Alexey Koshevoy

Are you interested in lexical competition, agent-based modelling, strong inference and Ukrainian? Then this paper, just published in @pnasnexus.org, is for you. With @oliviermorin.bsky.social and @sobchuk.bsky.social, we asked a simple question: why do some words become more common than others?

🚨 New paper 🚨 Are your participants or annotators using AI to complete your tasks? We conducted the first study directly observing AI assistance across 700K+ @joinprolific.bsky.social submissions. We found rare, concentrated AI use, but gaps in safeguards. arxiv.org/abs/2610.09279

Cool: Interindividual vocal tract diversity influences the phonetic diversification of spoken languages journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Not to brag, but I've been working with the author of #9 on this list (the fantastic @oliviermorin.bsky.social ) for years! This is exactly the kind of piece I've been missing since edge.org died out.. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/s...

A much needed thread!

We used virtual mates and genetic algorithms to ask swordtail fish to design their ideal mate. Males all liked larger females but females did not share a clear preference for male appearance. Led by @kathrynbullough.bsky.social @grahancock.bsky.social in @royalsocietypublishing.org shorturl.at/rCeR2

Our latest Spotify playlist: 13 of our episodes that explore different aspects of language! open.spotify.com/playlist/1Qx...

2023: 8,039 proposals 2024: 10,360 proposals 2025: 17,066 proposals 2026: 21,627 proposals Something's gotta give

I am reading a lot of modelling papers lately, and I have one advice to everyone creating figures with large amounts of observations. Please, rasterize your images, it takes a while to load 1000+ vectorized scatter points in a pdf!

Ever feel like it's too hard to keep track of what LLMs cannot do as well as humans? We're making your life easier over at: what-llms-can-not-do.github.io We're compiling a list of papers testing the abilities of LLMs against humans. Check it out! And you can help contribute too!

Out today! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

My lab has been really interested in topological perception the past two years. In a new paper, we ask: How does a topological perspective (re-)shape our understanding of visual complexity? Work led by one of our many wonderful undergraduate students, Ashna Shah! link.springer.com/article/10.3...

Researchers investigated language change by studying Slovotvir, a Ukrainian website where users propose and rank alternatives for foreign-origin words. The site shows that people prefer shorter words, but not necessarily more common words. In PNAS Nexus: https://ow.ly/KWGE50ZNzaj

How does the architecture of a city shape the way we think, talk, and draw space? And how do spatial conventions travel across cultural generations? New paper in Open Mind, spearheaded by Z Alinam (w J Nölle, C Vesper, K Tylén & me): doi.org/10.1162/OPMI.a.380 🧵 1/

After years of analyzing thousands of drawings from hundreds of adults and children, I am excited to share my first ever paper (w/ @samiyousif.bsky.social )! Using a simple drawing task, we show how topological structure is represented in the mind and its importance in spatial memory.

Millennium math problem solved by OpenAI may have "regurgitated" competitors unpublished work... also they spent more than $22 million in computing power in one week to scoop them. techcrunch.com/2026/09/08/o...

📢 We're looking for a Master's student to join our team in sunny Aix-en-Provence 🇫🇷 for a *paid* 5-6 month research internship, anytime between now and June 2027, to help replicate an influential behavioural study on inner speech! Details: tinyurl.com/bdcthbp8 #psychjobs #neurojobs #innerspeech

Hear! Hear!

🤖🧠NEW PAPER🧠🤖 (The result of an 8-year project!) LLMs seem very different from symbolic systems. Yet LLMs excel in symbolic domains (e.g., language/code/math). How do they do it? Our finding: LLM representations have implicit symbolic structure! Link in thread ⬇️ 1/n

Schrodinger’s language models LLMs randomly choose between possible words, and certain choices can lead to wildly different results Goodfire’s latest work shows that those decisions largely end in roughly the same result. arxiv.org/abs/2608.19611

I am currently recruiting for a 2-year postdoc/research fellow role at the University of Auckland here in New Zealand, focusing on auditory perception, hearing, and music in older adults, including people with Alzheimer's disease or other dementias ~NZ$100k/yr, flexible start date, please apply!

Interested by a corpus of 19th/early 20th c. French for your research? Here's the French corpus of 11K! novels I tried to curate during my PhD 😅, now live at JOHD, and downloadable on Zenodo! 📄 doi.org/10.5334/johd.597 📦 zenodo.org/records/20233178

A 2025 Science paper reported that bonobos combine calls to create new meanings. We analyzed its stats and then reanalysed the data. --> The claim did not hold up. Our paper (open access): doi.org/10.7717/peer... With @johanlind.bsky.social @annajonand.bsky.social

How many languages have existed over the Holocene—and what does that reveal about the design space of languages and cultures? Now out in @science.org www.science.org/eprint/QDZNY....

📣 I'm hiring! Two positions (PhD student & Postdoc) in my ERC project Macroevolution of European Literature. Let's study the cultural evolution of literature using massive data 📚📈 📍Frankfurt | Apply by August 15 Details: www.aesthetics.mpg.de/en/career/jo... Please repost to help spread the word!

Postdoc position @unimarburg.bsky.social in the project: "Bridging the Gap Between Verbal Psychological Theories & Formal Statistical Modeling with Large Language Models" (funded by @volkswagenstiftung.de) 📅Start: 01.10.2026 |⏳3 years 🔗 Job posting: uni-marburg.de/78NrWT Thanks for sharing!

"CLDF Meta" (meta.clld.org) links to data from over 800 CLDF datasets that have been released on Zenodo (e.g. WALS, APiCS and Grambank). There are links to data on over 9000 languoids, e.g. 98 entries on Ambulas (to take a random language). Great work by my colleague Johannes Englisch!

Scientists are asking if it might be unconscious

Multiplier par 15 les frais d’inscription universitaires des étudiant·es étrangèr·es non européen·nes. Piétiner l'égal accès aux services publics. Appeler le programme "Bienvenue en France" 🇫🇷🥖 🔴 Signez et faites signer la pétition, ça prend 2 min : petitions.assemblee-nationale.fr/initiatives/...

With big thanks to Alexey Koshevoy, @alexeykoshevoy.bsky.social Marie Hallo @marie-hl.bsky.social and Rowan Hall Maudslay!

New post: Tagging my blog with BERTopic and LLMs. I suspect as token costs increase, we'll see more blended traditional ML/LLM systems. And, in general, they work really well! vickiboykis.com/2026/05/18/t...

Out today in @science.org: with the amazing Haochuan Cui, Yiling Lin, & @lingfeiwu.bsky.social, we analyzed 3.6 million scientists publishing 1960–2020. The findings reshape a century-old debate about age and scientific creativity.

Join us in Barcelona for a postdoc! We are looking for candidates with a strong NLP/ML/AI background and an interest in linguistic diversity and human and machine cognition: dub.sh/blasi_nlp_po...

“We have added an AI system to our service to make it more efficient.” The efficiency in question: