Brian Dillon @linguistbrian.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Congratulations Özge hoca!! We will miss you so much, but we're excited to see the fun stuff that you, @jonrbrennan.bsky.social, and the rest of the UMich crew get up to! 030
Brian Dillon @linguistbrian.bsky.social · 10/08/2026So happy and proud of the team for their work on this, and so excited to share this with the world now. I think they've managed to put one more solid brick in the wall of our understanding of how syntactic processing unfolds in humans, as least as reflected through reading behavior... 160
Reposted by Brian Dillon Liina Pylkkänen @liinapy.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Hi new PhDs! I'll soon advertise for a post-doc, but would be happy to receive informal inquiries immediately, as getting the official ad up will take a minute. Looking for strong computational & MEG analysis skills. Email me if this sounds like you and you'd like to join us! @snlmtg.bsky.social 1158
Brian Dillon @linguistbrian.bsky.social · 08/07/2026Congratulations! We'll miss you Özge but this project sounds super exciting! 010
Brian Dillon @linguistbrian.bsky.social · 08/07/2026Congratulations to Weijie for this excellent work! 🎉 040
Reposted by Brian Dillon Özge Bakay @ozgebakay.bsky.social · 07/07/2026I'll be joining @jonrbrennan.bsky.social's lab at the University of Michigan as a Postdoctoral Fellow in October! 🎉 We'll work on an NSF-funded project on computational modeling of EEG data. Thanks to all my collaborators, especially my advisors, Dr. @linguistbrian.bsky.social and Dr. Faruk Akkuş! 192
Reposted by Brian Dillon Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 17/03/2026In other news, the proofs are up for my new paper, with a dream team of Subhs Shrestha, @linguistbrian.bsky.social, Diogo Almeida, Alec Marantz, and Rajesh Bhatt! direct.mit.edu/nol/article/...direct.mit.eduSame Sentences, Different Grammars, Different Brain Responses?: An MEG Study on Case and Agreement Encoding in Hindi and Nepali Split-Ergative StructuresAbstract. At first glance, the brain’s language network appears to be universal, but languages clearly differ. Does the brain adapt to the specific details of individual grammatical systems? Here, we ... 1295
Brian Dillon @linguistbrian.bsky.social · 29/01/2026The Marica De Vincenzi Foundation is inviting applications for its post-doctoral fellowship! The fellowship offers up to 2 years of post-doctoral support abroad for Italian psycholinguists. Spread the word! Deadline is 3/10 - see info here: nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.comDIPSCO - Dipartimento di Psicologia e Scienze Cognitive - BANDO DI SELEZIONE PER IL CONFERIMENTO DI N. 1 INCARICO POST-DOC AI SENSI DELL’ART. 22 bis L. 240/2010 (Decreto 29/2026) | Lavora con noi 153
Brian Dillon @linguistbrian.bsky.social · 14/11/2025Really big announcement! See @wtimkey.bsky.social's thread for the details on an exciting new preprint from the NYU-UMass Syntactic Ambiguity Processing group. It is the culmination of the team's research efforts over these last couple of years, and we're really happy with it. 1133
Reposted by Brian Dillon William Matchin @wmatchin.bsky.social · 09/09/2025University 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 45729
Reposted by Brian Dillon Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 03/09/2025A proposed new rule would limit international students on F1 or J1 visas to stays in the US of no longer than 4 years. This effectively means that intl. students will no longer come to graduate school here (time to PhD is 5-6 years). You can comment here: www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...federalregister.govEstablishing a Fixed Time Period of Admission and an Extension of Stay Procedure for Nonimmigrant Academic Students, Exchange Visitors, and Representatives of Foreign Information MediaUnlike most nonimmigrant classifications, which are admitted for a fixed time period, aliens in the F (academic student), J (exchange visitor), and most I (representatives of foreign information media... 26820
Brian Dillon @linguistbrian.bsky.social · 29/08/2025Check out Özge's preprint! Anaphors like reflexives have been studied a TON. Why? They're a useful model system for studying how linguistic information is organized in WM, because they appear to be subject to relational syntactic constraints on their interpretation. In her research... 1110
Reposted by Brian Dillon Titus von der Malsburg @tmalsburg.bsky.social · 15/08/20253+1-year fully funded PhD position in Experimental and/or Computational Psycholinguistics. Official application deadline today, but applications submitted by August 25 will receive full consideration. tmalsburg.github.io/job_ad_2025_...tmalsburg.github.ioFully Funded PhD Position in Experimental and/or Computational Psycholinguistics 0611
Brian Dillon @linguistbrian.bsky.social · 28/07/2025Check this out! Happy to talk to folks about Valley living, feel free to DM. 062
Reposted by Brian Dillon Mara Breen @mbreen.bsky.social · 28/07/2025Mount Holyoke College in lovely western Massachusetts is hiring a tenure-track neuroscientist. Amazing students and fantastic faculty support - please share! mtholyoke.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Extern...mtholyoke.wd5.myworkdayjobs.comAssistant Professor of Neuroscience and BehaviorJob no: R-0000002388 Position Title: Assistant Professor of Neuroscience and Behavior Work Type: Faculty Full time In-Person Start Date: 07/01/2026 Job Description: The Department of Neuroscience and ... 17982
