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📢 Seminar this Thursday (Sept 25, 1pm CET)

🎙️ Chloé Clavel (Inria Paris)
Understanding Social Interactions in the Era of LLMs – the Challenges of Transparency

📍 LIS, Campus Luminy + online
🔗 Zoom: univ-amu-fr.zoom.us/j/8685209402...

✨ #ILCB Summer School 2025 – Just a few days to go! ✨

From September 1–5, we’ll welcome students, researchers, and lecturers at CIRM, #Marseille for a week of courses, workshops, and discussions on #language, #brain & #cognition.

Looking forward to a stimulating week of scientific exchanges!

🌞 Back from the summer break!

We kick off the new season with an exciting ILCB Talk by Simon Kirby (University of Edinburgh):

🗓️ Sept 26, 2025 – Marseille
🎙️ “Cultural evolution creates language-like structure: from humans to humpback whales and beyond”

🔗 ilcb.fr/event/simon-kirby

#ILCB

Now that school is starting for lots of folks, it's time for a new release of Speech and Language Processing! Jim and I added all sorts of material for the August 2025 release! With slides to match! Check it out here: web.stanford.edu/~jurafsky/sl...

❗️Our next workshop will be on August 14, 6 pm CEST, on marginaleffects package by
@vincentab.bsky.social !
Register or sponsor a student by donating to support Ukraine!
Details: bit.ly/3wBeY4S
Please share! #AcademicSky #EconSky #RStats

We present a simplified, p5.js version of the vocal tract synthesizer from Neil Thapen's popular Pink Trombone, adapted for use in a creative coding assignment concerned with interaction design and absurd puppeteering.
Interactive: editor.p5js.org/golan/sketch...
Writeup: github.com/golanlevin/6...

More than 100 humanitarian groups warn of mass starvation in Gaza A joint statement says the Israeli government's "siege" has left aid supplies "totally depleted".

My god, how can anyone see this photo and not be outraged. Also read the article. www.bbc.com/news/article...

The Interaction Engine Cambridge Core - Semantics and Pragmatics - The Interaction Engine

The interaction engine: Language in social life and human evolution. New book (Open Access) by Stephen Levinson
doi.org/10.1017/9781...

"No effect of social priming on speech perception in Norwegian."

My PhD student Elena Varona tried to conceptually replicate explicit and subtle social priming effects on speech perception but she did not find any evidence for it.

osf.io/preprints/ps...

🌿 Save the Date!

Join us for the ILCB Garden Party on Friday, October 10 at the LPL garden!
Featuring presentations by
🧠 Philippe Albouy (ILCB-Iméra Chair 2025–2026)
🔬 Simon Thibault (ILCB postdoc)

A warm welcome to all our new members followed by a shared lunch in the garden.

Le monde des revues scientifiques au bord de l’asphyxie Plus de 3 millions d’articles sont publiés chaque année dans les revues scientifiques, les chercheurs étant incités à les multiplier pour se distinguer. Une logique économique perverse s’est installée...

Excellent travail de @lemonde.fr au sujet de l'édition scientifique.
Coût excessif, problèmes éthiques, etc.
Aujourd'hui ces revues servent à évaluer l'activité des chercheurs et nettement moins à diffuser la connaissance.
Un nouveau modèle doit s'imposer ...

#ESR

Learn Stan with brms, Part I | A. Solomon Kurz y ~ 1

New #rstats blog up!

solomonkurz.netlify.app/blog/2025-07...

This is the first in a brief series where we use {brms} to learn {Stan} code.

Many thanks to @fusaroli.bsky.social and @stephenjwild.bsky.social for their helpful reviews.

‘The American system is being destroyed’: academics on leaving US for ‘scientific asylum’ in France Almost 300 researchers have applied for for positions at Aix-Marseille University after Trump unleashed his attack on academia

www.theguardian.com/education/20...

I feel extremely grateful to play a small part in creating the experimental methods textbook i wished i’d had in grad school!

📢 The 2025 Amidex Research Equipment Call is open!
Funding available to renew or acquire energy-efficient research equipment across AMU labs.
Deadline: Jan 5, 2026.
More info 👉 www.univ-amu.fr/fr/public/la...

