Ahmadenijad was Iran’s Trump. Populist, jingoistic right winger who upset the apple cart. His reelection, that so many people could have voted for him, fried the brains of liberals so much that conspiracy theories were invented to explain it. Strong parallels with Trump 2016

Neurocomputational architecture for syntax/language Neuroscience & Philosophy Salon video. Great presentation by @elliot-murphy.bsky.social and discussion with @wmatchin.bsky.social and @sandervanbree.bsky.social Bonus: Check the first 17 min or so on Large Language Models youtu.be/K5wd7nHxzNw

Big thank you to @pessoabrain.bsky.social for hosting me yesterday in the Neuroscience & Philosophy Salon! The lecture focused on how properties of human language like syntax might be neurally enforced, and included some critical discussion of the LLM literature. www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5wd...

Looking for graduate students for next year! We have fully-funded positions open to study signed languages, cognitive/educational neuroscience, development, and educational technology! Email me for more info or see here: tinyurl.com/EdNeuro2026 Please share!!

It’s astonishing how much better the early seasons of love is blind are relative to the later ones.

*Neurocomputational architecture for syntax/learning* Neuroscience & Philo Salon: join our discussion with @elliot-murphy.bsky.social with commentaries by @wmatchin.bsky.social and @sandervanbree.bsky.social Nov 5, 10:30 am eastern US Register: umd.zoom.us/my/luizpesso... #neuroskyence

Is the the neuroimaging community (broadly conceived) submitting to 𝗡𝗲𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗶𝗺𝗮𝗴𝗲 again????? Not to be publication police but the shift had seemed major 1-2 years ago. Looking at the editorial board it seems to have serious scientists once more. Curious about thoughts of the community.

Let this be a motto for all of us, when we peer review: “Review the manuscript in front of you, not the one you wish existed.” @earlkmiller.bsky.social

For all the knucklehead reviewers out there. Principles for proper peer review - Earl K. Miller jocnf.pubpub.org/pub/qag76ip8... #neuroscience

With so much (boring!) AI/computational work, these positions sound quite refreshing

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...

Important paper by Sarah Schneck, @smwilson.bsky.social et al. "We found strong evidence that left posterior temporal cortex is the most critical region for language processing in post-stroke aphasia...right posterior temporal cortex made an independent contribution" www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

As it's hiring season again I'm resharing the NeuroJobs feed. Add #NeuroJobs to your post if you're recruiting or looking for an RA, PhD, Postdoc, or faculty position in Neuro or an adjacent field. bsky.app/profile/did:...

Five years ago, I pulled my hair out over the cancel culture being promulgated by liberals. Now cancel culture has returned with a vengeance, perpetrated by the right and bolstered by the full weight of state power. Depressing. The solution is robust protections for free speech.

We’re searching for TWO tenure-track cognitive neuroscientists here in the Wesleyan University Psychology Department! Apply here wesleyan.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/careers

UCDavis Psych is hiring an Assistant Professor in Human Cognition or Cognitive Neuroscience 🧠✨ Come join a vibrant, collaborative dept and live in a fun college town near Sacramento, San Francisco, Napa, and Lake Tahoe. Applications due Oct.21. Please share widely! recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07300

In my opinion, one constructive way to engage positively is to join your local union. At the university of South Carolina, this means United Campus Workers ucwsc.org and also @aaup.org Free speech rights are being eroded, workers rights attacked, and the only way forward is to fight together

@davidpoeppel.bsky.social receiving the well-deserved @snlmtg.bsky.social Distinguished Career Award David has had a lasting and deep impact on the field and on his many successful trainees. David is also known for his enjoinders to engage positively with the world. #SNL2025

Provocative piece and more interesting than most that have been written about this topic. I greatly encourage people to weigh in! My own perspective is that while there is utility to LMs, the scientific insights are greatly overstated.

Winners of the @SNLmtg #SNL2025 fitness challenge: Sigfus Kristinsson and Vaishak Harish Spirit awards: Cody Zhewei Cao @kjobson.bsky.social Hope to continue this next year at #SNL2026 in Geneva :)

Starting in less than an hour!

Watching one of my heroes Carol Padden presenting now on emerging sign languages. Rare contexts in which we can study the emergence of novel languages! @snlmtg.bsky.social #SNL2025 Padden authored the classic book Deaf in America, required reading for communication disorders students in my view.

Day 2 of #snl2025 featured wonderful talk from Dave Poeppel, interesting keynote, posters from my team, and a thought provoking panel. My brain and heart are full!

