Who am I?

My name is Victor Gomes (or Almeida in my private/artistic life), and I’m hopefully finishing a PhD this year in psychology. Specifically, developmental psycholinguistics. Less jargon-y, how kids learn language. Most specifically, logical words like “no” and “not” and “each” and “every,” but really I tend to be interested in word learning generally. I’m sort of a philosopher LARPing as a cognitive scientist, or perhaps the reverse, so the way word learning touches on philosophy of mind and language is fun to me.

I care a good bit about education, pedagogy (I’m of the Freiran mode of thought) and that’s often how I engage in outreach. I like teaching about concepts around psycholinguistics, but I also enjoy teaching the historical contexts those concepts arose and were forged in. That means I annoy people sometimes, perhaps making things more political than they are (or less? either way not quite right).

Outside of that, I love plants and wish I was an artist. An interdisciplinary one too, of course, or as a friend of mine has introduced me to, community art. But, really I mostly write and just think up projects it’d be fun to do but rarely implement. I’ve dabbled in code art and might share that, and I’ve started getting into video. I’ve been getting into poetry out of a desire to garnish rather than just further sharpen my writing. I’ll likely share that here and there too.

I’m affiliated with a few places, and sometimes organize some things, but I’d rather not drag their names into this so I don’t have to insist that my views don’t reflect theirs. Anyway, that info’s available on my academic site if you’re really curious.

Why subscribe?

I publish things I’m more embarrassed on the supporter stream. This could mean in progress work, or more “personal” work - like fiction or poetry. Partially because it limits their spread, partially because I don’t think they’ll be of as general interest anyway.

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