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AIMO Interpretability Challenge @aimointerp.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Do #LLMs understand the hardest math problems—or just fake it? Join the first @NeurIPSConf competition on #Interpretability and #Generalization: AIMO Interpretability Challenge 🏆 $12.5K prizes 📐 Unpublished olympiad problems 🧠 Frontier AIMO models aimo-interp.github.io

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Michael Franke @meanwhileina.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Lena Holzwarth (Tüb, CogSci MSc) and I wrote a short, hands-on tutorial on Pearl-style causal effect calculation, with Bayesian regression modeling for quantifying uncertainty of the causal effect estimate. doi.org/10.31234/osf...

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Michael Franke @meanwhileina.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Interested in science management? Come work with us in Tübingen as a Project Manager for the Germany-wide interdisciplinary research cluster (www.lasting-spp.org)! 3 years, PostDoc-level salary. Please share, or reach out with questions. uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet...

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Andreas Waldis @tresiwald.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

LMs that "know more" about toxicity are less toxic! Our #TACL 📄 connects behavior and internals: 💠 LMs amplify toxicity beyond humans 💠 Information about toxicity peaks in lower layers 💠 Bypassing these layers increases toxicity More details👇 #NLProc #interpretability (1/🧵)

simplified overview of our aligned probing setup, where we join the behavioral and internal evaluation of LMs' toxicity

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Michael Franke @meanwhileina.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Happy to share the advent of the new *Journal of Experimental Pragmatics*! - Diamond Open Access - innovative, transparent bottom-up reviewing process Go community! Let's make it a success story! @irastamon.bsky.social @richardbreheny.bsky.social

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Michael Franke @meanwhileina.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Come work with us!! Two full substitute professorships for Computational Linguistics (1 year) and General Linguistics (1.5 years) at the University of Tübingen. @unituebingen.bsky.social uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet... uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet...

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Substitute Professorship in Computational Linguistics (m/f/d, W3, 100%)

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Timo B. Roettger @timoroettger.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

In our new tutorial, @meanwhileina.bsky.social and I walk you through meaningful hypothesis testing using a less known form of calculating Bayes Factor. osf.io/preprints/ps... People transitioning to Bayes often wonder how to decide if an effect is meaningful or not. Here you go... 1/🧵

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Michael Franke @meanwhileina.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Current LLMs are exactly 0 useful for tweaking style in PDFs generated with LaTeX from quarto documents. It's niche, admittedly, but a great area showing severe limits close to complete breakdown of capabilities. Not possible to entertain illusion of "understanding" here. Full hallucination mode.

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Andrew Perfors @perfors.net · 06/11/2025

Getting nervous for the talk I'm about to give at a workshop about "using AI to drive impact" which features slides such as these.

Slide is titled: You don't need to use LLMs.

Science is a process of collaborative meaning making, by which we try to understand the world

Even if AI were perfect, we rely on it at our peril — it is not science if we (i.e., humanity as a whole) do not understand and cannot recapitulate all parts of it

I very, very rarely use LLMs myself. You can give yourself permission not to. Don’t FOMO yourself into it

Conclusion: Don't rely on something you don't understand and can't control

If you must use LLMS:

1. Treat them like you would an intern: only use them for things you can easily and thoroughly check

2. Make your process as robust as possible

3. Be aware of your own (human) cognitive biases

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Michael Franke @meanwhileina.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Opening for PhD position (3.5 years) on Language Evolution | Computational Modeling | Primate Communication Joint project with @marlenfroehlich.bsky.social & @elmanubohn.bsky.social at @unituebingen.bsky.social in CRC "Common Ground". Share, apply, or reach out for details! tinyurl.com/y2av9hhd

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PhD Researcher (m/f/d, E13 TV-L, 75%)

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Michael Franke @meanwhileina.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

PostDoc position (re-)available in Collaborative Research Center "Common Ground" (3.5y) at @unituebingen.bsky.social in a project with @toddthelinguist.bsky.social Philosophy of Language | Cognitive Science | Pragmatics | Logic | ... Apply, share, or reach out for details! tinyurl.com/y33vjwj2

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Post-Doctoral Researcher (m/f/d, E13 TV-L, 100%)

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Michael Franke @meanwhileina.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Our large-scale interdisciplinary research initiative @unituebingen.bsky.social on "Common Ground" now has a website: uni-tuebingen.de/en/research/... We are also hiring! Check out recent postings here and the continually added job ads here: uni-tuebingen.de/en/universit... #linguistics + friends

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CRC Common Ground

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Michael Franke @meanwhileina.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

PostDoc position (3.5y) available in interdisciplinary Collaborative Research Center "Common Ground". 🎯 Topic: Pragmatic reasoning about Common Ground 🎓 linguistics | philosophy of language | cognitive science 📅 Deadline: July 14 tinyurl.com/3vd9wa6p Please share! @toddthelinguist.bsky.social

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Post-Doctoral Researcher (m/f/d, E13 TV-L, 100%)

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Michael Franke @meanwhileina.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

We are hiring! Two PhD positions for interdisciplinary work on great ape communication and language evolution in a joint project with @marlenfroehlich.bsky.social & @elmanubohn.bsky.social. 🎯 evolutionary or probabilistic modeling 🗓️ deadline: Aug 13 🔗 tinyurl.com/2cnzwakj

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PhD Researcher (m/f/d, E13 TV-L, 75%)

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Charley Wu @thecharleywu.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Just 1 week left to apply! 🙏 Pls share with anyone you think might be interested. If there are any Q's, get in touch! 👉 3x PhD position: hmc-lab.com/ERC_PhDs.html 👉 2yr Postdoc position: hmc-lab.com/ERC_Postdoc....

