What happens when a field targets one metric while ignoring real-world concerns? Our new #NeurIPS (spotlight!) paper asks "Is automated topic model evaluation broken?" arxiv.org/pdf/2107.02173… with @Pranav__Goel, Denis Peskov, Andrew Hian-Cheong, Philip Resnik, Jordan Boyd-Graber 1/15

Thrilled to share Episode 17 of the Language Neuroscience Podcast with the legendary Elissa Newport. We talk about language development, and especially language outcomes in kids with perinatal stroke. Thanks Marcia Petyt for transcription! langneurosci.org/podcast/ep17

If you're attending #LSA2022 (either in-person or virtually), check out the (hybrid) session on Critical Issues in Linguistics [Fri @ 9a EST, Columbia 3&4] @itamark will be presenting our work "The Open Letter: Responses and Recommendations" Come check it out (and say hi)!

NEWS 🎉: All of Us has released its first genomic dataset, which includes whole genome sequences from nearly 100K participants, in addition to genotyping arrays on 165K participants from diverse backgrounds. #Researchers, learn more: bit.ly/3N1vEtO #ResearchAllofUs

the poster gallery for already uploaded posters is OPEN for #hsp2022! take a look, start a conversation! tinyurl.com/hsp2022-public but before you do, we encourage you to review our code of conduct, found here! hsp2022.ucsc.edu/#codeofconduct

*NEW PREPRINT* I built a simple python package called minicons, to facilitate behavioral and representational analyses of transformer LMs. paper: arxiv.org/abs/2203.13112 code: github.com/kanishkamisra/… paper-experiments: github.com/kanishkamisra/… 1/n

The book should be out in just a few weeks! Long time coming... folks who read it seemed to like it (Liina Pylkkanen E. Matthew Husband Eytan Zweig) alternative title: "neurolinguistics: what's up with that???" global.oup.com/academic/produ…

Brains, linguistics, meaning and understanding, language vs. thought, and much more in conversation with the excellent Ev (like in 'evidence', not Eve) Fedorenko 🇺🇦 and @emilymbender.bsky.social about large language models. braininspired.co/podcast/144/

Our data paper "Le Petit Prince multilingual naturalistic fMRI corpus" (nature.com/articles/s4159…) is out Scientific Data! Please cite us if you are using it😀 w/Shohini Bhattasali (শোহিণী),Shulin Zhang,Berta Franzluebbers,Wen-Ming Luh,@Nathan_Spreng, Jonathan Brennan,Yiming Yang,Christophe Pallier, John Hale.

Colgate CS dept has 2 open tenure track positions! Pitch for fellow CogSci folks: “We encourage applications from candidates with cross-disciplinary expertise related to…Mind, Brain and Behavior Initiative…” Consider applying! Review begins on Oct 15 academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/22748

good morning #snl2022! Don't miss out on Donnie Dunagen's poster (A18) on long distance dependencies across languages

*3* open positions at UMD Linguistics, an absolutely wonderful place, with some of the smartest and supportive faculty I have ever worked with!

Thrilled to be awarded a U of T Data Sciences Institute (DSI) Catalyst Grant with Shion, Shohini Bhattasali (শোহিণী), and collaborators. We will work with two vulnerable communities to address the conflict resolution challenges in data interpretation. Third Space UofT U of T Department of Computer Science Critical Computing Schwartz Reisman Institute

📢Wrote this letter on visa inequity & inclusion in response to nature editorial on reforming Phd training + role of world & institutional leaders. NIH could consider this piece to re-envision postdoc training & career progression.🧵 Read here: rdcu.be/c6AQo 👇👇

I'll be presenting a poster at #HSP2023 tomorrow! "How far does probability take us when measuring psycholinguistic fit? Evidence from Substitution Illusions and Speeded Cloze Data" with Shohini Bhattasali (শোহিণী), Philip Resnik, and Colin Phillips Abstract: osf.io/srvhz

I'm thrilled to share some good news! In Fall 2023, I'll be joining Colgate University as an Assistant Professor of Computer Science! I feel immense gratitude for everyone who has provided mentorship, friendship, and support through this process and the many that came before!

Interdisciplinary collaboration leads to innovative solutions. Congratulations to Profs. Ishtiaque Ahmed , Shohini Bhattasali (শোহিণী) and Shion