“People dont feel safe no more, he said. … We don’t know what’s goin to show up here come daylight. we dont even know what color they’ll be.”
— All The Pretty Horses
Cormac McCarthy
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If people in science, the humanities, and engineering ruled the world, I'd see our closest possibility to a utopia.
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To be fair this is not something many of us would do.
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In the end, Moby Dick is a novel about the importance of asking the right questions regarding your direct manager, their management style, and the culture fostered by their leadership during your job interviews. 🐋
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Group leader LEADS MPI_NL & Radboud ➡️ Language Evolution; Cultural Evolution; Animal & Human Cognition; Open Science; DON'T DREAM IT - BE IT!
Prof Language Evolution FBA FRSE MAE. Head of Dept, Linguistics & English Language, Uni Edinburgh. With my students & collaborators I do science & art. he/him. simonkirby.net
Professor of evolutionary linguistics at Edinburgh. Cyclist, runner, climber, coward.
Cognitive scientist @ CEU
--> Cognition and Society, communication, coordination, cultural evolution, evolutionary psychology
Primatologist studying communication and cognition in wild apes. Some time academic. Full time naked ape. PI Wild Minds Lab @ University of St Andrews. She/her.
www.wildminds.ac.uk
ICREA Research Professor. Evolution, Genetics, Neuroscience, Linguistic Cognition
https://www.cedricboeckx.com
Exploring the past, present, and future of language
💬|🐵|🧠|📱 Based at the University of Geneva, the University of Zurich and the University of Neuchatel.
Funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF).
Language, interaction, tech • Here with doubts about the next monetizable monopoly... • papers https://markdingemanse.net • blog https://ideophone.org • fedi https://scholar.social/@dingemansemark/ • POSSE: Publish on Own Site, Syndicate Everywhere
Research Leader at https://csl.sony.fr. My work blends linguistics, artificial intelligence, and complex systems science to understand how humans create and share meaning through language and narrative. Read more at https://remivantrijp.com
Lead Consultant, https://cogknit.uk Researcher/teacher/learner and person who does internet things. Communication, social cognition, perception and evolution therof. https://ccuskley.github.io
Simulating sci-fi novels and calling it cultural evolution
Centre for Culture and Evolution | Brunel University London | https://j-winters.github.io
Linguist at Stirling University. Cànanaiche. Cognitive linguistics, language evolution, grammaticalisation, metaphor, Gàidhlig, languages, Scottish and UK politics, football (Burnley/ East Stirlingshire/ groundhopping), music, maps, cats, other stuff.
Research Fellow in Philosophy at the University of Warwick. Interested in animal communication and the evolution of language | Philosophy of mind, philosophy of science. She/her
https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/philosophy/people/palazzolo/
doing research on language evolution, language change, language learning and everything cognition-related; Post-doc: Uni Vienna; before: Post-doc Center of Language Evolution Studies, Nicolaus Copernicus Uni Torun and PhD Uni Vienna
Cognitive scientist interested in the processing, acquisition and evolution of language; statistical learning; computational modeling.
Lab website: https://csl-lab.psych.cornell.edu
Director,Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics; Multimodal Language Dept.Turkish expat studied in the US; lives @Netherlands,works for the German Max Planck Society - https://www.mpi.nl/people/ozyurek-asli - I am more active on Linkedin:)
• Postdoc, Dept of Neurosurgery, UTHealth
• Compositionality in neural and artificial systems
Website: https://elliot-murphy.com/
Director of Language & Genetics at Max Planck Institute, Nijmegen.
Tracing the complex connections between genes, brains, speech & language.
Website: https://www.mpi.nl/people/fisher-simon-e
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