📰 new paper! lnkd.in/dYdrvZAz, by @irenebalboni.bsky.social , Alessandra Rampinini, @olgakepinska.bsky.social, @berthele.bsky.social, @nargolestani.bsky.social, @nccrlanguage.bsky.social showing the importance of multimodal approaches for uncovering brain-behaviour relationships

📍 Morgen Abend spricht Pascale Hatt in der Biberburg (Hirschthal) über „Die Welt der Orcas“. Weitere Informationen finden Sie unter dem Link. www.biberburg.ch/wp-content/u...

A very special paper where we did something NEW! 🔥combining a large genetic dataset 🧬, a large linguistic dataset 💬, and Bayesian multilevel logistic regressions 📈, counting the effects of areal contact (geographic constrains) 🌎. Genetic admixture explains higher levels of linguistic exchanges...

📰When populations meet, they exchange genes, but also language features. According to a new study by NCCR researchers, contact between human populations increases the resemblance between their languages to similar extents all over the world, but differently. evolvinglanguage.ch/capturing-la...

New paper out in Science Advances! We studied language & genetic evolution using the GeLaTo database—focusing on burrowing and schismogenesis. Link: doi.org/10.1126/scia... Special thanks to @chiarabarbieri.bsky.social @annagraff.bsky.social @balthasarbickel.bsky.social @nccrlanguage.bsky.social

Only 3 days left to register for the Crosslinguistic Perspectives on Processing and Learning X-PPL 2025! The event will take place on the 1st and 2nd of September in Zurich. @isle-uzh.bsky.social www.isle.uzh.ch/en/events/x-...

In August, NCCR member Eklavya Sarkar successfully obtained his doctoral diploma from the ‪@idiap.bsky.social and EPFL. Congrats!

🎞️The Work Package Pattern Production explores language acquisition features in other species. Do they present the same characteristics as humans? More about it in this interview! youtu.be/7z5_czLdnfQ?...

🎙️🇬🇧 NCCR researcher @volkerdellwo.bsky.social is in the newest episode of the Schampar Digital Podcast, by DIZH - University of Zurich, to talk about the voice of AI. The episode is available in German on every podcast streaming platform, and here: www.dizh.uzh.ch/en/2025/08/1....

Still so much to learn about our canine companions 🐺🐶

📢 New article by Joseph Mine et al. on social learning of multi-modal communication in #chimpanzees is out! journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

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/...

📰🐺Researchers Éloïse Déaux and Gwendolyn Wirobski are studying the behaviours and communication of canids. For #InternationalWolfDay, dive into the relationship between dogs and humans, and explore why it differs from our interactions with wolves. evolvinglanguage.ch/rethinking-h...

From August, @ricosennrich.bsky.social takes on a new position as an assistant professor in Computational Linguistics, at the University of Zurich. More on his work in this article! evolvinglanguage.ch/making-sense...

Nous sommes toujours à la recherche de participant·e·s ! Merci de votre intérêt ! 🙏 Envie de participer à notre étude ? 🔎 Temps total : 90 minutes Rémunération : 15.- CHF Lieu : Online Lien : tinyurl.com/4rvdmvdy

📰🧬🇬🇧 New study: an international team of geneticists and linguists investigated the deep genetic roots and historical continuity of the northern coast of Peru. evolvinglanguage.ch/perus-hidden...

New paper on the genetic legacy of living inhabitants of the Northern Coast of Peru. With Ricardo Fujita and José Sandoval of USMP Lima,master student Lea Huber,@epifaniaarango.bsky.social,@kkshimizu1.bsky.social Genetic lineages characteristic of the region link to aDNA from local archaeo sites...

📰An article by Michael Fuchs, Emilie Genty, Klaus Zuberbühler and Paul Cotofrei @cogcompneuch.bsky.social is in @elife.bsky.social - ASBAR: an Animal Skeleton-Based Action Recognition framework. Recognizing great ape behaviors in the wild using pose estimation doi.org/10.7554/eLif...

