Call for a PhD position in Cognitively inspired natural language processing with Lisa Beinborn and me. Part of the new SPP "Robust Assessment & Safe Applicability of Language Modelling: Foundations for a New Field of Language Science & Technology” (LaSTing). huds.uni-goettingen.de/assets/Call_...

Come join us in Göttingen if you're curious about curiosity.

Another amazing project our RTG is part of!

MB7 (Curiosity in early development) design meeting is tomorrow (18.3.26) at 9AM and 5PM CET. We will introduce our research question, paradigms currently being considered and our plan to invite proposals for further design suggestions. Sign up here manybabies.org/MB7/ or join the MB7-design Slack

So very true - just had someone ask me to send them the stimuli from an experiment we ran 15 years ago. Not only did it send me down memory lane looking for the stimuli and what my lab was doing 15 years ago, but just the thrill that someone is interested in what I did 15 years ago.

New @sfb1528.bsky.social and @rtg2906-curiosity.bsky.social publication. We show that mothers are worthy of the pedagogical assumption: they preferentially sample information that fills their child's knowledge gaps and children learn best from maternal sampling: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

2 new papers: Madhavan et al study the dynamics of episodes of joint attention in caregiver-infant interactions. We find that infants initiate more episodes of joint attention and more often to familiar objects. Mothers follow infants' attention to label familiar objects more doi.org/10.1098/rsos...

💥New paper alert! Dyadic Decisions About Effort: How Caregivers Shape Young Children’s Persistence (with @reutshachnai.bsky.social) One of my favorites! If you’re curious about what we’ve been up to in @leonardlearnlab.bsky.social, take a look! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Early career researcher: Are you thinking about writing an ERC , Emmy Noether Proposal, or Lower Saxony AI Group application, and are you interested to work with us at @uni-goettingen.de and @goettingen-campus.de

One more week to apply for the PhD position on curiosity in early development (B4) in my group!

Now open 🚨 Call for Applications: at least 40 Doctoral Positions in the Social Sciences, Humanities & Cultural Studies @univie.ac.at Reach out if you are interested in applying for a position with me @kinderstudien.bsky.social in @vdscobene.bsky.social careers.univie.ac.at/en/praedoc/p...

If you recently finished your PhD in ML for life science and are looking for a new job early next year, please apply! Göttingen is a lovely town and a great scientific environment.

🔬 We're hiring a Junior Group Leader for Data-Driven Digital Twins/System Models in medicine/life sciences at @uni_goettingen! Perfect opportunity for early-career researchers who want to: - Lead their own research group - Work at the intersection of AI, simulation, and biomedicine

Curious about curiosity? Join us in Göttingen in our RTG Curiosity funded by @dfg.de

We are advertising **11 new PhD positions** in the second cohort of our RTG on Curiosity (details on all 11 positions here: www.uni-goettingen.de/de/open+posi...). One of these positions is in my group looking at the role of curiosity in early word learning (www.uni-goettingen.de/en/644546.ht...)

Do older siblings help or hinder language development? And does it matter if they’re sisters or brothers? In our new paper we revisit the "birth order effect"... and took it a step further! w/ @julienmayor.bsky.social, Nora Serres and Natalia Kartushina 🙌 🧵 1/ #DevSci #langsky #devpsy

Fully funded PhD on the "Origins of Infant Word Learning" @lancasteruni.bsky.social Supervisor team: Jill Lany, Perrine Brusini, @alissaferry.bsky.social, & @gertwestermann.bsky.social #PsycSci #DevPsyc #PhDSky #AcademicSky 🧪

How Do We Learn Language? Ever wonder how babies learn language? We've got answers! Join us for a fascinating chat with Prof. Nivedita Mani @nivimani.bsky.social from Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, as we uncover the secrets of infant language acquisition. 🔗 youtu.be/M57a0VelgY8

So much fun talking to Svilen about the work going on in our lab. Great questions and a really engaging conversation.

