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In "Mathematical Structure of Syntactic Merge," Matilde Marcolli, Noam Chomsky, & Robert C. Berwick present a complete, precise mathematical formalization of Chomsky's most recent theory of Merge. #OpenAccess: mitpress.mit.edu/9780262552523

PhD position to study conversational coordination with Prof Adrian Bangerter at Uni Neuchatel www.unine.ch/ipto/wp-cont...

Albanese accuses Israel of ‘clearly’ breaching international law but resists push to recognise Palestinian state ‘Quite clearly it is a breach of international law to stop food being delivered,’ PM tells ABC’s Insiders

Piss weak, genocide complicit, Australian government
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‘We are social creatures that learn from each other every day’: Manikya Alister explores social learning and decision-making ‘We are social creatures that learn from each other every day’: Manikya Alister explores social learning and decision-making

Growing up in an unconventional country town, PhD candidate @manikyaalister.bsky.social has always been fascinated by how people learn and make decisions.

“We are social creatures that learn from each other every day.”

Read more: go.unimelb.edu.au/wn7p

The Oxford Handbook of Archaeology and Language Abstract. Linguists have long described their findings in an archaeological context, while archaeologists have been interested in what language can tell th

New volume on the interface between languages, human history, anthropology, archaeology and (a bit of) genetics, curated by M. Robbeets and M. Hudson. A very rich table of content for everyone interested in these multidisciplinary studies of the human past. I contributed two chapters:

How Does Speaking A Free Word Order Language Influence Sentence Planning and Production? Evidence From Pitjantjatjara (Pama‐Nyungan, Australia) Sentence production is a stage-like process of mapping a conceptual representation to the linear speech signal via grammatical rules. While the typological diversity of languages is vast and thus mus...

How does speaking a free word order language influence sentence planning and production? Evidence from Pitjantjatjara (Pama‐Nyungan, Australia). New paper by Evan Kidd & al. with Gabriela Garrido Rodríguez
doi.org/10.1111/cogs.70087

📣 I'm looking for a postdoc to join my lab at NYU! Come work with me on a principled, theory-driven approach to studying language, learning, and reasoning, in humans and AI agents.
Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/170656
And come chat with me at #CogSci2025 if interested!

On November 18, 2019, Noem released a meth awareness campaign named "Meth. We're on It". The campaign was widely mocked and Noem was criticized for spending $449,000 of public funds while hiring an out-of-state advertising agency from Minnesota to lead the project.[219] She defended the campaign as successful in raising awareness.[220]

I'm convinced it exists

Seealpsee - Wikipedia

See also en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seealpsee

Seems like BS?

OECS thematic collections.

If you haven't been looking recently at the Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science (oecs.mit.edu), here's your reminder that we are a free, open access resource for learning about the science of mind.

Today we are launching our new Thematic Collections to organize our growing set of articles!

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First paper in Glossa Contact exemplifies LVP with a case study from Abui (Timor-Alor-Pantar language family), spoken in east Indonesia.

Consider submitting your own research!

#linguistics

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Does anyone know of studies about priming with non-default (marked) word order?

#linguistics

when the most important thing is not to mention the genocide

Submit an abstract 📝 on your work on cross-linguistic aspects of language processing and (first) language acquisition to ⭐️Crosslinguistic Perspectives on Processing and Learning (X-PPL) 2025⭐️ (Sept 1&2 @ U Zurich)! It’s a fantastic venue to present work on how ling diversity 🌏 & the mind/🧠 interact!

Compelling writing opportunity for those authors

A new paper out, on the diachrony of verbal classifiers - with particular attention to Daly languages of northern Australia
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Stop the Starvation of Gaza Please sign this urgent letter and circulate it amongst Israeli citizens living in the UK.

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More than 300 Israeli citizens who live in the UK call on the UK government to suspend the Trade and Partnership Agreement (TPA) with Israel immediately until it allows food and medicine into Gaza in significant quantities.
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Universities, your silence is deafening

Three year postdoc position in Cognitive Science, Potsdam, Germany:

www.uni-potsdam.de/en/verwaltun...

Jews for Food Aid for Gaza Jewish people support food aid for families in Gaza and an immediate end to the Israeli government’s food aid blockade. #JewsForFoodAidForPeopleInGaza

If you're Jewish please sign this from Jews for Food Aid for People in Gaza:
foodaidforgaza.org

and anyone can donate to the organization they recommend, Gaza soup kitchen, which serves up to 6000 meals daily: givebutter.com/AReeXq

Trump officials take steps toward a radically different NSF Efforts to shrink staff, budget, and focus have alarmed members of Congress

🧪 The NSF grant terminations hit women, racial & ethnic minorities, and those with disabilities the hardest.

E.g.:

--Female PIs were 58% of canceled grants (but 34% of all active grants)

--Black PIs were 17% of canceled grants (but 4% as base rate)

A closer look shows this is structural... 🧵

📣Paper Update 📣It’s bigger! It’s better! Even if the language models aren’t. 🤖New version of “Bigger is not always Better: The importance of human-scale language modeling for psycholinguistics” osf.io/preprints/ps...

Luckily there’s a sane and peace-loving world power ready to mediate… oh

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