New #phylolinguistics paper by Chundra Cathcart: Multiple evolutionary pressures shape identical consonant avoidance in the world’s languages pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

New, not exactly short paper on #languageaptitude from our NCCR Evolving Language project. Joint work over four years with Golestani lab Narly Golestani Irene Balboni (@irenebalboni.bsky.social) and Alessandra Rampinini. Open access doi.org/10.1016/j.brai…

“The linguistic diversity of a region can largely be predicted on the basis of its ecology" – Linguist Balthasar Bickel explains the interesting parallels between biodiversity and linguistic diversity: news.uzh.ch/en/articles/ne… NCCR Evolving Language

📰💬Learn about the optimization of language and the life cycle of identical consonants in a new #article on our website, based on the recently published research of Chundra Cathcart! Available in EN, DE and FR. evolvinglanguage.ch/behind-the-opt… Universität Zürich ISLE Swiss National Science Foundation

Abstract submission still open for the IBS Conference on Climate and Human Evolution – IBS Center for Climate Physics in Busan, 15-19 Oct. A nice program on human evolution from various disciplines (anthro-ecol-genes-paleo-history-theory). See you there! ibsclimate.org/climate-human-…

Dans un environnement technologique en pleine évolution, le Pôle de recherche national NCCR Evolving Language entame la seconde phase de son programme. Le pôle élargit son champ de compétences en accueillant Université Neuchâtel comme nouvelle institution mère. 👉 unige.ch/lejournal/vie-…

Forschungsdaten verwalten und zugänglich machen. Dazu werden die Forschenden im NCCR Evolving Language ermutigt. Der SNF hat für diese Initiative einen seiner #LighthouseAwards verliehen. #OpenAccess #OA #OpenData #Wissenschaft #Forschung

Gérer et rendre accessibles les données de la recherche C’est ce que le NCCR Evolving Language encourage ses chercheur·euses à faire. Il remporte pour cela l’un des #LighthouseAwards remis par le FNS. #OpenAccess #OA #OpenData #Science #Recherche

Managing and making research data accessible This is what NCCR Evolving Language is encouraging its researchers to do. For its efforts, it has won one of the #LighthouseAwards awarded by the SNSF. #OpenAccess #OA #OpenData #science #research

Gesture exchanges in wild chimps resemble human conversational patterns! New paper (with data from 5 chimp communities!) in Current Biology led by Gal Badihi and Cat Hobaiter! Ping NCCR Evolving Language UZH Science ISLE

After a great week spent at the ecbb2024, congrats to Isabel Driscoll for a successful PhD defense on emotion encoding in meerkat vocalisations! Proud supervisors Marta Manser and myself. NCCR Evolving Language, ⁦UCPH Behavioural Ecology Group⁩

Ambizione call for projects Ambizione grants are aimed at young researchers who wish to conduct and lead a project of their own. Submission deadline: 01.11.24. If you would like to find out more about this call, take part in our online event on 14.08.24. sohub.io/8u9z

👥This weekend, the researchers of the NCCR Evolving Language presented their research involving the apes of the Zoo Basel to the visitors of the “Basel Zoo Nacht”! Discover our gallery of pictures from the event here. evolvinglanguage.ch/a-night-at-the…

Happy to announce the arrival of my 1st postdoc project 🙌, now out in preprint: we looked at marmoset play and use of signals to coordinate the interaction. We found cool results ....

It is lovely to see our study about infants' perception of #pointing #gestures featured by ICIS. Great work by Ebru Ger, Maxine de Ven and stephaniewermelinger. @SSECR_ DGPs - EPSY ISLE NCCR Evolving Language Jacobs Center for Productive Youth Development Developmental Science Network Zurich | DSN-ZH Universität Zürich IMPRS on the Life Course (LIFE) @UZH_AdaBD

Danke ZEIT ONLINE, dass ich mich mit Lisa Seelig so ausführlich über die Rolle von Eltern als Vorbilder (und deren Grenzen) unterhalten durfte. Das ganze Interview ist hier zu lesen: zeit.de/2024/32/eltern… @SSECR_ DGPs - EPSY ISLE NCCR Evolving Language Developmental Science Network Zurich | DSN-ZH Universität Zürich IMPRS on the Life Course (LIFE)

10 #Minuten für die #Wissenschaft ? Nehmen Sie an diesem kurzen #Fragebogen zur Beziehung zwischen deutschen Wörtern teil! Bitte an andere #deutschsprachige Freunde weiterleiten - vielen vielen Dank im Voraus !! 🧠🤔fpse.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_6G… NCCR Evolving Language