Asya Achimova

The average publication time is 18 days! How could you say no?!

Sometimes academic spam gets funny! By the way, the alignment paper is available here journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
Disclaimer: I'm afraid the link to reproduction is rather indirect 😁

New positions in our lab!

PostDoc: using tools of CogSci (resource-rational analysis, Bayesian pragmatics) to investigate whether LLMs build causal world models
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Scientific Project Manager (@PostDoc level) for this 👆 project area
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Short-term fellowships available for international PhD candidates at the University of Potsdam around "Limits of Variability in Language"! If you're a linguist interested in this opportunity, please contact me or one of the other PIs for more information! #linguistics #fellowship #funding #phd […]

Federico, this is fantastic news! Congratulations!

Postdoc position in Stuttgart, Germany (TV-L 13, 100%) for 18 months, on authority presuppositions in AI systems with Dr. Agnieszka Faleńska and me. For more information and application info, see here: safety.https://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/documents/team/falensaa/aphic_postoc.pdf

When people respond "two" to the question "How many animals did Moses take on the ark?" do they actually accommodate a false presupposition that Moses took animals on the ark? Apply for a Ph.D. position to work on presuppositions, deadline 20.12.2025. More info at linguistlist.org/issues/36-3553

⚠️ New Postdoc or PhD position open (3 years+) ⚠️

🚩Developmental milestones across cultures 🌍

Based @leuphana.bsky.social , in collaboration with @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social

Please share/apply!

Link: tinyurl.com/58dsn43u

Thank you for leading this initiative! It was very stimulating to think about shared mechanisms of handling ambiguity in different species.

In a new exciting collaboration with @marlenfroehlich.bsky.social and @profgerhard.bsky.social we think about how studying ambiguity in human and great ape communication can advance our theories of language evolution. Paper out at doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...

Three inspiring days at #XPrag in beautiful Cambridge! It was wonderful to see many old friends and new members of the growing community!

What an important piece of work and what an extraordinary effort! Congratulations!

📢 Come to Tübingen and get your PhD with us! Unique opportunity to explore great ape communication 🐵🦧🦍 from multiple disciplinary angles within a single, integrated project. 👇

Fovea-Like Input Patching (FLIP) image segmentation architecture beats Meta's Segment Anything Model (SAM): | Martin Butz Fovea-Like Input Patching (FLIP) image segmentation architecture beats Meta's Segment Anything Model (SAM): * More than a 1000-fold potential energy saving: * FLIP-Tiny has 1,257× fewer paramete...

New work from my colleagues at the Neurocognitive #modeling lab! They developed a scene #segmentation architecture that beats SOTA with 1000 times fewer parameters. LinkedIn post www.linkedin.com/posts/martin...
Paper arxiv.org/abs/2502.02763
Code and interface cognitivemodeling.github.io/FLIP/

More Ph.D. positions available in several projects related to the #SFB Common ground! Please see the list here uni-tuebingen.de/de/283575

Support: Computational Linguistics, Text/Corpus Linguistics: PhD, University of Tübingen The DFG-funded project in the newly established Collaborative Research Center (SFB 1718) “Common ground”, hosted by the University of Tübingen, is inviting applications for a PhD position in Computational Linguistics (75%, TV-L 13 scale, approximately €3.400 per month before taxes and obligatory insurances). The position is associated with project C2 “Signaling and Interpreting Defectivity in Common Ground: Face-to-Face, Voice-Only, and Text-Only Communication” The position begins on 01 October

Support: Computational Linguistics, Text/Corpus Linguistics: PhD, University of Tübingen

PostDoc position (3.5y) available in interdisciplinary Collaborative Research Center "Common Ground".

🎯 Topic: Pragmatic reasoning about Common Ground
🎓 linguistics | philosophy of language | cognitive science
📅 Deadline: July 14
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@toddthelinguist.bsky.social

Last chance to register for the Tübingen pre- #cogsci2025 workshop. Register by Jul 1st 👉 forms.gle/v6VtEE6UqYw5... to give a talk, present a poster, or just check out great science and a free lunch (generously provided by @ml4science.bsky.social). Accepted Cogsci paper *not required*. Pls. share 🙏

📢 2 PhD positions (E13 TV-L, 75%) in our DFG-funded project on great ape communication & the evolution of common ground!

🧠 Backgrounds in biology, psychology or linguistics welcome.
🗓️ Deadline: Aug 13
🔗 bit.ly/4l8p7hy & bit.ly/46jcfAq

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@elmanubohn.bsky.social @meanwhileina.bsky.social

Hiring in the age of generative AI is a whole new game! 😱

We're hiring a postdoc! ~3.5 years @ E13 TV-L 100%

probabilistic pragmatics + cognitive psychology + formal epistemology + experimental methods (with human participants)

Does this sound like you, or anyone you know? Send them our way!

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LINGUIST List 36.1935 Support: General Linguistics, Language Acquisition, Pragmatics: MA / MSc, University of Tübingen The LINGUIST List, International Linguistics Community Online.

We have 2 Ph.D. positions available in a #DFG funded project awarded to @profgerhard.bsky.social and me. We are planning to combine acquisition work with computational modeling to investigate how children and adults understand irony. Deadline: July 20, 2025. Info linguistlist.org/issues/36/19...

Elin, I'm sorry to hear that!

The alignment model of indirect communication Speakers often choose utterances under uncertainty about the potential opinion of the listener. In this case, utterances that do not signal the speaker’s opinion directly may allow the speaker to avoi...

Can't wait to share our new #RSA model of #indirect communication developed with Michael Franke @meanwhileina.bsky.social‬ and Martin V. Butz! We model how speakers choose utterances, such as "The election outcome was interesting!", and how listeners interpret them. doi.org/10.1371/jour...

This is fantastic news! Congratulations!

Very interesting book, can't stop reading it!

Interested in what we can learn from, and about, Large Language Models? Interested in mechanistic interpretability, in comparisons with neuro-symbolic systems, and in things other than just benchmark-chasing?

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

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Dan Harris delivering a talk at the "Background beliefs" workshop

Dan @danielwharris.bsky.social is discussing various ways in which information enters common ground.

Background beliefs workshop

The "Background beliefs" workshop speakers @toddthelinguist.bsky.social, @elinm.bsky.social, Greg Scontras, and Martin Butz enjoying a short break at the Castle balcony. It was the most fun time! Thank you all for joining and co-organizing! Photography by Natasha Korotkova.