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I'd like to hire a post-doc, to start this summer or fall. It'd be great if you could share this widely with people you think might be interested. More details on the position & how to apply: bit.ly/cocodev_postdo… Official posting: academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/13532

Exciting news! The Murty Lab Georgia Tech, has received its first significant funding from the NEI. We are now actively recruiting up to two postdocs in experimental and computational neuroscience in human vision NeuroAI. 1/n

The CoganLab is looking for a postdoc to work on intracranial recordings of speech. Projects include speech production, verbal WM, and decoding for neural speech prostheses with micro-ECoG. Come join us at Duke! coganlab.org/postdoc24 Duke Institute for Brain Sciences Duke Neurology Duke Neurosurgery

Now out in Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience! Distributed Sensitivity to Syntax and Semantics throughout the Language Network. direct.mit.edu/jocn/article-a…. A 🧵...

1/ Really excited to share: Language in Brains, Minds, and Machines w Nancy Kanwisher @[email protected] Ev (like in 'evidence', not Eve) Fedorenko 🇺🇦 Annual Reviews We survey the insights that language models (LMs) provide on the question of how language is represented and processed in the human brain. rb.gy/8afztv

I’m looking for a postdoc to work with my group on understanding speech and language in the brain using pediatric intracranial recordings. Looking for folks with strong computational skills and electrophysiology experience. Email me your CV if interested! Job post forthcoming.

Excited to share that I will join Johns Hopkins as an Assistant Professor of Cognitive Science in July 2025! I am starting the ✨Group for Language and Intelligence (GLINT)✨, which will study how language works in minds and machines: glintlab.org Details below 👇 1/4

New @nature paper: nature.com/articles/s4158… NeuralGCM results (all are a "first"): 1) A differentiable hybrid atmospheric model 2) Competitive with ECMWF ensemble 3) Competitive with a GCRM in a year-long simulation 4) 40-year AMIP-like runs. Smaller bias than AMIP runs. 1/

Thanks Nature Rev Neurosci for the chance to clarify that1️⃣the language network is not monolithic (we never said it was, but happy to emphasize); and2️⃣language network boundaries don't depend on a specific 'localizer' and can be recovered from task-free data: tinyurl.com/5y3rhfrh

This is now published in iScience - cell.com/iscience/fullt… Just a small (n=2) but very unique evidence that a single, neurotypically organized, auditory cortex suffices for typical function. Ben Lipkin (co-first) Dr. Dana Boebinger Alexander Paunov Hope Kean Sam Norman-Haignere Ev (like in 'evidence', not Eve) Fedorenko 🇺🇦

Please RT: I am looking to hire a research assistant to help recruit, schedule and run human participants in auditory perception experiments at MIT. Preferably full-time, but could be part-time. Ideal for someone looking to get more research experience in advance of grad school.

The Harvard University Press booth at #SfN24 is ready and waiting. Come visit us and our books tomorrow through October 9!

A lovely response to our NRN review (nature.com/articles/s4158…) from Yannick Becker Yannick Becker (@ybecker.bsky.social) and Angela Friederici FriedericiLab, providing a nice link to the evolution of language-relevant brain machinery. And our echo response here: tinyurl.com/5n9x53au 1/n

Why do diverse ANNs resemble brain representations? Check out our new paper with Colton Casto, Noga Zaslavsky, Colin Conwell, Mark Richardson MD PhD, & Ev (like in 'evidence', not Eve) Fedorenko 🇺🇦 on “Universality of representation in biological and artificial neural networks.” 🧠🤖 tinyurl.com/yckndmjt (1/n)

The reply to our NRN piece (nature.com/articles/s4158…) by Drijvers et al. presented a chance to clarify common confusions about our work on the language network (LN) and the functional localization approach more generally: rdcu.be/d5rkJ. 🧵1/n w/Anna Ivanova Tamar Regev

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.)

⭐🗣️New preprint out: 🗣️⭐ “Using Information Theory to Characterize Prosodic Typology: The Case of Tone, Pitch-Accent and Stress-Accent” with Cui Ding, Giovanni Acampa, Tiago Pimentel, Alex Warstadt, Tamar Regev: arxiv.org/pdf/2505.07659

So excited about this line of work 👨‍🔬 We use LLMs as a tool 🔧 to better understand linguistic typology: Their ability to learn complex probability distributions 📊 gives quantitative insights into the different strategies languages use to transmit information through prosody 🎶

If you're finishing your camera-ready for ACL (#acl2025nlp) or ICML (#icml2025 ) and want to cite co-first authors more fairly, I just made a simple fix to do this! Just add $^*$ to the authors' names in your bibtex, and the citations should change :) github.com/tpimentelms/ac…