jim magnuson
@jimmagnuson.bsky.social
Computational cognitive neuroscience of language @bcbl + @uconn
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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
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...
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✍️ A new paper led by McMaster University with the collaboration of #BCBL researcher @jimmagnuson.bsky.social has been published in @plos.org #ComputationalBiology.
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Recurrent neural networks as neuro-computational models of human speech recognition
Author summary Human brains deal with a constantly evolving stream of information acquired by the senses. The transitory nature of this input requires strategies for integrating information over time....
journals.plos.org
September 15, 2025 at 1:54 PM
✍️ A new paper led by McMaster University with the collaboration of #BCBL researcher @jimmagnuson.bsky.social has been published in @plos.org #ComputationalBiology.
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journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
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Join us Monday, September 15th from 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm ET for a talk by Simona Mancini, Ikerbasque Research Associate Professor / Neurolinguistics and Aphasia group leader at the Basque Center on Cognition Brain and Language.
Register now at https://bit.ly/45LjrF1
Register now at https://bit.ly/45LjrF1
September 3, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Join us Monday, September 15th from 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm ET for a talk by Simona Mancini, Ikerbasque Research Associate Professor / Neurolinguistics and Aphasia group leader at the Basque Center on Cognition Brain and Language.
Register now at https://bit.ly/45LjrF1
Register now at https://bit.ly/45LjrF1
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Interested in doing a PhD with me and lacns.github.io? Or with any of the incredible fellows in the IMPRS School of Cognition www.maxplanckschools.org/cognition-en - apply before Dec 1st at cognition.maxplanckschools.org/en/application
Language and Computation in Neural Systems
We are an international group of scientists consisting of linguists, cognitive scientists, cognitive neuroscientists, computational neuroscientists, computational modellers, computational scientists, ...
lacns.github.io
September 3, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Interested in doing a PhD with me and lacns.github.io? Or with any of the incredible fellows in the IMPRS School of Cognition www.maxplanckschools.org/cognition-en - apply before Dec 1st at cognition.maxplanckschools.org/en/application
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📢 PhD opening @bcbl_ (San Sebastián, Spain)
Join our ERC project CORTICAL RHYTHMS 🧠 to study how brain rhythms shape second language learning (spoken & signed) with MEG/MRI.
📅 Start Jan 2026 | ⏳ Apply by Sept 15, 2025
👉 tinyurl.com/bdwkumn3
Join our ERC project CORTICAL RHYTHMS 🧠 to study how brain rhythms shape second language learning (spoken & signed) with MEG/MRI.
📅 Start Jan 2026 | ⏳ Apply by Sept 15, 2025
👉 tinyurl.com/bdwkumn3
PhD CANDIDATE POSITION – ERC ADVANCED GRANT PROJECT - CORTICAL RHYTHMS (Second Language Learning)
at the BCBL- Basque Center on Cognition Brain and Language (San Sebastián, Basque Country, Spain) www.bcbl.eu
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August 19, 2025 at 1:57 PM
📢 PhD opening @bcbl_ (San Sebastián, Spain)
Join our ERC project CORTICAL RHYTHMS 🧠 to study how brain rhythms shape second language learning (spoken & signed) with MEG/MRI.
📅 Start Jan 2026 | ⏳ Apply by Sept 15, 2025
👉 tinyurl.com/bdwkumn3
Join our ERC project CORTICAL RHYTHMS 🧠 to study how brain rhythms shape second language learning (spoken & signed) with MEG/MRI.
📅 Start Jan 2026 | ⏳ Apply by Sept 15, 2025
👉 tinyurl.com/bdwkumn3
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Great piece on the administration's attack on our epistemic infrastructure--and shout-out to my work-- by @peterbakernyt.bsky.social in today's paper.
Trump's war on facts has reached a new level and the message is clear: Government officials who deal in data now fear they have to toe the line and adopt his version of reality no matter how false or risk losing their jobs. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/u...
Trump’s Efforts to Control Information Echo an Authoritarian Playbook
www.nytimes.com
August 3, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Great piece on the administration's attack on our epistemic infrastructure--and shout-out to my work-- by @peterbakernyt.bsky.social in today's paper.
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Michael's points out that so many of this administration's attacks are on "epistemic infrastructure" (museums, libraries, universities, agencies that collect data).
Great piece on the administration's attack on our epistemic infrastructure--and shout-out to my work-- by @peterbakernyt.bsky.social in today's paper.
Trump's war on facts has reached a new level and the message is clear: Government officials who deal in data now fear they have to toe the line and adopt his version of reality no matter how false or risk losing their jobs. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/u...
August 3, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Michael's points out that so many of this administration's attacks are on "epistemic infrastructure" (museums, libraries, universities, agencies that collect data).
My contribution to the @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social effort to communicate the value of federal science funding:
www.hometownsource.com/county_news_...
www.hometownsource.com/county_news_...
Farm to faculty: How federal research funding changes lives and boosts Minnesota's economy
When I was growing up on a farm near Cambridge, I never met a scientist. I didn’t know what scientific research was or how people became scientists. I graduated from
www.hometownsource.com
July 31, 2025 at 8:47 PM
My contribution to the @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social effort to communicate the value of federal science funding:
www.hometownsource.com/county_news_...
www.hometownsource.com/county_news_...
