Jakub Szymanik
@szymanikjakub.bsky.social
I am a principal investigator at the Center for Mind/Brain, CiMeC, at the University of Trento, where I research language and cognition in humans and machines.
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Compositionality and Reasoning in AI and Cognitive Science — Workshop
One-day workshop on Compositionality and Reasoning in AI and Cognitive Science — January 8, 2026 — Warsaw
manuel-vg.github.io
🧩 Compositionality & Reasoning Workshop — Warsaw, Jan 8, 2026
A one-day event on how compositionality and structured reasoning drive generalization in AI and cognitive science.
Speakers from Meta, MIT, U. of Manchester & more.
Learn more: manuel-vg.github.io/compositiona...
A one-day event on how compositionality and structured reasoning drive generalization in AI and cognitive science.
Speakers from Meta, MIT, U. of Manchester & more.
Learn more: manuel-vg.github.io/compositiona...
@ec.europa.eu should rely on scientists rather than marketing claims by tech CEOs.
Scientists and scholars in AI and its social impacts call on von der Leyen to retract #AIHype statement.
@olivia.science
@abeba.bsky.social
@irisvanrooij.bsky.social
@alexhanna.bsky.social
@rocher.lc
@danmcquillan.bsky.social
@robin.berjon.com
& many others have signed
www.iccl.ie/press-releas...
@olivia.science
@abeba.bsky.social
@irisvanrooij.bsky.social
@alexhanna.bsky.social
@rocher.lc
@danmcquillan.bsky.social
@robin.berjon.com
& many others have signed
www.iccl.ie/press-releas...
Scientists call on the President of the European Commission to retract AI hype statement
Experts in AI call on the President of the European Commission to retract unscientific AI hype statement she made in the budget speech.
www.iccl.ie
November 10, 2025 at 9:58 AM
@ec.europa.eu should rely on scientists rather than marketing claims by tech CEOs.
🧩 Compositionality & Reasoning Workshop — Warsaw, Jan 8, 2026
A one-day event on how compositionality and structured reasoning drive generalization in AI and cognitive science.
Speakers from Meta, MIT, U. of Manchester & more.
Learn more: manuel-vg.github.io/compositiona...
A one-day event on how compositionality and structured reasoning drive generalization in AI and cognitive science.
Speakers from Meta, MIT, U. of Manchester & more.
Learn more: manuel-vg.github.io/compositiona...
Compositionality and Reasoning in AI and Cognitive Science — Workshop
One-day workshop on Compositionality and Reasoning in AI and Cognitive Science — January 8, 2026 — Warsaw
manuel-vg.github.io
October 27, 2025 at 3:17 PM
🧩 Compositionality & Reasoning Workshop — Warsaw, Jan 8, 2026
A one-day event on how compositionality and structured reasoning drive generalization in AI and cognitive science.
Speakers from Meta, MIT, U. of Manchester & more.
Learn more: manuel-vg.github.io/compositiona...
A one-day event on how compositionality and structured reasoning drive generalization in AI and cognitive science.
Speakers from Meta, MIT, U. of Manchester & more.
Learn more: manuel-vg.github.io/compositiona...
On the nonsense of metric fetish in academia. www.timeshighereducation.com/cn/opinion/l...
Let’s personalise productivity with the weightiest metric yet: academic BMI
Measuring researchers’ output mass against their body mass will incentivise even harder running on the academic treadmill, says Dariusz Jemielniak
www.timeshighereducation.com
October 17, 2025 at 12:31 PM
On the nonsense of metric fetish in academia. www.timeshighereducation.com/cn/opinion/l...
Rejected by @NeurIPSConf. Reviewers objected to not running experiments on SOTA models, even though those models were released after the deadline. Scientific evaluation is increasingly influenced by hype, even for papers with foundational theoretical contributions. #NeurIPS #AI
September 18, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Call for European Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information 2026 Lectures and Workshop
More information here:
2026.esslli.eu
Submit here:
easychair.org/my/conferenc...
More information here:
2026.esslli.eu
Submit here:
easychair.org/my/conferenc...
Welcome to ESSLLI 2026
Welcome to ESSLLI 2026
2026.esslli.eu
September 17, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Call for European Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information 2026 Lectures and Workshop
More information here:
2026.esslli.eu
Submit here:
easychair.org/my/conferenc...
More information here:
2026.esslli.eu
Submit here:
easychair.org/my/conferenc...
Be part of a vibrant academic tradition! 🌍 FoLLI is seeking hosts for #ESSLLI2027, the European Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information
@ESSLLI_official
Bring 300+ students & researchers to your institution. Preliminary proposals by Nov 15! jakubszymanik.com/call-for-pro...
@ESSLLI_official
Bring 300+ students & researchers to your institution. Preliminary proposals by Nov 15! jakubszymanik.com/call-for-pro...
September 16, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Be part of a vibrant academic tradition! 🌍 FoLLI is seeking hosts for #ESSLLI2027, the European Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information
@ESSLLI_official
Bring 300+ students & researchers to your institution. Preliminary proposals by Nov 15! jakubszymanik.com/call-for-pro...
