David Sidhu
@davidmsidhu.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at Carleton University 🇨🇦 | PI of the https://classilab.ca/
I study cognition, language, and multimodality (sound symbolism, iconicity, embodied cognition).
Convinced that John Lennon is the bouba and Paul McCartney is the kiki.
I study cognition, language, and multimodality (sound symbolism, iconicity, embodied cognition).
Convinced that John Lennon is the bouba and Paul McCartney is the kiki.
When you think you’ve finally gotten through the last round of reviews.
Reviewer 2:
Reviewer 2:
a picture of yoda with the words no there is another on the bottom
ALT: a picture of yoda with the words no there is another on the bottom
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November 18, 2025 at 3:24 PM
When you think you’ve finally gotten through the last round of reviews.
Reviewer 2:
Reviewer 2:
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Nothing in teaching gives me anxiety like trying to get across the Baddeley & Hitch working memory model. Any tips to make it intuitive to undergrads? especially the episodic buffer?
October 23, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Nothing in teaching gives me anxiety like trying to get across the Baddeley & Hitch working memory model. Any tips to make it intuitive to undergrads? especially the episodic buffer?
Is there anything more terrifying than reading “This form must be completed using Adobe Acrobat Reader”? 😱😱😱
October 22, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Is there anything more terrifying than reading “This form must be completed using Adobe Acrobat Reader”? 😱😱😱
Here is an OpenAI generated video for a 90s Lexical Decision Task toy.
October 22, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Here is an OpenAI generated video for a 90s Lexical Decision Task toy.
The new video generator from OpenAI is pretty wild. This is what I got when I asked for an HBO show about a lab studying the Bouba/Kiki Effect.
October 22, 2025 at 9:45 PM
The new video generator from OpenAI is pretty wild. This is what I got when I asked for an HBO show about a lab studying the Bouba/Kiki Effect.
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JEP: General; Psych Science; Nature Human Behaviour
October 8, 2025 at 12:29 AM
JEP: General; Psych Science; Nature Human Behaviour
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Please boost! #linguistics student here at Swarthmore is running a survey for English speakers (who don't know Mandarin / any other tone languages) about how we learn tones. Take a few minutes to help out with this student research!
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September 22, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Please boost! #linguistics student here at Swarthmore is running a survey for English speakers (who don't know Mandarin / any other tone languages) about how we learn tones. Take a few minutes to help out with this student research!
swarthmore.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
swarthmore.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
A weirdo question I asked my class today. DRC and Triangle Models, which is the "maluma" and which is the "takete"?
September 10, 2025 at 6:51 PM
A weirdo question I asked my class today. DRC and Triangle Models, which is the "maluma" and which is the "takete"?
Minute Cryptic
Solve a clue with a hidden meaning
www.minutecryptic.com
September 1, 2025 at 3:49 PM
A Conversation piece @pennypexman.bsky.social and I wrote about how the sounds of names might affect hiring decisions.
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theconversation.com/whats-in-a-n...
What’s in a name? How the sound of names can bias hiring decisions
New research shows that even the sound of a name can influence how job candidates are judged.
theconversation.com
August 28, 2025 at 9:47 PM
A Conversation piece @pennypexman.bsky.social and I wrote about how the sounds of names might affect hiring decisions.
theconversation.com/whats-in-a-n...
theconversation.com/whats-in-a-n...
I see your Pomodoro Technique, and I raise you one Isolator Technique.
August 7, 2025 at 11:38 PM
I see your Pomodoro Technique, and I raise you one Isolator Technique.
I've been revising my lab manual. After a few minutes I realised that the only changes I was making was turning exclamation marks into periods. Is that a sign of progress?
August 6, 2025 at 8:51 PM
I've been revising my lab manual. After a few minutes I realised that the only changes I was making was turning exclamation marks into periods. Is that a sign of progress?
