Call for papers for Evolang 2026 is now posted! evolang2026.org. Workshop proposals due Sept 22nd. Paper submissions October 26th. Evolang is interdisciplinarity at its best. We hope to see you in Plovdiv!!

My latest story for National Geographic, about the similarities between whale song and human language, featuring @inbalarnon.bsky.social, @simonkirby.bsky.social, @ellengarland.bsky.social, @masonyoungblood.bsky.social and @rferrericancho.bsky.social!

A new preprint: doi.org/10.31234/osf... about one paradox in word order #typology. On the one hand, SOV has longer dependency distances and therefore higher processing costs than SVO (@rferrericancho.bsky.social, H.Liu, Futrell et al...)

A healing reading on the reality of the peer-review system (thank you Carles Sora-Domenjo for sending it to me). www.experimental-history.com/p/the-rise-a...

Not a big surprise, but we confirmed it: far-right parties cause bloc polarization masking other issues in multiparty systems electoral campaign arxiv.org/abs/2410.23177