New paper out today! We ask whether people with Williams Syndrome, a rare genetic disorder with deficits in spatial and numerical cognition, master the meaning of quantifiers, numerals, and logical operators. We argue that their semantic representations are deep and abstract!

📢 Postdoc Position in NLP @ UTN in Nuremberg, Germany I am looking for a full-time postdoctoral researcher (A13/E13, initial contract for 3 years) starting July 2026 or as soon as possible thereafter. Focus on implicit & underspecified language, background knowledge and/or biases in NLU.

Sometimes academic spam gets funny! By the way, the alignment paper is available here journals.plos.org/plosone/arti... Disclaimer: I'm afraid the link to reproduction is rather indirect 😁

Short-term fellowships available for international PhD candidates at the University of Potsdam around "Limits of Variability in Language"! If you're a linguist interested in this opportunity, please contact me or one of the other PIs for more information! #linguistics #fellowship #funding #phd […]

Postdoc position in Stuttgart, Germany (TV-L 13, 100%) for 18 months, on authority presuppositions in AI systems with Dr. Agnieszka Faleńska and me. For more information and application info, see here: safety.https://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/documents/team/falensaa/aphic_postoc.pdf

When people respond "two" to the question "How many animals did Moses take on the ark?" do they actually accommodate a false presupposition that Moses took animals on the ark? Apply for a Ph.D. position to work on presuppositions, deadline 20.12.2025. More info at linguistlist.org/issues/36-3553

⚠️ New Postdoc or PhD position open (3 years+) ⚠️ 🚩Developmental milestones across cultures 🌍 Based @leuphana.bsky.social , in collaboration with @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social Please share/apply! Link: tinyurl.com/58dsn43u

In a new exciting collaboration with @marlenfroehlich.bsky.social and @profgerhard.bsky.social we think about how studying ambiguity in human and great ape communication can advance our theories of language evolution. Paper out at doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...

Three inspiring days at #XPrag in beautiful Cambridge! It was wonderful to see many old friends and new members of the growing community!

📢 Come to Tübingen and get your PhD with us! Unique opportunity to explore great ape communication 🐵🦧🦍 from multiple disciplinary angles within a single, integrated project. 👇

Marlen Fröhlich@marlenfroehlich.bsky.social · last yr.

📢 2 PhD positions (E13 TV-L, 75%) in our DFG-funded project on great ape communication & the evolution of common ground! 🧠 Backgrounds in biology, psychology or linguistics welcome. 🗓️ Deadline: Aug 13 🔗 bit.ly/4l8p7hy & bit.ly/46jcfAq Please share! @elmanubohn.bsky.social @meanwhileina.bsky.social

New work from my colleagues at the Neurocognitive #modeling lab! They developed a scene #segmentation architecture that beats SOTA with 1000 times fewer parameters. LinkedIn post www.linkedin.com/posts/martin... Paper arxiv.org/abs/2502.02763 Code and interface cognitivemodeling.github.io/FLIP/

Fovea-Like Input Patching (FLIP) image segmentation architecture beats Meta's Segment Anything Model (SAM): | Martin Butz

Fovea-Like Input Patching (FLIP) image segmentation architecture beats Meta's Segment Anything Model (SAM): * More than a 1000-fold potential energy saving: * FLIP-Tiny has 1,257× fewer paramete...

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More Ph.D. positions available in several projects related to the #SFB Common ground! Please see the list here uni-tuebingen.de/de/283575

Support: Computational Linguistics, Text/Corpus Linguistics: PhD, University of Tübingen

Support: Computational Linguistics, Text/Corpus Linguistics: PhD, University of Tübingen

The DFG-funded project in the newly established Collaborative Research Center (SFB 1718) “Common ground”, hosted by the University of Tübingen, is inviting applications for a PhD position in Computational Linguistics (75%, TV-L 13 scale, approximately €3.400 per month before taxes and obligatory insurances). The position is associated with project C2 “Signaling and Interpreting Defectivity in Common Ground: Face-to-Face, Voice-Only, and Text-Only Communication” The position begins on 01 October

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PostDoc position (3.5y) available in interdisciplinary Collaborative Research Center "Common Ground". 🎯 Topic: Pragmatic reasoning about Common Ground 🎓 linguistics | philosophy of language | cognitive science 📅 Deadline: July 14 tinyurl.com/3vd9wa6p Please share! @toddthelinguist.bsky.social

Last chance to register for the Tübingen pre- #cogsci2025 workshop. Register by Jul 1st 👉 forms.gle/v6VtEE6UqYw5... to give a talk, present a poster, or just check out great science and a free lunch (generously provided by @ml4science.bsky.social). Accepted Cogsci paper *not required*. Pls. share 🙏

Tübingen pre-CogSci workshop 2025

July 24th from 10:00 - 15:00, Ground floor seminar room, Maria-von-Linden Str. 6 For the cognitive science community here in Tübingen, the annual Cogsci conference (https://cognitivesciencesociety.or...

