It's hard to believe that OECS has now published 200 articles!🎉 A huge thank you to everyone who has contributed to OECS—our authors, reviewers, readers, and fantastic section editors, and especially @mcxfrank.bsky.social frank.bsky.social and @hbaum.bsky.social Excited for the next chapter!

Philip Laughlin@philiplaughlin.bsky.social · 2w ago

Today's #OA spotlight is extra special. Just this week, @mitpress.bsky.social published the 200th article in our OPEN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF COGNITIVE SCIENCE. Congrats to @mcxfrank.bsky.social & @asifamajid.bsky.social! We've come far since the 2023 @cogscisociety.bsky.social in Rotterdam! oecs.mit.edu

Just appeared in the Journal of Language Evolution, by David Snee, Luca Ciucci, and myself: "Variation in language phylogenies may result from variation in concept translation" doi.org/10.1093/jole...

Variation in language phylogenies may result from variation in concept translation

Abstract. Phylogenetic reconstruction in historical linguistics now typically relies on cognates sets assembled from multilingual wordlists. While more and

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A new contribution to our CALCiP Journal/Blog appeared today, looking at sound laws and how they can be described. Towards a Specification for the Formal Notion of Sound Laws calc.hypotheses.org/9435

Towards a Specification for the Formal Notation of Sound Laws

Formal notations for the handling of sound laws in historical linguistics have been employed by linguists for a long time. So far, however, linguists have barely tried to describe their notation pract...

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Mein Blogbeitrag im Juli via @dehypotheses.bsky.social handelt von Sprachgrenzen und deren Konsequenzen für sprachbasierte KI-Modelle. wub.hypotheses.org/3541

Sprachgrenzen

Der KI-Boom hat etwas bewirkt, das man so nicht zwangsläufig hätte erwarten müssen. Er hat der menschlichen Sprache einen Boom beschert, nachdem diese durch den Boom von Internet und Onlinemedien mehr...

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Eine halbe Million Menschen unterstützen bereits unsere Petition. Gemeinsam machen wir klar: Hände weg vom IFG! Hilf auch Du, den Druck auf die Politik hoch zu halten & unterschreibe jetzt für die Informationsfreiheit & gegen Korruption: weact.campact.de/petitions/sp...

SPD, stoppt den Frontalangriff auf die Informationsfreiheit!

Wir alle haben das Recht auf staatliche Informationen. Seit 2006 müssen Behörden auf Antrag nach dem Informationsfreiheitsgesetz (IFG) Dokumente herausgeben – seien es Verträge, interne Weisungen oder...

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Behörden sollten transparent bleiben ... oder? Falls ihr es noch nicht gehört habt: Die Koalition plant Einschnitte ins Informationsfreiheitsrecht – also die Pflicht, BürgerInnen Auskunft über die Arbeit von Behörden zu geben. Wir von @correctiv.org haben eine Petition gestartet:

Mitmachen: Ich bin für einen transparenten Staat.

Geplante Einschränkungen der Informationsfreiheit gefährden Transparenz und journalistische Kontrolle. Setzen Sie ein Zeichen und unterzeichnen Sie jetzt.

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📣 I'm hiring! Two positions (PhD student & Postdoc) in my ERC project Macroevolution of European Literature. Let's study the cultural evolution of literature using massive data 📚📈 📍Frankfurt | Apply by August 15 Details: www.aesthetics.mpg.de/en/career/jo... Please repost to help spread the word!

Mein Blogbeitrag im Juni, via @dehypotheses.bsky.social behandelt die Rolle von Genie und Wahnsinn in der Wissenschaft. ... und Wahnsinn wub.hypotheses.org/3496

… und Wahnsinn

Die Wissenschaft ist berühmt für das Zelebrieren des unorthodoxen, zügellosen und ungehemmten Denkens, welches so eckig und kantig und klobig ist, dass es in keine normale Schublade passt. Das Genie k...

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Language Science Press has published 300+ books in the last 12 years. Every 3 years, our funding has to be renewed. We need 100 institutions giving us €2000/year to continue our operations in 2027. Please visit langsci-press.org/knowledgeunl... for more information and talk to your librarian.

New contribution to our #CALCiP Journal/Blog by Anja Krišto: calc.hypotheses.org/9392 doi.org/10.15475/cal... Integrating Croatian into Concepticon: a Corpus-Based Frequency Mapping of Croatian Vocabulary

Integrating Croatian into Concepticon: a Corpus-Based Frequency Mapping of Croatian Vocabulary

This study presents a Croatian frequency-derived wordlist mapped to Concepticon concept sets, based on the most frequent nouns, verbs, and adjectives extracted from the hrWaC web corpus. The resulting...

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"CLDF Meta" (meta.clld.org) links to data from over 800 CLDF datasets that have been released on Zenodo (e.g. WALS, APiCS and Grambank). There are links to data on over 9000 languoids, e.g. 98 entries on Ambulas (to take a random language). Great work by my colleague Johannes Englisch!

Mein Blogbeitrag im Mai, via @dehypotheses.bsky.social handelt vom Warten, sowohl vom Warten von Gegenständen und als auch vom Warten von Wissen. wub.hypotheses.org/3450

Vom Warten

Vor Kurzem habe ich ein Interview mit Stewart Brand gelesen (Klein, 2026), in dem dieser unter anderem auch von seinem Buch Maintenance of Everything sprach, welches vor Kurzem erschienen ist (Brand, ...

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New blog post by Frederic Blum in our #CALCiP Journal / Blog out now. "How To Visualize Language Polygons with QGIS (How to Do X in Linguistics 15)" calc.hypotheses.org/9287 doi.org/10.15475/cal...