@ESSLLI_official
Bring 300+ students & researchers to your institution. Preliminary proposals by Nov 15! jakubszymanik.com/call-for-pro...
Join our interdisciplinary team that combines computational linguistics with cognitive neuroscience! Our center is located in the beautiful Trentino region.
#CallforExpressionofInterest
Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Computational Linguistics at the CLIC Lab, @cimecunitrento.bsky.social
📅Deadline: September 14, 2025
📍 Rovereto, Italy
🔗More info: shorturl.at/EnvLy
@szymanikjakub.bsky.social
Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Computational Linguistics at the CLIC Lab, @cimecunitrento.bsky.social
📅Deadline: September 14, 2025
📍 Rovereto, Italy
🔗More info: shorturl.at/EnvLy
@szymanikjakub.bsky.social
September 5, 2025 at 5:06 AM
Join our interdisciplinary team that combines computational linguistics with cognitive neuroscience! Our center is located in the beautiful Trentino region.
Interesting paper advancing multiple aspects in the exploration of why numeral systems across languages are structured as they are. escholarship.org/content/qt5k...
escholarship.org
August 23, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Interesting paper advancing multiple aspects in the exploration of why numeral systems across languages are structured as they are. escholarship.org/content/qt5k...
A computational linguistics colleague needed to join the Center for Mind-Brain Sciences - Italy's leading cognitive neuroscience research unit. @cimecunitrento.bsky.social is located in Trentino, famous for its high quality of life in Italy. www.cimec.unitn.it/en/71/langua...
July 29, 2025 at 6:44 PM
A computational linguistics colleague needed to join the Center for Mind-Brain Sciences - Italy's leading cognitive neuroscience research unit. @cimecunitrento.bsky.social is located in Trentino, famous for its high quality of life in Italy. www.cimec.unitn.it/en/71/langua...
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If you are in Paris on October 1-3 : we are organizing a fantastic cognitive neuroscience conference at Collège de France, on topics ranging from language to math, education and consciousness, with many of my favorite scientists !
Full program here:
www.unicog.org/seeing-the-m...
Full program here:
www.unicog.org/seeing-the-m...
Seeing the Mind, Educating the Brain
www.unicog.org
July 23, 2025 at 2:46 PM
If you are in Paris on October 1-3 : we are organizing a fantastic cognitive neuroscience conference at Collège de France, on topics ranging from language to math, education and consciousness, with many of my favorite scientists !
Full program here:
www.unicog.org/seeing-the-m...
Full program here:
www.unicog.org/seeing-the-m...
We're having a workshop tomorrow on abstraction in language, science, and engineering, in case you're around. www.inf.unibz.it/~okutz/abstr...
July 10, 2025 at 8:55 PM
We're having a workshop tomorrow on abstraction in language, science, and engineering, in case you're around. www.inf.unibz.it/~okutz/abstr...
NASSLLI is coming to a close, but it's still a lot of fun. You can find slides and papers from our class here: drive.google.com/drive/folder.... Now the goal is to write it up as a book 😅
June 27, 2025 at 5:53 PM
NASSLLI is coming to a close, but it's still a lot of fun. You can find slides and papers from our class here: drive.google.com/drive/folder.... Now the goal is to write it up as a book 😅
I'm packing for NASSLLI 2025. The lineup is terrific! I'm looking forward to enjoying Seattle for the first time and climbing again with @shanest.bsky.social, who organized the school (kudos!). nasslli25.shane.st/schedule/
North American Summer School on Logic, Language and Information (NASSLLI '25) @ UW
Official website for the North American Summer School for Logic, Language and Information, taking place June 23-27 at the Univeristy of Washington, Seattle.
nasslli25.shane.st
June 21, 2025 at 8:43 AM
I'm packing for NASSLLI 2025. The lineup is terrific! I'm looking forward to enjoying Seattle for the first time and climbing again with @shanest.bsky.social, who organized the school (kudos!). nasslli25.shane.st/schedule/
Join us to pursue your PhD!
Applications are now OPEN for 15 PhD fellowships in the Doctoral Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences at CIMeC, University of Trento, Italy!
📅 Deadline: June 5, 2025
🧠 Research mind, brain & behavior
ℹ More info
🔗 phd.unitn.it/drcimec
🔗 www.unitn.it/en/phd/cognitive-and-brain-sciences
📅 Deadline: June 5, 2025
🧠 Research mind, brain & behavior
ℹ More info
🔗 phd.unitn.it/drcimec
🔗 www.unitn.it/en/phd/cognitive-and-brain-sciences
May 6, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Join us to pursue your PhD!
Finally, AI and LLMs come to the rescue by fixing LaTeX errors. Good job @overleaf.com
April 2, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Finally, AI and LLMs come to the rescue by fixing LaTeX errors. Good job @overleaf.com
Amazing opportunity!
I am looking for a PhD student to work on my ERC-funded project to investigate the format of thought in the absence of language in baboons and bees.
Details here: tinyurl.com/5ff9hcjj
Apply here: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/Docto...
Details here: tinyurl.com/5ff9hcjj
Apply here: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/Docto...
