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Uni3 Seniors Explore the Human Neuroscience Platform at Campus Biotech - NCCR Evolving Language During the Fall Semester 2025, seniors from Uni3 (University of Geneva) had the unique opportunity to visit the Human Neuroscience Platform at Campus Biotech, on three separate occasions.

During the Fall Semester 2025, seniors from Uni3 (University of Geneva) had the unique opportunity to visit the Human Neuroscience Platform at Campus Biotech, on three separate occasions.

Visits were led by Coralie Debracque (NCCR) and Olivier Reynaud (FCBG).

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"The Mind Body Problem", une exposition immersive à découvrir jusqu'au 14 décembre à la salle d’exposition de l’Université de Genève, Bd Carl-Vogt 66, 1205 Genève

Les rêves des oiseaux | RTS Des chercheurs et un artiste sonore ont mené une expérience inédite: isoler et reproduire les sons des chants dont rêvent les oiseaux. Le fruit de cette collaboration, une exposition immersive à l'Uni...

🎙️ Une expérience art-science inédite: isoler et reproduire les sons des chants dont rêvent les oiseaux. Découvrez en plus sur ce projet et l'exposition de Robin Meier Wiratunga, en collaboration avec le PRN Evolving Language.

www.rts.ch/audio-podcast/2025/audio/les-reves-des-oiseaux-29070431.html

Comment le bisou est né chez les grands singes | RTS Bien avant Homo sapiens, nos ancêtres primates échangeaient déjà des baisers. Une étude parue dans Evolution and Human Behaviour montre que ce geste, à la fois intime et vecteur potentiel de maladies,...

🎙️ Comment le bisou, avec ses fonctions sociales, reproductives et de transmission dʹinformations, est-il apparu chez les grands singes ? Dans l'émission CQFD (RTS), le chercheur Thibaud Gruber @thibaudgruber.bsky.social en dit plus !

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🚨Who wants to work with Kalahari meerkats? A MSc project with @mathildemartin.bsky.social at the University of Zurich.
#bioacoustics 🧪

I am looking for an intern to support my PhD project on multimodal communication in common marmosets! 🐒🌞
Minimum commitment is 3 months full-time. Please note that this is an unpaid position and that remote options are not available. BSc and MSc students are welcome!🥰
@nccrlanguage.bsky.social

With Chloé Berton, @vd0ubleu.bsky.social @balthasarbickel.bsky.social, and @zuberbuehler.bsky.social

A shared preference in humans and chimpanzees - NCCR Evolving Language A new study from researchers at the University of Neuchâtel, published in The Royal Society Open Science, compared the preference for prosocial behaviour, e.g. cooperation, in humans and chimpanzees. ...

📰Researchers from the UNINE compared the preference of humans and chimpanzees for individuals acting prosocial. The results uncover similarities that add to our knowledge on the origins of the extraordinary human collaborative and communicative abilities.

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The perception of prosocial agents by chimpanzees and humans | Royal Society Open Science The human propensity for prosocial behaviour has no equal, not even in our closest living relatives, the chimpanzees. However, it remains unclear whether this difference is grounded in the sheer perce...

🚨 New paper out!
Using a touchscreen task, we explored how humans and chimpanzees perceive social interactions by comparing their responses to prosocial, neutral, and antisocial interactions.

Check out more on 👉 doi.org/10.1098/rsos...

Last days for early registration to #ABIM 2026 !

The names of the speakers: Melanie Boly Ray Dolan Davide Folloni Laura Gwilliams Charles Hillman Hilleke Hulshoff Pol Jean-Rémi King Daniel Margulies Lucia Melloni

Get ready for the biggest #ABIM yet! 🥳 We're celebrating our 20th anniversary with a special edition you won't want to miss.
🗓️ Registration & abstract submission: www.unige.ch/ABIM/partici...
💰Early bird fee ends November 9th!
#ABIM2026 #neuroimaging

Kicking-off the "Mind-Body Problem" exhibition with Robin Meier Wiratunga - NCCR Evolving Language On October 28th, the exhibition "The Mind-Body Problem" opened its doors to the public. It is the fruit of a collaboration between the NCCR Evolving Language and artist Robin Meier Wiratunga.This work...

📍The "Mind-Body Problem" exhibition, by Robin Meier Wiratunga, in collaboration with the NCCR Evolving Language, opened its doors. The science-art installations can be discovered until December 14th at the Salle d'Exposition de l'UNIGE (Bd Carl-Vogt 66, Geneva)!

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📢 The Department of Language and Information Sciences of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Lausanne (UNIL) is looking for a first assistant in computational humanities. More information in the link below!

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🚨 On cherche encore des participant·e·s bilingues français–allemand ! Votre aide est précieuse pour faire avancer la recherche 🧠
⏱️ 90 min
💸 15 CHF / EUR équiv.
📍 100 % en ligne
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Reflecting on the impact of Dr. Jane Goodall with the NCCR community - NCCR Evolving Language On October 1st, 2025, Dr. Jane Goodall passed. Her contributions throughout her long life transformed the field of primatology and reshaped the way we understand humans within the animal kingdom. Here...

