@coryshain.bsky.social
Language in minds, brains, and machines. Linguistics prof @Stanford. He/him. https://climblab.org/
I'm leading a session with PhD students on developing elevator pitches for research. Does anyone have suggested readings, websites, or just general advice on the topic?
No one ever taught me how to do this and honestly I struggle with this skill. All suggestions welcome!
Less than 3 weeks to submit an abstract for ICCG14! please pass it on: iccg14.oa-event.com June 4-7, 2026
11.11.2025 14:17 — 👍 5 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
Screenshot of a figure with two panels, labeled (a) and (b). The caption reads: "Figure 1: (a) Illustration of messages (left) and strings (right) in toy domain. Blue = grammatical strings. Red = ungrammatical strings. (b) Surprisal (negative log probability) assigned to toy strings by GPT-2."
New work to appear @ TACL!
Language models (LMs) are remarkably good at generating novel well-formed sentences, leading to claims that they have mastered grammar.
Yet they often assign higher probability to ungrammatical strings than to grammatical strings.
How can both things be true? 🧵👇
Come join us at Rochester to work on low-resource NLP with @cmdowney.bsky.social! 👇
11.11.2025 14:20 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0🤦
10.11.2025 23:20 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I can confirm that I was indeed the 2nd author!
10.11.2025 20:12 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0Not sure what went wrong there but the 2nd author was @weissweiler.bsky.social, so sorry Leonie!
10.11.2025 17:38 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1Oh cool! Excited this LM + construction paper was SAC-Highlighted! Check it out to see how LM-derived measures of statistical affinity separate out constructions with similar words like "I was so happy I saw you" vs "It was so big it fell over".
10.11.2025 16:27 — 👍 17 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0Josh Rozner's paper (w/ @rifter.bsky.social + @kmahowald.bsky.social) was an SAC Highlight at #EMNLP25! aclanthology.org/2025.emnlp-m...
10.11.2025 15:11 — 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 2
PAFT: Prompt-Agnostic Fine-Tuning Chenxing Wei, Yao Shu, Mingwen Ou, Ying He, Fei Yu Constructions are Revealed in Word Distributions Joshua Rozner, Leonie Weissweiler, Kyle Mahowald, Cory Shain To Mask or to Mirror: Human-AI Alignment in Collective Reasoning Crystal Qian, Aaron T Parisi, Clémentine Bouleau, Vivian Tsai, Maël Lebreton, Lucas Dixon Whisper-UT: A Unified Translation Framework for Speech and Text Cihan Xiao, Matthew Wiesner, Debashish Chakraborty, Reno Kriz, Keith Cunningham, Kenton Murray, Kevin Duh, Luis Tavarez-Arce, Paul McNamee, Sanjeev Khudanpur
Finishing up with Senior Area Chair Highlights (1/9)
10.11.2025 03:45 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 1
I’m looking for interns to join our lab for a project on foundation models in neuroscience.
Funded by @ivado.bsky.social and in collaboration with the IVADO regroupement 1 (AI and Neuroscience: ivado.ca/en/regroupem...).
Interested? See the details in the comments. (1/3)
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1 year residency program at Apple. Cogsci/neuro/ling folks studying neuro interpretability, reasoning, and decision-making under uncertainty to help Apple make progress on similar questions in LLMs. Recent PhD or more senior jobs.apple.com/en-us/detail...
08.11.2025 19:47 — 👍 6 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
Session 5: "BabyLM’s First Constructions." In a companion paper to the first one, we show that much of this constructional knowledge is even present in "babyLMs" with more developmentally plausible amounts of training: arxiv.org/abs/2506.02147. w/ @weissweiler.bsky.social
02.11.2025 21:57 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Session 4: "Constructions are Revealed in Word Distributions." We show that rich knowledge of syntactic constructions in masked language models (MLMs) is revealed by patterns of contextual constraint. arxiv.org/abs/2503.06048. w/ @weissweiler.bsky.social + @kmahowald.bsky.social
02.11.2025 21:57 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0If you're going to #EMNLP, Josh Rozner will be representing CLiMB Lab with 2 talks, sessions 4+5, both in A108, check them out!
