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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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Aislinn Keogh @mandolinguist.bsky.social · 9d

Just to be the exception to this, my husband and I originally got together (when I was 26 and he was 30) by me telling him "I fancy you". You just gotta lay it out very explicitly for some folks, y'know 🤣

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Cultural Evolution Society @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social · 25d

The count down starts for #CESRabat! Follow @ces2026.bsky.social and join us May 11-13 next year for an exciting meeting in Rabat, Morocco.

Massive thanks to the #CESRabat organising committee:
Sarah Alami (co-chair)
Mathieu Charbonneau (co-chair)
Zachary Garfield
Edmond Seabright

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Aislinn Keogh @mandolinguist.bsky.social · 26d

Durham's Dunagree Lab continues to be the most wonderful workplace. Thank you to @sheinalew.bsky.social, @chimpanzeve.bsky.social, @fhillemann.bsky.social, @amandinevisine.bsky.social and others not on Bluesky for the surprise baby shower today 🥹

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Sheina Lew-Levy @sheinalew.bsky.social · 27d

@durhampsych.bsky.social current has 5 (FIVE!!) PhD studentships being advertised!

3 to work with me on children as agents of cultural evolution

2 to work with @drboothroyd.bsky.social on examining school-based body image interventions.

Please share and apply!

www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...

Fees and Funding - Durham University

www.durham.ac.uk

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Maryellen MacDonald @maryellenmacdonald.bsky.social · Sep 2

Aislinn Keogh @mandolinguist.bsky.social gave my new book to her mother to help her understand some of Aislinn's research area. Her mother is in a book-crochet group; she loved the book so much that she made a blanket (aka granny) square inspired by the book cover! This is so fantastic and touching!

Two part photo showing the book cover for More Than Words on the left and a crocheted square on the right that was inspired by the book.

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Aislinn Keogh @mandolinguist.bsky.social · Aug 20

Oh good, my preprint from nearly a year ago that had still not been post-moderated has now disappeared 🙃

Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS) @improvingpsych.org · Aug 19

Due to a recent influx of problematic submissions, PsyArXiv has switched to pre-moderating its content. If your submitted preprint had not yet been approved, it will be temporarily inaccessible to the public (you can still view your preprint when logged into your OSF account). #PsychSciSky

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Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics @mpi-nl.bsky.social · Jul 21

How does speaking a free word order language influence sentence planning and production? Evidence from Pitjantjatjara (Pama‐Nyungan, Australia). New paper by Evan Kidd & al. with Gabriela Garrido Rodríguez
doi.org/10.1111/cogs.70087

How Does Speaking A Free Word Order Language Influence Sentence Planning and Production? Evidence From Pitjantjatjara (Pama‐Nyungan, Australia)

Sentence production is a stage-like process of mapping a conceptual representation to the linear speech signal via grammatical rules. While the typological diversity of languages is vast and thus mus...

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Dorsa Amir @dorsaamir.bsky.social · Jul 19

This was such a fun conversation about childhood, play, and agency across cultures. Thanks for having @sheinalew.bsky.social & I on the show!

Many Minds podcast @manymindspod.bsky.social · Jul 17

New episode!! 🎙️📣

A chat w/ @sheinalew.bsky.social & @dorsaamir.bsky.social about childhood across cultures.

Humans everywhere go through childhood—a time of learning, growth, and play. But this universal stage of life can look very different in different places.

Listen: disi.org/varieties-of...

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Limor Raviv 🐘🤗🦒🍄🦄 @limorraviv.bsky.social · Jul 14

I am advertising 2 positions in language evolution with my group at ‪‪@dondersinst.bsky.social:
📢 Fully-funded PhD position (Robotics/AI 🤖) www.ru.nl/en/working-a...
📢 Postdoc position (Virtual Reality 🎮)
www.ru.nl/en/working-a...
Deadline for applications is August 14th. Please RT! :)

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Aislinn Keogh @mandolinguist.bsky.social · Jul 15

Oh boy, me too

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Aislinn Keogh @mandolinguist.bsky.social · Jul 7

Introducing Dr Keogh! 🎓 Very emotional to have finally closed the chapter on my time at the @uoe-cle.bsky.social 😭 but glad to have passed this milestone in the company of my wonderful supervisors @simonkirby.bsky.social and Jenny Culbertson, and my PhD twin Elizabeth Pankratz. We made it!

#PhDone

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Aislinn Keogh @mandolinguist.bsky.social · Jun 30

Me and @maisyhallam.bsky.social had fun at the museum yesterday! 😄🐒

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...