📰 The contributions of recently passed Dre. Jane Goodall transformed primatology and how we understand humans in the animal kingdom. In this article, members of the NCCR Evolving Language reflect on the impact Dre. Goodall has on their work and lives.

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Mensch ärgere dich 🎲

Seit Jahrtausenden bringen Gesellschaftsspiele Menschen zusammen – ob beim Würfeln, Planen oder Verlieren. 💬

@moritzdaum.bsky.social erklärt im Interview mit der CoopZeitung, warum Spielen viel mehr ist als nur Zeitvertreib.

Our researchers at the Societas Linguistica Europaea Conference 2025 - NCCR Evolving Language Many of our researchers attended the 58th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE) from 26-29th of August 2025 hosted at the Université Bordeaux Montaigne in Bordeaux, France, and con...

📰 Many of our researchers attended the 58th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE) in August 2025 hosted at the Université Bordeaux Montaigne in Bordeaux, France, and contributed through workshops, talks and poster sessions.

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📍In September, the NCCR Evolving Language welcomed representatives of the SNSF and a panel of international experts for its site visit. Researchers gave presentations and prepared interactive posters on the center's activities and future. Our warmest thanks to all participants!

Tightening the relation between the NCCR Evolving Language and the Society for the Neurobiology of Language (SNL) - NCCR Evolving Language Nina Kazanina, Valentina Borghesani, and Giulia Li Calzi represented the NCCR Evolving Language at the Society for the Neurobiology of Language (SNL) 2025 conference. This was a great introduction to ...

📰 NCCR members participated to the SNL 2025 conference and organized a follow-up virtual activity on the evolution of language. This was a great introduction to the next edition, which will be held in Geneva from September 30 to October 2, 2026.

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In search of the strategies behind memory with Prof. Lucie Attout - NCCR Evolving Language Lucie Attout joined the Faculté de Psychologie et Sciences de l’Education (FAPSE) of the University of Geneva as an assistant professor in Psycholinguistics and Speech-Therapy and the NCCR Evolving La...

💬“For a long time, I’ve been fascinated by the human capacity for learning” - This year, Lucie Attout joined the University of Geneva and the NCCR Evolving Language as an assistant professor in Psycholinguistics and Speech-Therapy.

👉 More in this interview:

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Le pouvoir des récits, démocratiques et anti-démocratiques - Semaine de la démocratie - NCCR Evolving Language Offline Le pouvoir des récits, démocratiques et anti-démocratiques – Semaine de la démocratie 6 octobre 2025 @ 12.30h - 13.30h Semaine de la démocratie Adrian Bangerter Salle MR060, UniMail, Universit...

📢 Le Prof. Adrian Bangerter (UNINE) propose une conférence sur "Le pouvoir des récits, démocratiques et anti-démocratiques", le lundi 6 octobre (12h30-13h30) dans le cadre de la Semaine de la Démocratie.

📍 Salle MR060, UniMail, Université de Genève

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Join our upcoming webinars “Peer Review and its Diversification”!

📅 15-16 October 2025 on Zoom

👉 Registration: forms.gle/1R4Y3d33W8bQ...

📄 Full programme: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

#PeerReview #PeerReviewWeek #PRW2025 #metasci #academicsky

Looking for a job in research and conservation? Check out the advert 👇 and apply within the next two-and-a-half weeks.

Infant and Child Development Call for Papers Capturing the Diversity in Early Multilingualism Infant and Child Development: prenatal, childhood, adolescence, emerging adulthood is a premier developmental science journal for transparent and open research.

@rujoanna.bsky.social, Stephanie Wermelinger, and I from @kweltentdeckende.bsky.social share our call for papers for the special issue of @Infant and Child Development on “Capturing the #Diversity in Early #Multilingualism”.

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Linguistic Diversification and Rates of Change: Insights From a Diverse Sample of Sociolinguistic Studies Language diversification and change can be studied using phylogenetic modelling of families over thousands of years, or by close observation of changes unfolding over a few decades at the community l....

Social functions of language may drive faster change and faster diversification in some features.
Thanks to growing diversity in variationst sociolinguistics, I gathered studies of 63 languages from 28 families. Here I sketch some potential patterns
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Thank you for your continuous support. It was great to see you! 😊

Great few days in beautiful #neuchatel discussing and evaluating the world leading #language #research from @nccrlanguage.bsky.social - worth a follow 😊

📰 new paper! lnkd.in/dYdrvZAz, by @irenebalboni.bsky.social , Alessandra Rampinini, @olgakepinska.bsky.social, @berthele.bsky.social, @nargolestani.bsky.social, @nccrlanguage.bsky.social showing the importance of multimodal approaches for uncovering brain-behaviour relationships

📍 Morgen Abend spricht Pascale Hatt in der Biberburg (Hirschthal) über „Die Welt der Orcas“. Weitere Informationen finden Sie unter dem Link.

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A very special paper where we did something NEW! 🔥combining a large genetic dataset 🧬, a large linguistic dataset 💬, and Bayesian multilevel logistic regressions 📈, counting the effects of areal contact (geographic constrains) 🌎. Genetic admixture explains higher levels of linguistic exchanges...