‘Bizarre’ linguistics paper on water retracted by Springer Nature www.timeshighereducation.com/news/bizarre... @lameensouag.bsky.social @dingemansemark.bsky.social @verbingnouns.bsky.social

Re: the AI slop paper shared by @thomaspellard.bsky.social and @lameensouag.bsky.social, I wrote to the editors — will update when I get a reply, and will be following closely what they do. Key point is that we should hold the *journal* accountable for this mess I have a few predictions... 1/n

WTF?! 🫣 Is this a joke? www.nature.com/articles/s41... A religious quote, "primitive languages", and nonsense everywhere. Is Nature Humanities and Social Sciences Communications a scam journal?

Un jour d'hiver à Paris (près du parc Montsouris)

New article in collaboration with @chrisbuckley.bsky.social , @thomaspellard.bsky.social @robinryder.bsky.social on the phylogeny of Kra-Dai languages and of the looms used by their speakers: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

The second edition of the Japhug grammar is now available : langsci-press.org/catalog/book...

Guillaume Jacques and I have collaborated to survey spindle whorls and the origins of weaving in East Asia ... lots of new stuff in this preprint ... a novel method for processing spindle whorl archaeological data, comparison with farming, and new linguistic information ... osf.io/preprints/so...

New preprint, cowritten with @chrisbuckley.bsky.social Spindle whorls and the emergence of weaving in the East Asia region: a new database osf.io/preprints/so...

Forgive me for nominating a paper on which I was a co-author, but ... it's observational, it's cross-cultural, and it's based on large datasets painstakingly assembled in the field and then coded, it's fresh, and there are insights www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

I love this kind of paper. A seemingly niche topic—which the authors are genuine experts in—that regardless reveals some more fundamental ideas about how humakind operates. (1/2) www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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