Researchers Damian Blasi and Hedvig from MPI-EVA Leipzig have developed Grambank, a comparative grammatical database with over 400,000 data points and 2400 languages used to systematically describe the diversity of human languages. scim.ag/2m7

Excited to share this preprint (psyarxiv.com/fy4kn), a practical guide to EEG hyperscanning for joint action, which summarizes the collective wisdom of this wonderful group of co-authors: Janeen Loehr Cordula Vesper SINe Lab Simon L. Kappel Ole Adrian Heggli Peter Vuust Peter Keller

Nice one from recent New Yorker

Integrating the field of cultural evolution of music with the larger literature on language evolution will enrich our understanding of both music and language (evolution) psyarxiv.com/s7apx/

Announcing this month's Bridging Brains and Bioacoustics! Join us in a few weeks for two 🔥 talks on rodent vocal communication from Nicole Pranic @m_pranic and Ralph Peterson Ralph Emilio Peterson 🗓️ May 23rd @ 16:00 CET ✅ Register here: bit.ly/3HqDH2d

Robust rhythm reporting will advance ecological and evolutionary research. New paper by Taylor Hersh , @AndreaRavignani and @LaraBurchardt . doi.org/10.1111/2041-2….

1/5) I would call this one a labor of love but it was mostly just love… new Perspective out in Methods in Ecology and Evolution with @AndreaRavignani and @LaraBurchardt! We introduce an eight-level reporting framework for research on acoustic rhythms. Read the paper at: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

2/5) Framework levels fall into 2 categories—metric reporting and data sharing—and are generally quite straightforward. This is intentional! Many acoustics studies, even those not focused on rhythm, are just a few small steps away from contributing to comparative rhythm research.

4/5) Not sure where to start? Our decision tree can help users determine which level of reporting is most suitable for their specific situation. With more widespread and consistent reporting, big-picture rhythm questions will be within reach.

5/5) As always, the underlying data and code are available at Center for Open Science: osf.io/jnpqh/. This work was done at Comparative Bioacoustics Group MaxPlanck-Psycholinguistics and the illustrations are by the very talented Aline V.

Yesterday we hosted Jelle van der Werff, from the Comparative Bioacoustics Group at the MaxPlanck-Psycholinguistics. He gave an overview of his research with @AndreaRavignani and introduced a new Python package: thebeat. #rhythm #beat

Applications for the Tropical Bioacoustics School are now open! A once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Université Jean Monnet Saint-Étienne Syddansk Universitet Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle eneslab.com/tropicalbioaco…

ECR Visiting Fellowships provide up to £3000 (or currency equivalent) to junior faculty to attract and support an early-career researcher to undertake a defined research project in their lab for one to three months. biologists.com/grants/ecr-vis… 🧵3/4

The deadline for the first applications for these new Travel Grants 15 July 2023 🧵4/4 biologists.com/grants/kicksta… biologists.com/grants/ecr-vis…

Sensitivity to syllable stress regularities in externally but not self‐triggered speech in Dutch. New paper (open access) by @AlexEmmendorfer et al. doi.org/10.1111/ejn.16….

How do male harbor seals learn their breeding songs? Why do pups show vocal plasticity at a few weeks of age? And why are harbor seals vocal production learners? @AndreaRavignani MaxPlanck-Psycholinguistics doi.org/10.1111/eth.13… A 🦭🧵...

The paradox of learned song in a semi-solitary mammal. New paper by Diandra Duengen & @AndreaRavignani doi.org/10.1111/eth.13…

🎉The program of CogEvo 2023 is finally out! 🗣️Check it on our website to have a glimpse of our wonderful plenary talks: event.unitn.it/cogevo/#progra… 👉Abstract submission by June 10th 👉Registration by June 20th Giorgio Vallortigara Matilde Perrino Elena Lorenzi Elisa Frasnelli

Out now in Cell! doi.org/10.1016/j.cell… Historically marginalized student representation drastically drops from undergrad to grad school. Are underrepresented students unqualified? Or are grad school admissions unnecessarily confusing, costly, & gatekeeping? 1/🧵