@drdyerit.bsky.social asking how we can bridge the gaps between inclusion of deaf people in discussions of cochlear implants while respecting hearing families of deaf children @snlmtg.bsky.social #SNL2025

Let me emphasize that the three positions in my department, communication sciences and disorders, are flexible in area of research and are open rank. Lots of opportunities and support for diverse research programs, from aphasia to developmental disabilities to cochlear implants to sign language

David Corina introducing the symposium on cochlear implants and sign language. Important research and policy implications. @snlmtg.bsky.social #SNL2025

@f-geranmayeh.bsky.social Fatemeh Geranmayeh’s keynote on using language models to understand stroke aphasia recovery @snlmtg.bsky.social #SNL2025

Just a reminder: fitness challenge at #SNL2025 is tomorrow!

Just a few reminders for navigating sign language and interpreting

Spectacular talk by SNL Early Career Award winner Esti Blanco Elorrieta! Much NeLLab pride, congratulations Esti! 🎉🎉 #SNL2025 @snlmtg.bsky.social

@rmc-law.bsky.social Ryan Law presenting on a unified framework for semantic memory and semantic composition in the ATL. @snlmtg.bsky.social #SNL2025

#SNL2025 Lunchtime meet and greet with NIH session has been canceled.

Excited to present this (now-published) project at the 11am poster session today. Poster C36 for the elevator version! #SNL2025 www.nature.com/articles/s44...

@neurotyler.bsky.social Tyler Perrachione discussing a transmodal language area dorsal to Broca’s area in precentral gyrus @snlmtg.bsky.social #SNL2025

Thank you so much to all of my co-authors on this paper; I certainly would not have received this award without all of the brilliant support I have gotten!

Come by @mitpress.bsky.social booth at #SNL2025 to pick up a snazzy @jneurolang.bsky.social tote bag while supplies last. I’ve got about 25-30 to give away.

Some good conclusions from David Poeppel’s Distinguished Career Award talk #snl2025

@kjobson.bsky.social just won honorable mention as paper of the year from the Neurobiology of Language for our (really her) cerebellar paper.with @ingridsbrain.bsky.social and me. direct.mit.edu/nol/article/...

Day 1 of #snl2025 was a blast! I’m so thankful that many smart and fun scientists came all this way to share in our passion for brains and languages.

Unofficial #SNL2025 @snlmtg.bsky.social fitness challenge Sunday September 14th, 12:35-12:50 pm. Meet on lawn directly out front of poster hall/Field House. All welcome! (1) Air Squats (max number 2 minutes) (2) Pushups (can do knee pushups, max number 1 minute) (3) Low Plank (longest wins)

Come join us at the @mitpress.bsky.social booth at #SNL2025 to learn more about @jneurolang.bsky.social the official journal of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language. #neuroscience #language #speech

Happy to be kicking of #SNL2025 this morning! We have a full day planned. Get your name badge and coffee in the Field House and then come to Elstad Auditorium for talks!

@snlmtg.bsky.social #SNL2025 begins!

The Department of Neuroscience at the University of Lethbridge has a tenure-track position for a neuroscientist studying brain function across the life span in nonhuman animals. Join a terrific community of researchers in a beautiful part of the country.🧠🧪 Re-post uleth.peopleadmin.ca/postings/8586

Here we go! Dr. Fumiko Hoeft presenting on dyslexia and neuroinflammation. #snl2025

The Dept. of Psychology at the U. Wisconsin–Madison has an opening for an Assistant Professor in the area of Computational Neuroscience and/or Cognitive Science, with an emphasis on artificial intelligence (AI). Domain of behavior or cognition is open. Details at jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...

University of South Carolina has *7* tenure-track faculty positions in Neurobiology of Language: tinyurl.com/USC-Faculty-... Positions in COMD, Psych, Linguistics, School of Medicine. @snlmtg.bsky.social #SNL2025, we will have a booth. w/@rutvikdesai.bsky.social @imb-uofsc.bsky.social

This article depressed me to a surprising degree. I don't know how we've allowed our society to slide into this level of obscene class distinctions. It truly is the new gilded age, now with a technological sheen. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/o...

Almost reads like Chomsky, yet Thomas Friedman of the NYT is no left-wing dove. I find it amazing that so many continue not to be able to see the obvious before their eyes. Kudos to Friedman for adding a note about US complicity (this point should be amplified more): www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/o...

summer reading part III-- went to Stemberger (1982) for an example and realized that there's a nice discussion of how we sometimes misclassify other people's variations as 'errors'. also this phrase: "just beyond the bounds of the grammatical" link.springer.com/article/10.1...