Bayesian phylogenetic analysis of Philippine languages supports a rapid migration of Malayo-Polynesian languages go.nature.com/4eOnaE1

🎥All video recordings of the talks at our workshop are now available online. You can watch them on YouTube and catch up on the knowledge and inspiration shared! youtube.com/playlist?list=…

We are looking for two PhD students interested in cumulative culture in great apes. By using observational, experimental and computational methods, we aim to test whether precursors of human culture are present in chimpanzees and bonobos. uu.nl/en/organisatio…

📢📢 The Dept. of Comparative Cultural #Psychology MPI-EVA Leipzig is looking for a #PhD candidate for a project on the cognitive foundations of cumulative cultural #evolution in #chimpanzees. Interested? ⏰✍️ Apply by August 15th! eva.mpg.de/career/positio…

The Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science is now live! oecs.mit.edu OECS an online, open resource about the nature of minds—what they are, how they grow, how they interact, and how they differ from one another. At #CogSci2024? Come along to Penn II, 12.15 The MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social

📢PhD funding! Intersted in cultural evolution or behavioral economics? Or perhaps just interested in how psychological biases influence technological progress? Come and do a PhD with me! For more info about the studentship: royalholloway.ac.uk/research-and-t…

Fully funded PhD student position in Bayesian modeling of individual differences, University of Potsdam, Germany: vasishth.github.io/misc/METAREPPh…

Completed the 10km #LEIPZIGRUN on Sunday! It wasn’t easy, but I made it to the finish line 💪 Such a nice and relaxed route with the Völkerschlachtdenkmal standing tall in the background.

In honor of Human Relations Area Files @hraf755.bsky.social's 75th anniversary, I created a video showing how I use ethnographic data from ehrafworldcultures.yale.edu database in my cross-cultural research 🍻 youtube.com/watch?v=dz43Il…

The final workshop of our scientific network on Language Contact Phenomena in Multilingual First #LanguageAcquisition #LaCoLA will take place in Leipzig next week Thursday, Oct 24. Here's the final programme of our public workshop: lacola.phil.hhu.de/leipzig-24-25-…

Out now: The new DGKL Yearbook, featuring papers by Katja Politt Alexander Willich Rafael Soto Setzke Annika Tjuka @annikatjuka.bsky.social Nils Hansson Oliver Spiess Michael Pleyer Marek Placiński Nikolas Koch and many others degruyter.com/journal/key/gc…

Celebrating 50 years of Quantitative Cultural Evolution! 🥳 PNASNews Special Feature explores origins, development & future of this multidisciplinary research field. TICELab Creanza Lab MPI-EVA Leipzig Stanford University Vanderbilt University tinyurl.com/5y4ekwy7 & pnas.org/topic/565

Introducing the CrossGram collection of typological databases dlc.hypotheses.org/3690

DoReCo version 2.0 has been released! The corpus contains annotated language data from 53 low-resource and endangered languages. It is particularly suitable for cross-linguistic research on phonetics, phonology and morphology. More infos: doreco.huma-num.fr

You can find me on Bluesky 🦋 from now on: bsky.app/profile/annika…