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the yellow death we used to call these books h/t @dan_ruderman

What if we could learn cellular automata models of biological pattern formation directly from data? New preprint by Alex Richardson, Tibor Antal, Richard Blythe, and myself: arxiv.org/abs/2310.14809

Congratulations to Dr Patrick Pietzonka who has received early career research recognition for his work in #StochasticThermodynamics from the Statistical & Nonlinear Physics Division of the European Physical Society (EPS).🙌 ➡️edin.ac/45RGT05 #earlycareerresearcher

🚨LECTURER POSITION King's Disordered Systems Group 🚨 Post is full-time and permanent. Deadline: 26th Nov. Please apply and spread the word. [kcl.ac.uk/jobs/077313-le…]

📢📢 Now out in Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory🔓 "Reliable identification of selection mechanisms in language change" doi.org/10.1515/cllt-2… by Juan Guerrero Montero, myself, @kennysmithed Richard Blythe Focus is on language, but the method is general!

Come do a phd with Sam Lycett Richard Blythe and me, working theoretical models of the impact of extreme events (catastrophes, climate change etc) on variant pathogen emergence. findaphd.com/phds/project/m…

Mila Oiva #CUDAN2023 next up: Richard Blythe Richard Blythe from The University of Edinburgh Centre for Language Evolution on an evolutionary approach to change in language &culture, the utterance selection model, network effects, & connecting a population level model with with underlying individual cultural learning processes

Applications are invited for the Tait Chair of Mathematical Physics. 🗓️ Apply by: 30 April 2024 ➡️edin.ac/48gqqEb #physicsjobs #physicsvacancy #mathematicalphysics

FREE TO READ - OPEN ACCESS: Tuning attraction and repulsion between active particles through persistence by M. J. Metson, M. R. Evans and R. A. Blythe (Richard Blythe) #FreeToRead #OpenAccess - The University of Edinburgh Physics Astro @ Edin SUPA 👉 urlz.fr/oVEG

#CUDAN2023 day2, Juan Guerrero Montero et al on modelling the coevolution of linguistic forms &functions in corpora using bayesian iterated learning, accounting for interdependent structs & forces like social selection, analogy. Seems very applicable to cultural data as well!

It's blurry, but trust me: this is liubov presenting her work on the commonalities between how we navigate physical space and how we explore conceptual space in science. Super cool stuff! #CUDAN2023

#EvoLang2024 submission announcements are going out now! Hope to see you all in Madison!! Registration and info on (7!) amazing workshops will be posted in the next few days! evolang2024.github.io Evolang Conference Cultural Evolution Society CogSci Society Durham Cultural Evolution Research Centre MaxPlanck-Psycholinguistics Centre for Language Evolution

Hey Air France - did you know passengers can’t access your website from the free wifi at Paris Aéroport because it “has a bad reputation”?

Got awarded the "achiever of the year" award by my home dept Tallinn University School of Humanities 🇺🇦 of @TallinnUni (CUDAN Open Lab | @cudanlab.bsky.social is across 3 depts, I'm at hum), quoting publications, public+press appearances, AI workshops for staff, & representation at various boards. Feels nice when work is recognized 🤗🤗

Physicist Richard Blythe and School of PPLS linguists have teamed up to apply methods & models from statistical physics to the historical corpora of language use to understand the origins of grammatical structure in human language. edin.ac/4aWLQII

PPLS Linguists recently collaborated with Richard Blythe of Physics Astro @ Edin on a The British Academy award winning project that aims to understand factors such as communicative need, social aspects and learning biases. Read more: edin.ac/47Oxes5 #linguistics

Want to know the best way to find something when you’re running to a budget? Minimising profligacy is the answer. Phase transitions ahoy! [arxiv:2404.00215] Minimizing the Profligacy of Searches with Reset, with John Sunil, Martin Evans and Satya Majumdar. arxiv.org/abs/2404.00215

Polls are now open in the 2024 UK General Election! Voting is open until 10pm. Remember that you need ID to vote this time. If you have a postal vote you haven't posted, hand it in at your local polling place.

Welcome to the PhD students who are starting with us today! 👋 We are glad to have you join us, and wish you well for an enjoyable and productive research journey here!

Today's first invited talk by Richard Blythe on how language changes as a result of social network evolution. Everyone was here bright and early and ready to enjoy the community coming together.