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Maisy Hallam
@maisyhallam.bsky.social
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Little but fierce. PhD student in the Centre for Language Evolution (Edinburgh) studying the evolution of structure in kinship terminology. she/her
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Maisy Hallam @maisyhallam.bsky.social · 7d
New paper in @openmindjournal.bsky.social with @simonkirby.bsky.social, @kennysmithed.bsky.social and Fiona Jordan! Kinship terms overwhelmingly exhibit predictive structure - terms in one part of the system help us predict other terms - a pattern which emerges because it helps us generalise better.
Predictive Structure Emerges During the Generalisation of Kin Terms to New Referents
Abstract. Despite cross-linguistic diversity in how kin relations map to terminology, there are constraints on which kin may be categorised together. But what are the constraints on kin term variation...
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Maisy Hallam @maisyhallam.bsky.social · Jul 31
If you like semantic category systems and efficiency biases, come say hi at #CogSci2025!

Efficient communication drives the semantic structure of kinship terminology (P3-H-71, Friday 2 Aug @ 13:00)
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Centre for Language Evolution @uoe-cle.bsky.social · Jul 25
Languages differ dramatically in how they categorise family members - what drives this semantic variation? For 1215 languages, our computational model reveals a hierarchy of semantic features for kinship, suggesting that kin term semantics are optimised for efficient communication. (8/)
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Centre for Language Evolution @uoe-cle.bsky.social · Jun 30
Join us at the National Museum of Scotland July 19th to learn about animal communication and what makes human communication different from the rest of our primate family! 🐵 www.nms.ac.uk/events/monke...
A blonde woman in a grey t-shirt and a brunette woman in a red vest sit at a table. Both are smiling. On the table there is a plush monkey toy, a blue tray, and a green vine.
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CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @cosmicrami.com · Dec 12
This comic is attacking me personally.

via @phdcomics.bsky.social and with Alt-text.
comic with top sentence: "I'm done with experiments" and bottom sentence "Well, there's one more, but then i'll be done." Two arrows on either side, one pointing up the other down form a loop motion. A label at the bottom says "The last three years of your P.h.D.
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Dr Kathleen Neal @kbneal.bsky.social · Dec 4
This, from a country whose economy has, for more than 20 years, been substantially subsidised by the benefits flowing from connection to a major movie franchise associated with a piece of fantasy literature...
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Associate Professor Siouxsie Wiles @siouxsiew.bsky.social · Dec 4
This statement in particular is horrifying and clearly not true: “Real impact on our economy will come from areas such as physics, chemistry, maths, engineering and biomedical sciences.”
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seven rasmussen @sevenrasmussen.com · Nov 30
can I code fast? no. but can I code well? also no. but does my code work? alas, no
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Maisy Hallam @maisyhallam.bsky.social · Nov 30
a ph-tea!!! i know the true meaning of research envy in this moment.
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Catherine Sheard @sheardcat.bsky.social · Oct 29
Fully-funded PhD position available on the cultural evolution of tea!

With me, Sabine Parrish, and David Burslem at the University of Aberdeen (🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿), come combine anthropology and biology to think about why people drink tea and how that may change in the future.

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People and tea: past, present, and future at University of Aberdeen on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - People and tea: past, present, and future at University of Aberdeen , listed on FindAPhD.com
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