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YouTube video by Lucio Arese Visualizing Bird Songs

beautiful visualisation of birdsong by Lucio Arese

youtu.be/7lEiYqCV25s?...

Image of a deceased Puffin lying on the ground. White wording on an orange background reads: Please report sightings of dead birds.

⚠️ Please report sightings of dead birds for possible testing for Avian Influenza. ⬇️

📌 In England, Wales & Scotland: www.gov.uk/guidance/...
📌 In Northern Ireland: www.daera-ni.gov.uk/...
📌 In Republic of Ireland: aviancheck.apps.serv...

#UKBirding #BirdingWales #BirdingScotland

Predictive Structure Emerges During the Generalisation of Kin Terms to New Referents Abstract. Despite cross-linguistic diversity in how kin relations map to terminology, there are constraints on which kin may be categorised together. But what are the constraints on kin term variation...

New paper in @openmindjournal.bsky.social with @simonkirby.bsky.social, @kennysmithed.bsky.social and Fiona Jordan! Kinship terms overwhelmingly exhibit predictive structure - terms in one part of the system help us predict other terms - a pattern which emerges because it helps us generalise better.

"After the fall of the Roman Empire, elephants virtually disappeared from Western Europe. Since there was no real knowledge of how the animal looked, illustrators had to rely on oral and written transmissions to morphologically reconstruct the elephant" www.uliwestphal.de/elephas-anth...

It's hiring season at @iast.fr!

- 2y research postdoc contract
- Full autonomy, you are your own PI
- Awesome multidisciplinary environment
- All social and behavioral sciences welcome
- Seed funding for projects and workshops
- Gorgeous city in the south of France

www.iast.fr/research-fel...

A whiteboard saying "Welcome to Protolang"

#Protolang9 is over - a huge thank you to the organizers for an incredibly well-organized and inspiring event! See you at #Protolang10 in Toruń in 2027

If this question was for me, with SciSpace, never. With ChatGPT all the time.

Single-panel cartoon drawn by Gary Larson. Standing in the street is a bearded man with glasses, white coat and a clipboard. He is wearing a helmet with flashing coloured buttons and multiple different types of antennae. In the street there are also several dogs, including one rearing up at a fence and another chasing a car. Speech bubbles show the dogs are saying "Hey! Hey! Hey!", "Heyyyyyyy", and "Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey!". Caption underneath: Donning his new canine decoder, Professor Schwartzman becomes the first human being on Earth to hear what barking dogs are actually saying.

Happy Birthday Gary Larson, 75 years old today. A perfect excuse to celebrate his tireless efforts documenting major breakthroughs in science, including this pivotal moment for language research:

I find the "search paper" function from SciSpace a good AI alternative to Google Scholar (it also has a literature review function).

when they close it all up, I do believe this will go down as the funniest video on the internet

New episode!! 🎙️📣

A chat w/ @sheinalew.bsky.social & @dorsaamir.bsky.social about childhood across cultures.

Humans everywhere go through childhood—a time of learning, growth, and play. But this universal stage of life can look very different in different places.

Listen: disi.org/varieties-of...

Less than 3 weeks to go until #CogSci2025! Here is some of the work that members of the CLE will be presenting 🧵(1/)

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.

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...

Venn diagram with Bono in the left circle, an oboe in the right, and a bonobo in the centre.

Venn diagram

How many hours does it take to do a PhD? My friend and fellow CLE'ler Dr Elizabeth Pankratz has recently finished her PhD and has published some really insightful stats on her blog, I think especially helpful for new PhD students: elizabethpankratz.github.io/posts/07-phd...

Scientists with ADHD speak up: when fire meets focus Nature - Researchers with ADHD discuss its peaks and valleys and how they structure their work lives to succeed.

Researchers with ADHD discuss its peaks and valleys and how they structure their work lives to succeed

https://go.nature.com/3HDMHDN

Book cover by Simon Kirby

Delighted to announce the publication of a collaborative effort, co-led by @limorraviv.bsky.social @mpi-nl.bsky.social, showcasing the ways in which researchers have made language evolution an empirical issue: A handbook of experimental approaches to the fascinating problem of language evolution 🧪

Earlier this month, @nerdpro.bsky.social and I collaborated on an Atmosphere screening of my favourite film, Arrival. It was a lot of fun projecting animated Heptapod writing and quotations from Chiang’s original. We also wrote an essay you might like: www.mediascot.org/atmosphere/a...

Ancient horse hunts challenge ideas of ‘modern’ human behavior An archaeological site in Germany suggests communal hunting and complex thinking emerged earlier in human evolution than once thought.

A great summary of recent research revealing that humans have hunted communally for hundreds of thousands of years. Beautiful artwork too - not AI! - by David Palumbo showing women & children engaged in the hunt too.
www.sciencenews.org/article/anci...

How many hours does it take to do a PhD? My friend and fellow CLE'ler Dr Elizabeth Pankratz has recently finished her PhD and has published some really insightful stats on her blog, I think especially helpful for new PhD students: elizabethpankratz.github.io/posts/07-phd...

Rare ancient DNA from Sahara opens a window on the region’s verdant past Sequencing of 7,000-year-old human genomes from when the Sahara Desert was green suggest that pastoralism spread through cultural exchange, not large-scale migration.

Sequencing of 7,000-year-old human genomes from when the Sahara Desert was green suggest that pastoralism spread through cultural exchange, not large-scale migration

https://go.nature.com/424grQM

Behavioural diversity in animals threatened by #biodiversity decline. In @science.org, @ammiekalan.bsky.social @uvic.ca & Lydia Luncz @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social emphasise the urgent need to develop strategies for preserving animal cultural #behaviour. tinyurl.com/569u66sv & doi.org/10.1126/scie...