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The interaction engine: Language in social life and human evolution. New book (Open Access) by Stephen Levinson doi.org/10.1017/9781...

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we're tired

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The turning point that wasn't: the way the world talks about Israel's war has changed. Nothing else has | Nesrine Malik

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Moeten we het nog uitspellen?

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Excluding and degrading people is a choice. Erasing non-dominant languages is a choice. These choices are motivated by bigotry, not common sense. An appeal to common sense is simply how you sell your bigotry to voters.

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Global language loss is not an inevitable, spontaneous process. It is the outcome of deliberate policies & practices that aim to eliminate diversity. In this sense, it is like Trump’s anti-diversity campaign, but played out in slow motion, at world scale. politicsrights.com/state-sovere...

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'We doen graag alsof de morele ondergrens een natuurverschijnsel is, iets wat vanzelf opdoemt. Maar dat is niet zo: hij bestaat alleen als genoeg mensen het lef hebben hem te trekken. De meesten hebben dat niet.'

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Over 80 jaar kent iedereen “Het dagboek van Rita Baroud” en vragen we ons over de hele wereld af hoe het toch godverdomme mogelijk is geweest dat we dit hebben laten gebeuren. www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...

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Vier jaar geleden voelde Floor Rusman dat politieke verandering in de lucht hing. De onvrede was zó groot, er moest wel iets gebeuren in Den Haag. Vier jaar later is er weinig over van die hoop en ziet Rusman een schizofreen kabinet. buff.ly/PjUbwBN

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The #WPPh2025 Photo of the Year is ‘Mahmoud Ajjour, Aged Nine’ by Samar Abu Elouf, for @nytimes.com. The jury was moved by this portrait of a Palestinian boy which speaks to the devastating long-term costs of war on civilians. worldpressphoto.org/collection/photo-contest/2025/Samar-Abu-Elouf/1

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❗Serious consequences for the Swiss economy and society – the SNSF urges the abandonment of the proposed cuts to research funding in "Relief Package 27," as they threaten the country's innovative capacity and competitiveness. ➡️

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I'm hiring! 2 x PhDs and 1 x PostDoc, to work with me at Uni Zurich on a project investigating how semantic patterns differ by geographic region. Linguistic typology, data science, spatial analysis, phylogenetic methods, potential fieldwork... REPOST 🙏 www.comparativelinguistics.uzh.ch/en/jobs.html

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‘Ik denk dat we onderschat hebben in hoeverre veel van onze zekerheden op zand gebouwd zijn.’

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🚨New in @science.org🚨 With Simon Townsend (@nccrlanguage.bsky.social) and Martin Surbeck, we have investigated whether wild bonobos can combine calls in complex combinations, similar to how humans combine words into sentences 🧪 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #ScienceResearch #AnimalCommunication

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oh to be a Paleogene iguana

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It should be obvious by now that Netanyahu won't stop until every Palestinian in #Gaza (and perhaps the West Bank) has been murdered, maimed or expelled. He wants it all. Governments like ours should cut off all military equipment, diplomatic support and other relations until the genocide ends.

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great to see!

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Goed interview van @majdaouhajji.bsky.social met Khalid Mourigh over straattaal. www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...

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Dutch universities go on strike - for the first time since anyone can remember. We protest the treatment and budget cuts of our extreme-right government. The strikers take turns - and Leiden university kicks off tomorrow. ✊🏼

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Job: Postdoctoral Researcher in Indo-European Studies 70 - 80 % (Universität Zürich) jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancie... #linguistics #pie #indoeuropean #anatolian #historicallinguistics #langsky

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We are heartened by this call to action in Nature, one of the most respected journals in science. It urges the global scientific community to speak out on behalf of those being censored and support research as the US government shifts away from its historic leadership www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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If even one of Tibet's minority languages is lost, it will be a victory for China in the long, slow moving conflict that began over 75 years ago when China first invaded Tibet.

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Join us! Science Homecoming helps scientists reconnect with communities by writing about the importance of science funding in their hometown newspapers. We’ve mapped every small newspaper in the U.S. and provide resources to get you started. Help science get back home 🧪🔬🧬 🏠 sciencehomecoming.com

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Just got this book, can’t wait to start it :) @michaelerard.bsky.social

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New paper! doi.org/10.1098/rsos... Many of the world’s languages are endangered, but how we identify which are endangered is essentially by counting how many people speak that language. …but…

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Happy Darwin Day! "The work has been turning out badly for me this morning & I am sick at heart & oh my God how I do hate species & varieties."

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🚨We are facing a worldwide language rights emergency 👇

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Nieuw en schandalig dieptepunt in de Nederlandse houding ten opzichte van de mensenrechten van Palestijnen en iedereen die zich daarover uitspreekt. Een agressieve en lasterlijke pro-Israëlische lobby heeft met behulp van o.a. de VVD, de uitnodiging van Albanese laten intrekken.

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A thread explaining our new discovery about humpback whale song published today in Science... We found key statistical properties that characterise all human languages in another species for the first time. We have more in common with whales than we previously thought! doi.org/10.1126/scie...

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Really enjoyed reading this article

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Roses are redde Noble are the manatees Yf we wante a bettir future Teach artes & humanityes

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I think about this a lot. Hard not to worry

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You maybe haven't thought about the similarities between Irish rap group Kneecap and Tibetan former political prisoner Tashi Wangchuk, so I wrote an article about that. www.transformingsociety.co.uk/2025/01/06/f...

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Wat alle mensen gemeen hebben zijn menselijke emoties, aldus de koning in zijn kersttoespraak. "Wat zijn je angsten? Wat zijn je dromen? Onze antwoorden daarop lopen niet zoveel uiteen." Zijn toch mooie en rake woorden.

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“There is no reason to believe that any nonstandard vernacular is in itself an obstacle to learning. The chief problem is ignorance of language on the part of all concerned. Our job as linguists is to remedy this ignorance.”-Labov, in 1972. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/24/u...

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So no political consequences even to this?

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Why Europeans should care about Georgia, by Nino Haratischwili www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2024/...

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"En dus doet dit kabinet, dat voortstrompelt als een verwarde dakloze, niet wat het als vriend van Israël óók zou moeten doen: zich steviger uitspreken tegen de onophoudelijke ellende in Gaza. [...] Zo voelt het dus om je eigen regering te wantrouwen", aldus Sjoerd de Jong www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2024/...

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