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I am Ted Gibson, and I study human language in MIT's Brain and Cognitive Sciences. My lab is sometimes called the Language Lab or Tedlab. I edit Open Mind, MIT Press's Diamond Open Access cognitive science journal.

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Kyle Mahowald @kmahowald.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
The full BBS treatment from me and @futrell.bsky.social on "How linguistics learned to stop worrying and love the LMs" is now out, with all the commentaries and our response. If you "Save PDF", it will give you the whole target article + commentary + response pdf: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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How linguistics learned to stop worrying and love the language models | Behavioral and Brain Sciences | Cambridge Core
How linguistics learned to stop worrying and love the language models - Volume 49
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languagemit.bsky.social @languagemit.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
A brief history of Open Mind 2013: Dick Aslin was disillusioned with Cognition (Elsevier). Nick Lindsay (MIT Press) wanted to create an open access cognitive science journal Nick contacted Dick, and Open Mind started. Editorial, February 2017, issue 1 of Open Mind direct.mit.edu/opmi/article...
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I am extremely pleased that Open Mind has gone from concept to reality with this inaugural issue of our first volume. It has been a long road. Nick Lindsay at MIT Press had a vision for creating an op...
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Maryellen MacDonald @maryellenmacdonald.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
New paper in Cognition on how speakers produce sentences when they don't fully know what message they're conveying. Arella Gussow & I find that English and Spanish speakers begin speaking before the full message is known but adjust on the fly... 1/2 authors.elsevier.com/c/1nLO02Hx32...
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Kyle Mahowald @kmahowald.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Re-upping this. Working with Open Mind as an editor, I can say Open Mind is a real (and free!) bright spot in our current weird landscape of peer review and publication!
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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 20/06/2026
Open Mind, the free OA competitor to Cognition (El$evier) founded by Richard Aslin, has nearly caught up to it impact-factor-wise Submit your best work! It's a great journal with fast and constructive review, a great ed board, and lots of cool work Open Mind is the future of cogsci journals!
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megan peters 🧠 @meganakpeters.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
I have had wonderful experiences with Open Mind so far. Fair reviews. Speedy. Thoughtful editorial assessment. No pressure to oversell claims or enhance "narrative" for the sake of splash and sparkle (looking at you, vanity journals). Solid science and solid community. Will keep sending stuff there!
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Charley Wu @thecharleywu.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Look how far we've come in just a few years! We're fast as well! It turns out, recruiting reviewers is much easier when they're not being used as free labor for massively profitable publishers Support free-to-publish and Open Access science by submitting to Open Mind today! direct.mit.edu/opmi
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Open Mind | MIT Press
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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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Martin Haspelmath @haspelmath.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Edward Gibson's new book has arrived on my desk – 350 pages on cognitively-oriented dependency syntax from MIT Press! mitpress.mit.edu/978026255357... For me, this is an exciting development, as I came to love dependency syntax in the 1980s, through European authors such as Tesnière and Mel'čuk.
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Ev Fedorenko @evfedorenko.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
I may be a *little* biased but this 📘 is GREAT! If you ever found language structure interesting, but were turned off by implausible and overly complicated accounts, this book is 4U: a simple and empirically grounded account of the syntax of natural lgs. A must-read for lang researchers+aficionados!
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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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