The next session of the Animal Linguistics seminar will take place on Wed., Nov. 26, 5pm Paris, on Zoom only, world-wide. Speakers: C. Crockford & C. Girard-Buttoz, Chimpanzee Vocal Utterances: Flexible and combinatorial with protracted development All are welcome!

First session of the Multimodal Semantics seminar this coming Tuesday, October 21, on Zoom only, with Lyn Tieu:

First session of our new online seminar on multimodal semantics: Tue October 21 with Lyn Tieu

New paper with Jason Lamberton and Jonathan Lamberton: “Traveling Shots in Language: Towards an Analysis of Dynamic Viewpoints in ASL”, to appear in Linguistic Inquiry. ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/008...

Our online Animal Linguistics Seminar starts this coming Wednesday, September 24:

Recent manuscript on “Context Shift and Viewpoint Shift”, with Jason Lamberton and Jonathan Lamberton: ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/009... The philosophy of language of the 1970’s claimed that natural language lacks operators that can shift the context of evaluation of indexicals.

After a successful trial session in July, the Animal Linguistics seminar is continuing:

Reminder: Gallot on olive colobus grammar in the Online Seminar on Animal Linguistics on Tuesday, July 22, 5pm Paris. Please register here if you wish to attend: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

📢 Join the online Animal Linguistics Seminar on the 22nd of July, at 5 PM CET! Quentin Gallot will discuss the alarm call sequences in olive colobus. Links for registration and more information here: sites.google.com/site/philipp... @cogcompneuch.bsky.social @phschlenker.bsky.social

Online Seminar on Animal Linguistics on Tuesday, July 22, 5pm Paris: On an experimental basis, we are organizing a seminar on Animal Linguistics, on Zoom only, world-wide. Speaker: Q. Gallot, Alarm call sequences in olive colobus: a primate grammar enabling incremental processing

MIT on Haj Ross, a great, great linguist who died in May 2025: whamit.mit.edu/2025/05/19/j...

An excellent semantics/pragmatics group is advertising positions - including for work on great ape communication and the evolution of language:

An excellent semantics/pragmatics group is advertising positions - including for work on great ape communication and the evolution of language:

Incroyable dérive d'une ministre: www.huffingtonpost.fr/politique/ar...

A lire: www.fabula.org/actualites/1...

An important petition regarding the future of research in Europe: bit.ly/4kzL4pi

The AERG expresses grave concern over the future of fundamental research in Europe in a statement urging European leaders to protect fundamental science by reaffirming the autonomy of the @erc.europa.eu aerg.eu/news/new-sta... Read the full statement 👇 aerg.eu/storage/AERG...

A statement by the Association of ERC Grantees (AERG) on the importance of protecting the autonomy of the ERC: www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

Statement by European Academics in Defense of Academic Freedom form.jotform.com/251461942218...

Tribune très juste. Mais qui omet de dire que, pour certaines équipes du moins, le manque de locaux de recherche à Paris est un problème fondamental. www.latribune.fr/idees/tribun...

We commend Harvard for standing up for itself. Free speech and academic freedom are essential to higher education. They are values worth fighting for.

Here is one big reason to choose Europe to advance with your research career: We 💙 science.

As the US government slashes Harvard’s funding, Nature has learnt that researchers at the university have lost nearly 1,000 grants worth more than US$2.4 billion. https://go.nature.com/4jg8Sxa

Full support to Harvard! www.harvard.edu/president/ne...

⚠️ Sur les "ouvriers de la 11e heure" et sur Gaza (suite de la suite) • La lecture des prises de position récentes de Anne Sinclair, Joann Sfar, Delphine Horvilleur et d'autres appelant Israël à un "sursaut de conscience" provoque ici de la stupeur, de la rancœur, parfois de la colère. …

Persecutions against trans people in the United States: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

Sur l'incroyable dérive de l'extrême-gauche française: youtube.com/watch?v=EMX01K

Persecutions against trans people in the US: www.bbc.com/news/article...

⚠️C'est officiel, la guerre pour "éradiquer le Hamas" ne visait qu'à éradiquer la population palestinienne. J'ai décrit et documenté cette stratégie ici, depuis 18 mois: • En déc. 2023, le ministre Shlomo Karhi déclarait que "l'émigration volontaire doit parfois être imposée avant d'être consentie"

"Jamais je n'aurais cru que la question juive reviendrait par la gauche". Jérôme Guedj sur l'inimaginable dérive de l'extrême-gauche française: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7u6Z...

Dans chaque manifestation, des extrémistes s’en prendront désormais aux socialistes et aux « sionistes » ? Solidarité totale avec Jérôme Guedj, les élus et les militants venus pour les droits des travailleurs et violemment agressés aujourd’hui. Les sectaires ne gagneront pas.

FIRE is as necessary as ever:

Evidence of US brain drain? US scientists submitted 32% more applications for jobs abroad Jan-Mar 2025 than during same period in 2024. US-based users browsing jobs abroad increased by 35%. Data from Nature Careers global science jobs platform. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

“Harvard should not go interjecting itself into politics,” Summers said. But “if an institution like Harvard cannot resist tyranny when applied to it,” he said, “then who can?”

“This is part of a broad and sweeping effort to suppress institutions that challenge the presidential administration.” fortune.com/2025/04/16/l...

Bravo: www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl...

L'enseignement supérieur et la recherche ont impérativement besoin d'être évalués par une instance scientifique indépendante. Il faut préserver l'HCERES (et l'on peut aussi la rendre plus efficace). www.lemonde.fr/sciences/art...

“Let me remind us all why governments around the world have a stake in supporting science & innovation. The arguments are well-established but often forgotten.” Read Maria Leptin’s full speech event with stellar Irish ERC grantees. erc.europa.eu/news-events/...

The Association of ERC Grantees strongly supports the Draghi report’s proposal to create EU Chairs, managed by the ERC, to attract world-class scholars to Europe. Read the full position paper 👇 aerg.eu/news/the-eur...

The AERG has some clear goals for the near future of the association: •Continue to grow: we are ~250 AERG members now but there are ~14k ERC grantees! •strengthen our collaboration with @erc.europa.eu •continue to defend the value of bottom-up, curiosity-driven fundamentals research in Europe

Exciting new methods and results by Mélissa Berthet, Martin Surbeck and Simon Townsend: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...