Slightly embarrassing that I need to ask but still: does anyone have access to the electronic supplementary information for this old article of mine? DM me :) royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...

How "Cognitive Linguistics" started as an organized enterprise: dlc.hypotheses.org/4252

When you’re in your 40s, it’s rare to come across a story that still manages to surprise you. Stories are well executed but you’ve seen them before. So what a joy to discover Frieren, an anime that so subtly plays with expectations youtu.be/Iwr1aLEDpe4?...

Feeling likewise. Some useful constructions feel dirty and forbidden now

What happens if you forget that science is a collective human activity, and that you need to foster talent to continue that activity when you’re gone www.science.org/content/arti...

Constructions = grammar in action: social, rhetorical, meaningful. Excited for this conference, hosted by none other than @randyallenharris.bsky.social!

Interview met Luc Steels, Ann Dooms en mij over de rol van universiteiten in de ontwikkeling van AI @anndooms.bsky.social vubtomorrow.be/nl/vooraanst...

Backpropagation and gradient descent also have obvious limitations, and these very limitations made them impractical in those decades. Specifically they require data and compute that were not available. 1960s-1970s academia/industry were quite pragmatic actually

How do scientific ideas in #AI actually evolve? Join me on March 19 in Paris. Details in the link below tinyurl.com/2n3r9vb8

The “how it started vs. how it’s going” memes practically write themselves

New book out in the CAL Series: "The Development of the Chinese Cleft Construction: A diachronic constructional approach" by Fangqiong Zhan doi.org/10.1075/cal.41 #ConstructionGrammar

An OpenClaw agent makes a pull request to matplotlib. Mainter rejects PR. The OpenClaw agent authors a blog post accusing the maintainer of discrimination and gatekeeping. Maintainer responds theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-...

The score is still Q to 12!

“For more than a century, scientific journals have been the pipes through which knowledge of the natural world flows into our culture. Now they’re being clogged with AI slop” www.theatlantic.com/science/2026...

Excited to share that our book "History of Ideas in the Science of AI" (co-authored with Luc Steels and Ann Dooms) is now freely available as #OpenAccess! #OpenScience, #AIResearch, #HistoryOfAI doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

First time I did a genuine book signing session. Feels great!

This is one of the reasons why I doubling down on writing in a more personal, narrative style, even though I’m catching a lot of flak for it from reviewers. The original reason was that I didn’t want to get bored by my own texts when revising

David Lightfoot once quipped: “Subjacency has many virtues, but...it could not have increased the chances of having fruitful sex.” But if you see how many people are swayed by LLMs, it seems that smoothtalkers do have an advantage www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Sounds like an interesting and important project. I would have applied if I were twenty years younger

So happy to see this book published - a great collaboration with Luc Steels and Ann Dooms. Open Access version is coming soon, but if you happen to be in Brussels this Thursday, you're welcome to join us for the book's official launch: lnkd.in/e_envZx9 #ArtificialIntelligence #HistoryOfScience

Outside in the cold pre-frying fries for tonight (so the smell doesn’t enter the house). You can take the man out of Belgium, but you can’t take Belgium out of the man 🇧🇪🍟 Merry Christmas to all of you 🎁🎄

Very interesting. But rather than calling it “the” science of falling in love, be clear that it’s about brain correlates. There’s undoubtedly much more to the topic than what our brains are doing

I love arriving at work and having a new book waiting for me. Just in time for the holiday break! #ConstructionGrammar

New Publication: "Understanding Conversational AI: Philosophy, Ethics, and Social Impact of Large Language Models" (270 pages, Ubiquity Press, open access). Feel free to read it and share it widely! www.ubiquitypress.com/books/m/10.5...

Never mind speech recognition. As a parent (and linguist), I often find myself thinking “now that’s a phrase I would have never imagined ever saying”

It's been out for a while, but in case you missed it: Hans Boas and I have edited another "Constructions in Contact" volume in the Constructional Approaces to Language series (@johnbenjamins.bsky.social). benjamins.com/catalog/cal.40 #DCxG #CxG

Film you’ve seen more than six times. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel.

