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Niklas Erben Johansson

@iconiklas.bsky.social

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A linguist who likes cognitive biases, iconicity, typology and maps

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Amanda Sokolnicki @amandasokolnicki.bsky.social · 2d

Vad bra Moderaterna mår. (Återigen: Underlaget jag skriver utifrån är alltså officiell SCB-statistik!)

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Joni Askola @joniaskola.bsky.social · 5d

Stephen Miller is one of the most dangerous and dishonest men in the world.

He holds far too much power for an unelected bureaucrat and uses it to push the United States toward a fascist dictatorship

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DG MEME @ecmemes.bsky.social · 8d

One defends Europe, the other defrauds it.
One faced bullets, the other trials.

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DG MEME @ecmemes.bsky.social · 10d

We were wondering...

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Johan Wicklén @johanwicklen.bsky.social · 10d

Visst, han predikade att man ska slå ”olydiga kvinnor”, men han var också under tidspress.

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Amanda Sokolnicki @amandasokolnicki.bsky.social · 13d

Göran Perssons bufflighet ansågs vara ett stort imageproblem, och Magdalena Andersson har tagit fram ett helt nytt sätt att prata – allt för att inte framstå som bossig. Men Ulf Kristersson? Hans strateger verkar se arrogansen som en tillgång. www.dn.se/ledare/amand...

Amanda Sokolnicki: Ulf Kristersson framstår svag – och kompenserar med arrogans

Tidigare statsministrar har försökt dölja sina nonchalanta drag. Ulf Kristersson verkar i stället vilja bygga sin valstrategi på dem.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 23d

Education is the enemy of fascism.

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Riccardo Fusaroli @fusaroli.bsky.social · 24d

Why does Western Paleolithic cave art strongly prefer animal side views and often use abbreviations? Our new paper in Topics in Cognitive Science challenges long-held assumptions about these artistic choices using cognitive science experiments. A thread 1/n
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Neil Renic @ncrenic.bsky.social · 26d

No wonder Musk is impressed, the London march stretched all the way to the Arc de Triomphe

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Amanda Sokolnicki @amandasokolnicki.bsky.social · 27d

Alla Tidöpartier har förstått att det nu är var man för sig själv fram till valet. Ja, förutom L – som satsar allt på en strategi som bygger på ett väldigt jämnt valresultat.

www.dn.se/ledare/marti...

Martin Liby Troein: Busch har fattat vart Tidöpartierna är på väg – L kör på som om inget hänt

KD-ledaren, Sverigedemokraterna – ja till och med Moderaterna – bråkar nu öppet med kollegorna. Bara Liberalerna sätter laget framför jaget.

www.dn.se

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Buddhika Bellana @buddhikabellana.bsky.social · Sep 5

How might stories shed light on brain function? Check out this opinion piece by @alexbarnett.bsky.social and I about the DMN and "situation models" -- our understanding of the current "state of affairs" in a story (or even experience).

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

On the left: an illustration from Brooke's 1904 rendition of Goldilocks and the Three Bears, where Little bear discovers their favourite chair is broken 😲. On the right, a sketch of what a corresponding "situation model" might contain.

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Amanda Sokolnicki @amandasokolnicki.bsky.social · Sep 3

Vad bra det går med charaden om SD:s ”öppna” nationalism. www.dn.se/ledare/i-sds...

Ledare: I SD:s Sverige kan invandrare fortfarande inte bli svenskar

SD säger sig stå för en öppen nationalism. Samtidigt är de besatta av politikers bakgrund.

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Simon J. Greenhill @simongreenhill.bsky.social · Sep 3

The Sudden Surges That Forge Evolutionary Trees
www.quantamagazine.org/the-sudden-s...

The Sudden Surges That Forge Evolutionary Trees | Quanta Magazine

An updated evolutionary model shows that living systems evolve in a split-and-hit-the-gas dynamic, where new lineages appear in sudden bursts rather than during a long marathon of gradual changes.

www.quantamagazine.org

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Matthew Scarborough 𓀀 @mattitiahu.bsky.social · Sep 2

Just about ten years now in the making: The IE-CoR database paper has finally been published.

C. Anderson, M. Scarborough, [ ... 96 further authors ... ], R. Gray & P. Heggarty. 2025. The Indo-European Cognate Relationships Dataset. Scientific Data 12:1541.

The Indo-European Cognate Relationships dataset - Scientific Data

Scientific Data - The Indo-European Cognate Relationships dataset

www.nature.com

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Anna Ekström @annaekstrom.bsky.social · Sep 1

Om ni undrar varför inga andra länder har inspirerats av det svenska skolmarknadsexperimentet:
www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/mP...

Vill snåla på Bregott åt barnen – förskoleägarna tar ut 64,5 miljoner i vinst

Hagvidson är en av de snabbast växande och mest lönsamma förskolekoncernerna. Men trots mångmiljonvinster kräver man ransonering av smör och pålägg för barnen.

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Kentaro K. Shimizu @kkshimizu1.bsky.social · Aug 29

New paper out in Science Advances!
We studied language & genetic evolution using the GeLaTo database—focusing on burrowing and schismogenesis.
Link: doi.org/10.1126/scia...

Special thanks to @chiarabarbieri.bsky.social @annagraff.bsky.social @balthasarbickel.bsky.social @nccrlanguage.bsky.social

Patterns of genetic admixture reveal similar rates of borrowing across diverse scenarios of language contact

Human population contact leads to consistently similar rates of linguistic borrowing, but effects vary across linguistic features.

www.science.org

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Simon J. Greenhill @simongreenhill.bsky.social · Aug 26

A study of 48 languages shows "fundamental stability" in intonation units across languages, people, age groups suggesting these play a central role in structuring human communication.

