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Fausto Carcassi @faustocarcassi.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

These past few months really gave a new meaning to the word 'doomscrolling'

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Jake Quilty-Dunn @quiltydunn.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

New paper, co-authored with Justin Wood, in @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social: The Nativist-Empiricist Debate Is Broken We argue that radical nativism and radical empiricism are compatible and, in some cases, both plausibly true. So something is wrong. 🧵 Author share link here, valid til Oct 31:

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Fausto Carcassi @faustocarcassi.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Anyone going to Sao Paulo for #cogsci & arriving a week or so before the conference? Could be nice to share an airbnb / do some exploring together.

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Simon Hammann @simonhammann.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Don't be shy to take on a little two-week side project. These five months will be the most precious three years of your academic journey.

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Riccardo Fusaroli @fusaroli.eurosky.social · 09/04/2026

trying to learn more about Approximate Bayesian Computation, to fit less tractable models (say ABMs, or rule-based categorization systems) to data; or fit models to aggregate data reported in other papers. but so many approaches out there! what are your favorite tutorials/papers?

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Fausto Carcassi @faustocarcassi.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Nobody does gremlin-coded folk like the Finns open.spotify.com/track/7zqorc...

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Fausto Carcassi @faustocarcassi.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

I think part of the reason why people find this controversial is that they read into it "therefore there is no difference". But as the prof for intro to philosophy said in the first year of my BA: "The fact that there are unclear cases does not mean there aren't clear cases"

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Ehud @duhe.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

There is no straightforward way, or any recognized method, to demarcate cleanly between science and pseudoscience.

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Mr SheerLuck @mrsheerluck.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Thanks to François Chollet and mike knoop, my interest on AI is back and I'm really looking into arcprize this looks interesting. I went to the resources tab and started learning aboout program synthesys. I'll go through this mini course from @faustocarcassi.bsky.social

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Jared Moore @jaredlcm.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Can LLMs use ToM to genuinely persuade you, or do they just use good rhetoric? In our new preprint, we use the MINDGAMES framework to test this. Surprisingly, LLMs like o3 can be incredibly effective persuaders *without* actually understanding your mental states. 🧵👇

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Fausto Carcassi @faustocarcassi.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Come to my and Tom Stephen's course at ESSLLI 2026! 2026.esslli.eu/courses-work... We'll consider typological data to formulate tightly fitting empirical constraints on the operation of semantic composition in natural language, in the tradition of Generalized Quantification Theory

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Riccardo Fusaroli @fusaroli.eurosky.social · 04/03/2026

my course notes on a bayesian workflow for (single agent) cognitive modeling are now fully revised and online: fusaroli.github.io/AdvancedCogn... Predictive checks, updating checks, sensitivity analyses and simulation based calibration in @mc-stan.org Feedback is very welcome!

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My notes for the advanced cognitive modeling course - 2026

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Jake Quilty-Dunn @quiltydunn.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

A new preprint, co-authored with @johnwkrakauer.bsky.social: The Deliberation Taboo Cognitive science is, nominally, the science of thinking. We argue that the field has no theory of what thinking is and, even worse, that the topic has largely dropped out of focus. 1/ osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Tom Wallis @tsawallis.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

**Postdoc position in human category learning** @thecharleywu.bsky.social, Frank Jäkel and I are seeking a postdoctoral fellow to lead a joint project on human category learning at the Centre for Cognitive Science @tuda.bsky.social. www.career.tu-darmstadt.de/tu-darmstadt...

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Tomer Ullman @tomerullman.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

New preprint "Human-Like Coarse Object Representations in Vision Models" arxiv.org/pdf/2602.12486

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Fausto Carcassi @faustocarcassi.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Drop an album that was important to you when you were nineteen.

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Michael Franke @meanwhileina.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Come work with us!! Two full substitute professorships for Computational Linguistics (1 year) and General Linguistics (1.5 years) at the University of Tübingen. @unituebingen.bsky.social uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet... uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet...

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Substitute Professorship in Computational Linguistics (m/f/d, W3, 100%)

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Fausto Carcassi @faustocarcassi.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

I binged @tonytula.com's two books and want more so now I'm forced to read "Remote Research: Real Users, Real Time, Real Research" as a piece of narrative in the Tulathimutte-verse

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

you know there is one thing everyone could have that billionaires now have: "a meaningful say over their work, their lives, and the places they live". don't think Altman will like the story of how we get that for everyone tho

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Fausto Carcassi @faustocarcassi.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

TIL Fats Domino's eight children were called: Antoine III, Anatole, Andre, Antonio, Antoinette, Andrea, Anola, and Adonica.

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Fausto Carcassi @faustocarcassi.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

I agree! I am more worried for students. I guess I should have said: the fear is AI will absorb anyone who *could learn* what a function application is

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Fausto Carcassi @faustocarcassi.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

I think the fear might be that formal semantics will disappear because AI will absorb everyone who knows what a function application is

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Fausto Carcassi @faustocarcassi.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Sadly, as a field it's just slightly too close to the star of AI research. Whether it will orbit or fall and crash is unclear (a lot of pessimism around though afaict).

