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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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…
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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
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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...
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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...
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January 28, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Fully funded 4-year PhD with me at VU Amsterdam #emca workingat.vu.nl/vacancies/ph...
spotted in Asian grocery store in Germany today. what fun! and not that weird if you consider that kimchi is a popular noodle flavour
January 25, 2025 at 12:15 PM
spotted in Asian grocery store in Germany today. what fun! and not that weird if you consider that kimchi is a popular noodle flavour
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Our new paper w/ @masonyoungblood.bsky.social & @oliviermorin.bsky.social. Are early members of music genres more popular than late adopters? Or: Is there first-mover advantage in music? We tested this question using ~1 mil songs from Spotify 🧵/1 epjdatascience.springeropen.com/articles/10....
May 17, 2024 at 1:31 PM
Our new paper w/ @masonyoungblood.bsky.social & @oliviermorin.bsky.social. Are early members of music genres more popular than late adopters? Or: Is there first-mover advantage in music? We tested this question using ~1 mil songs from Spotify 🧵/1 epjdatascience.springeropen.com/articles/10....
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We loved contributing to this 100th episode of @lingthusiasm.bsky.social. (Both me and @laserhedvig.bsky.social got a fun fact in. YES! 😄)
Congratulations @gretchenmcc.bsky.social and @superlinguo.bsky.social on 100 great episodes, and here's to more 🥂
Congratulations @gretchenmcc.bsky.social and @superlinguo.bsky.social on 100 great episodes, and here's to more 🥂
💯 It's our 100th episode! 💯
To celebrate, we're giving you 100 fun facts about linguistics this month
See how many you recognize and tell us about your favourite linguistics facts this month in honour of our 100th episodiversary!
To celebrate, we're giving you 100 fun facts about linguistics this month
See how many you recognize and tell us about your favourite linguistics facts this month in honour of our 100th episodiversary!
100: A hundred reasons to be enthusiastic about linguistics
This is our hundredth episode that's enthusiastic about linguistics! To celebrate, we've put together 100 of our favourite fun facts about linguistics, featuring contributions from previous guests and
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January 17, 2025 at 1:18 PM
We loved contributing to this 100th episode of @lingthusiasm.bsky.social. (Both me and @laserhedvig.bsky.social got a fun fact in. YES! 😄)
Congratulations @gretchenmcc.bsky.social and @superlinguo.bsky.social on 100 great episodes, and here's to more 🥂
Congratulations @gretchenmcc.bsky.social and @superlinguo.bsky.social on 100 great episodes, and here's to more 🥂
What's a paper published in the last five years that you really like? I really like: Leino, Syrjänen& Vesakoski (2020). Linguistic change and biological evolution.
it makes the point that language & biology needn't be the same for the same methods to be useful to both
it makes the point that language & biology needn't be the same for the same methods to be useful to both
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January 15, 2025 at 10:35 AM
What's a paper published in the last five years that you really like? I really like: Leino, Syrjänen& Vesakoski (2020). Linguistic change and biological evolution.
it makes the point that language & biology needn't be the same for the same methods to be useful to both
it makes the point that language & biology needn't be the same for the same methods to be useful to both
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We're hiring! Are you a cultural evolutionary modeller who wants to understand how and why children's peer cultures evolve? Here's a postdoc position for you! @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social @durhampsych.bsky.social @ehbea.bsky.social @eslr.bsky.social
Apply here: durham.taleo.net/careersectio...
Apply here: durham.taleo.net/careersectio...
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Click the link provided to see the complete job description.
durham.taleo.net
January 14, 2025 at 12:38 PM
We're hiring! Are you a cultural evolutionary modeller who wants to understand how and why children's peer cultures evolve? Here's a postdoc position for you! @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social @durhampsych.bsky.social @ehbea.bsky.social @eslr.bsky.social
Apply here: durham.taleo.net/careersectio...
Apply here: durham.taleo.net/careersectio...
if we want researchers to engage in peer-review, there's gotta be infrastructure that values it. reality is: for every paper you submit, you ought to be reviewing two.
therefore, your peer-review activity should be important when you're assessed by a hiring or grant committee.
therefore, your peer-review activity should be important when you're assessed by a hiring or grant committee.
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January 14, 2025 at 9:33 AM
if we want researchers to engage in peer-review, there's gotta be infrastructure that values it. reality is: for every paper you submit, you ought to be reviewing two.
therefore, your peer-review activity should be important when you're assessed by a hiring or grant committee.
therefore, your peer-review activity should be important when you're assessed by a hiring or grant committee.
reproducibility with the programming language #Rstats can be tricky. regardless if you use renv, docker, groundhogr, something else - can we make it the norm to also just print out a table of package versions in plain text?
you can use my function if you want
hedvigsr.tumblr.com/post/7703030...
you can use my function if you want
hedvigsr.tumblr.com/post/7703030...
January 14, 2025 at 8:08 AM
reproducibility with the programming language #Rstats can be tricky. regardless if you use renv, docker, groundhogr, something else - can we make it the norm to also just print out a table of package versions in plain text?
you can use my function if you want
hedvigsr.tumblr.com/post/7703030...
you can use my function if you want
hedvigsr.tumblr.com/post/7703030...
we've been running the linguistic typology project Grambank for a while, with over 2,000 languages and over 50 coders. we've learned a lot, and I've assembled some of that into advice here. if you're running a large database project, it may be useful to you
#linguistics
github.com/grambank/gra...
#linguistics
github.com/grambank/gra...
Advice for typological database construction
Contribute to grambank/grambank development by creating an account on GitHub.
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January 12, 2025 at 3:14 PM
we've been running the linguistic typology project Grambank for a while, with over 2,000 languages and over 50 coders. we've learned a lot, and I've assembled some of that into advice here. if you're running a large database project, it may be useful to you
#linguistics
github.com/grambank/gra...
#linguistics
github.com/grambank/gra...