Elaine Francis
@ejfranci2.bsky.social
Prof @ Purdue, ExLing Lab Director https://cla.purdue.edu/english/francislab/
Author of Gradient Acceptability and Linguistic Theory https://global.oup.com/academic/product/gradient-acceptability-and-linguistic-theory-9780192898951
Author of Gradient Acceptability and Linguistic Theory https://global.oup.com/academic/product/gradient-acceptability-and-linguistic-theory-9780192898951
Happy HSP abstract week to all who celebrate!
December 10, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Happy HSP abstract week to all who celebrate!
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Spread the word: I'm looking to hire a postdoc to explore the concept of attention (as studied in psych/neuro, not the transformer mechanism) in large Vision-Language Models. More details here: lindsay-lab.github.io/2025/12/08/p...
#MLSky #neurojobs #compneuro
#MLSky #neurojobs #compneuro
Lindsay Lab - Postdoc Position
Artificial neural networks applied to psychology, neuroscience, and climate change
lindsay-lab.github.io
December 8, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Spread the word: I'm looking to hire a postdoc to explore the concept of attention (as studied in psych/neuro, not the transformer mechanism) in large Vision-Language Models. More details here: lindsay-lab.github.io/2025/12/08/p...
#MLSky #neurojobs #compneuro
#MLSky #neurojobs #compneuro
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A couple years (!) in the making: we’re releasing a new corpus of embodied, collaborative problem solving dialogues. We paid 36 people to play Portal 2’s co-op mode and collected their speech + game recordings.
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2512.03381
Website: berkeley-nlp.github.io/portal-dialo...
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Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2512.03381
Website: berkeley-nlp.github.io/portal-dialo...
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December 5, 2025 at 6:54 PM
A couple years (!) in the making: we’re releasing a new corpus of embodied, collaborative problem solving dialogues. We paid 36 people to play Portal 2’s co-op mode and collected their speech + game recordings.
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2512.03381
Website: berkeley-nlp.github.io/portal-dialo...
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Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2512.03381
Website: berkeley-nlp.github.io/portal-dialo...
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For a general student population it's irresponsible to focus on teaching a tool. This has been my soapbox forever: I'm not teaching how to use a particular kind of technology but how to learn how to learn, how to evaluate affordances/limitations, how to assess output. Real, reproducible life skills!
December 3, 2025 at 12:59 PM
For a general student population it's irresponsible to focus on teaching a tool. This has been my soapbox forever: I'm not teaching how to use a particular kind of technology but how to learn how to learn, how to evaluate affordances/limitations, how to assess output. Real, reproducible life skills!
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Super excited to share that Lifting as We Climb: How Black Faculty Make Professional and Linguistic Choices to Thrive in Higher Education is now available for pre-order!
December 2, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Super excited to share that Lifting as We Climb: How Black Faculty Make Professional and Linguistic Choices to Thrive in Higher Education is now available for pre-order!
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🚨I am looking for a POSTDOC, LAB MANAGER/TECH and GRAD STUDENTS to join my new lab in beautiful Madison, WI.
We study how our brains perceive and represent the physical world around us using behavioral, computational, and neuroimaging methods.
paulunlab.psych.wisc.edu
#VisionScience #NeuroSkyence
We study how our brains perceive and represent the physical world around us using behavioral, computational, and neuroimaging methods.
paulunlab.psych.wisc.edu
#VisionScience #NeuroSkyence
November 17, 2025 at 9:43 PM
🚨I am looking for a POSTDOC, LAB MANAGER/TECH and GRAD STUDENTS to join my new lab in beautiful Madison, WI.
We study how our brains perceive and represent the physical world around us using behavioral, computational, and neuroimaging methods.
paulunlab.psych.wisc.edu
#VisionScience #NeuroSkyence
We study how our brains perceive and represent the physical world around us using behavioral, computational, and neuroimaging methods.
paulunlab.psych.wisc.edu
#VisionScience #NeuroSkyence
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The American Association of University Professors (@aaup.org) released a new report documenting an escalating assault on faculty governance structures across the country, with state legislatures in multiple states moving to strip faculty senates of their authority and independence.
