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Niklas Erben Johansson
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A linguist who likes cognitive biases, iconicity, typology and maps

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Yoïn van Spijk @yvanspijk.bsky.social · 3h
I thought I had left this kind of people behind when I stopped posting on X, but apparently, even on Bluesky you can get called an 'educated idiot' for explaining why someone's claim is wrong and showing them that the word they say doesn't exist in their second language is in all dictionaries.

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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d
Nothing to see here. This is definitely a normal post that perfectly demonstrates appropriate behavior for a man with grave responsibilities to the nation and absolutely, positively does not show psychological derangement and incapacity to serve as president under section 4 of the 25th Amendment.

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CNN @cnn.com · 2d
The University of Oklahoma has removed an instructor who was accused by a student of religious discrimination over a failing grade on a psychology paper in which she cited the Bible and argued that promoting a “belief in multiple genders” was “demonic.” https://cnn.it/4b6g3rd
Oklahoma instructor removed from teaching for failing a Bible-based gender essay | CNN
The University of Oklahoma has removed an instructor who was accused by a student of religious discrimination over a failing grade on a psychology paper in which she cited the Bible and argued that promoting a “belief in multiple genders” was “demonic.”
cnn.it

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Simon J. Greenhill @simongreenhill.bsky.social · 10d
New paper: Three evolutionary radiations shaped the evolution of global religious diversity
Three evolutionary radiations shaped the evolution of global religious diversity | Evolutionary Human Sciences | Cambridge Core
Three evolutionary radiations shaped the evolution of global religious diversity - Volume 7
www.cambridge.org

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Simon J. Greenhill @simongreenhill.bsky.social · 14d
A curated global dataset of social contact between diverse language communities

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Emily R. Trunnell, Ph.D. @ertrunnell.bsky.social · 16d
The human brain doesn’t just recognize human voices—it also recognizes those of #chimpanzees.

🧠 Using #fMRI, @leoceravolo.bsky.social, @thibaudgruber.bsky.social, & colleagues played vocalizations from humans, chimpanzees, bonobos, & macaques to 23 participants. ⬇️

🧪 🧬 #neuroskyence #evobio
a close up of a chimpanzee 's face with a national geographic logo in the corner
ALT: a close up of a chimpanzee 's face with a national geographic logo in the corner
media.tenor.com

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 19d
How to buy yourself a needy malignant narcissist? Just offer him a phony, made up "Peace Prize" & he's all your's!!!
No need for a formal ceremony as he'll snatch from the box & put it on all by himself. Both laughably pathetic AND pathetically laughable. 🤡 🫣

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SVT Nyheter @svtnyheter.bsky.social · 22d
Stoppar bidrag till kyrka efter Säpos larm
https://www.svt.se/nyheter/inrikes/stoppar-bidrag-till-kyrka-efter-sapos-larm
Stoppar bidrag till kyrka efter Säpos larm
Eritreanska ortodoxa kyrkan i Sverige blir av med sitt statliga bidrag, rapporterar Sveriges Radio. Myndigheten för stöd till trossamfund drar in bidraget efter ett utlåtande från Säpo.
www.svt.se

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Tore Kullgren @torek.bsky.social · 25d
Nazister är dumma i huvudet.

1. De är nazister
2. De firar Karl XII, som tvingade Sverige att förlora ett dyrt och hopplöst krig
3. De firar Karl XII:s död, inte hans födelsedag eller kröning
4. De firar 30 november utomhus, när det är mörkt och kallt

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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 27d
New in Science, Macaques tap to the beat.

Very cool study for its main result and its null one: consistent with nearly every other comparative study of music, monkeys don't differentiate beats by their relative strength—which even young children do innately. Monkeys have rhythm but not meter!
Monkeys have rhythm
Synchronizing movements to music is a hallmark of human culture, but its evolutionary and neurobiological origins remain unknown. This ability requires (i) extracting a steady rhythmic pulse, or beat,...
www.science.org

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Morten H. Christiansen @mh-christiansen.bsky.social · 28d
📣 Very happy to announce a new BBS target article with Nick Chater in which we propose a new theory of cultural evolution, highlighting the importance of bottom-up social interaction in explaining the emergence of cultural complexity
🧵 1/8

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Social Tinkering: The Social Foundations of Cultural Complexity | Behavioral and Brain Sciences | Cambridge Core
Social Tinkering: The Social Foundations of Cultural Complexity
www.cambridge.org

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Limor Raviv 🐘🤗🦒🍄🦄 @limorraviv.bsky.social · Nov 25
Super proud of this fabulous team for challenging old comparative frameworks and rethinking what makes language language.
Read more in the thread below 👇 or here 📖😊: www.cell.com/trends/cogni...

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Michael Pleyer @symbolicstorage.bsky.social · Nov 25
🚨NEW PUBLICATION ALERT!🚨
The 'Design Features' of Language Revisited (w/ @mperlman.bsky.social @glupyan.bsky.social Koen de Reus & @limorraviv.bsky.social)
Feature Review out now in #OpenAccess in @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social! #language #linguistics
Paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.ti...
The title page

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Tore Kullgren @torek.bsky.social · Nov 23
Människor i konträra rörelser (konspirationsteoretiker, antivaxare, alt-righters och olika extremister) påstår ofta att de inte bryr sig om att vara politiskt korrekta.

Men de är bland de ängsligaste som finns, inför den egna rörelsen.

