Roger Levy
@roger_p_levy
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@rplevy.bsky.social | Director, MIT Computational Psycholinguistics Laboratory | Past President, Cognitive Science Society | Chair of the MIT Faculty | He
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Since MIT ended negotiations with Elsevier in June 2020, I've declined all new Elsevier reviewer invites. Today I got an editor's thank-you for info I provided on MIT's Framework for Publisher Contracts. A heartwarming reminder: we're all in this together! https://t.co/tBswnnbhPf
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Results of high stakes elections that happen only once every four years offer remarkable opportunities for overfitting theories of the electorate
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Are you interested in perception, culture, & big-data analysis? Join my new lab at Cornell: COCOCO: COrnell COmputational COgnition! Multiple PhD & Postdoc opportunities available: https://t.co/wQtY3y2FTD. Please retweet & spread the word! @CO3lab 1/6
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This is really good!
Flip 100 coins, labeled 1 through 100. Alice checks the coins in order (1, 2, 3, …) while Bob checks the odd-labeled coins, then the even-labeled ones (so 1, 3, 5, …, 99, 2, 4, 6, …). Who is more likely to see two heads *first*?
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Proud to have been a contributor to their GoFundMe legal defense fund!
Gino's case against us has been dismissed. Scientists cannot effectively sue other scientists for exposing fraud/errors in their work. Those who work to correct the scientific record can sleep better tonight. Those who don’t want it corrected, well, I don’t care how they sleep.
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Want to study how humans think about social relationships? I'm reading grad applications this cycle! More about me https://t.co/2NlWhSMH0X more about the Thomas Lab
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Meet the Thomas Lab members!
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Ever thought that a transformer's full access to context isn't very human-like? Our paper (w/ @MarelliMar, #CMCL) is out! tl;dr: increasing attention on nearby words improves the correlation between surprisal and reading times https://t.co/uyCOHxtV3q (1/11)
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Andrea De Varda, Marco Marelli. Proceedings of the Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics. 2024.
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@lksamueltweet @mtoneva1 @ally_mackey @EliotHazeltine #cogsci2025 will happen in San Francisco July 30–Aug 2 2025, in the capable organizational hands of Azzurra Ruggeri, David Barner, @CarenMWalker, and @NeilBramley – can't wait!
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#cogsci2024 was the biggest cognitive science conference ever (by # submissions and # attendees alike), and a great success. Hats off to @lksamueltweet Stefan Frank @mtoneva1 @ally_mackey & @EliotHazeltine for a phenomenal job as conference organizers/program chairs – thank you!!
13 years ago, I presented my first paper ever at #CogSci. This year I had the honor of serving as a Program Chair. Cognitive science is changing thanks to LLMs. Where will CogSci be in 13 more years? Maybe an undergrad in the audience last week will run it. Or maybe ChairGPT.
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📣 We’re seeking candidates to fill the position of Executive Officer! The Executive Officer serves as a member of the Society’s Executive Committee, and plays a central role in helping the Governing Board implement their vision. Learn more and apply at https://t.co/jkS63MLRHs
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I'm looking for a postdoc interested in computational cognitive modeling and deep reinforcement learning! Submit a CV and references here: https://t.co/BFNjvqx7Pt Please share with anyone who might be interested!
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Stick around for the closing remarks for #CogSci2024 and the big reveal for #CogSci2025: it's going to be fun! 16:45 in Rotterdam Hall!
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And, one more #CogSci 2024 presentation to advertise: 3: Saturday Poster Session 1–3pm, “Inferring errors and intended meanings with a generative model of language production in aphasia”, led by @thomashikaru! Abstract available at https://t.co/b58j6jRcb3.
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PSA: If you don't want your X posts used to train Grok, you now have to explicitly opt-out. Go to https://t.co/V8hWTOOXAs and uncheck the box. If link doesn't work, go to Settings->Privacy and Safety->Grok
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@jiang_gy #CogSci2024 presentation pride continued: 2: Saturday Poster Session 1–3pm, “A Bayesian Model of Multimodal Phonemic Category Learning”, led by Sophia Zhi and supervised by @StephanMeylan. Visual face information helps phonemic category learning! Paper @ https://t.co/bOgoicoIby
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I'm proud of our group's presentations at #CogSci2024 – come check them out! 1: Today 10:30am–noon in J.F. Stall: "Finding structure in logographic writing with library learning" led by @jiang_gy. This work won the Sayan Gul award for best undergraduate student paper!
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