iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Will Gervais @willgervais.com · 09/10/2026

if you never take out your own trash, the entire neighborhood will quickly associate your house with the smell of trash. you will be seen as the trash house, the house that enjoys having mountains of rotten trash. The alternative is really easy: take out your own trash and tidy up a bit

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Simon J. Greenhill @simongreenhill.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Biggest question? how do we convince people that linguistics is important and interesting despite massive funding cuts and closure of linguistics/humanities departments worldwide?

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Melissa Johnson, PhD @ladyhistorian.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I am tired of having to pretend that the value of studying my discipline solely rests on the "marketable skills" we teach. Sometimes things are just worth knowing and doing because they make your life bigger and richer.

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Tim Waring @twaring.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

🚨 Applied Cultural Evolution Brownbag Series 🚨 Two inaugural discussions: Oct 7 What is (uniquely) applied cultural evolution? Caroline Graf, U. Zurich Dec 9 What can cultural evolution offer climate adaptation practitioners? Christine Lindell, World Vision Australia tinyurl.com/3st6zy79

A black and white image of a tattoo design featuring a human brain with wings pierced by two diagonal arrows over a flying banner that reads "Applied Cultural Evolutionists"

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Simon Fisher @profsimonfisher.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

To accompany all those Bluesky science/academia #starterpacks, how about we also share introductions to the literature of our different fields. I present here a handy guide to main types of papers in the language sciences (inspired by the amazing @xkcd.com). #language #linguistics #science #academia

Comic depictions of the first page of research papers in the language sciences, with titles that include the following:
Just what the hell is a word anyway?
See how this single cognitive process or brain area or neural oscillation or gene explains language!
Based on the shapes of these old bones, Homo erectus could sing .... don't @ me.
A baby looked at one thing more than the other, now we know the secret to grammar.
If you think about it, every language is fundamentally the same, amirite?
We taught a load of undergrads a made-up language, lol.
On the staggering diversity of the many languages across the world.
Remember the thing you said only humans could do, here's a video of a monkey / dolphin / corvid / octopus / honeybee doing it.
I trained this AI with 80 billion tweets and it became head-writer for phase 4 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

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Milo Campbell @milocampbell6-04.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Excited and grateful to announce that I have been awarded the Angus Mcintosh prize for best undergraduate dissertation in Linguistics and English Language!

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Neil Cohn @neilcohn.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Our new paper may be one of coolest studies I've ever done. We show that the structures of visual storytelling in comics aligns with the word order of the languages of the comic authors. Here's what we did... www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Syntactic headedness aligns with visual narrative structure

Recent research has highlighted how visual narrative sequences involve similar structures and processing as syntax in language, yet no work has asked …

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Riccardo Fusaroli @fusaroli.eurosky.social · 10/09/2026

How does the architecture of a city shape the way we think, talk, and draw space? And how do spatial conventions travel across cultural generations? New paper in Open Mind, spearheaded by Z Alinam (w J Nölle, C Vesper, K Tylén & me): doi.org/10.1162/OPMI.a.380 🧵 1/

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When the City Speaks: How Urban Form Shapes the Cultural Transmission of Spatial Conceptualization

Abstract. How do urban environments shape the way people conceptualize and communicate space? Using a cultural transmission experiment in virtual reality, we asked participants to navigate one of two ...

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