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Masoud

@langloglearn.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor of linguistics at UC Davis Researching language, logic, and learning in humans & sometimes machines

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Melissa Kline Struhl @mekline.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
This is a fundraising post! An anonymous donor is matching contributions to Children Helping Science up to 100K through the end of the year - if it's in your giving budget, please consider supporting open science infrastructure! giving.mit.edu/search/node/... Details below...
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Dorsa Amir @dorsaamir.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Does the culture you grow up in shape the way you see the world? In a new Psych Review paper, @chazfirestone.bsky.social & I tackle this centuries-old question using the Müller-Lyer illusion as a case study. Come think through one of history's mysteries with us🧵(1/13):
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Masoud @langloglearn.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
I'm convinced over-reliance on forced choice tasks have created a lot of task-specific findings that lack external validity in different fields of behavioral sciences and one day we have to face that crisis
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Masoud @langloglearn.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Kinda fascinating how researchers (systematically?) overestimate cognitive abilities of human-built systems like LLMs while underestimating the cognitive abilities of natural systems like animals or children
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Ethan Jacobs 🇺🇦 @ejacobslaw.com · 08/01/2025
LA fires are a good reminder that the only difference between me and any refugee is luck.
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Raúl Aranovich @raul-aranovich.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
Very sad to have to share news of my old friend and colleague Bob Bayley's passing. He was a true scholar, mentor, and upright human being. I'll miss him a lot. utlinguistics.blogspot.com/2024/12/rip-...
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RIP Bob Bayley
RIP Bob Bayley   We are so sad to learn that Dr. Robert Bayley , Professor Emeritus of Linguistics , UC Davis, and an associate member of t...
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UMassLinguistics @umasslinguistics.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Linguistics Careercast #podcast: With guest Carole Chaski, a forensic linguist. Her research has led to improvements in the methodology and reliability of stylometric analysis and inspired research on the use of this approach for authorship identification. www.linguisticscaree...
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Episode #61: Carole Chaski - Linguistics Careercast
"You need to have a heart of service to do this work" Carole Chaski is a forensic linguist who is considered one of the leading experts in the field. Her research has led to improvements in the methodology and reliability of computational linguistics and inspired research on the use of this approach for authorship identification.
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David Barner @drbarner.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Want to review for #CogSci2025? Click this thing. @cogscisociety.bsky.social docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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CogSci 2025 Call for Reviewers
CogSci is looking for abstract reviewers for the 2025 conference in San Francisco. If you are interested in this role, please complete the following form. If you have any questions, please contact cog...
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Simon Fisher @profsimonfisher.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Don't miss the Nijmegen Lectures, a unique 3-day series of talks & discussion by renowned psychologists @fernandaedi.bsky.social & Victor Ferreira, Jan 7-9, 2025! Topics will span the psycholinguistic continuum from intention to articulation. More info & registration here: www.mpi.nl/events/nijme...
Black and white photographs of Victor Ferreira (left) and Fernanda Ferreira (right) who will be jointly giving the Nijmegen Lectures in January 2025.
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Masoud @langloglearn.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
needs to be on Bluesky too
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Masoud @langloglearn.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
There is so much really brilliant research from the 50-70s in cogsci and linguistics that is not being read or referenced anymore and I find that a real pity. We shouldn't reinvent the wheel or rediscover things we already know. Older literature should be actively read, taught, and discussed
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Eleanor Chodroff @echodroff.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
ASR systems are getting *really* good. But how do they actually compare to humans when the listening environment is challenging? In our JASA-EL paper led by Chloe Patman, we compare SoTA ASR systems in pub and speech-shaped noise and directly compare their performance against L1 English speakers
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Speech recognition in adverse conditions by humans and machines
In the development of automatic speech recognition systems, achieving human-like performance has been a long-held goal. Recent releases of large spoken language
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Mike Frank @mcxfrank.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Our new paper “Is Child-Directed Speech Effective Training Data for Language Models?” was just presented at #EMNLP2024! This is work led by Steven Feng, with Noah Goodman. arxiv.org/abs/2408.03617
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Is Child-Directed Speech Effective Training Data for Language Models?
While high-performing language models are typically trained on hundreds of billions of words, human children become fluent language users with a much smaller amount of data. What are the features of t...
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Nora Beier @norabeier.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
AI voice assistants have become an integral part of many people's everyday life. Do people talk to AI as if it were another human? Read more about how speakers use prosody to focus important words when talking to AI devices in our new paper! psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...
