week, Musings on Mastery has reached #54 for Rising in Science publications.

Thank you to everyone who has read, subscribed, and shared.

arturoh.substack.com

#Science #Learning #Neuroscience #Writing #BilingualBrain #MindOnTheEdge
Musings on Mastery | Arturo E. Hernandez | Substack
My personal Substack views on Mastery. Click to read Musings on Mastery, by Arturo E. Hernandez, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.
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October 23, 2025 at 7:57 PM
draehernandez.bsky.social
Machines specialize. Humans synthesize. Inspired by @nxthompson.bsky.social, Diogo Rau, and Michael X. Cohen.

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#ModernPolymath #CollectiveIntelligence #HumanAI #TheNextRenaissance #KnowledgeEconomy #FutureOfWork #MachineLearning #EmergentIntelligence
Will AI Create a New Era for the Modern Polymath?
When machines do the specializing, humans return to synthesis.
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October 21, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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medruff.bsky.social
Ich möchte allen Menschen, die nicht #schwimmen können und allen, die kleine Kinder haben etwas nahelegen.

Ich denke, es ist hilfreich, wenn wir alle ein paar physikalische Gegebenheiten wissen und vertanden haben, z.B. dass der Mensch ganz grundsätzlich schwimmt, wenn er eingeatmet hat.

Hier /
October 19, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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agustinmoreno.bsky.social
Ayuso se está cargando a la Universidad Complutense.
La ruina de la mayor universidad de España que es asfixiada y ya no puede ni pagar las nóminas a menos que logre un crédito,
por Elisa Silió
Afecta también a la investigación, las becas y a la calidad de la enseñanza
elpais.com/educacion/20...
La ruina de la mayor universidad de España: la Complutense ya no puede ni pagar las nóminas a menos que logre un crédito
La asfixia económica a la que la Comunidad de Madrid somete al campus público afecta a las investigaciones, las becas y la calidad de la enseñanza. En 2024 ingresó menos dinero para sueldos que hace 1...
elpais.com
October 20, 2025 at 6:44 AM
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carlbergstrom.com
This morning my ChatGPT quota was inexplicably exhausted.

It took a while but I pieced it together. Voice mode somehow got activated when I went to bed.

The bot then engaged in a 10 hour conversation with my snoring dog, answering questions the pup wasn’t asking and praising him for his insight.
October 18, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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mattgoldrick.bsky.social
Deadline Dec 1: Asst prof (tenure track), speech science, Speech Lang. +Hearing, U Texas Dallas jobs.utdallas.edu/postings/30411
October 15, 2025 at 4:08 PM
draehernandez.bsky.social
Harvard now gives 60% of students A’s. But this isn’t about grade inflation. It’s about meaning collapse.
We’ve hit the informational singularity, where everyone can know everything, and understanding disappears

#InformationalSingularity #AIandEducation #FutureOfKnowledge #HigherEd #MeaningCrisis
The Informational Singularity Is Already Here
When knowledge collapses under its own weight
open.substack.com
October 14, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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laurenjyoung.bsky.social
I spoke with 2025 Nobel winner Shimon Sakaguchi about chasing regulatory T cells since the 1980s. His advice to early-career scientists: "Nowadays you are expected to do something very, very soon and have a result. But it always takes time to arrive at something important." @sciam.bsky.social
Shimon Sakaguchi Hunted for an Immune Cell Others Dismissed. It Earned Him a Nobel Prize
Nobel laureate Shimon Sakaguchi reflects on the role of regulatory T cells in peripheral immune tolerance and how the cells could transform treatment for cancer, autoimmune disease and organ transplan...
www.scientificamerican.com
October 13, 2025 at 6:29 PM
draehernandez.bsky.social
Mike X Cohen recently wrote about why he left academia and neuroscience.

Why I Haven’t Left, explores another side of that story.