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Do we adapt when the structure of our environment changes?
Check out our new preprint: doi.org/10.31234/osf...
Check out our new preprint: doi.org/10.31234/osf...
July 19, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Do we adapt when the structure of our environment changes?
Check out our new preprint: doi.org/10.31234/osf...
Check out our new preprint: doi.org/10.31234/osf...
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Really looking forward to this!
📣🗓️ The 6th Interdisciplinary Advances in Statistical Learning Conference #IASL26 will be held June 10-12 in San Sebastián.
Our keynotes:
@jennysaffran.bsky.social with 30 years of SL work since 1996.
@noranewcombe.bsky.social on learning and spatial cognition.
@pyoudeyer.bsky.social on curiosity.
Our keynotes:
@jennysaffran.bsky.social with 30 years of SL work since 1996.
@noranewcombe.bsky.social on learning and spatial cognition.
@pyoudeyer.bsky.social on curiosity.
July 18, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Really looking forward to this!
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Neural tracking: evoked or oscillatory? 🎧🧠 The #TrackingUmbrella paper argues it’s not either/or — both perspectives reveal how our brains align with speech, music, and more. Method matters. Let’s rethink how we measure and interpret tracking! tinyurl.com/ywbe7rrz
(PDF) The Tracking Umbrella: Diverse Interpretations Under a Common Neural Term
PDF | Neural tracking, the alignment of brain activity with the temporal dynamics of sensory input, is a crucial mechanism underlying perception,... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ...
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July 17, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Neural tracking: evoked or oscillatory? 🎧🧠 The #TrackingUmbrella paper argues it’s not either/or — both perspectives reveal how our brains align with speech, music, and more. Method matters. Let’s rethink how we measure and interpret tracking! tinyurl.com/ywbe7rrz
Have others experienced major problems with collecting data via Prolific (@joinprolific.bsky.social)? For a lexical decision study we ran 3 years ago, we excluded less than 2% of participants for clear non-compliance/random responding. Now it's closer to 25% for the exact same study.
July 16, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Have others experienced major problems with collecting data via Prolific (@joinprolific.bsky.social)? For a lexical decision study we ran 3 years ago, we excluded less than 2% of participants for clear non-compliance/random responding. Now it's closer to 25% for the exact same study.
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My university has announced a special international graduate fellowship for PhD students whose acceptance at a US university has been rescinded. Check it out: grad.uwo.ca/finances/wes...
US-CAN Doctoral Excellence Award
Western University, in vibrant London, Ontario, delivers an academic and student experience second to none.
grad.uwo.ca
July 8, 2025 at 3:14 PM
My university has announced a special international graduate fellowship for PhD students whose acceptance at a US university has been rescinded. Check it out: grad.uwo.ca/finances/wes...
Do we understand that we actually have concentration camps in the USA now? The cruel, casual dehumanization of our neighbors is happening, now, with ‘jokes’ about alligators killing prisoners at Alligator Alcatraz.
Trump’s ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ tour was a calculated celebration of the dystopian
The detention center visit seemed to represent a landmark in a defining issue since even before his first term: migration
www.theguardian.com
July 7, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Do we understand that we actually have concentration camps in the USA now? The cruel, casual dehumanization of our neighbors is happening, now, with ‘jokes’ about alligators killing prisoners at Alligator Alcatraz.
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The MIT stopword list has MANY open class words in it. That's a no no. Here's a new stopword list tagged with part-of-speech that includes idioms and other collocatives. reilly-lab.github.io/Jamie_Stopwo...
Procedures for Generating Temple_Stopwords25 Stopword List
reilly-lab.github.io
May 11, 2025 at 5:43 PM
The MIT stopword list has MANY open class words in it. That's a no no. Here's a new stopword list tagged with part-of-speech that includes idioms and other collocatives. reilly-lab.github.io/Jamie_Stopwo...
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Join @nihfellowsunited.bsky.social in calling your legislator on 5/13 to tell them to sign onto letters opposing cuts to the NIH, cosponsored by Senators @warren.senate.gov, @padilla.senate.gov, and Tillis, as well as Representatives @ocasio-cortez.house.gov and @carson.house.gov.
May 10, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Join @nihfellowsunited.bsky.social in calling your legislator on 5/13 to tell them to sign onto letters opposing cuts to the NIH, cosponsored by Senators @warren.senate.gov, @padilla.senate.gov, and Tillis, as well as Representatives @ocasio-cortez.house.gov and @carson.house.gov.
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You can comment on this proposed policy change by May 23rd.
The proposed policy defines science agency grant making program officers, among other positions, as “policy-making” and removes civil service protections.
www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
The proposed policy defines science agency grant making program officers, among other positions, as “policy-making” and removes civil service protections.
www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
Improving Performance, Accountability and Responsiveness in the Civil Service
The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is proposing a rule to increase career employee accountability. Agency supervisors report great difficulty removing employees for poor performance or misconduc...
www.federalregister.gov
May 11, 2025 at 12:15 PM
You can comment on this proposed policy change by May 23rd.
