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Liina Pylkkänen @liinapy.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

✨Excited to announce a new post-doctoral position in my lab, focussed on the neural capacity limits of language processing using magnetoencephalography! Apply here: wp.nyu.edu/neurolinglab...

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Postdoctoral position – NYU Neurolinguistics Lab

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John Trant @trantteam.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

New sanctioned (t)rant about AI just dropped. On the limits of Alphafold and my worries about the disaster its use will cause for the literature and early-stage academic drug discovery. Look, they commissioned it. And by commissioned I don't mean I got paid, just invited. Awesome process btw.

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The AI Chemist: To be trustworthy, LLMs need to show their work

Good scientists reveal how they do their experiments and report their results; so should any machine-driven research

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Shota Momma @shotamomma.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

😂 according to Reddit I could've made a living as a gangsta rapper: old.reddit.com/r/ProlificAc...

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"Researcher NaN" ??

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Shota Momma @shotamomma.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

I’m joining linguistics at MIT this fall. Sad to leave UMass, but also excited about learning from people at MIT linguistics! 秋学期からマサチューセッツ工科大学の言語学科で働きます。UMassを去るのは寂しいですが、新しい環境が楽しみでもあります。 whamit.mit.edu/2026/05/11/

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Shota Momma @shotamomma.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

A new preprint! We argue that English secretly has complementizer agreement that marks the path of filler–gap dependencies, much like in Búlí, Irish, and Wolof. Its distribution resembles FG dependency path-marking in unrel. languages, with Kiitharaka n- as the closest match. tinyurl.com/4x5f54rw

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How English is like Kiitharaka and Búlí: successive cyclicity and optional wh-complementizer agreement in English - lingbuzz/010063

We report eight pairs of production and judgment experiments showing that English speakers are less likely to produce "that" when the relevant complementizer lies on the hierarchical path of an A-bar ...

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Gabor Brody @gaborbrody.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Hiring! Athulya Aravind and I are looking for a full-time Postgraduate Associate at Yale (Linguistics/Psychology). The position is designed as preparation for PhD applications in linguistics, cog sci, or psychology, including structured mentoring and research training. tinyurl.com/mrxjya5t

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Postgraduate Researcher in Language and Conceptual Development — Department of Linguistics and Department of Psychology, Yale University (joint appointment); affiliated with the Program in Cognitive S...

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Fernanda Ferreira @fernandaedi.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

If you know of a graduating senior who might want to spend a gap year in @jmhenderson.bsky.social's productive, supportive, and fun lab, pass along this ad for a full-time, NIH-funded RA position! recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07601?fbc...

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Junior Specialist- Henderson Lab

University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!

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Shota Momma @shotamomma.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

My 6 y.o.: Why can’t babies speak? Me: (omg this kid already overcame empiricism)

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Shota Momma @shotamomma.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

You can’t do away with abstract (silent) elements in syntax to model production behaviors!

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Aniello De Santo @anids.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Saturday! Poster 6 (#198) Relatedly, Shota, Grusha and I extend previous super cool work by Shota, and use a priming experiment to test whether English speakers represent null complementizers in full RCs but not in reduced RCs. Wanna find out? Come see our poster! hsp2026.org/abstracts/su...

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Aniello De Santo @anids.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Friday time! Poster 5 (# 365) @grushaprasad.bsky.social , @shotamomma.bsky.social and I leverage an ACT-R based parsing model (from Grusha’s previous work!) to evaluate potential explanations of gradient effects in cross-structural priming. Explicit parsers FTW!!

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Shota Momma @shotamomma.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

My 6 y.o: Tendon Switch (referring to Nintendo Switch)

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Shota Momma @shotamomma.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Dear reviewers, please specify what “simpler analysis” is. You can penalize whatever you don’t like if you are allowed to use that unspecified alternative account as a basis for low scores.

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utku turk @utkuturk.com · 02/01/2026

New preprint: psyarxiv.com/dwh8v! We know surface/phonological overlap can matter for reading & memory. But does it bleed into dependency resolution? In English, “pseudo-plurals” like /s/ in *cruise* don’t induce agreement errors—but Russian ones (SG.GEN ~ NOM.PL) have been argued to. (1/3)

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Matt Goldrick @mattgoldrick.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Review starts 12/1 (rolling basis): Open-rank (tenure-track/tenured) positions, cognitive psychology, cognitive neuroscience, behavioral neuroscience, Psych. + Brain Sci., Johns Hopkins University pbs.jhu.edu/about/jobs/

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David Adger @davidadger.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Look what just arrived early! It’s chunkier than I thought. Open access version on publication day which I think is the 18th on the @mitpress.bsky.social website. I must admit, I’m very fond of the colour!!! 🐦🐦 #syntax #newbook

opened box containing dark green books called Mereological Syntax, one of which is diagonally placed on top of the others

pile of 10 dark green books stacked on a wooned tabletop

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Shota Momma @shotamomma.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Why should you study linguistics? My six year old just asked me how “we make voice out of air.”

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Shota Momma @shotamomma.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

6 y.o., out of context: Is Santa super rich?

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Shota Momma @shotamomma.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Tamar is a great mentor/scholar and she is one of the major reasons I am still in academia. Great opportunity

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Shota Momma @shotamomma.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

The relationship between tense and complementizer is really puzzling…

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Jeffrey Bowers @jeffreybowers.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

The following article is now in press at Psychological Review. Interested to hear what people think! "The successes and failures of Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) highlight the importance of innate linguistic priors for human language acquisition". osf.io/preprints/ps... via

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Özge Bakay @ozgebakay.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

✨New preprint out! With Faruk Akkus and @linguistbrian.bsky.social We show robust evidence for the rapid use of hierarchical relations in memory retrieval. 👉3 VW studies on the Turkish reciprocal 👉More looks to c-commanding subjects & indirect objects than to distractors osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Shota Momma @shotamomma.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

lol People, get disillusioned by the illusion illusion

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Shota Momma @shotamomma.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

5 y.o: What does "memory" mean? me, a cognitive scientist: (excellent question, let me try to come up with a necessary and sufficient condition for 'memory'....... oh no, my kid is about to lose interest...) ... well, it means "記憶" (memory in Japanese). My partner and me: 🤦

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Shota Momma @shotamomma.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

A paper with Vic Ferreira and Norvin Richards is now out (1) Speakers syntactically encode zero complementizers as cognitively active mental object. (2) No evidence LLMs capture cross constructional generalizations about null complementizers. nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

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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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Sol Lago @sollago.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

How do memory retrieval and prediction work together during sentence comprehension? We use computational modelling and visual world eye-tracking to unpack their interaction in German pronouns. New article led by Elise Oltrogge, together by João Veríssimo, and Umesh Patil: doi.org/10.1016/j.jm...

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