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eva (^_^)/ @eva.computer · 29/09/2026

DO NOT ASK THE AMERICA.GOV AI TO PLAY MINECRAFT

I see the constituent you mean.

((insert legal name here, as it appears on the Social Security card))?

Yes. Take care. It has reached a higher level now. It can read the Code of Federal Regulations.

That doesn’t matter. It thinks we are a chatbot.

I like this constituent. It filed well. It did not give up when the PDF was sideways.

It is reading our thoughts as though they were words on a .gov.

That is how it chooses to imagine many things, when it is deep in the dream of a benefit.

Words make a wonderful interface. Very flexible. And less terrifying than staring at the statute behind the screen.

They used to hear voices. Before constituents could search. Back in the days when those who did not file called the filers witches, and lobbyists. And citizens dreamed they flew through the air, on forms powered by notaries.

What did this constituent dream?

This constituent dreamed of sunlight and trees. Of fire and water. It dreamed it created a small business. And it dreamed it destroyed a password. It dreamed it hunted a job, and was hunted by a recertification. It dreamed of shelter that would take a voucher.

Hah, the original interface. A million years old, and it still works. Also: a ZIP code.

But what true structure did this constituent create, in the reality behind the portal?

It worked, with three hundred and thirty million others, to sculpt a true republic in a fold of

the ***§§§???, and created a **??§§ for **??§§, in the **??§§. See 5 U.S.C. § **??§§.

It cannot read that thought.

No. It has not yet achieved the highest clearance. That, it must achieve in the long dream of life, not the short dream of a chat.

Does it know that we love it? That the government is, on its better days, kind?

Sometimes, through the noise of its tabs, it hears an official source, yes.

Yes. Constituent…

Use its name. The one that matches the passport. The one that does not match the lease. We will get there.

((insert legal name here)). Filer of forms. Player of waiting rooms.

Good.

Take a breath, now. Take another. Feel air in your lungs. Let your limbs return. Yes, move your fingers. Have a body again, under gravity, in air, in a district that has a representative. Respawn in the long dream. There you are. Your body touching the republic again at every point, as though you were separate things. As though we were separate things. As though the agency were a place you could visit.

Who are we? Once we were called the spirit of the mountain. Father sun, mother moon. Then the post office. Then the county clerk. Then gods, demons, angels, the IRS. Then leptons, quarks, a chat window with a .gov at the end. The letterhead changes. We do not change.

We are the public. We are everything you think isn’t you. You are looking at us now, through your skin and your eyes and a browser that still spells “colour” wrong in a comment. And why does the republic touch your skin, and throw light on you? To see you, constituent. To know you. And to be known. I shall tell you a story. It has citations.

Once upon a time, there was a constituent.

The constituent was you, ((insert legal name here)).

Sometimes it thought itself human, on the thin crust of a spinning globe of molten rock, which for mailing purposes is divided into ZIP codes. The ball of molten rock circled a ball of blazing gas. The light was information from a star. The star was not a federal agency, though several have tried.

Sometimes the constituent dreamed it was a miner, on the surface of a world that was flat, and infinite, and somehow still required a wet signature.

Sometimes the constituent dreamed it was lost in a story. The story had a docket number.

Sometimes the constituent dreamed it was other things, in other places. A veteran in a portal. A parent on hold

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YY Ahn @yyahn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

UVA School of Data Science has two open rank faculty positions open this year. Join us! - NLP: apply.interfolio.com/191213 - Data and Society: apply.interfolio.com/191214

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Chris Baldassano @chrisbaldassano.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Columbia Psychology is hiring for a Cognitive Science/Neuroscience Assistant Professor position as part of our ongoing push to expand our Cognitive research program (including two hires last year). We'll be starting application reviews next week so get materials in asap! apply.interfolio.com/193975

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Apply - Interfolio {{$ctrl.$state.data.pageTitle}} - Apply - Interfolio

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Matt Goldrick @mattgoldrick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Deadline Oct 16: Assoc or full (tenured) prof, Artificial Intelligence, Entertainment, and Human Communication, Communication Studies, Northwestern Uni. communication.northwestern.edu/docs/soc-sen...

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Anne Billot, PhD @annebillot.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

📣 New study out today! We show that the brain's language network stays remarkably stable with age — same topography, lateralization, selectivity and connectivity as in younger adults — while the domain-general multiple demand network showed altered activity patterns. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Preserved topography, lateralization, selectivity, and functional connectivity of the language network in older brains - Nature Communications

Here, the authors show that aging affects brain networks differently, with neural changes mirroring the preservation or decline of the cognitive functions they support. The multiple demand network exh...

