📢 Seminar this Thursday (Sept 25, 1pm CET) 🎙️ Chloé Clavel (Inria Paris) Understanding Social Interactions in the Era of LLMs – the Challenges of Transparency 📍 LIS, Campus Luminy + online 🔗 Zoom: univ-amu-fr.zoom.us/j/8685209402...

✨ #ILCB Summer School 2025 – Just a few days to go! ✨ From September 1–5, we’ll welcome students, researchers, and lecturers at CIRM, #Marseille for a week of courses, workshops, and discussions on #language, #brain & #cognition. Looking forward to a stimulating week of scientific exchanges!

🌞 Back from the summer break! We kick off the new season with an exciting ILCB Talk by Simon Kirby (University of Edinburgh): 🗓️ Sept 26, 2025 – Marseille 🎙️ “Cultural evolution creates language-like structure: from humans to humpback whales and beyond” 🔗 ilcb.fr/event/simon-kirby #ILCB

Now that school is starting for lots of folks, it's time for a new release of Speech and Language Processing! Jim and I added all sorts of material for the August 2025 release! With slides to match! Check it out here: web.stanford.edu/~jurafsky/sl...

❗️Our next workshop will be on August 14, 6 pm CEST, on marginaleffects package by @vincentab.bsky.social ! Register or sponsor a student by donating to support Ukraine! Details: bit.ly/3wBeY4S Please share! #AcademicSky #EconSky #RStats

We present a simplified, p5.js version of the vocal tract synthesizer from Neil Thapen's popular Pink Trombone, adapted for use in a creative coding assignment concerned with interaction design and absurd puppeteering. Interactive: editor.p5js.org/golan/sketch... Writeup: github.com/golanlevin/6...

My god, how can anyone see this photo and not be outraged. Also read the article. www.bbc.com/news/article...

The interaction engine: Language in social life and human evolution. New book (Open Access) by Stephen Levinson doi.org/10.1017/9781...

"No effect of social priming on speech perception in Norwegian." My PhD student Elena Varona tried to conceptually replicate explicit and subtle social priming effects on speech perception but she did not find any evidence for it. osf.io/preprints/ps...

🌿 Save the Date! Join us for the ILCB Garden Party on Friday, October 10 at the LPL garden! Featuring presentations by 🧠 Philippe Albouy (ILCB-Iméra Chair 2025–2026) 🔬 Simon Thibault (ILCB postdoc) A warm welcome to all our new members followed by a shared lunch in the garden.

Excellent travail de @lemonde.fr au sujet de l'édition scientifique. Coût excessif, problèmes éthiques, etc. Aujourd'hui ces revues servent à évaluer l'activité des chercheurs et nettement moins à diffuser la connaissance. Un nouveau modèle doit s'imposer ... #ESR

New #rstats blog up! solomonkurz.netlify.app/blog/2025-07... This is the first in a brief series where we use {brms} to learn {Stan} code. Many thanks to @fusaroli.bsky.social and @stephenjwild.bsky.social for their helpful reviews.

I feel extremely grateful to play a small part in creating the experimental methods textbook i wished i’d had in grad school!

📢 The 2025 Amidex Research Equipment Call is open! Funding available to renew or acquire energy-efficient research equipment across AMU labs. Deadline: Jan 5, 2026. More info 👉 www.univ-amu.fr/fr/public/la...

🎉 ILCB Newsletter #50 coming in September! Got an idea for a special edition? Let us know! 🧠✨ We'll be discussing them at the next steering committee meeting in early July. Past issues here: www.ilcb.fr/newsletter-2/ #ILCB #science #newsletter

🧠✨ The #ExploreFestival is back in #Marseille, June 10–15! 🔍 Meet researchers in parks, bars & boats – incl. ILCB members Isabelle Dautriche, Clément François, Bruno Torresani, Benjamin Morillon & more! 📍 Free, fun & science-packed 🔗Full program: explore.univ-amu.fr #ILCB #ScienceForAll #amU

Join us tomorrow!!

🚨Job offer🚨 PhD position on my #ERC grant 'LaDy' to study how we process language in the dyad using interactive paradigms and EEG hyper-scanning. Info and application link here (correction: application deadline is 11/07): emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/Docto... @cnrs-dr12.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu

Delighted to announce the publication of a collaborative effort, co-led by @limorraviv.bsky.social @mpi-nl.bsky.social, showcasing the ways in which researchers have made language evolution an empirical issue: A handbook of experimental approaches to the fascinating problem of language evolution 🧪

We're back with Roundtable 2 of our #CogSci Higher Education webinar series! This time: Setting Up a Cognitive Science Program, Institute, or Center 📅 June 4 | 12 PM EST Register now: cognitivesciencesociety.org/higher-educa... 🎥 Roundtable 1 recording now online: www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2Jp...

Word learning is usually about what a word does refer to. But can toddlers learn from what it doesn’t? Our new Cognition paper shows 20-month-olds use negative evidence to infer novel word meanings, reshaping theories of language development. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Coming this fall from @mitpress.bsky.social!

🚨 5 days left to apply for the ILCB Summer School 2025! 🚀 Join us in Marseille to explore the latest in Language, Communication & the Brain with top experts! 🗓️ Dates: Sept 1-5, 2025
📍 Location: CIRM, Marseille, France
🔗 Apply now: columbo.univ-amu.fr/index.php/53... #SummerSchool #Neuroscience

We are recruiting two PhD students on cortical folding variability and organisation before birth, using fetal MRI. Come and join a motivated and happy team with tons of great fetal data, in a sunny, friendly, and inclusive environment. tinyurl.com/foldsOrganis... tinyurl.com/foldingVaria...