Exciting new opening @nccrlanguage.bsky.social with the option of permanent extension. If you work in cutting-edge stats and are interested in joining a highly inter-disciplinary, vibrant community, don't hesitate to apply at tinyurl.com/3fxwjk8e

📰 We are delighted to have Prof. Zegni Triki on board since the start of the year. In this interview, she talks about her career and research projects, as a behavioural physiologist. More on our website 👇 evolvinglanguage.ch/looking-behi...

📢 Join the online Animal Linguistics Seminar on the 22nd of July, at 5 PM CET! Quentin Gallot will discuss the alarm call sequences in olive colobus. Links for registration and more information here: sites.google.com/site/philipp... @cogcompneuch.bsky.social @phschlenker.bsky.social

Online Seminar on Animal Linguistics on Tuesday, July 22, 5pm Paris: On an experimental basis, we are organizing a seminar on Animal Linguistics, on Zoom only, world-wide. Speaker: Q. Gallot, Alarm call sequences in olive colobus: a primate grammar enabling incremental processing

📰 A team of researchers from the University of Neuchâtel studied the ability to associate a new sound with an object. This cognitive faculty of rapid association was already attested in humans, but what about apes, our closest relatives? evolvinglanguage.ch/associating-...

📢 Our new paper is out in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social! A step toward more comparable approaches in bioacoustics! We tested how different acoustic feature extraction and classification methods affect caller ID classification accuracy. Read about it here: 🔗 shorturl.at/F31Pb

📢 Nous cherchons des participants pour une étude sur les mécanismes qui permettent au cerveau de décoder et suivre des instructions ! 👍 Vous êtes un homme de langue maternelle française, entre 18 et 35 ans ? Alors inscrivez-vous ! 👉 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... @nocelab.bsky.social

📰 Researcher @jamesbhenderson.bsky.social from @idiap.bsky.social has received an ERC Advanced Grant to work on large language models #LLMs evolvinglanguage.ch/making-compu...

📢 Registrations are now open for the X-PPL Workshop 2025! Held by the @isle-uzh.bsky.social in Zurich on the 1st and 2nd of September.

🎉 Registration is open for the Crosslinguistic Perspectives on Processing & Learning Workshop 2025! Join us in Zurich (01–02.09.) for keynotes by Sudha Arunachalam & Lars Meyer, plus other exciting talks & posters. Register: www.ema.uzh.ch/R7EPE #XPPL2025 #LanguageDiversity #CogSci #UZH

🎉 Iscrizioni aperte! Sei una persona che fa ricerca e ti piacerebbe incontrare studenti e studentesse in tutta Italia? È il momento giusto: sono aperte le iscrizioni al progetto Penne 2025/26! 📩 Come? Compila il form qui 👉 forms.gle/tAWtfxmcJptf... Unisciti a noi!

📰 To study the #behaviour of #chimpanzees non-intrusively, a team of researchers from the Uni. of Neuchâtel and Idiap Research Institute, in Martigny, has proposed a new approach based on artificial intelligence to automatically analyse primate videos... 👉 evolvinglanguage.ch/recognising-...

📰 🐒 These exciting new results from our consortium are also featured in an article from The New York Times, by Carl Zimmer. 👉 www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/s...

We studied the evolution of infant-directed communication by comparing vocal input rates across great apes! A collaborative study led by @carolinefryns.bsky.social, Johanna Schick and me; www.science.org/doi/epdf/10....

📰 Humans from different cultures talk to their children using “child-directed speech”, or “baby talk”. But according to new research, this characteristic is however far from prevalent in our closest relatives, the non-human great apes... evolvinglanguage.ch/baby-talk-a-...

