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Limor Raviv 🐘🤗🦒🍄🦄 @limorraviv.bsky.social · Sep 9

Super proud of this work and very grateful for all the amazing people who provided valuable feedback along the way @remivantrijp.bsky.social @sheinalew.bsky.social @cedricboeckx.bsky.social @inbalarnon.bsky.social ❤️❤️❤️🙏

Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics @mpi-nl.bsky.social · Sep 9

Children are not the main agents of language change. New paper by @limorraviv.bsky.social @damianblasi.bsky.social & @vkempe.bsky.social.
psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/...
www.mpi.nl/publications...

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ILCB_France @ilcb.bsky.social · Aug 29

✨ #ILCB Summer School 2025 – Just a few days to go! ✨

From September 1–5, we’ll welcome students, researchers, and lecturers at CIRM, #Marseille for a week of courses, workshops, and discussions on #language, #brain & #cognition.

Looking forward to a stimulating week of scientific exchanges!

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ILCB_France @ilcb.bsky.social · Aug 28

🌞 Back from the summer break!

We kick off the new season with an exciting ILCB Talk by Simon Kirby (University of Edinburgh):

🗓️ Sept 26, 2025 – Marseille
🎙️ “Cultural evolution creates language-like structure: from humans to humpback whales and beyond”

🔗 ilcb.fr/event/simon-kirby

#ILCB

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Dr Chiara Gambi @gambichiara.bsky.social · Aug 1

The first live session for our poster #CogSci2025 is happening right now on Teams: CogSci V3-P-41 Europe and Asia
1 august 2025
12:00 - 13:00 (GMT)
teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-joi...
@cogscisociety.bsky.social

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Greg Woodin @gregwoodin.bsky.social · Jul 28

Let me know if you don't have access via your institution and I can send you a copy personally ☺️

Greg Woodin @gregwoodin.bsky.social · Jul 28

Pleased that my new chapter that will be published in the International Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics has now been published online: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Morten H. Christiansen @mh-christiansen.bsky.social · Jul 28

Just in time for the @cogscisociety.bsky.social conference and the Rumelhart 25th Anniversary Event, the 2023 Rumelhart Prize Issue Honoring Nick Chater is out in TopiCS in Cognitive Science, edited by Mike Oaksford and me:

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/17568765...

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Sara De Felice @saradefelice.bsky.social · Jul 23

How do our brains and bodies support social learning in real time?

We take an ecological and multimodal neuroscience approach to study mutual prediction and social coordination when learning with others.

It took 5 full years for this one! Full open-access pre-print: osf.io/preprints/ps...

OSF

osf.io

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Limor Raviv 🐘🤗🦒🍄🦄 @limorraviv.bsky.social · Jul 14

I am advertising 2 positions in language evolution with my group at ‪‪@dondersinst.bsky.social:
📢 Fully-funded PhD position (Robotics/AI 🤖) www.ru.nl/en/working-a...
📢 Postdoc position (Virtual Reality 🎮)
www.ru.nl/en/working-a...
Deadline for applications is August 14th. Please RT! :)

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Greg Woodin @gregwoodin.bsky.social · Jul 15

Pleased that my paper with @gabriellavigliocco.bsky.social, @fourtassi.bsky.social, Yan Gu, and Stefano James has been accepted as a talk at this year's Embodied and Situated Language Processing conference at Aix-Marseille University. Abstract below 👇

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Caroline Rowland @carorowland.bsky.social · Jul 5

Two nice papers now added to my primer of what to read about theory in cognitive science ... docs.google.com/document/d/1... 1/

Theory: What to read

The role of theory in cognitive science Or: my guide to what to read if you really want to understand how to do good, robust , theory-driven cognitive science. (disclaimer: this is an aspirational gu...

docs.google.com

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SIGdial @sigdial.bsky.social · Jul 4

SIGdial has three fantastic keynotes this year & registration is open! 🎉

"Are there purely multi-turn 'dialog failures'?" by Dr Chris Welty

"Interactive Task Learning" by Prof Alex Lascarides

"Ecological Study of Language Acquisition, the role of natural conversation" by @fourtassi.bsky.social

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Vlad Ayzenberg @vayzenb.bsky.social · Jul 2

My paper with @stellalourenco.bsky.social ‬is now out in Science Advances!

We found that children have robust object recognition abilities that surpass many ANNs. Models only outperformed kids when their training far exceeded what a child could experience in their lifetime

doi.org/10.1126/scia...

Fast and robust visual object recognition in young children

The visual recognition abilities of preschool children rival those of state-of-the-art artificial intelligence models.

doi.org

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Thomas Hueber @thueber.bsky.social · Jul 2

🚀 I’m excited to announce the launch of our new research chair DevAI&Speech (2025–2029), funded by the Grenoble AI Institute MIAI Cluster IA!

The project explores how human developmental processes can inspire more grounded and socially aware conversational AI (1/6).

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Dr Rebecca Koomen @rebeccakoomen.bsky.social · Jul 3

Applications are due July 15! Spread the word 🤓🙏🏻

Dr Rebecca Koomen @rebeccakoomen.bsky.social · Jun 5

🎊Fully funded PhD position on cooperative sustainability🌳

Are you curious about
🧒 developmental,
🌍 cross-cultural
🦧 species comparative
research on cooperative sustainability?

