Matt Goldrick
@mattgoldrick.bsky.social
Linguistics and cognitive science at Northwestern. Opinions are my own. he/him/his
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Congratulations to @simine.com well deserved winner of the Einstein Foundation Individual Award for Promoting Quality in Research 2025 🎉 www.einsteinfoundation.de/en/media/pre...
November 24, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Congratulations to @simine.com well deserved winner of the Einstein Foundation Individual Award for Promoting Quality in Research 2025 🎉 www.einsteinfoundation.de/en/media/pre...
Deadline Jan 5: Instructional prof (teaching track, open rank), Ling + CogSci, Linguistics, Univ of Chicago apply.interfolio.com/177960
November 24, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Deadline Jan 5: Instructional prof (teaching track, open rank), Ling + CogSci, Linguistics, Univ of Chicago apply.interfolio.com/177960
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We’re hiring! Join the BabelBrain Project @usc.gal @filoloxiausc.bsky.social
1️⃣ PhD1/multilingual practices in Galicia
2️⃣ PhD2/multilingual practices in Gibraltar
3️⃣ Postdoc/experimental fieldwork in Galicia & Gibraltar
📄 Full details: www.usc.gal/gl/investiga...
🗓 Deadline: 26 Nov 2026
1️⃣ PhD1/multilingual practices in Galicia
2️⃣ PhD2/multilingual practices in Gibraltar
3️⃣ Postdoc/experimental fieldwork in Galicia & Gibraltar
📄 Full details: www.usc.gal/gl/investiga...
🗓 Deadline: 26 Nov 2026
Grupo de Gramática del Español
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November 19, 2025 at 6:16 PM
We’re hiring! Join the BabelBrain Project @usc.gal @filoloxiausc.bsky.social
1️⃣ PhD1/multilingual practices in Galicia
2️⃣ PhD2/multilingual practices in Gibraltar
3️⃣ Postdoc/experimental fieldwork in Galicia & Gibraltar
📄 Full details: www.usc.gal/gl/investiga...
🗓 Deadline: 26 Nov 2026
1️⃣ PhD1/multilingual practices in Galicia
2️⃣ PhD2/multilingual practices in Gibraltar
3️⃣ Postdoc/experimental fieldwork in Galicia & Gibraltar
📄 Full details: www.usc.gal/gl/investiga...
🗓 Deadline: 26 Nov 2026
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Does 'Baby Talk' mess with language learning? Find out what the science says in the debut episode of "HELLO Lab Presents"
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HELLO Lab Presents | EP. 1 - Is 'Baby Talk' Bad?
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November 12, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Does 'Baby Talk' mess with language learning? Find out what the science says in the debut episode of "HELLO Lab Presents"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2riD...
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Here are the slides: docs.google.com/presentation...
For context the intended audience is Lang Dev researchers who are attending a session on "what can LLMs tell us about human language".
If you have any thoughts I'd love to hear them!
For context the intended audience is Lang Dev researchers who are attending a session on "what can LLMs tell us about human language".
If you have any thoughts I'd love to hear them!
SLD Plenary - Najoung Kim [external share]
Whence insights? The value of delineating human and machine CogSci Najoung Kim (Boston University) Society for Language Development Annual Symposium November 6, 2025 1
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November 18, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Here are the slides: docs.google.com/presentation...
For context the intended audience is Lang Dev researchers who are attending a session on "what can LLMs tell us about human language".
If you have any thoughts I'd love to hear them!
For context the intended audience is Lang Dev researchers who are attending a session on "what can LLMs tell us about human language".
If you have any thoughts I'd love to hear them!
11.5 month contract position at Meta, perception of synthesized speech from a tonal language. Prefer PhDs with expertise in tonal languages us.meta.talentnet.community/jobs/b689da9...
November 18, 2025 at 7:17 PM
11.5 month contract position at Meta, perception of synthesized speech from a tonal language. Prefer PhDs with expertise in tonal languages us.meta.talentnet.community/jobs/b689da9...
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If an attractive young woman a third my age didn't want to date me, then why did she ask me for feedback on an economics paper?
by Larry Summers
by Larry Summers
November 17, 2025 at 6:54 PM
If an attractive young woman a third my age didn't want to date me, then why did she ask me for feedback on an economics paper?
by Larry Summers
by Larry Summers
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compensated online study opportunity for parents of 11-13mo! (for this one babies need to be: full term (>37wks), in the u.s., primarily learning English). i'm part of the broader study team but not driving the bus, just helping spread the word! childrenhelpingscience.com/studies/900e...
How do babies learn about their world?
- Children Helping Science
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November 17, 2025 at 4:28 PM
compensated online study opportunity for parents of 11-13mo! (for this one babies need to be: full term (>37wks), in the u.s., primarily learning English). i'm part of the broader study team but not driving the bus, just helping spread the word! childrenhelpingscience.com/studies/900e...
