And no they do not tell us anything about human language acquisition, processing, or production. Go away psycholinguists who say this (I am a psycholinguist). Some neural network models are informative. LLMs are not because they were never designed to be.
Neural trajectory plot showing neural activity moving through orthogonal corollary discharge and feedback signal subspaces
New preprint! 🧵🧪🧠
doi.org/10.64898/202...
Upshot: somatosensory cortex contains both feedback *and* intended movement signals (a.k.a. corollary discharge). These two signals exist orthogonally in neural space, flexibly allowing both fast state estimation and external perturbation detection. 1/
So hard and sad to hear. I’m a proud Hampshire College alumna (School of Cognitive Science F04). And @hampshirecollege.bsky.social profoundly shaped me. I wish its quirky grace and fiery iconoclasm on future generations, despite this loss. Non satis scire! (“To know is not enough”)
I am broken-hearted at the terrible news that my alma mater, @hampshirecollege.bsky.social, after 56 yrs, is closing. Its death is a victory for conformism, for corporatism, for higher education's dull love of hierarchy & status. It's a grievous defeat for imagination & experimentation.
This is a good read. I see a lot of well-intentioned but unhelpful things go on at work. And you can host EDI seminars til the cows come home but it's only ever the same (often themselves minoritised) people who show up.
pizza hoc ergo pineapple hoc
Pizzito ergo sum
I’d apply if I could!!!! #neuroscienceoflanguage
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Yes there are nice points raised here but am I the only one getting tired of the ratio of pieces giving advice on how academic moms can carry the workload versus pieces on how institutions/funders/collaborators etc can make the workload more bearable? 🤷🏼♀️
Pages from Geometria (1543) by German artist, mathematician, and cartographer Augustin Hirschvogel. In this version from the Deutsche Fotothek, amid the rigid lines of the geometrical sketches appear the chaotic forms of stains: publicdomainreview.org/collection/hirschvogel-s...
How to join zillions of lexical norms to each word in your language sample the easy way: a quick tutorial and demo reilly-lab.github.io/Jamie_JoinLe...
Even better: stop treating tech monopolies as if they're an immovable part of the landscape which we can only accept, ban, or regulate. We have the means to replace toxic social apps with better ones, including youth-designed and youth-governed alternatives.
The use of “hallucinate” is a stroke of true evil genius in the AI world.
In ANY other context we’d just call them errors & the fail rate would be crystal clear.
Instead, “hallucinate” implies genuine sentience & the *absence* of real error.
Aw, this software isn’t shit! Boo’s just dreaming!
A black and white photo of Katherine Johnson, the "Hidden Figure" that sent man into space
A photo of Vanessa Wyche, director of the Johnson Space Center and NASA's highest ranking civil service member
Let it be known that Katherine Johnson was the reason for the first astronauts in space.
And now Vanessa Wyche, head of the Johnson Space Center and NASA's highest ranking civil servant, is the responsible for the longest manned space flight in history
The kids are all right.
Closing editorial for the special issue of Cortex: Neurocognitive perspectives on discourse and connected language. Final version by Brielle C. Stark, @andreaeyleen.bsky.social & Jamie Reilly
doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2026.03.008
Three years ago I pointed out some things that were bad about AI. Basically none of them have changed. Many things have gotten worse. Among other things, the attack on labor has intensified. Here's why to resist dehumanizing your work: www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~cxjacobs/Bl...
Using time-resolved EEG/MEG decoding?🧠 Here’s a new approach!
No feature engineering (decode from raw signals), but capturing info that standard decoding often misses (oscillatory/aperiodic activity, connectivity).
Lightweight, INTERPRETABLE, and easy to use. (1/6)
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Total Eclipse of the Sun, 1882. Chromolithograph after a pastel drawing by astronomer, artist, and amateur entomologist Étienne Léopold Trouvelot.
Learn more about his life and see a collection of his stunning astronomical art here: https://buff.ly/2ENtY5g #eclipse #solareclipse
Not providing online access to scientific events/conferences is discrimination. It excludes many disabled or chronically ill people, those with caring responsibilities, or those with fewer resources. This cannot be good for science.
It's always telling that "AI literacy" to these people means how to use a corporate product.
No mention of fitting linear algebra earlier into math curriculums, no mention of fitting the underlying computational techniques into computer classes and certainly no mention of negative externalities.
![Comic. [Teacher with shoulder-length light hair talking to two students seated at desks.] TEACHER: *Grammar* is one of the most popular ways to structure a language, ahead of rival methods such as *WORDS ORDER WORDS RANDOM WORDS WORDS RANDOM GOOD* and *EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE*.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreiekjkgg3wtt3bopzgoke7ek73rk4cmvvik6zbmcgt4zkoyojsnhge)
Comic. [Teacher with shoulder-length light hair talking to two students seated at desks.] TEACHER: *Grammar* is one of the most popular ways to structure a language, ahead of rival methods such as *WORDS ORDER WORDS RANDOM WORDS WORDS RANDOM GOOD* and *EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE*.
Grammar
xkcd.com/3229/
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New paper! 🥳
When reading a sentence, do you rely on probabilistic or grammatical relations between words, or both? To find out, we designed an experiment that contrasts these two pressures. 🧵
in Cognition with @andreaeyleen.bsky.social & Antje S. Meyer
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
black and white photo of Wong Kim Ark, American of Chinese descent. He is looking straight at the camera.
A thread on birthright citizenship I wrote in 2018, that unfortunately remains relevant.
I always thought this was where it was all headed. Abolishing birthright citizenship for the non-white and non-rich. And why I teach on United States v. Wong Kim Ark every semester.
Who was Wong Kim Ark? 1/
All languages are dialects, all dialects are languages
The distinction between what gets called a language and what gets called a dialect is not a matter of linguistic distinction but a matter of political power
In recognition of National Indigenous Languages Day on March 31, APTN, in partnership with YouTube, is proud to announce that its YouTube channel is now home to over 1,200 hours of Indigenous-language content across 20 distinct Indigenous languages
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