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Laura C. Dees

@lauradees.bsky.social
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Doing a PhD in the realm of evolutionary language science @Uni Zurich, generally interested in linguistic and cultural diversity. Background pic: one of Matthew Wongs masterpieces

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026
Google finally updated some of its satellite images of Gaza and my god, it's horrific. The entirety of Rafah has been demolished. The majority of Khan Younis is in ruins. Entire towns completely leveled and erased of the map.
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Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
It is the responsibility of every securely employed/tenured professor to do everything they can to challenge this academic environment. That means speaking up institutionally & taking decisions with less secure colleagues at the forefront of our minds.
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Dr Danny Bate @dannybate.com · 24/07/2026
I rarely write about Homer, being daunted by the topic, but since the poet is having a moment, here's a piece about the alphabet, writing, and their absence in the epics. Inspired by a chat with @viewsproject.bsky.social, I hesitantly suggest a theory for that absence. dannybate.com/2026/07/24/h...
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Homer’s ABCs
Or: Why don’t people in the Iliad and Odyssey write anything down? Sing, goddess, of how Homer is all the rage right now. My timelines have become streams of Nolan-inspired analyses, hot takes and …
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Claire @chirila.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
I have a new paper out in Science today with colleagues Damian Blasi, Marcus Hamilton, and Russell Gray. www.science.org/doi/epdf/10....
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The rise and fall of language diversity through the Holocene
Characterizing the factors that have shaped linguistic diversity is fundamental for understanding human history, culture, and cognition. In this study, we combined statistical and social computational...
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Laura C. Dees @lauradees.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
eet hun taarten mensen!!
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Laura C. Dees @lauradees.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
ze hebben laatst samen met VluchtelingenWerk NL en A Beautifull Mess de "Ter Apeltaart" gelanceerd, verkrijgbaar bij de horeca-locaties van A Beautifull Mess in Arnhem, Utrecht en Amsterdam. En ze hebben een webwinkel en doen vooral ook zakelijke bestellingen door het land! trashuretaarten.nl
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Bakkerij Nijmegen • Trashure Taarten • Verbeter de wereld, eet taart!
Wij zijn de duurzame en sociale bakkerij in Nijmegen. (H)eerlijke taart bestellen kan gemakkelijk bij bakkerij Trashure Taarten!
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Michael Erard @michaelerard.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
THE LANGUAGE BEAT is here. For more than two decades, I wrote reportage, profiles, essays, and reviews about language. This book, which collects some of those pieces, is on sale now: amzn.to/4aokz3c (I'll announce when it goes onto other platforms.)
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Laura C. Dees @lauradees.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
ik wil even reclame maken voor Trashure Taarten, een sociale&duurzame bakkerij in Nijmegen van mensen met het hart op de goede plek: taarten van bijna-verspilde groente&fruit, alles plantaardig, productieproces zo duurzaam mogelijk, en met een team van vluchtelingen die aan hun toekomst in NL bouwen
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Kristina Killgrove @killgrove.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Just learned about this game -- you're given 10 artifacts / day (from The Met's collection) and have to guess where they were made and when. 🏺🧪 And it's hard! I only got top 35%, which is kinda sad as an archaeologist & author of our Astonishing Artifacts column @livescience.com. anthropeum.com
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Anthropeum
A daily game that challenges our understanding of human cultures. Ten objects. 5,000 years of human history. Guess where and when each artifact was made. See how you rank.
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Nature @nature.com · 19/05/2026
Artificial intelligence is rapidly accelerating scientific output, but risks narrowing inquiry, weakening judgement and undermining how scientists are trained go.nature.com/3RiE5HN
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The uncritical adoption of AI in science is alarming — we urgently need guard rails
Artificial intelligence is rapidly accelerating scientific output, but risks narrowing inquiry, weakening judgement and undermining how scientists are trained.
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Eduard Cousin @eduardcousin.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Petition that demands suspension of #EU - #Israel Association Agreement gathered over 1 million signatures from EU citizens today, in less than 3 months after it was launched eci.ec.europa.eu/055/public/#...
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European Citizens' Initiative
Give your support !
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Laura C. Dees @lauradees.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
happy I found @dingdingpeng.the100.ci's blog recently! this post resonates with me particularly well: www.the100.ci/2018/08/02/w... "if people stop exaggerating their skills, there’s suddenly much more authentic information out there for others to re-calibrate their own relative impostor syndrome."
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We should all feel a bit more like impostors
This blog post is going to argue that science would profit if we all suffered more (not less!) from impostor syndrome. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence arguments, so bear with me wh...
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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Yesterday my friend told me about her PHILOSOPHY students all using ai for their assignments and like come the fuck on man you’re in Uni doing the subject thats Thinking about Thinking and u refuse to Think
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Laura C. Dees @lauradees.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
well that's a game-changer
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Laura C. Dees @lauradees.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
things could barely be more hopeless
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lingüista aburrido @ernestowg.eurosky.social · 10/02/2026
Anglo-linguists really need to be slapped.
Screenshot showing a selection of text: "Although the research focused on English, the authors suggest the results may apply to many languages".
