The Department of Psychology at Notre Dame is hiring! We have two TT Asst Prof ads out, one in cognitive psychology and another in developmental psychology. Come be my colleague in South Bend!

It was published yesterday! I'm grateful to my co-authors for their patience as I was the main reason it has taken over a decade. I hope it's useful. Please don't forget to download the 500 video sign examples from the website. Now on to the Auslan linguistics second edition!

Cambridge University Press - Linguistics@cambup-linguistics.cambridge.org · 4w ago

Out now! Sign Language Linguistics by Schembri et al. | A uniquely international and comparative introduction to the structure and use of ASL and BSL. Find out more: ☑️ https://cup.org/4uu0pfg

Another Oxford postdoc opportunity - come work with me or any of my colleagues. This scheme requires a prior UK connection. Internal deadline: July 8. www.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/news/2026/05...

Remember scientists aren’t giving up. After the Trump administration redirected Climate.gov and dismissed many of the federal employees who maintained it, former staff members launched a new independent website called Climate.us to help keep trusted climate information available to the public.

We are looking to fill an open-rank position in Sociolinguistics in Oxford, in conjunction with Worcester College. Come be a part of the exciting developments in language and linguistics in Oxford! www.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/news/2026/05...

Can't wait for this conference! Register now! iccg14.oa-event.com

My current position will be coming to a close at the end of 2026, so I’m beginning to explore next steps. I’m a postdoctoral researcher at UCL working at the intersection of language, cognition, and multimodal communication. 1/4 👇

paper out, hope it's useful doi.org/10.1017/S009... #linguistics

I wouldn't mind hosting a postdoc doing work in Construction Grammar and/or Scandinavian Linguistics: www.forschung.uni-kiel.de/en/research-...

There's still time to save Tony's life. Add your name to the petition to tell Tennessee to test all the forensic evidence before they execute a potentially innocent man.

No Wrongful Execution for Tony Carruthers

Tony Carruthers was convicted without physical evidence, based solely on testimony from informants. Now, Tony is scheduled for execution on May 21st by Tennessee after being forced to represent himsel...

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Perhaps more ink has been spilled on the topic of Island Constraints than any other such phenomenon in theoretical linguistics. In new work with @kmahowald, we study how LMs process such phenomenon, using techniques from mechanistic interpretability to guide our exploration. 🧵👇

We now have a complete set of teaching case studies on our law and language website! 🤗🥳 These case studies share the experience of 8 Australian academics who have incorporated a law and language focus into their teaching, across diverse, units, disciplines and universities.

Teaching Case Studies

In 2025, the LLIRN ran its first internship program, with the goal of developing a set of peer-informed resources to support those wishing to incorporate a law and language focus into their teachin…

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These two books contain the sum total of all human knowledge

Here are the stories of some of the human beings who died horrific deaths from preventable disease because Trump and Musk and their flunkies decided to murder them by gleefully destroying USAID and the entire global aid system:

Trump Officials Celebrated With Cake After Slashing Aid. Then People Died of Cholera.

Behind closed doors in Washington, top advisers made a series of decisions that had devastating repercussions for the poorest country on earth. We went to South Sudan and found people who died as a re...

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From maybe the best teacher I know: Idan Blank explains transformers in a super intuitive and fun way!

Adele Goldberg@adelegoldberg.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Idan Blank (UCLA, psych) makes the complex intuitive if you want to learn how LLMs work, watch👇 newly posted to YouTube (no ads) www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGMn...

👀 Je cherche des participants pour une expérience sur la créativité linguistique, la participation ne dure que 10 minutes et vous pouvez gagner un bon d'achat de la Fnac! Participez en cliquant sur le lien suivant: www.lingexp.uni-tuebingen.de/OnExp2/onexp...

ExLing lab news: Kudos to undergraduate researchers Lucia Lamagna, Sarah Wu, and Shayna Ramirez for winning a “high distinction” award from Purdue’s Undergraduate Research Expo for their poster mentored by Dr. Kyle Swanson and Dr. Vanessa Sheu! www.cla.purdue.edu/news/college...

📣 Check out how verb-specific knowledge updates incrementally as distributional learning takes place: our first paper on prediction and learning (with Amanda Owen Van Horne @telllab.bsky.social and Yi-Lun Weng) is out!

Learning through prediction: a case of verb bias learning

Linguistic prediction, which emerges from experience, is a pervasive process in language comprehension. However, how prediction develops as learning unfolds and how it drives the learning process r...

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These dogs are having the time of their lives following this week's historic blizzard in the Northeast. Please enjoy. 14/10 for all

Are you a junior faculty member interested in spending 2-4 weeks at Princeton Psych? Consider applying for our Microsabbatical program! It’s a fully funded visit for professional development and creating long-term collaborations. psych.princeton.edu/diversity/mi...

My mother requested a real ID twice and was denied. The second time I was with her and it was because her birth certificate is from Puerto Rico and included two surnames instead of the one maiden name listed on her marriage certificate. This policy will systematically disenfranchise women.

estarianne@estarianne.bsky.social · 6mo ago

I do not have a realID drivers license because it was too much of a pain to find all of the required documents. I can vote b/c I have a passport, but realID drivers licenses are not negligible trouble to get.

The Interaction Engine by Stephen C. Levinson: https://doi.org/10.21428/e2759450.e3df24b2

At no point in this reading this headline would I have correctly guessed what the next word would be.

The Register@theregister.com · 6mo ago

ICYMI: Fukushima's radioactive hybrid terror pig boom was driven by amorous mothers

I wrote a short article on AI Model Evaluation for the Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science 📕👇 Hope this is helpful for anyone who wants a super broad, beginner-friendly intro to the topic! Thanks @mcxfrank.bsky.social and @asifamajid.bsky.social for this amazing initiative!

Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science bot@oecs-bot.bsky.social · 6mo ago

AI Model Evaluation by Jennifer Hu: https://doi.org/10.21428/e2759450.b0757e8d

THEY ARE BUYING UP WAREHOUSES TO HOLD HUMAN BEINGS IN DETENTION INDEFINITELY. I feel crazy at how everyone is acting like this is normal. These are concentration camps being built right before our eyes. These buildings are not meant to house human beings. People will be caged like cattle and die.

What shouldn’t be “radical” — but unfortunately we live in a world where it is — is the idea that *every* child deserves to be able to see their dreams come true. That’s what I saw.

The Trump admin’s whole case regarding Haitians in Ohio is racism, xenophobia, and lies. There’s literally nothing else to it. Legal status, proper papers. No criminal record. Employers, neighbors, local leaders say they’re a benefit to the community. It’s showy, bigoted cruelty, nothing more.

Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH@gavinyamey.bsky.social · 6mo ago

“about 350,000 Haitians will lose their status on Tuesday — ending their right to live and work in the United States legally and putting them at risk of immediate detention and deportation”

Reminder that, as of the latest reports, Liam Ramos is still in prison in Texas - now for 5 days. His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record.

American Federation of Government Employees union president condemns the murder of AFGE Council 238 member Alex Pretti by ICE.

I just created a series of seven deep-dive videos about AI, which I've posted to youtube and now here. 😊 Targeted to laypeople, they explore how LLMs work, what they can do, and what impacts they have on learning, well-being, disinformation, the workplace, the economy, and the environment.

Part 1: How do LLMs work?

YouTube video by Andrew Perfors

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