🚨NEW PUBLICATION ALERT🚨 "From extant to extinct: The role of experiments and interdisciplinary inferences in studying cognitive and #language evolution." (with Svetlana Kuleshova) Out now in #OpenAccess in Journal of Archaeological Science www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Really cool new paper on #language #linguistics and #metaphor in dementia

Okay but it is very funny to make a LIVING EDITION of your academic zombie handbook

The deadline for Evolang 2026, the International Conference on the Evolution of Language, has been extended to November 3rd. Do consider submitting, it's my favourite conference and will take place in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, the age-old "city of the seven hills"! #language #linguistics

Very sad and tragic news! ("Words in the brain's language" is still an all-timer of a title). I once attended one of his talks where he graciously agreed to be a plenary speaker for a student conference. He started his talk with: "I can give this talk in two languages: Swabian or Swabian English."

Fellow language-evolutionists (other linguists welcome): What do you think is the most exciting thing happening in the field now? #linguistics #language #LanguageEvolution

New article from the lab, suggesting to me a way in which children's autobiographical memory may differ from their event memory more generally-- Autobiographical memory in children: relation to neural white matter www.tandfonline.com/eprint/B7FZ8...

The first of the three corpora of German-English bilingual children's early speech that we've been working on for the last few years is finally publicly available! 🥳 🎉 talkbank.org/childes/acce...

It's been a while since I've written a book review - here's our review of Herbst & Hoffmann (2024), my first but definitely not last collaboration with the brilliant @bbunzeck.bsky.social doi.org/10.1017/S136... ($)

Vorankündigung: Im Wintersemester 2025/2026 finden erstmalig die Heidelberg Gender Lectures statt. Mit Gastvorträgen von Sabine_ Hark (TU Berlin) und Carolin Müller-Spitzer (IDS Mannheim), sowie Beiträgen der Heidelberger Gender & Queer Studies. Mark your calendars, das wird wundervoll!

Super cool workshop on "Artificial Languages in the Linguist's Toolbox" at FU Berlin. 2nd talk is by @kennysmithed.bsky.social on "the relationship between frequency and irregularity in language change: an experimental approach using iterated artificial language learning"

The Poznań #Linguistics Meeting 2025 Grand Debate: "Human #Language: is it unique?" feat. Wolfgang Dressler, Magdalena Wrembel, Raymond Hickey, Nikki Ritt, @thematzing.bsky.social and @neilcohn.bsky.social

Please boost! #linguistics student here at Swarthmore is running a survey for English speakers (who don't know Mandarin / any other tone languages) about how we learn tones. Take a few minutes to help out with this student research! swarthmore.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Great plenary by @neilcohn.bsky.social at the 2025 Poznań #Linguistics Meeting: "Reimagining linguistic uniqueness in a multimodal paradigm"

🚨 New Publication Alert! 🚨 Out now in #Language and #Linguistics Compass with @stefanhartmann.bsky.social & Antonio Benítez-Burraco: "The role of play in language structure, acquisition and evolution" (this time with a working link) compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🚨 New Publication Alert! 🚨 Out now in Language and Linguistics Compass with @stefanhartmann.bsky.social & Antonio Benítez-Burraco: "The role of play in language structure, acquisition and evolution" compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ln…

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!

#SLE2025 plenary by @dagmardivjak.bsky.social & Petar Milin: Top-down wisdom versus bottom-up noise: can data (ever) replace linguistic expertise? Dagmar contrasts two ways of knowing language, in linguistics & machine learning. LLMs successfully generate & respond to text w/o linguistic insights

😊 Happy authors, happy publisher! 🎉 Congratulations to our author Carmelo Alessandro Basile for winning the prestigious Eugenio Coseriu Award presented by the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE) at their 58th Annual Meeting in Bordeaux. #SLE2025

Roundtable discussion at #SLE2025 "How to do #linguistics with #AI, How to do #AI with #linguistics" with @emilymbender.bsky.social , Claire Larsonneur, Benoît Le Blanc & Christian Ludwig

UPDATE: Abstract deadline: Nov 1, 25! Invited speakers: Corrine Occhino, Dagmar Divjak, Idan Blank, Randy Allen Harris, Gary Lupyan, Laura Michaelis, Kanishka Misra ! @dagmardivjak.bsky.social @randyallenharris.bsky.social @congramqueen.bsky.social @glupyan.bsky.social @kanishka.bsky.social

The next talk in the #SLE2025 workshop "From #Linguistics to animal communication and back" is by @tozbu.bsky.social on vocal combinations in chimpanzees and relating it to bigger questions regarding the evolution of complex combinatorial communication

Super excited for this workshop at #SLE2025 in Bordeaux on "From Linguistics to Animal Communication and Back"

Out now from our lab & Uni Wrocław in Scientific Data, "The Apemen Faces Database (ApeFD):" 620 photorealistic, artificially generated facial images of 31 generalized hominin models, available in multiple ocular coloration variants" to study face perception www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A classic example of the problems with google translate when it uses English as an intermediate, pivot language to translate from one language into another. Polish "nijaki" means (grammatically) "neuter" (or featureless, nondescript) not "kastrieren" (to castrate) #language #linguistics

