Adele Goldberg
@adelegoldberg.bsky.social
linguist, experimental work on meaning (lexical semantics), language use, representation, learning, constructionist usage-based approach, Princeton U https://adele.scholar.princeton.edu/publications/topic
New blog post! Odds ratios are...a bit weird. Here I explain two problems (interpretation, non-collapsibility) and provide some simple recommendations for improved reporting. www.the100.ci/2026/07/30/r...
Reviewer notes: Odds ratios are really odd
When psychological researchers investigate binary outcomes, they routinely report odds ratios to quantify the strength of an effect or an association. This is quite understandable given that psycholog...
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I'm recruiting two postdocs (or potentially PhD students) to work on projects at the intersection of cognition, neuroscience, and AI (with a particular emphasis on mechanistic interpretability). Apply here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... and please share!
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what a gem of a documentary www.amazon.com/gp/video/det...
Watch Odysseus Returns | Prime Video
Did Homer’s King Odysseus, the Trojan-horse-designer in the Iliad and the long-suffering wanderer of the Odyssey, really exist? In 1991, Makis Metaxas, a mayor on the Greek island of Kefalonia, finds an ancient Mycenaean tomb. He claims it contains the bones of Odysseus. But the discovery is soon embroiled in controversy, and Makis embarks on his own odyssey to convince the world he is right.
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And now with a newly refreshed website, just in time for #cogsci2026!
Mike Frank@mcxfrank.bsky.social · 2w agoNearly four years ago we asked ourselves, "what would it look like to have a field-leading, completely free reference work for cognitive science"? It's been so fun editing OECS with @asifamajid.bsky.social and @hbaum.bsky.social. I can't believe we have published 200 (!!) articles! oecs.mit.edu
was planning to wake up in Rio today for #Cogsci26 but alas 3 hour delay -> missed connection --> watching online 🥹 Some highlights
👇this turns Bluesky almost into Twitter still missing: comedians, where are the funny people??
spacecowboy@spacecowboy17.bsky.social · 8mo agoHow to like and pin the feed:
What makes some stimuli more memorable than others? In a new paper w/ @davogelsang.bsky.social, we show that the magnitude of a stimulus's ANN representation predicts both image and word memorability Stimuli that activate more features, more strongly, leave a stronger memory trace Out now in JML⬇️
I will be at #ACL2026 from July 2--7! I will be giving a keynote at CDL workshop on controlled rearing and hypothesis generation from language models! Tianyang Xu (first author) and I will present work on cross-modal generalization in VLMs on July 7! Paper: aclanthology.org/2026.acl-lon...
#OTD 99 years ago, Susan M. Ervin-Tripp (1927–2018) was born 🎉 A sociolinguist and a pioneer in the study of bilingualism and language acquisition. In the 1980s, she used audio and video recordings, as well as computer-based data, in her research. #WomenInLinguistics #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
Congratulations Leonie! Hear her roar!
Leonie Weissweiler@weissweiler.bsky.social · last mo.🥳I'm excited to introduce everyone to my group at Leipzig University, the LION (Linguistically-Oriented NLP) Lab! 🦁 Looking forward to exciting work on computational linguistics, interpretability, and multilinguality! Find out more on our website lionlabnlp.github.io
@zotero.org, when I'm reading a paper, I want to see Notes for THAT paper Keep up
AI is a time machine, but I hadn't imagined we were going back to 2000 with the return of blue books, in-person experiments, and flip phones
Driving with Mom, talking about politics when my phone suddenly turns into Big Brother "You're having a heavy conversation while driving, perhaps you'd like to listen to a podcast or some music" wtf IS that?
—— Open Mind is MIT Press’s Diamond Open Access Cognitive Science journal. We now have our first Impact Factor: 2.9 as of June 2026 Submit your papers to Open Mind direct.mit.edu/opmi
Remember this scene the next time a corporate reporter tries to insist that a rural diner full of white men in their 60s is somehow a more authentically "American" place, somehow more representative of who we are as a nation.
Greg Pak@gregpak.net · 2mo agoKNICKS IN FIVE KNICKS PRIDE BROOKLYN
New International Construction Grammar Association (ICGA)! icgaonline.wpcomstaging.com announced at ICCG14 thanks to @adelegoldberg.bsky.social Sign up forms.gle/gXYDKC6xavkU... @alexbergs.bsky.social H Boas M Fried, @stefanhartmann.bsky.social Th Hoffmann F Masini B Nir @remivantrijp.bsky.social
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yes! We have seven (!) wonderful invited speakers, including the fabulous, Kanishka Misra! It'll be a 2.5 day extravaganza--we hope to see you here!
Kanishka Misra@kanishka.bsky.social · 2mo agoExcited to present at ICCG14, check out the program for a lot of cool works by a lot of cool people: iccg14.oa-event.com/program
Just back from the exhilarating Rhetoricon symposium at Waterloo rhetoricon.uwaterloo.ca/events/1. Organized by the great @randyallenharris.bsky.social Next up: ICCG14. My Berkeley sis carries the construction torch! @adelegoldberg.bsky.social
Phil Johnson-Laird (@ 90 years young): "I know it's more typical to thank people at the end of such meetings, but at my age, one never knows!" Sharp and funny as ever... Thanks to Ruth Byrne and Sunny Khemlani for organizing. Love the term 'biscuit' conditionals
this is super readable, nuanced and online! great tool for anyone interested in methods of psychology (or linguistics) (also appreciate that they read beyond Popper)
Mike Frank@mcxfrank.bsky.social · 3mo agoWhat is a psychological theory? Here's our take on this tricky and controversial question in this week's Experimentology chapter summary. Many things called "theories" in psychology aren't actually theories — they're frameworks. 🧵 experimentology.io
What is a psychological theory? Here's our take on this tricky and controversial question in this week's Experimentology chapter summary. Many things called "theories" in psychology aren't actually theories — they're frameworks. 🧵 experimentology.io
Some of you may have heard me wondering about the "intrusive of" that started appearing in phrases like "not that big [of] a deal". Now @lynneguist.bsky.social has looked into it at separatedbyacommonlanguage.blogspot.com/2026/05/how-..., and I know a lot more about it!
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