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Jon Brennan

@jonrbrennan.bsky.social
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Linguistics and cognitive science nerd; faculty at the University of Michigan; author of "Language and the Brain"

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Jon Brennan @jonrbrennan.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
How much time passes before recall in that study? In think Kintsch had something along these lines showing that narrative-level and pragmatic factors like implicature play a role in reports given 1-4 days later (maybe here? doi.org/10.1016/0749.... )
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New Ways of Analyzing Variation 53 @nwavconference.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
It's a picture-perfect day in Ann Arbor! Welcome to #nwav53, attendees! Check out the NWAV 53 "Getting Around" information for conference information, including accessibility, and importantly—restaurant recommendations for tonight and beyond! docs.google.com/document/d/e...
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NWAV 53 Information Sheet
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Julian Davis Mortenson @jdmortenson.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Later today, with the support of @sbagen.bsky.social and @richardprimus.bsky.social, I’ll be moving a Faculty Senate resolution calling on the University of Michigan to reject the federal government’s proposed “Academic Compact.” Join the discussion if you can! docs.google.com/document/u/0...
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11.3.25 Senate Motion3.docx
The University of Michigan University Senate Motion #110325-3 Resolution to Reject Participation in the “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education” Whereas on 1 October 2025 the Trump Admin...
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Jon Brennan @jonrbrennan.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Reminder!! We are hiring in Linguistics at Michigan with a focus on "AI and Linguistics" (broooaaadly construed). This is part of a cluster of positions in Psychology and Philosophy in collaboration with the Cognitive Science program. Applications now open! careers.umich.edu/job_detail/a...
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Apply for AI and Linguistics (Assistant, Associate or full Professor) | U-M Careers
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Sarah Cohodes @cohodes.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Student newspapers, again doing the work @michigandaily.bsky.social specials.michigandaily.com/2025/grant-t...
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Your guide to grant terminations at UMich
A collection of research projects at the University of Michigan, many focused on marginalized communities, health equity and public health, whose grants have been terminated following a directive from...
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William Matchin @wmatchin.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
University of South Carolina has *7* tenure-track faculty positions in Neurobiology of Language: tinyurl.com/USC-Faculty-... Positions in COMD, Psych, Linguistics, School of Medicine. @snlmtg.bsky.social #SNL2025, we will have a booth. w/@rutvikdesai.bsky.social @imb-uofsc.bsky.social
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Jon Brennan @jonrbrennan.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Another job here at Michigan - this one in Linguistics! Part of a cluster of hires with a focus on Cognitive Science and AI. Happy to chat to interested folks. apply.interfolio.com/171006
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Jon Brennan @jonrbrennan.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Be my colleague!! We're hiring in cognitive science and AI as part of a cluster of positions across Linguistics, Psychology, Psychiatry and Philosophy. The Psychology posting is now up; the linguistics job posting will be up soon. apply.interfolio.com/169170
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Tal Linzen @tallinzen.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
I'm hiring at least one post-doc! We're interested in creating language models that process language more like humans than mainstream LLMs do, through architectural modifications and interpretability-style steering. Express interest here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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NYU LLM + cognitive science post-doc interest form
Tal Linzen's group at NYU is hiring a post-doc! We're interested in creating language models that process language more like humans than mainstream LLMs do, through architectural modifications and int...
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andrea e. martin @andreaeyleen.eurosky.social · 20/05/2025
my lab (lacns.github.io) at @mpi-nl.bsky.social and @dondersinst.bsky.social is recruiting for two PhD and two postdoctoral positions funded by an @erc.europa.eu Consolidator - come join us! PhD: www.mpi.nl/career-educa... Postdoc: www.mpi.nl/career-educa... (please share widely)
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Language and Computation in Neural Systems
We are an international group of scientists consisting of linguists, cognitive scientists, cognitive neuroscientists, computational neuroscientists, computational modellers, computational scientists, ...