1/n Hot off the press! The first empirical chapter of my PhD and the fruit of a hugely collaborative project led with Franziska Wegdell and Johanna Schick is out! We explore if immature-directed vocalisations are present and in what quantity in wild great apes. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

New paper by our @nccrlanguage.bsky.social team w @franziswegdell.bsky.social, @carolinefryns.bsky.social , J Schick , @zuberbuehler.bsky.social, C v Schaik, S Townsend, and myself. Child-directed communication is a driver of language evolution. shorturl.at/eAfjW

New work by @nccrlanguage.bsky.social members @franziswegdell.bsky.social @carolinefryns.bsky.social J. Schick @sabinestoll.bsky.social @zuberbuehler.bsky.social S. Townsend: The evolution of infant-directed communication: Comparing input across all great apes, revealing an important shift in us 🧪

Very interesting @ecoevorxiv.bsky.social study by @sabinestoll.bsky.social @balthasarbickel.bsky.social & colleagues @nccrlanguage.bsky.social arguing that increased vocal accommodation (as a sign of homophily) facilitated the evolution of vocal production learning in the hominin lineage 🧪

We're hiring📢📢📢 To complement our team we're currently looking for a postdoctoral researcher with expertise in animal communication and behaviour, ideally canids but not a must! Position is based in Vienna, Austria, and available for 4 years. Please check the attachment for details 🐺🐶😊

What happens when you put experts in multilingualism, genetics, neuroimaging, & animal cognition in the same @isbilingualism.bsky.social panel? @nargolestani.bsky.social and I, supported by @nccrlanguage.bsky.social, took on the challenge and...learned a lot while having a blast!

@nargolestani.bsky.social and @vborghesani.bsky.social co-chaired the symposium on ‘The bi-literate brain: behavioural, neural, and genetic insights into recent evolutionary adaptations’ at #ISB15 in Donostia-San Sebastián last week, supported by @nccrlanguage.bsky.social.

🎞️ In the WP Information Throughput, researchers are looking at the hypercooperative capacities of humans, and how they may be a driver to our complex communication system. Does this theory also translate to the rest of the animal kingdom? More about it in this interview! youtu.be/0D1vFa8B4xg

‪At @isbilingualism.bsky.social‬? Join us tomorrow, 11:35 in the auditorium: @nargolestani.bsky.social and I, supported by @nccrlanguage.bsky.social have assembled a stellar lineup to discuss: "The bi-literate brain: behavioral, neural, and genetic insights into recent evolutionary adaptations."

You can find the job offers here: evolvinglanguage.ch/jobs/#getapo... Looking forward to hearing from you 😊

I'm very excited and happy to share that the canid cognition team in Neuchâtel is growing fast! We'll be hiring soon, so keep your eyes and ears open 🐺🐶

NCCR researchers Klaus Zuberbühler, Gwendolyn Wirobski, and researcher Friederike Range have received a 1.4 million CHF grant to study communication and cognition in wolves and dogs 🐺🐶. 👉 More in this new article! @cogcompneuch.bsky.social evolvinglanguage.ch/1-4-million-...

Very happy to share a new preprint, written with people I have learned a lot from: Paola Cerrito, Carel van Schaik, Judith Burkart, Anne-Lise Giraud (@neurospeech.bsky.social), Daphne Baverlier, @balthasarbickel.bsky.social: how the communication system of neanderthals may have differed from ours 🧪🧵

📚 In the new Oxford Handbook of Approaches to Language Evolution, you can find 3 chapters with NCCR members' work, from animal communication to human linguistics. global.oup.com/academic/pro...

👂🖼️ The researchers of the NCCR Evolving Language hear lots of sounds during their day at work. You can explore them in this interactive illustration! #outreach #research evolvinglanguage.ch/sounds-of-th...

Submit an abstract 📝 on your work on cross-linguistic aspects of language processing and (first) language acquisition to ⭐️Crosslinguistic Perspectives on Processing and Learning (X-PPL) 2025⭐️ (Sept 1&2 @ U Zurich)! It’s a fantastic venue to present work on how ling diversity 🌏 & the mind/🧠 interact!

Only a few days left to submit your abstract for the Crosslinguistic Perspectives on Processing and Learning Workshop 2025!