Reposted by Brian Dillon Titus von der Malsburg @tmalsburg.bsky.social · 15/07/2025Fully-funded PhD position in experimental and/or computational psycholinguistics: tmalsburg.github.io/job_ad_2025_... Application deadline is August 15.tmalsburg.github.ioFully Funded PhD Position in Experimental and/or Computational Psycholinguistics 074
Brian Dillon @linguistbrian.bsky.social · 14/07/2025Bumping this call for folks interested in work at the AI-psycholing interface! 061
Brian Dillon @linguistbrian.bsky.social · 12/07/2025Congratulations are in order for @tallinzen.bsky.social as well! We’re excited and humbled, and grateful that we get to continue collaborating with a wonderful group of students and scholars. The support of the NSF goes a long way in supporting the next generation of scientists. 0210
Reposted by Brian Dillon Titus von der Malsburg @tmalsburg.bsky.social · 09/07/2025I'm offering a 3-year PhD position with benefits (1-year extension possible). Research topic open but broadly in incremental sentence comprehension. If you're into eye-tracking, even better! No teaching until Summer 2027, light teaching after that (English). Official ad soon. Please share 🙏 12723
Reposted by Brian Dillon Mike Frank @mcxfrank.bsky.social · 30/05/2025If you haven't been looking recently at the Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science (oecs.mit.edu), here's your reminder that we are a free, open access resource for learning about the science of mind. Today we are launching our new Thematic Collections to organize our growing set of articles! 10412182
Brian Dillon @linguistbrian.bsky.social · 27/05/2025Excited to share the new OECS article on 'Sentence Processing' written by Matt Wagers and myself! It's humbling to be included in the OECS, we hope you enjoy :) oecs.mit.edu/pub/mn7mjhx9...oecs.mit.eduSentence Processing 0173
Reposted by Brian Dillon Liina Pylkkänen @liinapy.bsky.social · 05/05/2025Congratulations to Dr. Nigel Flower @nigelflower.bsky.social for the successful defense of his dissertation “Combinatorics at-a-glance: On the spatiotemporal dynamics of temporally unstructured language”!!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉 0221
Reposted by Brian Dillon Aniello De Santo @anids.bsky.social · 03/05/2025A bit late but since I really like this paper, a bit of self-advertising! I am presenting at CMCL today work showing that metrics measuring how a Minimalist Grammar parser modulates memory usage can help us model Self-paced reading data for SRC/ORC contrasts: aclanthology.org/2025.cmcl-1.5/aclanthology.orgCapturing Online SRC/ORC Effort with Memory Measures from a Minimalist ParserAniello De Santo. Proceedings of the Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics. 2025. 4286
Reposted by Brian Dillon Aniello De Santo @anids.bsky.social · 25/03/2025My turn for an #HSP2025 thread, since I will be traveling soon! I'll be there with two posters, and I so am excited to see all my favorite psycholinguists (aside from the great science XD)! 🐦🐦🐦 1101
Reposted by Brian Dillon Sophie Slaats @sophieslaats.bsky.social · 25/02/2025a plea to think carefully about surprisal + what it means to understand how we understand >> link.springer.com/article/10.1... brand new paper in Computational Brain and Behaviour with @andreaeyleen.bsky.social at @mpi-nl.bsky.sociallink.springer.comWhat’s Surprising About Surprisal - Computational Brain & BehaviorIn the computational and experimental psycholinguistic literature, the mechanisms behind syntactic structure building (e.g., combining words into phrases and sentences) are the subject of considerable... 07725
Brian Dillon @linguistbrian.bsky.social · 23/01/2025Happy to share that Liz Schotter and I have just published a beginner-level tutorial introduction to eye-tracking-while-reading studies in Behavior Methods: link.springer.com/article/10.3...link.springer.com 45317
Reposted by Brian Dillon Carolyn Anderson @carolynanderson.bsky.social · 16/01/2025There are now two weeks to finish your SCiL 2025 submission! Especially excited to see work submitted to the Special Symposium on Computational Pragmatics! 043
Reposted by Brian Dillon brendan o’connor @brenocon.bsky.social · 19/11/2024We're hiring new #nlp faculty this year! Asst or Assoc Professors in NLP at UMass CICS -- careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-u...careers.umass.edu Details - Assistant/Associate Professor - Natural Language Processing (NLP) | Human Resources | UMass Amherst 16634
Reposted by Brian Dillon Kristine Yu @linguistkrisyu.bsky.social · 18/01/2024Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association AFLA 31 abstract submission deadline extension to Feb 2! Special session on prosodic and psycholinguistic connections in verb-initial languages (not just Austronesian). Join us in June at UMass Amherst! blogs.umass.edu/afla31/ 076
Reposted by Brian Dillon Jon Brennan @jonrbrennan.bsky.social · 21/12/2023We are now accepting submissions for HSP2024 at UMich! Deadline: Jan 8th. See the CfP for details.hsp2024.github.ioHSP 2024 - Call for Papers 01819
Brian Dillon @linguistbrian.bsky.social · 15/11/2023Alrighty I’m finally setting up shop here! Nice to see lots of familiar faces from the other place 😅😅 1240