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Simon Fisher @profsimonfisher.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
More than 150 years after it was written, this quote remains one of the best summaries of why geneticists should study #language. In just a handful of words, Charles Darwin perfectly captures the intertwining of nature and nurture that underpins this distinctive human capacity:
Photograph of Charles Darwin, with a quote next to it, taken from The Descent of Man, his book published in 1871. The quote reads: "Language is an art, like brewing or baking. It certainly is not a true instinct, for every language has to be learnt. It differs, however, widely from all ordinary arts, for man has an instinctive tendency to speak, as we see in the babble of our young children; whilst no child has an instinctive tendency to brew, bake, or write."
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Masoud @langloglearn.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
I just read "within minimalist program, case is a semantically uninterpretable feature on nominals" and it reminded me how counter-intuitive this is. Like it seems very obvious that case communicates meaning. pure syntactic treatment of it seems wrong. what am I missing?
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Linguischick @cocchino.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Hey! I'm teaching "Linguistics of Sign Languages" at the Linguistics Society of America's Summer Institute this summer (w/ Ryan Lepic). There are going to be so many great classes and instructors. I'd appreciate if you'd share this and send good students our way! center.uoregon.edu/LSA/2025/pro...
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The Linguistics of Sign Languages
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Declan Campbell @thisisadax.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
(1) Vision language models can explain complex charts & decode memes, but struggle with simple tasks young kids find easy - like counting objects or finding items in cluttered scenes! Our 🆒🆕 #NeurIPS2024 paper shows why: they face the same 'binding problem' that constrains human vision! 🧵👇
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Masoud @langloglearn.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
wait you can't bookmark posts here?! how else would I create a list of cool papers I'll likely not have time to read?
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Max Kleiman-Weiner @maxkw.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
I’m recruiting PhD students to join the Computational Minds and Machines Lab at the University of Washington in Seattle! Join us to work at the intersection of computational cognitive science and AI with a broad focus on social intelligence. (Please reshare!)
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Fernanda Ferreira @fernandaedi.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Honestly, I never thought I’d see the day, and I only wish my parents were around to take in this moment with me. My OUP book “Psycholinguistics: A Very Short Introduction” is now in the final proofs stage. Must be a lot of pollen in the air because I seem to be tearing up…
Copyright page generated by Oxford University Press for my upcoming book. The copyright is ©️Fernanda Ferreira 2025, and also states that “The moral rights of the author have been asserted.”
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Tom McCoy @rtommccoy.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
🤖🧠 I'll be considering applications for postdocs & PhD students to start at Yale in Fall 2025! If you are interested in the intersection of linguistics, cognitive science, and AI, I encourage you to apply! Postdoc link: rtmccoy.com/prospective_... PhD link: rtmccoy.com/prospective_...
Top: syntax tree for the sentence "the doctor by the lawyer saw the artist"
Bottom: a continuous vector
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Masoud @langloglearn.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
linguistics profs, literally
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Ryan Rhodes @langofmind.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Blue sky lets you play YouTube videos in the app?? Already so much better than twitter! Here's a video I made about the science and linguistics of one of my favorite movies - Arrival. Check it out! youtu.be/lIPi3OiaG3I
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Can language change the way you think? [The Science of Arrival]
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Masoud @langloglearn.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Is there a linguistics and language sciences starter pack here? Did I miss it?
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Colin Phillips @colinphillips.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
Come join us in Oxford! Or encourage your friends to apply, so you can visit them here! We are looking to fill the Professorship in Language and Communication, a senior professor position. my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru... .
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Masoud @langloglearn.bsky.social · 07/11/2024
UC Davis depts of statistics & linguistics invite applications for Assistant Professor position in NLP, focusing on theoretical foundations of large language models: generalization, compositionality, interpretability, reliability, and cognitive modeling recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF06756
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Department of Linguistics/Statistics - Natural Language Processing and Data Science
University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!
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Emily Morgan @emilynguist.bsky.social · 01/10/2024
The UC Davis Linguistics and Statistics departments are jointly hiring! We're looking for someone who works on theoretical foundations of LLMs. I think we're pretty cool and that you'd like working with us here! recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF06756
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Department of Linguistics/Statistics - Natural Language Processing and Data Science
University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!
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Boston University Conference on Language Development @bucld.bsky.social · 18/10/2024
BUCLD49 is honored to welcome Dr. Diane Lillo-Martin, from the University of Connecticut. 🔗 Learn more about her remarkable career and contributions: linguistics.uconn.edu/person/diane...
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