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Postdoc in linguistics – University of Innsbruck, Austria
Fully funded postdoctoral position in #Englishlinguistics & multilingualism research
Deadline: 1 Dec 2025
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Fully funded postdoctoral position in #Englishlinguistics & multilingualism research
Deadline: 1 Dec 2025
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#Postdoc #Austria #Postdoctoral #AcademicJobs #ResearchJobs @uniinnsbruck.social.uibk.ac.at.ap.brid.gy
Postdoctoral Position in Linguistics – University of Innsbruck |HigherJobz
Apply for a postdoctoral in English linguistics at University of Innsbruck, Austria. Full-time, 4-year position. Deadline: 1 Dec 2025.
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November 12, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Postdoc in linguistics – University of Innsbruck, Austria
Fully funded postdoctoral position in #Englishlinguistics & multilingualism research
Deadline: 1 Dec 2025
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#Postdoc #Austria #Postdoctoral #AcademicJobs #ResearchJobs @uniinnsbruck.social.uibk.ac.at.ap.brid.gy
Fully funded postdoctoral position in #Englishlinguistics & multilingualism research
Deadline: 1 Dec 2025
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#Postdoc #Austria #Postdoctoral #AcademicJobs #ResearchJobs @uniinnsbruck.social.uibk.ac.at.ap.brid.gy
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I'm back! In this experiment we had 39 participants choose between 8 different PhD programs which varied in terms of region, application materials, prestige, and fees. Importantly, two of the programs had a GRE requirement and two were equivalent but did not:
November 11, 2025 at 9:34 PM
I'm back! In this experiment we had 39 participants choose between 8 different PhD programs which varied in terms of region, application materials, prestige, and fees. Importantly, two of the programs had a GRE requirement and two were equivalent but did not:
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Jobs: Applied Linguistics, Computational Linguistics, General Linguistics: Assistant Professor in Linguistics and Artificial Intelligence, University of Georgia
Jobs: Applied Linguistics, Computational Linguistics, General Linguistics: Assistant Professor in Linguistics and Artificial Intelligence, University of Georgia
Description:
The Department of Linguistics and the Institute for Artificial Intelligence at the University of Georgia invite applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Linguistics and Artificial Intelligence. This position is a joint hire, with the Department of Linguistics serving as the home department for promotion and tenure. We seek a candidate with a productive research agenda at the intersection of Linguistics and Artificial Intelligence and the ability to be an ex
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November 12, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Jobs: Applied Linguistics, Computational Linguistics, General Linguistics: Assistant Professor in Linguistics and Artificial Intelligence, University of Georgia
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⚠️ New paper! Why do words sound so similar? In an agent-based model + communication game, we show that production/comprehension pressures trade off to shape lexicon structure.
In @cognitionjournal.bsky.social w/ @simonkirby.bsky.social & Jenny Culbertson.
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In @cognitionjournal.bsky.social w/ @simonkirby.bsky.social & Jenny Culbertson.
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The lexicon adapts to competing communicative pressures: Explaining patterns of word similarity
Cross-linguistically, lexicons tend to be more phonetically clustered than required by the phonotactics of the language; that is, words within a langu…
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November 10, 2025 at 11:59 AM
⚠️ New paper! Why do words sound so similar? In an agent-based model + communication game, we show that production/comprehension pressures trade off to shape lexicon structure.
In @cognitionjournal.bsky.social w/ @simonkirby.bsky.social & Jenny Culbertson.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
In @cognitionjournal.bsky.social w/ @simonkirby.bsky.social & Jenny Culbertson.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Sign up for our final winter session of Scan Camp!!
Looking for teens in the Chicagoland area!
8-10 MRI scans at Northwestern's Feinberg campus.
Wear an Oura ring and answer daily surveys.
Earn up to $1,360, prizes, and a 3D-print of your brain!
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Looking for teens in the Chicagoland area!
8-10 MRI scans at Northwestern's Feinberg campus.
Wear an Oura ring and answer daily surveys.
Earn up to $1,360, prizes, and a 3D-print of your brain!
northwestern.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
November 10, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Sign up for our final winter session of Scan Camp!!
Looking for teens in the Chicagoland area!
8-10 MRI scans at Northwestern's Feinberg campus.
Wear an Oura ring and answer daily surveys.
Earn up to $1,360, prizes, and a 3D-print of your brain!
northwestern.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
Looking for teens in the Chicagoland area!
8-10 MRI scans at Northwestern's Feinberg campus.
Wear an Oura ring and answer daily surveys.
Earn up to $1,360, prizes, and a 3D-print of your brain!
northwestern.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
Deadline Dec 15: Professor (tenure-track), Generative AI + computational psychiatry, Psychiatry, U. Michigan careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...
November 10, 2025 at 4:02 AM
Deadline Dec 15: Professor (tenure-track), Generative AI + computational psychiatry, Psychiatry, U. Michigan careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...
1 year residency program at Apple. Cogsci/neuro/ling folks studying neuro interpretability, reasoning, and decision-making under uncertainty to help Apple make progress on similar questions in LLMs. Recent PhD or more senior jobs.apple.com/en-us/detail...
