Cory Shain

@coryshain.bsky.social

Language in minds, brains, and machines. Linguistics prof @Stanford. He/him. https://climblab.org/

We're hiring! Postdoc position to study the neural control of reaching using high-density multi-area electrophysiology. 5 years of funding, great collaborative environment. Please share with anyone who may be interested. For details, see: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Pruszynski Postdoc 2026

Postdoctoral Researcher, Control Policies in the Primate Motor Circuit Pruszynski Lab @ Sensorimotor Superlab​ The Pruszynski Laboratory at Western University is seeking a postdoctoral researcher to j...

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We have re-opened our search for a 3-year AI-research postdoc at NYU's Center for Social Media, AI, and Politics!! The position starts this **September 1st** (or as soon as possible thereafter) and is in person at NYU. If necessary, we will also consider a 1/1/27 start. 1/3

Word predictability effects are LINEAR! And logarithmic. In a new preprint led by lab alum Stephanie Cho (w/ Ryan Buggy & Adrian Staub), we find clear evidence that the two patterns coexist. 1/

Title and abstract for "Preactivation and probabilistic inference coexist during sentence comprehension"

Sadly won't be at ACL in person, but check out our presentations below! 🌟 I'm giving a (remote) keynote at SCiL on 7/4! 🌟We also have a poster on probability x grammaticality, and a talk on pragmatics x Theory of Mind! Our lab is actively recruiting, so please reach out! Details at glintlab.org

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This was a fun conversation! The full team on this project is @lauragwilliams.bsky.social, Frank Willett, and Jaimie Henderson. I'm excited to see what comes of this collab, both for science and for patients.

@stanfordbrain.bsky.social · 2mo ago

How does the brain transform sounds and symbols into meaning? Neuro-linguist @coryshain.bsky.social joins us to discuss the neuroscience of language and a new project aimed at improving brain implants for people who have lost the ability to speak or write. neuroscience.stanford.edu/news/new-pre...

Cory Shain is an assistant professor of linguistics at Stanford Humanities and Sciences and a Wu Tsai Neuro affiliate.

If u're hiring people I beg of you, plz don't me fill out ur bespoke boxes w/slightly differently worded ?s, whose answers I have no easy way of storing. I love bragging ab my amazing current/former lab members Rec Letter fatigue is real, esp since i refuse to GPT slop it for my trainee's sake.