Jorge Valdes Kroff

My lab at BU is recruiting PhD students and possibly a postdoc this year!

We study humans & machines, centered around topics like meaning, generalization, evaluation methods and design, and the nature of computation and representation that underlie language and cognition.

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New Yiddish book donation enriches UF’s Latin American Jewish Collections UF's Price Library of Jucaica has received an exciting new addition to its Latin American Jewish holdings.

Thought of @joshuaraclaw.com when coming across this story

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Don't miss this opportunity to work with one of the best in multingualism in diverse contexts and using diverse methodologies!

We’re hiring! Join the BabelBrain Project @usc.gal @filoloxiausc.bsky.social
1️⃣ PhD1/multilingual practices in Galicia
2️⃣ PhD2/multilingual practices in Gibraltar
3️⃣ Postdoc/experimental fieldwork in Galicia & Gibraltar
📄 Full details: www.usc.gal/gl/investiga...
🗓 Deadline: 26 Nov 2026

The Multilingual Minds & Machines Meetings call for abstracts is now open! Everything you need to know is here -> mmmm2026.github.io

"Vanderbilt is failing in its moral responsibility to push back against rising authoritarianism and political coercion."

My effort to convince Vanderbilt (and all universities) to take a stand for the rule of law, the Constitution, and our democracy.

www.tennessean.com/story/opinio...

This is amazing!!

🚨🚨 New tenure-track job posting! 🚨🚨

The University of Florida is hiring an Assistant Professor in Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience, with an open research focus.

Job ad here: explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/53...

Here's some info about why you should apply to this job! 1/

Many congratulations to you!!! Wishing this journal tremendous success and I know its impact will be felt throughout the language sciences.

It is the honor of my lifetime to share that @universitypress.cambridge.org will publish the @lingsocam.bsky.social's new Journal of Black Language & Culture. www.lsadc.org/content.asp?...

JBLAC fosters a transdisciplinary conversation on Black language & culture through a global, diasporic lens.

I once had the immense pleasure of hearing her speak at PSU. A tremendous force for good, may she rest in peace.

SCOOP/UPDATE — The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) instructed *all* federal agencies to send out the shutdown email with NO modifications permitted, a federal source confirmed. Leadership received these orders via email at 1:30pm ET and then reinforced on a 3pm intra-agency call.

This is so crazy and to see NSF among the list saddens me tremendously. Adherence to the Hatch Act is something that we are trained on and take seriously.

I did follow this and it is a remarkable 15 pages.

Chief Justice Roberts in SFFA just two years ago: "Eliminating racial discrimination means eliminating all of it."

Yet when the government is EXPLICITLY using race & ethnicity to detain & question people, he gives it his blessing.

Assistant Professor of Psychology - Human Cognition or Cognitive Neuroscience University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!

UCDavis Psych is hiring an Assistant Professor in Human Cognition or Cognitive Neuroscience 🧠✨

Come join a vibrant, collaborative dept and live in a fun college town near Sacramento, San Francisco, Napa, and Lake Tahoe. Applications due Oct.21.

Please share widely!

recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07300

I have never seen so many public servants protest the mismanagement of a government. Trumpists will point to this as proof of the deep state, but the reality is that these are professionals who are desperately trying to get the public to understand how bad things are.

The SNL 2025 Access Award will waive registration fees for up to 20 students, trainees, and faculty who face barriers to attending the Society for Neurobiology of Language conference.

Apply by Aug 27; winners named Aug 28.

Pls share!

🔗 tinyurl.com/SNLAcessAward

#SNL2025 #NeurobiologyofLanguage

on the left, the cover of the journal gender linguistics, its logo consists of a conjoined uppercase G and L. on the right, the following text: a community-owned journal for gender linguistic research, peer-reviewed, open access, no publication costs, multilingual publishing; below the text, there is the link to the journal website and a qr code.

One highlight of LILG 2025: the official launch of the new open-access journal Gender Linguistics!

Published by our association, the journal will be a space for research at all linguistic intersections of language and gender.

Learn more: gender-linguistics.org

#linguistics #journal #launch

I have a BA in music (classical voice) with a minor in philosophy, where I took logic, political philosophy, and legal philosophy. My PhD is in cognition and neuroscience w/an MA in stats, and now my work is applied stats. I am a better, more rounded scholar because of the humanities.

Improving Oversight of Federal Grantmaking By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and to improve the process of Federal

Further consolidating control over federal research funding under Russell Vought and a cadre of apparatchiks.

www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

A big problem with US STEM is it has presented itself as "politics free", better than social science, & exceptional (thus separate), making it very easy for the rightwing to present STEM as not being important or valuable for people, elitist, & untrustworthy 1/2

#BecauseFlorida

Join us for our final Summer Series talk tomorrow, Tuesday, July 22nd, at 2pm ET! Dr. Ashley Ruba will provide us with tips and tricks on how to effectively communicate our research skills in a way that makes them transferable to industry jobs.

psu.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Dear deaf people who sign some variety that could fall on the spectrum of “ASL” but grew up signing that wasn’t considered “ASL” for whatever reason,

If you receive a survey that is targeted at ASL signers, do you assume you are included? Why or why not?

Asking for myself

“Hey bro, why is your face covered”

“I’m out here arresting babies”

“Have you considered not arresting babies”

“Well they’re criminal babies”

Excellent news!

LSA Presidential Research Forum

Join us as scholars rethink terms like “native speaker” and “bilingual”— and work toward empirically driven, contextually grounded characterizations of language use.

Register to attend - www.lsadc.org/ev_calendar_...

#LSA #Linguistics #Sociolinguistics

Call for 20 Assistant Professor positions Karolinska Institutet is a world-leading medical university with a long and proud history of ground-breaking research. We are now recruiting outstanding early-career researchers with particularly exce...

Karolinska is looking for 20 (!!) assistant professors and offering 6 year appointments with ~1M USD startup packages.

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NEW: NSF will be kicked out of their building. Announcement will be made tomorrow by HUD Sec. and Governor of VA. HUD will take over the NSF building over the next two years.

NSF staffer: "There is no planning for NSF, no identified future location, appropriation for a new building or a move."