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A book containing puzzling drawings and a strange writing system has intrigued cryptographers, historians, linguists, and more for centuries...

In our latest bonus episode we get enthusiastic about the mysterious Voynich Manuscript with @chirila.bsky.social!

I have applied for four grants/jobs so far this year, and will apparently spend the holidays applying for three more.
Was is it with people and setting deadlines in mid January? Does the Grinch run these HR departments?

i guess because the temperature on the stove depends more on the vessel? lid on or off, pan or pot? etc

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Movin' Out - Billy Joel

ELAN: making tier(s) out of search results Hedvig in her office in Canberra figuring this out and writing this guide. Here is another guide for how to do something practical in ...

nope, jag använder csv-exporten, t.ex. så här humans-who-read-grammars.blogspot.com/2017/08/elan...

A 65-year-old linguistics framework challenged by modern research In a re-evaluation of Hockett's foundational features that have long dominated linguistic theory—concepts like "arbitrariness," "duality of patterning," and "displacement"—an international team of lin...

I think I recognise some of the names in this!
phys.org/news/2025-11...

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Who wants to be the new professor for general #linguistics in Cologne? 👀

ifl.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/sites/lingui...

ANUs map of Papuan Languages.

Fun #linguistic fact for World Linguistics Day:

If North America had the same linguistic diversity as New Guinea we’d expect Indigenous Americans to speak ~28,000 languages.

Innovations in Linguistics Education is a new Diamond Open Access journal, is dedicated to the teaching of linguistics.

journals.ed.ac.uk/innovations

I'm really excited to see a new journal in this space!

Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪

eeek, embarrassing 🙈 @royalsocietypublishing.org

there we go, thanks

I think we can keep two things in our minds simultaneously. Rejecting AI illustrations for a scientific magazine cover does not necessitate rejecting AI supported subtitles, image recognition etc.

Am 27 weeks pregnant and have the actual real-life flu and it is *horrendous*. Nurse just told me it would be so much worse if I hadn't got the flu booster a few months ago. 😱

Get vaccinated folks.💪💉

yeah this is quite disappointing from @rsb.org.uk . doesn't look like they themselves have posted this to their socials, perhaps they know it's sloppy.

Und falls Sie eine akademische Karriere in Deutschland anstreben, könnte diese Abhandlung über prekäre Arbeitsverhältnisse in der deutschen Wissenschaft im Laufe der Zeit für Sie von Interesse sein.
Leendertz, A. (2020). Wissenschaftler auf zeit..
www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10...

För folk som funderar på en karriär i Sverige så publicerar Universitetskanslersämbetet rapporter som kan vara relevanta att skumma igenom
www.uka.se/vara-resulta...

@nature.com Careers also did a survey, but unfortunately a lot of the results are behind paywalls so... that's cool if you have access otherwise �
www.nature.com/naturecareer...

Here's a recent one from @elsevierconnect.bsky.social (yes I know) about AI use, research integrity and more
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If you're thinking of a career in #academia, in any field, you should take some time to learn about the practical landscape of it as a workplace. One way of doing that is to read survey reports of employee well-being etc, here is one of postdocs in @maxplanck.de
www.postdocnet.mpg.de/214512/2024-...

Enduring constraints on grammar revealed by Bayesian spatiophylogenetic analyses - Nature Human Behaviour Despite their great diversity, human languages are shaped by recurring grammatical universals. Verkerk et al. show that about one-third of the proposed universals hold cross-linguistically through ana...

Today, we published a paper on the strength of language universals (if language has X, it also has Y) given spatial & phylogenetic autocorrelation in @nathumbehav.nature.com ! It is a cool research project, led by the brilliant Annemarie Verkerk at @uni-saarland.de
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A really interesting online talk in our research colloquium on eye-tracking experiments with Northern Khanty speakers!

A sequence bottleneck for animal intelligence and language? We discuss recent findings suggesting that non-human animals lack memory for stimulus sequences, and therefore do not represent the order of stimuli f…

Sometimes scientific papers surprise you. Info on new papers will appear below :)

We have identified that non-hum animals struggle with remembering and using sequential information, in general. (See e.g. this TiCS paper and references therein: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...) 1/n

D-estimate test of phylo signal - sanity checks Just a brief message about a problem with Fritz and Purvis' test of phylogenetic signal in binary traits - D-estimates. When the distribution of tip values is highly skewed (e.g. 5% one way, 95% the.....

For example, if you are estimating phylogenetic signal of binary data using Fritz & @andypurvisnhm.bsky.social D-estimate it is necessary that the data is not very skewed (for example, 1 tip in one state, 99 in another). Otherwise, the test doesn't work. More: hedvigsr.tumblr.com/post/7454773...

Highlighting a nice paper on interdisciplinary methods exchange. We should always scrutinise the assumptions of the methods, even internally within the same discipline.

Leino, U., Syrjänen, K., & Vesakoski, O. (2020). Linguistic change and biological evolution. cris.tuni.fi/ws/portalfil...

Cool new paper (and a thread about it) by @babeheim.bsky.social on the cultural evolution of Go games! Check out these colourful decision trees 🔥 doi.org/10.1017/ehs....

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My understanding is that this shift aligns with actions to solve another situation: that there were not enough starting positions for ECRs. Also, over the decades MPG spec seems to have pivoted to the "spring-board"-approach - institutes being exciting transitory places rather than destinations.

One of the issues you raise as a factor is the employment conditions, in MPG & academia broadly. I was intrigued to learn that MPG and German universities used to employ more people on tenure basis than they do now.

I made the plots below, based on Leendertz (2020). Wissenschaftler auf zeit (..)

Postdoctoral position in Sociolinguistics at TRANSITION – Center for Changing Urban and Rural Lives (Center of Excellence), University of Copenhagen

Postdoc in #sociolinguistics jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...