Asya Achimova
@aachimova.bsky.social
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Junior research group leader @uni_tuebingen working on models of #pragmatics and social inference in communication.
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In a new exciting collaboration with @marlenfroehlich.bsky.social and @profgerhard.bsky.social we think about how studying ambiguity in human and great ape communication can advance our theories of language evolution. Paper out at doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...
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Three inspiring days at #XPrag in beautiful Cambridge! It was wonderful to see many old friends and new members of the growing community!
aachimova.bsky.social
What an important piece of work and what an extraordinary effort! Congratulations!
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marlenfroehlich.bsky.social
📢 Come to Tübingen and get your PhD with us! Unique opportunity to explore great ape communication 🐵🦧🦍 from multiple disciplinary angles within a single, integrated project. 👇
marlenfroehlich.bsky.social
📢 2 PhD positions (E13 TV-L, 75%) in our DFG-funded project on great ape communication & the evolution of common ground!

🧠 Backgrounds in biology, psychology or linguistics welcome.
🗓️ Deadline: Aug 13
🔗 bit.ly/4l8p7hy & bit.ly/46jcfAq

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@elmanubohn.bsky.social @meanwhileina.bsky.social
aachimova.bsky.social
More Ph.D. positions available in several projects related to the #SFB Common ground! Please see the list here uni-tuebingen.de/de/283575
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uni-tuebingen.de
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meanwhileina.bsky.social
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

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@toddthelinguist.bsky.social
Post-Doctoral Researcher (m/f/d, E13 TV-L, 100%)
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thecharleywu.bsky.social
Last chance to register for the Tübingen pre- #cogsci2025 workshop. Register by Jul 1st 👉 forms.gle/v6VtEE6UqYw5... to give a talk, present a poster, or just check out great science and a free lunch (generously provided by @ml4science.bsky.social). Accepted Cogsci paper *not required*. Pls. share 🙏
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marlenfroehlich.bsky.social
📢 2 PhD positions (E13 TV-L, 75%) in our DFG-funded project on great ape communication & the evolution of common ground!

🧠 Backgrounds in biology, psychology or linguistics welcome.
🗓️ Deadline: Aug 13
🔗 bit.ly/4l8p7hy & bit.ly/46jcfAq

Please share!
@elmanubohn.bsky.social @meanwhileina.bsky.social
aachimova.bsky.social
Hiring in the age of generative AI is a whole new game! 😱
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toddthelinguist.bsky.social
We're hiring a postdoc! ~3.5 years @ E13 TV-L 100%

probabilistic pragmatics + cognitive psychology + formal epistemology + experimental methods (with human participants)

Does this sound like you, or anyone you know? Send them our way!

tinyurl.com/3vd9wa6p
Post-Doctoral Researcher (m/f/d, E13 TV-L, 100%)
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aachimova.bsky.social
We have 2 Ph.D. positions available in a #DFG funded project awarded to @profgerhard.bsky.social and me. We are planning to combine acquisition work with computational modeling to investigate how children and adults understand irony. Deadline: July 20, 2025. Info linguistlist.org/issues/36/19...
LINGUIST List 36.1935 Support: General Linguistics, Language Acquisition, Pragmatics: MA / MSc, University of Tübingen
The LINGUIST List, International Linguistics Community Online.
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aachimova.bsky.social
Elin, I'm sorry to hear that!
aachimova.bsky.social
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...
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This is fantastic news! Congratulations!
aachimova.bsky.social
Very interesting book, can't stop reading it!
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toddthelinguist.bsky.social
Interested in what we can learn from, and about, Large Language Models? Interested in mechanistic interpretability, in comparisons with neuro-symbolic systems, and in things other than just benchmark-chasing?
meanwhileina.bsky.social
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%)
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meanwhileina.bsky.social
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
aachimova.bsky.social
Dan @danielwharris.bsky.social is discussing various ways in which information enters common ground.
Dan Harris delivering a talk at the "Background beliefs" workshop
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The "Background beliefs" workshop speakers @toddthelinguist.bsky.social, @elinm.bsky.social, Greg Scontras, and Martin Butz enjoying a short break at the Castle balcony. It was the most fun time! Thank you all for joining and co-organizing! Photography by Natasha Korotkova.
Background beliefs workshop
aachimova.bsky.social
I hope we'll be there to present our work on referential anaphor!
aachimova.bsky.social
This is fantastic news! Congratulations!
aachimova.bsky.social
Thank you, Todd! And thank you for an insightful commentary and stimulating questions, it was great to have you at the workshop!
aachimova.bsky.social
What role does #context play in human #cognition? In this review, we argue that the context-sensitivity of human memory and its hierarchical structure are the features that enable flexible planning, generalization, and behavior. New paper out lead by Martin Butz doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...