02.11.2025 21:57 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0The psychology program at NYU Abu Dhabi has open rank open area positions in cognition-perception-cogneuro. Wonderful colleagues, excellent research infrastructure (incl MRI, MEG, EEG), close ties to NYU New York. Superfast growing part of the research world
apply.interfolio.com/175417
#neuroskyence
Cornell is seeking postdocs for the Empire AI Fellows program. The focus is on technical research, but if this looks interesting to you and your technical AI work has connections to law, please reach out!
academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30971
This is a great Postdoc opportunity at UPenn, for recent Ph.D.s who want to collaborate with CogSci (psych, neuro, ling, philo, cs, etc.) faculty and have their own research direction.
28.10.2025 16:10 — 👍 10 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
I will be recruiting PhD students via Georgetown Linguistics this application cycle! Come join us in the PICoL (pronounced “pickle”) lab. We focus on psycholinguistics and cognitive modeling using LLMs. See the linked flyer for more details: bit.ly/3L3vcyA
21.10.2025 21:52 — 👍 28 🔁 14 💬 2 📌 0UT Austin Linguistics is hiring in computational linguistics!
Asst or Assoc.
We have a thriving group sites.utexas.edu/compling/ and a long proud history in the space. (For instance, fun fact, Jeff Elman was a UT Austin Linguistics Ph.D.)
faculty.utexas.edu/career/170793
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We're hiring! UT Linguistics invites applications for a position in computational linguistics to begin next academic year 2026-27 (rank of tenure-track Assistant Professor or Associate Professor with tenure). apply.interfolio.com/175156
08.10.2025 18:12 — 👍 10 🔁 10 💬 1 📌 1
Junior and senior faculty positions in computational social scientists at Bocconi, one of the world's best universiites: Assistant Prof: jobmarket.unibocconi.eu?id=841
Associate/Full Prof: jobmarket.unibocconi.eu?id=843
For anyone on the neuroscience job market, our ads are up. We are looking for anyone working in systems neuroscience of animals to join us in southern Alberta 🇨🇦
#academicsky #neuroskyence #neuroethology #academicjobs #Canada
neurojobs.sfn.org/job/39049/as...
At #COLM2025 and would love to chat all things cogsci, LMs, & interpretability 🍁🥯 I'm also recruiting!
👉 I'm presenting at two workshops (PragLM, Visions) on Fri
👉 Also check out "Language Models Fail to Introspect About Their Knowledge of Language" (presented by @siyuansong.bsky.social Tue 11-1)
We’re recruiting a postdoctoral fellow to join our team! 🎉
I’m happy to share that I’ve opened back up the search for this position (it was temporarily closed due to funding uncertainty).
See lab page and doc below for details!
PhD Position: Accented Speech Processing - Apply now!
Come work with Mirjam Broersma, @davidpeeters.bsky.social, and me at the Centre for Language Studies, Radboud University in the Netherlands.
Application deadline: 19 October 2025
For more information, see
www.ru.nl/en/working-a...
🚨Open immediately!! (rolling application review)🚨: Postdoc w/ the amazing Tamar Gollan, Uni. Cal. San Diego, bilingual speech production and cognitive control in aging and Alzheimer’s disease psychiatry.ucsd.edu/about/LAB_Go...
30.09.2025 18:17 — 👍 10 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0
Come be our colleague at EPFL! Several open calls for positions 🧪🧠🤖
* Neuroscience www.epfl.ch/about/workin... (deadline Oct 1)
* Life Science Engineering www.epfl.ch/about/workin...
* CS general call www.epfl.ch/about/workin...
* Learning Sciences www.epfl.ch/about/workin...
Brown’s Department of Cognitive & Psychological Sciences is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor, working in the area of AI and the Mind (start July 1, 2026). Apply by Nov 8, 2025 👉 apply.interfolio.com/173939
#AI #CognitiveScience #AcademicJobs #BrownUniversity
