laserhedvig.bsky.social
@laserhedvig.bsky.social
researcher at DLCE, MPI-EVA, Leipzig, Germany.
personal website: https://sites.google.com/site/hedvigskirgard/home
#rstats tumblr: https://hedvigsr.tumblr.com
Maps of Oceania Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2115775865310795
personal website: https://sites.google.com/site/hedvigskirgard/home
#rstats tumblr: https://hedvigsr.tumblr.com
Maps of Oceania Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2115775865310795
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Who wants to be the new professor for general #linguistics in Cologne? 👀
ifl.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/sites/lingui...
ifl.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/sites/lingui...
ifl.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de
November 26, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Who wants to be the new professor for general #linguistics in Cologne? 👀
ifl.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/sites/lingui...
ifl.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/sites/lingui...
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Fun #linguistic fact for World Linguistics Day:
If North America had the same linguistic diversity as New Guinea we’d expect Indigenous Americans to speak ~28,000 languages.
If North America had the same linguistic diversity as New Guinea we’d expect Indigenous Americans to speak ~28,000 languages.
November 26, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Fun #linguistic fact for World Linguistics Day:
If North America had the same linguistic diversity as New Guinea we’d expect Indigenous Americans to speak ~28,000 languages.
If North America had the same linguistic diversity as New Guinea we’d expect Indigenous Americans to speak ~28,000 languages.
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Innovations in Linguistics Education is a new Diamond Open Access journal, is dedicated to the teaching of linguistics.
journals.ed.ac.uk/innovations
I'm really excited to see a new journal in this space!
journals.ed.ac.uk/innovations
I'm really excited to see a new journal in this space!
Innovations in Linguistics Education
journals.ed.ac.uk
November 25, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Innovations in Linguistics Education is a new Diamond Open Access journal, is dedicated to the teaching of linguistics.
journals.ed.ac.uk/innovations
I'm really excited to see a new journal in this space!
journals.ed.ac.uk/innovations
I'm really excited to see a new journal in this space!
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Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪
November 22, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪
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Am 27 weeks pregnant and have the actual real-life flu and it is *horrendous*. Nurse just told me it would be so much worse if I hadn't got the flu booster a few months ago. 😱
Get vaccinated folks.💪💉
Get vaccinated folks.💪💉
November 21, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Am 27 weeks pregnant and have the actual real-life flu and it is *horrendous*. Nurse just told me it would be so much worse if I hadn't got the flu booster a few months ago. 😱
Get vaccinated folks.💪💉
Get vaccinated folks.💪💉
If you're thinking of a career in #academia, in any field, you should take some time to learn about the practical landscape of it as a workplace. One way of doing that is to read survey reports of employee well-being etc, here is one of postdocs in @maxplanck.de
www.postdocnet.mpg.de/214512/2024-...
www.postdocnet.mpg.de/214512/2024-...
November 18, 2025 at 10:58 AM
If you're thinking of a career in #academia, in any field, you should take some time to learn about the practical landscape of it as a workplace. One way of doing that is to read survey reports of employee well-being etc, here is one of postdocs in @maxplanck.de
www.postdocnet.mpg.de/214512/2024-...
www.postdocnet.mpg.de/214512/2024-...
Today, we published a paper on the strength of language universals (if language has X, it also has Y) given spatial & phylogenetic autocorrelation in @nathumbehav.nature.com ! It is a cool research project, led by the brilliant Annemarie Verkerk at @uni-saarland.de
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Enduring constraints on grammar revealed by Bayesian spatiophylogenetic analyses - Nature Human Behaviour
Despite their great diversity, human languages are shaped by recurring grammatical universals. Verkerk et al. show that about one-third of the proposed universals hold cross-linguistically through ana...
www.nature.com
November 17, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Today, we published a paper on the strength of language universals (if language has X, it also has Y) given spatial & phylogenetic autocorrelation in @nathumbehav.nature.com ! It is a cool research project, led by the brilliant Annemarie Verkerk at @uni-saarland.de
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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A really interesting online talk in our research colloquium on eye-tracking experiments with Northern Khanty speakers!
On Monday, 17 November, at 14:15–15:45 CET, Sofya Ganieva (University of Zurich) will give a talk on Planning passive sentences in a passivizing language based on her eye-tracking experiments with Northern Khanty speakers. The Zoom link is here: www.finnougristik.uni-muenchen.de/forschungssc...
November 15, 2025 at 10:16 AM
A really interesting online talk in our research colloquium on eye-tracking experiments with Northern Khanty speakers!
