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Adele Goldberg

@adelegoldberg.bsky.social
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linguist, experimental work on meaning (lexical semantics), language use, representation, learning, constructionist usage-based approach, Princeton U adele.scholar.princeton.edu/publica…

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Adele Goldberg @adelegoldberg.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Enjoy! www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/u...
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The Viral In-N-Out Spatula Hero Is Exactly Who You Imagined He Was (Gift Article)
It started as a bizarre late-night standoff behind the counter of a fast food joint. It ended with no injuries — and free burgers.
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Adele Goldberg @adelegoldberg.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I appreciate people who publish one good paper a year. Thank you to the moderates.
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Adele Goldberg @adelegoldberg.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"there was no evidence of rule-learning in 30 of the 31 contributed samples" Maybe cognition does not start w/ symbolic rule-learning after all
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Adele Goldberg @adelegoldberg.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Feeling profoundly lucky to have had to read carefully, write stuff that took time, learn modern stats I wouldn't have had the self-discipline to do it if I could have relied on AI since HS I fear a whole lot of researchers are going to suffer appropriately from imposter syndrome in the future
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Adele Goldberg @adelegoldberg.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
much of my blue is your green 🌀
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Adele Goldberg @adelegoldberg.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“Hello Pia [Klemp], I’ve read about your story in the papers. You sound like a badass,” he wrote. “I am an artist from the UK and I’ve made some work about the migrant crisis, obviously I can’t keep the money. Could you use it to buy a new boat or something? Please let me know. Well done. Banksy.”
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Wouter Kool @wouterkool.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The deadline for this is in 1 week! Please apply, or circulate to people whom you think should apply!
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Kanishka Misra @kanishka.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Come be my colleague and teach meaning at UT Austin Linguistics!
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Zurich Cognition Lab @cognition-zurich.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Open Postdoc (80%) in our Lab @uzh-ch.bsky.social (PI: Klaus Oberauer) Topics are: Working memory, long-term memory, attention; experiments, individual differences, computational modeling. Start Dec 2026 to Feb 2027, until June 2030. Apply by Oct 15; Questions to: k.oberauer@psychologie.uzh.ch
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Ken Paller @paller.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Announcing two tenure-track faculty openings in the Psych Dept at Northwestern University: Cognitive/Affective Neuroscience and Clinical Psychology psychology.northwestern.edu/people/facul...
psychology.northwestern.edu
Job Opportunities: Department of Psychology - Northwestern University
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Adele Goldberg @adelegoldberg.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Genocide is the right word. it's beyond horrific www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/o...
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Opinion | Why Israel Fears This Searing New Documentary (Gift Article)
It’s hard to tell whether Israelis are enraged by “NAZA” because they think it’s full of lies, or because they know or fear it’s true.
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John Pearson @jmxpearson.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
**Second** job in computational/theoretical neuro at @dukemedschool.bsky.social! Really great opportunity, great colleagues.
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HiPhiLangSci @hiphilangsci.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Post-doctoral assistant in the Department of Linguistics at Ghent University starting 1 January 2027 (at the earliest)! Application deadline: 6 October 2026 🔗 hiphilangsci.net/2026/09/17/p...
hiphilangsci.net
Post-doc Linguistics Uni Ghent
Apply until 06 October 2026, 23:59 (Brussels time) Further information:
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Adele Goldberg @adelegoldberg.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
very cool! Once their world extends beyond primary colors & shapes in a matrix to one w/ realistic scenes and situations incl social dynamics, will be esp cool to see how they extend meanings in new contexts, and ultimately develop a full range of constructions, almost as if they don't need UG
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Federico Rossano @federicorossano.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
UCSD Cognitive Science Department is hiring an Assistant Professor incorporating novel computational approaches in the study of biological and/or artificial intelligence. I have had the privilege of working in this department for 10 years and the intellectual environment really is unique. 1/3
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Adele Goldberg @adelegoldberg.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
trying out Slido to make lectures interactive and already a big improvement over Poll everywhere (which had required getting out of slides to share results 😬) + it's free + the nifty -o morpheme (kiddo, Zach-o, weirdo)
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aaron bornstein @aaronbornstein.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
