Mathematician Hannah Fry travels to the front lines of AI in her new BBC documentary AI Confidential with Hannah Fry. She talks to Bethan Ackerley about what the technology is doing to us – for better and for worse

We develop evolutionary models to understand how living organisms adapt - from antibiotic resistance to human language evolution.

Over het verschil tussen communicatie en taal, en waarom we nooit Protulees zullen spreken.

How we interpret genetics shapes how we view people. In her lecture for 'De universiteit voor iedereen', LIGAS member Kat Van der Poorten showed how quickly genetic explanations can derail when divers...

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How do organisms adapt to changing environments? Do they respond plastically or evolve through genetic alterations? We present a large-scale simulation stu

During an event organized by Metaforum (KU Leuven), I had the opportunity to reflect and speak, drawing on my own experience, about how we can make the university more accessible to everyone. I off…

European Research Council president describes scheme as part attempt to lure US talent

On absurdity and the academic machine.

If we really want to grasp what animals are ‘saying’, we need to understand their communication on their terms, not ours, says science writer Helen Pilcher

In this TrendsTalk series “Disability in ecology and evolution” in Trends in Ecology and Evolution, we will be hearing from people about their experiences being disabled in ecology & evolution. We are asking ecologists and evolutionary biologists with disabilities what the community could do to make our field more inclusive – these changes can be very practical things (e.g. large fonts), they could be institutional, or involve people’s attitudes and beliefs. If you identify as disabled or have a chronic condition and would like to share your thoughts, please get in touch – tree@cell.com, we would love to hear from you.

Phrases used to smooth over tense social situations have meanings beyond the sum of their parts, study suggests Bonobos use a combination of calls to encourage peace with their partner during mating rituals, research suggests. The discovery is part of a study that suggests our close evolutionary cousins can string together vocalisations to produce phrases with meanings that go beyond the sum of their parts – something often considered unique to human language. Continue reading...

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Wat een dag.

West-Vlaams wordt zelden geassocieerd met internationale wetenschappelijke belangstelling. Mijn verbazing was dan ook groot toen het dit weekend opdook tijdens een workshop theoretische taalkunde i…

PhD Project - Wild orangutan grammatical rules and the evolution of language at University of Warwick, listed on FindAPhD.com

Een kerstverhaal over mijn worsteling met het interpreteren van de neurobiologische literatuur rond sequentiële informatieverwerking waarin ik de verwarring, de metaforen en mijn ongeduld probeer o…

Een vogelgrammatica, dat klinkt vreemd. Maar onderzoek naar de Japanse mees laat zien hoe deze kleine zangvogels met hun roepen meer doen dan alleen waarschuwen. Ze combineren geluiden op een manie…

Voor de meeste mensen is taal vanzelfsprekend: een middel om gedachten te delen, vragen te stellen en verhalen te vertellen. Maar waarom hebben wij taal? Wat is de functie ervan? Hoewel het logisch…