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Jakub Szymanik @szymanikjakub.bsky.social · 13d

Cool! Now, let's try to publish it 😂

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Jakub Szymanik @szymanikjakub.bsky.social · 13d

Great news! Congratulations @alexeykoshevoy.bsky.social 🎉

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Jakub Szymanik @szymanikjakub.bsky.social · 20d

Rejected by @NeurIPSConf. Reviewers objected to not running experiments on SOTA models, even though those models were released after the deadline. Scientific evaluation is increasingly influenced by hype, even for papers with foundational theoretical contributions. #NeurIPS #AI

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Jakub Szymanik @szymanikjakub.bsky.social · 20d

Call for European Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information 2026 Lectures and Workshop
More information here:
2026.esslli.eu
Submit here:
easychair.org/my/conferenc...

Welcome to ESSLLI 2026

2026.esslli.eu

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Jakub Szymanik @szymanikjakub.bsky.social · 22d

Be part of a vibrant academic tradition! 🌍 FoLLI is seeking hosts for #ESSLLI2027, the European Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information
@ESSLLI_official

Bring 300+ students & researchers to your institution. Preliminary proposals by Nov 15! jakubszymanik.com/call-for-pro...

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Jakub Szymanik @szymanikjakub.bsky.social · Sep 5

Join our interdisciplinary team that combines computational linguistics with cognitive neuroscience! Our center is located in the beautiful Trentino region.

CIMeC_UniTrento @cimecunitrento.bsky.social · Sep 4

#CallforExpressionofInterest
Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Computational Linguistics at the CLIC Lab, @cimecunitrento.bsky.social

📅Deadline: September 14, 2025
📍 Rovereto, Italy
🔗More info: shorturl.at/EnvLy

@szymanikjakub.bsky.social

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Jakub Szymanik @szymanikjakub.bsky.social · Aug 23

Interesting paper advancing multiple aspects in the exploration of why numeral systems across languages are structured as they are. escholarship.org/content/qt5k...

escholarship.org

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Jakub Szymanik @szymanikjakub.bsky.social · Jul 29

A computational linguistics colleague needed to join the Center for Mind-Brain Sciences - Italy's leading cognitive neuroscience research unit. @cimecunitrento.bsky.social is located in Trentino, famous for its high quality of life in Italy. www.cimec.unitn.it/en/71/langua...

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Stanislas Dehaene @standehaene.bsky.social · Jul 23

If you are in Paris on October 1-3 : we are organizing a fantastic cognitive neuroscience conference at Collège de France, on topics ranging from language to math, education and consciousness, with many of my favorite scientists !
Full program here:
www.unicog.org/seeing-the-m...

Seeing the Mind, Educating the Brain

www.unicog.org

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Jakub Szymanik @szymanikjakub.bsky.social · Jul 10

We're having a workshop tomorrow on abstraction in language, science, and engineering, in case you're around. www.inf.unibz.it/~okutz/abstr...

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Jakub Szymanik @szymanikjakub.bsky.social · Jun 27

NASSLLI is coming to a close, but it's still a lot of fun. You can find slides and papers from our class here: drive.google.com/drive/folder.... Now the goal is to write it up as a book 😅

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Jakub Szymanik @szymanikjakub.bsky.social · Jun 21

I'm packing for NASSLLI 2025. The lineup is terrific! I'm looking forward to enjoying Seattle for the first time and climbing again with @shanest.bsky.social, who organized the school (kudos!). nasslli25.shane.st/schedule/

North American Summer School on Logic, Language and Information (NASSLLI '25) @ UW

Official website for the North American Summer School for Logic, Language and Information, taking place June 23-27 at the Univeristy of Washington, Seattle.

nasslli25.shane.st

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Jakub Szymanik @szymanikjakub.bsky.social · May 6

Join us to pursue your PhD!

CIMeC_UniTrento @cimecunitrento.bsky.social · May 5

Applications are now OPEN for 15 PhD fellowships in the Doctoral Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences at CIMeC, University of Trento, Italy!