How To Visualize Language Polygons with QGIS (How to Do X in Linguistics 15)

This tutorial shows how to build beautiful maps using polygon data of language distributions and the geospatial software QGIS. For this purpose, I show in the first part how to extract a list of Glott...

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New paper by Robert Forkel and myself in #JOHD just appeared: Extending CLDF -- Towards a Type System for Cross-Linguistic Data doi.org/10.5334/johd...

📣 New blog post! Introducing the web app for the Database of Cross-Linguistic Colexifications 4.0 🌐 (with @lingulist.de and Robert Forkel). We also discuss the future of CLICS. calc.hypotheses.org/9261 PDF here: doi.org/10.15475/cal...

This month, in our #CALCiP blog / journal, we introduce the CLLD application for the fourth version of the Database of Cross-Linguistic Colexifications (with @annikatjuka.bsky.social and Robert Forkel). "CLICS⁴ as CLLD Web Application" calc.hypotheses.org/9261 PDF here: doi.org/10.15475/cal...

CLICS⁴ as CLLD Web Application

The fourth version of the Database of Cross-Linguistic Colexifications (https://clics.clld.org) was published last year. Now, we launched the accompanying web application that presents the data for in...

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L’étymologie de 天 then “ciel” en chinois archaïque

Le caractère 天 then apparaît dès les jiaguwen sous cette forme, représentant un personnage se tenant debout avec une tête soit carrée, soit consistant en plusieurs traits horizontaux. La prononciation...

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Version 1.0 of the Grammaticon is now online! This has been in the making for over eight years. Quite a few of the entries are still preliminary, but I hope to expand and improve it over the coming months and years. Comments are welcome! An intro text is here: dlc.hypotheses.org/4316

Finally out, so we have new space for new ideas now.

Annika Tjuka@annikatjuka.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Database update 🌐 We launched a new version of CLICS 🚀 - the Database of Cross-Linguistic Colexifications clics.clld.org The paper introducing the new version is available here: aclanthology.org/2025.iwcs-ma...

Database update 🌐 We launched a new version of CLICS 🚀 - the Database of Cross-Linguistic Colexifications clics.clld.org The paper introducing the new version is available here: aclanthology.org/2025.iwcs-ma...

Mein Blogbeitrag im April geht auf die Idee ein, von offener Forschung endlich auch zu offener Lehre an Universitäten zu gelangen. "Offene Lehre im universitären Kontext" via @dehypotheses.bsky.social wub.hypotheses.org/3421

Offene Lehre im universitären Kontext

1 Ausgangssituation Die universitäre Lehre, wie ich sie bisher erlebt habe, widerspricht den Grundprinzipien der offenen Forschung in vielerlei Hinsicht. Während das Ziel der offenen Forschung darin b...

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Advice for @erc.europa.eu : Prohibit the use of LLMs for grant writing. Let applicants sign a declaration that they have not used such systems and that the text is written by them and them alone.

Love this clear-headed idea for ERC — @erc.europa.eu please take note. Innovative work requires independent minds. A policy like this would send the signal that the funder values clear thinking over automated thoughtlessness, quality over quantity, earnest novel work over mediocre rehashings.

Iris van Rooij 💭@irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Advice for @erc.europa.eu : Prohibit the use of LLMs for grant writing. Let applicants sign a declaration that they have not used such systems and that the text is written by them and them alone.

I'm hiring! 2 x postdocs in Cognitive Anthropology, Archaeology and Linguistics, to work on the cultural history of Australia and Papua. More details in link below, and please do repost or share elsewhere! www.isle.uzh.ch/en/jobs/post...

'Ah but you're cherry-picking excellent writers. Surely the average person benefits? I myself found it useful this one time' No. None of us benefit from dragging down the level of writing to some lowest common denominator. Have some self-respect. Be ambitious. ideophone.org/find-your-ow...

Yes, #ScientificReports, with my background as a linguist interested in the evolution of languages, I will of course gladly review your paper on photovoltaic systems in 10 days, expect it in 5 🫡

Un nouveau cognat partagé exclusivement par le rgyalronguique et le kiranti: panchr.hypotheses.org/3993

Un nouveau cognat rgyalrong-kiranti : l’étymon pour la “trace”

Comme nous l’avions montré dans Jacques et Pellard (2021), les cognats partagés entre les groupes kiranti et rgyalronguiques sont très peu nombreux, et tous partagés par d’autres branches de la famill...

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Our chapter on the tree model (with @thomaspellard.bsky.social and @robinryder.bsky.social ) is at last published online: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Family Tree Model

The family tree remains the main metaphor for describing the evolutionary history and relationships of languages. Languages, like biological species, evolve following processes such as descent with m...

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The March contribution to our CALCiP journal / blog is the possible start of a more detailed series on "Foundations of Formal Etymological Analysis" calc.hypotheses.org/9208 doi.org/10.15475/cal...

Foundations of Formal Etymological Analysis

This study gives a brief overview on formal aspects of etymological analysis, by providing a modified workflow for the classical comparative method in historical language comparison. This workflow is ...

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Mein Blogbeitrag im März via @dehypotheses.bsky.social handelt vom "Vom Konsumieren von Information" wub.hypotheses.org/3386

Vom Konsumieren von Information

Ich konsumiere Informationen in der Form von Zeitungsartikeln meist genauso routiniert und auch schnell, wie ich mit Fastfoodgerichten umgehe: ich ziehe sie mir rein. Wenn man sich etwas reinzieht, da...

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