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Limor Raviv 🐘🤗🦒🍄🦄 @limorraviv.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

I'm hiring! 📢 Fully funded 4-year PhD position in Language Evolution using Communication Games at @mpi-nl.bsky.social. Come work with me on how different social pressures shape the evolution of new communication systems in the lab! Deadline for application is May 18th! share.google/fGTKbFS4v4Gb...

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Fully funded 4-year PhD position in Language Evolution using Communication Games | Max Planck Institute

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Pat Savage @patrickesavage.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

@zixuanjia.bsky.social's Registered Report on Mandarin song-speech relationships is now published in its final form in @peercomjournal.bsky.social. First time publishing with them, but won't be my last! Editor (Denis Bourguet) was great, and it's free (diamond open access)! doi.org/10.24072/pcj...

1st page of the Peer Community Journal article: "Higher Pitch, Slower Tempo, and Greater Stability in Singing than in Conversation among Mandarin speakers in Auckland: A Registered Report Replicating Ozaki et al. (2024)" (Jia et al., 2026)

Figure 5 - Distributions of mean values of three acoustic features (pitch height, temporal rate, pitch stability) across singing and conversation conditions (n = 20 participants). The participants’ mean acoustic values are shown as black dots, with dashed lines connecting each participant’s produced speech and song.

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Charley Wu @thecharleywu.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

🚀 Postdoc Alert! Are you passionate about social learning & cultural evolution? @dominikdeffner.bsky.social & I have a 3-year position with freedom to develop your research and work on cutting-edge multiplayer and immersive experiments. Apply by March 30! hmc-lab.com/SocialLearni... Pls share 🙏

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Postdoc position -- Social Learning and Cultural Evolution

Postdoc position -- Social Learning and Cultural Evolution posted on March 2, 2026 We are currently seeking a highly motivated individual...

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Pat Savage @patrickesavage.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

My book is now published! 🌏🎶🧪  You can download it for free at academic.oup.com/book/62353 - I’d be grateful if you do! I also published an accessible summary with audio/video today in @nature.com: www.nature.com/articles/d41... Try reading that first, then give the whole book a read if you like it!

Front cover of my book, titled "Comparative musicology: Evolution, universals, and the science of the world's music" (published today by Oxford University Press)

1st of my 4-page essay published in Nature today titled "Music is not a universal language - but it can bring us together when words fail"
Picture caption: "Puerto Rican rapper Bad Bunny (centre) performed in Spanish at the half-time show of the 2026 American Football Super Bowl LX."

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Zixuan Jia @zixuanjia.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Excited to see how the results from the other 25 sites will come together!

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Simon Fisher @profsimonfisher.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

Origins of language, one of humanity’s most distinctive traits, may be best explained as a unique convergence of multiple capacities each with its own evolutionary history, involving intertwined roles of biology & culture. This framing can expand research horizons. A 🧵 on our @science.org paper.🧪1/n

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What enables human language? A biocultural framework

Explaining the origins of language is a key challenge in understanding ourselves as a species. We present an empirical framework that draws on synergies across fields to facilitate robust studies of l...

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Wataru Toyokawa @watarutoyokawa.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

@thecharleywu.bsky.social is giving our second tutorial explaining how we can study complex social behaviour through computational models. As always, code and demo are available in the website! cosmossummerschool.github.io/notebooks/tu...

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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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Zixuan Jia @zixuanjia.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

🎶 Excited to share our first Stage 2 manuscript - the Mandarin results from our Many Voices 3 project! Led by me, supervised by @patrickesavage.bsky.social and Suzanne Purdy 📖Our paper replicated the cross-cultural speech-song acoustic differences reported by @yutoozaki.bsky.social. osf.io/gwavn_v1

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Daniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Not every study needs to have a power analysis, but every study needs a sample size justification. I discuss 6 approaches, and 6 ways to think about which effect sizes are of interest in the study you are planning. online.ucpress.edu/collabra/art...

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