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Michael Franke @meanwhileina.bsky.social · Jul 7

🙏 very glad to hear it helped
(especially since I already learned so much from you!)

Michael Franke @meanwhileina.bsky.social · Jul 2

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:
uni-tuebingen.de/en/universit...

#linguistics + friends

CRC Common Ground

uni-tuebingen.de

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Michael Franke @meanwhileina.bsky.social · Jul 1

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

Please share!
@toddthelinguist.bsky.social

Post-Doctoral Researcher (m/f/d, E13 TV-L, 100%)

tinyurl.com

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Michael Franke @meanwhileina.bsky.social · Jul 1

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

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Charley Wu | hiring PhDs/Postdocs @thecharleywu.bsky.social · Jul 1

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....

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Dietmar Till @dietmartill.bsky.social · May 30

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...

DFG fördert 13 neue Sonderforschungsbereiche

www.dfg.de

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Asya Achimova @aachimova.bsky.social · May 28

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...

The alignment model of indirect communication

Speakers often choose utterances under uncertainty about the potential opinion of the listener. In this case, utterances that do not signal the speaker’s opinion directly may allow the speaker to avoi...

doi.org

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Jennifer Hu @ COLM (recruiting PhDs and postdocs!) @jennhu.bsky.social · May 20

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)

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.

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Siddharth Suresh @siddsuresh97.bsky.social · Apr 28

✨ 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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Melanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social · Apr 13

🤯

Janelle Shane @janelleshane.com · Apr 12

1. LLM-generated code tries to run code from online software packages. Which is normal but
2. The packages don’t exist. Which would normally cause an error but
3. Nefarious people have made malware under the package names that LLMs make up most often. So
4. Now the LLM code points to malware.

David D. Levine @daviddlevine.com · Apr 12

LLMs hallucinating nonexistent software packages with plausible names leads to a new malware vulnerability: "slopsquatting."

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John Mansfield @johnbasil.bsky.social · Apr 7

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

Open Positions

www.comparativelinguistics.uzh.ch

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Tania Lombrozo @tanialombrozo.bsky.social · Apr 7

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...

Open Position for Lombrozo/Griffiths Lab Manager (starting Fall 2025)

The Lombrozo and Griffiths Labs at Princeton University are seeking a full-time lab manager to begin August 14, 2025, but there is some flexibility. You can apply here. Applications will be reviewed b...

cognition.princeton.edu

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Michael Franke @meanwhileina.bsky.social · Apr 1

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

www.leibniz-zas.de/en/forschung...

ZAS Berlin: Details-Events

www.leibniz-zas.de

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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcc.bsky.social · Mar 29

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?

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Michael Franke @meanwhileina.bsky.social · Mar 21

Great job opportunity for PostDoc on formal semantics/pragmatics & CogSci in Paris:
linguistlist.org/issues/36/980/

LINGUIST List 36.980 Jobs: Cognitive Science, Pragmatics, Psycholinguistics, Semantics: Postdoctoral Researcher in Formal and Experimental Pragmatics, Institut Jean Nicod, CNRS/ENS-PSL/EHESS

The LINGUIST List, International Linguistics Community Online.

linguistlist.org

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Matt Goldrick @mattgoldrick.bsky.social · Mar 7

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!

Alexis Licht @alexislicht.bsky.social · Mar 7

Dear US colleagues,
In response to the Trump administration, my university @univ-amu.fr is setting up a new program dedicated to welcoming American scientists wishing to pursue their work in France.
There are several M$ in the budget.
www.univ-amu.fr/en/public/ac...

Safe Place For Science: Aix Marseille Université ready to welcome American scientists | Aix Marseille Université

In a context where some scientists in the United States may feel threatened or hindered in their research, our university is announcing the launch of the Safe Place For Science program, dedicated to w...

www.univ-amu.fr

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Michael Franke @meanwhileina.bsky.social · Feb 21

Position opening: #CompLing, #NLP, #CogSci

Junior Group Leader / PostDoc
(4y, German E14 salary scale) @ Uni Tübingen

- no teaching obligations
- PhD co-supervision
- dynamic interdisciplinary team in one of Germany’s top research universities

tinyurl.com/jhxb4wu2

Junior Group Leader / Post-Doctoral Researcher Computational Linguistics/Cognitive Science (m/f/d, E 14 TV-L, 100%)

tinyurl.com

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