"A universal of speech timing: Intonation units form low-frequency rhythms"

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

A universal of speech timing: Intonation units form low-frequency rhythms | PNAS

Intonation units (IUs) are a hypothesized universal building block of human speech [W. Chafe, Discourse, Consciousness and Time: The Flow and Displ...

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Bodo Winter @bodowinter.bsky.social · Aug 15

Super excited to share our new multimodal corpus analysis, "Iconic Words Are Associated With Iconic Gestures" 🥳

Project led by our PhD student Ell Wilding and in collab w/ @jeannettel.bsky.social & @mperlman.bsky.social:

doi.org/10.1111/cogs...

Iconic Words Are Associated With Iconic Gestures

Iconicity ratings studies have established that there are many English words which native speakers judge as “iconic,” that is, as sounding like what they mean. Here, we explore whether these iconic E...

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Amanda Sokolnicki @amandasokolnicki.bsky.social · Aug 12

Minns ni när Fridolin tyckte att hans regerings politik var ”skit” – och KD och M förklarade hur lite förtroende det ingav för regeringen?

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Aleksandra Ćwiek @acwiek.bsky.social · Aug 11

What a pleasure it was to join the Across Acoustics podcast by Kat Setzer from @asa-news.bsky.social together with @susfuchs.bsky.social
We talked about our special issue on #iconicity and #sound #symbolism. It was lots of fun! Listen here:
www.buzzsprout.com/1537384/epis...
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#linguistics

Iconicity and Sound Symbolism - Across Acoustics

For a long time, it was believed that words were mostly arbitrary symbols. However, with advances in our ability to study speech, it has become clear that we must reconsider the fundamental relationsh...

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jacob 🍋 @jacob.flamman.se · Jul 10

Riksdagsledamoten Lars Beckman (M) anklagar "Bonnier News ägda medier" för att driva kampanj mot Johan Forssell (och passar även på att ljuga om deras källor)

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Patrik Oksanen @patrikoksanen.bsky.social · Jul 5

France 24 har varit i Sverige för ett längre reportage om Moskvapatriarkatet, och har även varit på besök i kyrkan i Västerås. Jag är intervjuad. www.france24.com/en/europe/20...

The church by the airport: Inside Russia’s suspected spy activities in Sweden

Just about everything about the onion-domed Russian Orthodox church near the otherwise unassuming Swedish city of Vasteras seems odd: its close proximity to the airport, its taller-than-planned spire,...

www.france24.com

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Michael Pleyer @symbolicstorage.bsky.social · Jun 25

🚨New Publication Alert!🚨
@thematzing.bsky.social‬ and I have written a little review of " #Language Evolution as an Interdisciplinary and Integrative Research Field."
Out now in "Contemporary #Linguistics: Integrating Languages, Communities, and Technologies" brill.com/display/book...

Chapter 19 Language Evolution as an Interdisciplinary and Integrative Research Field
In: Contemporary Linguistics: Integrating Languages, Communities, and Technologies
Authors: Theresa Matzinger

and Michael Pleyer

Type: Chapter
Pages: 249–264
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004715608_021

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · Jun 25

If you have JD Vance meme on your phone you might be stopped at the US border, held in a cell, strip-searched and sent home

www.dublinlive.ie/news/world-n...

Man 'refused entry into US' as border control catch him with bald JD Vance meme

A 21-year-old tourist has described the horrendous treatment he allegedly received after being denied entry to the USA due to a meme depicting JD Vance as bald being found on his phone

www.dublinlive.ie

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Kiran Basava @incertaesedis.bsky.social · Jun 22

Happy to share our new paper introducing the Animal Culture Database in Scientific Data: We’re putting together a resource consolidating primary research on cultural behaviors in wild animal populations and how they’re affected by human activity (1/5) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Mapping nonhuman cultures with the Animal Culture Database - Scientific Data

Scientific Data - Mapping nonhuman cultures with the Animal Culture Database

www.nature.com

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Mark Dingemanse @dingemansemark.bsky.social · Jun 20

Straight to the top of my reading pile: Some of my favourite linguists @superlinguo.bsky.social, Hildebrandt & @suzyjstyles.bsky.social with a new paper on spontaneous multimodal iconicity in earthquake narratives doi.org/10.1080/0726... #iconicity #ideophones

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Bodo Winter @bodowinter.bsky.social · Jun 17

Super proud of my first Cambridge Elements, joint work with my long-term collaborator Francesca Strik-Lievers: "Linguistic Synesthesia: A Meta-Analysis"

www.cambridge.org/core/elements/abs/linguistic-synesthesia/C6B019926C53001D1D698CB0C46F80C6/

Quick summary of the take home message in thread ⬇️

Linguistic Synesthesia

Cambridge Core - Cognition - Linguistic Synesthesia

www.cambridge.org

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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · Jun 17

What’s common knowledge in your field but shocks outsiders?

Not everything you think should be said out loud.

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Karen Emmorey @kemmorey.bsky.social · Jun 16

New cool paper with cool people! Overall, we found that sign languages with more users avoid signs that are particularly low in iconicity (a result parallel with spoken languages) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The Relationship Between Community Size and Iconicity in Sign Languages

Communication is harder in larger communities. Past research shows that this leads larger communities to create languages that are easier to learn and use. In particular, previous research suggests t....

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Patrik Oksanen @patrikoksanen.bsky.social · Jun 10

Om man vill förstå vad som eventuellt kan ligga bakom någonting sånt här... så kan man läsa Rysslands hemliga krig mot Sverige i sommar. www.bokus.com/bok/97891796...

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