Apparently several languages in South America have colexified "cat" and "dog" One language, Zinacantán Tzotzil, has colexified "cat" and "insect" clics.clld.org/edges/2009-1...

Surprised, humbled and grateful in equal measures to have received this award for my talk on the evolution of kinship semantics. #EvolangXVI, you were gorgeous - here’s to next time in Nijmegen!

I’ll be talking about my PhD research for the very last time at @evolangconf.bsky.social in Plovdiv next week! Come along to hear about the evolution of kin term semantics, 10:15 on Wednesday 8 April in the Small Auditorium.

Happy to share the first version of my textbook "Quantitative Data Analysis for Linguists in R". stefanocoretta.github.io/qdal/ Comments and suggestions welcome! (on the GitHub repo: github.com/stefanocoret...) The textbook takes you from 0 to basic stat modelling with Bayesian regression.

Today, we published a paper on the strength of language universals (if language has X, it also has Y) given spatial & phylogenetic autocorrelation in @nathumbehav.nature.com ! It is a cool research project, led by the brilliant Annemarie Verkerk at @uni-saarland.de www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The New episode of PPLS Perspectives is available now! Maisy Hallam chats with Prof. Jenny Culbertson about how #technology, #AI, and global change are reshaping the future of language — and why #linguistic diversity matters more than ever. Listen now: edin.ac/4r7axdA

⚠️ New paper! Why do words sound so similar? In an agent-based model + communication game, we show that production/comprehension pressures trade off to shape lexicon structure. In @cognitionjournal.bsky.social w/ @simonkirby.bsky.social & Jenny Culbertson. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

We've just launched a Discord server for #jsPsych users to collaborate and get technical help. I'll be hosting office hours tomorrow from 10:30-11:30 AM EDT. Hop in with any questions! discord.gg/RCKWJ4qb3p

New paper in @openmindjournal.bsky.social with @simonkirby.bsky.social, @kennysmithed.bsky.social and Fiona Jordan! Kinship terms overwhelmingly exhibit predictive structure - terms in one part of the system help us predict other terms - a pattern which emerges because it helps us generalise better.

If you like semantic category systems and efficiency biases, come say hi at #CogSci2025! Efficient communication drives the semantic structure of kinship terminology (P3-H-71, Friday 2 Aug @ 13:00)

Join us at the National Museum of Scotland July 19th to learn about animal communication and what makes human communication different from the rest of our primate family! 🐵 www.nms.ac.uk/events/monke...

This comic is attacking me personally. via @phdcomics.bsky.social and with Alt-text.

This, from a country whose economy has, for more than 20 years, been substantially subsidised by the benefits flowing from connection to a major movie franchise associated with a piece of fantasy literature...

can I code fast? no. but can I code well? also no. but does my code work? alas, no