November 8, 2025 at 7:47 PM
1 year residency program at Apple. Cogsci/neuro/ling folks studying neuro interpretability, reasoning, and decision-making under uncertainty to help Apple make progress on similar questions in LLMs. Recent PhD or more senior jobs.apple.com/en-us/detail...
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I’m excited to share our Findings of EMNLP paper w/ @cocoscilab.bsky.social , @rtommccoy.bsky.social, and @rdhawkins.bsky.social !
Language models, unlike humans, require large amounts of data, which suggests the need for an inductive bias.
But what kind of inductive biases do we need?
Language models, unlike humans, require large amounts of data, which suggests the need for an inductive bias.
But what kind of inductive biases do we need?
November 7, 2025 at 9:17 AM
I’m excited to share our Findings of EMNLP paper w/ @cocoscilab.bsky.social , @rtommccoy.bsky.social, and @rdhawkins.bsky.social !
Language models, unlike humans, require large amounts of data, which suggests the need for an inductive bias.
But what kind of inductive biases do we need?
Language models, unlike humans, require large amounts of data, which suggests the need for an inductive bias.
But what kind of inductive biases do we need?
Wondering what Northwestern's price will be
Cornell has reached an agreement with the federal government to restore our funding:
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An agreement to restore Cornell’s federal research funding | University Statements | Cornell University
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November 7, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Wondering what Northwestern's price will be
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I was lucky to be a Guest Editor for this Nature Collection on Group Diversity. Thank you to all who submitted work and reviewed!
Check out the collection here: www.nature.com/collections/...
Check out the collection here: www.nature.com/collections/...
Group diversity
The editors at Nature Communications, Communications Psychology and Scientific Reports invite submissions to a Collection on the topic of group diversity.
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April 28, 2025 at 5:14 PM
I was lucky to be a Guest Editor for this Nature Collection on Group Diversity. Thank you to all who submitted work and reviewed!
Check out the collection here: www.nature.com/collections/...
Check out the collection here: www.nature.com/collections/...
Postdoc, bilingualism, social interaction, behavioral/EEG/fMRI methods, Aachen Univ. w/ A. Kuhlen jobs.rwth-aachen.de/index.php?ac...
November 7, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Postdoc, bilingualism, social interaction, behavioral/EEG/fMRI methods, Aachen Univ. w/ A. Kuhlen jobs.rwth-aachen.de/index.php?ac...
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Linguists! Tomorrow's Write Time Friday is hosted by Melissa Baese-Berk again! 10-12 ET. @m2b2.bsky.social www.lsadc.org/ev_calendar_...
Write Time Friday with Melissa Baese-Berk
About Write Time Friday
This is a chance to log into a Zoom room, (optionally) set an explicit writing goal for the session, and then spend a focused two hours writing in the supportive virtual prese...
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November 6, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Linguists! Tomorrow's Write Time Friday is hosted by Melissa Baese-Berk again! 10-12 ET. @m2b2.bsky.social www.lsadc.org/ev_calendar_...
Tzu-Pei Tsai, @mhhenry.bsky.social, & Tessa Bent's work on the advantages of twangy speech for speech-in-noise perception featured in WSJ! www.wsj.com/science/want...
Want to Be Heard? Speak With Some Twang
The bright tones of country singers are marked by their twang, a vocal quality that makes voices easier to understand in noisy environments.
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November 6, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Tzu-Pei Tsai, @mhhenry.bsky.social, & Tessa Bent's work on the advantages of twangy speech for speech-in-noise perception featured in WSJ! www.wsj.com/science/want...
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Curious about becoming a PCI Psych recommender, but not sure if you should? Here's a short video with some reasons why it might be time to sign up! www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BDr... #PsychSciSky #SciPub
Why be a recommender for a PCI?
The project "Peer Community in (PCI)" (https://peercommunityin.org/) has been launched in January 2017 and now counts 11 communities: PCI Evolutionary Biology (https://evolbiol.peercommunityin.org/),…
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November 6, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Curious about becoming a PCI Psych recommender, but not sure if you should? Here's a short video with some reasons why it might be time to sign up! www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BDr... #PsychSciSky #SciPub
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📣 Save the date for the 13th PCI webinar on December 1st, 2025, at 4 PM CET!! Simine Vazire (University of Melbourne, Australia) will present "Recognizing and responding to a replication crisis: Lessons from Psychology". For more details and registration, visit: buff.ly/wZNoD2v
PCI Webinar Series - Peer Community In
The PCI webinar series is a series of seminars on research practices, publication practices, evaluation, scientific integrity, meta-research, organised by Peer Community In
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November 5, 2025 at 10:49 AM
📣 Save the date for the 13th PCI webinar on December 1st, 2025, at 4 PM CET!! Simine Vazire (University of Melbourne, Australia) will present "Recognizing and responding to a replication crisis: Lessons from Psychology". For more details and registration, visit: buff.ly/wZNoD2v
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The Amazing World Of Tomorrow
November 3, 2025 at 6:48 PM
The Amazing World Of Tomorrow