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ATTN Carleton University undergrad and grad students! My master's student is trying to recruit people for her thesis project. Please share this widely and consider participating if you are willing! Thanks! @carleton.ca
August 5, 2025 at 5:57 PM
ATTN Carleton University undergrad and grad students! My master's student is trying to recruit people for her thesis project. Please share this widely and consider participating if you are willing! Thanks! @carleton.ca
Attending CogSci this year? Come and see these two virtual posters from the lab!
July 29, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Attending CogSci this year? Come and see these two virtual posters from the lab!
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This is now live!
You can generate custom word family graphs!
lab.aidanem.com/wordfamily/
At least theoretically, I'm not sure the unimproved interface is actually usable by anyone other than me.
You can generate custom word family graphs!
lab.aidanem.com/wordfamily/
At least theoretically, I'm not sure the unimproved interface is actually usable by anyone other than me.
July 17, 2025 at 3:06 PM
This is now live!
You can generate custom word family graphs!
lab.aidanem.com/wordfamily/
At least theoretically, I'm not sure the unimproved interface is actually usable by anyone other than me.
You can generate custom word family graphs!
lab.aidanem.com/wordfamily/
At least theoretically, I'm not sure the unimproved interface is actually usable by anyone other than me.
Reposted by David Sidhu
This is still the picture Harry Potter uses for his lab website
July 16, 2025 at 6:39 AM
This is still the picture Harry Potter uses for his lab website
Will you be at CSBBCS/EPS in Dundee? Come and take a look at these presentations from the lab!
July 2, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Will you be at CSBBCS/EPS in Dundee? Come and take a look at these presentations from the lab!
How I feel starting a sentence with "Interestingly,..." when what follows isn't that interesting.
a man with a beard is wearing a hooded jacket and talking on a cell phone .
ALT: a man with a beard is wearing a hooded jacket and talking on a cell phone .
media.tenor.com
June 27, 2025 at 9:03 PM
How I feel starting a sentence with "Interestingly,..." when what follows isn't that interesting.
More like ChattitudeGPT 😠
June 27, 2025 at 4:52 PM
More like ChattitudeGPT 😠
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here's the list of book and other recs that we compiled for @lingthusiasm.bsky.social's 100 episodiversary, that's my most current rec list!
lingthusiasm.com/post/7741520...
lingthusiasm.com/post/7741520...
Lingthusiasm - 101 places to get enthusiastic about linguistics
lingthusiasm:
101 places to get enthusiastic about linguistics
In honour of Lingthusiasm’s 100th episodiversary, we’ve compiled this list of 101 public-facing places where linguists and linguisti...
lingthusiasm.com
June 22, 2025 at 2:20 PM
here's the list of book and other recs that we compiled for @lingthusiasm.bsky.social's 100 episodiversary, that's my most current rec list!
lingthusiasm.com/post/7741520...
lingthusiasm.com/post/7741520...
I made a plot of my affection towards a research project based on the stage of the project.
June 9, 2025 at 8:15 PM
I made a plot of my affection towards a research project based on the stage of the project.
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Gonna set this as my out of office in August
June 5, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Gonna set this as my out of office in August
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The proportion of p-values between .01 and .05 declined in psychology over the last decade, a strengthening of credibility.
Papers with fewer fragile p-values are cited more. Higher ranked journals assoc. with > improvement, but not higher ranked universities.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Papers with fewer fragile p-values are cited more. Higher ranked journals assoc. with > improvement, but not higher ranked universities.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
June 2, 2025 at 10:56 AM
The proportion of p-values between .01 and .05 declined in psychology over the last decade, a strengthening of credibility.
Papers with fewer fragile p-values are cited more. Higher ranked journals assoc. with > improvement, but not higher ranked universities.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Papers with fewer fragile p-values are cited more. Higher ranked journals assoc. with > improvement, but not higher ranked universities.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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I have been logged out of my toothbrush.
May 29, 2025 at 11:42 AM
I have been logged out of my toothbrush.