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Markˣ @shjsat.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

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...

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CLICS⁴ - Colexified concepts "DOG" and "CAT"

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Maisy Hallam @maisyhallam.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

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!

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Maisy Hallam @maisyhallam.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

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.

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Stefano Coretta @scoretta.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

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.

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Quantitative Data Analysis for Linguists in R

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laserhedvig @laserhedvig.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

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...

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Enduring constraints on grammar revealed by Bayesian spatiophylogenetic analyses - Nature Human Behaviour

Despite their great diversity, human languages are shaped by recurring grammatical universals. Verkerk et al. show that about one-third of the proposed universals hold cross-linguistically through ana...

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School of PPLS at The University of Edinburgh @schoolofppls.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

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

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Aislinn Keogh @mandolinguist.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

⚠️ 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...

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The lexicon adapts to competing communicative pressures: Explaining patterns of word similarity

Cross-linguistically, lexicons tend to be more phonetically clustered than required by the phonotactics of the language; that is, words within a langu…

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Josh de Leeuw @joshdeleeuw.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

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

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Join the jsPsych Developers Discord Server!

Check out the jsPsych Developers community on Discord - hang out with 17 other members and enjoy free voice and text chat.

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Maisy Hallam @maisyhallam.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

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)

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Centre for Language Evolution @uoe-cle.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

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...

A blonde woman in a grey t-shirt and a brunette woman in a red vest sit at a table. Both are smiling. On the table there is a plush monkey toy, a blue tray, and a green vine.

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CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @rami.spaceaustralia.com · 12/12/2024

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

comic with top sentence: "I'm done with experiments" and bottom sentence "Well, there's one more, but then i'll be done." Two arrows on either side, one pointing up the other down form a loop motion. A label at the bottom says "The last three years of your P.h.D.

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Dr Kathleen Neal @kbneal.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

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...

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Seven Machina Rasmussen @toomanyspectra.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

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

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