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Sabine Blütgen
@sabinebluetgen.bsky.social
PhD student at the Centre for Language Evolution @uoe-cle.bsky.social‬, University of Edinburgh. Interested in human and animal behaviour and evolution, gene–culture coevolution, social cognition. she/her

https://sabinebluetgen.github.io/
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The New episode of PPLS Perspectives is available now!

Maisy Hallam chats with Prof. Jenny Culbertson about how #technology, #AI, and global change are reshaping the future of language — and why #linguistic diversity matters more than ever.

Listen now: edin.ac/4r7axdA
November 18, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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How will language shape the future of AI, education & society? At the GESDA Global Summit last month, Prof Jennifer Culbertson explored why understanding language structure & evolution is vital in the age of AI. Read more and watch her talk: edin.ac/3X8WDJY
#Linguistics #AI
PPLS Linguistics Professor talks of the importance of understanding language structure and evolution in the age of AI | School of Philosophy, Psychology & Language Sciences | School of Philosophy, Psy...
Last month Personal Chair of Experimental Linguistics Prof Jennifer Culbertson spoke at the Geneva Science and Diplomacy Anticipator (GESDA) Summit on Science of Language and Communication and how new...
edin.ac
November 4, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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Supervising a Psychology student creating an online #mousetracking experiment with #jsPsych - showing videos and asking participants to choose left or right.

If you’ve worked on something similar and are happy to share a code template or know of good resources, we’d really appreciate it! 🙂
October 31, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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📣 We are looking for talent! 📣

At #BCBL we have 9 positions available to work on our research groups.

🔸1 PhD position
🔸3 Research Assistants
🔸1 Junior Systems Engineer
🔸4 Postdoctoral researchers

Would you like to know more? +info👇

https://www.bcbl.eu/en/join-us/job-offers
October 31, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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How vivid are your memories?🤔

Tune in to learn more about the When Memories Come Alive project with Kasia Mojescik and Martha McGill 💃

🔗 eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

💡A truly collaborative interdisciplinary team ft the head of the @cambridgebiosci.bsky.social &Co
October 27, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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We're excited to announce that Cognitive Science at Dartmouth is recruiting PhD students to work collaboratively with me, Steven Frankland, and Fred Callaway. Come study the principles and mechanisms that enable us to understand, plan, and act in the world! Info: sites.dartmouth.edu/cogscigrad/
Cognitive Science Graduate Admissions – Information about graduate admissions from the cognitive science faculty
sites.dartmouth.edu
October 23, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Monty Python understood p-hacking
October 23, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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MSc by Res opportunity - developing behavioural indicators to inform killer whale conservation with
@exeter.ac.uk @whaleresearch.bsky.social @seadocsociety.bsky.social

People from underrepresented groups in marine science encouraged to apply.

Deadline 19Dec

www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...
October 22, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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Our PhD student, Anna Sydänheimo, is conducting a study into how dog owners perceive routine husbandry procedures (e.g. nail clipping) on their 🐶 .
If you are a dog owner from the 🇬🇧 or 🇫🇮, please consider contributing by filling out this questionnaire. Thank you!

lnkd.in/edHgUPap
LinkedIn
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lnkd.in
August 15, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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We are pleased to announce that throughout Open Access Week, from 20 – 26 October, all Royal Society journal content is freely available. Explore our journals here: royalsociety.org/Journals/ #OAWeek #OAWeek25
October 20, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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I'm recruiting grad students!! 🎓

The CoDec Lab @ NYU (codec-lab.github.io) is looking for PhD students (Fall 2026) interested in computational approaches to social cognition & problem solving 🧠

Applications through Psych (tinyurl.com/nyucp) are due Dec 1. Reach out with Qs & please repost! 🙏
codec lab
codec-lab.github.io
October 6, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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Great read, especially for those entering the PhD / graduate school application cycle.

It’s hard out here and perspectives (if nothing else) help you feel less alone!
October 10, 2025 at 4:52 AM
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Please share!

We have a number of fully funded PhD studentships in "Designing Responsible Natural Language Processing". I'm a possible supervisor & I'd be keen to support projects on sociolinguistics-AI, e.g., accent bias in AI, language+gender/sexuality+AI.

www.responsiblenlp.org
Our CDT is based in the Edinburgh Futures Institute – the University of Edinburgh’s brand new hub for research, innovation and teaching focused on socially just artificial intelligence and data.
www.responsiblenlp.org
October 10, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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beautiful visualisation of birdsong by Lucio Arese

youtu.be/7lEiYqCV25s?...
Visualizing Bird Songs
YouTube video by Lucio Arese
www.youtube.com
July 11, 2025 at 4:44 AM
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⚠️ Please report sightings of dead birds for possible testing for Avian Influenza. ⬇️

📌 In England, Wales & Scotland: www.gov.uk/guidance/...
📌 In Northern Ireland: www.daera-ni.gov.uk/...
📌 In Republic of Ireland: aviancheck.apps.serv...

#UKBirding #BirdingWales #BirdingScotland
October 4, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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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...
direct.mit.edu
October 1, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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"After the fall of the Roman Empire, elephants virtually disappeared from Western Europe. Since there was no real knowledge of how the animal looked, illustrators had to rely on oral and written transmissions to morphologically reconstruct the elephant" www.uliwestphal.de/elephas-anth...
September 24, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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It's hiring season at @iast.fr!

- 2y research postdoc contract
- Full autonomy, you are your own PI
- Awesome multidisciplinary environment
- All social and behavioral sciences welcome
- Seed funding for projects and workshops
- Gorgeous city in the south of France

www.iast.fr/research-fel...
September 20, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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#Protolang9 is over - a huge thank you to the organizers for an incredibly well-organized and inspiring event! See you at #Protolang10 in Toruń in 2027
September 20, 2025 at 7:25 AM
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Happy Birthday Gary Larson, 75 years old today. A perfect excuse to celebrate his tireless efforts documenting major breakthroughs in science, including this pivotal moment for language research:
August 14, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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when they close it all up, I do believe this will go down as the funniest video on the internet
July 24, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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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...
July 17, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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Less than 3 weeks to go until #CogSci2025! Here is some of the work that members of the CLE will be presenting 🧵(1/)
July 17, 2025 at 4:15 PM