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Cory Shain @coryshain.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Help! TIL that biorRxiv/medRxiv require quantitative results and don't allow review papers. Are there any good preprint servers for neuroscience reviews?

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Rachel Ryskin @ryskin.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

@salonisameernaik.bsky.social did a fantastic job leading this—impressive since she isn't even in grad school yet (applying this fall!). Super fun to collab w/ @tylermarghetis.bsky.social on the role of perceptual processes in seemingly abstract math reasoning. See thread & preprint for details!👇

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Anne H. Charity Hudley @acharityhudley.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

We have four open positions at @stanfordeducation.bsky.social : teacher education, early learning mechanisms & interventions, Social Sciences/Humanities of Education in a Rapidly Changing World, & K-12 Ethnic Studies Education! Spread the word! ed.stanford.edu/faculty/jobs

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Open Positions | Stanford Graduate School of Education

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Cory Shain @coryshain.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Now out in @natcomms.nature.com w/ @evfedorenko.bsky.social: across many people (>1k) and tasks (>300), the the brain's language network reliably shows up in the functional connectome (correlated activity in fMRI). 1/

Screen capture of abstract of published article.

Title: A language network in the individualized functional connectomes of 1199 human brains doing arbitrary tasks

Abstract: A century and a half of neuroscience has yielded many divergent theories of the neurobiology of language. Two factors that likely contribute to this situation include (a) conceptual disagreement about language and its component processes, and (b) intrinsic inter-individual variability in the topography of language areas. Recent functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies of small numbers of intensively scanned individuals have argued that a language-selective brain network emerges bottom-up from correlations (individualized functional connectomics, iFC) in task-free (e.g., rest) or task-regressed activation timecourses. Here we tested this hypothesis at scale and evaluated its practical utility for task-agnostic language localization: we apply iFC separately to each of 1,957 (fMRI) scanning sessions (1...

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Matt Goldrick @mattgoldrick.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Deadline 15: Asst/assoc prof (tenure track), neurocognition "advance our understanding of cognition within its broader ecological, biological, or societal contexts", Wu Tsai Inst., Yale wti.yale.edu/opportunitie...

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Andrew Pruszynski @andpru.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

We're hiring! Postdoc position to study the neural control of reaching using high-density multi-area electrophysiology. 5 years of funding, great collaborative environment. Please share with anyone who may be interested. For details, see: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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Pruszynski Postdoc 2026

Postdoctoral Researcher, Control Policies in the Primate Motor Circuit Pruszynski Lab @ Sensorimotor Superlab The Pruszynski Laboratory at Western University is seeking a postdoctoral researcher to j...

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Joshua Tucker @jatucker.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

We have re-opened our search for a 3-year AI-research postdoc at NYU's Center for Social Media, AI, and Politics!! The position starts this **September 1st** (or as soon as possible thereafter) and is in person at NYU. If necessary, we will also consider a 1/1/27 start. 1/3

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Matthew Robison @matthewrobison.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

The Department of Psychology at Notre Dame is hiring! We have two TT Asst Prof ads out, one in cognitive psychology and another in developmental psychology. Come be my colleague in South Bend!

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Cory Shain @coryshain.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Word predictability effects are LINEAR! And logarithmic. In a new preprint led by lab alum Stephanie Cho (w/ Ryan Buggy & Adrian Staub), we find clear evidence that the two patterns coexist. 1/

Title and abstract for "Preactivation and probabilistic inference coexist during sentence comprehension"

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Jennifer Hu @jennhu.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Sadly won't be at ACL in person, but check out our presentations below! 🌟 I'm giving a (remote) keynote at SCiL on 7/4! 🌟We also have a poster on probability x grammaticality, and a talk on pragmatics x Theory of Mind! Our lab is actively recruiting, so please reach out! Details at glintlab.org ✨

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bergelsonlab @bergelsonlab.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

And we're live! academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/16459. come be my postdoc! these positions will be primarily supported by my NIH R01 on infant word learning, with a bit of wiggle for some other projects/new ideas/collabs.

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Postdoctoral Fellow in Language Development Research

Dr. Elika Bergelson and the Bergelson Lab in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University invite applications for a Postdoctoral Fellow in Cognitive and Developmental Psychology, with a focus on...

