The Poznań #Linguistics Meeting 2025 Grand Debate: "Human #Language: is it unique?" feat. Wolfgang Dressler, Magdalena Wrembel, Raymond Hickey, Nikki Ritt, @thematzing.bsky.social and @neilcohn.bsky.social

Check out my new blog on Psychology Today. First post on... speech pauses :) @psychologytoday.com www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/comm...

Call for papers for Evolang 2026 is now posted! evolang2026.org. Workshop proposals due Sept 22nd. Paper submissions October 26th. Evolang is interdisciplinarity at its best. We hope to see you in Plovdiv!!

Die Kinderuni Wien ist in vollem Gange! So viele neugierige und motivierte junge Köpfe bei unserem Workshop „Haben Sprachen Geschwister?“ 🌟🧠✨ @univie.ac.at #kinderuni #scicomm #neugier #sprachwandel

Here's the press release for our just-published study on speech pauses. Get in touch if you want to know more (in English or German)! 💡💬🗣️💭

Check out this great thread on our just-published paper on the cross-cultural interpretation of speech pauses! We found that the cognitive states associated with long vs. short pauses before giving an answer in a conversation are strikingly similar across cultures 🏄 The paper is open access 🔓

Check out our just published review on "Language Evolution as an Interdisciplinary Research Field" :)

🚨New Publication Alert!🚨 @thematzing.bsky.social‬ and I have written a little review of " #Language Evolution as an Interdisciplinary and Integrative Research Field." Out now in "Contemporary #Linguistics: Integrating Languages, Communities, and Technologies" brill.com/display/book...

🎉 Das Warten hat ein Ende: Das Programm für das Pint of Science Festival 2025 in #Wien ist online! 🍻🧠 Vom 19. bis 21. Mai erwarten euch zahlreiche spannende Vorträge in gemütlicher Atmosphäre. Alle Details und Tickets findet ihr hier: pintofscience.at/events/wien #Pint25AT

Don't forget to submit your abstracts for #Protolang9 in Vienna in September 2025! Submission deadline for individual papers and workshops: February 14, 2025. More info: protolang9.univie.ac.at Looking forward to seeing you there!

Heute Abend halte ich im Philosophischen Café des Kulturhofs Amstetten einen Impulsvortrag zum Thema "Haben Tiere Sprache?" Ich freue mich auf spannende Diskussionen über Tierkognition und Tierethik. Alle sind herzlich willkommen! kulturhof.at

Our #WomenGroundbreakers exhibition at IMP Vienna with paintings by Anya Vero paired with scientific posters of women scientists was a huge success! Thanks everyone for coming, discussing, and making this event so special! #WomenInScience #InternationalWomensDay Find more events at sciencemeets.art

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Join us next week on March 6 for the vernissage of the Women Groundbreakers art collection Anya Vero at IMP Vienna. I will be presenting my research on language evolution next to a portrait of Jane Goodall. Take your friends and come by! Everyone welcome! #ScienceMeetsArt

Very much looking forward to giving a talk on "Beauty's Mnemonic Power - Investigating the Recall of Attractive vs. Unattractive Linguistic Patterns" at an interdisciplinary lecture series on phonaesthetics at @univie.ac.at Free for all! Scan the QR code to join us tomorrow at 12:30 CEST on Zoom.

Starting with a 🧵 about our latest paper on the evolution of pantomime 🚨 hot off the press in the Journal of Language Evolution. Happy to be part of the team led by Marek Placiński! It's also the first #motioncapture paper of the CLES NCU lab! academic.oup.com/jole/advance...

Finally I also made the move to Bluesky 💙 Hello everyone! Looking forward to connect with many of you here ☺️