The rage & fear you feel after the Russian invasion are ancient parts of your mind preparing - like clockwork - for a world of conflict. After 10 years of research in the lab & field, it is surreal to feel it unfold in my own mind A 🧵 on what happens & with what effects (1/16)

The problem with modern architecture. (It isn't what you think) A short thread...

People all over the Netherlands have been flagged for welfare fraud based on a crude spreadsheet & some unscientific prejudices. How do we know? We took the algorithm apart & rebuilt it. Score yourself & see fraudescorekaart.lighthousereports.nl/#/scorekaart

Three years in the making - our big review/position piece on the capabilities of large language models (LLMs) from the cognitive science perspective. Thread below! 1/ arxiv.org/abs/2301.06627

I am excited to have 2 papers accepted at #ACL2023 and we can't wait to share our research with the community. Looking forward to meeting everyone at the conference in Toronto! 🎉 Details in the thread:

We are doing a conference! If you work with #cultural #text #linguistic #media #literature #film #art #audiovisual #DH etc data, take a look! Bonus: Tallinn Christmas market, northern lights (maybe) and 4 free practical skills workshops (yes incl R!) on the pre-conf day.

Psychologists have identified a pervasive illusion that has existed for at least 70 years: The illusion of moral decline psypost.org/2023/06/psycho…

Interested in AI research, science communication and publishing with world-wide impact? We have a manuscript editor opening at Nature Machine intelligence, get in touch! Various office locations available. careers.springernature.com/job/New-York-A…

I’m quite used to the cruelty students can face when they apply for a US visa but this one broke me. We offered admission to a stellar, talented & hardworking student. After months of work and hundreds of dollars, an embassy officer saw him for 5 mins & said no. why? …

Want to work with people doing state-of-the-art NLP research in an amazingly friendly atmosphere in a beautiful town? Join @GroNLP! We have two open assistant prof positions in Language Technology and Humane AI, deadline Feb 1st. rug.nl/about-ug/work-…

We are happy to announce a new #fellowship programme! 🎉We invite early career researchers and internationally renowned senior humanities scholars to come to our vibrant city to make #connections! More about application requirements & procedures 👇 rug.nl/research/resea…

arxiv.org/abs/2403.13922 Check out Leanne's (github.com/LeanneNortje) paper on mutual exclusivity bias in speech-vision models (with Herman Kamper and Dan Oneață) - now accepted to TACL!

📢Prof. Alexander Koller seminar: 'Untrustworthy and still revolutionary: Some thoughts on how #LLMs are changing #NLP' 🗓️3 July 2024 Large language models revolutionise the field of natural language processing. Is this a good thing? Alexander Koller Universität Saarland 👉tinyurl.com/3f8ym7nk

Was ist in Basel-Euroairport Flughafen los? 🧐

So there appears to be a #manhunt ongoing at Basel airport currently. All flights cancelled, and all people are being detained in the departures hall while the authorities share no information at all… What on earth is happening?! When will they let people go free?

Interested in a paid PhD position in the Netherlands? Join me, Annemarie van Dooren, and Arianna Bisazza on a project to develop computational models of modal verb acquisition. A job ad will be out soon, but here's a preview: yevgen.web.rug.nl/phd.pdf

Apply for our PhD position in language acquisition / computational linguistics in Groningen until 24 April! Job ad is here: rug.nl/about-ug/work-…

Last week to apply for our PhD position!