John Mansfield
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my job is just LANGUAGING
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Our Anthropological Linguistics group at Uni Zurich has a webpage now:
www.isle.uzh.ch/en/AnthroL.h...
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reading up on semantics to learn that the meaning of âdogâ is DOG
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Women In Neuroscience Repository
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How transparent is your research funder? đ§ In our latest work we introduce the Transparent Reporting Scale (TRS) to evaluate how funders report grant data. It's time for standardized transparency to bridge the "scissor-shaped curve" in neuroscience.
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Frontiers | Girls just wanna have funds: a new Transparent Reporting Scale for evaluating grant data reporting from funding agencies
IntroductionDespite the increasing representation of women in scientific fields, disparities in research funding allocation remain. This inequity deprives ta...
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/computational-neuroscience/articles/10.3389/fncom.2026.1765249/full
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Preeti Chhibber
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omg everybody go draw a horse this is what the internet was made for
gradient.horse
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gradient.horse
Draw a horse, watch it run!
https://gradient.horse/
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kobayashi ḍamášu
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i heard both of these today: "what are we solutioning here" "we don't have a solve for that" nouns and verbs, two ships passing in the night
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Texas Conference of the AAUP
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âď¸âď¸UTAustin alumni call on all ex-students to sign this petition urging UT not to sign the federal governmentâs higher education compact. UT leaders have still not made their decision about the compact clear.đĄ
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University of Texas: Reject the federal governmentâs âCompactâ
The Trump Administrationâs âCompactâ will put the University of Texas at Austin under political control. Join with Longhorns for Liberty to tell President Jim Davis and the Board of Regents to reject ...
https://alumni.standforcampusfreedom.org/petitions/university-of-texas-reject-the-federal-government-s-compact
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Xiaofang Yao
17 days ago
Grateful to Ge Song for his generous review of my book. He clearly articulates how the book brought together geosemiotics, sociolinguistics of globalisation, and metrolingualism to build a strong theoretical foundation for
#linguisticlandscape
. Far from a 'simplistic' field:
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Review of Yao (2025): Power, Affect, and Identity in the Linguistic Landscape: Chinese Communities in Australia and Beyond
Welcome to e-content platform of John Benjamins Publishing Company. Here you can find all of our electronic books and journals, for purchase and download or subscriber access.
https://doi.org/10.1075/japc.26001.son
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Epic photo
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Remi van Trijp
about 1 month ago
Excited to share that our book "History of Ideas in the Science of AI" (co-authored with Luc Steels and Ann Dooms) is now freely available as
#OpenAccess
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#OpenScience
,
#AIResearch
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#HistoryOfAI
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The majority of the writers pulled out, director resigned, festival no longer tenable this year. Great to see writers standing up for human rights and resisting authoritarian bootlickers.
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Pathetic Adelaide Writers Week board trying to stop Palestinians from talking about the genocide
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Valentina Borghesani
about 1 month ago
Tenure-track Assistant Professor position in computational linguistics at UNIGE /
@nccrlanguage.bsky.social
The application deadline is around the corner (Jan 15)- don't miss it!
linguistlist.org/issues/36/37...
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LINGUIST List 36.3752 Jobs: Computational Linguistics: Professor of Computational Linguistics, University of Geneva, Switzerland
The LINGUIST List, International Linguistics Community Online.
https://linguistlist.org/issues/36/3752/
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I'm hiring! 2 x PhD positions to work at Uni Zurich with me on "Evolutionary Semantics" for an ERC-funded project. semantically curious MA grads from linguistics, cog psych, anthro encouraged to apply
evolvinglanguage.ch/studying-the...
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Studying the Evolution of Abstract Thought - NCCR Evolving Language
In the new ERC-funded project, âConceptual Diversity and the Evolution of Abstract Thoughtâ (CONCEVO), Mansfield will lead a team of researchers to develop a method for reconstructing the evolution of...
https://evolvinglanguage.ch/studying-the-evolution-of-abstract-thought/
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syntax innovation from my niece (5) who doesn't see me often: "What are you my?"
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Ravin Boodram
about 2 months ago
This is an artificial mouth created by Japanese researchers. It uses artificial vocal cords, a trachea system, and a flexible silicone mouth that moves and shapes sound in real time. It sounds so human-like!
