⚠️⚠️CORRECTION: the ARR deadline is **3 August** not 6. Apologies for the mistake.

Not sure how I missed this paper.ore relevant than ever now. aclanthology.org/2023.emnlp-m...

Robotics models often struggle outside controlled environments. Ours is built to work in real ones. Today we're launching MolmoAct 2, which can assist with a host of chores & lab tasks, plus the MolmoAct 2-Bimanual YAM dataset—the largest open robotics dataset of its kind. 🧵

📢 Postdoc Position in NLP @ UTN in Nuremberg, Germany I am looking for a full-time postdoctoral researcher (A13/E13, initial contract for 3 years) starting July 2026 or as soon as possible thereafter. Focus on implicit & underspecified language, background knowledge and/or biases in NLU.

Attention #NLProc researchers, the EACL 2027 website is officially LIVE: 2027.eacl.org! 🎉 🇬🇷 Join us in Athens, Greece (Mar 9-13, 2027) at #EACL2027 📅 ARR submission deadline: Aug 6, 2026. Open to all areas of CL/NLP + related fields. Stay tuned for the detailed CfP soon!

"openai.com" was once the personal homepage of a guy named glenn (2001), and "tiktok.com" was the quaint shared homepage of a couple as their relationship progressed from dating to married with a baby (2000). THREAD!!!

Cultural AI, Part I now up on Remarque's YouTube Channel, with Henry Farrell, Ben Recht, Lily Chumley and Fabian Offert www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9W8...

Can't have one without the other

How it feels to do biotech in 2026

Recipes for teaching language models to handle long inputs don't work equally well across model families. We wanted to know why—is it the architecture, the training data, or both? 🧵

Generational tweet that might even spawn a school of architecture.

new blog post about, like. why i teach syntax, i guess. may be a little bit inside baseball, curious about your thoughts kconrod.medium.com/build-me-a-b...

To give an idea of Sabastian Sawe's running pace, if you ran a marathon at that speed you would be finished in less than TWO HOURS

Kid English phrase of the day question mark (said out loud to mark questions) ex "Who invented ACs question mark?" "Carrier. Why do you say question mark?" "Because it's a question."

It’s a very interesting programme. My course on sociophonetics will deal with multiethnolectal German, German rap and #Creativity. You definitely need to check this one out! #Kiezdeutsch #Deutschrap #phonetics

And new Pleias release in partnership with GSMA: CommonLingua, a 2.35M parameters model for language detection, currently performing best on the CommonLID benchmark by a wide margin. huggingface.co/PleIAs/Commo...

NEW: The DIY gadget is, in part, a rejection of our current moment, dominated by the predictable flatness of generative AI and minimalist, mass-produced devices. Check out my news feature about cyberdecks for @wired.com✨ www.wired.com/story/cyberd...

I'm sorry to complain, but #ACL2026... Paper deadline was Jan 5. Destroyed vacation for so many people. Conference on the national holiday of the host country. Forget your family. Registration is $$$. Attendance capped + won't know if you can attend until mid May, leading to more $$$.

Hello World! 👋 #DGKL2026 in Bielefeld is now on Bluesky. Follow us for program updates and general info about both the conference and the venue! Want to know more about Cognitive Linguistics in Germany? Then you should give @dgkl-gcla.bsky.social a follow! #linguistics #BLinguistik

Out now: The full proceedings volume of this year's #Evolang @evolangconf.bsky.social - 575 pages full of interdisciplinary research on the origins and evolution of language! doi.org/10.17617/2.3...

Cognitive science? The field that studies proprietary NLP products?

🚀 Announcing the Chinese BabyLM Challenge: the first shared task on data-efficient pretraining for Chinese. 📍 Co-located with NLPCC 2026 (Nov 3–5, Macau🇨🇳🇲🇴) Can you train a strong Chinese LM on just ~100M words? chinese-babylm.github.io 🧵 👇(1/6)

Only a few days left to register for the 2026 edition of the #DGfS summer school. Host university is Bielefeld this year, home of the creativity #CRC1646. Courses & all other info can be found here: www.uni-bielefeld.de/sfb/sfb1646/... #linguistics #BLinguistik

Probably all the stochastic parrot folks have me blocked by now, but I have an image to show them that was absolutely for sure sampled from the training data, stochastically, as it were.

