Tamar Johnson

Feeling very inspired about ✨Using ANNs for Studying Human Language Learning and Processing (ANN-humlang.github.io)✨ after the workshop that @tamar_john1 and I organized this week at @ILLC_amsterdam! Many thanks to all our speakers and participants for such a great event,

How much more of a revolutionary cosplayer do you have to be to forcefully occupy a building, create an artificial "blockade" against yourself, and then demand "humanitarian aid" to be allowed in after a mere 12 hours because you're concerned about starving and dehydrating "to death". The attempt to recreate a Gaza-lite environment on a college campus is demonstrative of the strange revolutionary fetishization of Gaza's horrendous suffering and the Palestinian issue by some of the protesting students. The unfolding debacle is the result of the SJPs deliberate disregard for effective messaging and saying they don't want to make their rhetoric palatable. Turning people against the just and urgent Palestinian aspirations for freedom and statehood is precisely what many pro-Palestine activists are currently doing, instead of seizing on a historical, once in a lifetime opportunity to reach mass audiences with favorable messaging and build broad alliances to achieve justice and lasting peace. Truly shameful squandering of public empathy for the Palestinian people.

For over 30 years, the wonderful Vivian Silver chose to dedicate her life to peace in the middle east. Week after week, she volunteered to transport patients from the Gaza Strip to hospitals in Israel, she initiated work training programs for Palestinians, enabling them to provide for their families with dignity, and she founded various organizations working towards the resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. When Hamas terrorists broke into her home on October 7th, she managed to text her friends that she was hiding behind the closet door. Last night, after more than a month, her body was finally identified. She was murdered. Throughout her life, 74-year-old Vivian had extended her hand for peace with Palestinians. Ruthless Hamas terrorists grabbed that hand and took her life. If you believe in justice and compassion, don't turn away, share Vivian's story. #HamasisISIS

@cogsci_soc @mdahardy @sucholutsky @billdthompson Will the workshops be recorded for online participants joining from other timezones?

#Workshop at #CogSci2023 Large language models meet cognitive science 🗓️ July 26 📍 C2.5 - 8:30h 🗣️ Mathew Hardy @mdahardy, Ilia Sucholutsky @sucholutsky, Bill Thompson @billdthompson, and Tom Griffiths 📄 escholarship.org/uc/item/6dp9k2…

@NaomiHavron @TheBUCLD Sounds like Charles Yang's Tolerance Principle

#BUCLD @TheBUCLD crowd, does anyone remember a talk by Elissa Newport a few years back, where she was talking about what is the minimum number of examples children need in order to generalize?

📢 Today we released jsPsych 7.0 📢 We = @BeckyAGilbert, Björn Luchterhandt, and me. This was a major team effort, and I’m super thankful to Becky and Björn! Release notes here github.com/jspsych/jsPsyc… There are some big and exciting changes with this one, so here’s a thread🧵

Our team is growing: We are pleased that @AmitZac1 has decided to join @eth_cle after completing his PhD @UniofOxford!👏Amit is passionate about empirical legal studies & is interested in competition policy, labour protection & their effects on economic inequality.

We propose the AI Shibboleth Rule: "All autonomous AIs must identify themselves as such if asked to by any agent". Joint work with Tino Cuéllar, @thegricean, @mcxfrank, Noah Goodman, Thomas Icard, @DorsaSadigh; supported by @StanfordHAI): hai.stanford.edu/news/shibbolet…

We're hosting a virtual workshop on artificial language learning this October with a fantastic line-up of speakers including @davidadger @KathrynSchuler @tal_shira @kennysmithed and Jamie White. It's free, but spots are limited... syncog.ppls.ed.ac.uk/EVWALL/site/in…

Vous avez un doctorat en informatique, data science, linguistique computationnelle ou similaire? Venez travailler avec moi à l'UNIL sur l'expression des émotions dans la communication numérique 👉 news.unil.ch/display/162557… @NCCR_Language @unil @LettresUNIL

Doctoral student position in my group, come work with us! Deadline 30 April, 2021. unige.ch/lettres/lingui… You will be working in a great linguistic department and in the even greater Evolving language network of doctoral students and postdocs! evolvinglanguage.ch