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Liberty Hamilton

@libertysays.bsky.social

Studying speech using intracranial recordings and EEG. Opinions my own. https://hamiltonlab.org

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Liberty Hamilton@libertysays.bsky.social · 5mo ago

I’ve really enjoyed being a part of the Cold Spring Harbor Genetics and Neurobiology of Language course and getting to know the fantastic and creative trainees and faculty who have made this such a great experience. Apply!

Simon Fisher@profsimonfisher.bsky.social · 5mo ago

“An absolute highlight of my career so far. Academically, I was challenged, provoked, & inspired. I loved how much discussion & thought we packed in, broadening my outlook on the study of language.” Kind words from an alumnus of our summer course. Apply by April 10: meetings.cshl.edu/courses.aspx...

Flyer with information about the Genetics & Neurobiology of Language summer course at Cold Spring Harbor, held on July 27th to August 3rd 2026, applications due by April 10th 2026. Instructors are Simon Fisher from the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Netherlands, David Poeppel from New York University and Kate Watkins from the University of Oxford, UK. The course description is as follows: Why are children able to acquire highly sophisticated language abilities without needing to be taught? What are the neurobiological and neurophysiological processes that underpin human speech and language, and how do they go awry in developmental and acquired disorders? Which genetic factors contribute to this remarkable suite of human skills, and are there evolutionary precursors that we can study in other species? This unique CSHL course, in its sixth iteration, addresses these core questions about the bases and origins of speech and language, through talks, interactive sessions, keynotes and debates, involving leading experts from a range of disciplines. It integrates the state-of-the-art from complementary perspectives, including development, cognitive models, neural basis, gene identification, functional genomics, model systems and comparative/evolutionary studies. The invited speakers are: Jennifer Below, Vanderbilt University Elika Bergelson, Harvard University Esti Blanco-Elorrieta, New York University Jonathan Brennan, University of Michigan Karen Emmorey, San Diego State University Evelina Fedorenko, MIT Julia Fischer, Cognitive Ethology Laboratory, Germany Tecumseh Fitch, University of Vienna, Austria Adeen Flinker, NYU Langone Timothy Gentner, University of California, San Diego Liberty Hamilton, UC Berkeley Catherine Hobaiter, Wild Minds Lab, University of St. Andrews, UK Sonja Vernes, The University of St. Andrews, UK Sandra Waxman, Northwestern University For funding opportunities and additional course information, please go to: meetings.cshl.edu/courses
Liberty Hamilton@libertysays.bsky.social · 5mo ago

I am thrilled to announce that our group has received a new grant from the Shurl and Kay Curci Foundation to study the neural dynamics of vocal learning in children! I am looking for a postdoc to join us in this effort, currently funded for 2 years. Please reach out with CV and letter of interest.

Liberty Hamilton@libertysays.bsky.social · last yr.

Excited to announce that my lab has moved to UC Berkeley Dept of Neuroscience and Dept of Statistics! I will be continuing to collaborate with colleagues and students in TX at UT Austin and Baylor College of Medicine, and will start new collabs in the Bay. Will be taking new grad students this fall!

andrea e. martin @andreaeyleen.eurosky.social · last yr.

my lab (lacns.github.io) at @mpi-nl.bsky.social and @dondersinst.bsky.social is recruiting for two PhD and two postdoctoral positions funded by an @erc.europa.eu Consolidator - come join us! PhD: www.mpi.nl/career-educa... Postdoc: www.mpi.nl/career-educa... (please share widely)

Language and Computation in Neural Systems

We are an international group of scientists consisting of linguists, cognitive scientists, cognitive neuroscientists, computational neuroscientists, computational modellers, computational scientists, ...

lacns.github.io

Stand Up for Science!@standupforscience.net · last yr.

HAPPY 75th, NSF! We’re celebrating this milestone by highlighting some of NSF’s most transformative accomplishments—innovations that have shaped our world and continue to drive progress in health, technology, the environment, and beyond. Read on 🧵(1/11):

A chocolate cake with red and white decorations and lit candles shaped as the number 75. Bold text reads: ‘The NSF Turns 75 Today. What has it done over the past 7 decades?’ The background is a celebratory red with a spray-paint texture.
Alexandra Witze@alexwitze.bsky.social · last yr.

It's not just Columbia, it's not just DEI, and it's not just biomedical research: Trump's war on universities has frozen crucial science at institutions like Princeton, Cornell, Northwestern, and more. Our @nature.com team spoke to some of the affected scientists: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

How Trump’s attack on universities is putting research in peril

Scientists have little information as the US government freezes and cancels their funding.

nature.com

emily sunshine@threnody.northsky.social · last yr.

hi, cis folks! if we *are* going to talk ACA, RFK's HHS proposed a rule to remove *all trans care* from ACA essential health benefit status. ~25mil people are insured by ACA & if 1% are trans, that's 250,000 people who'd lose access to care. that's bad! take 2 minutes to stand with trans people.🧵

Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; Marketplace Integrity and Affordability

This proposed rule would revise standards relating to past-due premium payments; exclude Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals recipients from the definition of "lawfully present"; the evidentiary st...

federalregister.gov

Barack Obama@barackobama.bsky.social · last yr.

Figured I’d hop on here today for the 15th anniversary of the Affordable Care Act. With everything going on right now, it’s easy to feel like regular folks can’t make a difference – but the ACA is a reminder that change is possible when we fight for progress.

Liberty Hamilton@libertysays.bsky.social · last yr.

This was an interesting commentary to write on work by Binder et al. regarding impaired acoustic phonetic perception after unilateral left hemisphere stroke. academic.oup.com/brain/advanc...

Converging and conflicting evidence for left temporal lobe regions in acoustic-phonetic perception

This scientific commentary refers to ‘Lesion correlates of impaired acoustic-phonetic perception after unilateral left hemisphere stroke’ by Binder et al.

academic.oup.com

Liberty Hamilton@libertysays.bsky.social · last yr.

Very cool work from Iowa intracranial group on auditory responses in insula! Consistent with fast responses in this area during speech listening we saw in our recent paper www.jneurosci.org/content/44/4...

Spatiotemporal Mapping of Auditory Onsets during Speech Production

The human auditory cortex is organized according to the timing and spectral characteristics of speech sounds during speech perception. During listening, the posterior superior temporal gyrus is organi...

jneurosci.org

bioRxiv Neuroscience@biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · last yr.

Human insula neurons respond to simple sounds during passive listening https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.12.642819v1