Jon Brennan

Reminder!! We are hiring in Linguistics at Michigan with a focus on "AI and Linguistics" (broooaaadly construed). This is part of a cluster of positions in Psychology and Philosophy in collaboration with the Cognitive Science program. Applications now open!

careers.umich.edu/job_detail/a...

Your guide to grant terminations at UMich A collection of research projects at the University of Michigan, many focused on marginalized communities, health equity and public health, whose grants have been terminated following a directive from...

Student newspapers, again doing the work
@michigandaily.bsky.social

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University of South Carolina has *7* tenure-track faculty positions in Neurobiology of Language:

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Positions in COMD, Psych, Linguistics, School of Medicine.

@snlmtg.bsky.social #SNL2025, we will have a booth.

w/@rutvikdesai.bsky.social @imb-uofsc.bsky.social

Another job here at Michigan - this one in Linguistics! Part of a cluster of hires with a focus on Cognitive Science and AI. Happy to chat to interested folks. apply.interfolio.com/171006

Be my colleague!! We're hiring in cognitive science and AI as part of a cluster of positions across Linguistics, Psychology, Psychiatry and Philosophy. The Psychology posting is now up; the linguistics job posting will be up soon.

apply.interfolio.com/169170

NYU LLM + cognitive science post-doc interest form Tal Linzen's group at NYU is hiring a post-doc! We're interested in creating language models that process language more like humans than mainstream LLMs do, through architectural modifications and int...

I'm hiring at least one post-doc! We're interested in creating language models that process language more like humans than mainstream LLMs do, through architectural modifications and interpretability-style steering. Express interest here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

my lab (lacns.github.io) at @mpi-nl.bsky.social and @dondersinst.bsky.social is recruiting for two PhD and two postdoctoral positions funded by an @erc.europa.eu Consolidator - come join us!

PhD: www.mpi.nl/career-educa...

Postdoc: www.mpi.nl/career-educa...

(please share widely)

bit of good news: approved technical staff position! link below. please be in touch if this matches your skills & interests! drive.google.com/file/d/16J2J... (hr listing posted harvard-internal now; external soon, per guidelines), happy for ?s & plan on quick turnaround! #CogSciSky #PsychSciSky 🐦🐦

Annual meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language September 12-14 2025 Gallaudet University Abstract submission through April 29 neurolang.org

The Society for the Neurobiology of Language meeting will be at Gallaudet University, September 12-14th. We have 4 outstanding keynotes (Fumiko Hoeft, Duane Watson, Carol Padden, Fatemeh Geranmayeh).

Abstract submissions are open! Hope to see you there! #SNL2025

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I might be able to hire a postdoc for this fall in computational linguistics at UT Austin. Topics in the general LLM + cognitive space (particularly reasoning, chain of thought, LLMs + code) and LLM + linguistic space. If this could be of interest, feel free to get in touch!

If you know UM Faculty members:

The University Senate is voting on four motions on DEI, protecting our immigrant community and resisting against Trump. Ballot vote ends on Sunday, April 20th, at 4pm. Only faculty can vote! Need to pass please share.

To vote, please visit: vote.umich.edu

www.geo3550.org/2025/04/08/g...
“To our knowledge, these visa revocations are not due to pro-Palestine or labor organizing. Some have to do with minor infractions or traffic violations that are years, if not decades, old, others are not given any reason at all.”
donate at bit.ly/GEOWorkerSolidarity

🚨🚨 Here we go! 🚨🚨

@protectdemocracy.org, @cspi.bsky.social, and @aclu.org have sued RFK and his cronies at HHS to halt illegal grant terminations.

www.courtlistener.com/docket/69835...

Yes! The leadership of Eastern Michigan and Michigan State have displayed incredible courage during these times.

My master's degree alma mater, Wayne State in Detroit, also remains committed to DEI. wayne.edu/strategic-pl...

I'm teaching an undergrad EEG/MEG/iEEG methods course and created a pair of interactive webpages to help build intuition about the Fourier Transform.
dbrang.github.io/Fourier-Wave...
dbrang.github.io/Fourier-Wave...

Finally it's here, in the flesh!!!

tagging @jyzz22.bsky.social!

Decoding the Neural Dynamics of Headed Syntactic Structure Building The brain builds hierarchical phrases during language comprehension; however, the representational details and dynamics of the phrase-building process remain underspecified. This study directly probes...

...Second, Junyuan Zhao shows how phrasal categories can be decoded from EEG signals and finds that, unlike evoked correlates of phrase-structure, such representations dissociate from semantic similarity (and predictability). Out now in the Journal of Neuroscience!

... First, Jeonghwa Cho uses cross-language prefix priming to demonstrate shared cross-linguistic representations of morphosyntax that dissociates from orthographic and semantic similarity ...

Two new papers led by amazing students (some positivity in These Dark Times)...

Why Official English is a terrible idea for the United States, from @lingsocam.bsky.social. Like and share! www.lsadc.org/content.asp?...

Here's what linguistics experts think about the recent executive order declaring English as the official language of the US (spoiler: they don't think it's a great idea):

www.lsadc.org/content.asp?...

I'm so proud to be a member of the executive committee of @lingsocam.bsky.social!

I'm grateful for the chance to write this and so impressed by all the amazing things scientists are doing in Central Illinois and the impact the NSF/NIH are having in my hometown. Many thanks to the folks at @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social for this initiave and all the resources to get started

✨i'm hiring a lab manager, with a start date of ~September 2025! to express interest, please complete this google form: forms.gle/GLyAbuD779Rz...

looking for someone to join our multi-disciplinary team, using OPM, EEG, iEEG and computational techniques to study speech and language processing! 🧠

@andreaeyleen.bsky.social has been awarded a Consolidator Grant by the European Research Council (ERC) for her proposal 'DYNALANG: Integrating structure and statistics in language processing: an ecological neural dynamics and manifolds approach'. Read more on our website: mpi.nl/news/erc-con...

Projects McMaster University. Christian Brodbeck Lab at McMaster University

I'm involved in an NIH-funded project led by Christian Brodbeck at McMaster U (Canada) on aging, brain, and speech perception. He's looking for postdocs, grad students & a full-time RA. Happy to answer questions & share widely! christianbrodbeck.net/projects/con...

Assistant Professor, Computational Approaches to Language - Cluster Hire - Madison, Wisconsin, United States Job Summary: This position is a full-time, tenure-track faculty position at the Assistant Professor level in the Department of Psychology at UW-Madison. The search is for a job candidate whose exper...

UW-Madison Psychology is hiring a new assistant professor in the area of computational approaches to language (broadly construed). Please share with interested parties! jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...

Endowed Professorship of Language and Communication at the University of Oxford, closing date 13 January 2025:

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#jobs #sociolinguistics #linguistics #professor

We are going to launch an 8-pager format for CCN2025 next to the 2 page format. We have organised 2 zoom sessions for questions about this new format and CCN2025 in general. Today (21:00 CET, 15:00 EST) and on the 21st (10:00 CET, 16:00 EST). See 2025.ccneuro.org/call-for-pap... for reg.