AAUP Report Warns of Growing Legislative Threats to Faculty Governance Nationwide
New analysis highlights attacks on faculty senates in Texas, Indiana, Ohio, and Utah as undermining academic freedom and institutional integrity.
www.theeduledger.com
November 20, 2025 at 9:36 PM
The American Association of University Professors (@aaup.org) released a new report documenting an escalating assault on faculty governance structures across the country, with state legislatures in multiple states moving to strip faculty senates of their authority and independence.
Reposted by Elaine Francis
do not, under any circumstances, keep me in the loop, fill me in, or bring me up to speed. i do not wish to know
September 15, 2023 at 10:27 PM
do not, under any circumstances, keep me in the loop, fill me in, or bring me up to speed. i do not wish to know
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I am proud to be a member of the AAUP and so grateful to everybody standing up against “coercive and retaliatory conduct in violation of the First Amendment and the 10th Amendment.” So many students, faculty and staff are courageously protecting higher education, academic freedom and the rule of law
"This represents saving higher education, saving public research and the standing up of faculty, staff and students,"
— Veena Dubal, AAUP General Counsel & law professor at the University of California, Irvine.
#DefendHigherEd
— Veena Dubal, AAUP General Counsel & law professor at the University of California, Irvine.
#DefendHigherEd
Judge Orders Trump Not to Threaten University of California’s Funding
www.nytimes.com
November 15, 2025 at 3:37 PM
I am proud to be a member of the AAUP and so grateful to everybody standing up against “coercive and retaliatory conduct in violation of the First Amendment and the 10th Amendment.” So many students, faculty and staff are courageously protecting higher education, academic freedom and the rule of law
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Regardless of how many researchers highlight the cultural trends against "AI" data centers, & the increasingly widepread public awareness of the unequal economic & environmental harms of these systems, a lot of tech-pilled ppl will only pay attention once it shows up somewhere like WIRED.
So here:
So here:
The Data Center Resistance Has Arrived
A new report finds that local opposition to data centers skyrocketed in the second quarter of this year.
www.wired.com
November 16, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Regardless of how many researchers highlight the cultural trends against "AI" data centers, & the increasingly widepread public awareness of the unequal economic & environmental harms of these systems, a lot of tech-pilled ppl will only pay attention once it shows up somewhere like WIRED.
So here:
So here:
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Every day a new reason to hate Outlook
November 12, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Every day a new reason to hate Outlook
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I will be recruiting PhD students via Georgetown Linguistics this application cycle! Come join us in the PICoL (pronounced “pickle”) lab. We focus on psycholinguistics and cognitive modeling using LLMs. See the linked flyer for more details: bit.ly/3L3vcyA
October 21, 2025 at 9:52 PM
I will be recruiting PhD students via Georgetown Linguistics this application cycle! Come join us in the PICoL (pronounced “pickle”) lab. We focus on psycholinguistics and cognitive modeling using LLMs. See the linked flyer for more details: bit.ly/3L3vcyA
Prospective graduate students: Purdue Linguistics is having a virtual open house on Friday, Nov 7 at 12:00pm EST. You can sign up here: lnkd.in/g8XimXcG
Please note that I am not recruiting any new graduate students but several of my wonderful Purdue colleagues are.
Please note that I am not recruiting any new graduate students but several of my wonderful Purdue colleagues are.
October 17, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Prospective graduate students: Purdue Linguistics is having a virtual open house on Friday, Nov 7 at 12:00pm EST. You can sign up here: lnkd.in/g8XimXcG
Please note that I am not recruiting any new graduate students but several of my wonderful Purdue colleagues are.
Please note that I am not recruiting any new graduate students but several of my wonderful Purdue colleagues are.
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"Faculty members are uncertain whether discussing scientifically-accepted concepts in their disciplines, such as biological intersex conditions, historical gender systems in various cultures, or legal frameworks governing sex discrimination, could result in termination." #TXHigherEd #AcademicBluesky
October 10, 2025 at 12:28 AM
"Faculty members are uncertain whether discussing scientifically-accepted concepts in their disciplines, such as biological intersex conditions, historical gender systems in various cultures, or legal frameworks governing sex discrimination, could result in termination." #TXHigherEd #AcademicBluesky
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UT Austin Linguistics is hiring in computational linguistics!
Asst or Assoc.
We have a thriving group sites.utexas.edu/compling/ and a long proud history in the space. (For instance, fun fact, Jeff Elman was a UT Austin Linguistics Ph.D.)
faculty.utexas.edu/career/170793
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Asst or Assoc.
