Thrilled to share a review on THE LANGUAGE NETWORK AS A NATURAL KIND—a culmination of ~20 yrs of thinking about+studying language from linguistic, psycholinguistic, and cog neuro perspectives. Nature Rev Neurosci rdcu.be/dEylV
With the amazing Anna Ivanova Tamar Regev 🥳
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We are gruntled editors of Open Mind, a completely free open access cognitive science journal published by MIT Press: send us your papers!!

Article in Nature about mass editorial resignations at journals:
nature.com/articles/d4158…
If you are a disgruntled cognitive science editor, reach out to me and Ted Gibson (Ted Gibson, Language Lab MIT). We run Open Mind (direct.mit.edu/opmi). Free to publish, free to read.

I am looking to hire a post-doctoral researcher (2-year contract at UMass linguistics) interested in experimental/computational psycholinguistics. Please email me your CV by 4/19 if you are interested!

Najoung and I are hiring a postdoc to start at BU this fall! You'll get to lead a team working on a cool and potentially highly impactful eval project, so please apply! :)

Can AI ace law exams?

Last year, OpenAI announced GPT-4 got 90th percentile on the bar.

Here we (a) refute 90th percentile claim; (b) replicate/extend recent work on GPT capabilities; (c) discuss implications for law profession.

Now open, AI&Law: link.springer.com/article/10.100…
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I'm hiring! 2 year postdoc with research specialization in formal semantics/pragmatics, prosody, and/or social meaning. Please share widely!

An OpEd I wrote for @cnn with Marci Shore on the nihilism of Rep. Mike Thompson and the heroism of #Ukraine️ . UC San Diego News Fulbright Association The Kyiv Independent PEN Ukraine Kyiv School of Economics Kyiv Security Forum

Please help take action, Rep. Summer Lee Rep. Debbie Dingell Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Ro Khanna Rep. Jamaal Bowman Ed.D. Ayanna Pressley Jimmy Gomez Mark Pocan Raul M. Grijalva Maxwell Alejandro Frost Greg Casar jesus garcia Congresswoman Delia Ramirez Rep. Ilhan Omar Joaquin Castro Nydia M Velázquez Rep. Pramila Jayapal Cori Bush Barbara Lee

I am hiring a research tech! This 2-year position is ideal for a recent college grad who wants to gain research experience. If you're interested in the intersection of language, thought, neuroscience, and AI, consider applying! DM/email with any questions.
careers.hprod.onehcm.usg.edu/psp/careers/CA…

Our paper on formal and functional competence in language models is now out in Trends in Cognitive Science! With co-lead Anna Ivanova along with
I.A.B, Nancy Kanwisher @[email protected], Josh Tenenbaum and Ev (like in 'evidence', not Eve) Fedorenko 🇺🇦.

Paper: mahowak.github.io/assets/pdf/mah…

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👀👋 'Mouse Tracking for Reading (MoTR)' updated manuscript!👀👋 Together with Cui Ding, Lena Jäger, Mrinmaya Sachan, the paper now features new analyses, visualizations, and SPR data! A 🧵 osf.io/preprints/psya…

Postdoc job alert: come work with Noga Zaslavsky, Nidhi Seethapathi (@nidhi_s91), and me on an integrative computational account of language and locomotion! Apply by March 31 for fullest consideration. Please share widely! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/27294

Now out in Open Mind The MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social! Word frequency and predictability effects dissociate, even in naturalistic reading where they tend to be correlated: direct.mit.edu/opmi/article/d….

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Congratulations Ethan Gotlieb Wilcox – and, prospective students, go work with Ethan! He’s a gem.

🏛📣 Life Update 📣🏛 This fall, I’ll be starting a position as an Assistant Professor of Computational Linguistics at Georgetown University University! I’m excited to be moving to DC🇺🇸 and to be joining many wonderful colleagues at Georgetown Linguistics

Breaking news: the editors of Wiley's journal “Syntax”, Klaus Abels and Suzanne Flynn, are resigning.

They intend to set up a new journal, provisionally named Syntactic Theory and Research, which will be diamond #OpenAccess .

We're looking for a brilliant postdoc to work with Roger Levy Nidhi Seethapathi and me on an exciting new project at the intersection of computational cognition, language, and motor control! Please share with anyone who might be interested. More info here: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/27294

I am hoping to hire a postdoc who would start in Fall 2024. If you are interested in the intersection of linguistics, cognitive science, and AI, I encourage you to apply!

Please see this link for details: rtmccoy.com/prospective_po…

We are excited that our paper “Commonality and variation in mental representations of music revealed by a cross-cultural comparison of rhythm priors in 15 countries.” is finally published in Nature Human Behaviour. rdcu.be/dAgFV. Josh McDermott Computational Auditory Perception Group