A short survey on research practices with eye-tracking data, especially in reading studies, as part of the OpenEye Project soscisurvey.de/OpenEye/ Deadline for participation: December 20

Super excited to co-chair (with Claire Bonial) my favorite NLP conference - CoNLL! If you think your work will matter not just now, but also in 5 or 10 years, you should submit it to CoNLL 2026! CFP: conll.org

fun pre-print for your start of week reading: "People Make Graded Judgments About The Inconceivable" (by Hu, Sosa, and me) doi.org/10.31234/osf...

Now out in Scientific Data, OneStop: A 360-Participant English Eye Tracking Dataset with Different Reading Regimes. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#NeurIPS2025 Check out EyeBench 👀, a mega-project which provides a much needed infrastructure for loading & preprocessing eye-tracking for reading datasets, and addressing super exciting modeling challenges: decoding linguistic knowledge 👩 and reading interactions 👩+📖 from gaze! eyebench.github.io

It's officially been 75 years since the proposal of the Turing Test, a good time bring up 'The Minimal Turing Test': www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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my friend/colleague Frank Jäkel wrote a book on AI. I sadly don't know German but I happily know Frank, and I've heard him talking about this for a while now, and just on that basis I'd recommend the German speakers in the audience check it out

We had a lot of fun delivering the Eye Tracking and NLP tutorial at ACL! The slides are available on the tutorial website acl2025-eyetracking-and-nlp.github.io

Help us record firefly flashes! 👇🙏

Out now in TiCS, something i've been thinking about a lot: "Physics vs. graphics as an organizing dichotomy in cognition" (by Balaban & me) relevant for many people, related to imagination, intuitive physics, mental simulation, aphantasia, and more authors.elsevier.com/a/1lBaC4sIRv...

If you haven't been looking recently at the Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science (oecs.mit.edu), here's your reminder that we are a free, open access resource for learning about the science of mind. Today we are launching our new Thematic Collections to organize our growing set of articles!

I'm hiring a postdoc to start this fall! Come work with me? recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07123

👀 📖 Big news! 📖 👀 Happy to announce the release of the OneStop Eye Movements dataset! 🎉 🎉 OneStop is the product of over 6 years of experimental design, data collection and data curation. github.com/lacclab/OneS...

New paper! We show that eye movements during normal reading (no extra task) are effective at predicting reading comprehension as measured by recall. Both early and late eye-movement measures are key. This research was led by the amazing Diane Mézière. ila.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

In person (no streaming/zoom) sentence processing workshop at Potsdam with Tal Linzen, Brian Dillon, Titus von der Malsburg, Oezge Bakay, William Timkey, Pia Schoknecht, Michael Vrazitulis, and Johan Hennert: vasishth.github.io/sentproc-wor...

🤖🧠 Paper out in Nature Communications! 🧠🤖 Bayesian models can learn rapidly. Neural networks can handle messy, naturalistic data. How can we combine these strengths? Our answer: Use meta-learning to distill Bayesian priors into a neural network! www.nature.com/articles/s41... 1/n

Made a new assignment for a class on Computational Psycholinguistics: - I trained a Transformer language model on sentences sampled from a PCFG - The students' task: Given the Transformer, try to infer the PCFG (w/ a leaderboard for who got closest) Would recommend! 1/n

Check out our new work on introspection in LLMs! 🔍 TL;DR we find no evidence that LLMs have privileged access to their own knowledge. Beyond the study of LLM introspection, our findings inform an ongoing debate in linguistics research: prompting (eg grammaticality judgments) =/= prob measurement!

it's only Consciousness if it comes from the Consciousness region of the brain, otherwise its just sparkling attention

new preprint on Theory of Mind in LLMs, a topic I know a lot of people care about (I care. I'm part of people): "Re-evaluating Theory of Mind evaluation in large language models" (by Hu* @jennhu.bsky.social , Sosa, and me) link: arxiv.org/pdf/2502.21098

Out today in Nature Machine Intelligence! From childhood on, people can create novel, playful, and creative goals. Models have yet to capture this ability. We propose a new way to represent goals and report a model that can generate human-like goals in a playful setting... 1/N

Hello! I'm looking to hire a post-doc, to start this Summer or Fall. It'd be great if you could share this widely with people you think might be interested. More details on the position & how to apply: bit.ly/cocodev_post... Official posting here: academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/14723

Our language neuroscience lab (evlab.mit.edu) is looking for a new lab manager/FT RA to start in the summer. Apply here: tinyurl.com/3r346k66 We'll start reviewing apps in early Mar. (Unfortunately, MIT does not sponsor visas for these positions, but OPT works.)

