this is also difficult for PhD programs at institutions on the quarter system, where first-year students have only 3 weeks to get to know their advisor, settle in, and submit a proposal on the typical GRFP timeline! (most wait for 2nd year)

not sure, but if I had to guess, maybe they're archiving it so they can make changes and post a new solicitation, based on new agency priorities/budget?

this happened to a friend of mine who applied for a postdoc fellowship too! heartbreaking

the judge declined to intervene on the terminations for now, but the case is still ongoing! www.courtlistener.com/docket/70390...

I think the effect of generics ends up being mostly in the semantics but there's also a lot of feature variability, which we're digging into in future work!

I noticed that too - overall the literal listener only does a bit better than null, but for the generics condition specifically, it does quite a bit better (the orange dot is much closer to the diagonal)!

the effect of generics is a replication of prior work, but the effect of specifics wasn't obvious to us! specifics could have increased inductive potential, particularly when they invoke the category label ("This Zarpie...."), or could have had no effect since they aren't explicitly about categories

yes other aspects of a category could matter too! it's interesting though that in our study language changes how coherent we think the same social category is. language also shapes whether we think of a category as more inherent/transient (eg "carrot eater" vs "people who eat carrots")

this project was a fun intro to computational modeling 🤖 for me & a dream collab w/ @markkho.bsky.social, @marjorierhodes.bsky.social & Sarah-Jane Leslie! learn more at our 🧑‍🏫 #CogSci2025 talk this Fri 4pm (Language and Computation 3) or 📄 proceedings paper escholarship.org/uc/item/2rs3...

capturing the effect of generics requires a semantic understanding of how generics are related to categories 🐯, while the effect of specifics requires pragmatic reasoning 🤔(speaker could have said a generic but chose to say a specific)! (5/6)

our model predicts that learners generalize a novel feature of a category member 🐯 to other members 🐅 *more* after hearing generics about the category, and *less* after hearing specifics. both were confirmed by adults learning about a novel social category! (4/6)

in our model, a learner learns about a category's coherence and linked features by reasoning about what a speaker meant to communicate about the latter. (coherence = our formalization of inductive potential, an overhypothesis about a feature of an individual being category-linked) (3/6)

our proposal: people learn about the inductive potential of categories (how well they support generalization) from language 🗣️, including generic language about categories and specific language about individuals (2/6)

Kusina Ni Tess for massive Filipino breakfast! Tu Lan cash-only pho, Garaje for casual counter-serve. for sit-down, Tin for vietnamese, hed verythai for very nice set menus

i like knots 3d and their app (on sale for free occasionally) for this too! knots3d.com/index

the athletic was actually acquired separately and the sports dept eliminated in favor of it

congrats grace!! I found the excerpt captivating to read, and would be so excited to read a book!