PhD opportunity - ERC ThoughtOrigins
We are seeking a graduate student in comparative cognition to work on a ERC-funded project (to Isabelle Dautriche) to investigate the format of thought in the absence of a language in two populations:...
docs.google.com
March 18, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Amazing opportunity!
Reposted by Jakub Szymanik
I am looking for a PhD student to work on my ERC-funded project to investigate the format of thought in the absence of language in baboons and bees.
Details here: tinyurl.com/5ff9hcjj
Apply here: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/Docto...
Details here: tinyurl.com/5ff9hcjj
Apply here: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/Docto...
PhD opportunity - ERC ThoughtOrigins
We are seeking a graduate student in comparative cognition to work on a ERC-funded project (to Isabelle Dautriche) to investigate the format of thought in the absence of a language in two populations:...
docs.google.com
March 17, 2025 at 8:42 PM
I am looking for a PhD student to work on my ERC-funded project to investigate the format of thought in the absence of language in baboons and bees.
Details here: tinyurl.com/5ff9hcjj
Apply here: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/Docto...
Details here: tinyurl.com/5ff9hcjj
Apply here: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/Docto...
Reposted by Jakub Szymanik
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
tinyurl.com/jhxb4wu2
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
tinyurl.com/jhxb4wu2
Junior Group Leader / Post-Doctoral Researcher Computational Linguistics/Cognitive Science (m/f/d, E 14 TV-L, 100%)
tinyurl.com
February 21, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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
tinyurl.com/jhxb4wu2
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
tinyurl.com/jhxb4wu2
I still can't believe Italy lacks a granting agency like other European countries. Establishing such an agency won't solve all the issues stemming from underfunded universities, but it would be a helpful step. www.scienzainrete.it/articolo/app...
Un appello per il futuro dell’Italia: sostenere la ricerca scientifica
La ricerca scientifica rappresenta un elemento strategico per lo sviluppo economico e sociale del nostro Paese. Tuttavia, la ricerca pubblica in Italia continua a soffrire di risorse limitate e spesso...
www.scienzainrete.it
February 17, 2025 at 7:58 PM
I still can't believe Italy lacks a granting agency like other European countries. Establishing such an agency won't solve all the issues stemming from underfunded universities, but it would be a helpful step. www.scienzainrete.it/articolo/app...
Reposted by Jakub Szymanik
A thread explaining our new discovery about humpback whale song published today in Science... We found key statistical properties that characterise all human languages in another species for the first time. We have more in common with whales than we previously thought! doi.org/10.1126/scie...
February 7, 2025 at 11:48 AM
A thread explaining our new discovery about humpback whale song published today in Science... We found key statistical properties that characterise all human languages in another species for the first time. We have more in common with whales than we previously thought! doi.org/10.1126/scie...
Reposted by Jakub Szymanik
How do our brains generate predictive models of unfolding events? We're seeking for a *postdoc* to address this question in my lab:
sites.google.com/site/moritzf...
sites.google.com/site/moritzf...
January 19, 2025 at 1:57 PM
How do our brains generate predictive models of unfolding events? We're seeking for a *postdoc* to address this question in my lab:
sites.google.com/site/moritzf...
sites.google.com/site/moritzf...
Do you study semantic or pragmatic phenomena using Bayesian cognitive models? Do you validate them? If "no," this tutorial is for you 😅 BTW, it's under submission, so all feedback on improving it is welcome. osf.io/preprints/os... cc @juliaha.bsky.social
January 16, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Do you study semantic or pragmatic phenomena using Bayesian cognitive models? Do you validate them? If "no," this tutorial is for you 😅 BTW, it's under submission, so all feedback on improving it is welcome. osf.io/preprints/os... cc @juliaha.bsky.social
Here is a call for papers for the most extraordinary student workshop in logic, language, and information at the most exciting summer school. The 2025 ESSLLI Student Session is on! 2025.esslli.eu/courses-work...
January 14, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Here is a call for papers for the most extraordinary student workshop in logic, language, and information at the most exciting summer school. The 2025 ESSLLI Student Session is on! 2025.esslli.eu/courses-work...
Reposted by Jakub Szymanik
Debate resolved!
Is the left-to-right association between numbers and space biologically or culturally determined?
Our study involved:
👨👩👧 Unschooled adults (Himba, Namibia)
👶 Italian pre-schooled kids
🎓 Italian schooled adults
— see comment for the findings
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A left-to-right bias in number-space mapping across ages and cultures - Nature Communications
This study examined the role of age and culture in determining spatial-numerical associations. Results showed all groups displayed implicit left-to-right biases, suggesting a biological basis for spac...
www.nature.com
January 12, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Debate resolved!
Is the left-to-right association between numbers and space biologically or culturally determined?
Our study involved:
👨👩👧 Unschooled adults (Himba, Namibia)
👶 Italian pre-schooled kids
🎓 Italian schooled adults
— see comment for the findings
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Reposted by Jakub Szymanik
Amazing collective problem solving in ants:
December 27, 2024 at 5:01 PM
Amazing collective problem solving in ants: