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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 1h

The most fundamental political debate of our time: You are integrated into and have responsibility for our complex, imperfect society vs. Nuh-uh.

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Dan Levenstein @dlevenstein.bsky.social · 4h

The Wu Tsai Institute at Yale is hiring another faculty member in neurocomputation. Come work with us in a growing community at the interface of neuroscience and AI!

More info below 👇

Wu Tsai Institute | Yale University @wutsaiyale.bsky.social · 4d

📣 WTI is hiring faculty positions! Are you interested in advancing our understanding of the brain + how it gives rise to cognition?

Two calls are open:

Open-rank search, Neurocomputation, deadline: 12.1.25
Senior search, Neurodevelopment, rolling review

🔗 wti.yale.edu/opportunities

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Emily Myers @emilymyers.bsky.social · 14h

New entry in the genre, “for sale: baby shoes, never worn”

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Emily Myers @emilymyers.bsky.social · 16h

Heavyweight is one of my favorite podcasts, and I was relieved to see it back after a long hiatus (Spotify cut it loose to pay for Joe Rogan —ahem—). This week’s episode is a quiet heartbreaker. overcast.fm/+ABNzfgKxvqs

#61 The Bank Robber — Heavyweight

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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 17h

Frog got a ladder. He put the box up on a high shelf. “There,” said Frog. “Now we will not eat any more cookies.”

“But we can climb the ladder and take the box down from the shelf and cut the string and open the box,” said Toad.

“That is true,” said Frog.

Frog climbs a ladder and hides the cookies high on a shelf.

From "Cookies"
In *Frog and Toad Together*

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Emily Myers @emilymyers.bsky.social · 17h

Hang on a minute, there, buster…

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Matt Goldrick @mattgoldrick.bsky.social · 18h

Deadline 11/15 "candidates whose work develops computational methods in any area of linguistics and specifically connects linguistics to artificial intelligence" faculty.utexas.edu/career/170793

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Emily Myers @emilymyers.bsky.social · 21h

It looks a lot like the "busy box" my grandpa made for me when I was a baby.

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Emily Myers @emilymyers.bsky.social · 1d

How dry is it in CT? Not a set up to a joke, we can’t actually know!

CTNewsJunkie @ctnewsjunkie.bsky.social · 1d

Dry Conditions Remain in CT; Shutdown Will Affect Drought Data Access #ctnewsjunkie #ctpolitics

Dry Conditions Remain in CT; Shutdown Will Affect Drought Data Access

As of the end of September, about 92.4% of Connecticut was in the abnormally dry category, with moderate drought in 7.6% of the state.

dlvr.it

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Emily Myers @emilymyers.bsky.social · 1d

Twould that it twere!

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Emily Myers @emilymyers.bsky.social · 1d

Man hands on misery to man / it deepens like a coastal shelf

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Hannah Mechtenberg @hannahmech.bsky.social · 2d

Why are we so good at adapting to "sub-optimal" speech? I argue, in this review paper, that adaptation may be driven by the combined action of dopamine and norepinephrine via prediction error signaling. It's early days with this idea, but I'm excited to have it out there and to keep exploring more!

Emily Myers @emilymyers.bsky.social · 2d

Stop, drop everything and pick up this new review paper from LABlab member @hannahmech.bsky.social. In it, Hannah argues for considering speech adaptation through the lens of reinforcement learning. Good stuff. link.springer.com/epdf/10.3758...

Insights into effortful adaptation during speech perception: The role of dopamine, norepinephrine, and prediction error

link.springer.com

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Emily Myers @emilymyers.bsky.social · 2d

Stop, drop everything and pick up this new review paper from LABlab member @hannahmech.bsky.social. In it, Hannah argues for considering speech adaptation through the lens of reinforcement learning. Good stuff. link.springer.com/epdf/10.3758...

Insights into effortful adaptation during speech perception: The role of dopamine, norepinephrine, and prediction error

link.springer.com

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Emily Myers @emilymyers.bsky.social · 2d

I literally know 5 people who for one reason or another have shut down their social media accounts

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Emily Myers @emilymyers.bsky.social · 3d

First (and maybe only??) success in doing latte art.

Little milk foam hearts on a latte in a teal cup

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Dr Lena M Blott @lenamblott.bsky.social · 3d

Beautiful thread

Lydia Massiah @lydiamassiah.bsky.social · 4d

This could be a long and rambling thread. Be patient with me.

I bought an old mahogany bureau on Ebay. I didn't really want a bureau as we're meant to be downsizing, but it was a beautiful piece & obviously very old. Google lens suggests the brass chased handles are Queen Anne. That's 1702-1714 😯

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 3d

But this is not all.

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Emily Myers @emilymyers.bsky.social · 3d

In other words, nothing at all like working at a research university.

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Emily Myers @emilymyers.bsky.social · 4d

The best way for a photo to catch my attention is if it looks like data:

Fig. 2. Scatterplot displaying height (y axis) and translation (x axis) of suspended suitcases.

Suitcases suspended with red cords. From a Chiharu Shiota installation at the ICA Watershed in Boston.

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Emily Myers @emilymyers.bsky.social · 4d

“Oh you’d like to do something you’ve done ten times a day all of your working life? Sorry, you’ll need to enter through the AI tunnel to get there”

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Emily Myers @emilymyers.bsky.social · 4d

All the people in these replies are my kind of grouches

The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 4d

"We're going to create superintelligence" How about making outlook search work first. How about that

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Susanne Brouwer @susannebrouwer.bsky.social · 6d

PhD Position: Accented Speech Processing - Apply now!

Come work with Mirjam Broersma, @davidpeeters.bsky.social, and me at the Centre for Language Studies, Radboud University in the Netherlands.

Application deadline: 19 October 2025

For more information, see
www.ru.nl/en/working-a...

PhD Position: Accented Speech Processing | Radboud University

Do you want to work as a PhD: Accented Speech Processing at the Faculty of Arts? Check our vacancy!

www.ru.nl

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Tracy Centanni @tmcentanni.bsky.social · 5d

Postdoc opening!!

We’re looking for a postdoc to support our DoD funded study, using noninvasive vagus nerve stimulation and EEG to study speech in noise perception in veterans with TBI.

Please share and reach out to start the conversation if interested!

bit.ly/478e3ME

GAPPLab_PostDoc_opening

Classification Title: Postdoctoral Associate Job Description: The Genetics of Auditory and visual Perception and Plasticity (GAPP Lab) Lab in the Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences...

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Emily Myers @emilymyers.bsky.social · 5d

I came here to recommend this. Matrix was extraordinary

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Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics @mpi-nl.bsky.social · 5d

We're seeking the next Director of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics! Lead cutting-edge research in language & cognition. Nominations (incl. self) due 19 Dec 2025.
mpi.nl/career-education/vacancies/vacancy/nominations-and-self-nominations-sought-position-director-max

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