John Mansfield

reading up on semantics to learn that the meaning of „dog“ is DOG #linguistics

Frontiers | Girls just wanna have funds: a new Transparent Reporting Scale for evaluating grant data reporting from funding agencies IntroductionDespite the increasing representation of women in scientific fields, disparities in research funding allocation remain. This inequity deprives ta...

How transparent is your research funder? 🧐 In our latest work we introduce the Transparent Reporting Scale (TRS) to evaluate how funders report grant data. It's time for standardized transparency to bridge the "scissor-shaped curve" in neuroscience. www.frontiersin.org/journals/com...

gradient.horse Draw a horse, watch it run!

omg everybody go draw a horse this is what the internet was made for

gradient.horse

I don’t like this „unable“, it’s disingenuous. You don’t WANT to

Congratulations Manikya!

i heard both of these today:

"what are we solutioning here"

"we don't have a solve for that"

nouns and verbs, two ships passing in the night

University of Texas: Reject the federal government’s “Compact” The Trump Administration’s “Compact” will put the University of Texas at Austin under political control. Join with Longhorns for Liberty to tell President Jim Davis and the Board of Regents to reject ...

⭐️⭐️UTAustin alumni call on all ex-students to sign this petition urging UT not to sign the federal government’s higher education compact. UT leaders have still not made their decision about the compact clear.😡

alumni.standforcampusfreedom.org/petitions/un...

Review of Yao (2025): Power, Affect, and Identity in the Linguistic Landscape: Chinese Communities in Australia and Beyond Welcome to e-content platform of John Benjamins Publishing Company. Here you can find all of our electronic books and journals, for purchase and download or subscriber access.

Grateful to Ge Song for his generous review of my book. He clearly articulates how the book brought together geosemiotics, sociolinguistics of globalisation, and metrolingualism to build a strong theoretical foundation for #linguisticlandscape. Far from a 'simplistic' field: doi.org/10.1075/japc...

But my possums are really ruthless, they leave me not even a single fruit

Epic photo

History of Ideas in the Science of AI

Excited to share that our book "History of Ideas in the Science of AI" (co-authored with Luc Steels and Ann Dooms) is now freely available as #OpenAccess!
#OpenScience, #AIResearch, #HistoryOfAI
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

So there will be no festival this year, but in doing this the writers have saved the reputation of the festival

The majority of the writers pulled out, director resigned, festival no longer tenable this year. Great to see writers standing up for human rights and resisting authoritarian bootlickers.

@lxch.bsky.social

A nice little „miss you too“ from Melbz

Pathetic Adelaide Writers Week board trying to stop Palestinians from talking about the genocide

LINGUIST List 36.3752 Jobs: Computational Linguistics: Professor of Computational Linguistics, University of Geneva, Switzerland The LINGUIST List, International Linguistics Community Online.

Tenure-track Assistant Professor position in computational linguistics at UNIGE / @nccrlanguage.bsky.social The application deadline is around the corner (Jan 15)- don't miss it! linguistlist.org/issues/36/37...

details and application form here:
www.isle.uzh.ch/en/jobs/phd-...

Studying the Evolution of Abstract Thought - NCCR Evolving Language In the new ERC-funded project, “Conceptual Diversity and the Evolution of Abstract Thought” (CONCEVO), Mansfield will lead a team of researchers to develop a method for reconstructing the evolution of...

I'm hiring! 2 x PhD positions to work at Uni Zurich with me on "Evolutionary Semantics" for an ERC-funded project. semantically curious MA grads from linguistics, cog psych, anthro encouraged to apply
evolvinglanguage.ch/studying-the...

syntax innovation from my niece (5) who doesn't see me often:
"What are you my?"

This is an artificial mouth created by Japanese researchers. It uses artificial vocal cords, a trachea system, and a flexible silicone mouth that moves and shapes sound in real time.

It sounds so human-like!

From the superb Félix Vallotton exhibition at MCBA Lausanne, this is one of many striking and unusual landscapes: Le rayon, 1909, Private collection. Read about the show (the best we've been to this year) on our blog: art-exhibitions.blogspot.com/2025/12/thro...

I'm very grateful to have been awarded grant funding from the European Research Council @erc.europa.eu . I like that this grant scheme allows for untried methods.

(though I never understood why it's not an album...)

EP7

biggest problem with coding is doing something quick-and-dirty just to get the process working, then you forget and it becomes part of the code... months later you find this hacky little thing spreading its corruption

so lucky to have Jane Simpson as a PhD boss, what a great role model. She does academia with integrity and generosity; her life work is both brilliant analysis of Australian languages (with more to come), and hundreds of people she helped along the way.
researchportalplus.anu.edu.au/en/persons/j...

course schedule as a table. Available at the link in the post.

I'm teaching Statistical Rethinking again starting Jan 2026. This time with live lectures, divided into Beginner and Experienced sections. Will be a lot more work for me, but I hope much better for students.

I will record lectures & all will be found at this link: github.com/rmcelreath/s...

I wonder what the Microsoft people think "Do not ask again" means