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michael chimento @mchimento.bsky.social · Jun 12

been a long time coming, there's now a preprint along with Will Hoppitt describing our new R package for creating, fitting and interpreting bayesian NBDA models (STBayes). www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1.... Documentation is here michaelchimento.github.io/STbayes/inde...

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Aislinn Keogh @mandolinguist.bsky.social · Jun 12

Honestly the concussions example is getting weirder the longer I look at it 😂

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Aislinn Keogh @mandolinguist.bsky.social · Jun 12

I thought the point of the Russia example was that people find it grammatical but it's weird because it doesn't actually mean anything. Whereas this example seems semantically coherent: doctors wouldn't mind if I'd had e.g. 2 concussions, but I've actually had 3+.

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Aislinn Keogh @mandolinguist.bsky.social · Jun 12

The Edinburgh-Durham commute certainly has its advantages 😍

The view from a train window, looking out over a stone wall, grassy hill and small rocky crag to a calm sea. It's sunny and there's a few wispy clouds.

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Cedric Boeckx @cedricboeckx.bsky.social · May 27

Delighted to announce the publication of a collaborative effort, co-led by @limorraviv.bsky.social @mpi-nl.bsky.social, showcasing the ways in which researchers have made language evolution an empirical issue: A handbook of experimental approaches to the fascinating problem of language evolution 🧪

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Aislinn Keogh @mandolinguist.bsky.social · May 18

Very cool to have been involved with this, such a great opportunity to learn about contributing to open source software! ⌨️

jsPsych @jspsych.org · May 15

That's a wrap on our first ever hackathon! Thanks to all of the wonderful people who attended. Lots of amazing projects and collaborations got started. 🥳

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Limor Raviv 🐘🤗🦒🍄🦄 @limorraviv.bsky.social · Apr 30

Interested in the evolution of human language and in understanding the pressures that shape languages today? Come do a PhD with me! Fully funded PhD position available in my group @mpi-nl.bsky.social, application deadline June 2nd:
www.mpi.nl/career-educa...

Fully funded 4-year PhD position in Language Evolution | Max Planck InstituteMax Planck Institute for psycholinguistics

www.mpi.nl

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Andrew Smith @andrewdmsmith.bsky.social · Apr 18

Semantic extension in an artificial language experiment: participants conventionalise novel labels, then extend them to convey new meanings (metonymically and metaphorically) based on salient shared associations.

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

Semantic extension in a novel communication system is facilitated by salient shared associations

Creative processes of semantic extension play a key role in language change, grammaticalisation, and (by hypothesis) the early origins and evolution o…

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Simon J. Greenhill @simongreenhill.bsky.social · Mar 24

Two Fully-Funded PhD positions at Auckland Uni!

Come help us understand the past and future of global cultural and linguistic diversity.

#linguistics #evolution #academia #phd

www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

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Aislinn Keogh @mandolinguist.bsky.social · Apr 8

Probably the best way I could think of to make this announcement: super excited to be joining Durham Uni in June as a postdoc/modeller on @sheinalew.bsky.social's new ERC grant, Children as Agents of Cultural Evolution. Looks like I'm going to fit right in 😍 #DungareeLab

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Dr Eve Holden (she/her) @chimpanzeve.bsky.social · Apr 8

If you were to think up the perfect lab for me to be in, this is the one! #TeamDungarees

No memo necessary, all the in-person lab yday arrived in overalls for our newest member's visit

@sheinalew.bsky.social @mandolinguist.bsky.social

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Ellen Garland @ellengarland.bsky.social · Mar 26

🐳 UPCOMING BOOK ALERT 🐬
The Evolution of Cetacean Societies

Edited by @darrencroft.bsky.social @andrewfoote.bsky.social @stephanielking.bsky.social and myself

Preorder available now
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

#whale #dolphin #animalbehaviour

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Timo B. Roettger @timoroettger.bsky.social · Mar 20

🚨🚨🚨 I'm hiring a Postdoc for a 3-year position to come work with me at the University of Oslo using iterative learning experiments to understand the evolution of sound symbolism. Please share widely.

🔴 Deadline is May 31st '25
⏲️ Desired starting date is Fall '25

shorturl.at/vSTZx

Postdoctoral Research Fellow connected to "ICONIC" (277523) | University of Oslo

Job title: Postdoctoral Research Fellow connected to "ICONIC" (277523), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Saturday, May 31, 2025

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