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

When people respond "two" to the question "How many animals did Moses take on the ark?" do they actually accommodate a false presupposition that Moses took animals on the ark? Apply for a Ph.D. position to work on presuppositions, deadline 20.12.2025. More info at linguistlist.org/issues/36-3553

⚠️ New Postdoc or PhD position open (3 years+) ⚠️ 🚩Developmental milestones across cultures 🌍 Based @leuphana.bsky.social , in collaboration with @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social Please share/apply! Link: tinyurl.com/58dsn43u

In a new exciting collaboration with @marlenfroehlich.bsky.social and @profgerhard.bsky.social we think about how studying ambiguity in human and great ape communication can advance our theories of language evolution. Paper out at doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...

Three inspiring days at #XPrag in beautiful Cambridge! It was wonderful to see many old friends and new members of the growing community!

📢 Come to Tübingen and get your PhD with us! Unique opportunity to explore great ape communication 🐵🦧🦍 from multiple disciplinary angles within a single, integrated project. 👇

New work from my colleagues at the Neurocognitive #modeling lab! They developed a scene #segmentation architecture that beats SOTA with 1000 times fewer parameters. LinkedIn post www.linkedin.com/posts/martin... Paper arxiv.org/abs/2502.02763 Code and interface cognitivemodeling.github.io/FLIP/

More Ph.D. positions available in several projects related to the #SFB Common ground! Please see the list here uni-tuebingen.de/de/283575

Support: Computational Linguistics, Text/Corpus Linguistics: PhD, University of Tübingen

PostDoc position (3.5y) available in interdisciplinary Collaborative Research Center "Common Ground". 🎯 Topic: Pragmatic reasoning about Common Ground 🎓 linguistics | philosophy of language | cognitive science 📅 Deadline: July 14 tinyurl.com/3vd9wa6p Please share! @toddthelinguist.bsky.social

Last chance to register for the Tübingen pre- #cogsci2025 workshop. Register by Jul 1st 👉 forms.gle/v6VtEE6UqYw5... to give a talk, present a poster, or just check out great science and a free lunch (generously provided by @ml4science.bsky.social). Accepted Cogsci paper *not required*. Pls. share 🙏

📢 2 PhD positions (E13 TV-L, 75%) in our DFG-funded project on great ape communication & the evolution of common ground! 🧠 Backgrounds in biology, psychology or linguistics welcome. 🗓️ Deadline: Aug 13 🔗 bit.ly/4l8p7hy & bit.ly/46jcfAq Please share! @elmanubohn.bsky.social @meanwhileina.bsky.social

Hiring in the age of generative AI is a whole new game! 😱

We're hiring a postdoc! ~3.5 years @ E13 TV-L 100% probabilistic pragmatics + cognitive psychology + formal epistemology + experimental methods (with human participants) Does this sound like you, or anyone you know? Send them our way! tinyurl.com/3vd9wa6p

We have 2 Ph.D. positions available in a #DFG funded project awarded to @profgerhard.bsky.social and me. We are planning to combine acquisition work with computational modeling to investigate how children and adults understand irony. Deadline: July 20, 2025. Info linguistlist.org/issues/36/19...

Can't wait to share our new #RSA model of #indirect communication developed with Michael Franke @meanwhileina.bsky.social‬ and Martin V. Butz! We model how speakers choose utterances, such as "The election outcome was interesting!", and how listeners interpret them. doi.org/10.1371/jour...

Interested in what we can learn from, and about, Large Language Models? Interested in mechanistic interpretability, in comparisons with neuro-symbolic systems, and in things other than just benchmark-chasing?

Position opening: #CompLing, #NLP, #CogSci Junior Group Leader / PostDoc (4y, German E14 salary scale) @ Uni Tübingen - no teaching obligations - PhD co-supervision - dynamic interdisciplinary team in one of Germany’s top research universities tinyurl.com/jhxb4wu2

Dan @danielwharris.bsky.social is discussing various ways in which information enters common ground.

The "Background beliefs" workshop speakers @toddthelinguist.bsky.social, @elinm.bsky.social, Greg Scontras, and Martin Butz enjoying a short break at the Castle balcony. It was the most fun time! Thank you all for joining and co-organizing! Photography by Natasha Korotkova.

What role does #context play in human #cognition? In this review, we argue that the context-sensitivity of human memory and its hierarchical structure are the features that enable flexible planning, generalization, and behavior. New paper out lead by Martin Butz doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...

Job alert! Deadline November 5. I have an opening for a 3-year Ph.D. position in the field of #pragmatics to work on a #DFG-funded project at the University of Tübingen. Tübingen offers a unique #linguistics and #cogsci community. More information can be found at tinyurl.com/277mk48p Please share!