@ec.europa.eu should rely on scientists rather than marketing claims by tech CEOs.

🧩 Compositionality & Reasoning Workshop — Warsaw, Jan 8, 2026 A one-day event on how compositionality and structured reasoning drive generalization in AI and cognitive science. Speakers from Meta, MIT, U. of Manchester & more. Learn more: manuel-vg.github.io/compositiona...

On the nonsense of metric fetish in academia. www.timeshighereducation.com/cn/opinion/l...

Rejected by @NeurIPSConf. Reviewers objected to not running experiments on SOTA models, even though those models were released after the deadline. Scientific evaluation is increasingly influenced by hype, even for papers with foundational theoretical contributions. #NeurIPS #AI

Call for European Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information 2026 Lectures and Workshop More information here: 2026.esslli.eu Submit here: easychair.org/my/conferenc...

Be part of a vibrant academic tradition! 🌍 FoLLI is seeking hosts for #ESSLLI2027, the European Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information @ESSLLI_official Bring 300+ students & researchers to your institution. Preliminary proposals by Nov 15! jakubszymanik.com/call-for-pro...

Join our interdisciplinary team that combines computational linguistics with cognitive neuroscience! Our center is located in the beautiful Trentino region.

Interesting paper advancing multiple aspects in the exploration of why numeral systems across languages are structured as they are. escholarship.org/content/qt5k...

A computational linguistics colleague needed to join the Center for Mind-Brain Sciences - Italy's leading cognitive neuroscience research unit. @cimecunitrento.bsky.social is located in Trentino, famous for its high quality of life in Italy. www.cimec.unitn.it/en/71/langua...

If you are in Paris on October 1-3 : we are organizing a fantastic cognitive neuroscience conference at Collège de France, on topics ranging from language to math, education and consciousness, with many of my favorite scientists ! Full program here: www.unicog.org/seeing-the-m...

We're having a workshop tomorrow on abstraction in language, science, and engineering, in case you're around. www.inf.unibz.it/~okutz/abstr...

NASSLLI is coming to a close, but it's still a lot of fun. You can find slides and papers from our class here: drive.google.com/drive/folder.... Now the goal is to write it up as a book 😅

I'm packing for NASSLLI 2025. The lineup is terrific! I'm looking forward to enjoying Seattle for the first time and climbing again with @shanest.bsky.social, who organized the school (kudos!). nasslli25.shane.st/schedule/

Join us to pursue your PhD!

Finally, AI and LLMs come to the rescue by fixing LaTeX errors. Good job @overleaf.com

Amazing opportunity!

I am looking for a PhD student to work on my ERC-funded project to investigate the format of thought in the absence of language in baboons and bees. Details here: tinyurl.com/5ff9hcjj Apply here: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/Docto...

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

I still can't believe Italy lacks a granting agency like other European countries. Establishing such an agency won't solve all the issues stemming from underfunded universities, but it would be a helpful step. www.scienzainrete.it/articolo/app...

A thread explaining our new discovery about humpback whale song published today in Science... We found key statistical properties that characterise all human languages in another species for the first time. We have more in common with whales than we previously thought! doi.org/10.1126/scie...

How do our brains generate predictive models of unfolding events? We're seeking for a *postdoc* to address this question in my lab: sites.google.com/site/moritzf...

Do you study semantic or pragmatic phenomena using Bayesian cognitive models? Do you validate them? If "no," this tutorial is for you 😅 BTW, it's under submission, so all feedback on improving it is welcome. osf.io/preprints/os... cc @juliaha.bsky.social

Here is a call for papers for the most extraordinary student workshop in logic, language, and information at the most exciting summer school. The 2025 ESSLLI Student Session is on! 2025.esslli.eu/courses-work...

Debate resolved! Is the left-to-right association between numbers and space biologically or culturally determined? Our study involved: 👨‍👩‍👧 Unschooled adults (Himba, Namibia) 👶 Italian pre-schooled kids 🎓 Italian schooled adults — see comment for the findings www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Amazing collective problem solving in ants:

📣 Vacancy for Assistant Professor of Cognitive Science. Deadline January 6: international.au.dk/about/profil...

The letter now has a website: sites.google.com/view/psychne...

Presenting at Amsterdam Colloquium this year! We analyze adjective order preferences across languages, replicating Futrell et al.'s findings for English and expanding the analysis to Russian. We also show these theories can predict adverb order.

Here is an open letter from psychologists and neuroscientists urging for decisive international pressure on Israel to stop the war. I believe it is balanced, so perhaps read it and consider signing. tinyurl.com/PsychLetter

This paper is intriguing; my experiences with special issues indicate that authors often anticipate a more lenient review process.

Dutch colleagues organized efforts to fight against cuts in higher education. We should all learn from their actions. @WOinactie

We're hiring an assistant professor at the intersection btw cognitive modeling of language / social interaction, computational ling / lang technologies. Exciting environment / great work-life balance / amazing students. international.au.dk/about/profil... Get in touch if interested!

(1/5) Very excited to announce the publication of Bayesian Models of Cognition: Reverse Engineering the Mind. More than a decade in the making, it's a big (600+ pages) beautiful book covering both the basics and recent work: mitpress.mit.edu/978026204941...

We at the Center for Mind and Brain seek a colleague in computational linguistics. It is an excellent opportunity to join a vibrant cognitive neuroscience team in a fantastic place. Spread the word and let me know if you're interested; see the conditions here: webmagazine.unitn.it/en/news/cime...

I will have a pleasure to speak at the 5th XPRAGit in Venice Lido on September 26-27. I guess the CfP with the deadlines will be announced soon. sites.google.com/view/xpragit20…

Do you want to study quantifiers and nonsymbolic quantity processing? Then we may have some ideas for you in our new survey paper "Questions About Quantifiers: Symbolic and Nonsymbolic Quantity Processing by the Brain" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/co…

Humans, what's up with us? Where did we come from? Where are we going? Why do my feet hurt? Apply by 31st December 2023 to join The Leipzig School of Human Origins and help find answers to these questions. 🧪 www.eva.mpg.de/career/posit...

Apply by Dec 1 to the UCSD Cognitive Science PhD program: cogsci.ucsd.edu/graduates/ph.... We have an incredible community working on language + cognition + development here - if that's up your alley, check us out! I'll also be considering applications to join my new lab opening in Fall 2024 (!!)

New postdoc opportunity to work jointly with @cantlonlab.bsky.social and me to understand cognition across species, age, and culture! cmu.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/CMU/job/Pitt...