Deadline Oct 16: Assoc or full (tenured) prof, Artificial Intelligence, Entertainment, and Human Communication, Communication Studies, Northwestern Uni. communication.northwestern.edu/docs/soc-sen...

new preprint: "Directing large language models to follow the letter or spirit of the law" arxiv.org/pdf/2609.23083 (by Qian , Li, Chen, Murthy @soniakmurthy.bsky.social , Belinkov, and me) this is particularly cool/important, and I'm allowed to say it because it was headed by @pqian.bsky.social

Stanford Linguistics is hiring an open-rank sociolinguist (Assistant, Associate, or Full). Materials due October 16 for full consideration; start date September 2027. Please share widely!

Sociolinguistics, Open Rank - Stanford University, California, United States

The Department of Linguistics at Stanford University seeks applicants for a junior or senior appointment at the rank of tenure-track Assistant Professor, tenured Associate Professor, or Full Professor...

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(1/2) We’re excited to announce the Algonauts Project Challenge 2027 with CNeuroMod: How The Human Brain Makes Sense of Video Games 🎮 🧠 Launching end of 2026. Top 3 teams will present at CCN 2027 in Edinburgh. algonautsproject.com/2027/ #Algonauts2027 #NeuroAI #CompNeuro #fMRI

Since many are starting grad school soon, let me re-share my One Big Tip™️ for research! Research involves many skills - collaborating, writing, presenting, etc. But many of these skills can be unified under a single overarching ability: theory of mind Blog post link in reply

Our #CogSci2026 paper on **self-reported variations in inner language** got the Disciplinary Diversity & Integration Award (philosophy + cogsci!) Paper: escholarship.org/uc/item/1qr6... +a journal-length preprint coming soon By Raquel Krempel, Jin Li @ruimingao.bsky.social @ruifengyu.bsky.social

Catching up on email while stuck at an airport post #CCN2026 with half the outbound flights cancelled... Solidarity to others in this position

Excited to be at #CCN2026 in NYC! I’ll be presenting our poster, “Divergent Scaling Patterns in the Auditory Cortex vs. Other Brain Regions Reveal Distinct Sources of LLM–Brain Alignment,” with @neuranna.bsky.social 📌 Poster B78 · Session B 🗓️ Tuesday, August 4 Come say hi and check it out!

The language, intelligence & thought (LIT) lab is presenting at #CCN2026 on Tuesday! 1/

Thrilled to be on the board of this new OA journal that fills a critical niche! Kudos to the co-Editors-in-Chief (@lisik.bsky.social,KendrickKay,ElliePavlick) and a big TY to @mitpress.bsky.social for supporting this important effort! JIT for @cogcompneuro.bsky.social :) Send us your stuff (soon!)

Minds, Machines, and Brains (MMB)@mmb-journal.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Hello world! 👋 We’re Minds, Machines, and Brains (MMB) 👤🤖🧠 a new open access journal from @mitpress.bsky.social exploring the principles of intelligence and cognition across natural and artificial minds. Submissions open this Fall! 🔗 direct.mit.edu/mmb

Scaling laws for group-constrained, subject-specific task fMRI analyses https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.07.22.740076v1

New preprint! Scaling laws for functional ROI analyses with fMRI. A truly impressive detailed work by @ruimingao.bsky.social #neuroskyence 🧠🧪

Ruimin Gao 高睿敏@ruimingao.bsky.social · 2mo ago

How many subjects do you actually need for reliable task fMRI studies? Much larger samples are often recommended—but that depends on how you analyze the data. New preprint with @neuranna.bsky.social biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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!

What makes an AI agent capable of deception? We explore this question in our new position piece! It's been super fun to brainstorm on this non-trivial & consequential topic with @eyasayesh.bsky.social and team. Preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps... Thread: ⬇️

Eyas Ayesh@eyasayesh.bsky.social · 3mo ago

🚨New position piece! “Deception-Enabling Cognitive Capabilities in AI Systems” 🧠🤖 w/ @dobyrahnev.bsky.social @apurvaratan.bsky.social @neuranna.bsky.social To better identify and mitigate deceptive AI behaviors, we need a deeper understanding of their complex and multifaceted nature...🧵👇

Excited to participate in a GAC discussion at #CCN2026 on Aug 4th! Is NeuroAI on the right track? What are the most glaring issues? Comment below and help us prepare for our panel discussion! sites.google.com/ccneuro.org/...

