Amazon's "Track Package" button should really be called "Package Trackage"

Seeking two ARR emergency reviewers for papers about steering. Please let me know if you'd be able to help out!

Today at #acl2026nlp: Check out the panel on "Linguistics and NLP in the LLM Era", featuring Allyson Ettinger, @futrell.bsky.social, Zoey Liu, and me! 2:00 - 3:30 in Gaslamp C&D

Seeking two ARR emergency reviewers for papers about steering. Please let me know if you'd be able to help out!

Very meta!

Maria Antoniak@mariaa.bsky.social · last mo.

And now also seeking a third emergency reviewer for an #EMNLP2026 paper about peer review.

I'm looking for two emergency reviewers for #EMNLP2026 papers about cultural benchmarking and cultural reasoning. Please send me an email if you would be able to help me out in the next few days!

Today at CoNLL (paper links in thread): 1️⃣ 2:00 - 3:30 poster session (Harbor C): Zhenghao Herbert Zhou on what children's filler-gap input looks like! 2️⃣ 4:00 - 5:30 talk session (Harbor C): Claire Hobbs on how input statistics can support the learning of abstract syntactic rules!

My hotel room is on the fourth floor - putting the "linguistics" in "ACL"!

In San Diego for #acl2026nlp! Excited to talk to people about connections between CogSci, Linguistics, and AI

I'm developing a new type of Transformer that has no normalization in its softmax. I call it undivided attention.

🚨New preprint!🚨 We know that LM representations can be used to predict brain responses to language. But what *features* of these representations underlie this alignment? We use SAEs to find out!

Wrote today's NYT crossword - enjoy!

This is a funny title once you realize that Jane Austen wrote exactly 6 books Other listicles I want to see: - "The 11 most enjoyable months" - "The 49 greatest US states" - "The 25 most useful letters of the alphabet"

🤖🧠NEW PAPER🧠🤖 Children & neural networks can learn syntax from linear strings of words. How do they do it? Our hypothesis: Word co-occurrence statistics provide cues to syntax! (I.e., a new type of bootstrapping to consider!) Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2605.20529 1/n

Hiring! Athulya Aravind and I are looking for a full-time Postgraduate Associate at Yale (Linguistics/Psychology). The position is designed as preparation for PhD applications in linguistics, cog sci, or psychology, including structured mentoring and research training. tinyurl.com/mrxjya5t

🤖🧠 New commentary 🧠🤖 What role should large language models (LLMs) play in linguistics? I reflect on this question in a commentary now on arXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2605.10061 To appear in BBS as a commentary on @futrell.bsky.social and @kmahowald.bsky.social's excellent piece on LLMs & Linguistics!

New opinion piece on the interface between research on concepts and categories in minds vs. in neural network LMs! I take the position that there is much to be learned from this interface (e.g., learning about concepts from language alone) and outline some directions for future.

Scientific American has a piece today on NACLO (the linguistics competition) by @dodecalemma.bsky.social! Features some quotes and puzzles by yours truly!

Scientific American@sciam.bsky.social · 5mo ago

For 20 years, this computational linguistics competition has inspired new generations of innovators in AI and language preservation

What's the endgame for people who mass-email conference organizers saying that they'd like to review papers? I've gotten several such requests in the past few months

I need one too!

I could use an emergency reviewer for an ACL submission involving interpretability and syntax. Please DM me if you might be able to provide an emergency review before February 15!

I like the three consecutive dots in the word "hijinks". They're like an ellipsis telling you that the hijinks will continue.

I'm excited to be speaking at Carnegie Mellon today - it's where I got my start as a researcher (a summer job making a finite-state morphological analyzer for Kinyarwanda), and it's fun to be back! Say hi if you're around! www.lti.cs.cmu.edu/misc-pages/l...

🚨Calling all fans of analyzing neural networks: There will be a workshop at Yale in the spring that you should come to! (May 11 to May 13)

@pentagonalize.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Announcing the first Workshop on Formal Languages and Neural Networks (FLaNN)! We invite the submission of abstracts for posters that discuss the formal expressivity, computational properties, and learning behavior of neural network models, including large language models (LLMs).

Announcing the first Workshop on Formal Languages and Neural Networks (FLaNN)! We invite the submission of abstracts for posters that discuss the formal expressivity, computational properties, and learning behavior of neural network models, including large language models (LLMs).

These products flagrantly violate the rules of English compounds! "Reese's Oreo" should be a type of Oreo, not a type of Reese's!

Congratulations to all of the new ACL fellows!! I'm delighted to see @lorislevin.bsky.social recognized. She's the person who introduced me to computational linguistics, and my scientific outlook has been deeply shaped by her views on the relationship between linguistics & NLP. 1/n

ACL@aclmeeting.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Delighted to announce that the Nominating Committee has selected 11 new ACL fellows for 2025: www.aclweb.org/portal/conte.... Many congratulations to all the new ACL fellows! For more information on the ACL fellowship, please see: aclweb.org/aclwiki/ACL_... #NLP #NLProc

A fantastic department - highly recommend applying!

JHU Cognitive Science@jhucogsci.bsky.social · 8mo ago

We are seeking candidates for two tenured/tenure-track faculty positions: One in high-level vision, written language and/or conceptual representation apply.interfolio.com/178825 One in language apply.interfolio.com/178813 Please help us spread the word!

Me giving my account number to a customer service rep: "That's 2 as in twenty-three, 7 as in seven hundred six, 1 as in fourteen, 1 as in fourteen, 0 as in...well...uh..."

Still waiting for Google to release Ge (the large version of Gemini)