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bergelsonlab @bergelsonlab.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
bit of good news: approved technical staff position! link below. please be in touch if this matches your skills & interests! drive.google.com/file/d/16J2J... (hr listing posted harvard-internal now; external soon, per guidelines), happy for ?s & plan on quick turnaround! #CogSciSky #PsychSciSky 🐦🐦
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Jonathan Peelle @jpeelle.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
The Society for the Neurobiology of Language meeting will be at Gallaudet University, September 12-14th. We have 4 outstanding keynotes (Fumiko Hoeft, Duane Watson, Carol Padden, Fatemeh Geranmayeh). Abstract submissions are open! Hope to see you there! #SNL2025 2025.neurolang.org/abstract-sub...
Annual meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language
September 12-14 2025
Gallaudet University
Abstract submission through April 29
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Kyle Mahowald @kmahowald.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
I might be able to hire a postdoc for this fall in computational linguistics at UT Austin. Topics in the general LLM + cognitive space (particularly reasoning, chain of thought, LLMs + code) and LLM + linguistic space. If this could be of interest, feel free to get in touch!
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Jen @jenelaina.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
If you know UM Faculty members: The University Senate is voting on four motions on DEI, protecting our immigrant community and resisting against Trump. Ballot vote ends on Sunday, April 20th, at 4pm. Only faculty can vote! Need to pass please share. To vote, please visit: vote.umich.edu
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savithry @savithry.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
www.geo3550.org/2025/04/08/g... “To our knowledge, these visa revocations are not due to pro-Palestine or labor organizing. Some have to do with minor infractions or traffic violations that are years, if not decades, old, others are not given any reason at all.” donate at bit.ly/GEOWorkerSolidarity
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GEO Condemns Visa Revocations of International Graduate Students – Graduate Employees' Organization (GEO)
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Scott Delaney @scott-delaney.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
🚨🚨 Here we go! 🚨🚨 @protectdemocracy.org, @cspi.bsky.social, and @aclu.org have sued RFK and his cronies at HHS to halt illegal grant terminations. www.courtlistener.com/docket/69835...
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Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app · 31/03/2025
Yes! The leadership of Eastern Michigan and Michigan State have displayed incredible courage during these times. My master's degree alma mater, Wayne State in Detroit, also remains committed to DEI. wayne.edu/strategic-pl...
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Diversity, equity and inclusion: An unwavering commitment
Diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) are integral to Wayne State's mission and vision, and codified in our values and strategic focus. Today, and throughout its rich history, Wayne State has welcomed...
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David Brang @dbrang.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
I'm teaching an undergrad EEG/MEG/iEEG methods course and created a pair of interactive webpages to help build intuition about the Fourier Transform. dbrang.github.io/Fourier-Wave... dbrang.github.io/Fourier-Wave...
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Fernanda Ferreira @fernandaedi.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Finally it's here, in the flesh!!!
Copies of my new book "Psycholinguistics: A Very Short Introduction". The top of the cover is almost black, then halfway down there's sort of a spray of cherry-red dots, and about 1/3 of the way down, a pink-white almost water-like effect. At the very bottom right-hand corner of the cover is the word "Oxford", since the book is published by Oxford University Press.
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Jon Brennan @jonrbrennan.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
tagging @jyzz22.bsky.social!
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Jon Brennan @jonrbrennan.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
...Second, Junyuan Zhao shows how phrasal categories can be decoded from EEG signals and finds that, unlike evoked correlates of phrase-structure, such representations dissociate from semantic similarity (and predictability). Out now in the Journal of Neuroscience!
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Decoding the Neural Dynamics of Headed Syntactic Structure Building
The brain builds hierarchical phrases during language comprehension; however, the representational details and dynamics of the phrase-building process remain underspecified. This study directly probes...
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Jon Brennan @jonrbrennan.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
... First, Jeonghwa Cho uses cross-language prefix priming to demonstrate shared cross-linguistic representations of morphosyntax that dissociates from orthographic and semantic similarity ...
