Mark Anderson
@mandercorn.bsky.social
Reading and writing about reading and writing, and thinking about teaching kids how to read and write, and the beautiful complexities of multilingualism and learning to read and write.
https://languageandliteracy.blog
https://languageandliteracy.blog
“We tend to forget how remarkable other animals are, which are much smaller than us."
#bats #engineering #design
techcrunch.com/2025/11/12/w...
#bats #engineering #design
techcrunch.com/2025/11/12/w...
Why a researcher is building robots that look and act like bats | TechCrunch
These palm-sized robots use ultrasound signals to navigate harsh conditions in search and rescue missions.
techcrunch.com
November 12, 2025 at 10:49 PM
“We tend to forget how remarkable other animals are, which are much smaller than us."
#bats #engineering #design
techcrunch.com/2025/11/12/w...
#bats #engineering #design
techcrunch.com/2025/11/12/w...
"We also report that sperm whales have diphthongal patterns on individual codas: with rising, falling, rising-falling and falling-rising formant patterns observed"
#Whales #language
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
#Whales #language
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
Vowel- and Diphthong-Like Spectral Patterns in Sperm Whale Codas
The sperm whale communication system, consisting of groups of clicks called codas, has been primarily analyzed in terms of the number of clicks and their inter-click timing. This paper reports spectral properties in sperm whale vocalizations and ...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
November 11, 2025 at 1:09 PM
"We also report that sperm whales have diphthongal patterns on individual codas: with rising, falling, rising-falling and falling-rising formant patterns observed"
#Whales #language
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
#Whales #language
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
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'people who are multilingual are half as likely to show signs of accelerated biological ageing than are those who speak just one language.'
Good thing that schools, universities and governments are so actively promoting modern languages then, isn't it? 1/2
Good thing that schools, universities and governments are so actively promoting modern languages then, isn't it? 1/2
Want a younger brain? Learn another language
A vast study suggests that being multilingual can slow down cognitive ageing.
www.nature.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:58 AM
'people who are multilingual are half as likely to show signs of accelerated biological ageing than are those who speak just one language.'
Good thing that schools, universities and governments are so actively promoting modern languages then, isn't it? 1/2
Good thing that schools, universities and governments are so actively promoting modern languages then, isn't it? 1/2
I will do everything I can to avoid getting confronted by the blankness of my yet unsaid. What I wanted to say already happened, and I’m moving on. Letting go of the dull ache of expectation. Becoming one with the void. Rather than expanding my pettiness onto it, filling it with my spent affections.
October 26, 2025 at 2:09 AM
I will do everything I can to avoid getting confronted by the blankness of my yet unsaid. What I wanted to say already happened, and I’m moving on. Letting go of the dull ache of expectation. Becoming one with the void. Rather than expanding my pettiness onto it, filling it with my spent affections.
"Education #research suffers from a certain kind of evidential laxity: a tendency to accept claims on the basis of face validity, theoretical elegance, or ideological appeal rather than rigorous empirical testing."
via @carlhendrick.substack.com
#education
open.substack.com/pub/carlhend...
via @carlhendrick.substack.com
#education
open.substack.com/pub/carlhend...
We Need to Talk About Scaffolding
A new replication challenges the evidence behind one of education’s core ideas.
open.substack.com
October 25, 2025 at 9:53 PM
"Education #research suffers from a certain kind of evidential laxity: a tendency to accept claims on the basis of face validity, theoretical elegance, or ideological appeal rather than rigorous empirical testing."
via @carlhendrick.substack.com
#education
open.substack.com/pub/carlhend...
via @carlhendrick.substack.com
#education
open.substack.com/pub/carlhend...
"For the first time, I began to question whether I truly belonged in the U.S. I even became self-conscious about my accent and appearance."
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
As an immigrant scientist in the U.S., travel bans and visa uncertainty are taking a toll
“I began to question whether I truly belonged,” this postdoc writes
www.science.org
October 18, 2025 at 1:40 PM
"For the first time, I began to question whether I truly belonged in the U.S. I even became self-conscious about my accent and appearance."
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
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We Americans, Conservative and Liberal, demand that those with the duty to defend our Constitution do it now.
This is a major setback for Trump/Miller authoritarian planning. No doubt they will quickly appeal to the Supreme Court. If the Supreme Court sides with Trump/Miller it will change the United States of America in ways we cannot imagine and will deeply regret forever.
BREAKING: Major setback for Trump National Guard moves as 7th Circuit declines to disturb block on deployment in Illinois. Judges Rovner, Hamilton, St. Eve (GHWBush/Obama/Trump) see no rebellion permitting use of Guard by prez. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
October 17, 2025 at 10:14 AM
We Americans, Conservative and Liberal, demand that those with the duty to defend our Constitution do it now.