De har ett enormt behov av att bli bekräftade internt.

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · Nov 23
Do I understand correctly that there is now a dispute within the administration about whether this "peace plan" was written by Russians or Americans?

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Ola Spännar @olaspannar.bsky.social · Nov 19
De är faktiskt helt dumma i huvudet
Omni KD vill slopa klimatmålen: ”Tar köttbullar från barn”

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Marcus Larsson @skolinkvisition.bsky.social · Nov 13
"Kritiken delas av bland annat Annika Westh, ledamot av regionfullmäktige i Västra Götaland, som kallar förslaget för ”socialistiskt”."

Herregud. Westh är alltså ingen vanlig medlem utan opinionsbildare med eget företag, betald av bl a Almega utbildning.

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Mohamssons prestigeprojekt hotat – efter ”massiv kritik” i Liberalerna
Simona Mohamssons utspel om att ta bort vinstintresset och förbjuda aktiebolag i skolan har stött på ”massiv kritik” inom Liberalerna – och har lett till avhopp. Enligt SVT:s uppgifter är det mycket o...
www.svt.se

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Mark Dingemanse @dingemansemark.bsky.social · Nov 8
One year ago, with Stella Punselie and Bonnie McLean: The Anatomy of Iconicity, in Open Mind doi.org/10.1162/opmi...

In which we combine iconicity ratings, experimental evidence, and structure mapping to identify & explain crosslinguistic patterns of iconic words

#iconicity #cognitivescience
Overview of the triangulation method. Structure mapping grounds the notion of iconicity, ratings capture subjective form-meaning fit, and guessability provides a baseline of guessing accuracy. For instance, Korean tuˈgɯndugɯn ‘heartbeat’ features at least three levels of iconic form-meaning correspondences (A). This predicts it should be rated as highly iconic (B) and should be more guessable than words with fewer detected correspondences (C). Consistent with this, it was rated 4.8 for subjective iconicity and guessed at 80% accuracy. Arrows indicate how measures predict (black) and inform (grey) each other.

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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · Nov 6
This picture is worth 1,000 words.

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Ola Spännar @olaspannar.bsky.social · Nov 6
Moderaterna, Kristdemokraterna och de andra konservativa partierna i EPP tar nu hjälp av extremhögern i EU för att driva igenom att företag ska slippa redovisa sina klimatutsläpp

www.aktuellhallbarhet.se/ekonomi-och-...
Aktuell Hållbarhet Ny giv om omnibus - EPP kan ta stöd av ytterhögern (Bild Jörgen Warborn, moderaterna)

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Amanda Sokolnicki @amandasokolnicki.bsky.social · Oct 31
Skriver om att Moderaterna har bestämt sig för att göra journalister till motståndare.

www.dn.se/ledare/amand...
Amanda Sokolnicki: Moderaterna har bestämt sig för att göra journalister till motståndare
”Hotar du mig?” undrar statsministerns medarbetare. Moderaternas uppgörelse med Aftonbladet den här veckan är illavarslande.
www.dn.se

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Tom Higham @tommyhigham.bsky.social · Oct 29
So proud to see our new paper out in PNAS spearheaded by @emilypigott.bsky.social She found a tiny 46,000 yr old Neanderthal bone at Starosele (Crimea). DNA work revealed long-distance connections across Eurasia, supported by stone tool evidence @heasvienna.bsky.social
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Marcus Larsson @skolinkvisition.bsky.social · Oct 26
Om AB förbjuds kommer:

- eleverna finnas kvar
- lärarna finnas kvar
- lokalerna finnas kvar
- inventarierna finnas kvar
- möjligheten för annan huvudman (stiftelse, kooperativ eller kommun) att driva samma pedagogik finnas kvar

Det som försvinner är fd politiker och utländska riskkapitalister.

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John L.A. Huisman @johnhuisman.bsky.social · Oct 16
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...
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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

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Amanda Sokolnicki @amandasokolnicki.bsky.social · Oct 8
Vad bra Moderaterna mår. (Återigen: Underlaget jag skriver utifrån är alltså officiell SCB-statistik!)

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Joni Askola @joniaskola.bsky.social · Oct 5
Stephen Miller is one of the most dangerous and dishonest men in the world.

He holds far too much power for an unelected bureaucrat and uses it to push the United States toward a fascist dictatorship

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DG MEME @ecmemes.bsky.social · Oct 2
One defends Europe, the other defrauds it.
One faced bullets, the other trials.

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DG MEME @ecmemes.bsky.social · Sep 30
We were wondering...

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Johan Wicklén @johanwicklen.bsky.social · Sep 29
Visst, han predikade att man ska slå ”olydiga kvinnor”, men han var också under tidspress.

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Amanda Sokolnicki @amandasokolnicki.bsky.social · Sep 27
Göran Perssons bufflighet ansågs vara ett stort imageproblem, och Magdalena Andersson har tagit fram ett helt nytt sätt att prata – allt för att inte framstå som bossig. Men Ulf Kristersson? Hans strateger verkar se arrogansen som en tillgång. www.dn.se/ledare/amand...
Amanda Sokolnicki: Ulf Kristersson framstår svag – och kompenserar med arrogans
Tidigare statsministrar har försökt dölja sina nonchalanta drag. Ulf Kristersson verkar i stället vilja bygga sin valstrategi på dem.
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