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Cory Shain

@coryshain.bsky.social

Language in minds, brains, and machines. Linguistics prof @Stanford. He/him. https://climblab.org/

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I found the answer thanks to Gemini. Wild. ChatGPT (erroneously) threw someone else under the bus.

23.02.2026 21:37 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Yay!!!

20.02.2026 23:50 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Tenured! Thanks to UT Linguistics for being an amazing place to work! And to everyone who has helped along the way: it's staggering to think of all the mentors and many collaborators involved in getting to this point.

20.02.2026 23:45 β€” πŸ‘ 92    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 14    πŸ“Œ 1
A photo of an ice cream machine with a sign reading, "Anything is possible with ice cream." Beneath that is a hand lettered sign reading, "No ice cream".

A photo of an ice cream machine with a sign reading, "Anything is possible with ice cream." Beneath that is a hand lettered sign reading, "No ice cream".

2026 basically

18.02.2026 16:23 β€” πŸ‘ 40970    πŸ” 10905    πŸ’¬ 313    πŸ“Œ 340

My lab at UW Madison is hiring a new lab manager! I’m looking for a motivated and detail-oriented person to help run the lab’s day-to-day, including our ongoing neuroimaging and behavioral studies. This is especially well suited for graduating undergrads thinking about grad school. Link below

12.02.2026 18:20 β€” πŸ‘ 28    πŸ” 34    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Who needs dog whistles when you can just call your dogs?

06.02.2026 17:35 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The Visual Learning Lab is hiring TWO lab coordinators!

Both positions are ideal for someone looking for research experience before applying to graduate school. Application deadline is Feb 10th (approaching fast!)β€”with flexible summer start dates.

30.01.2026 23:21 β€” πŸ‘ 48    πŸ” 41    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Parenting a 6-year-old is answering whether a baby mouse could fit in half the Kola Superdeep Borehole, no clarification questions allowed, justify your answer.

30.01.2026 02:58 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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If you're looking for a PhD and you're interested in the cerebellum, predictions, language, and MEG, please apply by 1st March! We have two open positions.

More details here:
benediktzoefel.wixsite.com/home/phd

28.01.2026 07:49 β€” πŸ‘ 21    πŸ” 17    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
Attention-like regulation of theta sweeps in the brain's spatial navigation circuit Spatial attention supports navigation by prioritizing information from selected locations. A candidate neural mechanism is provided by theta-paced sweeps in grid- and place-cell population activity, which sample nearby space in a left-right-alternating pattern coordinated by parasubicular direction signals. During exploration, this alternation promotes uniform spatial coverage, but whether sweeps can be flexibly tuned to locations of particular interest remains unclear. Using large-scale Neuropixels recordings in freely-behaving rats, we show that sweeps and direction signals are rapidly and dynamically modulated: they track moving targets during pursuit, precede orienting responses during immobility, and reverse during backward locomotion β€” without prior spatial learning. Similar modulation occurs during REM sleep. Canonical head-direction signals remain head-aligned. These findings identify sweeps as a flexible, attention-like mechanism for selectively sampling allocentric cognitive maps. ### Competing Interest Statement The authors have declared no competing interest. European Research Council, Synergy Grant 951319 (EIM) The Research Council of Norway, Centre of Neural Computation 223262 (EIM, MBM), Centre for Algorithms in the Cortex 332640 (EIM, MBM), National Infrastructure grant (NORBRAIN, 295721 and 350201) The Kavli Foundation, https://ror.org/00kztt736 Ministry of Science and Education, Norway (EIM, MBM) Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences; NTNU, Norway (AZV)

The hippocampal map has its own attentional control signal!
Our new study reveals that theta #sweeps can be instantly biased towards behaviourally relevant locations. See πŸ“Ή in post 4/6 and preprint here πŸ‘‰
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
🧡(1/6)

28.01.2026 10:03 β€” πŸ‘ 183    πŸ” 62    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 10
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a man in a plaid shirt says and it really bothered me . ALT: a man in a plaid shirt says and it really bothered me .

