100 years of the "morph(eme)" – Bloomfield's foundational article came out in September 1926. dlc.hypotheses.org/4485

Going to an IMAX theatre costs about an arm these days, but seeing my daughter’s eyes glow up was worth it. She studies Greek so her opinion mattered more than that of any online critic, and she filled me in on all the myths that I have mostly forgotten already. A movie to see on the big screen!

DiscussingFilm@discussingfilm.net · 3mo ago

The IMAX 70mm print for ‘THE ODYSSEY’. (via: BFI)

A whole semantics/philosophy seminar can be dedicated to the phrase “While the US played soccer, Belgium played football” 😁

Any model of cultural transmission that implies a sender and a receiver vastly underestimates the role of active (re)construction. Great to see more articles like this making it into print

Dorsa Amir@dorsaamir.bsky.social · 2mo ago

When we consider children in cultural evolution, we tend to cast them as recipients of adult culture. In our BBS target article, @sheinalew.bsky.social & I argued there's more: through 'peer cultures', children actively drive cultural adaptation. Our final paper + a rich set of responses is out now!

New International Construction Grammar Association (ICGA)! icgaonline.wpcomstaging.com announced at ICCG14 thanks to @adelegoldberg.bsky.social Sign up forms.gle/gXYDKC6xavkU... @alexbergs.bsky.social H Boas M Fried, @stefanhartmann.bsky.social Th Hoffmann F Masini B Nir @remivantrijp.bsky.social

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I loved using that construction from time to time. It still works if you write consistently in your own unique voice (though beware: many reviewers hate it if you do so… they prefer bland academic text)

Olli Silvennoinen@ollisilv.bsky.social · 5mo ago

In 2019, I defended my PhD on 'It's not X, it's Y' and similar constructions, which I call contrastive negation constructions. Never in my wildest dreams would I have thought that 'It's not X, it's Y' would become the topic of comment pieces in newspapers. 🧵

Slightly embarrassing that I need to ask but still: does anyone have access to the electronic supplementary information for this old article of mine? DM me :) royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...

How do communication systems emerge?

Abstract. Communication involves a pair of behaviours—a signal and a response—that are functionally interdependent. Consequently, the emergence of communic

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How "Cognitive Linguistics" started as an organized enterprise: dlc.hypotheses.org/4252

Witnessing the birth of “Cognitive Linguistics” 37 years ago

In early April 1989, the international “Cognitive Linguistics” movement was born. Probably not everyone knows that it has a precise birthday, so let me recount the event here from my own perspective –...

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When you’re in your 40s, it’s rare to come across a story that still manages to surprise you. Stories are well executed but you’ve seen them before. So what a joy to discover Frieren, an anime that so subtly plays with expectations youtu.be/Iwr1aLEDpe4?...

Frieren: Beyond Journey's End | OFFICIAL TRAILER

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Feeling likewise. Some useful constructions feel dirty and forbidden now

Berna Devezer@devezer.bsky.social · 6mo ago

i love m-dashes. i use 'not only but also' type of constructions in certain kinds of writing. i am not ai. i find the implication that i might be depressing. just as i dislike defensive academic writing targeting reviewers, i'd regret having to adopt defensive writing habits to prove i'm not a bot.

What happens if you forget that science is a collective human activity, and that you need to foster talent to continue that activity when you’re gone www.science.org/content/arti...

Constructions = grammar in action: social, rhetorical, meaningful. Excited for this conference, hosted by none other than @randyallenharris.bsky.social!

Randy Allen Harris@randyallenharris.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Constructions and Figures Symposium at the University of Waterloo 28 & 29 May 2026 featuring Jeanne Fahnestock, @adelegoldberg.bsky.social and @congramqueen.bsky.social. #rhetoric, #linguistics, #constructiongrammar @uwaterlooarts.bsky.social @uwaterloo.ca @uw-english.bsky.social

Interview met Luc Steels, Ann Dooms en mij over de rol van universiteiten in de ontwikkeling van AI @anndooms.bsky.social vubtomorrow.be/nl/vooraanst...

VUB-experts waarschuwen: AI-ontwikkeling dreigt te eenzijdig te worden

VUB-experts Ann Dooms en Luc Steels waarschuwen: AI wordt te sterk gestuurd door grote techbedrijven. Universiteiten blijven cruciaal voor nieuwe doorbraken.