"Scientists propose that lengthening childhood in early humans might have come 1st, driving cultural transmission and social learning.
Over time, this dynamic may have supported brain expansion, rather than the brain growing first and pushing for extended development"
www.earth.com/news/human-c...
Over time, this dynamic may have supported brain expansion, rather than the brain growing first and pushing for extended development"
www.earth.com/news/human-c...
Fossil teeth from an 11-year-old reveal clues to why human childhood lasts so long
Humans stand apart from many other primates by taking more time to mature, relying on a supportive network during a long period of childhood.
www.earth.com
October 14, 2025 at 12:16 PM
"Scientists propose that lengthening childhood in early humans might have come 1st, driving cultural transmission and social learning.
Over time, this dynamic may have supported brain expansion, rather than the brain growing first and pushing for extended development"
www.earth.com/news/human-c...
Over time, this dynamic may have supported brain expansion, rather than the brain growing first and pushing for extended development"
www.earth.com/news/human-c...
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“I spent three nights and three days in federal custody. During that time, I was never told what I was charged with, was not allowed to shower despite being covered in tear gas and pepper spray, had no phone call to my family, and no access to an attorney.” - George Retes, U.S. citizen and veteran.
I’m a US citizen and a veteran. ICE arrested me for no reason.
Jailed for three days without an explanation or ability to notify anyone, George Retes argues the only path to healing starts with the government taking accountability for its actions.
newsletter.ofthebrave.org
October 12, 2025 at 12:01 PM
“I spent three nights and three days in federal custody. During that time, I was never told what I was charged with, was not allowed to shower despite being covered in tear gas and pepper spray, had no phone call to my family, and no access to an attorney.” - George Retes, U.S. citizen and veteran.
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“The jobs that low-skilled migrants do…let people in other parts of the economy take on more skilled work. Florence Jaumotte of the IMF and colleagues find that in rich countries a 1 pct pt rise in migrants’ share of the adult population ultimately raises GDP per person by 2%.”
Welcome to Zero Migration America
Closed borders will make the country smaller, poorer and less innovative
economist.com
October 11, 2025 at 11:51 AM
“The jobs that low-skilled migrants do…let people in other parts of the economy take on more skilled work. Florence Jaumotte of the IMF and colleagues find that in rich countries a 1 pct pt rise in migrants’ share of the adult population ultimately raises GDP per person by 2%.”
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For my practitioner friends, people who managed Title I funds (among others) were laid off today.
October 10, 2025 at 11:52 PM
For my practitioner friends, people who managed Title I funds (among others) were laid off today.
"Babies start processing #language before they are born, a new study suggests."
www.scientificamerican.com/article/babi...
www.scientificamerican.com/article/babi...
Babies Start Processing Foreign Languages before They Are Born
Babies process foreign languages they heard in utero much like their mother tongue, researchers find
www.scientificamerican.com
October 9, 2025 at 9:04 PM
"Babies start processing #language before they are born, a new study suggests."
www.scientificamerican.com/article/babi...
www.scientificamerican.com/article/babi...
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Reposted by Mark Anderson
CHICAGO (AP) — Storming an apartment complex by helicopter as families slept. Deploying chemical agents near a public school. Handcuffing a Chicago City Council member at a hospital.
apnews.com/article/chic...
apnews.com/article/chic...
Using helicopters and chemical agents, immigration agents become increasingly aggressive in Chicago
Activists, residents and elected leaders say increasingly combative tactics used by federal immigration agents are sparking violence and fueling neighborhood tensions in the nation’s third-largest cit...
apnews.com
October 6, 2025 at 8:51 PM
CHICAGO (AP) — Storming an apartment complex by helicopter as families slept. Deploying chemical agents near a public school. Handcuffing a Chicago City Council member at a hospital.
apnews.com/article/chic...
apnews.com/article/chic...
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America enters a new, dark chapter: "Kavanaugh Raids" on entire buildings and neighborhoods, a chapter surely to be remembered as infamously as we now view the "Palmer Raids" of the first Red Scare. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/welcome-to...
Welcome to the Era of "Kavanaugh Raids"
ICE crosses another big, important line.
www.doomsdayscenario.co
October 3, 2025 at 2:08 PM
America enters a new, dark chapter: "Kavanaugh Raids" on entire buildings and neighborhoods, a chapter surely to be remembered as infamously as we now view the "Palmer Raids" of the first Red Scare. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/welcome-to...
"Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers, she said."
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'
The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.
chicago.suntimes.com
October 2, 2025 at 12:08 PM
"Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers, she said."
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
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NEW: I arrived in the U.S. eight weeks ago to report on how the administration’s immigration crackdown was playing out from the front lines.
What I saw Thursday was the culmination of ICE’s aggressive behavior.
By @tilleckert.com
What I saw Thursday was the culmination of ICE’s aggressive behavior.