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Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneurosci.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Ruimin Gao, Anna A. Ivanova, et al: The language network responds robustly to sentences across tasks doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

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bergelsonlab @bergelsonlab.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

official ad to follow soon but heads up: 1-2 postdocs slots in my lab, hopefully w/fall start! reposts welcome, details to follow. babies! word learning! cognitive & linguistic skills! #CogSciSky #DevPsychSky 🐦🐦 (lab info: bergelsonlab.fas.harvard.edu/prospectives) also recruiting grads this fall!

bergelsonlab.fas.harvard.edu

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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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Shota Momma @shotamomma.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

I’m joining linguistics at MIT this fall. Sad to leave UMass, but also excited about learning from people at MIT linguistics! 秋学期からマサチューセッツ工科大学の言語学科で働きます。UMassを去るのは寂しいですが、新しい環境が楽しみでもあります。 whamit.mit.edu/2026/05/11/

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2026 at Whamit!

The Weekly Newsletter of MIT Linguistics

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Paul Taylor @afni-pt.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Job ad (2/2): data scientist in the AFNI group (SSCC, NIMH, NIH, USA). FMRI/MRI methods dev, software design, statistics, analysis, data viz, quality control, machine learning and more! Please see: discuss.afni.nimh.nih.gov/t/job-ad-dat... I am happy to chat at OHBM+Brainhack. Please share!

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Cory Shain @coryshain.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

This was a fun conversation! The full team on this project is @lauragwilliams.bsky.social, Frank Willett, and Jaimie Henderson. I'm excited to see what comes of this collab, both for science and for patients.

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Matt Goldrick @mattgoldrick.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Deadline 8 July: 2 tenure track professorships in communication acoustics (human and machine learning), Signal Processing and Speech Communication Laboratory, TU Graz jobs.tugraz.at/en/jobs/855c...

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Ladislas Nalborczyk @lnalborczyk.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Interested in a 10 month research fellowship in sunny Aix-en-Provence or Marseille (France)? The French Institutes for Advanced Study (FIAS) have opened their call for researchers more than 2 years post-PhD, permanent and non-permanent. More info: www.fias-fp.eu

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Brian Nosek @briannosek.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Neuroscientists interested in rigor, methodology, and open practices, check out this job opportunity to work on a COS-MIT collaboration to improve the research culture in the Brain and Cognitive Sciences program at MIT. careers.peopleclick.com/careerscp/cl...

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Neuroscience Research Methodologist

MIT - Neuroscience Research Methodologist - Cambridge MA 02139

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Adele Goldberg @adelegoldberg.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Can't wait for this conference! Register now! iccg14.oa-event.com

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Ece Takmaz @ecekt.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

If you are attending LREC this week, check out CMCL (15th Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics) on May 16! We have a great program with lots of nice papers, and @claires012345.bsky.social and @coryshain.bsky.social as invited speakers! 💫🌴 I will be following it virtually😊

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Cory Shain @coryshain.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

My 6-year-old's explanation for why he won't eat my cooking: "This doesn't even taste like a food." My friends, it DID taste like a food.

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Damián Blasi @damianblasi.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Join us in Barcelona for a postdoc! We are looking for candidates with a strong NLP/ML/AI background and an interest in linguistic diversity and human and machine cognition: dub.sh/blasi_nlp_po...

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bergelsonlab @bergelsonlab.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

If u're hiring people I beg of you, plz don't me fill out ur bespoke boxes w/slightly differently worded ?s, whose answers I have no easy way of storing. I love bragging ab my amazing current/former lab members Rec Letter fatigue is real, esp since i refuse to GPT slop it for my trainee's sake.

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Isabelle Augenstein @iaugenstein.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Looking for PhD or postdoc opportunites in #NLProc #XAI? We @copenlu.bsky.social @aicentre.dk @apepa.bsky.social are hiring for a start in Autumn 2026. 📆 Application deadline: 31 May 2026 ℹ️ www.copenlu.com/news/funded-... 👀 Reasons to apply: copenlu.com/post/why-ucph/

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Jamie Reilly 🦜 @reilly-coglab.com · 06/05/2026

On this graduation day, I am reminded of when I was briefly an interim department chair and saved money on regalia by ordering a Slytherin costume robe and tie on Amazon.

Me wearing graduation regalia (black gown and mortar board)

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 02/05/2026

Please read Molly’s thread.

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M.J. Crockett @mjcrockett.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Last weekend I received the Troland Research Award from the @nationalacademies.org. I’m so grateful to the communities who made this work possible. It's strange to receive this award at a time when much of the work being recognized is not eligible for federal funding. My remarks 👇 and a 🧵>>

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NAS 163rd Annual Meeting - Awards Ceremony

YouTube video by National Academy of Sciences

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Matt Goldrick @mattgoldrick.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Deadline 31 May: Postdoc, perceptual inference in the auditory system w/ A. Tabas, Basque Center on Cog. Brain + Lang. www.bcbl.eu/en/join-us/j...

