Interested in science management?
Come work with us in Tübingen as a Project Manager for the Germany-wide interdisciplinary research cluster (www.lasting-spp.org)!
3 years, PostDoc-level salary.
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simplified overview of our aligned probing setup, where we join the behavioral and internal evaluation of LMs' toxicity
LMs that "know more" about toxicity are less toxic!
Our #TACL 📄 connects behavior and internals:
💠 LMs amplify toxicity beyond humans
💠 Information about toxicity peaks in lower layers
💠 Bypassing these layers increases toxicity
More details👇 #NLProc #interpretability (1/🧵)
Happy to share the advent of the new *Journal of Experimental Pragmatics*!
- Diamond Open Access
- innovative, transparent bottom-up reviewing process
Go community! Let's make it a success story!
@irastamon.bsky.social @richardbreheny.bsky.social
Come work with us!!
Two full substitute professorships for Computational Linguistics (1 year) and General Linguistics (1.5 years) at the University of Tübingen. @unituebingen.bsky.social
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In our new tutorial, @meanwhileina.bsky.social and I walk you through meaningful hypothesis testing using a less known form of calculating Bayes Factor.
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People transitioning to Bayes often wonder how to decide if an effect is meaningful or not. Here you go... 1/🧵
Current LLMs are exactly 0 useful for tweaking style in PDFs generated with LaTeX from quarto documents. It's niche, admittedly, but a great area showing severe limits close to complete breakdown of capabilities. Not possible to entertain illusion of "understanding" here. Full hallucination mode.
Slide is titled: You don't need to use LLMs. Science is a process of collaborative meaning making, by which we try to understand the world Even if AI were perfect, we rely on it at our peril — it is not science if we (i.e., humanity as a whole) do not understand and cannot recapitulate all parts of it I very, very rarely use LLMs myself. You can give yourself permission not to. Don’t FOMO yourself into it
Conclusion: Don't rely on something you don't understand and can't control If you must use LLMS: 1. Treat them like you would an intern: only use them for things you can easily and thoroughly check 2. Make your process as robust as possible 3. Be aware of your own (human) cognitive biases
Getting nervous for the talk I'm about to give at a workshop about "using AI to drive impact" which features slides such as these.
Opening for PhD position (3.5 years) on
Language Evolution | Computational Modeling | Primate Communication
Joint project with @marlenfroehlich.bsky.social & @elmanubohn.bsky.social at @unituebingen.bsky.social in CRC "Common Ground".
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PostDoc position (re-)available in Collaborative Research Center "Common Ground" (3.5y) at @unituebingen.bsky.social
in a project with @toddthelinguist.bsky.social
Philosophy of Language | Cognitive Science | Pragmatics | Logic | ...
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🙏 very glad to hear it helped
(especially since I already learned so much from you!)
Our large-scale interdisciplinary research initiative @unituebingen.bsky.social on "Common Ground" now has a website: uni-tuebingen.de/en/research/...
We are also hiring! Check out recent postings here and the continually added job ads here:
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#linguistics + friends
PostDoc position (3.5y) available in interdisciplinary Collaborative Research Center "Common Ground".
🎯 Topic: Pragmatic reasoning about Common Ground
🎓 linguistics | philosophy of language | cognitive science
📅 Deadline: July 14
tinyurl.com/3vd9wa6p
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@toddthelinguist.bsky.social
We are hiring! Two PhD positions for interdisciplinary work on great ape communication and language evolution in a joint project with @marlenfroehlich.bsky.social & @elmanubohn.bsky.social.
🎯 evolutionary or probabilistic modeling
🗓️ deadline: Aug 13
🔗 tinyurl.com/2cnzwakj
Just 1 week left to apply! 🙏 Pls share with anyone you think might be interested. If there are any Q's, get in touch!
👉 3x PhD position: hmc-lab.com/ERC_PhDs.html
👉 2yr Postdoc position: hmc-lab.com/ERC_Postdoc....
Die @dfg.de hat den linguistischen SFB Common Ground: Kognition – Grammatik – Kommunikation an der @unituebingen.bsky.social bewilligt! 🎉🥂Großer Erfolg der Kolleg:innen!! Herzliche Glückwünsche!! Hier geht es zur PM 👉👉👉 www.dfg.de/de/service/p...
Can't wait to share our new #RSA model of #indirect communication developed with Michael Franke @meanwhileina.bsky.social and Martin V. Butz! We model how speakers choose utterances, such as "The election outcome was interesting!", and how listeners interpret them. doi.org/10.1371/jour...
Screenshot of Figure 1, which has two panels labeled (a) and (b). The caption states the following. Figure 1: Overview of our study. (a) Experiment 1: We explore whether forward passes show mechanistic signatures of competitor interference, first preferring a salient competing intuitive answer before preferring the correct answer. (b) Experiment 2: We systematically investigate the ability of dynamic measures derived from forward passes to predict indicators of processing load in humans.
Excited to share a new preprint w/ @michael-lepori.bsky.social & Michael Franke!
A dominant approach in AI/cogsci uses *outputs* from AI models (eg logprobs) to predict human behavior.
But how does model *processing* (across layers in a forward pass) relate to human real-time processing? 👇 (1/12)
✨ Come join us at the Second edition of the Re-Align workshop
@iclr_conf
! 🚀🧠 The workshop explores the fascinating question of how artificial and biological systems align in their representations of the world. #ReAlign #ICLR2025
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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
Are you interested in research experience before applying to PhD programs? Or just want to learn more about cognitive science? Consider joining my lab as a lab manager (joint w/the Griffiths Lab). We will begin reviewing applications one week from today: cognition.princeton.edu/news/2025/op...
Join us for the "Online-Workshop: Statistical modelling of pragmatic meaning in contexts with large meaning spaces" on April 7th (1:30pm-7:35pm, Berlin time).
#pragmatics #cognitivemodels
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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?
Great job opportunity for PostDoc on formal semantics/pragmatics & CogSci in Paris:
linguistlist.org/issues/36/980/
I'm in a place of immense privilege, so I'll be staying here to fight, but if you are not I'd definitely recommend exploring this option!