Rie Asano
@rieasano.bsky.social
Comparative research on language and music
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Abstract submission now open for the next Cultural Evolution Society conference in Rabat, Morocco next May @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social @ces2026.bsky.social
We are delighted to announce that the CES2026 conference website is now live! We invite you to submit your presentation proposals using the link on the webpage, deadline November 16th:
airess.fgses-um6p.ma/ces2026
airess.fgses-um6p.ma/ces2026
Cultural Evolution Society 2026 Conference | Université Mohammed VI Polytechnique - FGSES
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September 15, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Abstract submission now open for the next Cultural Evolution Society conference in Rabat, Morocco next May @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social @ces2026.bsky.social
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Call for papers for Evolang 2026 is now posted! evolang2026.org. Workshop proposals due Sept 22nd. Paper submissions October 26th. Evolang is interdisciplinarity at its best. We hope to see you in Plovdiv!!
August 7, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Call for papers for Evolang 2026 is now posted! evolang2026.org. Workshop proposals due Sept 22nd. Paper submissions October 26th. Evolang is interdisciplinarity at its best. We hope to see you in Plovdiv!!
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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 🧪
May 27, 2025 at 5:56 AM
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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What is cognition? www.wiringthebrain.com/2025/03/what... - some weekend musings on this tricky concept, with lots of help from all you Blueys!
What is cognition?
“Cognition” is one of those terms that we use a lot, but which is actually rather hard to define. The question of what constitutes cognition...
www.wiringthebrain.com
March 8, 2025 at 12:55 PM
What is cognition? www.wiringthebrain.com/2025/03/what... - some weekend musings on this tricky concept, with lots of help from all you Blueys!
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Heritability = one of the most commonly confused concepts in public (mis)understanding of genetics. Let’s break it down.
Imagine studying a cohort of people in a specific set of environmental circumstances. You assess everyone for an observable trait & find it varies from one person to another. 🧪1/5
Imagine studying a cohort of people in a specific set of environmental circumstances. You assess everyone for an observable trait & find it varies from one person to another. 🧪1/5
March 9, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Heritability = one of the most commonly confused concepts in public (mis)understanding of genetics. Let’s break it down.
Imagine studying a cohort of people in a specific set of environmental circumstances. You assess everyone for an observable trait & find it varies from one person to another. 🧪1/5
Imagine studying a cohort of people in a specific set of environmental circumstances. You assess everyone for an observable trait & find it varies from one person to another. 🧪1/5
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A reminder: for genotypes to produce phenotypes, they have to go through development
January 8, 2025 at 5:09 PM
A reminder: for genotypes to produce phenotypes, they have to go through development
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New preprint 📣! Excited to share the result of several years of work, led by @ellylewerissa.bsky.social & @olivieroleonardi.bsky.social, in collaboration with friends @naelnadifkasri-lab.bsky.social & Giuseppe Testa. On CHD2, a chromatin remodeller, its role in evolution & development [🧵]
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January 22, 2025 at 10:38 AM
New preprint 📣! Excited to share the result of several years of work, led by @ellylewerissa.bsky.social & @olivieroleonardi.bsky.social, in collaboration with friends @naelnadifkasri-lab.bsky.social & Giuseppe Testa. On CHD2, a chromatin remodeller, its role in evolution & development [🧵]
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Very happy to have collaborated on this new Proceedings B paper with @marlenfroehlich.bsky.social & @ctennie.bsky.social on explore/exploit tensions in primate communication (building on @alisongopnik.bsky.social's inspiring work)
New paper out with @cedricboeckx.bsky.social and @ctennie.bsky.social: We discuss the role of explore-exploit tensions in shaping primate communication systems 🐵👶, integrating individual and social learning processes. Such a fun paper to write! bit.ly/40I7j4R
The role of exploration and exploitation in primate communication | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
The concepts of social learning and exploration have been central to debates in comparative
cognition research. While their roles in the origins of human cumulative culture on
the one hand and creativ...
bit.ly
January 23, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Very happy to have collaborated on this new Proceedings B paper with @marlenfroehlich.bsky.social & @ctennie.bsky.social on explore/exploit tensions in primate communication (building on @alisongopnik.bsky.social's inspiring work)
A very interesting paper on "Cerebellar and ventral striatal involvement in imitating pitch and timing" by @michelbelyk.bsky.social and S. Kotz www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The right sound at the right time: Cerebellar and ventral striatal involvement in imitating pitch and timing
Acting on the world requires the right action at the right time. This is perhaps most easily seen in music where the meaning of a piece is encoded exp…
www.sciencedirect.com
January 23, 2025 at 3:50 PM
A very interesting paper on "Cerebellar and ventral striatal involvement in imitating pitch and timing" by @michelbelyk.bsky.social and S. Kotz www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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New preprint chapter on voice motor control for an upcoming Oxford Handbook of Language and Music live now (doi.org/10.31219/osf...). Just some stuff we know about voices and the brains that control them.
