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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!

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First paper in Glossa Contact exemplifies LVP with a case study from Abui (Timor-Alor-Pantar language family), spoken in east Indonesia. Consider submitting your own research! #linguistics www.glossacontact.org/index.php/gc...

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Does anyone know of studies about priming with non-default (marked) word order? #linguistics

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when the most important thing is not to mention the genocide

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Submit an abstract 📝 on your work on cross-linguistic aspects of language processing and (first) language acquisition to ⭐️Crosslinguistic Perspectives on Processing and Learning (X-PPL) 2025⭐️ (Sept 1&2 @ U Zurich)! It’s a fantastic venue to present work on how ling diversity 🌏 & the mind/🧠 interact!

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A new paper out, on the diachrony of verbal classifiers - with particular attention to Daly languages of northern Australia www.jbe-platform.com/content/jour...

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Stop Starving Gaza -------------------- More than 300 Israeli citizens who live in the UK call on the UK government to suspend the Trade and Partnership Agreement (TPA) with Israel immediately until it allows food and medicine into Gaza in significant quantities. actionnetwork.org/petitions/st...

submitted 29 days ago • 2 comments

Universities, your silence is deafening

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Three year postdoc position in Cognitive Science, Potsdam, Germany: www.uni-potsdam.de/en/verwaltun...

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If you're Jewish please sign this from Jews for Food Aid for People in Gaza: foodaidforgaza.org and anyone can donate to the organization they recommend, Gaza soup kitchen, which serves up to 6000 meals daily: givebutter.com/AReeXq

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🧪 The NSF grant terminations hit women, racial & ethnic minorities, and those with disabilities the hardest. E.g.: --Female PIs were 58% of canceled grants (but 34% of all active grants) --Black PIs were 17% of canceled grants (but 4% as base rate) A closer look shows this is structural... 🧵

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📣Paper Update 📣It’s bigger! It’s better! Even if the language models aren’t. 🤖New version of “Bigger is not always Better: The importance of human-scale language modeling for psycholinguistics” osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Our next ISLE Colloquium will be from @sebastiansauppe.bsky.social (Uni Zurich), on "Dependency structures in language processing and development" Tues 13 May 4:15pm UZH Oerlikon, room AFL-F-121 www.psychologie.uzh.ch/de/bereiche/...

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Three linguistics jobs at Oxford!! Please spread the word. linguistlist.org/issues/36/14...

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Postdoc open in Montreal for a field linguist with some technical skills 🐦🐦

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We all have our moment

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In awe of Fatima Hassouna www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

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"Fatima Hassouna died with nine members of her family in a direct strike on their home in Gaza City on Wednesday."

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The American Dipper babes are growing up quickly. Soon they're going to run out of room and will have to leave the nest. Washington state #birds #nature 🌿

submitted 58 days ago • 12 comments

I'll be teaching some students about the Lotka-Volterra food web model tomorrow, and this historical aside feels particularly relevant. Pretty stark that, in 1931, only 1% of Italian professors refused to sign a loyalty oath to the fascists.

submitted 61 days ago • 2 comments

Now out, "A Simple Explanation for Harmonic Word Order" - we show that a core typological pattern in syntax can be explained as a consequence of word-class frequencies, so it does not need to be posited as an independent principle. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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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

submitted 69 days ago • 2 comments

Enough of this image-mongery!

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Today I wrote about compositionality--a foundation of human language. Is it also in the calls of apes? Gift link: nyti.ms/4iO0zct

submitted 72 days ago • 9 comments

Important study yielding new insights into the deep roots of aspects of our communication system/#language— @berthetmelissa.bsky.social M. Surbeck and S. Townsend did great work to reveal semantic composition in vocal combinations in bonobos. 🧪 Out in @science.org : www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Looking for a postdoc in stats or a job with computer vision / deep learning? Postdoctoral position in statistics is now out at Australian National University! jobs.anu.edu.au/jobs/postdoc... And also APPN is looking for a data lead @scienceanu.bsky.social jobs.anu.edu.au/jobs/data-le...

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This exciting resolution from Rutgers University Senate is exactly the kind of model I think higher ed needs: a mutual defense pact of, in this case, Big 10 schools. They call for member institutions to create a joint defense fund and make resources available to any member institution under attack.

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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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