Francesca Albanese: "This is the genocide that continues through other means. Israel has zero intention to relinquish control of the Gaza strip.. what has been sold to the world as the peace plan.. is a way to push the intl community to have an alibi not to continue to engage with Gaza"

Israel hunted a 70 year old lady down with a gun drone and then hoovered above to make sure she bled out next to her dying son. They both join almost 1,000 Palestinians Israel has massacred or maimed in its genocide during the "ceasefire". www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12...

#WestBank: new @hrw.org report finds #Israel 's mass displacement of Palestinians amounts to ethnic cleansing: hrw.org/news/2025/11... Countless EU statements on "two state solution" have done nothing to stop this. Sanctions, settlement trade ban urgently needed: hrw.org/news/2025/10...

I am by no means a prominent public intellectual, but my inbox is increasingly filled with messages from people who have been convinced by sycophantic chatbots that they have discovered revolutionary theories that entirely upend our scientific understanding of the universe.

Being available; sharing network and resources; giving timely feedback; offering opportunities and learning moments (e.g. co-reviewing a paper, organising a conference, co-presenting - these are things you have to learn somehow). Oh and be kind - there is enough harshness in academia.

being available when needed, offering constructive criticism as well as motivation and recognition, being humane (do not request unreasonable achievements, or expect huge personal sacrifices, respect holidays, time to rest etc.), there's probably more but this are top three to me

things look so bleak.. and Europe seems to have stopped caring since the start of the ceasefire which is not a ceasefire

genuinely curious: what, according to my academic followers, are characteristics of good doctoral supervision?

genuinely curious: what, according to my academic followers, are characteristics of good doctoral supervision?

#Vacancies: we are looking for not just one but three #postdoctoral researchers interested in bridging #genetics, #archaeology and #linguistics in exploring the #humanpast. shorturl.at/B3Qdd @haam-community.bsky.social @cschlebu.bsky.social

Today, 250.000 people took to the streets of Amsterdam to protest Israel's genocidal violence in Gaza and the cowardly response by the Dutch government. It followed on two earlier protests, one with 150.000 protesters, and the first one with about 100.000. By Dutch standards, these are huge numbers.

RIP Jane Goodall, who has died at 91. She was a gentle disrupter who reshaped how we understand our place in nature. Her research with chimpanzees revolutionized science, and her boundless optimism touched the world. buff.ly/5Hwx3Z7 🌎🩺

Together with 1000 Madleens to #Gaza @1kmadleenfr.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy we are sending a boat with international journalists & health workers in solidarity with Palestinian journalists & medics who continue to report & provide care through #genocide #BreakTheSiege #FreePalestine #AllEyesOnGaza

When you consider the *ecocide* alongside the genocide being perpetrated in Gaza, you begin to grasp the totality of the Israeli state’s attempt to eliminate both the Palestinians and their homeland. My column today. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

"The big perspective change from ancient DNA study is that people living today are almost never the descendants of the people in the same place thousands of years before." "People’s stories about their history are almost always wrong."

From burying beetles to shamans, follow Manvir Singh @manvir.bsky.social in his sweeping Q&A from our latest issue. www.cell.com/current-biol...

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in the context of sharing something uplifting every once in a while: this documentary about two brothers dipping their toes in the world of "extreme birdwatching" is so joyful, genuine and funny, and it has stunning bird footage! youtu.be/zl-wAqplQAo?...

“Wie om veiligheid vraagt zonder macht, vraagt om bescherming in plaats van zeggenschap.”

Today, Global Voices joins with @rsf.org Avaaz and other media outlets to condemn the killing of journalists in #Gaza. Together, we call on the Israeli authorities to allow independent access for international press into Gaza immediately. #ProtectJournalistsInGaza #LetReportersIntoGaza

Our paper is out! We linked genetic and linguistic data to study how contact changes language and found consistent patterns of borrowing across contact situations @balthasarbickel.bsky.social @chiarabarbieri.bsky.social @nccrlanguage.bsky.social @isle-uzh.bsky.social doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adv7521

Crucial research by courageous Israeli journalists www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Israel is carrying out a deliberate campaign of starvation in the occupied Gaza Strip, systematically destroying the health, well-being and social fabric of Palestinian life. Read more:

A new study finds that chimpanzee babies learn vocal and visual communication patterns from their mothers. The findings may shed light on the way human babies learn from those close to them.

“The law means nothing if the world looks away.”

It comes with a nicely condensed press release: www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

So happy that this paper lead by Joseph Mine is finally out! Was cool to be part of this project on the social learning of multi-modal communication in chimpanzees, which is slightly outside of my usual scope (and it’s my first co-authored paper too, yay!) :) journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

This is amongst the most impactful two minutes of broadcasting I’ve ever seen. By Emma Murphy, International Editor, ITV News. #Gaza

What is holding us from imposing complete sanctions on Israel immediately? Possible answers are racism, islamophobia, and giving in to illegitimate pressure from zionists. I don’t see any good reason at all. Also, use military force to let the food in (since diplomacy failed). Now!

Such a fascinating topic! I’d totally recommend his brilliant book “Bye Bye I Love You” as well, which features reflections on ritual last words and much more relating to the opening and closing of the “interaction window” at the beginning and end of the lifespan.

A horrifying statement published today by the Editorial Committee of the Agence France-Presse (AFP) news agency. "Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die" Translation from French to English by @cnorristrent.bsky.social:

and European governments continue to stand by and watch

Historian Jean-Pierre Filiu, following a month-long stay in Gaza, says Israel’s restrictions on journalists conceal devastation so severe it has profoundly fractured Gazan society and could impact the world www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

We're hiring! Join us to work at the intersection of social interaction and language technology. Postdoc and PhD positions in my Futures of Language research group, based at Radboud University in Nijmegen, NL Read more: markdingemanse.net/futures/news... #linguistics #interaction #sts #emca #hci

In past 24 hours, Israel killed 72 Palestinians in #Gaza: Ministry aje.io/jidzpe?updat...

African prisoners made sound recordings in German camps in WW1: this is what they had to say theconversation.com/african-pris...

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

we're tired

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

Moeten we het nog uitspellen?

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.

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...

'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.'

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/...

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

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

❗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. ➡️

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

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

🚨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