Virtual reading group, US syntax friends?

Going to piano class after failing to practice the whole week really makes me understand my students 😅😭😂

Oxford pretends AI benchmarks are science, not marketing How could all these benchmarks be fake, it’s a mystery www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcYZ... - video pivottoai.libsyn.com/20251106-oxf... - podcast time: 6 min 16 sec

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I beg Utahns to learn how to use public transport

Conference FOMO but also if I had gone I would be dying cuz this time of the semester is 🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃

I am sadly not at #NWAV53 BUT UofU stellar MA Student Lex Putnam will present a Project Launch at tomorrow’s poster session. We’d love feedback! Go say hi if you can, Lex is great!!

I'd love to move back to NYC so could all the billionaires get to fleeing already

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“We are told that AI is inevitable, that we must adapt or be left behind. But universities are not tech companies. Our role is to foster critical thinking, not to follow industry trends uncritically.”

As a linguist, this is bullshit. McWhorter’s deal is to bend over backwards to excuse racism.

i think if you ride public transit enough you learn that most weird behavior is not dangerous, and conversely i think driving a car teaches you that everyone is trying to kill you at all times

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How is it still/already the end of October? 😭

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Ah yes, such good “theories” of language 🙃🙃🙃

My fav donut place in town is closing 😭😭😭😭😭😭

> “Universities are not tech companies,” Olivia Guest and Iris van Rooij, two computational cognitive scientists at Radboud University in the Netherlands[.] “Our role is to foster critical thinking,” the researchers said, “not to follow industry trends uncritically.”

If I had to read one more paper that has a beautifully designed human experiment and then “ah we also tested chatGPT” 🙃

cannot believe on some level I & my colleagues have turned the tide on this, but also it was in some senses inevitable as why not! Humans can do anything; we still have a way to go however of course, but: banning AI in the classroom should be as uncontroversial as banning calculators in early maths

this

Critical AI Literacy Symposium, with Dagmar Monett, @lucyavraamidou.bsky.social & Miquel Pérez Torres, Linda Mannila, and @olivia.science 🎬 Video recording: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fxyg... 📢 Symposium website: www.ru.nl/en/about-us/... 🤔 Critical AI Literacy website: www.ru.nl/en/research/...

We're surveying researchers about name changes in academic publishing. If you've changed your name and dealt with updating publications, we want to hear your experience. Any reason counts: transition, marriage, cultural reasons, etc. forms.cloud.microsoft/e/E0XXBmZdEP

so cool how the worst software ever developed is the de facto standard for university course administration internationally

Prospective graduate students: Purdue Linguistics is having a virtual open house on Friday, Nov 7 at 12:00pm EST. You can sign up here: lnkd.in/g8XimXcG Please note that I am not recruiting any new graduate students but several of my wonderful Purdue colleagues are.

Once in a while a friend will casually text me something that immediately makes me deeply miss NYC

High school teachers PLEASE talk with researchers about what conducting and publishing research implies BEFORE designing a class that requires your students to do that (to publish!!!?!) and then outsourcing the labor 😭

And we get told we are "inefficient" while be accommodating increasing number of students with fewer and fewer resources

Hi y'all interested in a tenure-track assistant professorship in #linguistics / #psycholinguistics / #NLP / #compling etc? There's a national competition in Sweden for funding for a position for which you need to be nominated to apply. If you have <5yr PhD age, please email or DM me...

Bluesky friends recs on the best way to get from Amsterdam to Utrecht?

Gave a talk on AI hype Friday, but one of the things I learned during was that Sora 2 collects biometric data on its participants to generate videos. You basically scan your face. OpenAI has been hungry for biometric data for a while, or at least Sam Altman has. why? 1/

Want to Yellowstone for the first time, it was gorgeous and two days without internet were a blessing. BUT also I learned that camping is really not for me lol

Am I becoming a camping person? 🙃

Rainy day and Tamales 🫔🖤

The new Bob’s Burgers episode is so cute

Worth reading, paycholinguists

One thing I do appreciate about my job is that I can randomly change my lecture plan so that I can fit a cool meme in my slides 😅

<Ani you have too many experiments/projects at early stages and ongoing you cannot start a new one please>

In better news a brilliant undergrad student working with me is making progress on a cool experiment with quantifiers sooooo 🤓

University lawyers 🙃🙃🙃

FYI US immigrant applications still ask you if you have been affiliated with the “Communist party”

I had a few hours to actually write today but instead I have to fill in immigration documents 😭

Posting on behalf of Tamar Gollan, who is not on Bluesky: A postdoc position is open and available immediately in Dr. Tamar Gollan’s Laboratory of Aging Bilingualism at the University of California, San Diego, funded by NIH & NSF. See link for details! psychiatry.ucsd.edu/about/LAB_Go...

I underestimated how tricky this pierce was gonna be for my level and now I have to learn it in three weeks 😭😭

Small wins

I was looking for this so I will also repost it! Great resources with plenty of things to thinks about and links to send to colleagues, students, administrators (sigh)

Ah yes, now Delta charges you extra to get your milage counted. Awesome. 5 stars capitalism.

Finally a rainy Fall day and I have to be in my office typing silly words on a computer instead of on my couch with tea/cocoa and a book.

I am once again ask- begging you all to at least flip through some 1990s issues of Connection Science before squeezing out yet another "novel" analysis or position paper on LLMs as cognitive models

Sigh