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Charley Wu@thecharleywu.bsky.social · last yr.

New poster for the local pre- #cogsci2025 workshop I am organizing at @unituebingen.bsky.social with generous support from @ml4science.bsky.social Please share widely! Accepted Cogsci papers are not required to present a talk/poster! Also feel free to just come and checkout some cool research!

📢 2 PhD positions (E13 TV-L, 75%) in our DFG-funded project on great ape communication & the evolution of common ground! 🧠 Backgrounds in biology, psychology or linguistics welcome. 🗓️ Deadline: Aug 13 🔗 bit.ly/4l8p7hy & bit.ly/46jcfAq Please share! @elmanubohn.bsky.social @meanwhileina.bsky.social

Marlen Fröhlich@marlenfroehlich.bsky.social · last yr.

🎉Exciting times ahead for @elmanubohn.bsky.social, Michael Franke, and me! We will soon be advertising 2 PhD positions (linguistics/biology/psychology) for our SFB subproject "Modeling Great Ape Signaling Behaviour" 🧮 🐵 Stay tuned!

Hiring in the age of generative AI is a whole new game! 😱

We're hiring a postdoc! ~3.5 years @ E13 TV-L 100% probabilistic pragmatics + cognitive psychology + formal epistemology + experimental methods (with human participants) Does this sound like you, or anyone you know? Send them our way! tinyurl.com/3vd9wa6p

We have 2 Ph.D. positions available in a #DFG funded project awarded to @profgerhard.bsky.social and me. We are planning to combine acquisition work with computational modeling to investigate how children and adults understand irony. Deadline: July 20, 2025. Info linguistlist.org/issues/36/19...

LINGUIST List 36.1935 Support: General Linguistics, Language Acquisition, Pragmatics: MA / MSc, University of Tübingen

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Can't wait to share our new #RSA model of #indirect communication developed with Michael Franke @meanwhileina.bsky.social‬ and Martin V. Butz! We model how speakers choose utterances, such as "The election outcome was interesting!", and how listeners interpret them. doi.org/10.1371/jour...

The alignment model of indirect communication

Speakers often choose utterances under uncertainty about the potential opinion of the listener. In this case, utterances that do not signal the speaker’s opinion directly may allow the speaker to avoi...

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Interested in what we can learn from, and about, Large Language Models? Interested in mechanistic interpretability, in comparisons with neuro-symbolic systems, and in things other than just benchmark-chasing?

Michael Franke@meanwhileina.bsky.social · last yr.

Position opening: #CompLing, #NLP, #CogSci Junior Group Leader / PostDoc (4y, German E14 salary scale) @ Uni Tübingen - no teaching obligations - PhD co-supervision - dynamic interdisciplinary team in one of Germany’s top research universities tinyurl.com/jhxb4wu2

Position opening: #CompLing, #NLP, #CogSci Junior Group Leader / PostDoc (4y, German E14 salary scale) @ Uni Tübingen - no teaching obligations - PhD co-supervision - dynamic interdisciplinary team in one of Germany’s top research universities tinyurl.com/jhxb4wu2

Dan @danielwharris.bsky.social is discussing various ways in which information enters common ground.

The "Background beliefs" workshop speakers @toddthelinguist.bsky.social, @elinm.bsky.social, Greg Scontras, and Martin Butz enjoying a short break at the Castle balcony. It was the most fun time! Thank you all for joining and co-organizing! Photography by Natasha Korotkova.

What role does #context play in human #cognition? In this review, we argue that the context-sensitivity of human memory and its hierarchical structure are the features that enable flexible planning, generalization, and behavior. New paper out lead by Martin Butz doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...

Job alert! Deadline November 5. I have an opening for a 3-year Ph.D. position in the field of #pragmatics to work on a #DFG-funded project at the University of Tübingen. Tübingen offers a unique #linguistics and #cogsci community. More information can be found at tinyurl.com/277mk48p Please share!