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Lindsey Powell @lindseypowell.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

UCSD Psychology is hiring!! We’re seeking a new assistant professor colleague who studies high-level human cognition, broadly construed. Please share and/or apply! apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF04646

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Assistant Professor in High-level Human Cognition

University of California, San Diego is hiring. Apply now!

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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

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Assistant Professor - Cognitive Sciences

University of California, Irvine is hiring. Apply now!

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

faculty! Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Tennessee, Kentucky, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Texas faculty! please answer this anonymous AAUP survey docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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2026 AAUP Faculty in the South Survey

The Georgia conference of the American Association of University Professors [AAUP] and its partners in states across the South have been at the forefront of fighting attacks on higher education. To as...

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Matt Goldrick @mattgoldrick.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Open until filled (🚨🚨apply now!🚨🚨): Postdoc, speech acoustics and major depressive disorder, with me!, Northwestern Linguistics (working with folks in Psychology and Psychiatry). faculty.wcas.northwestern.edu/matt-goldric...

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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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Adam Schembri (ˈʃɛmbɹi/ˈʃkɛmbri) @adamcschembri.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

It was published yesterday! I'm grateful to my co-authors for their patience as I was the main reason it has taken over a decade. I hope it's useful. Please don't forget to download the 500 video sign examples from the website. Now on to the Auslan linguistics second edition!

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Colin Phillips @colinphillips.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Another Oxford postdoc opportunity - come work with me or any of my colleagues. This scheme requires a prior UK connection. Internal deadline: July 8. www.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/news/2026/05...

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Remember scientists aren’t giving up. After the Trump administration redirected Climate.gov and dismissed many of the federal employees who maintained it, former staff members launched a new independent website called Climate.us to help keep trusted climate information available to the public.

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Colin Phillips @colinphillips.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

We are looking to fill an open-rank position in Sociolinguistics in Oxford, in conjunction with Worcester College. Come be a part of the exciting developments in language and linguistics in Oxford! www.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/news/2026/05...

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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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Greg Woodin @gregwoodin.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

My current position will be coming to a close at the end of 2026, so I’m beginning to explore next steps. I’m a postdoctoral researcher at UCL working at the intersection of language, cognition, and multimodal communication. 1/4 👇

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Steffen Höder @steffenhoeder.de · 27/04/2026

I wouldn't mind hosting a postdoc doing work in Construction Grammar and/or Scandinavian Linguistics: www.forschung.uni-kiel.de/en/research-...

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MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships

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ACLU @aclu.org · 22/04/2026

There's still time to save Tony's life. Add your name to the petition to tell Tennessee to test all the forensic evidence before they execute a potentially innocent man.

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No Wrongful Execution for Tony Carruthers

Tony Carruthers was convicted without physical evidence, based solely on testimony from informants. Now, Tony is scheduled for execution on May 21st by Tennessee after being forced to represent himsel...

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Sasha Boguraev @sashaboguraev.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Perhaps more ink has been spilled on the topic of Island Constraints than any other such phenomenon in theoretical linguistics. In new work with @kmahowald, we study how LMs process such phenomenon, using techniques from mechanistic interpretability to guide our exploration. 🧵👇

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Dr Laura Smith-Khan @lawandlanguage.org · 10/04/2026

We now have a complete set of teaching case studies on our law and language website! 🤗🥳 These case studies share the experience of 8 Australian academics who have incorporated a law and language focus into their teaching, across diverse, units, disciplines and universities.

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Teaching Case Studies

In 2025, the LLIRN ran its first internship program, with the goal of developing a set of peer-informed resources to support those wishing to incorporate a law and language focus into their teachin…

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Andrew D Wilson @adw.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

These two books contain the sum total of all human knowledge

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 05/04/2026

Here are the stories of some of the human beings who died horrific deaths from preventable disease because Trump and Musk and their flunkies decided to murder them by gleefully destroying USAID and the entire global aid system:

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Trump Officials Celebrated With Cake After Slashing Aid. Then People Died of Cholera.

Behind closed doors in Washington, top advisers made a series of decisions that had devastating repercussions for the poorest country on earth. We went to South Sudan and found people who died as a re...

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Ev Fedorenko @evfedorenko.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

From maybe the best teacher I know: Idan Blank explains transformers in a super intuitive and fun way!

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Désirée Kleineberg @dupetitmont.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

👀 Je cherche des participants pour une expérience sur la créativité linguistique, la participation ne dure que 10 minutes et vous pouvez gagner un bon d'achat de la Fnac! Participez en cliquant sur le lien suivant: www.lingexp.uni-tuebingen.de/OnExp2/onexp...