The countdown is on! Join us in 48 hours for a special announcement about Hollow Knight: Silksong! Premiering here: youtu.be/6XGeJwsUP9c

Apologies to all syntacticians, but please take a look at my fresh article called "Fuck syntax and fucking syntax in the borrowing of swearwords for assessments in #Danish" - about the interactional functions of "fuck" and "fucking" in various assessments! #EMCA www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

🚨JOB ALERT! 🚨 The Department of Anthropology, Hirszfeld Institute of Immunology and Experimental Therapy in Wrocław, Poland is looking for a Postdoc in the project "The human white sclera: the role of colouration and contrast in perceiving the eyes of others." Please Share!

Call for papers for Evolang 2026 is now out! evolang2026.org. @cogscisociety.bsky.social @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social

me too, predatory journal, me too...

Temporary post at Nottingham - Teaching Associate in Applied LInguistics. Come and work with us in @uonenglish.bsky.social! jobs.nottingham.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

Probably my favourite slide from this year's #ICLC17. Cultural and linguistic differences in categorization mean for US-Americans this is a Chicken Sandwich, whereas in many other parts of the world (UK, Quebec, Europe) it is a Chicken Burger. Cool talk by Sarah MacDougall! #language #linguistics

Super looking forward to @alice-gaby.bsky.social's plenary at #ICLC17 on biases in language, cognition and linguists

We're hiring! Join us to work at the intersection of social interaction and language technology. Postdoc and PhD positions in my Futures of Language research group, based at Radboud University in Nijmegen, NL Read more: markdingemanse.net/futures/news... #linguistics #interaction #sts #emca #hci

Really interesting article on problems with the use of "AI Sign #language Interpreters" in China. Not only technological limitations in capturing the aspects important for sign language, but also "absence of Deaf perspectives & blindspots in the developers’ approach" www.sixthtone.com/news/1017316

Really awesome study by ‪@kennysmithed.bsky.social‬‬, Josephine Bowerman & @andrewdmsmith.bsky.social out now in Cognition: Semantic extension in a novel communication system is facilitated by salient shared associations www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Check out our just published review on "Language Evolution as an Interdisciplinary Research Field" :)

Check out this great thread on our just-published paper on the cross-cultural interpretation of speech pauses! We found that the cognitive states associated with long vs. short pauses before giving an answer in a conversation are strikingly similar across cultures 🏄 The paper is open access 🔓

I am honoured to have been awarded the Scholarship of the Minister of Science and Higher Education for Outstanding Young Scientists. Also congratulations to my colleague Marta Sibierska! Out of the six Scholarships in #Linguistics in all of Poland two went to our lab, which is pretty awesome!

I am honoured to have received the 1st Degree Award of the Rector of Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń for Individual Scientific Achievements in 2024 in the Field of Humanities. Our lab also got a 3rd Degree Award for Scientific Team Achievements, go us!

oh and this #linguistics #language paper is #OpenAccess!

🚨NEW PUBLICATION ALERT 🚨 Out now in Interaction Studies (w/ @thematzing.bsky.social, @elizabethqingzhang.bsky.social & Przemek Żywiczyński). We looked at how Polish & Chinese participants evaluate inter-turn pauses made by native & non-native speakers 1/ www.jbe-platform.com/content/jour...

Pretty big change regarding #OpenAccess by the National Science Centre (NCN), Poland's largest grant-making agency for fundamental research and basic science. NCN no longer requires publications to be #OpenAccess (though still recommends it).

How do we decide whether someone just made a small error or really said a new word we should learn? @drlearnasaurus.bsky.social and I won a Levelt Innovation Award to study this question and here's the first paper showing our multi-method approach and that it's more than making a single choice

🚨New Publication Alert!🚨 @thematzing.bsky.social‬ and I have written a little review of " #Language Evolution as an Interdisciplinary and Integrative Research Field." Out now in "Contemporary #Linguistics: Integrating Languages, Communities, and Technologies" brill.com/display/book...

Deadline today! #neurojobs #psychjobs #lingjobs #langsky

The final talk of our #CLIC2025 theme session on #Language, #Culture and #Evolution is by Przemysław Żywycziński, (w/ M. Sibierska, M. Placiński & J. Blomberg) on the linguistic niche hypothesis in language evolution: looping environment, communication and cognition.

Our #CLIC2025 Theme Session continues. Sławomir Wacewiz is presenting our collaborative work on "Understanding the limits of experiments in language evolution: inferences from closed Vs open ended semantic paradigms (w/ Kuleshova, me, Hartmann, Blomberg, Sibierska, Zywiczynski, Placiński)

This afternoon's #CLIC2025 plenary by Chris Sinha is a perfect complement to our theme session on Language, Culture and Evolution: "Late Stages in #Language #Evolution and the Creation of the Social Imaginary"

Talk 4 in our #CLIC2025 theme session is by Christer Johansson: A culture of increased change blindness: origins of language through loss of visual acuity