CogCompNeuro@cogcompneuro.bsky.social · 4mo ago

#CCN2026 will feature three GAC debates: Does NeuroAI adopt suitable methods & frameworks to understand mind & brain? Do world models emerge in prediction networks? Should neural population activity explain representations or transformations? The review period is now open. 🖥️ 2026.ccneuro.org/gac

I’ve done informal tests on LLMs like that - cool to see them evaluated at scale!

Bella Fascendini@bellafascendini.bsky.social · 3mo ago

New paper! w/ @cocoscilab.bsky.social🧵Can large language models reason flexibly, or have they learned what reasoning looks like? We introduce a new paradigm to test this question—the riddle riddle—and find that humans and LLMs show opposite patterns of performance. 📜

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Ruimin Gao, Anna A. Ivanova, et al: The language network responds robustly to sentences across tasks doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

Other good alternatives are Collabra Psychology, which has a low APC and like Open Mind is run by a university press (not a giant commercial publisher!); or Cognitive Science, which despite being Wiley is owned by the Cogsci Society so its profits go to the scientific community

—— 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

After a break, the #WiAIR Women in AI Research Podcast is back! Our next guest is Anna Ivanova @neuranna.bsky.social from Georgia Tech, whose research tackles a fundamental question in AI and cognitive science: 🧠 What is the relationship between language and thought? Don't miss!

AI is intelligence without cognition goodinternet.substack.com/p/intelligen... but anendophasia, thinking sans inner monologue, is fascinating. I described it as "surfing concept clouds" a while ago, today i'd simply say that thinking in vectors is the underlying mode of all thinking.

A Quiet Mind: On the lack of inner speech

Surfing Concept Clouds in Neuro Skies.

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Anna (Anya) Ivanova@neuranna.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Thanks to the Weber School for inviting me to give a #TEDx talk! I discuss how much people vary in their inner thought — from thinking mainly in words to thinking mostly abstractly — and the implications it has for understanding AI cognition. youtu.be/WAm0XQIRBMw

Thanks to the Weber School for inviting me to give a #TEDx talk! I discuss how much people vary in their inner thought — from thinking mainly in words to thinking mostly abstractly — and the implications it has for understanding AI cognition. youtu.be/WAm0XQIRBMw

Do We Think In Words? Does AI? | Anna Ivanova | TEDxWeber School Youth

YouTube video by TEDx Talks

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Very excited to share that my lab will be moving to Princeton (Neuroscience & Psychology) this fall. I'll be recruiting at all levels (more info to come soon), please share / get in touch if you're interested in joining!

Now out in Imaging Neuroscience! The language network responds robustly to sentences across tasks doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

Ruimin Gao 高睿敏@ruimingao.bsky.social · 10mo ago

A left frontal-temporal network selectively supports language comprehension and production. Are computations in this language network driven primarily by bottom-up input, or by top-down task demands? 🧵👇 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Professor Anina Rich was presenting her work on decoding the temporal profiles of synaesthetic versus real colours - how can we use MEG to assess different theories of synaesthesia? #synaesthesia @mqpsy.bsky.social #synesthesia

🧠We are looking for enthusiastic postdoctoral researchers working at the intersection of machine learning, neuroscience, and embodied intelligence. Please help spread the word! 🚀

🚨 We're hiring! 🚨 I'm looking for a postdoctoral researcher to join my ERC-funded project on fetal brain development in multilingual contexts. 🧠 🤰🗣️ 📍Aix-en-Provence/Marseille, France 📅 Start: September 2026 Full ad: olgakepinska.com/wp-content/u... Please reach out with any questions!

🚨New preprint alert! 🚨 Do multimodal LLMs (VLMs) reason about high-level visual perception like humans do? We asked over 2000 human observers and 18 VLMs to describe scenes using 15 different tasks, ranging from general knowledge, affordances, affect, sensory experiences, and future prediction. 1/

Just finished my metareviews for #CogSci2026 . I've been really impressed by the quality of the reviews! Thoughtful, polite, zero AI slop. Thanks all for taking the time to read the papers and provide insightful comments.

Language, Intelligence & Thought lab is looking for a lab manager! This is a 2-year postbac position that will allow you to gain experience in human neuroscience, cognitive science, and AI research prior to applying to PhD programs. Express interest here: forms.gle/npXEGUjGUbp5...