iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Border Collie and Aussie trade calming signals before they play, proof that dogs talk peace before they talk business.

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Mikkel Wallentin @mikkelwallentin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

New PhD-opportunity at Aarhus University with a project investigating the cognitive correlates of having no inner speech. Supervised by Johanne Nedergaard and yours truly. Deadline 11 November. Starting date 1 February 2027. Get in touch if you want to know more. phd.arts.au.dk/applicants/o...

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Individual differences in inner speech: Measurement and modelling (5+3), 2026-14

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Wtaf is this question my university just asked me about my project?

Does the project involve any work that could be interpreted as promoting DEIA, climate change research, or non-compliant to any Presidential Executive Orders?

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John Mansfield @johnbasil.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Can’t overstate how much I hate these

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John Mansfield @johnbasil.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

If you like reading about very little-known languages, here are some notes on the Bneraf language, from the Tor family of NW Papua. See especially the verb inflection section! langwidj.org/preprints/Ma...

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Liina Pylkkänen @liinapy.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Hi new PhDs! I'll soon advertise for a post-doc, but would be happy to receive informal inquiries immediately, as getting the official ad up will take a minute. Looking for strong computational & MEG analysis skills. Email me if this sounds like you and you'd like to join us! @snlmtg.bsky.social

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John Mansfield @johnbasil.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Being in Indonesia is like, I can't eat the sambal, but I can't not eat the sambal. I go through this every night.

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John Mansfield @johnbasil.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Hey I collect interesting shaped rocks

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John Mansfield @johnbasil.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Village I’m currently working with needs a writing system, they want to use “h” for a weak schwa-like vowel, giving e.g. “athk” as disyllabic word. Seems like an unusual choice, but I guess ok?

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John Mansfield @johnbasil.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Berik (Tor Family, western Papua) has incredibly cool time and space inflection. gives us words like: tiel - “I came from the west ( a long time ago)” Pictured: Berik man, Hanok Borom

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John Mansfield @johnbasil.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

video call with a Papuan friend: “Good morning brother, you look very beautiful.” YES this is how we should do conversation.

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Philip Laughlin @philiplaughlin.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

First up, REASONING WITH CONCEPTS: Conceptual Spaces as a Framework by Peter Gärdenfors and Matías Osta-Vélez, just published this spring. mitpress.mit.edu/978026205340...

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Reasoning with Concepts

Psychologists and philosophers have worked on topics such as category-based induction, nonmonotonic reasoning, analogies, and generics, but these problems ha...

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Sāmapriyavasuḣ @avzaagzonunaada.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Working with native Abkhaz speakers has so long been a dream of mine and I get to do this now. :) The most based interaction: Abkhaz granny: Are there Abkhaz speakers in India? Me: No. Abkhaz granny: Now there will be.

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John Mansfield @johnbasil.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

I'm really happy to see the Top End Language Statement is now released. Starting in 2022, people from 10+ different communities across the Top End, speaking a wide range of different languages, worked together to develop this statement. It's an impressive piece of coordinated language activism.

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Dozens of Aboriginal language custodians call for further revival efforts

Aboriginal language custodians release a road map for the survival and revival of Northern Territory Indigenous languages.

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Joumana Medlej @majnouna.com · 01/07/2026

A Very Cool Thing: Astrolabe from Seville, 1224 AD (Oxford HSM inv.50934). On the throne, at the top of the instrument, note the #geometry diagram: it shows the method for bisecting a segment, used here to draw the meridian line. The maker engraved it fully, offering us a glimpse into their process…

Brass astrolabe on a stand, with abjad numerals (Arabic letters used as numerals)

Close up showing the diagram engraved on the throne

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John Mansfield @johnbasil.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

I guess it’s phon similar and high frequency buddies are really protecting it

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John Mansfield @johnbasil.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Learning about Italian culture, aka how to use “cazzo” in a sentence.

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John Mansfield @johnbasil.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Imagine being a hagfish. It’s actually quite offensive

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John Mansfield @johnbasil.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

I would have thought letting your dog lead the lab might fail the students in some ways, but maybe I’m old fashioned

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

peak fucking performance

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John Mansfield @johnbasil.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

“well it depends what the question is” Most evergreen academic reply I swear it works for everything

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John Mansfield @johnbasil.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Aha. Seems like this was one of his first episodes of “I hate this terminology “

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John Mansfield @johnbasil.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

I would like to ask descriptive linguists not to use "marked" in a vague way. My supervisor Jane Simpson always got the red pen out for that, and I am now following in her footsteps.

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Stuart K Watson @chimpsahoi.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Coverage in the Guardian of our latest publication in Royal Society Open Science, with fantastic collaborators Alan McElligott (@amcell.bsky.social), Christian Nawroth (@goatswhostare.bsky.social), Federico Rossano and Simon Townsend. Paper threaded below! www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

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Goats can find food by following a human voice, study finds

Experiments show 29 animals moved towards a treat-filled bucket 60% of the time when guided by a researcher

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John Mansfield @johnbasil.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Unnecessarily anti-Irish intro to Hamilton Walks

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Michael Pleyer @symbolicstorage.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

🚨 New Publication Alert!🚨 Polysemy and metaphorical extension in an artificial language learning experiment (w/ @elizabethqingzhang.bsky.social & Marek Placiński). Out now in #OpenAcess in Language and Cognition. 🧵1/ #language #linguistics doi.org/10.1017/lang...

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John Mansfield @johnbasil.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

analysis of declining linguistics jobs in USA 😬

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John Mansfield @johnbasil.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

_Uniform Information Density_ _Working Memory chunking_ ... these seem related, both to do with unit size constraints Any work on this?

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John Mansfield @johnbasil.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

One of the main things keeping me going in life is that I really like breakfast.

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John Mansfield @johnbasil.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Floating Coast Say Nothing Empire of Pain

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SNL Annual Meeting @snlmtg.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Don't miss the latest episode of @smwilson.bsky.social's Language Neuroscience Podcast with @rmc-law.bsky.social and @vborghesani.bsky.social teasing the program of #SNL2026! 🍏 open.spotify.com/episode/0zAE... 🍎 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

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SNL 2026 teaser with Valentina Borghesani and Ryan Law

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Warwick Anderson @wombatscholar.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

TWO great jobs in History and Philosophy of Science at Sydney! Rank from Lecturer (Assistant Prof) to Assoc Prof. Particularly interested in candidates working in the areas of early modern science, or science or medicine in Asia, or Indigenous knowledge systems... #HPS #STS #histstm #histsci

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Lecturer/Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor to the School of History and Philosophy of Science - Camperdown, Australia job with UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY | 410910

Build your research and apply your expertise by contributing as a Lecturer/Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor to the School of History and Philos...

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John Mansfield @johnbasil.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

that's what I get too. not having read anything about it, just seeing a couple of pictures of his face

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John Mansfield @johnbasil.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Difficult as preposition, even worse as preverb

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John Mansfield @johnbasil.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

"auf" is the most difficult morpheme in German

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John Mansfield @johnbasil.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

New preprint by Charles Kemp and myself, comparing quantitative frameworks that seek to measure the functional optimality of languages. osf.io/preprints/ps...

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John Mansfield @johnbasil.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Yes, I recently had a desk-reject (not as main author), which I’m sure was done by chatgpt. The editors rejection letter was full of ai hallucinations. Really disappointed in the journal, but to their credit they have accepted an appeal

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