The proposed policy defines science agency grant making program officers, among other positions, as “policy-making” and removes civil service protections.
www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
The proposed policy defines science agency grant making program officers, among other positions, as “policy-making” and removes civil service protections.
www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
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HAPPY 75th, NSF!
We’re celebrating this milestone by highlighting some of NSF’s most transformative accomplishments—innovations that have shaped our world and continue to drive progress in health, technology, the environment, and beyond.
Read on 🧵(1/11):
We’re celebrating this milestone by highlighting some of NSF’s most transformative accomplishments—innovations that have shaped our world and continue to drive progress in health, technology, the environment, and beyond.
Read on 🧵(1/11):
May 10, 2025 at 8:19 PM
HAPPY 75th, NSF!
We’re celebrating this milestone by highlighting some of NSF’s most transformative accomplishments—innovations that have shaped our world and continue to drive progress in health, technology, the environment, and beyond.
Read on 🧵(1/11):
We’re celebrating this milestone by highlighting some of NSF’s most transformative accomplishments—innovations that have shaped our world and continue to drive progress in health, technology, the environment, and beyond.
Read on 🧵(1/11):
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Please RT🙏
Reach out if you want to help understand cognition by modelling, analyzing and/or collect large scale intracortical data from 👩🐒🐁
We're a friendly, diverse group (n>25) w/ this terrace 😎 in the center of Paris! See👇 for + info about the lab
We have funding to support your application!
Reach out if you want to help understand cognition by modelling, analyzing and/or collect large scale intracortical data from 👩🐒🐁
We're a friendly, diverse group (n>25) w/ this terrace 😎 in the center of Paris! See👇 for + info about the lab
We have funding to support your application!
May 10, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Please RT🙏
Reach out if you want to help understand cognition by modelling, analyzing and/or collect large scale intracortical data from 👩🐒🐁
We're a friendly, diverse group (n>25) w/ this terrace 😎 in the center of Paris! See👇 for + info about the lab
We have funding to support your application!
Reach out if you want to help understand cognition by modelling, analyzing and/or collect large scale intracortical data from 👩🐒🐁
We're a friendly, diverse group (n>25) w/ this terrace 😎 in the center of Paris! See👇 for + info about the lab
We have funding to support your application!
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My book reveals the mostly hidden effects of talking *on talkers.* Talking boosts focus & learning, regulates emotions, changes perception, & more. The reason lies in how utterance planning for talking works. It's a book for gen'l audiences, but w scientific claims for production & its consequences
More Than Words by Maryellen MacDonald, PhD: 9780593545270 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
"This beautifully written book by Maryellen MacDonald demonstrates how 'word-work' shapes both our experience of the world and the very brain that produced our capacity to articulate and generate our ...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com
May 9, 2025 at 1:26 AM
My book reveals the mostly hidden effects of talking *on talkers.* Talking boosts focus & learning, regulates emotions, changes perception, & more. The reason lies in how utterance planning for talking works. It's a book for gen'l audiences, but w scientific claims for production & its consequences
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Fun new study by Ellie Breitfeld!
How do children figure out what new words mean? This study shows that preschoolers use the locations in which they encounter new labels/objects (e.g. in the kitchen or outside) to infer information about them (e.g., if they can be eaten vs. thrown).
May 3, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Fun new study by Ellie Breitfeld!
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Skilled readers use information from upcoming words to boost efficiency, but at what cost? We discovered that nearby words interfere with lexical activation of the fixated word, calling for a more nuanced approach to the role of preview in fluent reading. dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jm...
April 23, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Skilled readers use information from upcoming words to boost efficiency, but at what cost? We discovered that nearby words interfere with lexical activation of the fixated word, calling for a more nuanced approach to the role of preview in fluent reading. dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jm...
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New R package almost birthed - SemanticDistance - computes two semantic distance metrics (experiential and embedding) for any rolling chunk size (ngram-to-ngram, word-to-word, turn-to-turn, ngram-to-word). You give it your language sample. It does the rest, including lemmatize and stopword omit
April 19, 2025 at 4:46 PM
New R package almost birthed - SemanticDistance - computes two semantic distance metrics (experiential and embedding) for any rolling chunk size (ngram-to-ngram, word-to-word, turn-to-turn, ngram-to-word). You give it your language sample. It does the rest, including lemmatize and stopword omit
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why am I not surprised? #cogsci #devpsy #psychscisky #blackinstem
wordinblack.com/2025/04/psyc...
#AmericanPsychologicalAssociation #DiversityInRecruitment #DiversityEquityInclusion #PostgraduatePrograms #PoliticalPressure
#InclusionMatters
wordinblack.com/2025/04/psyc...
#AmericanPsychologicalAssociation #DiversityInRecruitment #DiversityEquityInclusion #PostgraduatePrograms #PoliticalPressure
#InclusionMatters
Psychological Assn. Pauses Diversity in Recruitment Requirements
American Psychological Association bows to political pressure and suspends DEI requirements for postgraduate programs.
wordinblack.com
April 16, 2025 at 3:34 PM
