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NCCR Evolving Language @nccrlanguage.bsky.social · 1d

📍In September, the NCCR Evolving Language welcomed representatives of the SNSF and a panel of international experts for its site visit. Researchers gave presentations and prepared interactive posters on the center's activities and future. Our warmest thanks to all participants!

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NCCR Evolving Language @nccrlanguage.bsky.social · 2d

📰 NCCR members participated to the SNL 2025 conference and organized a follow-up virtual activity on the evolution of language. This was a great introduction to the next edition, which will be held in Geneva from September 30 to October 2, 2026.

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Tightening the relation between the NCCR Evolving Language and the Society for the Neurobiology of Language (SNL) - NCCR Evolving Language

Nina Kazanina, Valentina Borghesani, and Giulia Li Calzi represented the NCCR Evolving Language at the Society for the Neurobiology of Language (SNL) 2025 conference. This was a great introduction to ...

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NCCR Evolving Language @nccrlanguage.bsky.social · 5d

💬“For a long time, I’ve been fascinated by the human capacity for learning” - This year, Lucie Attout joined the University of Geneva and the NCCR Evolving Language as an assistant professor in Psycholinguistics and Speech-Therapy.

👉 More in this interview:

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In search of the strategies behind memory with Prof. Lucie Attout - NCCR Evolving Language

Lucie Attout joined the Faculté de Psychologie et Sciences de l’Education (FAPSE) of the University of Geneva as an assistant professor in Psycholinguistics and Speech-Therapy and the NCCR Evolving La...

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NCCR Evolving Language @nccrlanguage.bsky.social · 8d

📢 Le Prof. Adrian Bangerter (UNINE) propose une conférence sur "Le pouvoir des récits, démocratiques et anti-démocratiques", le lundi 6 octobre (12h30-13h30) dans le cadre de la Semaine de la Démocratie.

📍 Salle MR060, UniMail, Université de Genève

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Le pouvoir des récits, démocratiques et anti-démocratiques - Semaine de la démocratie - NCCR Evolving Language

Offline Le pouvoir des récits, démocratiques et anti-démocratiques – Semaine de la démocratie 6 octobre 2025 @ 12.30h - 13.30h Semaine de la démocratie Adrian Bangerter Salle MR060, UniMail, Universit...

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ReproducibiliTea @reproducibilitea.org · 20d

Join our upcoming webinars “Peer Review and its Diversification”!

📅 15-16 October 2025 on Zoom

👉 Registration: forms.gle/1R4Y3d33W8bQ...

📄 Full programme: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

#PeerReview #PeerReviewWeek #PRW2025 #metasci #academicsky

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Taï Chimpanzee Project @taichimpproject.bsky.social · 10d

Looking for a job in research and conservation? Check out the advert 👇 and apply within the next two-and-a-half weeks.

Taï Chimpanzee Project @taichimpproject.bsky.social · 12d

📢JOB alert📢
Application for the camp manager position at the @taichimpproject.bsky.social is open now. We seek a new camp manager starting on January 1, 2026, for 2+1 years (3rd year optional) working with and for wild chimpanzees in Taï National Park, Côte d'Ivoire.👇

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Moritz M. Daum @moritzdaum.bsky.social · 13d

@rujoanna.bsky.social, Stephanie Wermelinger, and I from @kweltentdeckende.bsky.social share our call for papers for the special issue of @Infant and Child Development on “Capturing the #Diversity in Early #Multilingualism”.

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Infant and Child Development Call for Papers Capturing the Diversity in Early Multilingualism

Infant and Child Development: prenatal, childhood, adolescence, emerging adulthood is a premier developmental science journal for transparent and open research.

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John Mansfield @johnbasil.bsky.social · 9d

Social functions of language may drive faster change and faster diversification in some features.
Thanks to growing diversity in variationst sociolinguistics, I gathered studies of 63 languages from 28 families. Here I sketch some potential patterns
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Linguistic Diversification and Rates of Change: Insights From a Diverse Sample of Sociolinguistic Studies

Language diversification and change can be studied using phylogenetic modelling of families over thousands of years, or by close observation of changes unfolding over a few decades at the community l....

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NCCR Evolving Language @nccrlanguage.bsky.social · 14d

Thank you for your continuous support. It was great to see you! 😊

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Nikki Botting @profnikkibotting.bsky.social · 14d

Great few days in beautiful #neuchatel discussing and evaluating the world leading #language #research from @nccrlanguage.bsky.social - worth a follow 😊

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Brain and Language Lab @brainlanglab.bsky.social · 21d

📰 new paper! lnkd.in/dYdrvZAz, by @irenebalboni.bsky.social , Alessandra Rampinini, @olgakepinska.bsky.social, @berthele.bsky.social, @nargolestani.bsky.social, @nccrlanguage.bsky.social showing the importance of multimodal approaches for uncovering brain-behaviour relationships

This link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn

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NCCR Evolving Language @nccrlanguage.bsky.social · 22d

📍 Morgen Abend spricht Pascale Hatt in der Biberburg (Hirschthal) über „Die Welt der Orcas“. Weitere Informationen finden Sie unter dem Link.

www.biberburg.ch/wp-content/u...

