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It's out! 🎉 Together with @maelmleroux.bsky.social , @chimpsahoi.bsky.social, and S. Townsend, we wrote a chapter on methods for studying animal sequences. Huge thanks to @limorraviv.bsky.social and @cedricboeckx.bsky.social for editing this amazing volume! academic.oup.com/edited-volum...

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New handbook alert on approaches to language evolution 🚩🚩 See thread below! Huge thank you to everyone who contributed to this fantastic endeavor, and most importantly to my amazing co-editor @cedricboeckx.bsky.social who made this all possible 👏👏

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Language depends on copying (e.g. of words, signs). And language in turn is needed for many other things. When and why did our ancestors gain this ability to copy? Our (Ron, Elisa & me) archaeological reanalysis says: in the last million years. Just out: dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfo...

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🚨New publication alert! "Corpus-based approaches to evolutionary dynamics in language" (w/ @stefanhartmann.bsky.social) out now in the in the Oxford Handbook of Approaches to Language Evolution. Kudos to @limorraviv.bsky.social & @cedricboeckx.bsky.social for putting this great volume together!

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#linguistics I'm looking for recent meta analyses in experimental linguistics that explicitly show publication bias. Please share your work here!

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Interested in the evolution of human language and in understanding the pressures that shape languages today? Come do a PhD with me! Fully funded PhD position available in my group @mpi-nl.bsky.social, application deadline June 2nd: www.mpi.nl/career-educa...

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Cool postdoc position in language evolution in Toruń www.umk.pl/en/jobs/?tas...

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A bidirectional association between language development and prosocial behaviour in childhood: Evidence from a longitudinal birth cohort in the United Kingdom. Final version by Dimitris I. Tsomokos & @limorraviv.bsky.social doi.org/10.1037/dev0001875 Paper: tinyurl.com/yha38k5h

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We uncovered the same statistical structure that is a hallmark of human language in whale song, published today in Science. @inbalarnon.bsky.social @simonkirby.bsky.social @jennyallen13.bsky.social @clairenea.bsky.social @emma-carroll.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

submitted 116 days ago • 17 comments

Do whales optimize their vocalizations for efficiency, just like human language? 🐋🎶 My latest study in Science Advances (@science.org) suggests they do—following linguistic laws seen in human speech. 🧵 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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"Methods based on infant speech segmentation, applied to 8 years of humpback recordings, uncovered in whale song the same statistical structure that is a hallmark of human language." Cool new paper by @inbalarnon.bsky.social, @simonkirby.bsky.social, @ellengarland.bsky.social out in @science.org. 🧪

submitted 116 days ago • 3 comments

SO very excited about new paper with @simonkirby.bsky.social and @ellengarland.bsky.social: We used infant-inspired tools to analyze eight years of humpback whale song, finding recurring parts with a Zipfian frequency distribution. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Conference "Emerging Topics in Typology", Leipzig, June 3-5 (deadline for abstracts: January 31st) www.eva.mpg.de/linguistic-a...

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Does the culture you grow up in shape the way you see the world? In a new Psych Review paper, @chazfirestone.bsky.social & I tackle this centuries-old question using the Müller-Lyer illusion as a case study. Come think through one of history's mysteries with us🧵(1/13):

submitted 128 days ago • 32 comments

Summer School in Robotics! Edinburgh, 2-6 June 2025. Topics: generative AI for robotics, bioinspired robotics, HRI, verification and safety #GenAI #NLProc #HRI #ELLISforEurope #AI #ML#PhD @heriotwattuni.bsky.social ukrss.site.hw.ac.uk

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How do we understand each other in conversation? A thread based on my recent IACS4 plenary, covering a critical perspective on interactive linguistic alignment - the tendency to re-use each other's linguistic forms. 1/

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Words for emotions are differently connected in human groups from various regions and language families. Emotion experiences may vary across cultures. Analyzing the diverse ways that people use language can yield insights into human cognition. An interesting read! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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New year, new paper recording ✨ Here's our 2024 Behaviour paper "Successful adoption of non-orphaned infant by a parous, nursing female in yaki" 🐒 with @chimpanzeve.bsky.social et al. youtu.be/2_hu2sp33GI

