"Based on the dataset you shared, US and UK responses differ mainly in tone, intensity, and wording style, even though they express similar emotional states" New post on what happened when I got Copilot to do some data analysis: kucharski.substack.com/p/real-signa...

The normative fraud that Errington describes is something I've seen my whole career. A biologist once told me, if p is very small, it can't be a false positive. Teams condition on null being false, see anything that makes p small as truth-seeking. These traditions spread bc they get you published.

Many thanks to @laserhedvig.bsky.social & Daniel Midgley for having @yngwienielsen.bsky.social & me on @becauselanguage.com to talk about our NHB paper where we show priming of non-hierarchical linguistic structure. It was so much fun to do a deep dive into the nature of linguistic representations

My group at the MPI for Empirical Aesthetics now has a name: Cultural Evolution of the Arts! You can read a bit more about the idea behind the group at the group's web page: www.aesthetics.mpg.de/en/research/... And here's the obligatory door nameplate :)

This is possibly the most blatant case of citation farming I've seen. Quality control at Elsevier: www.chrisbrunet.com/p/third-edit...

Today is the National Day of British Sign Language in the UK, and here's an interesting talk with BSL interpretation :) #nationalbslday

Liz Irvine and I once ran an experiment which went so wrong that I spent the next 10 years figuring out what had happened. Today we've published the explanation: a new theory for the evolution of symbolic signals (with Kateryna Krykoniuk & Fiona Jordan). academic.oup.com/jole/article...

We had a great time at #AdventureX in November. You can now watch our our talk on women's dialogue in video games here ... With BSL interpretation! #videogames #linguistics www.youtube.com/watch?v=gA--...

Oh my god, I love this. It's a simple little interactive website that helps you find where you personally draw the distinction between blue and green. My boundary is apparently at 179, where's yours? ismy.blue

How did language evolve? We ran some experiments in Minecraft to find out! youtu.be/7vgS8s6MhSk?... And link to paper: academic.oup.com/jole/article...

🥳 so glad the #evolang proceedings are out. First time I'm in them!!

This is why it's important authors read a lot, Murakami has no idea this has been done already

pls repost! Are you an academic or someone who has published academically who has requested name changes in your works because you were married (or used to go by a former name)? please let me know via reply/DM/the contact form on my website if you're willing to chat about! #AcademicChatter 🗂️🗃️📜📚

New theme issue of #PhilTransB: The evolution of collective intelligence. Read #OA: buff.ly/f0gWUxH

She found that their company revived her, carried her away from the constant presence of last night's terror, little by little, till she could begin to look back on it as something that had happened, not something that was happening, that must always be happening to her.

TIL "There is little evidence that spicy food in hot countries is an adaptation to reducing infection risk" www.nature.com/articles/s41...

You can read about our research at the Department for Linguistic and Cultural Evolution at @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social , our webpages have gotten an overhaul :)! www.eva.mpg.de/linguistic-a...

say what you will about buzzfeed, but their series where they get food&drink experts to try cheap-ass versions of the product they've devoted their life to is chef's kiss 👌 here's the wine one www.youtube.com/watch?v=840w...

Während #Palantir ein Manifest voller rechtsextremer Talking Points veröffentlicht, droht die Bundesregierung KI-Massenüberwachung durch die Hintertür einzuführen. Das darf nicht passieren. Wir sollten unsere Grundrechte vor KI-Überwachung & Big Tech schützen – statt sie schleichend auszuhöhlen.

The human circulatory system, before and after proper cable management.

I can highly recommend drinking Earl/Lady Grey tea when eating mapo tofu. The bergamott really hypes up the sichuan pepper even more, because citrus I guess.

„The only remaining way to mitigate this situation is to reduce the number of applications.“ They’ve tried nothing and are all out of ideas? Whether this is good or bad, it is unjustified. There is no impact analysis, no engagement with research on funding procedures. Government by vibes

Does anyone know a German labour law expert? I have a very specific question, and I'm struggling to get advice.

Hurray for the Kam Documentation Project in Nigeria! tribuneonlineng.com/reviving-voi...

If you use LLM services like ChatGPT, I think that you should donate to wikipedia. donate.wikimedia.org . It's a great project, a great step forward for humanity at large and it's also what a lot of LLM draws on when you ask it questions about the world around us.

why does honey & Glühwein behave like that (wiping down everything somehow)

We have seen this before, with the kidnapping of Maduro or the mass protests against ICE raids – fake images of real events. While these synthetic images fictionalize reality, they are not necessarily meant as disinformation. Rather, they both illustrate and cater to wide-spread expectations 1/

The last week has been an absolute joy, watching so many folk get incredibly lit up by SCIENCE! 🎉🎉🎉 Yet, inevitably, some people asking well-meant & genuinely curious questions had "LOL u r SO DUMB" comments flung at them. This is snobbish and self-defeating! Here's a cartoon explaining why. 1/

The longer a man stays in a form not his own, the greater this peril.

“There’s an idea that should be retired: chimpanzees as a model for who humans used to be. We’ve evolved separately for millions of years. They’re not our ancestors, but a species to understand on their own terms. 🎥 Watch City of Science: Jane Goodall and Her Legacy youtu.be/gdA0HHdTF3s?...

Best Star Trek crew, wrong answers only:

if you work at a university department and you're recruiting new people - get involved in the administrative recruitment procedure. the things they're getting us to do is destructive to the field and ourselves. examples: list _declined_ positions and sum Impact Factor of publications

Our most recent episode of @becauselanguage.com is a really nice chat about language trickery - what can these pranks tell us about how language works? becauselanguage.com/135-linguist...

#day7 of #30DayChartChallenge, Multiscale code: github.com/gkaramanis/3... #RStats #dataviz

📦 My first #RStats package on CRAN: {readelan} A package dedicated to reading all files associated with ELAN: eaf, etf, ecv. Reads annotations, metadata, controlled vocabularies. Relevant for many in #linguistics perhaps? More info here: borstell.github.io/misc/readelan/

Something I learned from Star Wars is that if a door is locked, you shoot the control panel to open it. If a door is open and someone is chasing you, you also shoot the control panel to close it. Just shoot control panels

Dan Parker of Ohio State tricking me, hijacking my kindess, with linguistic illusions (book out with @universitypress.cambridge.org) 🧙‍♀️🪄✨️😅🤓 www.cambridge.org/core/books/l...

What will the creature made all of seadrift do on the dry sand of daylight; what will the mind do, each morning, waking?

Night side of Earth. There's another image that's brighter, but it's a camera effect. This is what you would see with your eyes.

"The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate any thing. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform. It [cannot] anticipat[e] any analytical relations or truths. Its province is to assist us in making available what we are already acquainted with." — Ada Lovelace, 1843

Great to see this book from @korystamper.bsky.social And also she's on so many fun podcasts, talking about it! Any of them are worth listening to. Here's ours: becauselanguage.com/134-true-col... But also lingthusiasm.com/post/8115654... vocalfriespod.com/2026/03/31/i... Any others?

jupiter wishes you a very happy trans day of visibility 🏳️‍⚧️

*Sharing code for research publications* Here's the process that I've ended up with, through various collaborators like Robert Forkel, @simongreenhill.bsky.social , Stephen Francis Mann and others. Not perfect perhaps, but works pretty ok. A student asked, so I made this illustration.

If we want to conserve evolutionary history, we need to think about this: change the phylogenetic methods, and you change the conservation outcomes. New paper led by honours student Mina Kearns, with @alexskeels.bsky.social & @keaghanjames.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

@maxplanck.de offers two small research group programmes: Lise Meitner & general groups. If you got a cool idea, apply! LM groups deadline is soon, April 15. * www.mpg.de/11946549/lis... * www.mpg.de/max-planck-r...

"The uncritical adoption of AI can lead to students not developing essential academic skills such as critical thinking and writing." www.ru.nl/en/research/...

after much deliberation and giving AI the benefit of the doubt, Wikipedia editors have had enough of AI slop. New policy bans LLM generated content, periodt www.404media.co/wikipedia-ba...

spelling is hard, and um not sure Daniels suggestion here will work but I'll give it a try!

Coming soon: a chat with @korystamper.bsky.social about her new book True Color. How do you define what blue is? What even IS colour? Turns out, the quest to define colours was happening along with a standardisation crisis and a dictionary crisis. Kory tells us all about it. @aaknopf.bsky.social

not me getting confused and googling what "indigo" is 🙈