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Giosuè Baggio @giosuebaggio.bsky.social · 3d

Looking forward to reading Greg’s new book. Something tells me this is going to be a classic. 📖 (I’ll be wise to focus on the stuff I know less well and learn from it, but I’m curious to see how his views on IFG are evolving, and why IFG is still not part of the brain’s ‘combinatorial network’.) 🗣️👂🧠

Greg Hickok @gregoryhickok.bsky.social · 4d

My attempt to depict the neural architecture of language as motivated in my forthcoming book, Wired for Words. Like colors represent functional connectivity. Main insight: linguistic levels are all organized with a sensorimotor-like architecture. pbs.twimg.com/media/G2cwsM...

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MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · 6d

🧠 Cognitive scientist Giosuè Baggio provides an entry on meaning for The Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science, a multidisciplinary, #openaccess resource to understanding the mind: oecs.mit.edu/pub/ivtprtc8... @oecs-bot.bsky.social #OECS @giosuebaggio.bsky.social

Meaning

The meaning of an expression is the idea or message it communicates. For example, “tennis balls are yellow” communicates a fact about the color of tennis balls in virtue of the meaning of “yellow.”…

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Giosuè Baggio @giosuebaggio.bsky.social · 13d

Important fMRI/RSA study by @marcociapparelli.bsky.social et al. Compositional (multiplicative) representations of compounds/phrases in left IFG (BA45), mSTS, ATL; left AG encodes constituents, not their composition, weighing the right element more, vice versa IFG 🧠🧩
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Compositionality in the semantic network: a model-driven representational similarity analysis

Abstract. Semantic composition allows us to construct complex meanings (e.g., “dog house”, “house dog”) from simpler constituents (“dog”, “house”). Neuroim

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Giosuè Baggio @giosuebaggio.bsky.social · 14d

My entry on Meaning in the Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science is live.🧠💭

OECS is a growing organism: it was satisfying to reference other entries and let my text be shaped by so much good content. Thanks to the editorial team for making this happen!

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Meaning

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Giosuè Baggio @giosuebaggio.bsky.social · 15d

A ROSE by any other acronym?

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Stefan Frank @stefanfrank.bsky.social · 19d

Announcing the first (and perhaps only) Multilingual Minds and Machines Meeting! Come join us in Nijmegen, June 22-23, 2026, if you are interested in computational models of human multilingualism: mmmm2026.github.io

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Giosuè Baggio @giosuebaggio.bsky.social · 18d

In Italia (ma non solo) si fa ancora troppa fatica ad accettare che l’antibiotico resistenza sia un problema e che l’evoluzione per selezione naturale sia un fatto. Le due cose sono legate, come spiega bene Piero Angela qui👇#SuperQuark
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Resistenza antibiotica – Superquark 21/08/2019

YouTube video by Rai

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 19d

“(…) jargon infused with technology industry hype, such as shown in Table 1, does not meaningfully explain. (…) We strive to remain critical of the vocabulary the technology industry coopts and deploys, and to remain respectful of scientific terminology.”

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Giosuè Baggio @giosuebaggio.bsky.social · 19d

Here we’re triggered by the words ‘Oxford’ and ‘ChatGPT’. But how many universities have already made Copilot available to staff and students through Office/365? Mine has, probably yours too. This double PR stunt signals big tech is eating up education upfront, not just via Microsoft’s trojan horse.

University of Oxford @ox.ac.uk · 19d

NEW: Oxford will be the first UK university to give all staff and students free ChatGPT Edu access, from this academic year.

ChatGPT Edu is built for education, with enhanced privacy and security.

Graphic from the University of Oxford, featuring an image of a glowing, digital brain with the text: 'Generative AI at Oxford'. Highlights that ChatGPT Edu is now available to all staff and students. Includes a link for more information: ox.ac.uk/gen-ai

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Giosuè Baggio @giosuebaggio.bsky.social · 19d

‘Institutional capture’ 🏫🎯

Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 19d

"Oxford becomes first UK university to offer ChatGPT Edu to all staff and students" - imagining a lot of staff there pretty upset about, but also it says much about OpenAI's education strategy that it's targeted Oxford as its first institutional capture in the UK www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-09...

