There are several Israeli professors at UCLA who could probably hear this from their offices.

How bad is the situation right now?
Women in my neighborhood are asking where they can donate breastmilk to babies whose mother is missing, dead or kidnapped.

Hamas, an Islamic fundamentalist terrorist organization has kidnapped elderly women, mothers with their babies. Hamas are as brutal as ISIS.
Please share! these babies are kidnapped and held in Gaza in horrendous conditions.

#gaza #Israel_under_attack #israel

My family has been taken to Gaza.

We don't know their medical condition, we know that if my uncle isn't released soon he could die, he has a degenerative disease and needs treatment.

They are European citizens. I need anyone with any contacts to get in touch with me ASAP.

Universities being surprisingly silent (or worse) about the terrorist attack but inviting ex-Israeli professors to give talks (e.g., MIT Brain and Cognitive Sciences). Cool cool cool cool cool.

I usually don’t write political posts on Twitter, but I wanted to clarify a few things about the situation in Israel.

This is Mor, a terrorist murdered her grandmother, recorded it on her grandmother’s cellphone, and then uploaded it to her grandmother’s private Facebook.

The family found out her fate through that video watching her lying in a pool of blood.

If Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) does not condemn this, I’m ashamed to be a graduate. I oppose the occupation and its brutality, but this was not “resisting oppressors”. It was an attack by terrorists against citizens, like 9/11 and ISIS attacks in Paris. You can be pro-Palestinian and condemn Hamas.

Itai & Hadas Berdichevsky, both 30 years old, bravely shielded their 10-month-old twins in a shelter as terrorists invaded their home in Kfar Gaza, a Kibbutz in southern Israel. Despite their efforts to defend, they tragically lost their lives.

Their babies remained…

“And as you might have seen, there was some sort of rave or desert party where they were having a great time, until the resistance came in electrified hang gliders and took at least several dozen hipsters” Speeches held at the ‘All Out For Palestine’ protest outside the Israeli…

Excited to share with you a conversation that I had with Justine Boone on his podcast #LivingUntitled , about the relationship between language and thinking in humans and AI. Available on Apple / Google Podcasts and Spotify! livinguntitled.com #UntitledFuture

New update posted to the Chomsky LLM paper. I've added a postscript (starting pg 33) with replies to some critical responses from Rawski & Baumont, Milway, Kodner et al., and Roni Katzir
lingbuzz.net/lingbuzz/007180

⚙️ New preprint alert! ⚙️ 'Mouse tracking for reading (MoTR): A new incremental processing measurement tool' with Cui Ding , Mrinmaya Sachan and Lena Jäger ! 🐁⚙️🐭 psyarxiv.com/4ryvs

We're hiring an Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) UCI Cognitive Sciences! Focus on higher-order/causal reasoning. Due date Nov 15. Feel free to reach out to me with any questions! cogsci.uci.edu/employment.php

Out now Trends in Cognitive Sciences:
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Mante Nieuwland & I review the lit. on predictive processing in comprehension & highlight some big open questions that we hope can help us uncover underlying mechanisms.

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And.. I'm accepting a PhD student this year!
We research infant vision & soc/affective communication w/ EEG, behavior, ML, & soon fNIRS bayetlab.com 🧠👶🤖
Come study infant brain & cognition in DC! 🌸
➡️ Apply by 12/1 american.edu/cas/neuroscien… (GRE optional)
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Thrilled to share our paper with Michael Pereira Nathan Faivre and Elisa Filevich now out in Nature Communications! In 3 experiments, we show that priors have a stronger influence on confidence judgements than they do on the decisions themselves. An (updated) 🧵👇 (1/8) nature.com/articles/s4146…

What are large language models supposed to model?

Forum by I.A.B
OA: authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S13…

📣 🎉Excited to announce that I'm recruiting graduate students and a postdoc to launch the Visual Learning Lab UCSD Psychology in Fall 2024!

More information at vislearnlab.org—feel free to reach out with questions!