By @tilleckert.com
I Filmed the ICE Officer Who Shoved a Woman. It Felt Like the New Normal.
I arrived in the U.S. eight weeks ago to report on how the administration’s immigration crackdown was playing out from the front lines. What I saw Thursday was the culmination of ICE’s aggressive behavior.
www.propublica.org
September 26, 2025 at 11:21 PM
NEW: I arrived in the U.S. eight weeks ago to report on how the administration’s immigration crackdown was playing out from the front lines.
What I saw Thursday was the culmination of ICE’s aggressive behavior.
By @tilleckert.com
What I saw Thursday was the culmination of ICE’s aggressive behavior.
By @tilleckert.com
There have been a wide variety of contradictory findings on whether #bilingualism enhances #cognition or not, and a recent study suggests the way researchers measure performance may be the key to solving this mystery.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Bilingual effects on cognitive control: Are we looking in the right place? | Bilingualism: Language and Cognition | Cambridge Core
Bilingual effects on cognitive control: Are we looking in the right place?
www.cambridge.org
September 25, 2025 at 3:44 PM
There have been a wide variety of contradictory findings on whether #bilingualism enhances #cognition or not, and a recent study suggests the way researchers measure performance may be the key to solving this mystery.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
"There are benefits of working on a slower timescale. You don’t get caught up in hype waves. You can take weekends off and still publish something original."
www.quantamagazine.org/to-understan...
www.quantamagazine.org/to-understan...
To Understand AI, Watch How It Evolves | Quanta Magazine
Naomi Saphra thinks that most research into language models focuses too much on the finished product. She’s mining the history of their training for insights into why these systems work the way they d...
www.quantamagazine.org
September 24, 2025 at 4:16 PM
"There are benefits of working on a slower timescale. You don’t get caught up in hype waves. You can take weekends off and still publish something original."
www.quantamagazine.org/to-understan...
www.quantamagazine.org/to-understan...
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This is how your email finds me.
April 14, 2025 at 7:39 AM
This is how your email finds me.
Big thanks to @manymindspod.bsky.social and Dr. Marc Berman's research for inspiring my latest post.
#Nature isn't just an amenity, it's essential for student #cognition.
#education #neuroscience
schoolecosystem.wordpress.com/2025/09/21/b...
#Nature isn't just an amenity, it's essential for student #cognition.
#education #neuroscience
schoolecosystem.wordpress.com/2025/09/21/b...
Beyond the Brick Wall: Using Environmental Neuroscience to Boost Learning and Well-being
The capacity for intense focus in our students is a finite resource—a cognitive fuel tank that can, and does, run low. We see the results daily in the classroom: irritability, impatience, and a fra…
schoolecosystem.wordpress.com
September 22, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Big thanks to @manymindspod.bsky.social and Dr. Marc Berman's research for inspiring my latest post.
#Nature isn't just an amenity, it's essential for student #cognition.
#education #neuroscience
schoolecosystem.wordpress.com/2025/09/21/b...
#Nature isn't just an amenity, it's essential for student #cognition.
#education #neuroscience
schoolecosystem.wordpress.com/2025/09/21/b...
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Dear American citizens, whatever you wish more German citizens would have done in 1933, do that now.
September 20, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Dear American citizens, whatever you wish more German citizens would have done in 1933, do that now.
"these results demonstrate that latent tree-structured sentence representations emerge in both humans and LLMs"
languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=71128
languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=71128
Language Log » LLMs and tree-structuring
languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu
September 19, 2025 at 10:50 AM
"these results demonstrate that latent tree-structured sentence representations emerge in both humans and LLMs"
languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=71128
languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=71128
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Americans are most likely to encounter people from different economic classes in gas stations, restaurants and hotels. This mixing is least likely to happen in elementary and secondary schools, while exercising, and in supermarkets. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
September 17, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Americans are most likely to encounter people from different economic classes in gas stations, restaurants and hotels. This mixing is least likely to happen in elementary and secondary schools, while exercising, and in supermarkets. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Check out our latest report: Educator Perceptions of HQIM Alignment, Adoption, and Implementation in Grades K-5, which captures the experiences and perceptions of district leaders, school leaders, and teachers who have implemented HQIM in Grades K-5 in TN.
trrc.utk.edu/resources/hq...
trrc.utk.edu/resources/hq...
Educator Perceptions of HQIM Alignment, Adoption, and Implementation in Grades K-5: Report - Tennessee Reading Research Center
trrc.utk.edu
September 16, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Check out our latest report: Educator Perceptions of HQIM Alignment, Adoption, and Implementation in Grades K-5, which captures the experiences and perceptions of district leaders, school leaders, and teachers who have implemented HQIM in Grades K-5 in TN.
trrc.utk.edu/resources/hq...
trrc.utk.edu/resources/hq...