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doi.org
January 21, 2025 at 3:03 PM
New preprint chapter on voice motor control for an upcoming Oxford Handbook of Language and Music live now (doi.org/10.31219/osf...). Just some stuff we know about voices and the brains that control them.
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As the year ends, it’s a good time to thank @richardsever.bsky.social & the amazing @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social staff. As an affiliate I get to see a small fraction of the huge amount of work they do to transform the way science reaches us and is evaluated. Lets help them make preprinting the norm
Biomedical publishing: Past historic, present continuous, future conditional
Academic journals have been publishing the results of biomedical research for more than 350 years. Reviewing their history reveals that the ways in which journals vet submissions have changed over tim...
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December 30, 2024 at 10:24 AM
As the year ends, it’s a good time to thank @richardsever.bsky.social & the amazing @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social staff. As an affiliate I get to see a small fraction of the huge amount of work they do to transform the way science reaches us and is evaluated. Lets help them make preprinting the norm
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Pre-print: Hold on tight! Linking emotions and actions in the infant brain 👶🧠
New EEG study on infants' action perception in the context of emotions. Led by the wonderful Elisa Roberti, great collab w Chiara Turati & Ermanno Quadrelli @univie.ac.at @kinderstudien.bsky.social
osf.io/preprints/ps...
New EEG study on infants' action perception in the context of emotions. Led by the wonderful Elisa Roberti, great collab w Chiara Turati & Ermanno Quadrelli @univie.ac.at @kinderstudien.bsky.social
osf.io/preprints/ps...
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osf.io
November 22, 2024 at 2:07 PM
Pre-print: Hold on tight! Linking emotions and actions in the infant brain 👶🧠
New EEG study on infants' action perception in the context of emotions. Led by the wonderful Elisa Roberti, great collab w Chiara Turati & Ermanno Quadrelli @univie.ac.at @kinderstudien.bsky.social
osf.io/preprints/ps...
New EEG study on infants' action perception in the context of emotions. Led by the wonderful Elisa Roberti, great collab w Chiara Turati & Ermanno Quadrelli @univie.ac.at @kinderstudien.bsky.social
osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Our study of genes, brains and #DYSLEXIA in over 30,000 adults from @ukbiobank.bsky.social is now published: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Brain regions especially involved in motor, language and vision functions are associated with genetic disposition to dyslexia. Thread below ⬇️ 1/8
December 18, 2024 at 7:24 PM
Our study of genes, brains and #DYSLEXIA in over 30,000 adults from @ukbiobank.bsky.social is now published: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Brain regions especially involved in motor, language and vision functions are associated with genetic disposition to dyslexia. Thread below ⬇️ 1/8
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How transparent is music psychology as a discipline? Unfortunately not yet near acceptable levels in making data (5%), analysis scripts (1%) available, nor committing to preregistration (0%) or replications (3%). Benchmarked to psychology in graph. New #musicscience study out doi.org/10.1177/1029...
December 18, 2024 at 10:40 AM
How transparent is music psychology as a discipline? Unfortunately not yet near acceptable levels in making data (5%), analysis scripts (1%) available, nor committing to preregistration (0%) or replications (3%). Benchmarked to psychology in graph. New #musicscience study out doi.org/10.1177/1029...
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JOB ALERT📢 #postdoc position #BIOINFORMATICS and #POPGEN, in Zurich with Kentaro Shimizu and my co-supervision to work with GeLaTo database, gene-language comparisons and human+plant history! 🧬 job starting ASAP! with national project @nccrlanguage.bsky.social jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancie...
UZH: Postdoc in population genomics
The NCCR Evolving Language invites applications for a Postdoctoral Researcher in population genomics to study the demography of humans and domesticated crop species related to language evolution at th...
jobs.uzh.ch
December 18, 2024 at 10:57 AM
JOB ALERT📢 #postdoc position #BIOINFORMATICS and #POPGEN, in Zurich with Kentaro Shimizu and my co-supervision to work with GeLaTo database, gene-language comparisons and human+plant history! 🧬 job starting ASAP! with national project @nccrlanguage.bsky.social jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancie...
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Challenges and promises of big team comparative cognition. Read our comment in @naturehumbehav.bsky.social
It is one of the many upcoming #Manymanys projects! Stay tuned for more :) #BigTeamScience, #BTS, #OpenScience.
rdcu.be/d30KP
It is one of the many upcoming #Manymanys projects! Stay tuned for more :) #BigTeamScience, #BTS, #OpenScience.
rdcu.be/d30KP
Challenges and promises of big team comparative cognition
Nature Human Behaviour - Big team science has the potential to reshape comparative cognition research, but its implementation — especially in making fair comparisons between species, handling...
rdcu.be
December 18, 2024 at 5:46 PM
Challenges and promises of big team comparative cognition. Read our comment in @naturehumbehav.bsky.social
It is one of the many upcoming #Manymanys projects! Stay tuned for more :) #BigTeamScience, #BTS, #OpenScience.
rdcu.be/d30KP
It is one of the many upcoming #Manymanys projects! Stay tuned for more :) #BigTeamScience, #BTS, #OpenScience.
rdcu.be/d30KP
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Interested in doing a PhD on language acquisition in Oslo?
Check application process: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... and feel free to reach out for more information!
PS. We have a nice growing community including Natalia Kartushina, Luca Onnis, @audunrosslund.bsky.social, and many more!
Check application process: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... and feel free to reach out for more information!
PS. We have a nice growing community including Natalia Kartushina, Luca Onnis, @audunrosslund.bsky.social, and many more!
Doctoral research fellowships in linguistics and verbal communication (272418) | University of Oslo
Job title: Doctoral research fellowships in linguistics and verbal communication (272418), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Friday, February 28, 2025
www.jobbnorge.no
December 18, 2024 at 2:43 PM
Interested in doing a PhD on language acquisition in Oslo?
Check application process: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... and feel free to reach out for more information!
PS. We have a nice growing community including Natalia Kartushina, Luca Onnis, @audunrosslund.bsky.social, and many more!
Check application process: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... and feel free to reach out for more information!
PS. We have a nice growing community including Natalia Kartushina, Luca Onnis, @audunrosslund.bsky.social, and many more!
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📣 Submissions for #CogSci2025 are now OPEN!
🌍 This year’s conference is fully hybrid — join us in San Francisco or online!
🔍 Review the submission guidelines
⬇️ Download the required templates
🗓️ Make note of key deadline dates
cognitivesciencesociety.org/submissions/
🌍 This year’s conference is fully hybrid — join us in San Francisco or online!
🔍 Review the submission guidelines
⬇️ Download the required templates
🗓️ Make note of key deadline dates
cognitivesciencesociety.org/submissions/
December 3, 2024 at 8:46 PM
📣 Submissions for #CogSci2025 are now OPEN!
🌍 This year’s conference is fully hybrid — join us in San Francisco or online!
🔍 Review the submission guidelines
⬇️ Download the required templates
🗓️ Make note of key deadline dates
cognitivesciencesociety.org/submissions/
🌍 This year’s conference is fully hybrid — join us in San Francisco or online!
🔍 Review the submission guidelines
⬇️ Download the required templates
🗓️ Make note of key deadline dates
cognitivesciencesociety.org/submissions/
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🧑🎓Starting from Fall Semester 2025, the UZH will offer a #Master’s program in Evolutionary Language Science, an interfaculty program jointly offered by the Fac. of Arts and Social Sciences and the Fac. of Science. More information on their website⬇️
www.comparativelinguistics.uzh.ch/en/studying-...
www.comparativelinguistics.uzh.ch/en/studying-...
Specialized Master of Science in Evolutionary Language Science | Department of Comparative Language Science | UZH
www.comparativelinguistics.uzh.ch
December 19, 2024 at 1:04 PM
🧑🎓Starting from Fall Semester 2025, the UZH will offer a #Master’s program in Evolutionary Language Science, an interfaculty program jointly offered by the Fac. of Arts and Social Sciences and the Fac. of Science. More information on their website⬇️
www.comparativelinguistics.uzh.ch/en/studying-...
www.comparativelinguistics.uzh.ch/en/studying-...
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Deadline for EHBEA abstracts is coming up next Monday 16 December. Come join us in one of the UK’s liveliest cities 🪩😃
⏳ ONE WEEK LEFT! ⏳
The extended deadline to submit your abstracts for #EHBEA2025 is FAST approaching:
🗓️ Mon 16 Dec, midnight (GMT)!
Don’t miss this opportunity to present your work at Newcastle, April 14-17! 🌟
Submit now: ehbea2025.com
@ehbea.bsky.social #BioAnth #CultEvo #EvPsych #Evosky
The extended deadline to submit your abstracts for #EHBEA2025 is FAST approaching:
🗓️ Mon 16 Dec, midnight (GMT)!
Don’t miss this opportunity to present your work at Newcastle, April 14-17! 🌟
Submit now: ehbea2025.com
@ehbea.bsky.social #BioAnth #CultEvo #EvPsych #Evosky
Home | EHBEA2025
To submit your abstract you will need to create a Cambridge Core account. To sign-up for a free Cambridge Core account please register your email address here.
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December 10, 2024 at 9:13 AM
Deadline for EHBEA abstracts is coming up next Monday 16 December. Come join us in one of the UK’s liveliest cities 🪩😃
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Very happy @ellylewerissa.bsky.social & @naelnadifkasri-lab.bsky.social are presenting our collective effort (co-led by O. Leonardi from G. Testa’s lab) to capture the role of CHD2 dosage in neurodevelopment (for disease & evolution), using organoids + 2D neurons #cshl2024brain (Poster 111, today!)
![[Cortical Organoid image acquired by Oliviero Leonardi]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ljcyk7tem65k7epgu5pkwuuh/bafkreihk2ef7rk3wqwwy57lw7rnpo2fkwvxxncnjzy7h56nq7ol7ek5ewq@jpeg)
December 10, 2024 at 10:51 AM
Very happy @ellylewerissa.bsky.social & @naelnadifkasri-lab.bsky.social are presenting our collective effort (co-led by O. Leonardi from G. Testa’s lab) to capture the role of CHD2 dosage in neurodevelopment (for disease & evolution), using organoids + 2D neurons #cshl2024brain (Poster 111, today!)
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📰🐒According to a study by Vanessa Wilson @vd0ubleu.bsky.social and team, humans and apes alternate attention between the two subjects when observing someone interact with something. Learn more in the article from PLOS Biology, in DE, FR and EN on our website.
evolvinglanguage.ch/great-apes-t...
evolvinglanguage.ch/great-apes-t...
Great apes visually track subject-object relationships like humans do - NCCR Evolving Language
When observing someone interact with something, humans and apes alternate attention between the two subjects. Great apes track events with their eyes in the same way that humans do, according to a st...
evolvinglanguage.ch
November 27, 2024 at 9:02 AM
📰🐒According to a study by Vanessa Wilson @vd0ubleu.bsky.social and team, humans and apes alternate attention between the two subjects when observing someone interact with something. Learn more in the article from PLOS Biology, in DE, FR and EN on our website.
evolvinglanguage.ch/great-apes-t...
evolvinglanguage.ch/great-apes-t...
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Very good, concise review of what we have learned so far about archaic hominin admixture and its consequences for ‘modern’ humans (a lot more to come, no doubt), by Debashree Tagore and Joshua M Akey (h/t @chrisbstringer.bsky.social)
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Archaic hominin admixture and its consequences for modern humans
As anatomically modern humans dispersed out of Africa, they encountered and mated with now extinct hominins, including Neanderthals and Denisovans. It…
www.sciencedirect.com
November 27, 2024 at 6:12 AM
Very good, concise review of what we have learned so far about archaic hominin admixture and its consequences for ‘modern’ humans (a lot more to come, no doubt), by Debashree Tagore and Joshua M Akey (h/t @chrisbstringer.bsky.social)
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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see you in Amsterdam in August for CCN 2025!
After a great conference in Boston, CCN is going to take place in Amsterdam in 2025! To help the exchange of ideas between #neuroscience, cognitive science, and #AI, CCN will for the first time have full length paper submissions (alongside the established 2 pagers)! Info below👇
#NeuroAI #CompNeuro
#NeuroAI #CompNeuro
November 27, 2024 at 7:13 PM
see you in Amsterdam in August for CCN 2025!
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I'm proud to announce a new textbook for #musicscience titled "Music and Science: A Guide to Empirical Research". It covers methods in music psychology, empirical research, #openresearch & music computation in 298 pages. For details, see doi.org/10.4324/9781.... Codes at tuomaseerola.github.io/emr/
November 25, 2024 at 12:47 PM
I'm proud to announce a new textbook for #musicscience titled "Music and Science: A Guide to Empirical Research". It covers methods in music psychology, empirical research, #openresearch & music computation in 298 pages. For details, see doi.org/10.4324/9781.... Codes at tuomaseerola.github.io/emr/