It's a picture-perfect day in Ann Arbor! Welcome to #nwav53, attendees! Check out the NWAV 53 "Getting Around" information for conference information, including accessibility, and importantly—restaurant recommendations for tonight and beyond! docs.google.com/document/d/e...

Later today, with the support of @sbagen.bsky.social and @richardprimus.bsky.social, I’ll be moving a Faculty Senate resolution calling on the University of Michigan to reject the federal government’s proposed “Academic Compact.” Join the discussion if you can! docs.google.com/document/u/0...

Reminder!! We are hiring in Linguistics at Michigan with a focus on "AI and Linguistics" (broooaaadly construed). This is part of a cluster of positions in Psychology and Philosophy in collaboration with the Cognitive Science program. Applications now open! careers.umich.edu/job_detail/a...

Student newspapers, again doing the work @michigandaily.bsky.social specials.michigandaily.com/2025/grant-t...

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

Another job here at Michigan - this one in Linguistics! Part of a cluster of hires with a focus on Cognitive Science and AI. Happy to chat to interested folks. apply.interfolio.com/171006

Be my colleague!! We're hiring in cognitive science and AI as part of a cluster of positions across Linguistics, Psychology, Psychiatry and Philosophy. The Psychology posting is now up; the linguistics job posting will be up soon. apply.interfolio.com/169170

I'm hiring at least one post-doc! We're interested in creating language models that process language more like humans than mainstream LLMs do, through architectural modifications and interpretability-style steering. Express interest here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

my lab (lacns.github.io) at @mpi-nl.bsky.social and @dondersinst.bsky.social is recruiting for two PhD and two postdoctoral positions funded by an @erc.europa.eu Consolidator - come join us! PhD: www.mpi.nl/career-educa... Postdoc: www.mpi.nl/career-educa... (please share widely)

bit of good news: approved technical staff position! link below. please be in touch if this matches your skills & interests! drive.google.com/file/d/16J2J... (hr listing posted harvard-internal now; external soon, per guidelines), happy for ?s & plan on quick turnaround! #CogSciSky #PsychSciSky 🐦🐦

The Society for the Neurobiology of Language meeting will be at Gallaudet University, September 12-14th. We have 4 outstanding keynotes (Fumiko Hoeft, Duane Watson, Carol Padden, Fatemeh Geranmayeh). Abstract submissions are open! Hope to see you there! #SNL2025 2025.neurolang.org/abstract-sub...

I might be able to hire a postdoc for this fall in computational linguistics at UT Austin. Topics in the general LLM + cognitive space (particularly reasoning, chain of thought, LLMs + code) and LLM + linguistic space. If this could be of interest, feel free to get in touch!

If you know UM Faculty members: The University Senate is voting on four motions on DEI, protecting our immigrant community and resisting against Trump. Ballot vote ends on Sunday, April 20th, at 4pm. Only faculty can vote! Need to pass please share. To vote, please visit: vote.umich.edu

www.geo3550.org/2025/04/08/g... “To our knowledge, these visa revocations are not due to pro-Palestine or labor organizing. Some have to do with minor infractions or traffic violations that are years, if not decades, old, others are not given any reason at all.” donate at bit.ly/GEOWorkerSolidarity

🚨🚨 Here we go! 🚨🚨 @protectdemocracy.org, @cspi.bsky.social, and @aclu.org have sued RFK and his cronies at HHS to halt illegal grant terminations. www.courtlistener.com/docket/69835...

Yes! The leadership of Eastern Michigan and Michigan State have displayed incredible courage during these times. My master's degree alma mater, Wayne State in Detroit, also remains committed to DEI. wayne.edu/strategic-pl...

I'm teaching an undergrad EEG/MEG/iEEG methods course and created a pair of interactive webpages to help build intuition about the Fourier Transform. dbrang.github.io/Fourier-Wave... dbrang.github.io/Fourier-Wave...

Finally it's here, in the flesh!!!

Two new papers led by amazing students (some positivity in These Dark Times)...

Why Official English is a terrible idea for the United States, from @lingsocam.bsky.social. Like and share! www.lsadc.org/content.asp?...

Here's what linguistics experts think about the recent executive order declaring English as the official language of the US (spoiler: they don't think it's a great idea): www.lsadc.org/content.asp?... I'm so proud to be a member of the executive committee of @lingsocam.bsky.social!