Embodied and Situated Language Conference (ESLP) Aix-en-Provence, France 23-26 September 2025 The ESLP Conference provides an interdisciplinary forum for discussing current developments in grounding during online language processing in humans. Abstract submission deadline: 30 June 2025

🔔 Don’t miss our Lunchtalk on May 23! 🗣️ Steve Majorus (Université de Liège) will explore how verbal working memory is shaped by our language system. 📍 Espace Pouillon, St Charles, Marseille 🕛 12:00 PM 👉 RSVP: www.ilcb.fr/event/the-fo... #CognitiveScience #Neuroscience #Psycholinguistics

Please reach out if you’d like to come to sunny Aix-en-Provence (in the south of France) to work on anything related to the neural and computational bases of inner speech and/or mental/motor imagery!

What do you mean? Of course I’m not spending my Friday night nerding out with Edwin Dalmaijer and @hirstrj.bsky.social and @peircej.bsky.social

Recherchons participants adultes francophones 18-40 ans pour une expérience sur le langage à Lyon 👇

Register now for our interdisciplinary summer school on “Language, Communication, and the Brain” — featuring outstanding teachers, a blend of theoretical and methodological courses, and plenty of fun!

🧠 Lunchtalk in Marseille – May 23 The Foundations of Verbal Working Memory in the Language System 📍 Espace Pouillon – St Charles 🎙️ With Steve Majorus (Université de Liège) How is language knowledge involved in working memory? Come find out! 👉 RSVP: www.ilcb.fr/event/the-fo... #CognitiveScience

Grateful to all participants of the ILCB Retreat 2025. Special thanks to Abdellah Fourtassi and Nadera Bureau for the excellent program and organization. #ILCB #Retreat

👏 Congratulations to @Clément François (LPL-ILCB) for receiving the 2nd Prize in Scientific Research from the 5 Senses for Kids Foundation in partnership with the Société des Neurosciences! www.linkedin.com/posts/instit... #neuroscience #languagelearning #5SensesforKids #LPL

👉 Know someone who might be interested in our Summer School? Don’t hesitate to share!

J'ai le plaisir de vous présenter mon manuel d'**Introduction à la psychoacoustique** en ligne et en #openaccess ! https://leovarnet.github.io/psychoac-manuel-fr/methodo/Introduction.html Enfin, plus exactement il s'agit pour l'instant du premier chapitre uniquement : comment mettre au point une

Looking for native speakers of English for a study on language at @laboratoireddl.bsky.social in Lyon ! See the flyer below for more info 👇

Deadline 20 May: 2-year postdoc, Institute of Language Communication and the Brain, CNRS & Aix Marseille Université www.ilcb.fr/ilcb-postdoc...

Funded PhD at LPL (CNRS & AMU) on Bilingualism & Lexical Stress Processing (ANR FRENCHMELO) 📍Aix-en-Provence 📅 Apply by April 30, 2025 (CV) ✉️ [email protected] & [email protected] #PhD #Linguistics

What a bunch of fucked up idiots are running the most powerful country in the world. But here is what amazes me even more than people voting for these fools: Where are the mass protests? Why are you not taking the streets? Your democracy is being destroyed before your eyes and you do nothing?

Author copy arrived yesterday. It really was a joy working with @ejwagenmakers.bsky.social and Johnny (is he on here?) on this @jaspstats.bsky.social version of the book.

POST-DOC CALL! 2-year post-doctoral position to work in Marseille on any topic in the field of language, communication and the brain. Deadline May, 20, 2025 www.ilcb.fr/ilcb-postdoc...

Si vous êtes proche de Marseille demain, faites un tour au forum des sciences cognitives organisé par les Neuronautes, cette année sur le thème "Cerveau et illusions" ! On y parlera d'illusions, de magie, et de neurosciences 🧠🪄 neuronautes.org/forum-des-sc...

To be clear, the deadline is for the final submission of the project not for reaching out to the sponsors. The sooner you reach out the better!

🚨🚨🚨 I'm hiring a Postdoc for a 3-year position to come work with me at the University of Oslo using iterative learning experiments to understand the evolution of sound symbolism. Please share widely. 🔴 Deadline is May 31st '25 ⏲️ Desired starting date is Fall '25 shorturl.at/vSTZx

REFLECTIONS In this month's Reflection, "I can't hear you without my glasses," Tessa Bent looks back on Sumby and Pollack's seminal 1954 article, which established that visual information can benefit speech perception. doi.org/10.1121/10.0... #acoustics #history

🚀 #ILCB #SummerSchool 2025 – Apply Now! 🌞🧠 Join us Sept 1-5, 2025 at CIRM, Marseille to explore Language, Cognition & the Brain! 🗣 Language & Cognition | 🧠 Neuroscience 🤖 AI & Machine Learning | 📊 Math & Stats 📅 Apply by May 23 → www.ilcb.fr/2025-2/ Know someone interested? Tag & share! 📢

Canada joins Horizon Europe programme

🔊 Language of Sounds & Sounds of Language 🎶🧠 The 2025 #ILCB Docs & Postdocs #Workshop is coming soon! A day of talks on language & sound, with young researchers & a keynote by Jean-Julien Aucouturier. 📅 March 27 🔗 Info & sign-up: www.ilcb.fr/event/the-an... #Language #Sound #Neuroscience