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everyone in 2025 talking about the widening gyre—enough! in 2026 i'm decreeing a stately pleasure-dome

Dalhousie University is hiring. We’re recruiting up to 30 tenure and tenure-track faculty supported by Canada Global Impact+ Research Talent Initiative and a $1.7B federal investment. Curious about building your next chapter in Canada? Apply by Jan. 19: www.dal.ca/research-recruitment

unironically a good idea

somebody is doing a public service here github.com/zoicware/Rem...

'Tis the season to preprint BBS commentaries; I'm happy to share ours too! 🎄✨ The textual basis of current LLMs causes trouble, but linguistically relevant insights *can* be found in systems modelling the more natural form of human spoken language: the speech signal itself. arxiv.org/abs/2512.14506

We're doing the final sprint, and I think we're able to send the PDF of the forthcoming Bayesian Workflow book to the publisher in the next two weeks (500+ pages), which would mean it would be published some time next year

Open until filled: Asst prof (tenure track), "human cognition and neural systems, with interests that may include decision-making, attention, memory, language, aging, and/or computational modeling", Psych, U. Arizona arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

Deadline Jan 15: Open rank (tenure-track/tenured), language (open sub area), Cognitive Science, Johns Hopkins apply.interfolio.com/178813

We are seeking candidates for two tenured/tenure-track faculty positions: One in high-level vision, written language and/or conceptual representation apply.interfolio.com/178825 One in language apply.interfolio.com/178813 Please help us spread the word!

Review begins Dec 15: lecturer (teaching track), philosophy of cogsci and AI, Philosophy and Institute for AI, Univ. of Georgia www.ugajobsearch.com/postings/457...

No student or faculty member should ever have to worry about being shot on their campus. It is an impossible moment to be in higher education, and the ways in which all of us are targeted from all sides are just more and more overwhelming. Praying for my friends and colleagues at Brown.

Deadline Jan 4: Postdoc, "computational and empirical approaches to artificial and natural intelligence, including perception, representation, and planning in complex environments", Program in CogSci, Dartmouth apply.interfolio.com/176946

Deadline 4 Jan: Postdoc, variability and vowel harmony, metaphony (phonetic and psycholinguistic approaches), Potsdam (w/ A. Gafos) docs.google.com/document/d/1...

🚨Job Alert plz RT! Johns Hopkins Psych & Brain Sciences is looking for a new colleague using behavioral or computational approaches to study cognition! We are excited about many areas of (esp higher) cognition in human adults, children, or nonhuman animals Open-rank apply.interfolio.com/178146

Well this is exciting! The Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences at Johns Hopkins University (@jhu.edu) invites applications for a full-time tenured or tenure-track faculty member in Cognitive Psychology, in any area and at any rank! Application + more info: apply.interfolio.com/178146

Job announcements: PhD position and postdoc position in Indo-European Studies in Copenhagen A PhD position (36 months) and a postdoc position (20 months) have been announced within the research project “The Indo-European Dark Ages Illuminated” (rootsofeurope.ku.dk/english/rese...).

Postdoc position in Stuttgart, Germany (TV-L 13, 100%) for 18 months, on authority presuppositions in AI systems with Dr. Agnieszka Faleńska and me. For more information and application info, see here: safety.https://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/documents/team/falensaa/aphic_postoc.pdf

Great connections between our linguistics department and the CICS NLP program (including Katrin Erk now in a joint appointment). Also happy to communicate with prospective applicants.

CogSci in Aarhus is hiring, open rank (assi, asso or full prof). We want somebody working on and teaching computational modelling of cognitive processes and/or social processes. Students are amazing, work/life balance very satisfactory, and colleagues are nice! international.au.dk/about/profil...

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one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.

when we say we want more streets to be pedestrianized, this is what we mean

BREAKING: This is huge news, the EU's equivalent of the 🇺🇸Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling. 🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states. This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺

Deadline Jan 5: Instructional prof (teaching track, open rank), Ling + CogSci, Linguistics, Univ of Chicago apply.interfolio.com/177960

🚨 THRILLED to share Northeastern University is hiring a new Director for our human Siemens Prisma 3T MRI Center (Associate or Full Professor levels) who will join us as faculty in our Institute for Cognitive and Brain Health! Please share widely! northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/...

“Base-specificity in Lexical Conservatism” by Canaan Breiss (Nov. ’25) www.lingref.com/cpp/wccfl/42...

11.5 month contract position at Meta, perception of synthesized speech from a tonal language. Prefer PhDs with expertise in tonal languages us.meta.talentnet.community/jobs/b689da9...

We’re hiring! Join the BabelBrain Project @usc.gal @filoloxiausc.bsky.social 1️⃣ PhD1/multilingual practices in Galicia 2️⃣ PhD2/multilingual practices in Gibraltar 3️⃣ Postdoc/experimental fieldwork in Galicia & Gibraltar 📄 Full details: www.usc.gal/gl/investiga... 🗓 Deadline: 26 Nov 2026

🤖🧠I'll be considering applications for PhD students & postdocs to start at Yale in Fall 2026! If you are interested in the intersection of linguistics, cognitive science, & AI, I encourage you to apply! PhD link: rtmccoy.com/prospective_... Postdoc link: rtmccoy.com/prospective_...

Give a man a fish and someone with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about people getting free handouts. Teach a man to fish? Yeah, that person with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about that too.

Postdoc in linguistics – University of Innsbruck, Austria Fully funded postdoctoral position in #Englishlinguistics & multilingualism research Deadline: 1 Dec 2025 🔗 higherjobz.com/postdoc-engl... #Postdoc #Austria #Postdoctoral #AcademicJobs #ResearchJobs @uniinnsbruck.social.uibk.ac.at.ap.brid.gy

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Every day a new reason to hate Outlook

Do you like discussing data generating processes? Everything from tracking down the provenance of data to conceptualizing and then implementing models of the underlying process? If so then consider dropping by my probabilistic modeling Discord server, www.patreon.com/posts/genera....

Three German universities offering post-docs for researchers "who cannot conduct or continue their work in the USA appropriately because of actual political pressure. " www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...

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1 year residency program at Apple. Cogsci/neuro/ling folks studying neuro interpretability, reasoning, and decision-making under uncertainty to help Apple make progress on similar questions in LLMs. Recent PhD or more senior jobs.apple.com/en-us/detail...

Opportunity for early career researchers to spend 3 years working with us in Oxford. Cool surroundings, interesting people. Eligibility: need some UK academic connection. Get in touch if interested! Details: www.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/news/2025/11...

happy to share our new paper, out now in Neuron! led by the incredible Yizhen Zhang, we explore how the brain segments continuous speech into word-forms and uses adaptive dynamics to code for relative time - www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Do you teach #rstats? Do your students complain about how lame and old-fashioned dplyr is? Don't worry: I have the solution for you: github.com/hadley/genzp.... genzplyr is dplyr, but bussin fr fr no cap.

Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.

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Come on, folks. We’ve got a world to win. act.dsausa.org/donate/membe...

mamdani should municipalize trump tower and make it a combo mosque / free trans clinic

🚀 We are hiring! 🚀 🔍 Join us as a Postdoctoral Researcher (fully-funded) at the Helmholtz Institute for Human-Centered AI in Munich.

Come be my colleague! The Wu Tsai Institute at Yale has two faculty searches ongoing: - One in computational cognitive science (due Dec 1) - One in neurodevelopment (rolling) 🧠🤖

"this meeting could have been a clay tablet"