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Hi BlueSky! Check out our new paper on mouthing patterns in the bimodal multilingual deaf community of Kufr Qassem www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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In this #AbralinTalk, Caroline Rowland (@carorowland.bsky.social) discusses how children learn language, focusing on universal patterns, cultural variation, and implications for education. Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7deA... #langsky #linguistics

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Striking images can make scientific ideas accessible to people from all walks of life. But some such pictures do more damage than good, seeding confusion & fueling widespread misconceptions of an essential topic. To illustrate, a thread about two iconic images & (mis)understanding evolution. 1/9

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Deep neural networks and humans both benefit from compositional language structure. New paper by @lukasgalke.bsky.social, Yoav Ram, and @limorraviv.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1038/s414....

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🔥 Now finally out in Nature Communications: Deep neural networks and humans both benefit from compositional structure with Yoav Ram and @limorraviv.bsky.social Paper link right away: rdcu.be/d5f2e 🧵⬇️

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New paper alert! 🚩🚩 Deep learning agents (RNNs and LLMs) show the same learnablility bias reported in humans, where more structured and compositional languages are easier to learn and lead to better (and more human-like!) generalizations. Read more here 👇👇🤩

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The call for abstract is now closed, thanks for all your submissions 🙌 If you have submitted something, you will get an answer by the end of the week. ‼️ Now, it's time to open the registration‼️ And as every year, attendance is free 🥳 If you wish to attend: ⬇️⬇️ culture-conference.com/registration/

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Does anyone know a database with French semantic neighbourhood density or diversity norms for a large set of words?

submitted 166 days ago • 1 comment

📣 Submissions for #CogSci2025 are now OPEN! 🌍 This year’s conference is fully hybrid — join us in San Francisco or online! 🔍 Review the submission guidelines ⬇️ Download the required templates 🗓️ Make note of key deadline dates cognitivesciencesociety.org/submissions/

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Interested in doing a PhD on language acquisition in Oslo? Check application process: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... and feel free to reach out for more information! PS. We have a nice growing community including Natalia Kartushina, Luca Onnis, @audunrosslund.bsky.social, and many more!

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Challenges and promises of big team comparative cognition. Read our comment in @naturehumbehav.bsky.social It is one of the many upcoming #Manymanys projects! Stay tuned for more :) #BigTeamScience, #BTS, #OpenScience. rdcu.be/d30KP

submitted 166 days ago • 1 comment

Okay, buckle up bsky, it's time for the Tale of the Bunny Paper. Here's the imported thread from twitter where the search all started: bsky.app/profile/bets... (1/n)

submitted 166 days ago • 10 comments

A lovely thread on Bill Labov by his final advisee. Click thru and smile-laugh-cry with her ❤️‍🩹

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Bill Labov died this morning. I'm not coherent enough to talk about how important and influential and brilliant he was. I am very sad. I was so lucky to know him, and I am grateful every day that he (and Gillian, and Walt, etc) built an academic field where kindness is expected.

submitted 167 days ago • 24 comments

I gave a conference talk in a fairly noisy room last week to an audience of mostly non-native English listeners. Thanks to @axellecalcus.bsky.social I discovered it is trivially easy to add auto subtitling in powerpoint. Audience feedback was that it was super useful. Very impressed.

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I've created a starter pack with researchers who study #reading or #psycholinguistics, more generally, in #languages other than English: go.bsky.app/E2e9Afg. Please write to me if you or someone you know should be added (of if you've been added and would like to be removed)!

submitted 181 days ago • 8 comments

I’m excited to announce that I’ve received an ERC Consolidator Grant to study the cognitive neuroscience of the grammar of pictures and comics! Here’s a mini thread about my upcoming "PICTREE Project" www.tilburguniversity.edu/current/news...

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Hello new followers! I am a curious cognitive scientist, with a background in semiotics, a strong focus on quantitative and computational methods and meta-science and scattered interests in how we think, learn and function through conversations. For a taste of my work, a thread of threads: 1/

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