I have looked up what a weta is and I hold you responsible for this mistake

28.01.2026 07:42 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Bilbo looking at his phone top

on bottom is ChatGPT

After all, why not? Why shouldn't I keep it?

You're absolutely right β€” you found it, it's been with you a long while, and it's only natural to feel fond of something that's served you so well, especially when someone like Gandalf suddenly seems to want it for himself.

Bilbo looking at his phone top on bottom is ChatGPT After all, why not? Why shouldn't I keep it? You're absolutely right β€” you found it, it's been with you a long while, and it's only natural to feel fond of something that's served you so well, especially when someone like Gandalf suddenly seems to want it for himself.

28.01.2026 01:51 β€” πŸ‘ 25432    πŸ” 6957    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 155
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Postdoc opportunity with any of my Oxford colleagues funded by the British Academy. Expressions of interest due next week! www.humanities.ox.ac.uk/british-acad...

21.01.2026 10:29 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

With some trepidation, I'm putting this out into the world:
gershmanlab.com/textbook.html
It's a textbook called Computational Foundations of Cognitive Neuroscience, which I wrote for my class.

My hope is that this will be a living document, continuously improved as I get feedback.

09.01.2026 01:27 β€” πŸ‘ 585    πŸ” 237    πŸ’¬ 16    πŸ“Œ 10
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US plan for $1.6m hepatitis B vaccine study in Africa called β€˜highly unethical’ Experts decry β€˜neocolonialist’ Guinea-Bissau study after Trump administration changed advice for US babies

"Babies in the randomized, controlled trial will or will not receive the vaccine at birth...

"It is a breach of scientific ethics to withhold an intervention that has been proven safe and effective."

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

21.12.2025 21:27 β€” πŸ‘ 4627    πŸ” 1799    πŸ’¬ 247    πŸ“Œ 174
Only candidates who are internationally based (both working and residing outside of Canada) at the time of the time of the first Impact+ Program intake application deadlineβ€―are eligible to apply.
Impact+ candidates must have a recent track record of research accomplishments and significant interest in making new contributions to Canada in the strategic research priority areas.
Successful Impact+ candidates will be appointed to a tenure-track position at the rank of Full Professor, or as an Associate Professor with a promotion to Full Professor within two yearsβ€―of starting their appointment in the academic unit(s) that best fits their area of academic interest and expertise.

Only candidates who are internationally based (both working and residing outside of Canada) at the time of the time of the first Impact+ Program intake application deadlineβ€―are eligible to apply. Impact+ candidates must have a recent track record of research accomplishments and significant interest in making new contributions to Canada in the strategic research priority areas. Successful Impact+ candidates will be appointed to a tenure-track position at the rank of Full Professor, or as an Associate Professor with a promotion to Full Professor within two yearsβ€―of starting their appointment in the academic unit(s) that best fits their area of academic interest and expertise.

Impact+ chairholders are expected to drive the translation of discoveries into applications, commercialization and social and economic benefits for Canada and the world, while also developing the next generation of highly qualified personnel in the following priority areas:

Advanced digital technologies (AI, quantum, cybersecurity)
Health, including biotechnology
Clean technology and resource value chains
Environment, climate resilience, and the Arctic
Food and water security
Democratic and community resilience
Manufacturing and advanced materials
Defence and dual-use technologies

Impact+ chairholders are expected to drive the translation of discoveries into applications, commercialization and social and economic benefits for Canada and the world, while also developing the next generation of highly qualified personnel in the following priority areas: Advanced digital technologies (AI, quantum, cybersecurity) Health, including biotechnology Clean technology and resource value chains Environment, climate resilience, and the Arctic Food and water security Democratic and community resilience Manufacturing and advanced materials Defence and dual-use technologies

McGill is hiring scholars from outside Canada! The Canada Impact+ Research Chairs (Impact+) Program is designed to attract world-leading researchers whose work addresses critical national and global challenges. Review of applications begins 1/16/26. www.mcgill.ca/research/res...

