Opinion | January 6 was a nothingburger. This week’s student protests are a big deal.

Justice Sotomayor: The president is only explicitly mentioned in a few federal statutes. 'Justice Barrett made the point that if we say a president can't be included in a criminal law unless explicitly named, then that would bar the Senate from impeaching him for high crimes or…

Have laws gotten simpler over time?

Analyzing all laws by congress 1951-2022, we (w/ Frank Mollica, Ted Gibson, Language Lab MIT) find laws remain laden with complex structures vs baseline, suggesting efforts to simplify have largely failed

Out now American Psychological Association JEP-General! psycnet.apa.org/record/2024-76…
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Does anyone know what this is from? (I saved it from a Tweet a while back, which didn't give a source.)

Princeton is hiring postdocs to investigate the relationships between LLMs and human cognition! puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/apply…

This is a public university. Absolutely wild how the media’s endless dialogue about free speech on campus and students are snowflakes has turned into a media dialogue about how we must crush speech on campus or else the world will end. It’s so transparent.

I am proud of every single paper that has come out of my lab, but this one feels truly special.

This time, we asked: How to build a gliding mammal?

Led by the stellar Jorge Moreno 🪼, I am happy to share our latest work, out in nature
nature.com/articles/s4158…

Please see 🧵👇

I could not possibly be more excited to announce that in Summer 2025, I'll be joining the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at UMass Amherst (UMass PBS) as an Assistant Professor in the Cognition & Cognitive Neuroscience Area.

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Excited to share our new review: sciencedirect.com/science/articl… w/ Erica Shook, Thomas Barlow, Daniella Garcia-Rosales & Connor Gibbons

We discuss the incredible color-changing skin behaviors of cephalopods, which broadcast the animal's perception of the world & internal state ✨

Img: Andre Hernandez

I am looking for a 1-year (with potential renewal for an additional 1-2 years) full time RA to help coordinate new longitudinal study in the lab: recruit.uwo.ca/psc/hrprdwebER…

Please DM or e-mail with any questions!

Brain-To-Text Competition 2024

This is the most fascinating BCI competition yet, organized by Stanford.

Everyone has time to develop the world's best brain-to-speech decoder!

Deadline: June 2, 2024

Task: Predict attempted speech from brain activity.

Dataset: They've…

Excited and humbled that our work is now out at Nature Human Behaviour linking #Memorability with #Time Perception!

Memorability shapes perceived time (and vice versa)

nature.com/articles/s4156…

So wonderful to see Ted Gibson Ted Gibson, Language Lab MIT at this Lex Fridman podcast talk about, among many other amazing things, research on whale communication.

You know linguistics is mainstream when it makes it to this podcast.

Project CETI

Silvia Bunge publishes developmental cognitive neuroscience textbook! bit.ly/3UlzYJS

📣I'm hiring a lab coordinator for my new lab at UCSD CogSci. This is a great position if you're interested in gaining research experience before applying to graduate school.

Apply by May 2, flexible start late summer start date (~Sep 1). Details below! employment.ucsd.edu/laboratory-coo…

✨🎓 I defended my dissertation “The Relationship between Linguistic Representations in Biological and Artificial Neural Networks” on Tuesday! 🎓✨ Incredibly grateful for my amazing PhD advisor Ev (like in 'evidence', not Eve) Fedorenko 🇺🇦 and a wonderful journey at MIT Brain and Cognitive Sciences! 🧠🤖

This is big: A new article in nature shows that already at current emissions, 'the world economy is committed to an income reduction of 19% within the next 26 years independent of future emission choices.'

This is a GDP loss of almost one fifth.
nature.com/articles/s4158…

Here's my conversation with Edward Gibson (Ted Gibson, Language Lab MIT), a linguist and psychologist at MIT, heading the MIT Language Lab. We talk all about the human language: syntax, grammar, structure, theories of language, evolution of language, how it reflects culture, and of course LLMs,…

So so excited for this!! <3 A lot of ground covered! :)

The Cognitive Science Society is thrilled to announce the winners of the 2024 Glushko Dissertation Prize! 🏆

Let’s meet the brilliant minds behind groundbreaking research in Cognitive Science 🧵👇