Brian Dillon
@linguistbrian.bsky.social
Psycholinguist at UMass Amherst Linguistics.
people.umass.edu/bwdillon
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University of South Carolina has *7* tenure-track faculty positions in Neurobiology of Language:
tinyurl.com/USC-Faculty-...
Positions in COMD, Psych, Linguistics, School of Medicine.
@snlmtg.bsky.social #SNL2025, we will have a booth.
w/@rutvikdesai.bsky.social @imb-uofsc.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/USC-Faculty-...
Positions in COMD, Psych, Linguistics, School of Medicine.
@snlmtg.bsky.social #SNL2025, we will have a booth.
w/@rutvikdesai.bsky.social @imb-uofsc.bsky.social
September 9, 2025 at 2:49 PM
University of South Carolina has *7* tenure-track faculty positions in Neurobiology of Language:
tinyurl.com/USC-Faculty-...
Positions in COMD, Psych, Linguistics, School of Medicine.
@snlmtg.bsky.social #SNL2025, we will have a booth.
w/@rutvikdesai.bsky.social @imb-uofsc.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/USC-Faculty-...
Positions in COMD, Psych, Linguistics, School of Medicine.
@snlmtg.bsky.social #SNL2025, we will have a booth.
w/@rutvikdesai.bsky.social @imb-uofsc.bsky.social
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A proposed new rule would limit international students on F1 or J1 visas to stays in the US of no longer than 4 years. This effectively means that intl. students will no longer come to graduate school here (time to PhD is 5-6 years). You can comment here:
www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
Establishing a Fixed Time Period of Admission and an Extension of Stay Procedure for Nonimmigrant Academic Students, Exchange Visitors, and Representatives of Foreign Information Media
Unlike most nonimmigrant classifications, which are admitted for a fixed time period, aliens in the F (academic student), J (exchange visitor), and most I (representatives of foreign information media...
www.federalregister.gov
September 3, 2025 at 7:39 PM
A proposed new rule would limit international students on F1 or J1 visas to stays in the US of no longer than 4 years. This effectively means that intl. students will no longer come to graduate school here (time to PhD is 5-6 years). You can comment here:
www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
Check out Özge's preprint!
Anaphors like reflexives have been studied a TON. Why? They're a useful model system for studying how linguistic information is organized in WM, because they appear to be subject to relational syntactic constraints on their interpretation.
In her research...
Anaphors like reflexives have been studied a TON. Why? They're a useful model system for studying how linguistic information is organized in WM, because they appear to be subject to relational syntactic constraints on their interpretation.
In her research...
✨New preprint out!
With Faruk Akkus and @linguistbrian.bsky.social
We show robust evidence for the rapid use of hierarchical relations in memory retrieval.
👉3 VW studies on the Turkish reciprocal
👉More looks to c-commanding subjects & indirect objects than to distractors
osf.io/preprints/ps...
With Faruk Akkus and @linguistbrian.bsky.social
We show robust evidence for the rapid use of hierarchical relations in memory retrieval.
👉3 VW studies on the Turkish reciprocal
👉More looks to c-commanding subjects & indirect objects than to distractors
osf.io/preprints/ps...
August 29, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Check out Özge's preprint!
Anaphors like reflexives have been studied a TON. Why? They're a useful model system for studying how linguistic information is organized in WM, because they appear to be subject to relational syntactic constraints on their interpretation.
In her research...
Anaphors like reflexives have been studied a TON. Why? They're a useful model system for studying how linguistic information is organized in WM, because they appear to be subject to relational syntactic constraints on their interpretation.
In her research...
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3+1-year fully funded PhD position in Experimental and/or Computational Psycholinguistics. Official application deadline today, but applications submitted by August 25 will receive full consideration.
tmalsburg.github.io/job_ad_2025_...
tmalsburg.github.io/job_ad_2025_...
Fully Funded PhD Position in Experimental and/or Computational Psycholinguistics
tmalsburg.github.io
August 15, 2025 at 9:19 AM
3+1-year fully funded PhD position in Experimental and/or Computational Psycholinguistics. Official application deadline today, but applications submitted by August 25 will receive full consideration.
tmalsburg.github.io/job_ad_2025_...
tmalsburg.github.io/job_ad_2025_...
Check this out! Happy to talk to folks about Valley living, feel free to DM.
Mount Holyoke College in lovely western Massachusetts is hiring a tenure-track neuroscientist. Amazing students and fantastic faculty support - please share!
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Assistant Professor of Neuroscience and Behavior
Job no: R-0000002388 Position Title: Assistant Professor of Neuroscience and Behavior Work Type: Faculty Full time In-Person Start Date: 07/01/2026 Job Description: The Department of Neuroscience and ...
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July 28, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Check this out! Happy to talk to folks about Valley living, feel free to DM.