22.12.2025 00:52 β€” πŸ‘ 40    πŸ” 34    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2

Job hunting at #NeurIPS2025? Passionate about Responsible AI ? Come and talk to @matijafranklin.bsky.social and Arianna Manzini. We're hiring on *all levels* (senior, PhD graduate and research students/ interns) at #GoogleDeepMind -- stay tuned for the JD coming out in the new year

04.12.2025 11:08 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I've worked with Momchil for years and can't recommend his lab enough!

03.12.2025 18:19 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Join us for Fall 2026. In our group, you can run studies from human behavior and neuroimaging, to large-scale NHP ephys, and join them up with a robust computational foundation. Bonus: you can help build the reading list.

02.12.2025 13:23 β€” πŸ‘ 37    πŸ” 29    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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Well this is exciting!

The Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences at Johns Hopkins University (@jhu.edu) invites applications for a full-time tenured or tenure-track faculty member in Cognitive Psychology, in any area and at any rank!

Application + more info: apply.interfolio.com/178146

02.12.2025 03:18 β€” πŸ‘ 93    πŸ” 55    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 3

Woohoo πŸŽ‰ congrats!

25.11.2025 07:10 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Honored to be selected! Thank you @thetransmitter.bsky.social πŸ™Œ

25.11.2025 07:03 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Applications Are Now Open for Academic Year 2026-2027 | Department of Cognitive Science

Looking for a funded Ph.D. in #CogSci in an interdisciplinary, research-first program? Apply to CEU!

cognitivescience.ceu.edu/admission

Deadline February 4, 2026. Please share with any interested students!

#PsychSciSky #DevPsych #CogPsych

24.11.2025 10:48 β€” πŸ‘ 30    πŸ” 22    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1
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Pls report: We're hiring! Looking for a postdoctoral research fellow to join our study of individual differences in plasticity in #blindness (+ possible extension to #deafness) using fMRI.

Details and application: apply.interfolio.com/177838

#hiring #postdoc #neurojobs #Neuroscience #NeuroTwitter

20.11.2025 15:50 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 14    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2
PNAS Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

Our paper β€œThe cost of thinking is similar between large reasoning models and humans” is now out in PNAS! πŸ€–πŸ§ 
w/ @fepdelia.bsky.social, @hopekean.bsky.social, @lampinen.bsky.social, and @evfedorenko.bsky.social
Link: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... (1/6)

19.11.2025 20:14 β€” πŸ‘ 35    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
Top: A syntax tree for the sentence "the doctor by the lawyer saw the artist".

Bottom: A continuous vector.

Top: A syntax tree for the sentence "the doctor by the lawyer saw the artist". Bottom: A continuous vector.

πŸ€–πŸ§ I'll be considering applications for PhD students & postdocs to start at Yale in Fall 2026!

If you are interested in the intersection of linguistics, cognitive science, & AI, I encourage you to apply!

PhD link: rtmccoy.com/prospective_...
Postdoc link: rtmccoy.com/prospective_...

14.11.2025 16:40 β€” πŸ‘ 36    πŸ” 13    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 2

"Processing deep recursive structures in humans and LLMs" - @yuhanzhang.bsky.social + Advay Aravind (Sunday poster) 5/5

15.11.2025 02:03 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"Repetition Increases Signal in Self-Paced Reading Experiments" - Erxiao Wang (Sunday talk) 4/5

15.11.2025 02:03 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

"Lesioned Language Models Reproduce Symptoms of Human Aphasias" - Nathan Roll + @kriesjill.bsky.social + @lauragwilliams.bsky.social (Sunday talk) 3/5

15.11.2025 02:03 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

"Graded strength of comparative illusions is explained by Bayesian inference" - @yuhanzhang.bsky.social + Erxiao Wang (Saturday talk) 2/5

15.11.2025 02:03 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0