Brody Silva

investigating the cognitive psychology of language
Houston | Baltimore | Cambridge | DC
Thriving on root beer and books I'll never read

[Brody Silva @mrminipuff]

Late announcement but:

I’ll be doing an MA in Linguistics and Cognitive Science at the Uni. of Delaware this fall!

As the 1st in my family to go to a four-year uni., being able to continue my edu. while working full-time is a huge honor. I WILL keep pushing till I get that PhD!

[James Booth @DrJamesBooth]

Brain structural networks underlying language | Physiological Reviews | American Physiological Society https://t.co/kioUU2Eclj

[miss missouri @izzitrin]

unfortunately it's come to my attention, upon a final re-read of my writing sample the day before the last deadline, that it is deeply embarassing and actually the worst piece of philosophical writing ever produced by a human mind

[Brody Silva @mrminipuff]

Anyone else at #LSA2025??

[Suliann Ben Hamed @BenHamedLab]

Playing around with PyTorch for neuroscience made easy : NeuroTorch: A Python library for neuroscience-oriented machine learning https://t.co/sTW96siknd #biorxiv_neursci #neuroscience #neuroAI

[Babel: The Language Magazine @Babelzine]

🎄 Merry Christmas from Babel! 🎄

[Brody Silva @mrminipuff]

Halfway through my masters :)

[Ev (like in 'evidence', not Eve) Fedorenko 🇺🇦 @ev_fedorenko]

A lovely response to our NRN review (https://t.co/LFOLHlI7CE) from Yannick Becker @YannickBecker7 and Angela Friederici @FriedericiLab, providing a nice link to the evolution of language-relevant brain machinery. And our echo response here: https://t.co/0LFrV8jihY 1/n

[CLaE @leafs_s]

Bayesian models of perception and action

by @KordingLab @weijima01 and Daniel Goldreich

https://t.co/FdtV5EoVLz

[Michael C. Frank @mcxfrank]

Our new paper “Is Child-Directed Speech Effective Training Data for Language Models?” was just presented at #EMNLP2024! This is work led by @stevenyfeng, with @noahdgoodman.

https://t.co/QXL9FXx5Ps

[Griffiths Computational Cognitive Science Lab @cocosci_lab]

(1/5) Very excited to announce the publication of Bayesian Models of Cognition: Reverse Engineering the Mind. More than a decade in the making, it's a big (600+ pages) beautiful book covering both the basics and recent work: https://t.co/5dnLpcMQzu

[Penn Linguistics @PennLinguistics]

#CallForPapers open for the 49th Penn Linguistics Conference, to be held from April 5 to 6, 2025, with keynotes from Jessica Coon and Annette D'Onofrio!

Abstract deadline is November 18, 2024

More details here: https://t.co/c7tKKqgcmU

[Brody Silva @mrminipuff]

How could I have predicted that being in grad schools would mean I’d actually have to do work. This is preposterous 😤.

[irina ijbolina @bkmacaulay]

I had half my Japanese linguistics students read a paper that argues that Japanese has no syllables, and the other half read a paper that argues for Japanese having syllables

today, they fought it out in Phonology Court

[Lucy Lai, PhD @drlucylai]

🧵after sharing my free PhD application guide, i also wanted to share several **COMPLETELY FREE** resources that can help mentor students through the PhD application process:

[Crystal Lewis @cghlewis.bsky.social @Cghlewis]

Last spring I gave a workshop on Data Cleaning for Data Sharing Using R where we learned how to assess the quality of a dataset and apply a standardized checklist of cleaning steps in #rstats.

The slides and exercise materials are here if interested!
https://t.co/OknnYaXZ8T

[Debbie Nguyen @DebbieNNguyen]

Hi #AcademicTwitter and social psych friends! I’m so excited and proud to share this resource that @DanielJSanji and I have been working on for months - an Applying to Grad School Guide for Psychology (non-Clinical) programs! (1/2) https://t.co/uOPGkqWZaS

[Jaime Castrellon @jjfcastrellon]

📢 I am reviewing apps for the PhD program
@UCLA
psychology (Social and Affective Neuroscience & Behavioral Neuroscience areas). You can learn more about my lab (@CastrellonLab) here: https://t.co/7rxM5rwQBD - come study decision making in the brain with us!

[Josh McDermott @JoshHMcDermott]

Please RT: I am looking to hire a research assistant to help recruit, schedule and run human participants in auditory perception experiments at MIT. Preferably full-time, but could be part-time. Ideal for someone looking to get more research experience in advance of grad school.

[Tal Linzen @tallinzen]

The syllabus for my fall 2024 graduate course: https://t.co/2ByCBXNFjL

The theme this time is "Language models: cognitive plausibility and sample efficiency", and I'm lucky to have some great guests. Lots of papers missing unfortunately, it was not easy to choose!

[C.M. Downey @cmdowney]

📣 I'm recruiting PhD students this cycle! Researchers interested in expanding NLP for mid- and low-resource languages - and/or developing tools for endangered languages and field linguistics - should apply to work with me either through the UR Ling or CS PhD programs!