This weekend offers a chance to see a rare celestial event—Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune all aligned in the sky like beads on a string

📣📣📣Job alert Multimodal Language Department Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics MAX PLANCK RESEARCH GROUP LEADER POSITION (W2 BBESG) lnkd.in/eaq5MW9a

🚨 New Paper: How can AI help us understand child lang dev? If we train models on children’s environment, they can tell us if this environment support learning. E.g., models tested child linguistic input (Huebner et al.) and visual input (Vong et al.). What about Social Interaction? (a thread 🧵)

Does verbal (lexical, semantic) alignment btw caregiver and child support learning in 3-4 years old?

Chances are you have not heard her name, but Marcelle Lapicque may have been the first Black woman neuroscientist in Europe. By @avaskham.bsky.social, @rebeccasky.bsky.social #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/history-of-n...

The GaMMA corpus of Danish polyadic conversations with gaze speech and motion data in quiet and noise www.nature.com/articles/s41... corpus captures polyadic conversations of native Danish speakers quiet & cocktail party conditions-> 11 groups of 4 normal-hearing people data doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

CALL: a PhD grant (3 years) to do a PhD with me at @cognitionens.bsky.social on the evolution of graphic codes. euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/410213

Are you a junior faculty member interested in spending 2-4 weeks at Princeton Psych? Consider applying for our Microsabbatical program! It’s a fully funded visit for professional development and creating long-term collaborations. psych.princeton.edu/diversity/mi...

If neuroscience is serious about building general principles of brain function, cross-species dialogue must become a core organizing principle rather than an afterthought, writes @suthanalab.bsky.social. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/animal-model...

This is great. I love to see evidence for 'factory settings' of cognitive mechanisms that enable learning. Newborn Infants Selectively Attend to Points That Refer to Objects - Geraci - 2026 - Developmental Science - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

I am so excited to get this!!

Bluesky is the new science Twitter, new study by @whysharksmatter.bsky.social and Julia Wester concludes! "Results show that for every reported professional benefit that scientists once gained from Twitter, scientists can now gain that benefit more effectively on Bluesky than on Twitter."

Please tell friends & colleagues about our unique course “Genetics & Neurobiology of Language” July 27-Aug 3 2026. Expert tutors, interactive talks, panel discussions, all in a beautiful setting. Scholarships available: meetings.cshl.edu/courses.aspx... @cshlnews.bsky.social @cshlbanbury.bsky.social

Thrilled that my paper is out in the @nature.com. We explored how the brain builds complex tasks by compositionally combining simpler sub-task representations. The brain flexibly performs multiple tasks by dynamically reusing neural subspaces for sensory inputs and motor actions rdcu.be/eRVUk

Found one in the wild! Models of the language network in a published paper in a (presumably) predatory journal. I think I'd be concerned if a patient had four anterior temporal lobes in their lert hemisphere, it might affect their conprehension #NeuroSkyence

Language areas in the cerebellar mapped by @coltoncasto.bsky.social: www.thetransmitter.org/language/cer... Very consistent with @carobellum.bsky.social functional atlas, but providing deeper details. By now the "terra incognita" of the cerebellum isn't so "incognita" anymore!

"..hippocampal-prefrontal systems represent emotion concepts in a map-like way at multiple levels of abstraction.." Map-like representations of emotion knowledge in hippocampal-prefrontal systems by @yumengma.bsky.social and @pkragel.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This study was an amazing collaborative experience. I'm really really grateful to all the wonderful people who contributed and made this happen. It's the closest I have ever come to finding something like a "universal" in human cognition.

Discover @thetransmitter.bsky.social's Mentorship Directory, connecting mentors and mentees at all stages of their careers. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/mentorship-d...

Imagination in bonobos! I am thrilled to share a new paper w/ Amalia Bastos, out now in @science.org We provide the first experimental evidence that a nonhuman animal can follow along a pretend scenario & track imaginary objects. Work w/ Kanzi, the bonobo, at Ape Initiative youtu.be/NUSHcQQz2Ko

Are episodic and semantic memory really that different? Using closely matched tasks, we found no substantial neural differences between recalling personal experiences and general knowledge: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-025-02390-4

Thrilled to announce the 1st Workshop on Computational Developmental Linguistics (CDL) at ACL 2026 🎉 A new venue at the intersection of development linguistics × modern NLP, spearheaded by @fredashi.bsky.social @marstin.bsky.social, and and outstanding team of colleagues! A thread 🧵

Please help spread the word on this, especially to those who may be feeling cold winds towards their research. We’ve opened the call for our International Fellowships, enabling early career researchers to work for two years at a UK research institution www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...

Iconicity by David M. Sidhu: https://doi.org/10.21428/e2759450.515b2685

Please join us in celebrating the 2026 CogSci Society Fellows: David Badre, David Barner, Nick C. Ellis, Matthew Goldrick, Ulrike Hahn, and Anna Papafragou. Congratulations to all! 👏 Visit cognitivesciencesociety.org/fellows to learn more about their research and impact on the field!

