Carmen Saldana

👨‍💻Many #job #offers (#PhD, #postdoc and #labmanager) in the fields of #Linguistics, #DataScience, #Cognitive #Neurosciences and more, are available on our website. Join us on our quest to elucidate the mysteries of language evolution! evolvinglanguage.ch/jobs/

🚨 Wed., 10 April, at @UPFBarcelona: "Universities in the Face of Genocide" Francesca Albanese, followed by a panel discussion with Aeve Ribbons, Maha Ibrahim, and Yahya Albarrawi. Mercè Rodoreda Auditorium 11:45. More info at redxpalestina.org

Najoung and I are hiring a postdoc to start at BU this fall! You'll get to lead a team working on a cool and potentially highly impactful eval project, so please apply! :)

👁‍🗨Investigar la IA: Periodisme dins la màquina algorítmica ✒️Taula rodona amb @soizicpenicaud @BertuzLuca @naiablm i @e_paniagua, periodistes experts en investigar la discriminació algorítmica 📆13-Març / 18:30h 📍@cececebe 👂ENG (traducció) ✍️i + info lafede.cat/ca/llums-i-taq…

Summer Schools: Escuela de Lingüística de Buenos Aires V / Argentina: ELBA (Escuela de Lingüística de Buenos Aires) is a Linguistics school organized by graduate and undergraduate students from Argentina. The School aims to promote discussion on formal… dlvr.it/T2wdcf

FYI: ManyLanguages - Big Team Language Science: We are excited to launch ManyLanguages, a globally distributed network of laboratories that helps coordinate Big Team Science studies on human language. Our mission is to facilitate the connection between… dlvr.it/T2yNRl

Very excited about this new paper @PNASNews: pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn… Key Q: what predicts how much young kids (👶)talk? How much 🗣 kids heard predicted how much 👶talked, but other factors, e.g. mom’s education, didn’t. #PsychSci #DevPsy 🗣💬 INCOMING SUMMARY🧵ALERT 1/14

Just one month to apply to the PhD Fellowships from the IMPRS for Language Sciences!📅 Hiring departments are Language & Genetics and Language Development. Apply before 8 January 2024. More info via mpi.nl/imprs-phd-fell… @MPI_NL, @CLSRadboud, @DondersInst @Radboud_Uni

La decisión de la UE de no prohibir la vigilancia pública masiva en el Reglamento Europeo de #IA es una oportunidad histórica perdida. Las 3 instituciones de la UE han dado luz verde a la vigilancia digital distópica en los Estados miembros de la UE en el #IAAct. 😡 Decepcionante

We are hiring! Paid PhD position (3 years) in experimental / computational pragmatics @uni_tue. Part of joint project with linguists (@ZAS_SP) and mathematicians in Berlin. (= plenty reason to travel there; great team) Please repost! DM for info. uni-tuebingen.de/en/university/…

WHO staff member killed in Gaza With heavy hearts, WHO announces the death of one of our staff in #Gaza, in the occupied Palestinian territory. Dima Abdullatif Mohammed Alhaj, 29 years old, had been with WHO since December 2019. She worked as a patient administrator at the Limb Reconstruction Centre, a critical part of the WHO Trauma and Emergency Team. Dima died today when her parents’ house in southern Gaza—where she had evacuated to from Gaza City—was bombed. She was tragically killed alongside her husband, their six-month old baby boy, and her two brothers. Reportedly, over 50 family and community members sheltering in the same house also died. Dima had a bachelor’s degree in Environmental and Earth Sciences from the Islamic University of Gaza, and continued to study and work on environmental issues and health.  She was a master’s student at Glasgow University, Scotland, UK, as part of the Erasmus exchange program from 2018-2019. On Women’s Day 2022, Dima said in a WHO social media post that she was proud of her work because “it contributes to giving people hope and a new lease on life.” Dr Rik Peeperkorn, the WHO representative in the occupied Palestinian territory said “she was a wonderful person with a radiant smile, cheerful, positive, respectful. She was a true team player. Her work was crucial, and she had been requested to take on even more responsibilities to support the Gaza suboffice and team. This is a such a painful loss for all of us. We share our deepest condolences with her mother and father (a long-serving medical specialist in Gaza), her family, and her many friends.” The humanitarian community and @UN family have lost other members since 7 October. @MSF today lost two doctors. @UNRWA has lost 108 colleagues. These are not just numbers, but people who were working so that others could have a better life. The death of Dima and her family is another example of the senseless loss in this conflict. Civilians have died in their homes, at their workplaces, while evacuating, while sheltering in schools, while being cared for in hospitals. When will it stop? We plead again with all those who hold in their hands the power to end this conflict to do so. All of the WHO stands alongside Dima’s family and colleagues in the occupied Palestinian territory, the Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean, and across the organization to mourn her loss. See the statement 🔗bit.ly/48264yD

Focus: "Think and act like a Bayesian" As opposed to: "read and write formulas ... " Looking forward!

🚨 Want to get my old job and join a stellar team✨ @thetimes 🗞️ in London? Check this out! And if you have questions, my DMs are open! #datajobs #journojobs cisionjobs.co.uk/job/110821/sen…

New UZH permanent lecturer position in Mathematical Foundations of Language! See details at link below and please repost. jobs.uzh.ch/offene-stellen…

Yi Ting Huang and I have an opening for a postdoctoral researcher on an NSF-funded project, "Syntactic processing across socioeconomic status: Linking input to comprehension". Apply by Nov 15; start Jul 1, 2024 with flexibility. Please disseminate widely! ejobs.umd.edu/postings/114101

📣 We're excited to announce the virtual component of our CogSci2023 workshop on LLMs! We'll be hosting a live panel with our speakers in an interactive town-hall on Zoom. 📅 Date: Friday, Oct 13 12-1:30 EST 👉 Register here: forms.gle/9Te7k3tYgg8jPu… 👇 Talk recordings below

The first world atlas showing language structures was published in 1926, with maps such as this one (showing languages with gender: sex-based in green, and others in red). 1/9

We've extended the deadline for submissions to EVOLANG! Don't miss out on this brilliant conference series! :)

The Evolang conference submission deadline has been extended to October 13. This is going to be a great, highly interdisciplinary conference in Madison, May 18-21. If you haven’t submitted an abstract yet, please do. Let’s figure out how language evolved! evolang2024.github.io