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Ryan M.C. Law

@rmc-law.bsky.social

Interested in the cognitive/computational/neural bases of language and meaning - PhD Candidate at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge - Bornean Malaysian https://rmc-law.github.io/

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I also often struggle with how anti-theoretical he is! But I think the position is not taken against science itself but on ways of doing philosophy. (I'm not sure how popular this stance would've been in his days either!)

05.12.2025 10:24 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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We are excited to announce #COGNESTIC 2026 @mrccbu.bsky.social in Cambridge, between 14-25 Sep 2026. Our 2-week summer school provides training in state-of-the-art methods for open neuroimaging analysis and great opportunities for professional networking:
www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/events/cogne...

17.11.2025 10:18 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 18    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2
IMPRS PhD Fellowships 2026 | Max Planck Institute

OPEN PHD POSITION - Come join our group! The IMPRS at @mpi-nl.bsky.social is offering an PhD position on modelling structured meaning in the brain, supervised by me and Helen De Hoop at the Centre for Language Studies in the @dondersinst.bsky.social -
www.mpi.nl/imprs-phd-fe... #NeuroJobs #cogsci

23.10.2025 09:05 β€” πŸ‘ 37    πŸ” 28    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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I'm recruiting PhD students to join my new lab in Fall 2026! The Shared Minds Lab at @usc.edu will combine deep learning and ecological human neuroscience to better understand how we communicate our thoughts from one brain to another.

01.10.2025 22:39 β€” πŸ‘ 119    πŸ” 72    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 3
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Fellowship Programme - Cambridge NeuroWorks Fellowship programme Cambridge NeuroWorks is proud to introduce the Cambridge NeuroWorks Fellowship Programme, offering two transformative fellowship streams …

If you are interested in a postdoc fellowship working on concurrent brain stimulation and imaging (e.g. TMS-fMRI doi.org/10.1101/2025...), then check out this unique opportunity and get in touch (deadline for expressions of interest is 13 Oct).

cambridgeneuroworks.org/programmes/f...

01.10.2025 14:25 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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@rmc-law.bsky.social Ryan Law presenting on a unified framework for semantic memory and semantic composition in the ATL.

@snlmtg.bsky.social #SNL2025

13.09.2025 14:49 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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University of South Carolina has *7* tenure-track faculty positions in Neurobiology of Language:

tinyurl.com/USC-Faculty-...

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

09.09.2025 14:49 β€” πŸ‘ 52    πŸ” 29    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 3
Language and Computation in Neural Systems We are an international group of scientists consisting of linguists, cognitive scientists, cognitive neuroscientists, computational neuroscientists, computational modellers, computational scientists, ...

Interested in doing a PhD with me and lacns.github.io? Or with any of the incredible fellows in the IMPRS School of Cognition www.maxplanckschools.org/cognition-en - apply before Dec 1st at cognition.maxplanckschools.org/en/application

03.09.2025 15:15 β€” πŸ‘ 35    πŸ” 37    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 2
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UCL – University College London UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

🚨Amazing opportunity: position available for a new associate/full professor at the FIL @imagingneuroucl.bsky.social @uclbrainscience.bsky.social! Do you have a neuroimaging-focused research program? Get applying! 🚨

www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

08.08.2025 13:39 β€” πŸ‘ 23    πŸ” 22    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

I’m hiring a lab manager for my new music cognition lab at Cornell. I’m also looking to recruit PhD students and postdocs next year. I’ll be at #ICMPC_SaoPaulo and #CogSci2025β€”feel free to reach out or spread the word for relevant candidates.

18.07.2025 16:09 β€” πŸ‘ 21    πŸ” 15    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Title page of SCIL extended abstract titled: semantic-features: A User-Friendly Tool for Studying Contextual Word Embeddings in Interpretable Semantic Spaces

Title page of SCIL extended abstract titled: semantic-features: A User-Friendly Tool for Studying Contextual Word Embeddings in Interpretable Semantic Spaces

I will unfortunately have to skip SCiL this year, but I am thrilled to share that Jwalanthi will be presenting this work by her, @rjha.bsky.social, me, and @kmahowald.bsky.social on a tool that allows you to project contextualized embeddings from LMs to interpretable semantic spaces!

17.07.2025 17:47 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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JOB ALERT: Computational Cognitive Neuroscience Postdoc position in Osaka, Japan! Possible start in October 2025 (contact me ASAP), or from April 2026. PLEASE REPOST! #postdocjobs #neuroskyence #neuroscience #psychscisky #compneurosky #neurojobs 1/

18.07.2025 03:34 β€” πŸ‘ 85    πŸ” 75    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 3

If you're at ICML, check our work on AlgEval, toward algorithmic understanding of generative AI. I couldn't make it in person but am excited to say @taylorwwebb.bsky.social is there presenting our spotlight paper.
P.S. If you see Taylor congratulate him on his professorship!
arxiv.org/abs/2507.07544

16.07.2025 18:32 β€” πŸ‘ 23    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Our team is hiring a postdoc in (mechanistic) interpretability! The ideal candidate will have research experience in interpretability for text and/or image generation models and be excited about open science!