Newsletter | ILCB N°48 - June 15th, 2025

🎉 ILCB Newsletter #50 coming in September!

Got an idea for a special edition? Let us know! 🧠✨

We'll be discussing them at the next steering committee meeting in early July.

Past issues here: www.ilcb.fr/newsletter-2/

#ILCB #science #newsletter

🧠✨ The #ExploreFestival is back in #Marseille, June 10–15!

🔍 Meet researchers in parks, bars & boats – incl. ILCB members Isabelle Dautriche, Clément François, Bruno Torresani, Benjamin Morillon & more!

📍 Free, fun & science-packed
🔗Full program: explore.univ-amu.fr

#ILCB #ScienceForAll #amU

Join us tomorrow!!

🚨Job offer🚨

PhD position on my #ERC grant 'LaDy' to study how we process language in the dyad using interactive paradigms and EEG hyper-scanning.

Info and application link here (correction: application deadline is 11/07):
emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/Docto...

@cnrs-dr12.bsky.social
@erc.europa.eu

Book cover by Simon Kirby

Delighted to announce the publication of a collaborative effort, co-led by @limorraviv.bsky.social @mpi-nl.bsky.social, showcasing the ways in which researchers have made language evolution an empirical issue: A handbook of experimental approaches to the fascinating problem of language evolution 🧪

Promotional graphic for Roundtable 2 of the Cognitive Science: Perspectives for Higher Education webinar series. Title reads: 'Setting Up a Cognitive Science Program, Institute, or Center.' Text in the upper right corner says: 'A new webinar series for Cognitive Science Educators in Higher Ed.' A calendar icon shows the date: June 4

We're back with Roundtable 2 of our #CogSci Higher Education webinar series!

This time: Setting Up a Cognitive Science Program, Institute, or Center

📅 June 4 | 12 PM EST

Register now: cognitivesciencesociety.org/higher-educa...

🎥 Roundtable 1 recording now online: www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2Jp...

Word learning is usually about what a word does refer to. But can toddlers learn from what it doesn’t?

Our new Cognition paper shows 20-month-olds use negative evidence to infer novel word meanings, reshaping theories of language development.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Coming this fall from @mitpress.bsky.social!

🚨 5 days left to apply for the ILCB Summer School 2025! 🚀
Join us in Marseille to explore the latest in Language, Communication & the Brain with top experts!
🗓️ Dates: Sept 1-5, 2025
📍 Location: CIRM, Marseille, France
🔗 Apply now:
columbo.univ-amu.fr/index.php/53...
#SummerSchool #Neuroscience

We are recruiting two PhD students on cortical folding variability and organisation before birth, using fetal MRI. Come and join a motivated and happy team with tons of great fetal data, in a sunny, friendly, and inclusive environment.
tinyurl.com/foldsOrganis...
tinyurl.com/foldingVaria...

Embodied and Situated Language Conference (ESLP)
Aix-en-Provence, France
23-26 September 2025

The ESLP Conference provides an interdisciplinary forum for discussing current developments in grounding during online language processing in humans.
Abstract submission deadline: 30 June 2025

🔔 Don’t miss our Lunchtalk on May 23!

🗣️ Steve Majorus (Université de Liège) will explore how verbal working memory is shaped by our language system.

📍 Espace Pouillon, St Charles, Marseille
🕛 12:00 PM

👉 RSVP: www.ilcb.fr/event/the-fo...

#CognitiveScience #Neuroscience #Psycholinguistics

Please reach out if you’d like to come to sunny Aix-en-Provence (in the south of France) to work on anything related to the neural and computational bases of inner speech and/or mental/motor imagery!

Cover of python for experimental psychologists book by Dalmaijer with contributions from Rebecca Hirst & Jon Peirce

What do you mean? Of course I’m not spending my Friday night nerding out with Edwin Dalmaijer and @hirstrj.bsky.social and @peircej.bsky.social

Recherchons participants adultes francophones 18-40 ans pour une expérience sur le langage à Lyon 👇