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Asya Achimova
@aachimova.bsky.social
Junior research group leader @uni_tuebingen working on models of #pragmatics and social inference in communication.
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...
October 9, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Three inspiring days at #XPrag in beautiful Cambridge! It was wonderful to see many old friends and new members of the growing community!
September 20, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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📢 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. 👇
📢 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
August 4, 2025 at 7:31 AM
New work from my colleagues at the Neurocognitive #modeling lab! They developed a scene #segmentation architecture that beats SOTA with 1000 times fewer parameters. LinkedIn post www.linkedin.com/posts/martin...
Paper arxiv.org/abs/2502.02763
Code and interface cognitivemodeling.github.io/FLIP/
Fovea-Like Input Patching (FLIP) image segmentation architecture beats Meta's Segment Anything Model (SAM): | Martin Butz
Fovea-Like Input Patching (FLIP) image segmentation architecture beats Meta's Segment Anything Model (SAM): * More than a 1000-fold potential energy saving: * FLIP-Tiny has 1,257× fewer paramete...
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July 9, 2025 at 8:28 AM
More Ph.D. positions available in several projects related to the #SFB Common ground! Please see the list here uni-tuebingen.de/de/283575
Freie Stellen
uni-tuebingen.de
July 3, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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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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July 1, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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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 🙏
June 30, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Reposted by Asya Achimova
📢 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
June 30, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Hiring in the age of generative AI is a whole new game! 😱
June 26, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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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%)
tinyurl.com
June 23, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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.
linguistlist.org
June 23, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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
May 28, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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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?
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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February 24, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Reposted by Asya Achimova
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
February 21, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Dan @danielwharris.bsky.social is discussing various ways in which information enters common ground.
February 11, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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.
February 11, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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...
December 1, 2024 at 11:15 AM
Job alert! Deadline November 5. I have an opening for a 3-year Ph.D. position in the field of #pragmatics to work on a #DFG-funded project at the University of Tübingen. Tübingen offers a unique #linguistics and #cogsci community. More information can be found at tinyurl.com/277mk48p Please share!
September 26, 2023 at 2:53 PM