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Sometimes scientific papers surprise you. Info on new papers will appear below :)
We have identified that non-hum animals struggle with remembering and using sequential information, in general. (See e.g. this TiCS paper and references therein: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...) 1/n
We have identified that non-hum animals struggle with remembering and using sequential information, in general. (See e.g. this TiCS paper and references therein: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...) 1/n
A sequence bottleneck for animal intelligence and language?
We discuss recent findings suggesting that non-human animals lack memory for stimulus sequences, and therefore do not represent the order of stimuli f…
www.sciencedirect.com
November 13, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Sometimes scientific papers surprise you. Info on new papers will appear below :)
We have identified that non-hum animals struggle with remembering and using sequential information, in general. (See e.g. this TiCS paper and references therein: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...) 1/n
We have identified that non-hum animals struggle with remembering and using sequential information, in general. (See e.g. this TiCS paper and references therein: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...) 1/n
Highlighting a nice paper on interdisciplinary methods exchange. We should always scrutinise the assumptions of the methods, even internally within the same discipline.
Leino, U., Syrjänen, K., & Vesakoski, O. (2020). Linguistic change and biological evolution. cris.tuni.fi/ws/portalfil...
Leino, U., Syrjänen, K., & Vesakoski, O. (2020). Linguistic change and biological evolution. cris.tuni.fi/ws/portalfil...
November 11, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Highlighting a nice paper on interdisciplinary methods exchange. We should always scrutinise the assumptions of the methods, even internally within the same discipline.
Leino, U., Syrjänen, K., & Vesakoski, O. (2020). Linguistic change and biological evolution. cris.tuni.fi/ws/portalfil...
Leino, U., Syrjänen, K., & Vesakoski, O. (2020). Linguistic change and biological evolution. cris.tuni.fi/ws/portalfil...
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Cool new paper (and a thread about it) by @babeheim.bsky.social on the cultural evolution of Go games! Check out these colourful decision trees 🔥 doi.org/10.1017/ehs....
September 16, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Cool new paper (and a thread about it) by @babeheim.bsky.social on the cultural evolution of Go games! Check out these colourful decision trees 🔥 doi.org/10.1017/ehs....
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Postdoc in #sociolinguistics jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...
Postdoctoral position in Sociolinguistics at TRANSITION – Center for Changing Urban and Rural Lives (Center of Excellence), University of Copenhagen
jobportal.ku.dk
October 15, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Postdoc in #sociolinguistics jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...
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New paper out in the Journal of Language Evolution, with @bonniemclean.bsky.social and Chieh-Hsi Wu: “Combined lexical and phonotactic data resolves uncertainties in the evolutionary diversification of the Japonic language family” doi.org/10.1093/jole...
Summary below🧵1/8
Summary below🧵1/8
Combined lexical and phonotactic data resolve uncertainties in the evolutionary diversification of the Japonic language family
Abstract. The use of phylogenetic methods in linguistics has provided new insights into the structure, age, and spread of language families. Despite increa
doi.org
October 16, 2025 at 5:57 AM
New paper out in the Journal of Language Evolution, with @bonniemclean.bsky.social and Chieh-Hsi Wu: “Combined lexical and phonotactic data resolves uncertainties in the evolutionary diversification of the Japonic language family” doi.org/10.1093/jole...
Summary below🧵1/8
Summary below🧵1/8
is there an "evolutionary linguistics" feed on Bluesky? I was thinking like a mix of linguistic typology, historical linguistics, data science and such.
October 13, 2025 at 6:57 AM
is there an "evolutionary linguistics" feed on Bluesky? I was thinking like a mix of linguistic typology, historical linguistics, data science and such.
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The #MaxPlanckPostdocProgram offers a guaranteed contract of at least 3 years, targeted mentoring, and career workshops. The call for applications is open now! 🚀 Take advantage of this opportunity and browse the job vacancies. www.mpg.de/en/max-planc...
September 1, 2025 at 8:46 AM
The #MaxPlanckPostdocProgram offers a guaranteed contract of at least 3 years, targeted mentoring, and career workshops. The call for applications is open now! 🚀 Take advantage of this opportunity and browse the job vacancies. www.mpg.de/en/max-planc...
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Any student heading out to do fieldwork on an endangered language should read this first (by Lise M. Dobrin and Don Kulick) - a good vaccination against saviour complexes.
linguisticanthropology.org/blog/2025/08...
linguisticanthropology.org/blog/2025/08...
