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Thomas Pellard
about 1 month ago
âBizarreâ linguistics paper on water retracted by Springer Nature
www.timeshighereducation.com/news/bizarre...
@lameensouag.bsky.social
@dingemansemark.bsky.social
@verbingnouns.bsky.social
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âBizarreâ linguistics paper on water retracted by Springer Nature
Jordanian professorâs free-wheeling study is pulled and an editorial board member sacked after linguists criticised âextremely strangeâ article
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/bizarre-linguistics-paper-water-retracted-springer-nature
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Mark Dingemanse
about 2 months ago
Re: the AI slop paper shared by
@thomaspellard.bsky.social
and
@lameensouag.bsky.social
, I wrote to the editors â 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
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Thomas Pellard
about 2 months ago
WTF?! 𫣠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?
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A cross-linguistic investigation of /h/ symbolism: the case of H2O - Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
Humanities and Social Sciences Communications - A cross-linguistic investigation of /h/ symbolism: the case of H2O
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-025-06397-0
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Un jour d'hiver Ă Paris (prĂšs du parc Montsouris)
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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...
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Contrasting modes of cultural evolution: Kra-Dai languages and weaving technologies | Evolutionary Human Sciences | Cambridge Core
Contrasting modes of cultural evolution: Kra-Dai languages and weaving technologies - Volume 7
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/evolutionary-human-sciences/article/contrasting-modes-of-cultural-evolution-kradai-languages-and-weaving-technologies/5A71D64485DC03FB5D238DA9789C3E33
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The second edition of the Japhug grammar is now available :
langsci-press.org/catalog/book...
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A grammar of Japhug : Second edition | Language Science Press
https://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/549
4 months ago
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Chris Buckley
5 months ago
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...
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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...
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https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/jgn47_v1
5 months ago
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Chris Buckley
7 months ago
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...
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Contrasting modes of cultural evolution: Kra-Dai languages and weaving technologies | Evolutionary Human Sciences | Cambridge Core
Contrasting modes of cultural evolution: Kra-Dai languages and weaving technologies
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/evolutionary-human-sciences/article/contrasting-modes-of-cultural-evolution-kradai-languages-and-weaving-technologies/5A71D64485DC03FB5D238DA9789C3E33
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reposted by
Roope Kaaronen
7 months ago
I love this kind of paper. A seemingly niche topicâwhich the authors are genuine experts inâthat regardless reveals some more fundamental ideas about how humakind operates. (1/2)
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Contrasting modes of cultural evolution: Kra-Dai languages and weaving technologies | Evolutionary Human Sciences | Cambridge Core
Contrasting modes of cultural evolution: Kra-Dai languages and weaving technologies
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/evolutionary-human-sciences/article/contrasting-modes-of-cultural-evolution-kradai-languages-and-weaving-technologies/5A71D64485DC03FB5D238DA9789C3E33?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=bluesky&utm_source=socialnetwork
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Chris Buckley
7 months ago
Why do some things evolve smoothly, and others in bursts? Read on for answersâŠ
add a skeleton here at some point
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