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The Art Exhibitions Blog
about 2 months ago
From the superb FĂŠlix Vallotton exhibition at MCBA Lausanne, this is one of many striking and unusual landscapes: Le rayon, 1909, Private collection. Read about the show (the best we've been to this year) on our blog:
art-exhibitions.blogspot.com/2025/12/thro...
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I'm very grateful to have been awarded grant funding from the European Research Council
@erc.europa.eu
. I like that this grant scheme allows for untried methods.
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biggest problem with coding is doing something quick-and-dirty just to get the process working, then you forget and it becomes part of the code... months later you find this hacky little thing spreading its corruption
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so lucky to have Jane Simpson as a PhD boss, what a great role model. She does academia with integrity and generosity; her life work is both brilliant analysis of Australian languages (with more to come), and hundreds of people she helped along the way.
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Richard McElreath đââŹ
2 months ago
I'm teaching Statistical Rethinking again starting Jan 2026. This time with live lectures, divided into Beginner and Experienced sections. Will be a lot more work for me, but I hope much better for students. I will record lectures & all will be found at this link:
github.com/rmcelreath/s...
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caoimhĂn mac bridgĂŠid
2 months ago
I wonder what the Microsoft people think "Do not ask again" means
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THE DUFFER BROTHERS
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Papito
3 months ago
HAPPY THANKSGIVING
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Riccardo Fusaroli
3 months ago
CogSci in Aarhus is hiring, open rank (assi, asso or full prof). We want somebody working on and teaching computational modelling of cognitive processes and/or social processes. Students are amazing, work/life balance very satisfactory, and colleagues are nice!
international.au.dk/about/profil...
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Assistant Professor, Associate Professor or Full Professor of Cognitive Science - Vacancy at Aarhus University
Vacancy at School of Communication and Culture - Linguistics, Cognitive Science and Semiotics, Dept. of, Aarhus University
https://international.au.dk/about/profile/vacant-positions/job/assistant-professor-associate-professor-or-full-professor-of-cognitive-science
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Michael Pleyer
3 months ago
đ¨NEW PUBLICATION ALERT!đ¨ The 'Design Features' of Language Revisited (w/
@mperlman.bsky.social
@glupyan.bsky.social
Koen de Reus &
@limorraviv.bsky.social
) Feature Review out now in
#OpenAccess
in
@cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social
!
#language
#linguistics
Paper:
doi.org/10.1016/j.ti...
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Lingthusiasm
3 months ago
How are we still making discoveries about the 5000-year-old ancestor to English, Latin, Czech, Hindi and many other languages? In our latest episode we get enthusiastic about figuring out Proto-Indo-European with
@dannybate.bsky.social
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110: The history of the history of Indo-European - Interview with Danny Bate
Before there was English, or Latin, or Czech, or Hindi, there was a language that they all have in common, which we call Proto-Indo-European. Linguists have long been fascinated by the quest to get a
https://soundcloud.com/lingthusiasm/110-the-history-of-the-history-of-indo-european-interview-with-danny-bate
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my understanding of semantics comes from Guess Who
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enjoying the vibe of an academic article, without really being able to say exactly what it was about
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I just sent an "oops sorry here's the attachment" email, but still without the attachment
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Hadas Weiss
3 months ago
âsocial reproductionâ is so cool bc it could just mean whatever you want it to mean
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Yair Wallach
3 months ago
Since 7th Oct 2023, Israeli prisons have become torture camps of the worst kind.
www.972mag.com/98-palestini...
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New data reveals 98 Palestinian deaths in Israeli custody since October 7
Post-mortems of the deceased and testimonies from former detainees suggest many died from torture, medical neglect, and food deprivation. According to a leaked Israeli intelligence database, dozens we...
https://www.972mag.com/98-palestinian-deaths-israeli-custody-prison-torture/
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Our Anthropological Linguistics group at Uni Zurich has a webpage now:
www.isle.uzh.ch/en/AnthroL.h...