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Three PhD positions -- ERC Project

Three PhD positions -- ERC Project posted on June 10, 2025 We are currently seeking highly motivated individuals to fill three PhD positi...

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Dietmar Till @dietmartill.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Die @dfg.de hat den linguistischen SFB Common Ground: Kognition – Grammatik – Kommunikation an der @unituebingen.bsky.social bewilligt! 🎉🥂Großer Erfolg der Kolleg:innen!! Herzliche Glückwünsche!! Hier geht es zur PM 👉👉👉 www.dfg.de/de/service/p...

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DFG fördert 13 neue Sonderforschungsbereiche

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Asya Achimova @aachimova.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Can't wait to share our new #RSA model of #indirect communication developed with Michael Franke @meanwhileina.bsky.social‬ and Martin V. Butz! We model how speakers choose utterances, such as "The election outcome was interesting!", and how listeners interpret them. doi.org/10.1371/jour...

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The alignment model of indirect communication

Speakers often choose utterances under uncertainty about the potential opinion of the listener. In this case, utterances that do not signal the speaker’s opinion directly may allow the speaker to avoi...

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Jennifer Hu @jennhu.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Excited to share a new preprint w/ @michael-lepori.bsky.social & Michael Franke! A dominant approach in AI/cogsci uses *outputs* from AI models (eg logprobs) to predict human behavior. But how does model *processing* (across layers in a forward pass) relate to human real-time processing? 👇 (1/12)

Screenshot of Figure 1, which has two panels labeled (a) and (b). The caption states the following. Figure 1: Overview of our study. (a) Experiment 1: We explore whether forward passes show mechanistic signatures of competitor interference, first preferring a salient competing intuitive answer before preferring the correct answer. (b) Experiment 2: We systematically investigate the ability of dynamic measures derived from forward passes to predict indicators of processing load in humans.

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Siddharth Suresh @siddsuresh97.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

✨ Come join us at the Second edition of the Re-Align workshop @iclr_conf ! 🚀🧠 The workshop explores the fascinating question of how artificial and biological systems align in their representations of the world. #ReAlign #ICLR2025

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John Mansfield @johnbasil.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

I'm hiring! 2 x PhDs and 1 x PostDoc, to work with me at Uni Zurich on a project investigating how semantic patterns differ by geographic region. Linguistic typology, data science, spatial analysis, phylogenetic methods, potential fieldwork... REPOST 🙏 www.comparativelinguistics.uzh.ch/en/jobs.html

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Open Positions

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Tania Lombrozo @tanialombrozo.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Are you interested in research experience before applying to PhD programs? Or just want to learn more about cognitive science? Consider joining my lab as a lab manager (joint w/the Griffiths Lab). We will begin reviewing applications one week from today: cognition.princeton.edu/news/2025/op...

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Open Position for Lombrozo/Griffiths Lab Manager (starting Fall 2025)

The Lombrozo and Griffiths Labs at Princeton University are seeking a full-time lab manager to begin August 14, 2025, but there is some flexibility. You can apply here. Applications will be reviewed b...

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Michael Franke @meanwhileina.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Join us for the "Online-Workshop: Statistical modelling of pragmatic meaning in contexts with large meaning spaces" on April 7th (1:30pm-7:35pm, Berlin time). #pragmatics #cognitivemodels www.leibniz-zas.de/en/forschung...

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ZAS Berlin: Details-Events

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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com · 29/03/2025

Hey. The fragmentation of the social media landscape has been hard on indie #scicomm 🧪 projects So if you'd like to follow a podcast that's enthusiastic about #linguistics, could you check out @lingthusiasm.bsky.social? And if you think your followers might like to, could you give this a repost?

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Matt Goldrick @mattgoldrick.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

I'm in a place of immense privilege, so I'll be staying here to fight, but if you are not I'd definitely recommend exploring this option!

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Michael Franke @meanwhileina.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Position opening: #CompLing, #NLP, #CogSci Junior Group Leader / PostDoc (4y, German E14 salary scale) @ Uni Tübingen - no teaching obligations - PhD co-supervision - dynamic interdisciplinary team in one of Germany’s top research universities tinyurl.com/jhxb4wu2

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Junior Group Leader / Post-Doctoral Researcher Computational Linguistics/Cognitive Science (m/f/d, E 14 TV-L, 100%)

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