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Expérience sur la créativité linguistique

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Elaine Francis @ejfranci2.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

ExLing lab news: Kudos to undergraduate researchers Lucia Lamagna, Sarah Wu, and Shayna Ramirez for winning a “high distinction” award from Purdue’s Undergraduate Research Expo for their poster mentored by Dr. Kyle Swanson and Dr. Vanessa Sheu! www.cla.purdue.edu/news/college...

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Liberal Arts Research: Studying How the Brain Interprets Ambiguous Language - College of Liberal Arts - Purdue University

Purdue’s College of Liberal Arts (CLA) is working to better understand how the brain interprets ambiguous language in real time.

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Zhenghan Qi @qzhever.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

📣 Check out how verb-specific knowledge updates incrementally as distributional learning takes place: our first paper on prediction and learning (with Amanda Owen Van Horne @telllab.bsky.social and Yi-Lun Weng) is out!

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Learning through prediction: a case of verb bias learning

Linguistic prediction, which emerges from experience, is a pervasive process in language comprehension. However, how prediction develops as learning unfolds and how it drives the learning process r...

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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 25/02/2026

These dogs are having the time of their lives following this week's historic blizzard in the Northeast. Please enjoy. 14/10 for all

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Erik Nook 🏳️‍🌈 @eriknook.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Are you a junior faculty member interested in spending 2-4 weeks at Princeton Psych? Consider applying for our Microsabbatical program! It’s a fully funded visit for professional development and creating long-term collaborations. psych.princeton.edu/diversity/mi...

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Microsabbaticals at Princeton Psychology

Microsabbaticals at Princeton Psychology provide a several-week-long visit to our department for early-career faculty. The program focuses on early-career scholars who would benefit from interactions ...

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Nelson Flores @nelsonlflores.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

My mother requested a real ID twice and was denied. The second time I was with her and it was because her birth certificate is from Puerto Rico and included two surnames instead of the one maiden name listed on her marriage certificate. This policy will systematically disenfranchise women.

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Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science bot @oecs-bot.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

The Interaction Engine by Stephen C. Levinson: doi.org/10.21428/e2759450.e3df24b2

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Elizabeth Picciuto @epicciuto.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

At no point in this reading this headline would I have correctly guessed what the next word would be.

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Jennifer Hu @jennhu.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

I wrote a short article on AI Model Evaluation for the Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science 📕👇 Hope this is helpful for anyone who wants a super broad, beginner-friendly intro to the topic! Thanks @mcxfrank.bsky.social and @asifamajid.bsky.social for this amazing initiative!

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 10/02/2026

THEY ARE BUYING UP WAREHOUSES TO HOLD HUMAN BEINGS IN DETENTION INDEFINITELY. I feel crazy at how everyone is acting like this is normal. These are concentration camps being built right before our eyes. These buildings are not meant to house human beings. People will be caged like cattle and die.

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Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

What shouldn’t be “radical” — but unfortunately we live in a world where it is — is the idea that *every* child deserves to be able to see their dreams come true. That’s what I saw.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

The Trump admin’s whole case regarding Haitians in Ohio is racism, xenophobia, and lies. There’s literally nothing else to it. Legal status, proper papers. No criminal record. Employers, neighbors, local leaders say they’re a benefit to the community. It’s showy, bigoted cruelty, nothing more.

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Representative Seth Magaziner @magaziner.house.gov · 27/01/2026

Reminder that, as of the latest reports, Liam Ramos is still in prison in Texas - now for 5 days. His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record.

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Joshua Clark Davis @joshuaclarkdavis.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

American Federation of Government Employees union president condemns the murder of AFGE Council 238 member Alex Pretti by ICE.

EPA Union President Condemns Murder of AFGE Member Alex Pretti
NATIONWIDE — Following the murder of Alex Pretti, a Veterans Affairs ICU nurse and AFGE member, by federal agents in Minneapolis, AFGE Council 238 President Justin Chen released the following statement:
“AFGE Council 238 condemns the appalling murder of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis at the hands of federal agents. As a fellow AFGE member who dedicated his life to serving veterans as a VA ICU nurse, the murder of our union brother Alex Pretti is an unconscionable act of violence and a betrayal of the values federal workers are sworn to uphold.

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Andrew Perfors @perfors.net · 22/01/2026

I just created a series of seven deep-dive videos about AI, which I've posted to youtube and now here. 😊 Targeted to laypeople, they explore how LLMs work, what they can do, and what impacts they have on learning, well-being, disinformation, the workplace, the economy, and the environment.

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Part 1: How do LLMs work?

YouTube video by Andrew Perfors

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Zito @zeets.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

The newest video shows very clearly that they attacked him for coming to an aid of a woman that the agents pushed, and then executed him while he was immobilized. Everything the government has said, like with Good, has been a complete lie.

