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Brian Dillon

@linguistbrian.bsky.social
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Psycholinguist at UMass Amherst Linguistics. people.umass.edu/bwdillon

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Brian Dillon @linguistbrian.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Congratulations 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!
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Brian Dillon @linguistbrian.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
So 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...
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Liina Pylkkänen @liinapy.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Hi 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
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CJ @virmalised.us · 23/07/2026
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Brian Dillon @linguistbrian.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Congratulations! We'll miss you Özge but this project sounds super exciting!
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Brian Dillon @linguistbrian.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Congratulations to Weijie for this excellent work! 🎉
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Özge Bakay @ozgebakay.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
I'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!
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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
In 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/...
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Same Sentences, Different Grammars, Different Brain Responses?: An MEG Study on Case and Agreement Encoding in Hindi and Nepali Split-Ergative Structures
Abstract. 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 ...
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Brian Dillon @linguistbrian.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
The 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...
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DIPSCO - 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
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Brian Dillon @linguistbrian.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Really 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.
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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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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
A 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...
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Establishing a Fixed Time Period of Admission and an Extension of Stay Procedure for Nonimmigrant Academic Students, Exchange Visitors, and Representatives of Foreign Information Media
Unlike 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...
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Brian Dillon @linguistbrian.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Check 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...
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Titus von der Malsburg @tmalsburg.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
3+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_...
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Fully Funded PhD Position in Experimental and/or Computational Psycholinguistics
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Brian Dillon @linguistbrian.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Check this out! Happy to talk to folks about Valley living, feel free to DM.
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Mara Breen @mbreen.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Mount 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...
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Assistant Professor of Neuroscience and Behavior
Job 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 ...
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Titus von der Malsburg @tmalsburg.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Fully-funded PhD position in experimental and/or computational psycholinguistics: tmalsburg.github.io/job_ad_2025_... Application deadline is August 15.
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Fully Funded PhD Position in Experimental and/or Computational Psycholinguistics
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Brian Dillon @linguistbrian.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Bumping this call for folks interested in work at the AI-psycholing interface!
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Brian Dillon @linguistbrian.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
Congratulations 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.
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Titus von der Malsburg @tmalsburg.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
I'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 🙏
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Mike Frank @mcxfrank.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
If 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!
OECS thematic collections.
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Brian Dillon @linguistbrian.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Excited 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...
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Sentence Processing
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Liina Pylkkänen @liinapy.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Congratulations 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”!!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉
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Aniello De Santo @anids.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
A 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/
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Capturing Online SRC/ORC Effort with Memory Measures from a Minimalist Parser
Aniello De Santo. Proceedings of the Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics. 2025.
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Aniello De Santo @anids.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
My 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)! 🐦🐦🐦
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Sophie Slaats @sophieslaats.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
a 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.social
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What’s Surprising About Surprisal - Computational Brain & Behavior
In 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...
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Brian Dillon @linguistbrian.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Happy 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...
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Carolyn Anderson @carolynanderson.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
There are now two weeks to finish your SCiL 2025 submission! Especially excited to see work submitted to the Special Symposium on Computational Pragmatics!
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brendan o’connor @brenocon.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
We're hiring new #nlp faculty this year! Asst or Assoc Professors in NLP at UMass CICS -- careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-u...
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Details - Assistant/Associate Professor - Natural Language Processing (NLP) | Human Resources | UMass Amherst
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Kristine Yu @linguistkrisyu.bsky.social · 18/01/2024
Austronesian 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/
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Jon Brennan @jonrbrennan.bsky.social · 21/12/2023
We are now accepting submissions for HSP2024 at UMich! Deadline: Jan 8th. See the CfP for details.
hsp2024.github.io
HSP 2024 - Call for Papers
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Brian Dillon @linguistbrian.bsky.social · 15/11/2023
Alrighty I’m finally setting up shop here! Nice to see lots of familiar faces from the other place 😅😅
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