Please consider applying or sharing with colleagues: metacareers.com/jobs/2223953961352324

15.07.2025 20:11 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Pleased to share our ICML Spotlight with @eberleoliver.bsky.social, Thomas McGee, Hamza Giaffar, @taylorwwebb.bsky.social.

Position: We Need An Algorithmic Understanding of Generative AI

What algorithms do LLMs actually learn and use to solve problems?🧡1/n
openreview.net/forum?id=eax...

20.06.2025 15:48 β€” πŸ‘ 155    πŸ” 37    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 3
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How I write papers How I write empirical papers Caroline Rowland Last updated May 2025 This guide tells you how I structure empirical papers in child language acquisition. It is not the only way, nor is it suitable f...

I've been adding to my 'how I write papers' google doc recently. Interested to hear if others disagree with my views on writing journal articles docs.google.com/document/d/1...

09.07.2025 07:30 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
Funded PhD opportunity.pdf

Funded PhD opportunity with @sjblakemore.bsky.social and I, at Cambridge. We are looking for someone interested in developmental science, to start in the coming academic year. Please share it with anyone you think might be interested (see details attached 😁).
drive.google.com/file/d/1RIvg...

27.05.2025 13:49 β€” πŸ‘ 47    πŸ” 60    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 6
Center for Possible Minds Postdoctoral Fellow The Center for Possible Minds at Indiana University, Bloomington, invites applications for Postdoctoral Fellows to join its Program for Advanced Research in Diverse Intelligences. The fellowship provi...

New postdoc positions at the (DISI-affiliated) Center for Possible Minds at Indiana University.

Looking for scholars interested in interdisciplinary research on the nature of biological, artificial, and collective intelligence.

Please share widely!

indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/29547

27.05.2025 18:39 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 15    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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πŸ”ŽWe're looking for volunteers to study the brain:
- Native English?
- πŸ‡«πŸ‡·in Paris?
- 🧠Want to participate in a brain imaging experiment?
- πŸ’Ά 8 sessions of 2 hours paid 80€ each
- πŸ“© contact: julie.bonnaire@cea.fr

Please RT :)

28.05.2025 14:03 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Ahhh dream Postdoc

20.05.2025 14:19 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

amazing opportunities to work with @andreaeyleen.bsky.social and team-- i couldn't recommend more. ‡️

20.05.2025 14:55 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Language and Computation in Neural Systems We are an international group of scientists consisting of linguists, cognitive scientists, cognitive neuroscientists, computational neuroscientists, computational modellers, computational scientists, ...

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)

20.05.2025 13:49 β€” πŸ‘ 81    πŸ” 53    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 9

Go work with Andrea and friends!!!

20.05.2025 16:05 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Hey! MEG folks πŸ‘‹

You want to go and follow @meguki2025.bsky.social RIGHT NOW to hear all about the AMAZING conference they are organising in London in July.

Also, you know, to make them happy. Doing social media for a conference is hard. Ask me how I know...

14.05.2025 14:26 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Drumroll please... πŸ₯

Abstract submission for MEG-UKI 2025 is now open!!!
All the details can be found meguk.ac.uk/meg-uki-2025/

We are looking forward to welcoming you to London!

06.05.2025 14:17 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 14    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 4

Looks like @vborghesani.bsky.social and @gabriellaluiza.bsky.social will also lead a journal club
@prereview.bsky.social on May 15th, 5pm CEST πŸ™Looking forward to the discussion!!

#Semantics #RNN #Neuroscience #SemanticMemory #SemanticComposition

15.04.2025 14:31 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

New preprint ✨ w/ @olafhauk.bsky.social and Matt Lambon Ralph @mrccbu.bsky.social @cambridgeuni.bsky.social @gatescambridge.bsky.social

The anterior temporal lobe (ATL) seems crucial for both semantic memory and semantic composition. How to make sense of this neuroanatomical alignment? 🧠

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15.04.2025 14:31 β€” πŸ‘ 27    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

That's great news! We look forward to reading the fruits of that discussion in the SNL Semantics Club prereview.org/clubs/snl-se...! Let us know if we can be of any support.

15.04.2025 17:23 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

A common framework for semantic memory and semantic composition

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

13.04.2025 00:44 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

A common framework for semantic memory and semantic composition https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.11.648390v1

12.04.2025 08:15 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

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