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WOinActie.bsky.social @woinactie.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Geweldige column van Hieke Huistra. www.trouw.nl/wetenschap/u...
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Universiteiten zijn er om te doen waar niemand echt op zit te wachten: kritisch denken
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Israel has murdered more than 500 Palestinians in Gaza since it signed the so called ceasefire. One of the latest is a 3 year old child.
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Lauren Hall-Lew (she/her) @lhlew.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
"Those who failed to correctly pronounce the trilled –r, as in the shibboleth perejil ‘parsley’, were deemed to be Haitian and, as a consequence, were murdered.” Bullock & Toribio. 2014. "From Trujillo to the terremoto." Int'l Jrl of the soc. of lng, 227: 83-100. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parsley...
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Parsley massacre - Wikipedia
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Simon J. Greenhill @simongreenhill.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Good news everyone, _Nature_ has published 66 Open Access articles to date in 2026! This means Springer-Nature has gobbled up USD$837,540 of science funding this year. I'm sure we couldn't think of anything better to do with that money. #OpenScience
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Laura C. Dees @lauradees.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
on the road to nowhere
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 27/01/2026
Some tools for thinking about AI in a time when the companies making them are trying to destroy teaching and learning itself... 1/n 🧵
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Mélissa Berthet @berthetmelissa.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
If you feel bad for not having published all the papers from your PhD yet... This paper is the discussion of my thesis, and it took me about 6 years to publish it! Thank you to my lovely collaborators @geoffreymesbahi.bsky.social and @maelmleroux.bsky.social for the (much-needed) final push!
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Gaza Freedom Flotilla Coalition @freedomflotilla.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Instead of withdrawing from Gaza, Israel has imposed a so-called "Yellow-Line," leaving its military occupying 58% of Gaza and forcibly confining Palestinians to the remaining 42 percent. This largely unmarked and lethal boundary functions as de facto annexation... 1/3
Text: Israels' Yellow Line - The Ongoing Silent Genocide 
Image of large yellow block in the ground with shell of a building in backgroundSince the so-called “ceasefire” announced in October 2025—violated by Israel more than 1,000 times—there remains a false impression that Israel’s genocide in Gaza has ended. In reality, alongside its ongoing illegal siege, the Israeli government has intensified its theft of Palestinian land not only in the West Bank but also in Gaza, through the so-called “Yellow Line,” which functions as an expanding zone of de facto annexation.Over half of the Gaza Strip is still under Israeli control.
Map of Gaza and the Yellow Line.The Yellow Line remains largely unmarked on the ground, and prohibits or restricts Palestinians' access to humanitarian facilities and assets, public infrastructure, agricultural land, and homes - implemented with deadly force. Many Palestinians, including young children, have been shot and killed by the Israeli military simply for approaching these areas. Hundreds of others have been killed and over 1,000 injured by Israeli forces since October 10.
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Laura C. Dees @lauradees.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
such an exciting topic!!
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Katharine Khamhaengwong @katharinegk.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
Wrote about sweet Tsova-Tush children's book project, trying to revive a dying language, for @ocmedia.bsky.social oc-media.org/the-tsova-tu...
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The Tsova-Tush children’s book aiming to save one of Georgia’s most endangered languages
A 2019 documentary failed to find anyone under the age of 30 who knew Tsova–Tush.
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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 09/01/2026
"Free societies are under assault from a resurgent fascism. Across the world, fears about immigration have been one of the main—arguably the main—weapon used. And across the world, there has been a timidity on the part of progressives about countering these arguments."
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We Need to Get Off the Defensive About Immigration
Free movement is a fantastic thing, and we should say it.
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Lotfi El Hamidi @lotfielhamidi.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Arabische cartoonisten hebben een field day.
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Laura C. Dees @lauradees.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
In 2025 I spent 19 full nights or large parts of the day on a train travelling through Europe. There’s so much to improve still (looking at you, Germany) but it’s exciting to see the growing number of possibilities the European rail network offers!
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MediocreMigrant @seadanourhussen.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Waar is het protest van de NRC-redactie tegen alle bizarre beslissingen vd leiding?
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
Francesca Albanese: "This is the genocide that continues through other means. Israel has zero intention to relinquish control of the Gaza strip.. what has been sold to the world as the peace plan.. is a way to push the intl community to have an alibi not to continue to engage with Gaza"
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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 08/12/2025
Israel hunted a 70 year old lady down with a gun drone and then hoovered above to make sure she bled out next to her dying son. They both join almost 1,000 Palestinians Israel has massacred or maimed in its genocide during the "ceasefire". www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12...
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Israeli drone chases and kills elderly woman in Gaza as attacks continue
At least seven Palestinians killed in Israeli attacks as military pushes deeper beyond truce demarcation line.
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Claudio Francavilla @claudiofrancavilla.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
#WestBank: new @hrw.org report finds #Israel 's mass displacement of Palestinians amounts to ethnic cleansing: hrw.org/news/2025/11... Countless EU statements on "two state solution" have done nothing to stop this. Sanctions, settlement trade ban urgently needed: hrw.org/news/2025/10...