We have a thriving group sites.utexas.edu/compling/ and a long proud history in the space. (For instance, fun fact, Jeff Elman was a UT Austin Linguistics Ph.D.)
faculty.utexas.edu/career/170793
🤘
UT Austin Computational Linguistics Research Group – Humans processing computers processing humans processing language
sites.utexas.edu
October 7, 2025 at 8:53 PM
UT Austin Linguistics is hiring in computational linguistics!
Asst or Assoc.
We have a thriving group sites.utexas.edu/compling/ and a long proud history in the space. (For instance, fun fact, Jeff Elman was a UT Austin Linguistics Ph.D.)
faculty.utexas.edu/career/170793
🤘
Asst or Assoc.
We have a thriving group sites.utexas.edu/compling/ and a long proud history in the space. (For instance, fun fact, Jeff Elman was a UT Austin Linguistics Ph.D.)
faculty.utexas.edu/career/170793
🤘
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We're seeking the next Director of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics! Lead cutting-edge research in language & cognition. Nominations (incl. self) due 19 Dec 2025.
mpi.nl/career-education/vacancies/vacancy/nominations-and-self-nominations-sought-position-director-max
mpi.nl/career-education/vacancies/vacancy/nominations-and-self-nominations-sought-position-director-max
October 3, 2025 at 7:53 AM
We're seeking the next Director of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics! Lead cutting-edge research in language & cognition. Nominations (incl. self) due 19 Dec 2025.
mpi.nl/career-education/vacancies/vacancy/nominations-and-self-nominations-sought-position-director-max
mpi.nl/career-education/vacancies/vacancy/nominations-and-self-nominations-sought-position-director-max
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Nominate yourself to come run your own research dept in lovely MPI-PL in the woods. Or nominate someone amazing - your colleague, supervisor, former student.... Deadline for nominations 19th December
We're seeking the next Director of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics! Lead cutting-edge research in language & cognition. Nominations (incl. self) due 19 Dec 2025.
mpi.nl/career-education/vacancies/vacancy/nominations-and-self-nominations-sought-position-director-max
mpi.nl/career-education/vacancies/vacancy/nominations-and-self-nominations-sought-position-director-max
October 3, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Nominate yourself to come run your own research dept in lovely MPI-PL in the woods. Or nominate someone amazing - your colleague, supervisor, former student.... Deadline for nominations 19th December
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Posting on behalf of Tamar Gollan, who is not on Bluesky:
A postdoc position is open and available immediately in Dr. Tamar Gollan’s Laboratory of Aging Bilingualism at the University of California, San Diego, funded by NIH & NSF. See link for details!
psychiatry.ucsd.edu/about/LAB_Go...
A postdoc position is open and available immediately in Dr. Tamar Gollan’s Laboratory of Aging Bilingualism at the University of California, San Diego, funded by NIH & NSF. See link for details!
psychiatry.ucsd.edu/about/LAB_Go...
psychiatry.ucsd.edu
September 30, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Posting on behalf of Tamar Gollan, who is not on Bluesky:
A postdoc position is open and available immediately in Dr. Tamar Gollan’s Laboratory of Aging Bilingualism at the University of California, San Diego, funded by NIH & NSF. See link for details!
psychiatry.ucsd.edu/about/LAB_Go...
A postdoc position is open and available immediately in Dr. Tamar Gollan’s Laboratory of Aging Bilingualism at the University of California, San Diego, funded by NIH & NSF. See link for details!
psychiatry.ucsd.edu/about/LAB_Go...
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Hey. The fragmentation of the social media landscape has been hard on indie #scicomm 🧪 projects
So if you'd like to follow a podcast that's enthusiastic about #linguistics, could you check out @lingthusiasm.bsky.social?
And if you think your followers might like to, could you give this a repost?
So if you'd like to follow a podcast that's enthusiastic about #linguistics, could you check out @lingthusiasm.bsky.social?
And if you think your followers might like to, could you give this a repost?
September 27, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Hey. The fragmentation of the social media landscape has been hard on indie #scicomm 🧪 projects
So if you'd like to follow a podcast that's enthusiastic about #linguistics, could you check out @lingthusiasm.bsky.social?