Applications open for SFI’s 2026 GWCSS program, a 2-week workshop for Ph.D. students and early-career scholars to explore complex systems and computation, collaborate on challenges, and advance their research with support from SFI faculty. Apply by Feb 4, 2026 www.santafe.edu/gwcss

📣 Last call to work with us 📣 At #BCBL we have a new PhD position available in our “Signal Processing in Neuroimaging" research group. 📆 Application deadline: 06/01/2026 +info👇 https://www.bcbl.eu/es/unete-a-nosotros/ofertas-trabajo/funded-phd-position-signal-processing-neuroimaging-group-cc

Excellent piece by @mmitchell.bsky.social. AI excels at predictive tasks but is poor with generative tasks I like the predictive-generative distinction. Important but easy to lose sight of www.technologyreview.com/2025/12/15/1...

🚀 Launched! Here’s our call for applicants to the Canada Impact+ Research Chairs Program at @westernu.ca. This is a remarkable opportunity for us to recruit outstanding scholars who are currently working internationally: www.uwo.ca/research/can...

Great department do post-doc in!

What a massive disappointment, so many embellishments by Sacks, even the man who mistook his wife for a hat... 😞

Hopkins Cog Sci is hiring! We have two open faculty positions: one in vision, and one language. Please repost!

Only a few weeks left to apply for our 4-year PhD position, using human brain organoids & multi-omic methods to study genes implicated in speech disorders. Application deadline 5 Jan 2026. Fellowship is embedded in the International Max Planck Research School. More info: www.mpi.nl/imprs-phd-fe...

A couple years (!) in the making: we’re releasing a new corpus of embodied, collaborative problem solving dialogues. We paid 36 people to play Portal 2’s co-op mode and collected their speech + game recordings. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2512.03381 Website: berkeley-nlp.github.io/portal-dialo... 1/n

Joint modelling of brain and behaviour dynamics with artificial intelligence — a Review by Mackenzie Weygandt Mathis & Alexander Mathis @trackingactions.bsky.social @trackingskills.bsky.social #neuroscience #neuroskyence www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Interested in learning? Social interaction? fNIRS? New work led by @saradefelice.bsky.social!

🚨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

Fascinating that #EEG is one of the top trends, while #fMRI is declining. We've just set up a @ucl.ac.uk EEG community and attendance was way over what we expected. Interesting times. #neuroskyence

🧠⚙️ Interested in decision theory+cogsci meets AI? Want to create methods for rigorously designing & evaluating human-AI workflows? I'm recruiting PhDs to work on: 🎯 Stat foundations of multi-agent collaboration 🌫️ Model uncertainty & meta-cognition 🔎 Interpretability 💬 LLMs in behavioral science

New work from the lab! A full multimodal picture of caregivers behaviours supporting learning in the early years answering the question: what do caregivers say and do to support their children’s word learning?

We're excited to announce that Cognitive Science at Dartmouth is recruiting PhD students to work collaboratively with me, Steven Frankland, and Fred Callaway. Come study the principles and mechanisms that enable us to understand, plan, and act in the world! Info: sites.dartmouth.edu/cogscigrad/

Come join us for a 4-year PhD on effects of rare gene disruptions involved in speech disorder, investigated in human neuronal models (via gene-editing, tissue culture, brain organoids, high-res microscopy, transcriptomics, epigenomics). More info: www.mpi.nl/imprs-phd-fe... #AcademicJobs #PhDJobs 🧬🧪

UT Austin Linguistics is hiring in computational linguistics! Asst or Assoc. We have a thriving group sites.utexas.edu/compling/ and a long proud history in the space. (For instance, fun fact, Jeff Elman was a UT Austin Linguistics Ph.D.) faculty.utexas.edu/career/170793 🤘

Philosopher of mind John Searle has left the building dailynous.com/2025/09/28/j... He was best known for his Chinese Room Argument on artificial intelligence and wide-ranging work on the mind and consciousness

We’re hiring! We’re looking for two RAs to study neuroplasticity in sight loss, sight rescue and development in children and adults @ucl.ac.uk using a wide range of neuroimaging and behavioral methods. Please help spread the word! Apply by 16 Oct! t.ly/q3aYe #neurojobs #NeuroSkyence

In a new paper, Mike Tanenhaus and I articulate the rationale behind different experimental tasks in the visual world paradigm and give recommendations for future studies. “Rethinking task importance in the Visual World Paradigm“ (Brain Research, in press). pure.mpg.de/rest/items/i...

Really enjoyed speaking at ESLP today! You can check out the slides for my presentation here: osf.io/nex2y

The MAC lab at Drexel is looking for a new post-doc to work on NIH-funded projects investigating the intersection of prior knowledge and long-term memory consolidation. Please pass along to any interested lab members! careers.drexel.edu/cw/en-us/job...

Had the opportunity to present our #fNIRS hyperscanning study @gabriellavigliocco.bsky.social @antoniahamilton.bsky.social @saradefelice.bsky.social at #ICON2025 in the Social And Embodied Language Learning Symposium. Felt small in the huge auditorium but the room was filled w/ inspiring questions!

Come be my colleague! UW-Madison Psychology is hiring! Computational Neuroscience and/or Cognitive Science, with an AI emphasis. jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...