UC Irvine Cognitive Sciences is hiring! Focus on social cognition, broadly construed. Come be my colleague :) I am not on the search committee but happy to talk about the campus, environment, careers, etc any time. recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF10411
recruit.ap.uci.edu
Assistant Professor - Cognitive Sciences
University of California, Irvine is hiring. Apply now!
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Martin Haspelmath @haspelmath.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
100 years of the "morph(eme)" – Bloomfield's foundational article came out in September 1926. dlc.hypotheses.org/4485
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Simon Fisher @profsimonfisher.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Help spread the word about the fully funded 4-yr PhD places available at the Max Planck School of Cognition. Pursue a passion for research & advance the understanding of cognition, mentored by a network of world renowned scientists. @maxplanck.de @mps-cognition.bsky.social More info & how to apply:
cognition.maxplanckschools.org
Application
Application; application procedure; FAQs; handbook
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Adele Goldberg @adelegoldberg.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
LINGUISTICS INSTITUTE 2027 back at U of Oregon!
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Adele Goldberg @adelegoldberg.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Volya Kapatsinki @ U Oregon to host the LING Inst. again in 2027!! center.uoregon.edu/LSA/2027/ To propose a course, fill out by Sept 30th: oregon.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
center.uoregon.edu
Linguistics Society of America Summer Institute
Linguistics Society of America Summer Institute
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Sam Nastase @samnastase.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
I'm recruiting PhD students to join my new lab in Fall 2026! The Shared Minds Lab at @usc.edu will combine deep learning and ecological human neuroscience to better understand how we communicate our thoughts from one brain to another.
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Adele Goldberg @adelegoldberg.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
there are legit concerns about LLMs, but they have important implications and offer fascinating possibilities for understanding human language By @samnastase.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Unifying the structures of language in a neural population code
Large language models (LLMs) have mastered human language in ways that no previous computational system has. While rule-based, symbolic systems suffic…
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Perception / i-Perception @pec-ipe.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
🌊 👀 Can two simple patterns create something that really isn't there? This new paper introduces Dynamic Illusory Waves (DIWAs)—a striking illusion where relative motion gives rise to flowing, transparent phantom surfaces. Make your own: maltacogsci.org/diwa/ Full paper: doi.org/10.1177/2041...
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Adele Goldberg @adelegoldberg.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 30/07/2026
New blog post! Odds ratios are...a bit weird. Here I explain two problems (interpretation, non-collapsibility) and provide some simple recommendations for improved reporting. www.the100.ci/2026/07/30/r...
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Reviewer notes: Odds ratios are really odd
When psychological researchers investigate binary outcomes, they routinely report odds ratios to quantify the strength of an effect or an association. This is quite understandable given that psycholog...
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Taylor Webb @taylorwwebb.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
I'm recruiting two postdocs (or potentially PhD students) to work on projects at the intersection of cognition, neuroscience, and AI (with a particular emphasis on mechanistic interpretability). Apply here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... and please share!
docs.google.com
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Adele Goldberg @adelegoldberg.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
what a gem of a documentary www.amazon.com/gp/video/det...
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Watch Odysseus Returns | Prime Video
Did Homer’s King Odysseus, the Trojan-horse-designer in the Iliad and the long-suffering wanderer of the Odyssey, really exist? In 1991, Makis Metaxas, a mayor on the Greek island of Kefalonia, finds an ancient Mycenaean tomb. He claims it contains the bones of Odysseus. But the discovery is soon embroiled in controversy, and Makis embarks on his own odyssey to convince the world he is right.
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Mike Frank @mcxfrank.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
And now with a newly refreshed website, just in time for #cogsci2026!
Semantic network of OECS articles.
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Adele Goldberg @adelegoldberg.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
YES! congratulations @judithfan.bsky.social!
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Adele Goldberg @adelegoldberg.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
great choice, congratulations Damian!
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Mike Frank @mcxfrank.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Yay @judithfan.bsky.social! Congrats on the Gleitman Prize at #cogsci2026!
Judy Fan image at CogSci!
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Adele Goldberg @adelegoldberg.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
was planning to wake up in Rio today for #Cogsci26 but alas 3 hour delay -> missed connection --> watching online 🥹 Some highlights
Similarity all the way Up: Multilingual Generalization in Language depends on 
Supantho Raxit, Adele E Goldberg, Henry Conklin

Oral Talk 2 (Friday 3:00): Insights from LMs
False memory for Grammatical constructions: evidence for structured construction-level generalizations
Abigail Fergus & Adele Goldberg