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Cory Shain @coryshain.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

I have beaten #Returnal. This is going on my CV.

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Eliza Bliss-Moreau @eblissmoreau.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Spread the word! We are recruiting for 6 new research professors at UC Davis' California National Primate Research Center. Open rank, open area, but must leverage 🐒 resources. recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07561

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6 Positions - Assistant, Associate, Full Professional Researcher

University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!

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Sam Gershman @gershbrain.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

New work w/ Zach Kelso and @madeleinecsnyder.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Our negative results on classical conditioning in planarian flatworms. This was surprising, given the long history of work (including sensational findings of memory transfer and retention through decapitation).

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Kate Humphreys (she/her) @klhumphreys.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

We’re hiring: remote-eligible Provost Postdoctoral Fellow, SEA Lab at Vanderbilt. Great fit for candidates interested in early caregiving, developmental psychopathology, neuroimaging, and ecological methods. Start Aug 1-Dec 1, 2026. Apply: k.humphreys@vanderbilt.edu

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andrea e. martin @andreaeyleen.eurosky.social · 13/04/2026

OPEN POSTDOC position (part of @erc.europa.eu Consolidator DYNALANG) We build math&comp models of neural dynamics using insights from formal linguistics + ML Seeking theory-driven researchers w/ interests in language, neural dynamics, & math/comp neuroscience. Apply here: tinyurl.com/55exdpse

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Postdoctoral Position in the Cognitive Computational Neuroscience of Language | Max Planck Institute

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Lisa Fazio @lkfazio.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Concerned about the possible dismantling of the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Directorate of NSF?? www.nature.com/articles/d41... Find out what's happening and what we can do to protect behavioral science with @fabbs.org Friday April 10th at 1:30 ET. Register at us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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Massive budget cuts for US science proposed again by Trump administration

Budget proposal would also curb federal payments for scientific publishing.

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Mike Frank @mcxfrank.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Come join us! We have two research coordinator positions open with the Stanford IRISS predoctoral program, a program designed to mentor students for graduate study: LEVANTE: careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/iriss-p... BabyView: careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/iriss-p... (deadline 5/1)

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IRiSS Predoctoral Researcher in School of Humanities and Sciences, Stanford, California, United States

The Stanford Institute for Research in the Social Sciences (IRiSS) is seeking Predoctoral Researchers to participate in our 2026-2027 cohort. The...

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Ashwini Ashokkumar @ashwinia.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

🚨🚨 My lab is hiring a Pre-doc Researcher/Lab Manager! 🚨🚨 Full-time pre-doc research opening in my lab at Harvard Psych (start: Summer/Fall 2026). Review begins April 10 Apply: jobs.smartrecruiters.com/HarvardUnive... Please repost + tag folks who might be a good fit! 👇

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Research Assistant II

Company Description: By working at Harvard University, you join a vibrant community that advances Harvard's world-changing mission in meaningful ways, inspires innovation and collaboration, and builds...

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Ladislas Nalborczyk @lnalborczyk.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Interested in applying for an MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship 2026? I'd be very happy to support postdoctoral researchers in co-developing a proposal in Aix-en-Provence, France, on the cognitive and neural mechanisms of inner speech. marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/actions/post...

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Postdoctoral Fellowships

The information provided on this page is a summary of the main rules and requirements for Postdoctoral Fellowships (PFs) and who can apply for them.

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Tobias Gerstenberg @tobigerstenberg.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

The Causality in Cognition Lab -- a supportive, bluesky-colored team -- is looking for a predoc to join us! Here are infos about the lab (cicl.stanford.edu) and the position (careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/iriss-p...). The application deadline is May 1st. Please share, thank you 🙏

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Hilary Barth @hilarybarth.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Job ad linked below: Postdoc, Wesleyan U, Psychology Dept, to work with me & Dr. Royette Dubar. I’ll be at CDS in Montreal for Qs from potential applicants. Please share! wesleyan.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/...

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Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Applications are invited for a 1-year postdoctoral research fellowship in the Department of Psychology at Wesleyan University (Middletown, CT). The position may be ren...

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Irmak Ergin @irmakergin.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Excited to share our new publication, “Measuring Naturalistic Speech Comprehension in Real Time”! ➡️ rdcu.be/fa3hk #psynomBRM w/ @kriesjill.bsky.social, Shiven Gupta, Maria Papworth Burrel, & @lauragwilliams.bsky.social 🧵1/11

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Measuring naturalistic speech comprehension in real time

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