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Mount Holyoke College in lovely western Massachusetts is hiring a tenure-track neuroscientist. Amazing students and fantastic faculty support - please share!
mtholyoke.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Extern...
mtholyoke.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Extern...
Assistant Professor of Neuroscience and Behavior
Job no: R-0000002388 Position Title: Assistant Professor of Neuroscience and Behavior Work Type: Faculty Full time In-Person Start Date: 07/01/2026 Job Description: The Department of Neuroscience and ...
mtholyoke.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com
July 28, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Mount Holyoke College in lovely western Massachusetts is hiring a tenure-track neuroscientist. Amazing students and fantastic faculty support - please share!
mtholyoke.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Extern...
mtholyoke.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Extern...
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Fully-funded PhD position in experimental and/or computational psycholinguistics:
tmalsburg.github.io/job_ad_2025_...
Application deadline is August 15.
tmalsburg.github.io/job_ad_2025_...
Application deadline is August 15.
Fully Funded PhD Position in Experimental and/or Computational Psycholinguistics
tmalsburg.github.io
July 15, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Fully-funded PhD position in experimental and/or computational psycholinguistics:
tmalsburg.github.io/job_ad_2025_...
Application deadline is August 15.
tmalsburg.github.io/job_ad_2025_...
Application deadline is August 15.
Bumping this call for folks interested in work at the AI-psycholing interface!
I'm hiring at least one post-doc! We're interested in creating language models that process language more like humans than mainstream LLMs do, through architectural modifications and interpretability-style steering. Express interest here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
NYU LLM + cognitive science post-doc interest form
Tal Linzen's group at NYU is hiring a post-doc! We're interested in creating language models that process language more like humans than mainstream LLMs do, through architectural modifications and int...
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July 14, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Bumping this call for folks interested in work at the AI-psycholing interface!
Congratulations are in order for @tallinzen.bsky.social as well! We’re excited and humbled, and grateful that we get to continue collaborating with a wonderful group of students and scholars. The support of the NSF goes a long way in supporting the next generation of scientists.
Congratulations to @linguistbrian.bsky.social for receiving this grant to study how to constrain language models to read complex sentences more like humans, and congratulations to me for getting to collaborate with him for another four years! www.umass.edu/humanities-a...
Brian Dillon Receives NSF Grant to Explore AI and Human Language Processing : College of Humanities & Fine Arts : UMass Amherst
Linguist Brian Dillon receives NSF grant to investigate how AI and humans differ in interpreting meaning during language comprehension.
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July 12, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Congratulations are in order for @tallinzen.bsky.social as well! We’re excited and humbled, and grateful that we get to continue collaborating with a wonderful group of students and scholars. The support of the NSF goes a long way in supporting the next generation of scientists.
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I'm offering a 3-year PhD position with benefits (1-year extension possible). Research topic open but broadly in incremental sentence comprehension. If you're into eye-tracking, even better! No teaching until Summer 2027, light teaching after that (English). Official ad soon. Please share 🙏
July 9, 2025 at 11:05 AM
I'm offering a 3-year PhD position with benefits (1-year extension possible). Research topic open but broadly in incremental sentence comprehension. If you're into eye-tracking, even better! No teaching until Summer 2027, light teaching after that (English). Official ad soon. Please share 🙏
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If you haven't been looking recently at the Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science (oecs.mit.edu), here's your reminder that we are a free, open access resource for learning about the science of mind.
Today we are launching our new Thematic Collections to organize our growing set of articles!
Today we are launching our new Thematic Collections to organize our growing set of articles!
May 30, 2025 at 12:18 AM
If you haven't been looking recently at the Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science (oecs.mit.edu), here's your reminder that we are a free, open access resource for learning about the science of mind.
Today we are launching our new Thematic Collections to organize our growing set of articles!
Today we are launching our new Thematic Collections to organize our growing set of articles!
Excited to share the new OECS article on 'Sentence Processing' written by Matt Wagers and myself! It's humbling to be included in the OECS, we hope you enjoy :)
oecs.mit.edu/pub/mn7mjhx9...
oecs.mit.edu/pub/mn7mjhx9...
Sentence Processing
oecs.mit.edu
May 27, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Excited to share the new OECS article on 'Sentence Processing' written by Matt Wagers and myself! It's humbling to be included in the OECS, we hope you enjoy :)
oecs.mit.edu/pub/mn7mjhx9...
oecs.mit.edu/pub/mn7mjhx9...