📅 Deadline: June 5, 2025
🧠 Research mind, brain & behavior

ℹ More info
🔗 phd.unitn.it/drcimec
🔗 www.unitn.it/en/phd/cognitive-and-brain-sciences

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Jakub Szymanik @szymanikjakub.bsky.social · Apr 2

Finally, AI and LLMs come to the rescue by fixing LaTeX errors. Good job @overleaf.com

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Jakub Szymanik @szymanikjakub.bsky.social · Mar 18

Amazing opportunity!

Isabelle Dautriche @sblldtrch.bsky.social · Mar 17

I am looking for a PhD student to work on my ERC-funded project to investigate the format of thought in the absence of language in baboons and bees.

Details here: tinyurl.com/5ff9hcjj

Apply here: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/Docto...

PhD opportunity - ERC ThoughtOrigins

We are seeking a graduate student in comparative cognition to work on a ERC-funded project (to Isabelle Dautriche) to investigate the format of thought in the absence of a language in two populations:...

docs.google.com

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Isabelle Dautriche @sblldtrch.bsky.social · Mar 17

I am looking for a PhD student to work on my ERC-funded project to investigate the format of thought in the absence of language in baboons and bees.

Details here: tinyurl.com/5ff9hcjj

Apply here: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/Docto...

PhD opportunity - ERC ThoughtOrigins

We are seeking a graduate student in comparative cognition to work on a ERC-funded project (to Isabelle Dautriche) to investigate the format of thought in the absence of a language in two populations:...

docs.google.com

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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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Jakub Szymanik @szymanikjakub.bsky.social · Feb 17

I still can't believe Italy lacks a granting agency like other European countries. Establishing such an agency won't solve all the issues stemming from underfunded universities, but it would be a helpful step. www.scienzainrete.it/articolo/app...

Un appello per il futuro dell’Italia: sostenere la ricerca scientifica

La ricerca scientifica rappresenta un elemento strategico per lo sviluppo economico e sociale del nostro Paese. Tuttavia, la ricerca pubblica in Italia continua a soffrire di risorse limitate e spesso...

www.scienzainrete.it

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Simon Kirby @simonkirby.bsky.social · Feb 7

A thread explaining our new discovery about humpback whale song published today in Science... We found key statistical properties that characterise all human languages in another species for the first time. We have more in common with whales than we previously thought! doi.org/10.1126/scie...

A picture of a humpback whale just below the sea surface taken by Marc Quintin

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Moritz Wurm @moritzwurm.bsky.social · Jan 19

How do our brains generate predictive models of unfolding events? We're seeking for a *postdoc* to address this question in my lab:
sites.google.com/site/moritzf...

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Jakub Szymanik @szymanikjakub.bsky.social · Jan 16

Weird. It works for me; here it is again: osf.io/preprints/os...

OSF

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Jakub Szymanik @szymanikjakub.bsky.social · Jan 16

Do you study semantic or pragmatic phenomena using Bayesian cognitive models? Do you validate them? If "no," this tutorial is for you 😅 BTW, it's under submission, so all feedback on improving it is welcome. osf.io/preprints/os... cc @juliaha.bsky.social

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Jakub Szymanik @szymanikjakub.bsky.social · Jan 14

Here is a call for papers for the most extraordinary student workshop in logic, language, and information at the most exciting summer school. The 2025 ESSLLI Student Session is on! 2025.esslli.eu/courses-work...

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Manuela Piazza @manpiazza.bsky.social · Jan 12

Debate resolved!
Is the left-to-right association between numbers and space biologically or culturally determined?
Our study involved:
👨‍👩‍👧 Unschooled adults (Himba, Namibia)
👶 Italian pre-schooled kids
🎓 Italian schooled adults

— see comment for the findings
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A left-to-right bias in number-space mapping across ages and cultures - Nature Communications

This study examined the role of age and culture in determining spatial-numerical associations. Results showed all groups displayed implicit left-to-right biases, suggesting a biological basis for spac...

www.nature.com

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Jakub Szymanik @szymanikjakub.bsky.social · Dec 29

Great. See you there! I'm co-teaching a class on Generalized Quantifiers in the Wild: Typological Variation and Cognitive Reality.

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