Former PhD student @jeremyyeaton.bsky.social leading: From structure to sequence: A multinomial processing tree model of syntactic encoding, w/ @gregoryhickok.bsky.social, Julius Fridriksson, Danielle Fahey, Grant Walker. t.co/pwFqyHaSkO

Ross Douthat >> @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social

Right wing threats to leave California for Texas and left wing threats to leave the country for Canada are two sides of the same coin. If you love a place and you don't like what's happening, you should stay and try to help make it better rather than leave in protest.

Conference proceedings from @cogneuronews.bsky.social 2026 in Vancouver are now published online at @jocnforum.bsky.social, @jocn.bsky.social. Congrats to the authors and the conference attendees for a great meeting! jocnf.pubpub.org/cns2026-2

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Brad Postle@bradpostle.bsky.social · 5mo ago

CNS abstracts will soon post in the Proceedings of the 2026 Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Soc., hosted as a dedicated partition of @jocnforum.bsky.social , and authors can then append their posters (or graphical abstract) as a “reply” to the abstract. E.g.s already viewable at …

A new preprint! We argue that English secretly has complementizer agreement that marks the path of filler–gap dependencies, much like in Búlí, Irish, and Wolof. Its distribution resembles FG dependency path-marking in unrel. languages, with Kiitharaka n- as the closest match. tinyurl.com/4x5f54rw

Swanky write-up of interview with me. Note: I decry the trainee arms race. But to my own trainees: don't worry, I'm going to outfight the other professors and their trainees. Writing as Labor #1: The Linguistics Professor by Trench Coat Tasks medium.com/p/writing-as...

Writing as Labor #1: The Linguistics Professor

Welcome to Writing as Labor! In this series, I explore ways that writing is — and isn’t — considered “real work.”

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Another is: 2️⃣ "numerical point prediction is not something we can nor should expect" from our models at all! Something that I think is completely lost on so many people sadly, especially in modern artificial intelligence hype rhetoric. 5/

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...

Fantastic piece on psychiatric categories. Loved the part on how personality interacts with mental illness. We shouldn’t be focusing on the categories themselves as insightful to identity but rather the practical utility that they can provide. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/o...

Opinion | Here’s What Psychiatrists Mean When They Say You Have A.D.H.D.

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Assal Rad is a fine scholar and thorough thinker. This work is sure to be insightful regarding media framing and its role in producing ideological conformity, following up on work by Chomsky, herman in manufacturing consent.

Jenny Difficult-Frecklington-Jones #IStandWithPalestine🍉🍉@joneshowdareyou.bsky.social · 3mo ago

"Humbled to share the cover of my forthcoming book. "A project born of heartbreak, urgency, and the unbearable reality of watching Israel’s genocide against Palestinians unfold in real time." — Dr Assal Rad

Yosef Grodzinsky's new book, mitpress.mit.edu/978026205200... Chomsky, the Brain, and the AI Fantasy (MIT Press), provides helpful comparisons between LLMs and human language representation and processing, and outlines important points for both research directions (linguistics, AI).

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Throwing Chomsky Under the Bus

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Collabra: Psychology is published by UC Press, a non-profit publisher. It's #openaccess and is the official journal of the Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science. Worth supporting! (read: resign from the profiteering corporate publisher you're editing for and apply to join Collabra!)

Don van Ravenzwaaij@donvanraven.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Collabra: Psychology is seeking a new senior editor for the clinical section and new associate editors for the social section. If you are interested in either of these positions and you believe you are qualified, please fill out the application form before 30 April 2026! forms.gle/DgM3484SuLVD...

New paper that merits a read (Im totally unbiased...not). Simple, straightforward, impactful message. Prediction a la LLM is nice. Constituent-constrained prediction is nicer. @jiajiezou.bsky.social and Nai Ding show brain, behavioral, MEG, ECoG data. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #neuroskyence

Constituent-constrained word prediction during language comprehension - Nature Neuroscience

Zou et al. reveal a key difference between human brains and large language models (LLMs). While LLMs are optimized to predict the next word, the human brain modulates prediction efficiency by strategi...