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Congratulations to Dr. Nigel Flower @nigelflower.bsky.social for the successful defense of his dissertation “Combinatorics at-a-glance: On the spatiotemporal dynamics of temporally unstructured language”!!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉
May 5, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Congratulations to Dr. Nigel Flower @nigelflower.bsky.social for the successful defense of his dissertation “Combinatorics at-a-glance: On the spatiotemporal dynamics of temporally unstructured language”!!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉
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A bit late but since I really like this paper, a bit of self-advertising! I am presenting at CMCL today work showing that metrics measuring how a Minimalist Grammar parser modulates memory usage can help us model Self-paced reading data for SRC/ORC contrasts: aclanthology.org/2025.cmcl-1.5/
Capturing Online SRC/ORC Effort with Memory Measures from a Minimalist Parser
Aniello De Santo. Proceedings of the Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics. 2025.
aclanthology.org
May 3, 2025 at 4:43 PM
A bit late but since I really like this paper, a bit of self-advertising! I am presenting at CMCL today work showing that metrics measuring how a Minimalist Grammar parser modulates memory usage can help us model Self-paced reading data for SRC/ORC contrasts: aclanthology.org/2025.cmcl-1.5/
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My turn for an #HSP2025 thread, since I will be traveling soon! I'll be there with two posters, and I so am excited to see all my favorite psycholinguists (aside from the great science XD)! 🐦🐦🐦
March 25, 2025 at 9:06 PM
My turn for an #HSP2025 thread, since I will be traveling soon! I'll be there with two posters, and I so am excited to see all my favorite psycholinguists (aside from the great science XD)! 🐦🐦🐦
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a plea to think carefully about surprisal + what it means to understand how we understand >> link.springer.com/article/10.1...
brand new paper in Computational Brain and Behaviour with @andreaeyleen.bsky.social at @mpi-nl.bsky.social
brand new paper in Computational Brain and Behaviour with @andreaeyleen.bsky.social at @mpi-nl.bsky.social
What’s Surprising About Surprisal - Computational Brain & Behavior
In the computational and experimental psycholinguistic literature, the mechanisms behind syntactic structure building (e.g., combining words into phrases and sentences) are the subject of considerable...
link.springer.com
February 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
a plea to think carefully about surprisal + what it means to understand how we understand >> link.springer.com/article/10.1...
brand new paper in Computational Brain and Behaviour with @andreaeyleen.bsky.social at @mpi-nl.bsky.social
brand new paper in Computational Brain and Behaviour with @andreaeyleen.bsky.social at @mpi-nl.bsky.social
Happy to share that Liz Schotter and I have just published a beginner-level tutorial introduction to eye-tracking-while-reading studies in Behavior Methods:
link.springer.com/article/10.3...
link.springer.com/article/10.3...
link.springer.com
January 23, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Happy to share that Liz Schotter and I have just published a beginner-level tutorial introduction to eye-tracking-while-reading studies in Behavior Methods:
link.springer.com/article/10.3...
link.springer.com/article/10.3...
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There are now two weeks to finish your SCiL 2025 submission! Especially excited to see work submitted to the Special Symposium on Computational Pragmatics!
We are extending the SCiL 2025 deadline by one week! Submissions are now due on Friday, Jan. 31st.
January 16, 2025 at 10:21 PM
There are now two weeks to finish your SCiL 2025 submission! Especially excited to see work submitted to the Special Symposium on Computational Pragmatics!
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We're hiring new #nlp faculty this year!
Asst or Assoc Professors in NLP at UMass CICS --
careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-u...
Asst or Assoc Professors in NLP at UMass CICS --
careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-u...
Details - Assistant/Associate Professor - Natural Language Processing (NLP) | Human Resources | UMass Amherst
careers.umass.edu
November 19, 2024 at 2:33 PM
We're hiring new #nlp faculty this year!
Asst or Assoc Professors in NLP at UMass CICS --
careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-u...
Asst or Assoc Professors in NLP at UMass CICS --
careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-u...
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Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association AFLA 31 abstract submission deadline extension to Feb 2! Special session on prosodic and psycholinguistic connections in verb-initial languages (not just Austronesian). Join us in June at UMass Amherst! blogs.umass.edu/afla31/
January 18, 2024 at 3:12 PM
Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association AFLA 31 abstract submission deadline extension to Feb 2! Special session on prosodic and psycholinguistic connections in verb-initial languages (not just Austronesian). Join us in June at UMass Amherst! blogs.umass.edu/afla31/
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We are now accepting submissions for HSP2024 at UMich! Deadline: Jan 8th. See the CfP for details.
HSP 2024 - Call for Papers
hsp2024.github.io
December 21, 2023 at 5:55 PM
We are now accepting submissions for HSP2024 at UMich! Deadline: Jan 8th. See the CfP for details.
Alrighty I’m finally setting up shop here! Nice to see lots of familiar faces from the other place 😅😅
November 15, 2023 at 6:25 PM
Alrighty I’m finally setting up shop here! Nice to see lots of familiar faces from the other place 😅😅