Giving Day: April 8, 2026! give.bu.edu/schools/Bost... Our students ask fundamental questions about one of humanity's most remarkable abilities: language. They are already making an impact—presenting at conferences, conducting fieldwork, and running studies in our labs. @bualumni.bsky.social

So, this marks our first 50 years. Thank you all for participating in the #BUCLD50 and for the contributions and support of our community! With all of you, we look forward to the next 50 years. Photos and other exciting materials are on the way! ##BUCLD50 #BUCLD #LanguageDevelopment

Looking for an opportunity to mentor or be mentored at #BUCLD50? PUMP is what you need — you still have one week to register! All BUCLD 50 attendees are welcome to join! You can register as a mentor or mentee at: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #BUCLD #PUMP #LanguageDevelopment #AcademicGrowth

I will be recruiting PhD students via Georgetown Linguistics this application cycle! Come join us in the PICoL (pronounced “pickle”) lab. We focus on psycholinguistics and cognitive modeling using LLMs. See the linked flyer for more details: bit.ly/3L3vcyA

We are excited to celebrate the 50th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD 50)! Join us and honor this milestone year. Location: 775 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA Find more information at www.bu.edu/bucld #BUCLD #BUCLD50 #BostonUniversity #LanguageDevelopment

Last Reminder: Hotel cutoffs are approaching, and some offers end today! You can get discounted BUCLD rates at this link — don’t miss out! www.bu.edu/bucld/attend... #BUCLD50

#BUCLD50 Call for submissions is now open. We look forward to receiving your 500-word abstracts for 20-minute talks and posters. We also encourage submissions to the BUCLD 50 Special Symposium. Submission guidelines here: www.bu.edu/bucld/calls/...

In February, Aditya Yedetore presented to ANCOR (AI Neuro and CogSci Research) at Brown University. His talk was titled "Classical computation in connectionist models" and you can read more about it and watch a recording here! brown-ancor.github.io

Attention prosepctive scholars of BlueSky! The Boston University Linguistics department is accepting applications for our MA program! Make sure you get yours in by March 15, 2025. Learn more: www.bu.edu/linguistics/... #gradschool #higherlearning #MA #mastersdegree #boston #linguistics #graduate

Hi semantics friends, this is the SALT 35 organizers at Harvard taking over from our SALT 34 at Rochester colleagues! We begin with the hopefully welcome news that this year's abstract submission deadline is now this Friday (Dec. 20), extended from this Wed Dec. 18: saltconf.github.io/salt35/

Slides from my BUCLD keynote “Sign Language Acquisition is a Human Right” are now posted on slla.lab.uconn.edu/family-asl/ (scroll to Related Presentations, open 2024)

UW-Madison Psychology is hiring a new assistant professor in the area of computational approaches to language (broadly construed). Please share with interested parties! jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...

Join us for the 49th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development! #BUCLD #LanguageDevelopment #BostonUniversity #AcademicConference #Research

The 49th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development is honored to host an incredible lineup of speakers, including: - Dr. Diane Lillo-Martin from the University of Connecticut; - Dr. Cindy Blanco from Duolingo; - Dr. Silvina Montrul from the University of Illinois; #BUCLD49

Have you booked your accomdations for #BUCLD49? You can get discounted rates at this link, but the offers end soon: bu.edu/bucld/travel...

We are thrilled to announce that starting in September 2025, we will be joined by Dr. Anthony Yacovone as an Assistant Professor of Linguistics. Dr. Yacovone specializes in language acquisition and psycholinguistics. Welcome to BU, Anthony!

Now out in Cognitive Science! We use GPT-2 to show that Bayesian surprise, which tracks changes in the content and confidence of predictions, accounts for human event boundaries in a narrative better than surprisal, which only tracks the predicted probability of individual words tinyurl.com/kd9dpub8

Prospective graduate students: 🎺

👋Hi #bsky! Just wanted to let everyone know I'll be arriving at #Stanford in fall of 2024 and I'm looking for awesome people to help me figure out language. I'm new here my network is small, so RTs would be great! 🧵👇

This form was created to facilitate the sharing of invitation codes for "Global South" scholars who may not have the same network privileges as scholars in the "Global North". Scholars who are geographically located in the "Global South" will be given priority. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...