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Canaan Breiss
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Phonologist | asst. prof @ University of Southern California Linguistics | previously: postdoc @ MIT Brain & Cognitive Sciences, PhD @ UCLA Linguistics | theory 🔁 experiments 🔁 (Bayesian) models | 🌈 he | cbreiss.com
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rtommccoy.bsky.social
🤖🧠I'll be considering applications for PhD students & postdocs to start at Yale in Fall 2026!

If you are interested in the intersection of linguistics, cognitive science, & AI, I encourage you to apply!

PhD link: rtmccoy.com/prospective_...
Postdoc link: rtmccoy.com/prospective_...
Top: A syntax tree for the sentence "the doctor by the lawyer saw the artist". Bottom: A continuous vector.
November 14, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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ryanlostintx.bsky.social
Give a man a fish and someone with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about people getting free handouts. Teach a man to fish? Yeah, that person with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about that too.
November 14, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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higherjobz.bsky.social
Postdoc in linguistics – University of Innsbruck, Austria
Fully funded postdoctoral position in #Englishlinguistics & multilingualism research
Deadline: 1 Dec 2025
🔗 higherjobz.com/postdoc-engl...
#Postdoc #Austria #Postdoctoral #AcademicJobs #ResearchJobs @uniinnsbruck.social.uibk.ac.at.ap.brid.gy
Postdoctoral Position in Linguistics – University of Innsbruck |HigherJobz
Apply for a postdoctoral in English linguistics at University of Innsbruck, Austria. Full-time, 4-year position. Deadline: 1 Dec 2025.
higherjobz.com
November 12, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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lingsocam.bsky.social
Only 2 Days Left for Early Bird Registration!

Why pay full price when you can act now and save substantially? Register now! web.cvent.com/event/d45318... #EarlyBird #NewOrleans #LSA2026 #Register
November 13, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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anids.bsky.social
Every day a new reason to hate Outlook
November 12, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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betanalpha.bsky.social
Do you like discussing data generating processes? Everything from tracking down the provenance of data to conceptualizing and then implementing models of the underlying process?

If so then consider dropping by my probabilistic modeling Discord server, www.patreon.com/posts/genera....
Generative Modeling Discord Server | Michael Betancourt
Get more from Michael Betancourt on Patreon
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November 11, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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donmoyn.bsky.social
Three German universities offering post-docs for researchers "who cannot conduct or continue their work in the USA appropriately because of actual political pressure. "
www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...
Early Career Rescue Fellowship
www.uni-konstanz.de
November 11, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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November 9, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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colors.bsky.social
#FECF55
a square filled in with brilliant yellow color #fecf55.
November 9, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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alkennedy.bsky.social
The full text of William Carlos Williams's This Is Just To Say, in the Zohran Mamdani campaign fonts
November 8, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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mattgoldrick.bsky.social
1 year residency program at Apple. Cogsci/neuro/ling folks studying neuro interpretability, reasoning, and decision-making under uncertainty to help Apple make progress on similar questions in LLMs. Recent PhD or more senior jobs.apple.com/en-us/detail...
November 8, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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colinphillips.bsky.social
Opportunity for early career researchers to spend 3 years working with us in Oxford. Cool surroundings, interesting people. Eligibility: need some UK academic connection. Get in touch if interested! Details: www.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/news/2025/11...
November 8, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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lauragwilliams.bsky.social
happy to share our new paper, out now in Neuron! led by the incredible Yizhen Zhang, we explore how the brain segments continuous speech into word-forms and uses adaptive dynamics to code for relative time - www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Human cortical dynamics of auditory word form encoding
We perceive continuous speech as a series of discrete words, despite the lack of clear acoustic boundaries. The superior temporal gyrus (STG) encodes …
www.sciencedirect.com
November 7, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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hadley.nz
Do you teach #rstats? Do your students complain about how lame and old-fashioned dplyr is? Don't worry: I have the solution for you: github.com/hadley/genzp....

genzplyr is dplyr, but bussin fr fr no cap.
GitHub - hadley/genzplyr: dplyr but make it bussin fr fr no cap
dplyr but make it bussin fr fr no cap. Contribute to hadley/genzplyr development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
November 6, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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katmabu.bsky.social
Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.
November 5, 2025 at 3:35 AM
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shakespeare.lol
[Exit Clown.]
November 5, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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ericoscott.bsky.social
Come on, folks. We’ve got a world to win.

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Democratic socialists have an historic opportunity and responsibility to play a central role in continuing the political revolution for the long term. As a democratic, grassroots organization, DSA is ...
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November 5, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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mamdani should municipalize trump tower and make it a combo mosque / free trans clinic
November 5, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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ericschulz.bsky.social
🚀 We are hiring! 🚀

🔍 Join us as a Postdoctoral Researcher (fully-funded) at the Helmholtz Institute for Human-Centered AI in Munich.
November 3, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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rtommccoy.bsky.social
Come be my colleague! The Wu Tsai Institute at Yale has two faculty searches ongoing:
- One in computational cognitive science (due Dec 1)
- One in neurodevelopment (rolling)

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wutsaiyale.bsky.social Wu Tsai Institute | Yale University @wutsaiyale.bsky.social · Oct 3
📣 WTI is hiring faculty positions! Are you interested in advancing our understanding of the brain + how it gives rise to cognition?

Two calls are open:

Open-rank search, Neurocomputation, deadline: 12.1.25
Senior search, Neurodevelopment, rolling review

🔗 wti.yale.edu/opportunities

#KnowTogether
November 2, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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radekllundain.bsky.social
"this meeting could have been a clay tablet"
November 3, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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lswisnom.bsky.social
Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
November 3, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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wutsaiyale.bsky.social
📣 Calling experimental, computational, or theoretical researchers!

WTI's Postdoc Fellowships application is now open, offering a competitive salary, structured mentorship, world-class facilities + more: wti.yale.edu/initiatives/...

Apply by November 10: apply.interfolio.com/174525

#KnowTogether
October 6, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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Halloween logicals, still the best 10/31 venn
Venn diagrams as jack-o-laterns showing trick/treat logicals: OR, AND, XOR, NOR, NAND, and XNOR
October 31, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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dr-liz.bsky.social
I've always loved this little phrasebook for new (Jewish) immigrants to New York. It's got Yiddish instructions on joining a union! (The right-most column is English transliterated into Yiddish).
Yiddish, English and transliterated English phrasebook for new immigrants. Phrases include "my trade is cloak-making", "what are the dues?" "The fee is very small" and "union is power".
October 30, 2025 at 9:13 AM