Oxford becomes first UK university to offer ChatGPT Edu to all staff

OpenAI’s flagship GPT-5 model will be provided across the University and Oxford Colleges through ChatGPT Edu, a version of ChatGPT built for universities that includes enterprise-level security and

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Giosuè Baggio @giosuebaggio.bsky.social · 20d

For clarity, we’re going to IWCS International Workshop (now Conference) on Computational Semantics, not IWCS International Wire and Cable Symposium. Cheers to our friends in the connectivity industry, meeting in Pittsburgh this year. 🔌

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Giosuè Baggio @giosuebaggio.bsky.social · 20d

At IWCS soon, Matteo Radaelli shows 17 Norwegian LMs struggle to recover plausible covert events in complement coercion, in spite of positive (but not uniform across LMs) context effects 🤖💭 w/ Emmanuele Chersoni & Alessandro Lenci #compositionality #semantics
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Conference Program

Düsseldorf

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Giosuè Baggio @giosuebaggio.bsky.social · 20d

كتابي "علم اللغة العصبي" متاح الآن مجاناً باللغة العربية! شكراً للمترجمين الرائعين الذين جعلوا هذا ممكناً. أتمنى أن يصل إلى قراء جدد ويساهم في بحوث علم اللغة العصبي في العالم العربي.
#علم_اللغة_العصبي #العربية #ترجمة
#Neurolinguistics #Arabic #translation
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اللغويات العصبية | جوزويه باجيو | مؤسسة هنداوي

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Giosuè Baggio @giosuebaggio.bsky.social · 21d

‘Machine language as somniloquy: How the neuroscience of sleep illuminates generative AI’ — New quick paper to appear in THINK, exploring the idea that sleep talk and AI-generated language unfold in cognitive conditions with similar restrictions 🧠🤖😴
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Machine language as somniloquy: How the neuroscience of sleep illuminates generative AI - lingbuzz/009303

Can machines mean what they say? Generally not, because current AI systems lack the cognitive capacities that allow humans to recover meaning from and infuse meaning into language. However, from a cog...

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andrea e. martin @andreaeyleen.bsky.social · Sep 3

Interested in doing a PhD with me and lacns.github.io? Or with any of the incredible fellows in the IMPRS School of Cognition www.maxplanckschools.org/cognition-en - apply before Dec 1st at cognition.maxplanckschools.org/en/application

Language and Computation in Neural Systems

We are an international group of scientists consisting of linguists, cognitive scientists, cognitive neuroscientists, computational neuroscientists, computational modellers, computational scientists, ...

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Giosuè Baggio @giosuebaggio.bsky.social · Aug 30

RFK Jr.: “It’s one of the burdens of citizenship to do our own research”. Absolutely, please do your own research: set aside a few years of your life, join a lab, read the literature, run the studies, and become an expert, too. Everyone’s welcome.

Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · Aug 12

1. "'Trusting the experts is not a feature of either a science or democracy," Kennedy said."

It's literally a vital feature of both science and of representative democracy.

I've written a fair bit about trust in expertise as a vital mechanism in the collective epistemology of science.

RFK Jr. in interview with Scripps News: ‘Trusting the experts is not science’

HHS Secretary RFK Jr. sat down with Scripps News for a wide-ranging interview, discussing mRNA vaccine funding policy changes and a recent shooting at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · Jul 12

“The goal of academic training is not to solve problems as efficiently and quickly as possible, but to develop skills for identifying and dealing with novel problems, which have never been solved before.”

Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · Jun 28

If you agree with our 5 requests to our universities, please sign 🖊️ the open letter and don’t forget to confirm your email! ☺️🙏

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• Resist the introduction of AI in our own software systems, from Microsoft to OpenAI to Apple. It is not in our interests to let our processes be corrupted and give away our data to be used to train models that are not only useless to us, but also harmful.

• Ban AI use in the classroom for student assignments, in the same way we ban essay mills and other forms of plagiarism. Students must be protected from de-skilling and allowed space and time to perform their assignments themselves.

• Cease normalising the AI hype and the lies which are prevalent in the technology industry's framing of these technologies. The technologies do not have the advertised capacities and their adoption puts students and academics at risk of violating ethical, legal, scholarly, and scientific standards of reliability, sustainability, and safety.

• Fortify our academic freedom as university staff to enforce these principles and standards in our classrooms and our research as well as on the computer systems we are obliged to use as part of our work. We as academics have the right to our own spaces.