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Chiara Barbieri @chiarabarbieri.bsky.social · Aug 30

A very special paper where we did something NEW! 🔥combining a large genetic dataset 🧬, a large linguistic dataset 💬, and Bayesian multilevel logistic regressions 📈, counting the effects of areal contact (geographic constrains) 🌎. Genetic admixture explains higher levels of linguistic exchanges...

Anna Graff @annagraff.bsky.social · Aug 30

Our paper is out! We linked genetic and linguistic data to study how contact changes language and found consistent patterns of borrowing across contact situations
@balthasarbickel.bsky.social @chiarabarbieri.bsky.social @nccrlanguage.bsky.social @isle-uzh.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adv7521

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.

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NCCR Evolving Language @nccrlanguage.bsky.social · Aug 29

With @chiarabarbieri.bsky.social @annagraff.bsky.social
@balthasarbickel.bsky.social @kkshimizu1.bsky.social Damián E. Blasi, Erik J. Ringen, Vladimir Bajić, Daphné Bavelier, and Brigitte Pakendorf.

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NCCR Evolving Language @nccrlanguage.bsky.social · Aug 29

📰When populations meet, they exchange genes, but also language features. According to a new study by NCCR researchers, contact between human populations increases the resemblance between their languages to similar extents all over the world, but differently.

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Capturing language change through the genes - NCCR Evolving Language

When populations meet, they typically exchange genes. Their languages meet too, and such encounters can change languages. But how much do languages actually change through contact, and do these change...

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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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NCCR Evolving Language @nccrlanguage.bsky.social · Aug 25

Only 3 days left to register for the Crosslinguistic Perspectives on Processing and Learning X-PPL 2025! The event will take place on the 1st and 2nd of September in Zurich.

@isle-uzh.bsky.social

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Crosslinguistic Perspectives on Processing and Learning 1st - 2nd September 2025 | X-PPL 2025

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NCCR Evolving Language @nccrlanguage.bsky.social · Aug 21

📒 PhD Thesis Title: Transferability of Learnt Speech Representations for Decoding Non-Human Vocal Communication

🔗: infoscience.epfl.ch/entities/pub...

Transferability of Learnt Speech Representations for Decoding Non-Human Vocal Communication

Humans and animals both use acoustic signals for vocal communication. The advent of self-supervised learning (SSL) has enabled neural networks to learn robust and general feature representations throu...

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NCCR Evolving Language @nccrlanguage.bsky.social · Aug 21

🙋🐒 Given that both human speech and animal vocalizations are inherently structured signals that encode information, Eklavya's thesis investigates how representations learnt from human speech can be transferable to bioacoustics for analyzing and decoding non-human animal vocalizations.

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NCCR Evolving Language @nccrlanguage.bsky.social · Aug 21

🗣️💻 Humans and animals both use acoustic signals for vocal communication. The advent of self-supervised machine learning has enabled neural networks to learn robust and general feature representations through the intrinsic acoustic structure of input signals, without prior knowledge or supervision.

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NCCR Evolving Language @nccrlanguage.bsky.social · Aug 21

In August, NCCR member Eklavya Sarkar successfully obtained his doctoral diploma from the ‪@idiap.bsky.social and EPFL. Congrats!

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NCCR Evolving Language @nccrlanguage.bsky.social · Aug 20

With @sabinestoll.bsky.social and Richard Hahnloser, from the University of Zurich. Thanks to Robin Meier Wiratunga, and Miranda Dickerman, Samy Tafasca, and Jean-Marc Odobez (IDIAP Research Institute).

More about artist Robin Meier Wiratunga: robinmeier.net

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NCCR Evolving Language @nccrlanguage.bsky.social · Aug 20

🎞️The Work Package Pattern Production explores language acquisition features in other species. Do they present the same characteristics as humans? More about it in this interview!

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Comparing language acquisition with the WP Pattern Production - NCCR Evolving Language

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NCCR Evolving Language @nccrlanguage.bsky.social · Aug 18

🎙️🇬🇧 NCCR researcher @volkerdellwo.bsky.social is in the newest episode of the Schampar Digital Podcast, by DIZH - University of Zurich, to talk about the voice of AI.

The episode is available in German on every podcast streaming platform, and here: www.dizh.uzh.ch/en/2025/08/1....

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NCCR Evolving Language @nccrlanguage.bsky.social · Aug 18

Thank you for sharing!

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