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Prefix priming within and across languages in early and late bilinguals | Bilingualism: Language and Cognition | Cambridge Core
Prefix priming within and across languages in early and late bilinguals
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Jon Brennan @jonrbrennan.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Two new papers led by amazing students (some positivity in These Dark Times)...
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Heidi Harley @heidiharley.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Why Official English is a terrible idea for the United States, from @lingsocam.bsky.social. Like and share! www.lsadc.org/content.asp?...
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Four Reasons English Should Not be the Official Language: Statement Against White House Executive Order Designating English as the Official Language of The Un
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Melissa Baese-Berk @m2b2.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Here's what linguistics experts think about the recent executive order declaring English as the official language of the US (spoiler: they don't think it's a great idea): www.lsadc.org/content.asp?... I'm so proud to be a member of the executive committee of @lingsocam.bsky.social!
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Four Reasons English Should Not be the Official Language: Statement Against White House Executive Order Designating English as the Official Language of The Un
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David Jurgens @davidjurgens.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
I'm grateful for the chance to write this and so impressed by all the amazing things scientists are doing in Central Illinois and the impact the NSF/NIH are having in my hometown. Many thanks to the folks at @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social for this initiave and all the resources to get started
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Laura Gwilliams @lauragwilliams.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
✨i'm hiring a lab manager, with a start date of ~September 2025! to express interest, please complete this google form: forms.gle/GLyAbuD779Rz... looking for someone to join our multi-disciplinary team, using OPM, EEG, iEEG and computational techniques to study speech and language processing! 🧠
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Access Google Forms with a personal Google account or Google Workspace account (for business use).
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Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics @mpi-nl.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
@andreaeyleen.bsky.social has been awarded a Consolidator Grant by the European Research Council (ERC) for her proposal 'DYNALANG: Integrating structure and statistics in language processing: an ecological neural dynamics and manifolds approach'. Read more on our website: mpi.nl/news/erc-con...
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Emily Myers @emilymyers.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
I'm involved in an NIH-funded project led by Christian Brodbeck at McMaster U (Canada) on aging, brain, and speech perception. He's looking for postdocs, grad students & a full-time RA. Happy to answer questions & share widely! christianbrodbeck.net/projects/con...
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Projects
McMaster University. Christian Brodbeck Lab at McMaster University
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Jenny Saffran @jennysaffran.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
UW-Madison Psychology is hiring a new assistant professor in the area of computational approaches to language (broadly construed). Please share with interested parties! jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...
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Assistant Professor, Computational Approaches to Language - Cluster Hire - Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Job Summary: This position is a full-time, tenure-track faculty position at the Assistant Professor level in the Department of Psychology at UW-Madison. The search is for a job candidate whose exper...
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Lauren Hall-Lew (she/her) @lhlew.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Endowed Professorship of Language and Communication at the University of Oxford, closing date 13 January 2025: my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru... #jobs #sociolinguistics #linguistics #professor
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Steven Scholte @neurosteven.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
We are going to launch an 8-pager format for CCN2025 next to the 2 page format. We have organised 2 zoom sessions for questions about this new format and CCN2025 in general. Today (21:00 CET, 15:00 EST) and on the 21st (10:00 CET, 16:00 EST). See 2025.ccneuro.org/call-for-pap... for reg.
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Call for Papers
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Linguischick @cocchino.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
The University of Texas at Austin's Dept. of Linguistics is hiring two tenure-track positions in computational linguistics with a focus on research connecting linguistics and artificial intelligence. Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/158280 (review starts Dec. 1).
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Jon Brennan @jonrbrennan.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
And, finally, I wrote up an overview of Syntax for non-linguists for the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Psychology. I hope it might help show students the many points of productive conversation between theoretical syntax and other parts of cognitive science. 5/5 doi.org/10.1093/acre...
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Syntax
"Syntax" published on by Oxford University Press.
