What function did ~100k-year-old engravings from Blombos Cave & Diepkloof serve? Decoration, identity marking, proto-writing? osf.io/preprints/ps... uses transmission chains + cognitive experiments to find out & help answering one of the hardest questions in cognitive archaeology. long thread! 1/

Would love to get some colleagues at the intersection of NLP and CogSci. Reach out if you have any questions! Deadline: 31-Jul-2026

Title page for the paper “A systematic framework for generating novel experimental hypotheses from language models”, with an epigraph from Jeff Elman describing how Rumelhart and McClelland (1982) did hypothesis generation with their connectionist network, and a figure describing our pipeline.

Announcing a new version of our 2024 paper on linguistic hypothesis generation from LMs!

@najoung.bsky.social and I have systematized our hypothesis generation framework, added stringent criteria for model selection, 10x-ed our learning trials, and included an epigraph from Jeff Elman 🙏!

You Can't Fight in Here! This is BBS! Norm, the formal theoretical linguist, and Claudette, the computational language scientist, have a lovely time discussing whether modern language models can inform important questions in the language ...

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

Aerial view of a beach in Rio de Janeiro with turquoise water meeting a sandy shore, scattered beachgoers, and a large rock formation near the coastline. In the foreground, a beachfront hotel with a pool, lounge chairs, and palm trees is visible. Overlaid text reads: “100 Days to CogSci2026 – Cognitive Inefficiency – July 22–25, Rio de Janeiro,” alongside small gear icons.

100 days to #CogSci2026 in Rio 🇧🇷

As we get closer, it's a great time to start planning your trip and take advantage of the different ways we're working to make the conference more accessible👇

Epistemic Virtues for Scientific Inquiry — Community Survey In Six Memos for the Next Millenium, Italo Calvino proposed six literary virtues he felt should be preserved and cultivated in literature regardless of how the world changed: lightness, quickness, exa...

If you're a faculty, research scientist, postdoc, or senior PhD in any area of science, select your top 6 virtues at this link:
shorturl.at/bV2lF

You can also tell us if you think we missed any.

We want broad participation, so pls RT! 🙏

In collab w/@devezer.bsky.social @statmodeling.bsky.social

this is Duane Watson’s kids‘ team. Come on psycholinguists— we can get this funded!

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

I’m offering a lightly used set of regalia in UC Berkeley colors to a junior faculty member, preference for a mom and 1st gen scholar. DM me your details— I’ll ship for free.

Come and be my colleague! 🙂
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/...

Research in Action: Lessons from Policy Advocacy How can researchers better champion their work and make the case for evidence-based policy?

How can researchers better champion evidence-based policy? Join us on Monday in Guild Lounge for a conversation with Dean Karlan, @katieinsel.bsky.social, and @statstipton.bsky.social on engaging policymakers and advocating for research-informed policy.
Register ➡️ spr.ly/63321B6xywD

Massive budget cuts for US science proposed again by Trump administration Budget proposal would also curb federal payments for scientific publishing.

Concerned about the possible dismantling of the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Directorate of NSF?? www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Find out what's happening and what we can do to protect behavioral science with @fabbs.org Friday April 10th at 1:30 ET. Register at us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Ravenous Is a New Worker-Owned Food Culture Media Company For too long, food media has felt toothless. Help us take a bite out of it.

We are Ravenous — food media with teeth. Ravenous is worker-owned food and culture media company founded by @francesdoingthings.bsky.social, @aemccarthy.bsky.social, @jayasaxena.com, @shokdiesel.bsky.social, and
@thecourtneyesmith.bsky.social.

IRiSS Predoctoral Researcher in School of Humanities and Sciences, Stanford, California, United States The Stanford Institute for Research in the Social Sciences (IRiSS) is seeking Predoctoral Researchers to participate in our 2026-2027 cohort. The...

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)

2026 ACLS Social Media Campaign Toolkit ACLS invites scholars and advocates to make a case for disciplines and research in the humanities and social sciences on social media.

Pass the word ... The American Dialect Society is participating in a social media campaign with ACLS the week of April 13-17, and we invite you to join in! We need more humanities and social sciences scholars and research.

A toolkit can be found here:
www.acls.org/TalkAboutHumanities

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...

Postdoc opportunity at the Laboratory for the Experimental Research of Religion, for candidates with a background in social psychology, cognitive science, or social neuroscience. As a bonus, you get to work with @martinlangcz.bsky.social! www.phil.muni.cz/en/careers/a...

Research Group Leader (m/f/d)

🚨 New independent group leader position as part of theadaptivemind-excellencecluster.de April 12th deadline. Details 👇. Pls share 🔁

www.uni-giessen.de/de/ueber-uns...

This is an amazing podcast -- highly recommend you listen and consider supporting independent media!

Applications open for the School on Analytical Connectionism
📅 August 17-28, 2026
🗺️ Chalmers University of Technology Gothenburg
📚 Topical focus: language acquisition ... with me, Michael Biehl, Paul Smolensky & many other incredible researchers 😊 www.analytical-connectionism.net/school/2026/

9 months later, we are at the top of the to-fund pile but still no NOA and we're told NICHD has not awarded a single new R01. Sure would like to work on this project!

And to you as well!!!

AAAS honors two Northwestern researchers as Lifetime Fellows Carole LaBonne and Matthew Goldrick will be honored May 29 in Washington, D.C.

Thrilled to be named an AAAS fellow! Thanks so much to my colleagues for their support and recognition of my work. news.northwestern.edu/stories/2026...

Would love to meet junior scholars there this summer for exciting learning and discussions! reposts welcome #CogSciSky #PsychSciSky 🐧🐧

Research Fellow in Language Learning Job Description: * Fixed-term, 3-year appointment at Academic Level B. * Westmead campus, The MARCS Institute for Brain, Behaviour and Development. * Salary: $123,327 – $145,625 per annum, plus 17% Su...

Deadline 12 April: postdoc, speech perception and L2 learning w/ M. Antoniou @ Western Sydney jobs.smartrecruiters.com/WesternSydne...

Poster that says No Kings. Hands Off Chicago. Organized by ACLU of Illinois, Chicago Federation of Labor, Equality Illinois, Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, Indivisible Chicago Alliance, Personal PAC, Sierra Club Illinois. Saturday, March 28, 1:30 pm. Butler Field at Grant Park. Thank you to all our partner organizations.

❌👑 3/28: Let's rise up & say NO THRONES - NO CROWNS - NO KINGS!
📅📍 Sat. March 28, 1:30 pm, Butler Field/Grant Park
ℹ️ bit.ly/NoKingsChiMarch28
✊ Chicago organizing partners: ACLU of IL, chicagolabor.bsky.social, Equality IL, ICIRR, Indivisible Chicago, Personal PAC, Planned Parenthood, Sierra Club IL

Deadline 15 April: Professor (W3), Phonetics and Speech Processing, LMU Munich job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/2...

The University of North Texas is closong the linguistics and languages department and phasing out dozens of other majors, monors, and master’s degree programs. www.unt.edu/budget-updat...

People re-use each other's words, syntax and semantics in conversation, arguably to facilitate common ground. In a new Proceedings of the Royal Society B we assess whether this tendency can be used an individually reliable trait (e.g. to correlate it to something else): doi.org/10.1098/rspb... 1/

Deadline 6 April: Asst./assoc. prof., psychology, Univ. of Warwick warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/appcentre...