The White House is completely silent as BBC confirms a consistent pattern of massive financial spikes occurring just minutes before Donald Trump makes market moving announcements.
The administration is facing severe allegations of illegally profiteering off inside knowledge.
Posts by Canaan Breiss
leftists are my greatest adversary because they are destroying america destroying america or being rude to you online? being rude to me online
liberals on this microblogging website
Would love to get some colleagues at the intersection of NLP and CogSci. Reach out if you have any questions! Deadline: 31-Jul-2026
Richard @futrell.bsky.social and I have posted our response to the commentaries on our BBS target article "How Linguistics Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Language Models." The response is: "You Can't Fight in Here! This is BBS!" arxiv.org/abs/2604.09501
"People in this Cairo diner aren't sure we should let those people go"
Our union election is starting soon! Hear why Jelena is voting #UnionYes
Spread the word! UChicago BSD is currently searching for an instructional professor (open rank) to help develop and support graduate training in quantitative biology at UChicago. This is an Instructional Professor position (open rank). apply.interfolio.com/183517.
OPEN POSTDOC position (part of @erc.europa.eu Consolidator DYNALANG)
We build math&comp models of neural dynamics using insights from formal linguistics + ML
Seeking theory-driven researchers w/ interests in language, neural dynamics, & math/comp neuroscience.
Apply here: tinyurl.com/55exdpse
Come and be my colleague! π
We (the Linguistics program at Hanyang University, Korea) are looking for a tenure-track faculty member in any area of linguistics, with a slight preference for computational linguistics.
site.hanyang.ac.kr/web/faculty/...
Come join us! We have two research coordinator positions open with the Stanford IRISS predoctoral program, a program designed to mentor students for graduate study:
LEVANTE: careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/iriss-p...
BabyView: careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/iriss-p...
(deadline 5/1)
Interested in applying for an MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship 2026?
I'd be very happy to support postdoctoral researchers in co-developing a proposal in Aix-en-Provence, France, on the cognitive and neural mechanisms of inner speech.
marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/actions/post...
Applications open for the School on Analytical Connectionism
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August 17-28, 2026
πΊοΈ Chalmers University of Technology Gothenburg
π Topical focus: language acquisition ... with me, Michael Biehl, Paul Smolensky & many other incredible researchers π www.analytical-connectionism.net/school/2026/
trans rights is a "wedge" issue in the sense that if you have an issue with trans rights I will "wedge" you into a crevasse in a mountain and leave you there
The Supreme Court did not strike down conversion therapy bans today.
Not nationwide. Not in Colorado. Not anywhere.
Here's what actually happened in Chiles v. Salazarβand why the coverage you're seeing serves the conservative legal movement more than it serves you.
Federal Judge Approves Trump Effort to Extract List of Jews From Penn The decision to allow the government to collect the names and phone numbers of Jewish people on campus could allow the government to pursue similar tactics elsewhere. β’ Listen β’ 3:32 min < 1 TODAY
As a Jewish historian who works at a university, I think itβs great that an administration committed to destroying βthe internal globalist enemyβ which is staffed by groyper antisemites is collecting lists of Jews. Canβt see any potential downside here at all.
"What you need more than anything in the world, more than clean air, more than safe neighborhoods, more than accountability for those in power, is for live video of your childβs every move to be safely entrusted to us, your individual rights-loving government."
Thanks Elaine!
Thanks Eleanor! :D
Thanks Aniello!!
Thanks Jeff!
Thanks Tom!
Thanks Kanishka!
Thanks Heidi!
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As in all things this wouldn't be possible without the support of my community of mentors, friends, and chosen family, in and out of academia. I'm so grateful to be surrounded by such amazing folks; thank you for your invaluable gifts of perspective, humor, wisdom, accountability, and encouragement!
While I'll miss my students and colleagues at USC (as well as the LA weather), I'm very much looking forward to this new exciting (and more meteorologically variable) adventure!
I'm thrilled to share that in Fall 2026, I'll be joining the Linguistics Department at the University of Chicago as a Neubauer Family Assistant Professor!
Deadline 6 April: Asst./assoc. prof., psychology, Univ. of Warwick warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/appcentre...
Today I learned that there is such a thing as a Bayesian bicep curl. No apparent relation to anything #Bayes or #statistics. Missed opportunity to create Bayesian glute bridges; after all, the whole point is to update your posterior.
Deadline Apr 15: Postdoc, "using computational methods and EEG to study predictive processing in multilingual populations", at U Michigan w/ @jonrbrennan.bsky.social and @edithkaan.bsky.social careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...