The 3rd Workshop on Eye Movements and the Assessment of Reading Comprehension will take place on June 5–7, 2025 at the University of Stuttgart! Submit an abstract by March 1st and join us! tmalsburg.github.io/Comprehensio...

So excited to receive the Troland Award!! Huge congrats to the other winner—Nick Turk-Browne! And TY, as always, to my mentors&nominators, to my amazing labbies past&present, and to all the wonderful and supportive colleagues in our broader scientific community. <3 www.nasonline.org/award/trolan...

Fantastic resource!

Happy New Year everyone! Jim and I just put up our January 2025 release of Speech and Language Processing! Check it out here: web.stanford.edu/~jurafsky/sl...

postdoc opportunity in @alexwoolgar.bsky.social and my lab, based in Cambridge UK! seeking someone with excellent analytical skills to join our project using time-resolved human neuroimaging to study receptive language processing in non-speaking autistic individuals 🧠✨ www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/48835/

Reminder that we are looking for papers using LLMs for humanities research, for a special issue of the Computational Humanities Research Journal. Deadline January 31st! #NLP #DigitalHumanities #CulturalAnalytics

New potential side effect of participating in an eyetracking study in our lab - curly eyelashes #thingswedoforscience

If one of your new year's resolutions is to collect eyetracking data this year, check out these cool tutorials on determining the dominant eye and calibrating EyeLink eyetrackers, filmed in our lab for the MultiplEYE project! www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBCU... www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETDU...

so excited about this one, out now in American Psychologist, "The Detection of Automatic Behavior in Other People" (with Ilona Bass & me) link: psycnet.apa.org/record/2025-... pre-print: osf.io/preprints/ps...

New paper from our lab, by Mark Saddler, using machine learning to test the role of temporal coding in hearing. Here is a quick summary. (1/n) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Slides from the tutorial are now posted here! neurips.cc/media/neurip...

📖👀🤖 David Reich, Omer Shubi, Lena Jäger and I will give a tutorial on Eyetracking and NLP at ACL 2025! We will discuss eyetracking fundamentals, available resources, integrating eye movements during reading in NLP models, using NLP for modeling eye movements, and exciting new applications. Join us!

thinking of calling this "The Illusion Illusion" (more examples below)

Lots of folks talking about scaling LLM inference over this last year Internally, I’ve been developing and using a library that makes this extremely easy, and I decided to open-source it Meet the decoding library: github.com/benlipkin/de... 1/7

Imagine a snail. Imagine 5 snails. Imagine a snail on a sail. Imagine something that isn’t a snail. now read a new pre-print: "Relations, Negations, & Numbers: Looking for Logic in Generative Text-to-Image Models" (by Conwell, Tawiah-Quashie, & me) arxiv.org/pdf/2411.17066

We're hiring new #nlp faculty this year! Asst or Assoc Professors in NLP at UMass CICS -- careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-u...

Hello! This is the official account of Open Mind: Discoveries in Cognitive Science, published by @mitpress.bsky.social. We will be automatically posting newly published articles.

Introducing the CrossGram collection of typological databases: dlc.hypotheses.org/3690

I'd say pymovements: github.com/aeye-lab/pym... Otherwise you can check this huge list of gaze softwares: github.com/davebraze/FD...

We are recruiting PhD students! Our research covers a diverse range of topics, including perception and internal representations, cultural evolution, large-scale online experiments, cross-cultural studies, and computational music cognition. Please spread the word!

thanks to everyone who abstains from delving into stuff and instead courageously dives into it (deeply)

I’m recruiting PhD students to join the Computational Minds and Machines Lab at the University of Washington in Seattle! Join us to work at the intersection of computational cognitive science and AI with a broad focus on social intelligence. (Please reshare!)

At EMNLP? Interested in the relevance of LLMs for the cognitive science of language? Check out Keren's talk at #CoNLL tomorrow (Sat.) 10:45 – 12:15: Oral Session 3: LLM Session

New CoNLL 2024 paper on surprisal in information seeking and repeated processing, using eyetracking data! 📖👀 arxiv.org/pdf/2410.08162

New to eyetracking? Already running eyetracking studies and would like to improve data quality? Check out a terrific MultiplEYE video tutorial by Ella Lion and Chiara Tschirner on how do high quality calibration with EyeLink eyetrackers! www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETDU...

was reminded recently of this 1952 radio discussion, between Turing and a few academics, on the question "can machines think?" it's a pretty wonderful read; many of the issues they bring up or struggle with are still with us, maybe more so. turingarchive.kings.cam.ac.uk/publications...