August 9, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Any student heading out to do fieldwork on an endangered language should read this first (by Lise M. Dobrin and Don Kulick) - a good vaccination against saviour complexes.
linguisticanthropology.org/blog/2025/08...
linguisticanthropology.org/blog/2025/08...
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TL;DR: AI is so much dumber than you think, aka it is not actually „intelligent“ at all, it can‘t remotely do what most people seem to think it already can, it‘s just good at faking human „thinking“. There is no ghost in the machine. Please stop falling for the grift.
🚨Our paper `Reclaiming AI as a theoretical tool for cognitive science' is now forthcoming in the journal Computational Brain & Behaviour. (Preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...)
Below a thread summary 🧵1/n
#metatheory #AGI #AIhype #cogsci #theoreticalpsych #criticalAIliteracy
Below a thread summary 🧵1/n
#metatheory #AGI #AIhype #cogsci #theoreticalpsych #criticalAIliteracy
May 18, 2025 at 3:53 PM
TL;DR: AI is so much dumber than you think, aka it is not actually „intelligent“ at all, it can‘t remotely do what most people seem to think it already can, it‘s just good at faking human „thinking“. There is no ghost in the machine. Please stop falling for the grift.
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Over 100,000 people are marching through The Hague against Israel's war on Gaza.
Wearing red clothing and forming a line, they are demanding the government draw a red line in its stance against Israel.
It's the largest protest in the Netherlands in 20 years.
Wearing red clothing and forming a line, they are demanding the government draw a red line in its stance against Israel.
It's the largest protest in the Netherlands in 20 years.
May 18, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Over 100,000 people are marching through The Hague against Israel's war on Gaza.
Wearing red clothing and forming a line, they are demanding the government draw a red line in its stance against Israel.
It's the largest protest in the Netherlands in 20 years.
Wearing red clothing and forming a line, they are demanding the government draw a red line in its stance against Israel.
It's the largest protest in the Netherlands in 20 years.
@hahauenstein.bsky.social hi! do you have an RSS url foe your podcast nullpunkt? I'm struggling to find it
May 11, 2025 at 4:58 PM
@hahauenstein.bsky.social hi! do you have an RSS url foe your podcast nullpunkt? I'm struggling to find it
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there's a saying "if something is broken, let it break". It's a shame sometimes that you can't let that happen, because it'd be breaking ON you
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February 7, 2025 at 9:25 PM
there's a saying "if something is broken, let it break". It's a shame sometimes that you can't let that happen, because it'd be breaking ON you
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Hi Australian Researchers. I have a plan. Let's thank the amazing @arc-tracker.bsky.social for a decade of selfless work by nominating them for a Eureka Prize (Leadership in science). Are you with me? If so, repost this. Please also reply and state your support for this quest. We can do this people.
February 4, 2025 at 6:12 AM
Hi Australian Researchers. I have a plan. Let's thank the amazing @arc-tracker.bsky.social for a decade of selfless work by nominating them for a Eureka Prize (Leadership in science). Are you with me? If so, repost this. Please also reply and state your support for this quest. We can do this people.
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Our current system is deeply unfair, a Vice-Chancellor’s remuneration is nearly 15 times larger than the pay for an average worker and more than 84 times more than Youth Allowance, it’s time to fix it.
The high pay for Vice-Chancellors does not deliver better outcomes for students
Australia's university vice-chancellors are among the highest paid in the world, and yet all that money does not deliver better outcomes for students.
australiainstitute.org.au
January 30, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Our current system is deeply unfair, a Vice-Chancellor’s remuneration is nearly 15 times larger than the pay for an average worker and more than 84 times more than Youth Allowance, it’s time to fix it.
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Reannouncing this, having got our New Investigator Petr's affilliation wrong in the first post! 😣 @ehbea2025.bsky.social #EHBEA2025
January 16, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Reannouncing this, having got our New Investigator Petr's affilliation wrong in the first post! 😣 @ehbea2025.bsky.social #EHBEA2025
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Fully funded 4-year PhD with me at VU Amsterdam #emca workingat.vu.nl/vacancies/ph...
Vacancy — PhD position: Recording in social interaction
Are you looking for a PhD position in the field of communication? Do you have a background in conversation analysis, interactional-, or sociolinguistics? Are you fascinated by the impact of smartphone...
workingat.vu.nl
January 28, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Fully funded 4-year PhD with me at VU Amsterdam #emca workingat.vu.nl/vacancies/ph...