And if you think your followers might like to, could you give this a repost?
So if you'd like to follow a podcast that's enthusiastic about #linguistics, could you check out @lingthusiasm.bsky.social?
And if you think your followers might like to, could you give this a repost?
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University of Colorado Boulder Psychology & Neuroscience is searching for TWO tenure track assistant professors!!
jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...
#socialpsychology #cogpsyc #PsychSciSky #PsychJob
#psycjobs #psychology
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jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...
#socialpsychology #cogpsyc #PsychSciSky #PsychJob
#psycjobs #psychology
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Assistant Professor
jobs.colorado.edu
September 22, 2025 at 4:00 PM
University of Colorado Boulder Psychology & Neuroscience is searching for TWO tenure track assistant professors!!
jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...
#socialpsychology #cogpsyc #PsychSciSky #PsychJob
#psycjobs #psychology
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jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...
#socialpsychology #cogpsyc #PsychSciSky #PsychJob
#psycjobs #psychology
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New paper: We argue that linearization in language production is a foraging process, with speakers navigating semantic and spatial clusters. Lead author: Karina Tachihara, former UC Davis postdoc, now faculty at UIUC!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Planning to be incremental: Scene descriptions reveal meaningful clustering in language production
How do speakers plan complex descriptions and then execute those plans? In this work, we attempt to answer this question by asking subjects to describ…
www.sciencedirect.com
September 22, 2025 at 10:44 PM
New paper: We argue that linearization in language production is a foraging process, with speakers navigating semantic and spatial clusters. Lead author: Karina Tachihara, former UC Davis postdoc, now faculty at UIUC!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Please boost! #linguistics student here at Swarthmore is running a survey for English speakers (who don't know Mandarin / any other tone languages) about how we learn tones. Take a few minutes to help out with this student research!
swarthmore.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
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September 22, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Please boost! #linguistics student here at Swarthmore is running a survey for English speakers (who don't know Mandarin / any other tone languages) about how we learn tones. Take a few minutes to help out with this student research!
swarthmore.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
swarthmore.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
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The first of the three corpora of German-English bilingual children's early speech that we've been working on for the last few years is finally publicly available! 🥳 🎉 talkbank.org/childes/acce...
CHILDES English-German MPI-EVA-Leipzig Corpus
talkbank.org
September 19, 2025 at 5:48 AM
The first of the three corpora of German-English bilingual children's early speech that we've been working on for the last few years is finally publicly available! 🥳 🎉 talkbank.org/childes/acce...
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Come work with us! UC Irvine Cognitive Sciences is looking for a new Assistant Professor to join our team: recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09896
I'm not on the committee, but happy to talk if you're interested.
I'm not on the committee, but happy to talk if you're interested.
Assistant Professor - Cognitive Sciences
University of California, Irvine is hiring. Apply now!
recruit.ap.uci.edu
September 11, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Come work with us! UC Irvine Cognitive Sciences is looking for a new Assistant Professor to join our team: recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09896
I'm not on the committee, but happy to talk if you're interested.
I'm not on the committee, but happy to talk if you're interested.
Reposted by Elaine Francis
University of South Carolina has *7* tenure-track faculty positions in Neurobiology of Language:
tinyurl.com/USC-Faculty-...
Positions in COMD, Psych, Linguistics, School of Medicine.
@snlmtg.bsky.social #SNL2025, we will have a booth.
w/@rutvikdesai.bsky.social @imb-uofsc.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/USC-Faculty-...
Positions in COMD, Psych, Linguistics, School of Medicine.
@snlmtg.bsky.social #SNL2025, we will have a booth.
w/@rutvikdesai.bsky.social @imb-uofsc.bsky.social
September 9, 2025 at 2:49 PM
University of South Carolina has *7* tenure-track faculty positions in Neurobiology of Language:
tinyurl.com/USC-Faculty-...
Positions in COMD, Psych, Linguistics, School of Medicine.
@snlmtg.bsky.social #SNL2025, we will have a booth.
w/@rutvikdesai.bsky.social @imb-uofsc.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/USC-Faculty-...
Positions in COMD, Psych, Linguistics, School of Medicine.
@snlmtg.bsky.social #SNL2025, we will have a booth.
w/@rutvikdesai.bsky.social @imb-uofsc.bsky.social