Simon J. Greenhill
@simongreenhill.bsky.social
I study how languages and cultures evolve. Primarily with phylogenies and other assorted computational methods. Based at @Biology_UoA. Never met a language phylogeny or a cultural phylogeny I didn't like. #phylolinguistics
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Meet the APSPM 2026 organisers: Caroline, Jordan and Ashar. We're 3 ECRs based in Australia/NZ passionate about protein evolution and developing new approaches and applications to advance this exciting field.
biosig.lab.uq.edu.au/strphy26/org...
@official-smbe.bsky.social
biosig.lab.uq.edu.au/strphy26/org...
@official-smbe.bsky.social
February 13, 2026 at 12:12 AM
Meet the APSPM 2026 organisers: Caroline, Jordan and Ashar. We're 3 ECRs based in Australia/NZ passionate about protein evolution and developing new approaches and applications to advance this exciting field.
biosig.lab.uq.edu.au/strphy26/org...
@official-smbe.bsky.social
biosig.lab.uq.edu.au/strphy26/org...
@official-smbe.bsky.social
Don't worry the universities WILL make changes!
MENTAL HEALTH WEBINARS
MENTAL HEALTH WEBINARS
February 12, 2026 at 12:24 PM
Don't worry the universities WILL make changes!
MENTAL HEALTH WEBINARS
MENTAL HEALTH WEBINARS
Good news everyone, I'm proud to announce
February 12, 2026 at 11:42 AM
Good news everyone, I'm proud to announce
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@restofworld.org back on its language journalism!
Google backs African push to reclaim AI language data
A new 21-language data set gives African institutions ownership and control in a field long dominated by Big Tech.
restofworld.org/2026/google-...
#language #diversity #Africa #langsky
A new 21-language data set gives African institutions ownership and control in a field long dominated by Big Tech.
restofworld.org/2026/google-...
#language #diversity #Africa #langsky
Google backs African push to reclaim AI language data
A new 21-language data set gives African institutions ownership and control in a field long dominated by Big Tech.
restofworld.org
February 12, 2026 at 10:19 AM
@restofworld.org back on its language journalism!
82% of Australian university staff are emotionally exhausted. 70% think their uni doesn’t care.
Universities need to do better
Universities need to do better
Australian University Census of Staff Wellbeing is now out - some shocking stats!
Census WEBSITE for more info and full report: stresscafe.net/census/
#AcademicSky #AustralianUnis
Census WEBSITE for more info and full report: stresscafe.net/census/
#AcademicSky #AustralianUnis
February 12, 2026 at 6:43 AM
82% of Australian university staff are emotionally exhausted. 70% think their uni doesn’t care.
Universities need to do better
Universities need to do better
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Happy International Day of Women in Science! #WomenInScience #11February
February 11, 2026 at 8:35 AM
Happy International Day of Women in Science! #WomenInScience #11February
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Let’s celebrate women and girls in scientific research! Often underestimated, women drive research in biomedical sciences both intellectually and at the bench. Research should be a “gender-blind” endeavor, but rarely is. Stop bigotry ! Stop unconscious bias ! Go women & girls!
February 11, 2026 at 8:58 AM
Let’s celebrate women and girls in scientific research! Often underestimated, women drive research in biomedical sciences both intellectually and at the bench. Research should be a “gender-blind” endeavor, but rarely is. Stop bigotry ! Stop unconscious bias ! Go women & girls!
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This study was an amazing collaborative experience. I'm really really grateful to all the wonderful people who contributed and made this happen.
It's the closest I have ever come to finding something like a "universal" in human cognition.
It's the closest I have ever come to finding something like a "universal" in human cognition.
Children around the world process #gaze in similar ways. Large cross-cultural study led by @elmanubohn.bsky.social & @dbmhaun.bsky.social finds common 'processing signature' of gaze following. @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social @leuphana.bsky.social tinyurl.com/278wxka3 & academic.oup.com/chidev/advan...
Children around the world process gaze in similar ways
Large cross-cultural study finds common 'processing signature' of gaze following despite differences in accuracy and development
tinyurl.com
February 9, 2026 at 12:32 PM
This study was an amazing collaborative experience. I'm really really grateful to all the wonderful people who contributed and made this happen.
It's the closest I have ever come to finding something like a "universal" in human cognition.
It's the closest I have ever come to finding something like a "universal" in human cognition.
<1 month later>
UNI ADMIN: Please provide unique project code, your last email went into spam.
UNI ADMIN: Please provide unique project code, your last email went into spam.
February 8, 2026 at 11:23 PM
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Being a professor is like Picture of Dorian Gray except it’s the students who stay young and full of life while you decay year after year in front of them
February 8, 2026 at 1:15 AM
Being a professor is like Picture of Dorian Gray except it’s the students who stay young and full of life while you decay year after year in front of them
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Demonstration of a purely instrument-based analysis of archaeological artifacts (arrowheads), coupled with a Bayesian analysis of phylogeny ... reproduces the classical typology, and much more besides ... osf.io/preprints/so...
OSF
osf.io
February 6, 2026 at 5:19 PM
Demonstration of a purely instrument-based analysis of archaeological artifacts (arrowheads), coupled with a Bayesian analysis of phylogeny ... reproduces the classical typology, and much more besides ... osf.io/preprints/so...
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🗣️ La collection #Pangloss offre, en libre accès, des documents linguistiques sonores, avec une spécialité de langues rares ou peu étudiées.
🎙️Explications avec Alexis Michaud, directeur de recherche CNRS au LACITO, qui assure la gestion de la collection Pangloss ⤵️
www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...