• Sustain critical thinking on AI and promote critical engagement with technology on a firm academic footing. Scholarly discussion must be free from the conflicts of interest caused by industry funding, and reasoned resistance must always be an option.

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Giosuè Baggio @giosuebaggio.bsky.social · Aug 23

«(...) translation is not to convert words, but meaning. (...) LLMs are able to replicate human speech patterns with eerie accuracy [but] they don’t think nor understand like the human brain does. (...) editing LLM outputs often takes as much time, if not longer, than translating from scratch.»

Silvia Pareschi @silviapare2.bsky.social · Aug 23

"AI didn't kill translation, it didn't kill my job, it killed everyone's capacity to care about anything but the bottom line."
AI Killed My Job: Translators
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AI Killed My Job: Translators

Few industries have been hit by AI as hard as translation. Rates are plummeting. Work is drying up. Translators are considering abandoning the field, or bankruptcy. These are their stories.

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Giosuè Baggio @giosuebaggio.bsky.social · Aug 20

Occhio all’inganno: alcuni al posto del ‘pensiero scientifico dominante’ vorrebbero far passare per buono il ‘pensiero antiscientifico dominante’, non certo il ‘pensiero scientifico non-dominante’. 👁️🤔👩‍🔬

il Post @ilpost.it · Aug 19

«Non sempre il pensiero scientifico dominante è quello giusto»

Lo ha detto il ministro dell'Agricoltura Lollobrigida in un'intervista al Foglio in cui prende un po' le distanze da Schillaci, il ministro della Salute

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Giosuè Baggio @giosuebaggio.bsky.social · Aug 18

Yes, reinforcement learning is powerful, but what put all that structure in the learning data in the first place? A system with what capacities? What architecture? What evolutionary and developmental histories? That’s where AI-as-engineering ends and Cognitive Science begins!🤖🧠

Amanda Silverman @asilverman.bsky.social · Aug 18

So it turns out the most advanced AI systems that people fear/hope are “becoming human” are actually a lot more pigeon-like than human-like?!It’s maybe time we reconsider the much-maligned bird. Brilliant from @bencrair.bsky.social. @technologyreview.com www.technologyreview.com/2025/08/18/1...

Why we should thank pigeons for our AI breakthroughs

The bird has never gotten much credit for being intelligent. But the reinforcement learning powering the world’s most advanced AI systems is far more pigeon than human.

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Giosuè Baggio @giosuebaggio.bsky.social · Aug 17

«In tempi in cui tutti dicono troppo, l’importante non è tanto il dire la cosa giusta, che comunque si perderebbe nell’inondazione di parole, quanto il dirla partendo da premesse e implicando conseguenze che diano alla cosa detta il massimo valore.» Italo Calvino, Palomar 📚💭

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · Aug 12

AI slop and the destruction of knowledge irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2025/08/12/a...

AI slop and the destruction of knowledge

This week I was looking for info on what cognitive scientists mean when they speak of ‘domain-general’ cognition. I was curious, because the nuances are relevant for something I am researching at t…

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Giosuè Baggio @giosuebaggio.bsky.social · Aug 12

Language is not a monolith, but a set of connected cognitive capacities: what architecture explains best language structure, processing, evolution etc.? Our intro to ‘Parallelism in the architecture of language’, w/ @neilcohn.bsky.social & Eva Wittenberg is out! 🧠🗣️
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The Present and Future of Parallel Architectures of Language and Cognition

Language as a cognitive capacity involves multiple components, from input and output modalities to formal structures and layers of meaning. This Topic explores the hypothesis that these components fu...

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Giosuè Baggio @giosuebaggio.bsky.social · Aug 9

Research systems can (and often do) survive funding cuts; it’s cuts combined with the belief that research can be done less by people (costly to train and employ) and more by ‘PhD-level’ AIs that could be catastrophic @theatlantic.com

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Every Scientific Empire Comes to an End

America’s run as the premier techno-superpower may be over.

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Giosuè Baggio @giosuebaggio.bsky.social · Aug 8

«En 2025, Ediciones UC (...) publicará (...) tres nuevas coediciones de la colección Conocimientos Esenciales del MIT: una sobre el ciclo de vida de los plásticos y su impacto en nuestras vidas y el planeta, otra sobre neurolingüística (...)» 🧠🗣️🇨🇱
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Los mejores libros de Ediciones UC 2024: recomendaciones imperdibles para este verano - Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

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