Kyle Mahowald

kmahowald.bsky.social

19 October 2026 23:05

UT Linguistics'll have 4 (!) computational linguists! Consider applying! I'm looking for students and also potentially postdocs. For postdocs, particularly interested in philosophically rich issues around AI cognition: Can AI introspect? How can we study if they have preferences?

Kanishka Misra

kanishka.bsky.social

19 October 2026 23:05

Come join the 4 of us and answer exciting research questions! I’m looking for PhD students who want to: 1) understand the role of input in shaping generalization behavior — how do different sources of positive and negative evidence conspire together to give rise to learning? …

Centre for Language Evolution

uoe-cle.bsky.social

08 July 2026 19:26

New commentary by Jennifer Culbertson, @simonkirby.bsky.social & @kennysmithed.bsky.social in response to @futrell.bsky.social & @kmahowald.bsky.social 2025: #Language models do not yet achieve explanatory adequacy because language is more than incremental prediction. 🔗https://tinyurl.com/3nufv5hp

Weijie Xu

weijiexu.bsky.social

08 July 2026 19:25

What's the relationship between memory constraints and the content/format of encoded information in sentence processing? Our recent work (w/ @futrell.bsky.social and @linguistbrian.bsky.social) targeting this question has won the best paper award at #ACL2026 aclanthology.org/2026.acl-lon...

Kyle Mahowald

kmahowald.bsky.social

30 June 2026 20:34

Exciting times at UT Linguistics. Go find Kanishka and Lindia at ACL!