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
Announcing two tenure-track faculty openings in the Psych Dept at Northwestern University: Cognitive/Affective Neuroscience and Clinical Psychology psychology.northwestern.edu/people/facul...
Job Opportunities: Department of Psychology - Northwestern University
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**Second** job in computational/theoretical neuro at @dukemedschool.bsky.social! Really great opportunity, great colleagues.
Post-doctoral assistant in the Department of Linguistics at Ghent University starting 1 January 2027 (at the earliest)! Application deadline: 6 October 2026 🔗 hiphilangsci.net/2026/09/17/p...
Post-doc Linguistics Uni Ghent
Apply until 06 October 2026, 23:59 (Brussels time) Further information:
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very cool! Once their world extends beyond primary colors & shapes in a matrix to one w/ realistic scenes and situations incl social dynamics, will be esp cool to see how they extend meanings in new contexts, and ultimately develop a full range of constructions, almost as if they don't need UG
Simon Kirby@simonkirby.bsky.social · last wk.We uncovered spontaneous evolution of new languages in populations of AI agents. This creates extraordinary scientific opportunities but also safety risks. New blog post with about how we created a platform for studying this safely. www.schmidtsciences.org/glossogen/
UCSD Cognitive Science Department is hiring an Assistant Professor incorporating novel computational approaches in the study of biological and/or artificial intelligence. I have had the privilege of working in this department for 10 years and the intellectual environment really is unique. 1/3
trying out Slido to make lectures interactive and already a big improvement over Poll everywhere (which had required getting out of slides to share results 😬) + it's free + the nifty -o morpheme (kiddo, Zach-o, weirdo)
UC Irvine Cognitive Sciences is hiring! Focus on social cognition, broadly construed. Come be my colleague :) I am not on the search committee but happy to talk about the campus, environment, careers, etc any time. recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF10411
Assistant Professor - Cognitive Sciences
University of California, Irvine is hiring. Apply now!
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100 years of the "morph(eme)" – Bloomfield's foundational article came out in September 1926. dlc.hypotheses.org/4485
Help spread the word about the fully funded 4-yr PhD places available at the Max Planck School of Cognition. Pursue a passion for research & advance the understanding of cognition, mentored by a network of world renowned scientists. @maxplanck.de @mps-cognition.bsky.social More info & how to apply:
Application
Application; application procedure; FAQs; handbook
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Volya Kapatsinki @ U Oregon to host the LING Inst. again in 2027!! center.uoregon.edu/LSA/2027/ To propose a course, fill out by Sept 30th: oregon.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
Linguistics Society of America Summer Institute
Linguistics Society of America Summer Institute
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I'm recruiting PhD students to join my new lab in Fall 2026! The Shared Minds Lab at @usc.edu will combine deep learning and ecological human neuroscience to better understand how we communicate our thoughts from one brain to another.
there are legit concerns about LLMs, but they have important implications and offer fascinating possibilities for understanding human language By @samnastase.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Unifying the structures of language in a neural population code
Large language models (LLMs) have mastered human language in ways that no previous computational system has. While rule-based, symbolic systems suffic…
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🌊 👀 Can two simple patterns create something that really isn't there? This new paper introduces Dynamic Illusory Waves (DIWAs)—a striking illusion where relative motion gives rise to flowing, transparent phantom surfaces. Make your own: maltacogsci.org/diwa/ Full paper: doi.org/10.1177/2041...
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 · 2mo 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 · 9mo 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 · 3mo ago🥳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