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Barbara J. King @bjking.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

His name was Alex Pretti. He was an ICU nurse. "In total, at least 10 shots appear to have been fired within 5 seconds, according to the video. Footage shows the man was holding a phone in his hand, not a gun, when federal agents took him to the ground and shot him." #AlexPretti #Minneapolis

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What We Know About a Second Fatal Shooting by Federal Agents in Minneapolis

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 24/01/2026

I have watched the video of today’s murder several times and I am here to assure you that there were several agents restraining the victim when he was shot, and there is no way they were worried he was going to shoot one. Even if he had a gun, and I think that’s not true, he was not free to use it.

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Michelle R. Smith @bymichellersmith.com · 24/01/2026

Woman tells Minnesota Public Radio that the man killed today was helping vehicle traffic get around the area where ICE agents and observers had started to gather and "next thing I knew, they shot him." www.mprnews.org/live-updates....

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The latest on ICE in Minnesota

Live updates on ICE enforcement in Minnesota, with the latest developments and links to deeper reporting as events unfold.

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Manda M @bettesays.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

If you don't mind, if I could leave this here - it's a wonderful resource and the admins just added a page where people can leave a note of encouragement or support after making a donation and reading the testimonials. We need those today. www.standwithminnesota.com

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Stand With Minnesota Donation Directory

Stand With Minnesota is a hub for supporting, learning, and taking action to support Minnesotans impacted by ICE and federal enforcement.

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Kiel Christianson @golfwriterkiel.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

What Dario says! Send in those papers!

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Colin Phillips @colinphillips.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Postdoc opportunity with any of my Oxford colleagues funded by the British Academy. Expressions of interest due next week! www.humanities.ox.ac.uk/british-acad...

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 11/01/2026

The American Dialect Society's Word of the Year is SLOP! “Slop isn’t a new word. It has moved from the pig sty, to the algorithm, and now forms newcompounds such as sloppunk, slopification, and friend slop,” Dr. Kelly Elizabeth Wright said. “This productivity has no end in sight.” 🧵

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Elaine Francis @ejfranci2.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

I had a great time in New Orleans at #LSA2026. So nice to catch up with old friends and meet new people! Linked here are some updates from the ExLing lab and Purdue Linguistics. cla.purdue.edu/english/fran...

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Purdue Linguistics goes to New Orleans for LSA 2026 – ExLing

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A Way with Words @waywordradio.org · 17/01/2026

If you are a Canadian francophone, there's a survey on French swearing researchers are running! Si vous êtes un Canadien francophone, des chercheurs mènent un sondage sur les jurons en français! run.pavlovia.org/pavlovia/survey-20…

Logos de trois universités canadiennes : McMaster, Université de Moncton, et Université Laurentienne. Logos of McMaster University, Université de Moncton, and Laurentian University, each with their respective emblems and text.

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Lauren Harper @laurenleharper.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Hannah Natanson is an exceptional reporter and should never have been subjected to this type of extraordinary intimidation tactic. We have few details now, but it’s hard to interpret this as anything other than an attempt to squash the freedom of the press.

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American Dialect Society @americandialect.org · 10/01/2026

The 2025 Word of the Year is "slop," both as a noun for low-quality AI-generated content and as a combining form for anything of little value. Read the full press release. #WOTY2025 #ADS2026 #LSA2026 americandialect.org/2025-word-of...

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2025 Word of the Year Is “Slop”

New Orleans Marriott–Jan. 9—The American Dialect Society, in its 36th annual words-of-the-year vote, selected slop as the Word of the Year for 2025. More than three hundred attendees took part in the…

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Gloria Pan @glopan.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

"More sick children ... More hospitalizations. More pressure on our already-stressed health care system. More medical expenses for families... Those will be the results of yesterday’s reckless move by the CDC ... to slash vaccine recommendations for children." Via @momsrising.org. #MomSky

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Reckless New Childhood Vaccine Recommendations Threaten to Exacerbate Nation’s Health Care Crisis

“More sick children – some of them desperately ill. More hospitalizations. More pressure on our already-stressed health care system. More medical expenses for families. More struggles for the tens of ...

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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

OMG 😭 Huntington's is an inherited disease that's like Alzheimers + Parkinson's all in one. NOW: "once the gene therapy has been delivered into the brain... [it] injects a piece of DNA to reprogram the neuron to become a factory for its own cure." LIFE SAVING! www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhEx...

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Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time | BBC News

YouTube video by BBC News

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languagemit.bsky.social @languagemit.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

New book! I have written a book, called Syntax: A cognitive approach, published by MIT Press. This is open access; MIT Press will post a link soon, but until then, the book is available on my website: tedlab.mit.edu/tedlab_websi...

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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Ending a $5 million research study when it is 70% complete does not save $1 million, it wastes $4 million. When a project loses federal funding before completion, finding alternative resources is challenging. Most philanthropies do not have comparable resources. 🧪 www.forbes.com/sites/brucel...

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