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Jon Brennan @jonrbrennan.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Linyang He (Columbia) led a project to identify layer-wise encoding of grammar in GPT2 by training a family of classifiers to distinguish linguistic minimal pairs. Among other things, the results show a relationship between layer depth and syntactic embedding. 4/5 doi.org/10.48550/arX...
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Decoding Probing: Revealing Internal Linguistic Structures in Neural Language Models using Minimal Pairs
Inspired by cognitive neuroscience studies, we introduce a novel `decoding probing' method that uses minimal pairs benchmark (BLiMP) to probe internal linguistic characteristics in neural language mod...
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Jon Brennan @jonrbrennan.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Michal Wolfman (Georgia) led a team to evaluate the alignment between fMRI signals and LLM-based surprisal estimates from two minimally different transformer models: one with a symbolic syntactic component and one without. tl;dr syntax matters 3/5 aclanthology.org/2024.cmcl-1.6/
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Hierarchical syntactic structure in human-like language models
Michael Wolfman, Donald Dunagan, Jonathan Brennan, John Hale. Proceedings of the Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics. 2024.
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Jon Brennan @jonrbrennan.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
In visual word recognition, Jeonghwa Cho nailed down in the effect size of root and affix masked priming, separating morphology from orthographic effects, and identified an as-far-as-we-can-tell unreported asymmetry between prefix and suffix effects in reading. 2/5 doi.org/10.1080/2327...
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How large are root and affix priming effects in visual word recognition? Estimation from original data and a Bayesian meta-analysis
Priming effects for morphological roots support theories that grant them a unique representational status in visual word recognition. However, effects for other morphemes, including inflectional af...
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Jon Brennan @jonrbrennan.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
A short thread on some work from our group over the last few months (1/5)
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Jon Brennan @jonrbrennan.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
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Matt Goldrick @mattgoldrick.bsky.social · 05/11/2024
Deadline Nov. 15: Lecturer (non-tenure track), cog. sci. teaching+admin., Institute for Cog. Sci., Uni. of Michigan. Quick review (offers by Dec 15 2024) careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...
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Matt Goldrick @mattgoldrick.bsky.social · 05/11/2024
Review begins Nov 12: Asst. prof. (tenure track), computational {psych;cog sci;cog neuro}, Dept. Psych+CogSci Program, Uni. of Arizona arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
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Jon Brennan @jonrbrennan.bsky.social · 06/07/2024
reviewing a manuscript* "please make sure the mapping of red and blue has a consistent interpretation across your visualizations" *newspapers reporting on US, UK, and French elections
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Felicia Bisnath @fbisnath.bsky.social · 27/06/2024
Our collaborative paper lead by Danielle Burgess (PI: Marlyse Baptista) that talks about development of a website that hosts resources for teaching about Creole languages is out in Teaching American Speech! read.dukeupress.edu/american-spe... #linguistics
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The MULTI Project: Resources for Enhancing Multifaceted Creole Language Expertise in the Linguistics Classroom
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Glossa Psycholinguistics @glossapsycholx.bsky.social · 24/06/2024
We are proud to announce the latest article published in Glossa Psycholinguistics: "A decade of language processing research: Which place for linguistic diversity”, by @aymericcollart.bsky.social: escholarship.org/uc/item/1xc4...
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A decade of language processing research: Which place for linguistic diversity?
Author(s): Collart, Aymeric | Abstract: This paper surveys the linguistic diversity in psycholinguistic and neurolinguistic research by examining the languages under investigation in major internation...
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Fernanda Ferreira @fernandaedi.bsky.social · 24/06/2024
Essential reading for anyone interested in promoting diversity in linguistic / psycholinguistic research!
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Jon Brennan @jonrbrennan.bsky.social · 13/06/2024
meme photo of a man in a yellow jacket looking on eagerly from behind a tree with the text "BRMS"
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Jon Brennan @jonrbrennan.bsky.social · 30/05/2024
So great - congrats!
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Jon Brennan @jonrbrennan.bsky.social · 16/05/2024
Recordings of the workshop, along with conference presentations from the next few days, will be made available after the conference
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