I'm grateful for the chance to write this and so impressed by all the amazing things scientists are doing in Central Illinois and the impact the NSF/NIH are having in my hometown. Many thanks to the folks at @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social for this initiave and all the resources to get started

✨i'm hiring a lab manager, with a start date of ~September 2025! to express interest, please complete this google form: forms.gle/GLyAbuD779Rz... looking for someone to join our multi-disciplinary team, using OPM, EEG, iEEG and computational techniques to study speech and language processing! 🧠

@andreaeyleen.bsky.social has been awarded a Consolidator Grant by the European Research Council (ERC) for her proposal 'DYNALANG: Integrating structure and statistics in language processing: an ecological neural dynamics and manifolds approach'. Read more on our website: mpi.nl/news/erc-con...

I'm involved in an NIH-funded project led by Christian Brodbeck at McMaster U (Canada) on aging, brain, and speech perception. He's looking for postdocs, grad students & a full-time RA. Happy to answer questions & share widely! christianbrodbeck.net/projects/con...

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...

Endowed Professorship of Language and Communication at the University of Oxford, closing date 13 January 2025: my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru... #jobs #sociolinguistics #linguistics #professor

We are going to launch an 8-pager format for CCN2025 next to the 2 page format. We have organised 2 zoom sessions for questions about this new format and CCN2025 in general. Today (21:00 CET, 15:00 EST) and on the 21st (10:00 CET, 16:00 EST). See 2025.ccneuro.org/call-for-pap... for reg.

The University of Texas at Austin's Dept. of Linguistics is hiring two tenure-track positions in computational linguistics with a focus on research connecting linguistics and artificial intelligence. Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/158280 (review starts Dec. 1).

A short thread on some work from our group over the last few months (1/5)

Deadline Nov. 15: Lecturer (non-tenure track), cog. sci. teaching+admin., Institute for Cog. Sci., Uni. of Michigan. Quick review (offers by Dec 15 2024) careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...

Review begins Nov 12: Asst. prof. (tenure track), computational {psych;cog sci;cog neuro}, Dept. Psych+CogSci Program, Uni. of Arizona arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

reviewing a manuscript* "please make sure the mapping of red and blue has a consistent interpretation across your visualizations" *newspapers reporting on US, UK, and French elections

Our collaborative paper lead by Danielle Burgess (PI: Marlyse Baptista) that talks about development of a website that hosts resources for teaching about Creole languages is out in Teaching American Speech! read.dukeupress.edu/american-spe... #linguistics

We are proud to announce the latest article published in Glossa Psycholinguistics: "A decade of language processing research: Which place for linguistic diversity”, by @aymericcollart.bsky.social: escholarship.org/uc/item/1xc4...

Essential reading for anyone interested in promoting diversity in linguistic / psycholinguistic research!

Tremendously moved and inspired by the Janet D Fodor memorial workshop today - thank you @fernandaedi.bsky.social and John Trueswell for bringing everyone together to celebrate her amazing legacy. See you all at #HSP2024 tomorrow!

Janet Dean Fodor will be honored at this year's #HSP2024 conference. Do you have a fond memory of Janet that you would like to share? Or do you want to describe how Janet or the CUNY/HSP conference influenced your career? Or would you like to share some other tribute to Janet?

If so, please make a single PowerPoint slide for display, including your name(s) or the name of a group/lab. We'll show it at the workshop. No videos please--just text and photos on a PPT slide. Upload it here: forms.gle/AycMWFWMPQMn... PLEASE SUBMIT BY MONDAY MAY 13!

This job advert is live! I'm looking for a postdoc to work on a 2-year mixed methods project studying communication strategies in aphasia. Part of a big grant on language, neurodiversity, and flourishing elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

I'm hiring a one-year postdoc in sociolinguistics/phonetics for next year (at Berkeley, with me)! Please share with your networks and students! linguistlist.org/issues/35-13...

University administrations are failing their students and employees so thoroughly right now

So cool! Meanwhile I struggle with a python script from November

Reading @annaleen.bsky.social 's wonderful "Autonomous" and came across a group of neurolinguists(!) in a bar talking about vowel spaces(!!) I like to think they just encountered this 2023 paper from Yulia Oganian and folks. Nice to imagine that our field will still have some juice in 100+ years!

Preliminary program is now up for HSP2024 - hope to see you in Ann Arbor in... can it be?? less than one month??? hsp2024.github.io/program.html

Andrea E. Martin is a Lise Meitner Research Group Leader at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, and a PI at the Donders Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging at Radboud University working on models of language processing and neural dynamics.

I'm thrilled to share Episode 29 of the Language Neuroscience Podcast: a great conversation with Dorothy Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social about developmental language disorders, meta-science, and more! langneurosci.org/podcast/ep29

We've got a postdoc slot on our T32 training grant at UConn for postdocs interested in cog neuro of communication disorders. Application review begins in May! (plz share widely) cncct.research.uconn.edu/postdoctoral...