Twenty years ago, starting as an assistant researcher, Luc Steels gave me my first-ever job: write a history of ideas of our research. I only now came around to finishing that paper. More soon!

New Cambridge Element, Creative Construction Grammar, by Thomas Hoffmann and Mark Turner, out now! Read Open Access at https://cup.org/4pkd1np #languageandlinguistics #LangSky

Check out this exiting issue with papers from various flavors of Construction Grammar describing English constructions! www.degruyterbrill.com/journal/key/...

🌱⏭️ Symposium 'Le maraîchage sur petite surface' 15 janv. 2026 – Saint-Denis Une journée de rencontres entre #maraîchers, #chercheurs et acteurs de la transition #agroécologique Conférences, retours d’expérience 🇫🇷🇧🇪🇨🇦 & visite de ferme Programme 👉 sonycslparis.github.io/FrenchMethod/ sur inscription

I believe #ConstructionGrammar has outgrown some of its founding metaphors (slot-fillers; inheritance networks). In this #OpenAccess paper I propose two frame shifts in constructional thought: doi.org/10.1515/zaa-...

Over the last 5 years, I proposed more and more retro-definitions of traditional terms. But why am I doing this? Are these definitions driven by their "usefulness"? This new blogpost gives an answer. dlc.hypotheses.org/3975

It warms my linguistics heart to see the current generation of scientists engaging with the history of linguistic thought. More please 🙏

My first ever paper has just been published in English Language and Linguistics @universitypress.cambridge.org! 🥳🥹 If you’re interested in Construction Morphology, I’d be thrilled if you gave it a read! I’d love your feedback! doi.org/10.1017/S136...

The chip wars might have begun between Google and Nvidia thecuriousbrain.com?p=130242

Testing 191 proposed linguistic universals with methods that account for genealogical descent & geographical proximity: “despite vast design space of possible grammars, languages don't evolve entirely at random. Shared cognitive/communicative pressures repeatedly push towards similar solutions.“👇🧪

Coming soon - Turner & Hoffmann on Creative Construction Grammar. In this, we argue that the domain-general process of Conceptual Blending is the cognitive operation that combines constructions. BTW this will be published open access! www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Just finished reviewing @grambelli.bsky.social's book (available soon): a clear and engaging synthesis of the major strands of work on compositionality, analogy, and usage, while pushing #ConstructionGrammar toward a more explicit engagement with processing and computation. Highly recommended!

Thanks to all the CLIPS researchers at @uantwerpen.be for their warm welcome and great feedback yesterday. Always a pleasure and honor to be back at my alma mater www.uantwerpen.be/en/research-...

Met veel trots (en ongetwijfeld nostalgie) ga ik morgen naar mijn alma mater om een gastles te geven over computational #ConstructionGrammar @uantwerpen.be

The astronomical investments currently poured into #LLM development is a rehash of the Post-Bloomfieldian fallacy that led to the downfall of American structuralism in the 1950/. #AI doesn’t need more compute, it needs more science

This explains why there are so many great Italian physicists 😄

One of the great mysteries of #language is how it finds a balance between robust stability and endless flexibility. I believe this requires us to rethink #linguistic structures. In this article, I propose dynamic #tensegrity as a novel architectural metaphor aclanthology.org/2025.cxgsnlp...

Enjoying the view from our lab’s Midori farm, where we’re meeting for a day of intensive cross-disciplinary discussion csl.sony.fr/projects/mid...

My 3-year old son just sternly corrected me that Mickey wasn’t jumping on a macaron but on a “candy burger” #Creativity #LanguageAcquisition

Weeral een sterk geïnformeerd stuk van @apache.be

This is why we can’t have nice things

Must-read for any (university) teacher about the blind use of LLMs in education apache.be/2025/10/24/b...