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Jakub Szymanik @szymanikjakub.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Could your university host #ESSLLI 2028? The European Summer School in Logic, Language & Information (2 weeks, ~50 courses, ~400 participants) seeks a host for its 39th edition. Short, non-binding expressions of interest by 1 Nov 2026. Call: jakubszymanik.com/call-for-bid...

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Jakub Szymanik @szymanikjakub.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

You can now register for the 37th European Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information, which will take place in Prague, Czech Republic, from August 3rd to August 14th. For more information and to register, please visit: 2026.esslli.eu

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Jakub Szymanik @szymanikjakub.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

TL;DR: Languages look the way they do because our brains find them easier to handle that way.

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Jakub Szymanik @szymanikjakub.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

🚀 Hiring: Tenure Track Researcher at CiMeC, UniTrento! 🧠💻 Field: #CompLing, #AI & Cognitive Modeling. Join an interdisciplinary hub (AI + Neuroscience + Psych) in beautiful Trentino! 🏔️✨ 📅 Deadline: Feb 12, 12:00 CET 🔗 lavoraconnoi.unitn.it/bando-dr-val... #AcademicJobs #NLP

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Jakub Szymanik @szymanikjakub.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Fed up with hot anecdotal takes on AGI? 🤖🧪 Join us in Warsaw for actual science on how models reason. 📅 Jan 8, Warsaw🔗 Program: manuel-vg.github.io/compositiona...

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Compositionality and Reasoning in AI and Cognitive Science — Workshop

One-day workshop on Compositionality and Reasoning in AI and Cognitive Science — January 8, 2026 — Warsaw

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Jakub Szymanik @szymanikjakub.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

@ec.europa.eu should rely on scientists rather than marketing claims by tech CEOs.

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Jakub Szymanik @szymanikjakub.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

🧩 Compositionality & Reasoning Workshop — Warsaw, Jan 8, 2026 A one-day event on how compositionality and structured reasoning drive generalization in AI and cognitive science. Speakers from Meta, MIT, U. of Manchester & more. Learn more: manuel-vg.github.io/compositiona...

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Compositionality and Reasoning in AI and Cognitive Science — Workshop

One-day workshop on Compositionality and Reasoning in AI and Cognitive Science — January 8, 2026 — Warsaw

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Jakub Szymanik @szymanikjakub.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Rejected by @NeurIPSConf. Reviewers objected to not running experiments on SOTA models, even though those models were released after the deadline. Scientific evaluation is increasingly influenced by hype, even for papers with foundational theoretical contributions. #NeurIPS #AI

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Jakub Szymanik @szymanikjakub.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Call for European Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information 2026 Lectures and Workshop More information here: 2026.esslli.eu Submit here: easychair.org/my/conferenc...

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Welcome to ESSLLI 2026

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Jakub Szymanik @szymanikjakub.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Be part of a vibrant academic tradition! 🌍 FoLLI is seeking hosts for #ESSLLI2027, the European Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information @ESSLLI_official Bring 300+ students & researchers to your institution. Preliminary proposals by Nov 15! jakubszymanik.com/call-for-pro...

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Jakub Szymanik @szymanikjakub.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Join our interdisciplinary team that combines computational linguistics with cognitive neuroscience! Our center is located in the beautiful Trentino region.

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Jakub Szymanik @szymanikjakub.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

Interesting paper advancing multiple aspects in the exploration of why numeral systems across languages are structured as they are. escholarship.org/content/qt5k...

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Jakub Szymanik @szymanikjakub.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

A computational linguistics colleague needed to join the Center for Mind-Brain Sciences - Italy's leading cognitive neuroscience research unit. @cimecunitrento.bsky.social is located in Trentino, famous for its high quality of life in Italy. www.cimec.unitn.it/en/71/langua...

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Stanislas Dehaene @standehaene.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

If you are in Paris on October 1-3 : we are organizing a fantastic cognitive neuroscience conference at Collège de France, on topics ranging from language to math, education and consciousness, with many of my favorite scientists ! Full program here: www.unicog.org/seeing-the-m...

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Seeing the Mind, Educating the Brain

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Jakub Szymanik @szymanikjakub.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

We're having a workshop tomorrow on abstraction in language, science, and engineering, in case you're around. www.inf.unibz.it/~okutz/abstr...

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Jakub Szymanik @szymanikjakub.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

NASSLLI is coming to a close, but it's still a lot of fun. You can find slides and papers from our class here: drive.google.com/drive/folder.... Now the goal is to write it up as a book 😅

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Jakub Szymanik @szymanikjakub.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Finally, AI and LLMs come to the rescue by fixing LaTeX errors. Good job @overleaf.com

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Isabelle Dautriche @sblldtrch.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

I am looking for a PhD student to work on my ERC-funded project to investigate the format of thought in the absence of language in baboons and bees. Details here: tinyurl.com/5ff9hcjj Apply here: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/Docto...

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PhD opportunity - ERC ThoughtOrigins

We are seeking a graduate student in comparative cognition to work on a ERC-funded project (to Isabelle Dautriche) to investigate the format of thought in the absence of a language in two populations:...

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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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Jakub Szymanik @szymanikjakub.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

I still can't believe Italy lacks a granting agency like other European countries. Establishing such an agency won't solve all the issues stemming from underfunded universities, but it would be a helpful step. www.scienzainrete.it/articolo/app...