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Gonna be honest, I can't keep talking about LLMs both personally and professionally for the next 5 years. At some point it's just gonna be like, okay they're here, and we recognize this, and we use or don't use them, and it's fine.

Remember Chomsky's arguments about language innateness based on its putative un-learnability? Those arguments hinge on a pretty crazy theory of grammar. Here is Ted Gibson's summary of the original claims and a proposed solution in the form of dependency grammar: tinyurl.com/yzjrpbb8

Just wrote a new blogpost trying to summarize my thoughts on the question of how and whether to use AI for research in psychology and cognitive science: babieslearninglanguage.blogspot.com/2026/04/usin...

Neues Beispiel für Prototypentheorie just dropped. Welche KI-generierte Brücke ist die brückigste?

New paper on LLMs and research methodology: Justify your prompts! direct.mit.edu/coli/article... #nlproc

Here is one reason you might want to treat whitespace separately: words w/ and w/o a leading whitespace get tokenized differently. Having a separate whitespace token would unify a lot of these.

Announcing a new version of our 2024 paper on linguistic hypothesis generation from LMs! @najoung.bsky.social and I have systematized our hypothesis generation framework, added stringent criteria for model selection, 10x-ed our learning trials, and included an epigraph from Jeff Elman 🙏!

Richard @futrell.bsky.social and I have posted our response to the commentaries on our BBS target article "How Linguistics Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Language Models." The response is: "You Can't Fight in Here! This is BBS!" arxiv.org/abs/2604.09501

On May 8, Stichting Open Spraaktechnologie organizes a workshop on evaluation and interpretability of spoken language systems. Featuring @wzuidema.bsky.social, @hmohebbi.bsky.social, @gaofeishen.com, @yuanyuanzhang.bsky.social, @mdhk.net & @cpouw.bsky.social openspraaktechnologie.org/nieuws/works...

I’m very happy to share that my latest paper on the 𝐚𝐜𝐪𝐮𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐛 𝐦𝐞𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠, tested on models trained under CDL data vs ADL data , has been accepted for an 𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 at the upcoming edition of 𝐂𝐨𝐠𝐒𝐜𝐢, which will take place at the end of July in Rio de Janeiro.💃

Want to join the Multilingual Minds and Machines Meeting, June 22-23 in Nijmegen? Registration is open until 1 May! mmmm2026.github.io

If you’re a student and your paper didn’t make it to ACL this time, don’t worry — there’s still an opportunity to present your work. The ACL 2026 Student Research Workshop (SRW) accepts papers via ARR commitment. 🗓 Deadline: April 15, 2026 (AoE) 🔗 openreview.net/group?id=acl...

There is no McTry.

I am disappointed that the question "Is AI in a bubble" has reduced to the question "Do any AI companies generate revenue?"

I was very intrigued to learn that Mythos is actually a model of the human mind, and this AI system definitively proves - beyond any doubt - that the human mind operates like an LLM.

Fantastic 2.5 year postdoc working on 🤩emojis🤩 ! Are you a #linguist with experience in running experiments in formal semantics & pragmatics? Please come join our lab and the @vicom#linguistvisual communication research cluster! Apply by April 28 - or contact me with questions. #emojis #linguistics #job […]

Excited to announce that my submission to ACL 2026 has not been accepted. 🎉

The paper acceptance notifications will be out by the 6th of April, AoE. The PCs are working hard throughout the holiday season to finalize the decisions. Apologies for the delay!

Slides: docs.google.com/presentation...

Lots of people want Gemma 4! Google AI Edge is #8 on the iOS App Store for productivity apps. x.com/OfficialLoga...

gifs are a social construct

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_...

Complaining on social media with YouTube in another tab, Spotify playing while ordering an Uber and scrolling your cloud backed up photos is like driving to the grocery story while cursing the existence of roads.

📍It's official! #INLG2026 is coming to Utrecht, Netherlands, Oct 17-21! Hosted with support from Utrecht University and the local NLP community. Follow us here and check 2026.inlgmeeting.org for updates -- hope to see you there!