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Harvard hängt an reichen Spendern, exorbitanten Studiengebühren und den Karrierenetzwerken. Ein verschwenderisches System; Top-Wissenschaft kann man günstiger haben.

🚨New publication alert! "Corpus-based approaches to evolutionary dynamics in language" (w/ Stefan Hartmann) out now in the in the Oxford Handbook of Approaches to Language Evolution. Kudos to Dr. Limor Raviv 🦄🤗🐘🦒 & cedric boeckx for putting this great volume together! academic.oup.com/edited-volume/…

Large-scale projects run the risk of stifling scientific independence. Instead, let’s explore alternative mechanisms of collaboration, writes Dan Goodman. thetransmitter.org/funding/neuros…

Michael #Kretschmer hat recht. Wir fordern schon lange, dass Deutschland mit Russland über die Wiederinbetriebnahme von Nord Stream spricht – aus eigenem wirtschaftlichen Interesse. Wir brauchen preiswerte Energie, um die Wirtschaftskrise zu überwinden und die

How disheartening to see scholars such as Jürgen Habermas (Shoshana Zuboff also comes to mind) who should have been the first to know better but endorsed the panic... Interesting piece building on Laura Dodsworth's work on the use of fear and generally of emotion! "Even

Interested in doing postdoctoral research in Japan? Applications for the JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowships for Research in Japan are open. If you would like to work with me, feel free to reach out! jsps.go.jp/english/e-fell…

Learn about the evolutionary bases of language, and issues with Universal Grammar in my interview with Dr. Daniel Everett. #linguistics #Science Full interview: youtu.be/5KhTl0l0L0M

Ilse Zimmermann was amazing - great to see this tribute to her:

Can we demonstrate our humanness by avoiding suspicious words such as "delve", "intricate" and "crucial"? journals.flvc.org/FLAIRS/

📚 Kenyan author Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, a giant of African literature and decolonial thought, has died at 87. 🌍✍️ theconversation.com/five-things-yo… 💻 Peter Kimani, AKU Graduate School of Media and Communications #ArtsCultureAndSociety

Statt des üblichen identitätspolitischen Reflexes (us against them) sollte man sich mit den Dysfunktionalitäten des wissenschaftlichen Publikationswesens auseinandersetzen, denn sonst machen es andere. Dass Lancet und NEJM Teil des Problems sind und sich bewegen müssten, ist für

Exactly 10 years ago, MPI-EVA's Department of Linguistics (1998-2015) came to an end, with Bernard Comrie's retirement. The website is still online. eva.mpg.de/linguistics/in…

The Areal Typology of Languages of the Americas (ATLAs) database nature.com/articles/s4159…

Summer Schools: Online and Hybrid Workshops at the LSA Institute: Focus: linguistic theory functional syntax discriminative linguistics language acquisition quantitative morphology and phonology Description: The LSA Institute 2025 is now offering eight… dlvr.it/TLQ6cJ

Just published "The licensing and usage of topic drop in German" by Lisa Schäfer #openaccess #ogl langsci-press.org/catalog/book/4…

Huge win for Southern Pomo! The language is now featured on transit signage in the city of Windsor, which was entirely within Southern Pomo territory. It’s unclear why they’ve added another indigenous language, as there was no other language for that area, but I’ll take the win.

200 years ago, in 1825, Michael Faraday extracted a clear, sweet-smelling liquid from the oily residues of London’s gas lamps. He named it benzene and nothing in chemistry would ever be the same. What set benzene apart, even from the moment of its discovery, was its resistance

In episode 364, I talk with Dr. Limor Raviv about psycholinguistics, child #development, and #language acquisition. #linguistics #Science youtu.be/DsoDtYV2NwY

Before the ‘Out of Africa’ migration that led humans into Eurasia and beyond, new research shows that humans expanded their niche to include African forests and deserts. Authors argue these adaptations were key to the dispersal's long-term success gea.mpg.de/158211/Before-…