To accompany all those Bluesky science/academia #starterpacks, how about we also share introductions to the literature of our different fields. I present here a handy guide to main types of papers in the language sciences (inspired by the amazing @xkcd.com). #language #linguistics #science #academia

New paper in #ProcB with @alexmesoudi.com, @jfbonnefon.bsky.social, @rmcelreath.bsky.social and Rob Boyd. We investigate how social learning shapes the way we explore and show that it can even preserve useless theories! 🧵👇

Just published: our validated 23-item parent report measure of curiosity in infants 5-24 months of age (ITCQ), a single measure with subscales of sensory, investigative and interactive curiosity. With Elena Altmann, @marinabazhydai.bsky.social, Didar Karadag. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

New paper out with Alina Matzerath, Hyo Gweon and @nivimani.bsky.social 🥳🎄 Infants (6-15 months) followed the gaze of an adult, a 5-year-old child, and an 11-month-old infant. Thus, infants consider not only adults but also peers and young children as potentially interesting social partners👶

Our graduate school on Curiosity officially started this month and our Theory kick-off is all set to get us inspired, thinking and talking to one another. While the in-person events are for graduate school members only, you can sign up for the lectures online here: uni-goettingen.de/de/vorschau_...

It's time for another ScienceCampus Paper alert! This time, we have two papers coming from the lab of @nivimani.bsky.social together with Raji Madhavan and Martina De Eccher. Weather is bad, so why not reading their newest research over a ☕. s.gwdg.de/BntMNQ s.gwdg.de/ZMsRwF

Am Freitag (19.4.) startet Season 4 unserer beliebten chalk talk Reihe im Forum Wissen der Uni Göttingen. Wie immer Freitags ab 16:30, kostenlos und natürlich analog! Den Anfang macht Anne Schacht: Wer hat die Kontrolle über unser Lachen?

New paper alert 🚨 Our study (Madhavan, Malem, Mundry, Ackermann, @nivimani.bsky.social) on the validity + convergence of diff. measures of children's interest in natural object categories finds no significant associations between most measures, suggesting a need for further research s.gwdg.de/mG5H4L

Sitting in the sun, a cup of coffee and our newest SFB publication? ☕ Richarda Bothe, @nivimani.bsky.social (@primatecognition.bsky.social) and colleagues just published a new paper about the effects of arbitrary actions and words on infants' object categorization. #lazysunday s.gwdg.de/vSTSWF

Advertising 11 PhD positions in the RTG "Form-meaning mismatches". Project 3 - associated with my group - examines how word-form and word-meaning mismatches influence early word learning, expanding on this publication (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...).

Feel free to join our informal information event this Wednesday where you can get further information about how to apply to these positions, what awaits you in an RTG on Curiosity and much much more. Send an Email to rtg2906[at]uni-goettingen.de to register for the event

Just a little under a month to go to apply to 12 PhD and 2 postdoc positions in the new RTG on Curiosity. Positions available with foci in developmental psychology, behavioural biology, systems, computational and theoretical neuroscience: www.uni-goettingen.de/de/open+posi...

Die Bauarbeiten beginnen! Das GT besucht das neue Forschungszentrum "HuCaB" geleitet von Anne Schacht; weitere beteiligte SFB-PIs: Alex Gail, StefanTreue, Peter Marschik, @larspenke.bsky.social, @nivimani.bsky.social; Hannes Rakoczy Michael Wibral, Alex Ecker; with @primatecognition.bsky.social

Tenure-Track Professorships at Leibniz Institue for Psychology in Trier (Germany): * Science Acceptance  * ❗Psychological Metascience❗ * Big Data in Psychology Never seen such posts in Germany before ... wind of change (😉🦂) Deadline: Dec. 14th leibniz-psychology.org/en/the-insti...

@nivimani.bsky.social and her team of the newly funded RTG2906 Curiosity are really fast! The new website is already online and 12 PhD positions and two postdoc positions are available: www.uni-goettingen.de/de/open+posi...

Our research training group on Curiosity is also advertising two independent postdoctoral research positions (uni-goettingen.de/de/open+posi...) in “Developmental and Comparative Psychology“ and “Cognitive (neuro)science and machine learning”. More info here

Fully funded PhD position available in the lab of @nivimani.bsky.social. Will be part of a recently funded Research Training Group at the University of Göttingen. Take the opportunity and apply!

Been saving this for my first post here. As part of a new Research Training Group on Curiosity to be established at Göttingen (www.uni-goettingen.de/de/681631.html), we advertise a PhD position in developmental curiosity research in my group. More details here: www.uni-goettingen.de/de/document/...