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Vicious cycle: Too many papers -> Review quality decreases -> More crappy papers get accepted -> People realize it's a just a numbers game and submit more papers -> Too many papers... Now add AI agents to every step of the pipeline. This is not sustainable.

“A whole civilization will die tonight” is the most vile thing a US president has ever said, certainly during the post-1945 era when they’ve had the power to kill civilizations with the dropping of a bomb. I’m staring into the darkness. May this not be one of the most fateful days in human history.

Much love to my Iranian colleagues and friends trying to live their normal lives today ♥️

John T. Hale and Team Language Cycles are searching for participants from 25 languages for The Little Prince MEG study. Get in touch via languagecycles.com/home/tlpp/. Eight years and seven rejected proposals in the making, now generously funded by the Johns Hopkins University and the @dfg.de

One of best books I have read, a definitive study of American-Iranian political relations, is ‘Going to Tehran’ by Flynt and Hillary Mann Leverett 2013). It address misconceptions and makes the case that the US needs to normalize relations with Iran. youtu.be/Z8yw4bIOYxI?...

Flynt Leverett: Going to Tehran - Conversations from Penn State

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New post in JoCNForum by @ryanhammonds.bsky.social and colleagues: "To text and back again, a vision-language model's tale" doi.org/10.21428/8e6...

To text and back again, a vision-language model's tale

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Despite many claims to the contrary, the Iranian diaspora has a diversity of opinions and feelings. Many (and probably most) are now opposed to this war. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/02/w... jacobin.com/2026/03/pro-... niacouncil.org/zogbypoll/#c...

Lost Friendships, Broken Relationships: How the War in Iran Is Dividing the Diaspora

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In other news, the proofs are up for my new paper, with a dream team of Subhs Shrestha, @linguistbrian.bsky.social, Diogo Almeida, Alec Marantz, and Rajesh Bhatt! direct.mit.edu/nol/article/...

Same Sentences, Different Grammars, Different Brain Responses?: An MEG Study on Case and Agreement Encoding in Hindi and Nepali Split-Ergative Structures

Abstract. At first glance, the brain’s language network appears to be universal, but languages clearly differ. Does the brain adapt to the specific details of individual grammatical systems? Here, we ...

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My heartfelt thanks to the linguist Denny Moore, who has done exactly what anyone investigating the Pirahã story and its aftermath should have done long ago. Namely: actually investigate. "Fact checking Geoffrety Pullum's claims about Daniel Everett in Brazil" ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/009...

Does anyone have a PDF of this book chapter? Heeschen, C. (1985). Agrammatism versus paragrammatism: A fictitious opposition. In Agrammatism (pp. 207-248). Academic Press. doi.org/10.1016/B978...

... or a full copy of your poster, like this doi.org/10.21428/8e6...

Beta oscillatory—not burst—dynamics support priority coding in working memory

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New this year at @cogneuronews.bsky.social 2026: All abstracts will be published in Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society jocnf.pubpub.org/cns2026. Functionality includes ability to append a visual abstract, like this: doi.org/10.21428/8e6...

Priority-Driven Transformation of Visual Working Memory Content

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In March 2025, there were reports of French scientist being detained and barred from entry to US because of social media posts. Are there other reports of similar situations where European academics have been detained or denied entry to US (for same or related reasons)? www.cnn.com/2025/03/20/e...

US denies French claims a space researcher was expelled over messages about Trump | CNN

Competing narratives have emerged between Washington and Paris over why a researcher was recently denied entry to the United States, in the latest example of an immigration refusal under the Trump adm...

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No war with Iran. I hope academics in US, Europe and across the world stand strong against this flagrant violation of international law by the US government, Israeli government, and their supporters.

This will be an awesome event with a variety of speakers on topics related to human creativity. sc.edu/study/colleg...

Rutvik Desai@rutvikdesai.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Announcing 2026 Conference at the Institute of Mind and Brain, U Of South Carolina

academics are some of the least funny people with some of the least awareness of that fact