New College Giving Day is live! £500 will be unlocked if someone makes a gift in the next 30 minutes! Watch our film, follow our progress and support our current and future students: bit.ly/NCGivingDay #NewCollegeGivingDay #NCOpeningDoors

🚩Job alert! I'm recruiting a PhD and a Postdoc for my newly founded research group "Language Evolution and Adaptation in Diverse Situations" (LEADS). If you want to come work with me at MaxPlanck-Psycholinguistics, please apply using the links below! mpi.nl/career-educati… mpi.nl/career-educati…

This does show something fascinating! But not that linguists’ knowledge of language is “bunk”. Rather, what has mainly been a descriptive science—despite what Chomsky claims!—hasn’t provided the necessary insights for engineering systems that acquire and understand language use.

I wrote up some things I wish I'd known as an undergrad starting out in research! A few highlights below: alextamkin.com/essays/tips-fo…

Cool! Will read it later🤓

Stanford CS 324 - Large Language Models - Lecture Notes 2022 A handy notes on various topics and techniques related to large language models. Notes are structured really well and there are pointers for recent/landmark papers in LLMs. stanford-cs324.github.io/winter2022/lec…

🥳🥳🥳

People are testing large language models (LLMs) on their "cognitive" abilities - theory of mind, causality, syllogistic reasoning, etc. Many (most?) of these evaluations are deeply flawed. To evaluate LLMs effectively, we need some principles from experimental psychology.🧵

Now hiring: Six PhD students and one postdoc for research on combining neural and symbolic/interpretable models of language, vision, and action. Work with world-class advisors at Universität Saarland, MPI Informatics, MPI-SWS, @CISPA, DFKI. Details: neuroexplicit.org/jobs

Hi everyone, we are delighted to announce that we have a paper presented at NoDaLiDa on computational simulation of the past tense acquisition in EN, NL & DE. Huge thanks to all the coauthors: Jingyan, Arjan van Eerden, Ahnaf Mozib Samin & Arianna Bisazza #EMNLP 🇨🇳! aclanthology.org/2023.nodalida-… EMLCT

Now hiring: Three more PhD students and one postdoc for research on combining neural and symbolic/interpretable models of language, vision, and action. Work with world-class advisors at Universität Saarland, MPI Informatics, MPI-SWS, @CISPA, DFKI. Details: neuroexplicit.org/jobs

This is how I advise my #PhD students to write research manuscripts (in case someone finds it helpful). General points: 1. Research questions addressed by your manuscript are key and should guide you. 2. Don’t view your manuscript as an article. See it as a STORY. 3. Pick the

📢 *Looking for a PhD student!* Hedderik van Rijn and I are starting a super exciting project on using LLMs and adaptive methods to improve learning of complex knowledge, and address implicit biases. Want to do a PhD with us? Get in touch (asap)! GroNLP University of Groningen Jantina Tammes School: Digital Society, Tech & AI

Come do research with me, my fantastic colleagues, and some of the coolest PhD students I've ever met! #NLProc #nesy #neurosymbolic #AI #ML

Tokenization is just a special case of "chunking" - building low-level data into high-level abstractions - which is in turn fundamental to intelligence. Our new architecture, which enables hierarchical *dynamic chunking*, is not only tokenizer-free, but simply scales better.

I’m in Vienna all week for ACL 2025 and I’ll be presenting this paper on Wednesday at 11am (Poster Session 4 in HALL X4 X5)! Reach out if you want to chat about multilingual NLP, tokenizers, and open models!

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

👀Ever wondered how visual information quality affects reading and language processing? Our new #EMNLP2025 paper, “Modeling Bottom-up Information Quality during Language Processing”, bridges psycholinguistics and multimodal LLMs. 🧠💡👇 arxiv.org/pdf/2509.17047