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meanwhileina.bsky.social
Current LLMs are exactly 0 useful for tweaking style in PDFs generated with LaTeX from quarto documents. It's niche, admittedly, but a great area showing severe limits close to complete breakdown of capabilities. Not possible to entertain illusion of "understanding" here. Full hallucination mode.
November 7, 2025 at 7:35 AM
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Getting nervous for the talk I'm about to give at a workshop about "using AI to drive impact" which features slides such as these.
Slide is titled: You don't need to use LLMs. Science is a process of collaborative meaning making, by which we try to understand the world Even if AI were perfect, we rely on it at our peril — it is not science if we (i.e., humanity as a whole) do not understand and cannot recapitulate all parts of it I very, very rarely use LLMs myself. You can give yourself permission not to. Don’t FOMO yourself into it Conclusion: Don't rely on something you don't understand and can't control If you must use LLMS: 1. Treat them like you would an intern: only use them for things you can easily and thoroughly check 2. Make your process as robust as possible 3. Be aware of your own (human) cognitive biases
November 6, 2025 at 8:41 PM
meanwhileina.bsky.social
Opening for PhD position (3.5 years) on

Language Evolution | Computational Modeling | Primate Communication

Joint project with @marlenfroehlich.bsky.social & @elmanubohn.bsky.social at @unituebingen.bsky.social in CRC "Common Ground".

Share, apply, or reach out for details!

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PhD Researcher (m/f/d, E13 TV-L, 75%)
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October 16, 2025 at 12:29 PM
meanwhileina.bsky.social
PostDoc position (re-)available in Collaborative Research Center "Common Ground" (3.5y) at @unituebingen.bsky.social
in a project with @toddthelinguist.bsky.social

Philosophy of Language | Cognitive Science | Pragmatics | Logic | ...

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Post-Doctoral Researcher (m/f/d, E13 TV-L, 100%)
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October 16, 2025 at 12:25 PM
meanwhileina.bsky.social
Our large-scale interdisciplinary research initiative @unituebingen.bsky.social on "Common Ground" now has a website: uni-tuebingen.de/en/research/...

We are also hiring! Check out recent postings here and the continually added job ads here:
uni-tuebingen.de/en/universit...

#linguistics + friends
CRC Common Ground
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July 2, 2025 at 2:55 PM
meanwhileina.bsky.social
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
meanwhileina.bsky.social
We are hiring! Two PhD positions for interdisciplinary work on great ape communication and language evolution in a joint project with @marlenfroehlich.bsky.social & @elmanubohn.bsky.social.

🎯 evolutionary or probabilistic modeling
🗓️ deadline: Aug 13
🔗 tinyurl.com/2cnzwakj
July 1, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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thecharleywu.bsky.social
Just 1 week left to apply! 🙏 Pls share with anyone you think might be interested. If there are any Q's, get in touch!
👉 3x PhD position: hmc-lab.com/ERC_PhDs.html
👉 2yr Postdoc position: hmc-lab.com/ERC_Postdoc....
July 1, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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dietmartill.bsky.social
Die @dfg.de hat den linguistischen SFB Common Ground: Kognition – Grammatik – Kommunikation an der @unituebingen.bsky.social bewilligt! 🎉🥂Großer Erfolg der Kolleg:innen!! Herzliche Glückwünsche!! Hier geht es zur PM 👉👉👉 www.dfg.de/de/service/p...
DFG fördert 13 neue Sonderforschungsbereiche
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May 30, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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aachimova.bsky.social
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...
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May 28, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Reposted by Michael Franke
jennhu.bsky.social
Excited to share a new preprint w/ @michael-lepori.bsky.social & Michael Franke!

A dominant approach in AI/cogsci uses *outputs* from AI models (eg logprobs) to predict human behavior.