🎙️Explications avec Alexis Michaud, directeur de recherche CNRS au LACITO, qui assure la gestion de la collection Pangloss ⤵️
www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...
La plateforme Pangloss rend accessible en ligne les langues rares
À l'occasion d'une journée d'étude consacrée aux mutations des patrimoines sonores au musée du quai Branly Jacques Chirac, Marie Sorbier s'entretient avec le linguiste Alexis Michaud pour comprendre l...
www.radiofrance.fr
February 6, 2026 at 11:47 AM
🗣️ La collection #Pangloss offre, en libre accès, des documents linguistiques sonores, avec une spécialité de langues rares ou peu étudiées.
🎙️Explications avec Alexis Michaud, directeur de recherche CNRS au LACITO, qui assure la gestion de la collection Pangloss ⤵️
www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...
🎙️Explications avec Alexis Michaud, directeur de recherche CNRS au LACITO, qui assure la gestion de la collection Pangloss ⤵️
www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...
You’re 3?! Oh I’m jealous.
(And yes humans are far better at being awful than animals are)
(And yes humans are far better at being awful than animals are)
February 7, 2026 at 5:55 AM
You’re 3?! Oh I’m jealous.
(And yes humans are far better at being awful than animals are)
(And yes humans are far better at being awful than animals are)
see Erdős-Bacon number. Natalie Portman is a 5
February 7, 2026 at 2:55 AM
see Erdős-Bacon number. Natalie Portman is a 5
Cognitive Science needs an Epstein number so we can track the creeps.
E1 if you hung out with him on the island, E2 if you just let him buy you a lab at MIT…
E1 if you hung out with him on the island, E2 if you just let him buy you a lab at MIT…
Mathematicians track how close they were to the genius Erdős:
If you published with him your Erdős number is 1. If you published with an E1 you are E2, etc
There are databases you can lookup about this (I’m E5)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erd%C5%...
If you published with him your Erdős number is 1. If you published with an E1 you are E2, etc
There are databases you can lookup about this (I’m E5)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erd%C5%...
Erdős number - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erdős_number
February 6, 2026 at 11:55 PM
Cognitive Science needs an Epstein number so we can track the creeps.
E1 if you hung out with him on the island, E2 if you just let him buy you a lab at MIT…
E1 if you hung out with him on the island, E2 if you just let him buy you a lab at MIT…
Mathematicians track how close they were to the genius Erdős:
If you published with him your Erdős number is 1. If you published with an E1 you are E2, etc
There are databases you can lookup about this (I’m E5)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erd%C5%...
If you published with him your Erdős number is 1. If you published with an E1 you are E2, etc
There are databases you can lookup about this (I’m E5)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erd%C5%...
Erdős number - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erdős_number
February 6, 2026 at 11:53 PM
Mathematicians track how close they were to the genius Erdős:
If you published with him your Erdős number is 1. If you published with an E1 you are E2, etc
There are databases you can lookup about this (I’m E5)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erd%C5%...
If you published with him your Erdős number is 1. If you published with an E1 you are E2, etc
There are databases you can lookup about this (I’m E5)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erd%C5%...
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A longstanding feature of language is that more frequent words are shorter than less frequent words. In our latest paper analyzing our corpus of 1000+ comics, we show a similar trade-off between the size and frequency of panels with different amounts of information www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
February 6, 2026 at 1:35 PM
A longstanding feature of language is that more frequent words are shorter than less frequent words. In our latest paper analyzing our corpus of 1000+ comics, we show a similar trade-off between the size and frequency of panels with different amounts of information www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
dont forget his 3 or 4 monographs on barnacles!
February 6, 2026 at 8:34 PM
dont forget his 3 or 4 monographs on barnacles!
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Sorry for the preview pic in your feed, but we've posted a thoughtful story by @dangaristo.bsky.social that delves into the tangled web of relationships between Jeffrey Epstein and various scientists: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Epstein files reveal deeper ties to scientists than previously known
Latest batch of documents show researchers consulting the financier and sex offender on publications, visas and more.
www.nature.com
February 6, 2026 at 8:21 PM
Sorry for the preview pic in your feed, but we've posted a thoughtful story by @dangaristo.bsky.social that delves into the tangled web of relationships between Jeffrey Epstein and various scientists: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
I think it's important to teach functions (code organisation, abstraction, easier testing/abstraction/extension etc.)
I've taught these as a "machine": everytime you insert "a^nb" it produces T. Then you write the machine as a script first, then wrap it as a function.
I've taught these as a "machine": everytime you insert "a^nb" it produces T. Then you write the machine as a script first, then wrap it as a function.
February 5, 2026 at 9:56 PM
I think it's important to teach functions (code organisation, abstraction, easier testing/abstraction/extension etc.)
I've taught these as a "machine": everytime you insert "a^nb" it produces T. Then you write the machine as a script first, then wrap it as a function.
I've taught these as a "machine": everytime you insert "a^nb" it produces T. Then you write the machine as a script first, then wrap it as a function.
(I want to stress that this was exactly how my phone completed that)
February 4, 2026 at 8:50 PM
(I want to stress that this was exactly how my phone completed that)
Yep looks useful
February 4, 2026 at 5:04 PM
Yep looks useful
Agree with you both here. You can make important contributions but still be an evil person. you can’t ignore the contribution and you shouldn’t ignore the shittiness
February 4, 2026 at 2:51 AM
Agree with you both here. You can make important contributions but still be an evil person. you can’t ignore the contribution and you shouldn’t ignore the shittiness
