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...
Good thing no one in the field is making that argument 😉
It’s interesting to reconcile the idea that LLMs learn and use language just like humans do with the fact that their training and data storage needs are so resource-intensive they’re going to destroy the planet.
Thanks to The Pitt season 2 finale, I’ve learned that in You Oughta Know Alanis Morissette says “Does she speak eloquently”, not “Does she speak Gaelic like me” - but I kind of like my version better.
"The University of California system, the California State system, the City University of New York — these are the institutions actually educating America’s workforce, actually moving first-generation students into the middle class, actually delivering on higher education’s democratic promise."
ESPN+ screen preview of Sharks vs. Jets NHL game (tied 1-1 in the first)
I know Heated Rivalry was popular and all but I disagree with staging a classic Broadway musical during a hockey game
We're delighted to announce another publication in Glossa Psycholinguistics!
Now available is 'Category-specific and system-wide preferences in competition: Evidence from noun phrase harmony' by Holtz, Culbertson & Kirby
escholarship.org/uc/item/0wf4...
And some of us with regular bikes cope with hills by down-shifting and standing on the way up and smiling during the ride down
Yes, and this person also ignores two huge advantages of commuting by bike, one serious and one more shallow: (1) you get in some good exercise for free as a routine part of your day, and (2) it’s a mode of transportation that allows you to show off your outfits.
Excited to share my new paper out in Glossa Psycholinguistics! It's an effort to computationally formalize theories of how people may (or may not) maintain gradient linguistic representations over time; we find strong evidence in favor of maintenance over long perceptual distances.
The last time I tried to engage with Jay Bhattacharya in dialogue I ended up on administrative leave. 🤷♀️
One more visit to Greenland from JD Vance should just about settle that matter as well
no one is doing it like jd vance, a loser across three continents in a single weekend
In Bruges scene where Colin Farrell is pointing a gun at his head and Brendon Gleeson is also pointing a gun at Colin Farrell's head
Current status of the Strait of Hormuz dispute
The problem with this “come on, let’s just have a debate” excuse is that resisting conclusions that are strongly supported by evidence is just as bad for science as refusing to challenge questionable ideas.
If Emily Oster and Podcast Jay are the headliners, the workshop will accomplish exactly the opposite of the stated aims.
Here’s an idea for “improving science” - don’t appear on panels with anti-science ideologues like Jay Bhattacharya and Emily Oster.
![Six-panel composite figure. Caption: Interactive artifacts always rely on people’s interpretive and interactional practices. Rowwise from top left to bottom right: A. Aegeus consults the oracle at Delphi (cup from Vulci, 440-430 BCE). B. Byzantine mosaic depicting the zodiac, from the floor of the 6th century CE Beth Alpha synagogue. C. One-sided sense-making in an experimental psychotherapy session, (McHugh 1968). D. Still from a BBC documentary showing a person interacting with ELIZA via a computer terminal, late 1960s. E. Researchers interacting with the PARC copier (Suchman 2007 [1987]). F. Screenshot of large language model chat interface, 2026.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:tfyqeo3tprov5lejatxoi6lb/bafkreidiwulbxshg5plxdu6ryxklje4zljxlakzdjxcgekentekonkrlwu)
Six-panel composite figure. Caption: Interactive artifacts always rely on people’s interpretive and interactional practices. Rowwise from top left to bottom right: A. Aegeus consults the oracle at Delphi (cup from Vulci, 440-430 BCE). B. Byzantine mosaic depicting the zodiac, from the floor of the 6th century CE Beth Alpha synagogue. C. One-sided sense-making in an experimental psychotherapy session, (McHugh 1968). D. Still from a BBC documentary showing a person interacting with ELIZA via a computer terminal, late 1960s. E. Researchers interacting with the PARC copier (Suchman 2007 [1987]). F. Screenshot of large language model chat interface, 2026.
New! Interactional foundations for critical AI literacies doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
Why do Anthropic engineers talk to Claude as a witch-doctor to his potions? How is prompt engineering like spider divination? Can one reason without reasons?
ft. Lovelace, Adorno, Suchman, Weizenbaum & many more ☺️
I use "pardon me" or just "pardon" to ask someone to repeat something I didn't hear or understand. "Excuse me" is for when I walk in front of someone, get in their way, etc.
New preprint! w/Tessa Charlesworth & @williambrady.bsky.social:
The Psychology of Algorithmic Bias
We introduce a psychology-centered framework to specify mechanisms through which human behavior interacts dynamically with AI systems to produce algorithmic bias.
osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/rxu37_v1
Renowned Iranian composer, Ali Ghamsari and tar virtuoso, announced he will stay at the Damavand Combined Cycle Power Plant.
His plan: Create music there as a symbolic effort to shield Iran's infrastructure from attack. @iranscreenshot
The Moon: oh wow you guys decided to come back
Artemis II crew: earth’s haunted
I'm getting nauseous from pingponging between joy and wonder at the Artemis mission and rage and horror at the threats of a leader who is clearly too unhinged and unstable to be in a position of power, but whose party continues propping him up because they love power more than reason or humanity
Le premier astronaute de l’histoire à parler français à destination de la Lune : le Canadien Jeremy Hansen 🇨🇦
I was on the NSF Linguistics Panel in the 90s and served as its program officer (rotator position) in 96-97. Even then Republicans were floating proposals to abolish SBE. It took 30 years, but now they have their wish, thanks to a decision from NSF itself. Truly heartbreaking.
Cat in bag.
Morning 😂
The NYTimes likes to stir up class resentment when it serves their purpose of undermining progressive ideas — think universal public services, congestion pricing, mass protests against the regime.
it’s not surprising exactly but it is still shocking just how fast we’ve moved from “woke was excessive” framing to open and explicit white male supremacy
Super thrilled that my article "Prosody" is now available to read in the Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science!
oecs.mit.edu/pub/1w4cqquc...
Thanks to @asifamajid.bsky.social and @mcxfrank.bsky.social for the opportunity and for creating such an amazing resource for our community!