But how does model *processing* (across layers in a forward pass) relate to human real-time processing? 👇 (1/12)
Screenshot of Figure 1, which has two panels labeled (a) and (b). The caption states the following. Figure 1: Overview of our study. (a) Experiment 1: We explore whether forward passes show mechanistic signatures of competitor interference, first preferring a salient competing intuitive answer before preferring the correct answer. (b) Experiment 2: We systematically investigate the ability of dynamic measures derived from forward passes to predict indicators of processing load in humans.
May 20, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Reposted by Michael Franke
siddsuresh97.bsky.social
✨ Come join us at the Second edition of the Re-Align workshop
@iclr_conf
! 🚀🧠 The workshop explores the fascinating question of how artificial and biological systems align in their representations of the world. #ReAlign #ICLR2025
April 28, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Reposted by Michael Franke
melaniemitchell.bsky.social
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janelleshane.com Janelle Shane @janelleshane.com · Apr 12
1. LLM-generated code tries to run code from online software packages. Which is normal but
2. The packages don’t exist. Which would normally cause an error but
3. Nefarious people have made malware under the package names that LLMs make up most often. So
4. Now the LLM code points to malware.
daviddlevine.com David D. Levine @daviddlevine.com · Apr 12
LLMs hallucinating nonexistent software packages with plausible names leads to a new malware vulnerability: "slopsquatting."
April 13, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Reposted by Michael Franke
johnbasil.bsky.social
I'm hiring! 2 x PhDs and 1 x PostDoc, to work with me at Uni Zurich on a project investigating how semantic patterns differ by geographic region.
Linguistic typology, data science, spatial analysis, phylogenetic methods, potential fieldwork... REPOST 🙏
www.comparativelinguistics.uzh.ch/en/jobs.html
Open Positions
www.comparativelinguistics.uzh.ch
April 7, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Reposted by Michael Franke
tanialombrozo.bsky.social
Are you interested in research experience before applying to PhD programs? Or just want to learn more about cognitive science? Consider joining my lab as a lab manager (joint w/the Griffiths Lab). We will begin reviewing applications one week from today: cognition.princeton.edu/news/2025/op...
Open Position for Lombrozo/Griffiths Lab Manager (starting Fall 2025)
The Lombrozo and Griffiths Labs at Princeton University are seeking a full-time lab manager to begin August 14, 2025, but there is some flexibility. You can apply here. Applications will be reviewed b...
cognition.princeton.edu
April 7, 2025 at 12:39 PM
meanwhileina.bsky.social
Join us for the "Online-Workshop: Statistical modelling of pragmatic meaning in contexts with large meaning spaces" on April 7th (1:30pm-7:35pm, Berlin time).
#pragmatics #cognitivemodels

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ZAS Berlin: Details-Events
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April 1, 2025 at 6:11 AM
Reposted by Michael Franke
gretchenmcc.bsky.social
Hey. The fragmentation of the social media landscape has been hard on indie #scicomm 🧪 projects

So if you'd like to follow a podcast that's enthusiastic about #linguistics, could you check out @lingthusiasm.bsky.social?

And if you think your followers might like to, could you give this a repost?
March 29, 2025 at 7:29 PM
meanwhileina.bsky.social
Great job opportunity for PostDoc on formal semantics/pragmatics & CogSci in Paris:
linguistlist.org/issues/36/980/
LINGUIST List 36.980 Jobs: Cognitive Science, Pragmatics, Psycholinguistics, Semantics: Postdoctoral Researcher in Formal and Experimental Pragmatics, Institut Jean Nicod, CNRS/ENS-PSL/EHESS
The LINGUIST List, International Linguistics Community Online.
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March 21, 2025 at 5:44 AM
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mattgoldrick.bsky.social
I'm in a place of immense privilege, so I'll be staying here to fight, but if you are not I'd definitely recommend exploring this option!
March 7, 2025 at 2:10 PM
meanwhileina.bsky.social
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

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Junior Group Leader / Post-Doctoral Researcher Computational Linguistics/Cognitive Science (m/f/d, E 14 TV-L, 100%)
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February 21, 2025 at 1:55 PM