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Louise Seamster
3 months ago
Struck this morning by how the win wasnât from the UC system itself pushing backâit was its worker power through *unions* and aligned groups like
@aaup.org
defending UC interests, even though admin itself wasnât. Thereâs some kind of lesson here
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Diana B. Greenwald
3 months ago
If you are in NY on Wednesday, I will be moderating this discussion of B'Tselem's research and recent report on the genocide in Gaza. Link to register here:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Center for the Human Past (CHP)
3 months ago
#Vacancies
: we are looking for not just one but three
#postdoctoral
researchers interested in bridging
#genetics
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#archaeology
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#linguistics
in exploring the
#humanpast
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shorturl.at/B3Qdd
@haam-community.bsky.social
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Postdoctoral position in Palaeo-population genomics at the Center for the Human Past - Uppsala University
Postdoctoral position in Palaeo-population genomics at the Center for the Human Past, Department of Organismal Biology, Uppsala University
https://shorturl.at/B3Qdd
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âFind a political home, be it a nonprofit, mutual aid group, or a community garden, so you have a network of people you want to be with as things get harder.â
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How US-UAE Ties Weaken Washingtonâs Voice on Sudan - PassBlue
How US-UAE Ties Weaken Washingtonâs Voice on Sudan - PassBlue
https://passblue.com/2025/10/31/how-us-uae-ties-weaken-washingtons-voice-on-sudan/
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PhD on *interactional and neural processes in conversation*, to work with the delightful Prof Adrian Bangerter in the charming Swiss city of Neuchatel...
www.unine.ch/ipto/emploi/
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Emploi - Institut de psychologie du travail et des organisations
https://www.unine.ch/ipto/emploi/
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the dysfunctional search function in Microsoft Outlook is an international scandal
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Last night I dreamt that our students started forming these radical political groups called âNoun Phrasesâ and the uni management was really angry
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The Associated Press
4 months ago
Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.
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2 million rally in Italy for Gaza as general strike halts key services
Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.
https://bit.ly/3Iu6Mxt
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Social functions of language may drive faster change and faster diversification in some features. Thanks to growing diversity in variationst sociolinguistics, I gathered studies of 63 languages from 28 families. Here I sketch some potential patterns
compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Linguistic Diversification and Rates of Change: Insights From a Diverse Sample of Sociolinguistic Studies
Language diversification and change can be studied using phylogenetic modelling of families over thousands of years, or by close observation of changes unfolding over a few decades at the community l....
https://compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/lnc3.70022
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ok I got curious and tried vibe coding for processing some cross-linguistic data... hilariously bad đ ... maybe a special case because I was dealing with GRAMMATICAL GENDER (AI was triggered), but it sure did produce some garbage
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andrea e. martin
5 months ago
Interested in doing a PhD with me and
lacns.github.io
? Or with any of the incredible fellows in the IMPRS School of Cognition
www.maxplanckschools.org/cognition-en
- apply before Dec 1st at
cognition.maxplanckschools.org/en/application
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Language and Computation in Neural Systems
We are an international group of scientists consisting of linguists, cognitive scientists, cognitive neuroscientists, computational neuroscientists, computational modellers, computational scientists, ...
https://lacns.github.io
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Michael Pleyer
6 months ago
Congratulations to Alexandra Bosshard for winning the
#SLE2025
award for best presentation by a post-doctoral researcher with her excellent talk on processing perspectives in animal compositionality!
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Quanta Magazine
6 months ago
Punctuated equilibrium, a concept introduced by paleontologists in 1972, reimagines evolutionâs tempo as a stochastic burst rather than a steady beat. A new model finds support for their theory in both molecular and fossil data.
@jakebuehler.bsky.social
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www.quantamagazine.org/the-sudden-s...
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Mondoweiss
6 months ago
The Guardian just revealed Israelâs own military data: 83% of those killed in Gaza are civilians. Thatâs not war, thatâs genocide.
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"Evolutionary dynamics of language: Insights from a diverse sample of sociolinguistic studies" forthcoming article comparing findings from phylogenetic and sociolinguistic studies
ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/008...
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Evolutionary dynamics of language: Insights from a diverse sample of sociolinguistic studies - lingbuzz/008948
The evolutionary dynamics of language can be studied using phylogenetic modelling of changes over thousands of years, or by close observation of changes unfolding over a few decades at the community l...
https://ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/008948
6 months ago
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I'm gonna start using the word "hereby" more often seems powerful
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Laura C. Dees
6 months ago
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 itâs my first co-authored paper too, yay!) :)
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
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Chimpanzee mothers, but not fathers, influence offspring vocalâvisual communicative behavior
The influence of social versus genetic factors on communication in non-human hominids is not well understood. This study shows that, in line with their central caretaking role, chimpanzees exhibit pre...
https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3003270
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