All info here or dm me with questions!
career2.successfactors.eu/sfcareer/job...
Please share! 🙏

Career Opportunities: PhD position Cooperative Sustainability (14208)

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ILCB_France @ilcb.bsky.social · Jul 1

👏 Congratulations to Christian-G. Bénar, recipient of a 2024 ERC Advanced Grant!

He was awarded for his project OptiMEG: non-invasive recording of deep brain activity using mobile sensors optimized with intracerebral measures.

www.linkedin.com/posts/inserm...

#ERC #AdvancedGrant #amU #INS

Bravo à Christian-G. | Inserm | Cellule Europe

Bravo à Christian-G. Bénar, lauréat Inserm European Research Council (ERC) #AdvancedGrant 2024 ! 👨‍🔬 Christian-George, chercheur à l’INS - Institut de Neurosciences des Systèmes à Marseille (Inserm/A...

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Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics @mpi-nl.bsky.social · Jun 25

Constructing language: A framework for explaining acquisition. New paper published by @carorowland.bsky.social‬ et al. doi.org/10.1016/j.ti....

Redirecting

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Tal Linzen @tallinzen.bsky.social · Jun 21

I'm hiring at least one post-doc! We're interested in creating language models that process language more like humans than mainstream LLMs do, through architectural modifications and interpretability-style steering. Express interest here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

NYU LLM + cognitive science post-doc interest form

Tal Linzen's group at NYU is hiring a post-doc! We're interested in creating language models that process language more like humans than mainstream LLMs do, through architectural modifications and int...

docs.google.com

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Abdellah Fourtassi @fourtassi.bsky.social · Jun 19

Join us for this interesting discussion today! I'll contribute to the conversation on automating meaning contingency by combining methods for communicative intent tagging (e.g., question–response pairs) with tools for quantifying coherence in dialogue

International Congress of Infant Studies @infantstudies.bsky.social · Jun 3

Don't miss our next ICIS webinar! June 19 2025.
Join leading researchers for a deep dive into cutting-edge work in infancy research.
infantstudies.org/icis-online-...
#InfantResearch #InfantStudies

Text: ICIS Webinars - Thursday, June 19 2025 - Beyond Who’s Speaking When: Machine Learning Tools to Extract Rich Multi-Dimensional Features from Home Audio Recordings

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Marianne de Heer Kloots @mdhk.net · Jun 13

The @interspeech.bsky.social early registration deadline is coming up in a few days!

Want to learn how to analyze the inner workings of speech processing models? 🔍 Check out the programme for our tutorial:
interpretingdl.github.io/speech-inter... & sign up through the conference registration form!

Interpretability Techniques for Speech Models — Tutorial @ Interspeech 2025

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Gasper Begus @begus.bsky.social · Jun 12

The first paper that discovered the spectral structure in whale codas is available here:
osf.io/preprints/os...

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International Congress of Infant Studies @infantstudies.bsky.social · Jun 3

Don't miss our next ICIS webinar! June 19 2025.
Join leading researchers for a deep dive into cutting-edge work in infancy research.
infantstudies.org/icis-online-...
#InfantResearch #InfantStudies

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Tal Linzen @tallinzen.bsky.social · May 23

Cross-posting the abstracts for two talks I'm giving next week! This one on formal languages for LLM pretraining and evaluation, at Apple ML Research in Copenhagen on Wednesday

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Arianna Bisazza @arianna-bis.bsky.social · May 30

Following the success story of BabyBERTa, I & many other NLPers have turned to language acquisition for inspiration. In this new paper we show that using Child-Directed Language as training data is unfortunately *not* beneficial for syntax learning, at least not in the traditional LM training regime

Francesca Padovani @frap98.bsky.social · May 30

“Child-Directed Language Does Not Consistently Boost Syntax Learning in Language Models”

I’m happy to share that the preprint of my first PhD project is now online!

🎊 Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2505.23689

Child-Directed Language Does Not Consistently Boost Syntax Learning in Language Models

Seminal work by Huebner et al. (2021) showed that language models (LMs) trained on English Child-Directed Language (CDL) can reach similar syntactic abilities as LMs trained on much larger amounts of ...

arxiv.org

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Francesca Padovani @frap98.bsky.social · May 30

“Child-Directed Language Does Not Consistently Boost Syntax Learning in Language Models”

I’m happy to share that the preprint of my first PhD project is now online!

🎊 Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2505.23689

Child-Directed Language Does Not Consistently Boost Syntax Learning in Language Models

Seminal work by Huebner et al. (2021) showed that language models (LMs) trained on English Child-Directed Language (CDL) can reach similar syntactic abilities as LMs trained on much larger amounts of ...

arxiv.org

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Kristof Strijkers @strijkers.bsky.social · May 29

🚨Job offer🚨

PhD position on my #ERC grant 'LaDy' to study how we process language in the dyad using interactive paradigms and EEG hyper-scanning.

Info and application link here (correction: application deadline is 11/07):
emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/Docto...

@cnrs-dr12.bsky.social
@erc.europa.eu

Portail Emploi CNRS - Offre d'emploi - Doctoral student - ERC LaDy project M/F

emploi.cnrs.fr

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