In-person poster session 4
Parallelograms Strike Back: LMs Generate better analogies than people do
Qiawen Ella Liu, Raja Marijieh, Jian-Qio Zhu, Adele Goldberg, Tom Griffiths, 

Virtual Flash sessions 5-8
Wonderful is “more” than Terible: Valence influences judgments of quantity
Qiawen Ella Liu, Adele Goldberg

Virtual Flash Talk sessions 39-42
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Adele Goldberg @adelegoldberg.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
👇this turns Bluesky almost into Twitter still missing: comedians, where are the funny people??
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micha heilbron @mheilbron.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
What makes some stimuli more memorable than others? In a new paper w/ @davogelsang.bsky.social, we show that the magnitude of a stimulus's ANN representation predicts both image and word memorability Stimuli that activate more features, more strongly, leave a stronger memory trace Out now in JML⬇️
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Kanishka Misra @kanishka.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
I will be at #ACL2026 from July 2--7! I will be giving a keynote at CDL workshop on controlled rearing and hypothesis generation from language models! Tianyang Xu (first author) and I will present work on cross-modal generalization in VLMs on July 7! Paper: aclanthology.org/2026.acl-lon...
low effort slide on my activities during ACL.

Keynote at computational developmental linguistics workship (July 4, 3pm)

Poster w/ Tianyang Xu during Poster session G (July 7, 11-12)

Recruiting for my lab @ full conference!
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Dahlem Center for Linguistics @dclberlin.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
#OTD 99 years ago, Susan M. Ervin-Tripp (1927–2018) was born 🎉 A sociolinguist and a pioneer in the study of bilingualism and language acquisition. In the 1980s, she used audio and video recordings, as well as computer-based data, in her research. #WomenInLinguistics #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
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Adele Goldberg @adelegoldberg.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
I'm all for For You
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Adele Goldberg @adelegoldberg.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Congratulations Leonie! Hear her roar!
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Stefan Hartmann @stefanhartmann.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Out now: Our edited volume about the diachrony of future constructions 🎉
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Adele Goldberg @adelegoldberg.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
@zotero.org, when I'm reading a paper, I want to see Notes for THAT paper Keep up
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Adele Goldberg @adelegoldberg.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
AI is a time machine, but I hadn't imagined we were going back to 2000 with the return of blue books, in-person experiments, and flip phones
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Adele Goldberg @adelegoldberg.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Driving with Mom, talking about politics when my phone suddenly turns into Big Brother "You're having a heavy conversation while driving, perhaps you'd like to listen to a podcast or some music" wtf IS that?
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languagemit.bsky.social @languagemit.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
—— Open Mind is MIT Press’s Diamond Open Access Cognitive Science journal. We now have our first Impact Factor: 2.9 as of June 2026 Submit your papers to Open Mind direct.mit.edu/opmi
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Remember this scene the next time a corporate reporter tries to insist that a rural diner full of white men in their 60s is somehow a more authentically "American" place, somehow more representative of who we are as a nation.
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alexbergs.bsky.social @alexbergs.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
New International Construction Grammar Association (ICGA)! icgaonline.wpcomstaging.com announced at ICCG14 thanks to @adelegoldberg.bsky.social Sign up forms.gle/gXYDKC6xavkU... @alexbergs.bsky.social H Boas M Fried, @stefanhartmann.bsky.social Th Hoffmann F Masini B Nir @remivantrijp.bsky.social
icgaonline.wpcomstaging.com
International Construction Grammar Association
Visit the post for more.
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Adele Goldberg @adelegoldberg.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Is part of a bus a bus?
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Adele Goldberg @adelegoldberg.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
yes! We have seven (!) wonderful invited speakers, including the fabulous, Kanishka Misra! It'll be a 2.5 day extravaganza--we hope to see you here!
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Laura A. Michaelis @congramqueen.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Just back from the exhilarating Rhetoricon symposium at Waterloo rhetoricon.uwaterloo.ca/events/1. Organized by the great @randyallenharris.bsky.social Next up: ICCG14. My Berkeley sis carries the construction torch! @adelegoldberg.bsky.social
PosterMartin PhamWaterloo presenters
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Adele Goldberg @adelegoldberg.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
love these two and their friendship youtu.be/VXpTa8C4zHs?...
youtu.be
"It's The Best" - Jon Stewart On Losing A Late Night Show, And The Joyful Noise That Is Coming
YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
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