Call: If you have not submitted your application for the Kaldor Scholarship, you're still in time! Submit your application by 30 June 2024 (Sunday). More info: tinyurl.com/3rhsrkk5

Glad to have received an APIP grant from ANU College of Asia and the Pacific to collect more Papuan kinship terminology for Kinbank, and to understand the role of kinship in the linguistic diversification of New Guinea.

We are thrilled to announce the launch of our brand-new website for the ARC Centre of Excellence for Indigenous & Environmental Histories and Futures! Follow us on this exciting journey. Check it out now: ciehf.au

I've made it 😅

For those who missed our last SYNAPSE seminar, you can enjoy it here: youtu.be/R3EPqHy_2kY

Come to Canberra and tell us about your 'cool' Comparative Oceanic Linguistic Research! 23-27 June 2025

COOL13 at ANU 23-27 Jun 2025/Le 13e colloque de linguistique océanienne aura lieu à l’Australian National University du 23 au 27 juin 2025/Papers call: 30 Oct 2024/La date limite de soumission des résumés est le 30 octobre 2024/See details/détails voir: sites.google.com/view/cool-13/

Here are six words for mother in six Indigenous languages. Listen and learn at the 50 Word Project link below. 50words.online/languages #learnlanguages #IndigenousLanguages Faculty of Arts Indigenous Knowledge Institute

Congratulations to ECDI's Ben Shaw!

Have you applied yet? Limited scholarships are available for those in financial need to attend #COOL13! Priority given also to those from the Pacific. Know more: sites.google.com/view/cool-13/ Evolution of Cultural Diversity Initiative anualumni @ouranu ANU College of Asia and the Pacific ANU College of Asia and the Pacific ANU SLLL AAPS

Are you working on Oceanic languages? The 13th Conference of Oceanic linguistics (COOL13) is going to be held at the Australian University of Australia (Canberra) on 23-27 June 2025, and it calling for abstracts. Deadline: 30 October 2024 More info: sites.google.com/view/cool-13/a…

Here are six words for brother in six Indigenous languages. Listen and learn at the 50 Words Project link below. 50words.online/languages #learnlanguages #IndigenousLanguages Faculty of Arts Indigenous Knowledge Institute

1/5 Preprint alert – horn tootin time! Proud to present two megaprojects: the end product of 6 years of work on melodies and scales. One comparison of theories of the evolution of scales using global scale data. One on cross-cultural constraints on melodies and scale size.

We’re hiring! Two exciting opportunities are now open at CIEHF's ANU Node: 1️⃣ Research Fellow - Focused on palaeoecology and field-based research, working closely with Indigenous communities. 2️⃣ Research Officer - Supporting our mission to bring together Indigenous and Western

Here are six words for sister in six Indigenous languages. Listen and learn at the 50 Words Project link below. 50words.online/languages #learnlanguages #IndigenousLanguages Faculty of Arts Indigenous Knowledge Institute

And the 2024 PNG field school being led by ECDI’s Ben Shaw and Bethwyn Evans has begun!

A disproportionately large number of the world's languages are endemic to islands, but other aspects of language diversity don't conform to predictions of island biogeography theory, finds a NatureEcoEvo paper from Bromham et al nature.com/articles/s4155… rdcu.be/dS4Bm

Our team at iacs.sunysb (Margaret Schedel Owen Rambow) got a grant to study creativity!! 🥳 We're hiring a postdoc to start on 1-1-25 w/deadline of 11-15-24. Great salary near NYC. Brief description, w/official listing soon: bit.ly/creativity_dyn… 📨 Cultural Evolution Society CogSci Society

Language diversity is facing a global crisis, just like biodiversity. Can methods from biology help us understand patterns of language loss? Join this online seminar to see: Interdisciplinary approaches to understanding language endangerment on 11 Sep cassyni.com/events/3g43LqZ…