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 21/11/2025
I am by no means a prominent public intellectual, but my inbox is increasingly filled with messages from people who have been convinced by sycophantic chatbots that they have discovered revolutionary theories that entirely upend our scientific understanding of the universe.
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Jenneke van der Wal @jennekevanderwal.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Being available; sharing network and resources; giving timely feedback; offering opportunities and learning moments (e.g. co-reviewing a paper, organising a conference, co-presenting - these are things you have to learn somehow). Oh and be kind - there is enough harshness in academia.
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Chiara Zulberti @chiarazulberti.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
being available when needed, offering constructive criticism as well as motivation and recognition, being humane (do not request unreasonable achievements, or expect huge personal sacrifices, respect holidays, time to rest etc.), there's probably more but this are top three to me
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Laura C. Dees @lauradees.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
things look so bleak.. and Europe seems to have stopped caring since the start of the ceasefire which is not a ceasefire
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Laura C. Dees @lauradees.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
genuinely curious: what, according to my academic followers, are characteristics of good doctoral supervision?
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Laura C. Dees @lauradees.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
genuinely curious: what, according to my academic followers, are characteristics of good doctoral supervision?
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Center for the Human Past (CHP) @humanpastcenter.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
#Vacancies: we are looking for not just one but three #postdoctoral researchers interested in bridging #genetics, #archaeology and #linguistics in exploring the #humanpast. shorturl.at/B3Qdd @haam-community.bsky.social @cschlebu.bsky.social
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Postdoctoral position in Palaeo-population genomics at the Center for the Human Past - Uppsala University
Postdoctoral position in Palaeo-population genomics at the Center for the Human Past, Department of Organismal Biology, Uppsala University
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Ingrid Robeyns @ingridrobeyns.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
Today, 250.000 people took to the streets of Amsterdam to protest Israel's genocidal violence in Gaza and the cowardly response by the Dutch government. It followed on two earlier protests, one with 150.000 protesters, and the first one with about 100.000. By Dutch standards, these are huge numbers.
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The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 01/10/2025
RIP Jane Goodall, who has died at 91. She was a gentle disrupter who reshaped how we understand our place in nature. Her research with chimpanzees revolutionized science, and her boundless optimism touched the world. buff.ly/5Hwx3Z7 🌎🩺
A photo of Jane Goodall, in her later days with a quote from her: "The greatest danger to our future is our apathy. 

Each one of us must take responsibility for our own lives, and above all, show respect and love for living things around us, especially each other."
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Gaza Freedom Flotilla Coalition @freedomflotilla.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
Together with 1000 Madleens to #Gaza @1kmadleenfr.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy we are sending a boat with international journalists & health workers in solidarity with Palestinian journalists & medics who continue to report & provide care through #genocide #BreakTheSiege #FreePalestine #AllEyesOnGaza
Photo of a boat at sea with flags & banners, text "Announcing Media & Medics boat to Gaza. The Freedom Flotilla Coalition and Thousand Madleens to Gaza will launch a dedicated boat carrying international journalists and medical professionals to Gaza on October 1." + FFC and Thousand Madleens logos.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
When you consider the *ecocide* alongside the genocide being perpetrated in Gaza, you begin to grasp the totality of the Israeli state’s attempt to eliminate both the Palestinians and their homeland. My column today. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Israel’s ecocide in Gaza sends this message: even if we stopped dropping bombs, you couldn’t live here | George Monbiot
Consider the annihilation of agricultural land alongside the genocide – and grasp the chilling totality of this attempt to eliminate all life, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Laura C. Dees @lauradees.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
"The big perspective change from ancient DNA study is that people living today are almost never the descendants of the people in the same place thousands of years before." "People’s stories about their history are almost always wrong."
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Current Biology @currentbiology.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
From burying beetles to shamans, follow Manvir Singh @manvir.bsky.social in his sweeping Q&A from our latest issue. www.cell.com/current-biol...
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Manvir Singh
Interview with Manvir Singh, who studies the evolutionary and cognitive origins of human cultural behaviors at the University of California, Davis.
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Laura C. Dees @lauradees.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
hemeltergend
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Laura C. Dees @lauradees.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
in the context of sharing something uplifting every once in a while: this documentary about two brothers dipping their toes in the world of "extreme birdwatching" is so joyful, genuine and funny, and it has stunning bird footage! youtu.be/zl-wAqplQAo?...
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LISTERS: A Glimpse Into Extreme Birdwatching
YouTube video by owen reiser
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Laura C. Dees @lauradees.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
“Wie om veiligheid vraagt zonder macht, vraagt om bescherming in plaats van zeggenschap.”
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Global Voices @globalvoices.org · 01/09/2025
Today, Global Voices joins with @rsf.org Avaaz and other media outlets to condemn the killing of journalists in #Gaza. Together, we call on the Israeli authorities to allow independent access for international press into Gaza immediately. #ProtectJournalistsInGaza #LetReportersIntoGaza
A dark black-and-grey city scene with the plume of a bomb rising above it and the text: "At the rate journalists are being killed in Gaza by the Israeli army, there will soon be no one left to keep you informed. #ProtectJournalistsInGaza #LetReportersIntoGaza
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