How to revise: As an editor and author I have seen many revised papers return to journals. Given effort, most go well (ie step toward acceptance). Some go pear-shaped. I’ve slowly improved and have an approach known by my group as the ‘Breakspear method”. Here is its essence

So-so excited about our brand new lab website: evlab.mit.edu, with art by the amazing Laura 🌈🧠’Neuro Artist’ Bundesen ❤️ I am especially proud of our Research page (evlab.mit.edu/research), which is a 'walk through' our various research directions. Thanks, @sciencesites!

🚨New paper!🚨My first (co)first-authored paper is now out in Nature Human Behaviour! We show that neural populations in the language network differ in the size of their temporal receptive windows rdcu.be/dR0sz co-led w/ Tamar Regev 1/ 🧵

📢 I am excited to share that I will start a postdoc position working with Dr.Cory Shain on some cool projects related to computational neuroscience and language processing. Can't wait to explore this new area and explore the lively community at Stanford and in California!

New paper with Alexander Fung, Pramod RT/ಪ್ರಮೋದ್ ರಾ ತಾ , Jessica Chomik , Nancy Kanwisher @[email protected], Ev (like in 'evidence', not Eve) Fedorenko 🇺🇦 on the representations that underlie our intuitive physical reasoning about the world. Thread 🧵about our new preprint 📄✨linked here: tinyurl.com/intphyslang 1/10

Our language neuroscience lab (evlab.mit.edu) is looking for a new lab manager/FT RA to start in the summer. Apply here: tinyurl.com/3r346k66 We'll start reviewing apps in early Mar. (Unfortunately, MIT does not sponsor visas for these positions, but OPT works.)

BabyLMs first constructions: new study on usage-based language acquisition in LMs w/ Leonie Weissweiler, Cory Shain. Simple interventions show that LMs trained on cognitively plausible data acquire diverse constructions (cxns) babyLM 🧵

I’m recruiting PhD and Masters students at the University of British Columbia! Looking to work with students interested in LLM interpretability, and intersections with cog ling. The UBC NLP group is growing and awesome, and Vancouver is great. Come to 🇨🇦! isabelpapad.com/#joininglab

COLM is going to San Francisco for 2026! 🗓️Dates: October 6-9, 2026 🏨Venue: Hilton San Francisco Union Square Website and CFPs for papers and workshops coming up soon!