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#MikeXCohen #AcademicLife #AIandHumanity #HigherEd #Neuroscience #Curiosity #Discovery #ResearchCulture #Meaning #NotesFromTheEdge
Why I Haven’t Left
A reflection on Mike X Cohen’s “Why I Left Academia and Neuroscience”
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October 7, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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happypig.bsky.social
Dartmouth says no.
Dartmouth’s president declines trumps compact.
October 4, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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mpi-nl.bsky.social
We're seeking the next Director of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics! Lead cutting-edge research in language & cognition. Nominations (incl. self) due 19 Dec 2025.
mpi.nl/career-education/vacancies/vacancy/nominations-and-self-nominations-sought-position-director-max
October 3, 2025 at 7:53 AM
draehernandez.bsky.social
AI isn’t a rupture but the next literacy—layered on top of talking, listening, and movement. The challenge is to integrate it without losing the skills that make us human.
#AILiteracy #Education #Learning #Psychology #FutureOfWork www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-...
AI as the Next Literacy
AI won’t replace the basics of learning any more than reading replaced listening. Like literacy, it’s a new layer built on the old foundations that make us human.
www.psychologytoday.com
October 2, 2025 at 5:20 PM
draehernandez.bsky.social
🎶📚 Nuevo ensayo en Substack:
Desafinado: cuando el streaming y la academia perdieron el alma
Lo que pasó en la música con Kike Santander está pasando en la academia: exceso, ruido y pérdida de voz propia.
👉 Léelo aquí: [link]
#Música #Academia #Cultura #Substack #Desafinado
September 30, 2025 at 8:26 PM
draehernandez.bsky.social
¿No es torta cubana?
September 30, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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cbchang.bsky.social
It's ✨ academic job application season ✨ & I hope you'll consider applying for and/or spreading the word about CityU's ongoing search for faculty in computational linguistics, psycho-/neurolinguistics, & experimental linguistics: open-rank and rolling!

www.cityu.edu.hk/hro/en/job/c...

#langsky 🐦🐦
CityU's logo with tagline: "Innovating into the Future"
September 28, 2025 at 1:54 PM
draehernandez.bsky.social
🎶📚 New Substack post: Out of Tune: When Streaming and Publishing Lost Their Soul
What happened to music didn’t stay in music. We’re all living in an age of oversaturation.
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#Writing #Academia #Music #Streaming #Publishing #Substack #Creativity #Scholarship
Out of Tune
When Streaming and Publishing Lost Their Soul
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September 23, 2025 at 4:28 PM
draehernandez.bsky.social
‘The Power of Science to Solve Problems Is Almost Limitless’ www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/o...
Opinion | ‘The Power of Science to Solve Problems Is Almost Limitless’
www.nytimes.com
September 22, 2025 at 3:56 PM
draehernandez.bsky.social
While working on my own memoir, this flyer landed in my inbox: “Helping busy people tell meaningful stories.” The business of ghostwritten memoirs is booming.

Despite the temptation to outsource, there are some things no one can narrate for me.

#Memoir #Storytelling #HigherEd #Publishing
September 18, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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jessicacalarco.com
If you need a little hope this morning - the current tween trend involves decorating clothespins with affirming messages, then clipping them on friends' backpacks when they're not looking.

Here are a few that my 11-year-old decorated this weekend ❤️
Clothespins decorated with paint markers and pens, with affirming messages. Like "bee you" with a drawing of a bee. And "you're sweeter than pie" with a checked motif. And "you can do it" and "unleash your creativity."
September 15, 2025 at 2:15 PM
draehernandez.bsky.social
We live in an era of overproduction—AI, social media, megaphones everywhere. My new piece, “The Whisperers,” is about choosing a different path: words that don’t scream, but whisper.

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The Whisperers
On bookstores, celebrity shelves, and what lingers beyond the noise
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September 10, 2025 at 11:02 PM
draehernandez.bsky.social
Writing at the speed of myself. open.substack.com/pub/arturoh/...
Not faster, not slower. Just mine.
#WritingLife #Authenticity #Emergent
Writing at the Speed of Myself
My mentor wrote at the speed of thought. I never could — until now.
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September 4, 2025 at 2:39 AM