Thrilled to share a review on THE LANGUAGE NETWORK AS A NATURAL KIND—a culmination of ~20 yrs of thinking about+studying language from linguistic, psycholinguistic, and cog neuro perspectives. Nature Rev Neurosci rdcu.be/dEylV
With the amazing Anna Ivanova Tamar Regev 🥳
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Finally, I'm moving *this summer* and will be looking to recruit! Reach out if you are interested in joining the lab. Learn more about us here: alylab.org
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When I moved to California for my PhD, I felt like I was home. I never wanted to leave.

So I am *delighted* to be going back – to join the faculty UC Berkeley!

Thanks to my lab, mentors, letter writers, friends, & partner for helping me land a dream job UCBerkeley Psychology❤️☀️ (1/3)

New perspective in Nature Reviews Psychology: human intelligence is a matter of scale of information processing, not genetic changes to one domain. Implications for AI, evolution, and development. - with Jessica Cantlon
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Congrats to Vanderbilt LGBTQ+ Policy Lab for being recognized by NIH as a leader in DEI! news.vanderbilt.edu/2024/03/29/nih…

PS is pleased to announce the inaugural members of the GSPC! The committee has been created to foster growth, inclusivity, and networking opportunities for trainees and early career professionals in cognitive and experiential psychology. Learn more: bit.ly/46b4uJe

📣I'm hiring a lab coordinator! This position is ideal for someone looking for research experience before applying to graduate school.

Deadline is April 1st—flexible summer start date. Details and instructions below! employment.ucsd.edu/laboratory-coo…

🎧Enjoyed talking to the Association for Psychological Science podcast #UndertheCortex about the Surprising Benefits of Sarcasm and Irony and our CDPS paper on the topic (with Valeria Pfeifer, Ph.D.), which is #OA here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/09…
Podcast link: podbean.com/ep/pb-umbpr-15…

In Topics in Cognitive Science, Jan Hulstijn and I present the Enhanced Literate Mind (ELM) hypothesis: processing of written language leads to increased (language) knowledge as well as enhanced language and non-language (perceptual and cognitive) skills pure.mpg.de/rest/items/ite…

Game time!

Looking for 1-2 FT RAs to start this summer. It's a 2- year position ideal for folks graduating college this spring who are looking for more research experience before applying to PhD programs in cog sci / neurosci. For full consideration, apply by Mar 15: tinyurl.com/ywxt24x3

Abstract accepted for a poster at #hsp2024 with Duane Watson on internet language experience and constructional biases. See y'all in Ann Arbor 💫

The psych department at NU is inviting applications for its Canady Diversity Science Postdoc. Here is a description: tinyurl.com/2cayu3hk

We encourage recent and soon-to-be psychology PhDs with an interest in diversifying psychological science to consider applying!

Are Large Language Models good at language? A recent paper by Dentella, Günther, & Leivada (DGL) argues no: LLMs can't distinguish grammatical sentences. We re-analyzed their data and found that LLMs are highly accurate and capture fine-grained variation in human judgments. 1/10

This! 👇

We applaud our NIDCD 2023 Diversity Scholars for their accomplishments and their mentors for their efforts in guiding the scholars’ progress toward independent research careers. Meet our 2023 scholars: go.nih.gov/bBslphE #NIDCDtraining

Reminder: The Governing Board is accepting applications from graduate students and postdocs for the inaugural Graduate Student and Postdoc Committee (GSPC). Applications are due January 31. Submit today: bit.ly/3uIVe24

Get ready for the upcoming One World Seminar “Sensorimotor plasticity and cognitive flexibility: A Neuoremergentist approach” presented by Arturo Hernandez from the University of Houston, USA. Reserve your free ticket today: bit.ly/3QVh5uu

The Department in African American & Diaspora Studies at Vanderbilt University seeks a scholar of Comparative Diaspora Studies, discipline open, for a three-year, non-T-T appointment as a Mellon Assistant Professor of African American & Diaspora Studies.

apply.interfolio.com/132699

You’re ready to submit your first paper to a journal. What happens after that? This Reviewer Zero workshop will pull back the curtain to help you understand how peer review works and provide you with concrete tools for responding to a wide range of reviews. Please join us!