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Un appello per il futuro dell’Italia: sostenere la ricerca scientifica

La ricerca scientifica rappresenta un elemento strategico per lo sviluppo economico e sociale del nostro Paese. Tuttavia, la ricerca pubblica in Italia continua a soffrire di risorse limitate e spesso...

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Simon Kirby @simonkirby.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

A thread explaining our new discovery about humpback whale song published today in Science... We found key statistical properties that characterise all human languages in another species for the first time. We have more in common with whales than we previously thought! doi.org/10.1126/scie...

A picture of a humpback whale just below the sea surface taken by Marc Quintin

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Moritz Wurm @moritzwurm.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

How do our brains generate predictive models of unfolding events? We're seeking for a *postdoc* to address this question in my lab: sites.google.com/site/moritzf...

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Jakub Szymanik @szymanikjakub.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Do you study semantic or pragmatic phenomena using Bayesian cognitive models? Do you validate them? If "no," this tutorial is for you 😅 BTW, it's under submission, so all feedback on improving it is welcome. osf.io/preprints/os... cc @juliaha.bsky.social

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Jakub Szymanik @szymanikjakub.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Here is a call for papers for the most extraordinary student workshop in logic, language, and information at the most exciting summer school. The 2025 ESSLLI Student Session is on! 2025.esslli.eu/courses-work...

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Manuela Piazza @manpiazza.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Debate resolved! Is the left-to-right association between numbers and space biologically or culturally determined? Our study involved: 👨‍👩‍👧 Unschooled adults (Himba, Namibia) 👶 Italian pre-schooled kids 🎓 Italian schooled adults — see comment for the findings www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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A left-to-right bias in number-space mapping across ages and cultures - Nature Communications

This study examined the role of age and culture in determining spatial-numerical associations. Results showed all groups displayed implicit left-to-right biases, suggesting a biological basis for spac...

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Michelle Greene @mgreenephd.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

Amazing collective problem solving in ants:

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Jakub Szymanik @szymanikjakub.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Presenting at Amsterdam Colloquium this year! We analyze adjective order preferences across languages, replicating Futrell et al.'s findings for English and expanding the analysis to Russian. We also show these theories can predict adverb order.

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Explaining universal semantic properties in the adjectival/adverbial domain - lingbuzz/008625

Native speakers would generally agree that certain patterns in the language are preferable to others. The order of several adjectives modifying the same noun is the best example: various potential seq...

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Jakub Szymanik @szymanikjakub.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

This paper is intriguing; my experiences with special issues indicate that authors often anticipate a more lenient review process.

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Jakub Szymanik @szymanikjakub.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Dutch colleagues organized efforts to fight against cuts in higher education. We should all learn from their actions. @WOinactie

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Riccardo Fusaroli @fusaroli.eurosky.social · 20/11/2024

We're hiring an assistant professor at the intersection btw cognitive modeling of language / social interaction, computational ling / lang technologies. Exciting environment / great work-life balance / amazing students. international.au.dk/about/profil... Get in touch if interested!

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Assistant Professor of Cognitive Science at the School of Communication and Culture - Vacancy at Aarhus University

Vacancy at School of Communication and Culture - Linguistics, Cognitive Science and Semiotics, Dept. of, Aarhus University

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Griffiths Computational Cognitive Science Lab @cocoscilab.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

(1/5) Very excited to announce the publication of Bayesian Models of Cognition: Reverse Engineering the Mind. More than a decade in the making, it's a big (600+ pages) beautiful book covering both the basics and recent work: mitpress.mit.edu/978026204941...

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Jakub Szymanik @szymanikjakub.bsky.social · 21/12/2023

We at the Center for Mind and Brain seek a colleague in computational linguistics. It is an excellent opportunity to join a vibrant cognitive neuroscience team in a fantastic place. Spread the word and let me know if you're interested; see the conditions here: webmagazine.unitn.it/en/news/cime...

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Jakub Szymanik @szymanikjakub.bsky.social · 07/12/2023

I will have a pleasure to speak at the 5th XPRAGit in Venice Lido on September 26-27. I guess the CfP with the deadlines will be announced soon. sites.google.com/view/xpragit20…

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Jakub Szymanik @szymanikjakub.bsky.social · 22/11/2023

Do you want to study quantifiers and nonsymbolic quantity processing? Then we may have some ideas for you in our new survey paper "Questions About Quantifiers: Symbolic and Nonsymbolic Quantity Processing by the Brain" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/co…

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Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 21/11/2023

Humans, what's up with us? Where did we come from? Where are we going? Why do my feet hurt? Apply by 31st December 2023 to join The Leipzig School of Human Origins and help find answers to these questions. 🧪 www.eva.mpg.de/career/posit...

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Martin Zettersten @mzettersten.bsky.social · 20/11/2023

Apply by Dec 1 to the UCSD Cognitive Science PhD program: cogsci.ucsd.edu/graduates/ph.... We have an incredible community working on language + cognition + development here - if that's up your alley, check us out! I'll also be considering applications to join my new lab opening in Fall 2024 (!!)

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steven t. piantadosi @spiantado.bsky.social · 15/11/2023

New postdoc opportunity to work jointly with @cantlonlab.bsky.social and me to understand cognition across species, age, and culture! cmu.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/CMU/job/Pitt...

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