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Fausto Carcassi @faustocarcassi.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Personally in teaching it I think we should emphasise more: (1) How strangely language behaves even in apparently simple domains like Boolean connectives (2) events events events!

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Fausto Carcassi @faustocarcassi.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

So I think that, much like logic, TCS lives a split but stable existence between a topic students learn to make their thinking about language a bit more precise, and a research field that connects more and more with other fields (typology, cognitive science)

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Fausto Carcassi @faustocarcassi.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

The field has matured so that the intro course (usually H&K, using S at the top) is quite far removed from the standard picture in the research lit (some kind of neo-Davidsonian event semantics w/ a rich verbal spine), though there's some attempts to realign (Coppock & Champollion textbook)

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Fausto Carcassi @faustocarcassi.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

(1) a tool to state typological generalisations or describe underdocumented langs, (2) a framework to formulate precise empirical predictions to test (Jacopo Romoli has great stuff here), (3) a way to study how certain kind of meanings are realized and dealt with (e.g. degrees), ...

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Fausto Carcassi @faustocarcassi.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

In my experience most people aren't as committed to (/interested in?) the big foundations that motivated it in the old days (I think Davidson (?) somewhere sums it up as: a systematic account of compositionality+entailment patterns+logical form), and instead use TCS in more applied ways e.g., as:

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Michael Franke @meanwhileina.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Our large-scale interdisciplinary research initiative @unituebingen.bsky.social on "Common Ground" now has a website: uni-tuebingen.de/en/research/... We are also hiring! Check out recent postings here and the continually added job ads here: uni-tuebingen.de/en/universit... #linguistics + friends

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Daniel Wurgaft @danielwurgaft.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Excited to share a new CogSci paper co-led with @benpry.bsky.social! Once a cornerstone for studying human reasoning, the think-aloud method declined in popularity as manual coding limited its scale. We introduce a method to automate analysis of verbal reports and scale think-aloud studies. (1/8)🧵

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Julian @juliangrove.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

First day notes now posted: juliangrove.github.io/nasslli-2025...

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The bridge from theory to data – Probabilistic dynamic semantics

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Jakub Szymanik @szymanikjakub.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

I'm packing for NASSLLI 2025. The lineup is terrific! I'm looking forward to enjoying Seattle for the first time and climbing again with @shanest.bsky.social, who organized the school (kudos!). nasslli25.shane.st/schedule/

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North American Summer School on Logic, Language and Information (NASSLLI '25) @ UW

Official website for the North American Summer School for Logic, Language and Information, taking place June 23-27 at the Univeristy of Washington, Seattle.

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Fausto Carcassi @faustocarcassi.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Yeah, I am in the process of metabolizing that particular shock... If I think of the time I squandered, Battiato comes to mind: "Se penso a come ho speso male il mio tempo Che non tornerà, non ritornerà più"

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Fausto Carcassi @faustocarcassi.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Is it blasphemy to say that pre-WWI biology (filtered through the humanistic eyes of Thomas Mann) has a FEP vibe to it?

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Fausto Carcassi @faustocarcassi.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

which could in all purity make beauty perceptible to the senses. Rather was it conveyed and shaped by the somehow awakened voluptuousness of matter, of the organic, dying-living substance itself, the reeking flesh.

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Fausto Carcassi @faustocarcassi.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

and which became form, beauty, a lofty image, and yet all the time the essence of sensuality and desire. For this form and beauty were not spiritborne; nor, like the form and beauty of sculpture, conveyed by a neutral and spiritconsumed substance,

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Fausto Carcassi @faustocarcassi.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

It was a pullulation, an unfolding, a form-building (made possible by the overbalancing of its instability, yet controlled by the laws of growth inherent within it), of something brewed out of water, albumen, salt and fats, which was called flesh,

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Fausto Carcassi @faustocarcassi.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

It was a secret and ardent stirring in the frozen chastity of the universal; it was a stolen and voluptuous impurity of sucking and secreting; an exhalation of carbonic acid gas and material impurities of mysterious origin and composition.

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Fausto Carcassi @faustocarcassi.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

a phenomenon conveyed by matter, like the rainbow on the waterfall, and like the flame. Yet why not material—it was sentient to the point of desire and disgust, the shamelessness of matter become sensible of itself, the incontinent form of being.

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Fausto Carcassi @faustocarcassi.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

It was the existence of the actually impossible-to-exist, of a half-sweet, half-painful balancing, or scarcely balancing, in this restricted and feverish process of decay and renewal, upon the point of existence. It was not matter and it was not spirit, but something between the two,

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Fausto Carcassi @faustocarcassi.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

What then was life? It was warmth, the warmth generated by a form-preserving instability, a fever of matter, which accompanied the process of ceaseless decay and repair of albumen molecules that were too impossibly complicated, too impossibly ingenious in structure.

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Fausto Carcassi @faustocarcassi.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

This excessive busyness got me back into reading long book though. They feel like islands of calm. I've been reading The Magic Mountain (which I had been meaning to do for years) and it has some real gems, e.g.,:

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Fausto Carcassi @faustocarcassi.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Since I became an assistant professor I have followed a two-step research process: 1. Apologize for having had no time to make progress on a project but I'm going to have more time soon 2. Soon find out I in fact do not have more time

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