Bridget Copley PhD

much like the civilizations

this! and the theme music is quietly, slowly on FIRE

3 sur 3 ascenseurs dans notre bâtiment de 30 étages en panne et le numéro d'urgence de l'agence nous racchroche au nez

Advanced 2.5 Million-Year-Old Tools May Rewrite Human History Early humans crafted the same tools for hundreds of thousands of years, offering an unprecedented glimpse of a continuous tradition that may push back the origins of technology.

Site in Kenya reveals 300,000 years of uninterrupted toolmaking. Archaeologists uncovered nearly 1,300 stone tools spanning 2.44 to 2.75 million years, showing that early hominins taught and replicated the same techniques across roughly 10,000 generations. buff.ly/zQvktxJ
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Has the Airbnb crackdown made renting in Paris any easier? Airbnb says it hasn’t. City hall says it’s complicated. Who’s right?

Things have been getting sassy between Airbnb and the City of Paris.

Airbnb says Paris's crackdown on the website has done nothing to ease the rental nightmare. They have come brandishing numbers.

Is Airbnb right? I did a little digging for my brand-new newsletter:

substack.com/home/post/p-...

This is poor user interface design, especially when there IS a part of my brain that wants to just delete the whole thing

A Blue Tit flying straight towards the camera with wings and legs tucked in like a dart

What it looks like when a Blue Tit flies straight at you! 😳😁😍🐦

Taken yesterday at RSPB Greylake in Somerset. 😊
#birds 🪶
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that too!

Declaration of use of AI in writing this grant: In section 1.1, I used it to search for synonyms of "transformative"

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👀 yikes, and here I thought it had gotten better in the last 20 years since I moved to France... guess not (or maybe so! in which case double yikes!)

You know you're in peak procrastination when you have the thought "Hmm, I could clean my windows"

For a second I thought this was noun phrases in the news

"And we carried our bits in a bucket,
And our mainframe weighed 900 tons,
And we programmed in ones and in zeros
And sometimes we ran out of ones." (Frank Hayes)

I kinda don't want him to pass Antonelli though

Very surprised as a not-Verstappen fan to find myself rooting for him to pass Russell #F1

Somehow I decided to have dinner with my family instead of watching Q1 in Brazil. What could possibly happen in Q1 that would be of interest? 🙃 #F1

At this year's @lingcomm.bsky.social conference, we learned that the UK has been celebrating National Linguistics Day on November 26th, and everyone immediately went, hey, can't we make that World Linguistics Day?

Well, now it's only 20 days away, so time to get your celebration plans in order!

A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women

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Sheesh that's no good. The example of the disaster that is US healthcare is RIGHT THERE

❤️ the vibes, they go back and forth, as vibes do

I would love to talk to you about this. Can you email me at bridget.copley@cnrs.fr?

Sorry to hear you are in the land of Working While Unwell (tm) with its high cost of living. I am glad you and your work exist!

Verbs and an adverb in the news

The pragmatics of having my husband's name, which I have never used, appear on my identity card in France, where I never asked it to be put? Hint: it's having people insist to me that it's literally the law in France that that's my name 🤦‍♀️

Populism fast and slow It is natural that a person who is both concerned by the rise of right-wing populism and possessed of a bookish disposition might turn to the academic political science literature in search of a bette...

"[I]t is a rebellion against modern society, which requires the ceaseless exercise of cognitive inhibition and control, in order to evade exploitation, marginalization, addiction, and stigma." josephheath.substack.com/p/populism-f...

HAM ten-second penalty nooooooooooo

I'm looking for scenes where one character tries to shift the blame onto another character to make themselves look blameless, anyone got any in their back pocket?

wait guys are we doing a heist

Wow, seems maybe so! Thanks folks!

I would be grateful to have a chat with about the lay of the disinformation land because of a grant proposal I am involved with.

Hey, do I know anyone who knows anyone who works on disinformation?