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Backpropagation and gradient descent also have obvious limitations, and these very limitations made them impractical in those decades. Specifically they require data and compute that were not available. 1960s-1970s academia/industry were quite pragmatic actually

⚡️🌙@dystopiabreaker.xyz · 6mo ago

backpropagation and gradient descent are old ideas, too, arguably dating back to the 1960s and 1970s. but academia and industry were hypnotized by symbolic logic, expert systems, etc, despite their obvious and apparent limitations

How do scientific ideas in #AI actually evolve? Join me on March 19 in Paris. Details in the link below tinyurl.com/2n3r9vb8

Phylo-Epistemic Networks for Understanding the Science of Artificial Intelligence

Artificial intelligence is often portrayed as a linear story of breakthroughs and progress. This talk proposes a different perspective: AI research evolves as a network of interacting ideas, communiti...

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The “how it started vs. how it’s going” memes practically write themselves

New book out in the CAL Series: "The Development of the Chinese Cleft Construction: A diachronic constructional approach" by Fangqiong Zhan doi.org/10.1075/cal.41 #ConstructionGrammar

An OpenClaw agent makes a pull request to matplotlib. Mainter rejects PR. The OpenClaw agent authors a blog post accusing the maintainer of discrimination and gatekeeping. Maintainer responds theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-...

The score is still Q to 12!

Arin Arcady@rnrkd.bsky.social · 7mo ago

I'm sorry the guy changing the rules on the fly is named what

“For more than a century, scientific journals have been the pipes through which knowledge of the natural world flows into our culture. Now they’re being clogged with AI slop” www.theatlantic.com/science/2026...

Science Is Drowning in AI Slop

Peer review has met its match.

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Excited to share that our book "History of Ideas in the Science of AI" (co-authored with Luc Steels and Ann Dooms) is now freely available as #OpenAccess! #OpenScience, #AIResearch, #HistoryOfAI doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

First time I did a genuine book signing session. Feels great!

This is one of the reasons why I doubling down on writing in a more personal, narrative style, even though I’m catching a lot of flak for it from reviewers. The original reason was that I didn’t want to get bored by my own texts when revising

Richard Sever@richardsever.bsky.social · 9mo ago

ChatGPTzero says my abstract (written preLLMs) has a "high" probability of being written by AI: "consistently formal tone, smooth logical progression...lack of idiosyncratic stylistic variation...coherent and well-structured" IOW written by an editor... journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

David Lightfoot once quipped: “Subjacency has many virtues, but...it could not have increased the chances of having fruitful sex.” But if you see how many people are swayed by LLMs, it seems that smoothtalkers do have an advantage www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Leading AI expert delays timeline for its possible destruction of humanity

Former OpenAI employee Daniel Kokotajlo says progress to AGI is ‘somewhat slower’ than first predicted

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Sounds like an interesting and important project. I would have applied if I were twenty years younger

John Mansfield@johnbasil.bsky.social · 8mo ago

I'm hiring! 2 x PhD positions to work at Uni Zurich with me on "Evolutionary Semantics" for an ERC-funded project. semantically curious MA grads from linguistics, cog psych, anthro encouraged to apply evolvinglanguage.ch/studying-the...

So happy to see this book published - a great collaboration with Luc Steels and Ann Dooms. Open Access version is coming soon, but if you happen to be in Brussels this Thursday, you're welcome to join us for the book's official launch: lnkd.in/e_envZx9 #ArtificialIntelligence #HistoryOfScience

Outside in the cold pre-frying fries for tonight (so the smell doesn’t enter the house). You can take the man out of Belgium, but you can’t take Belgium out of the man 🇧🇪🍟 Merry Christmas to all of you 🎁🎄

Very interesting. But rather than calling it “the” science of falling in love, be clear that it’s about brain correlates. There’s undoubtedly much more to the topic than what our brains are doing

Science News@scinews.bsky.social · 9mo ago

🎯A thread about the brain The science of falling in love

I love arriving at work and having a new book waiting for me. Just in time for the holiday break! #ConstructionGrammar

New Publication: "Understanding Conversational AI: Philosophy, Ethics, and Social Impact of Large Language Models" (270 pages, Ubiquity Press, open access). Feel free to read it and share it widely! www.ubiquitypress.com/books/m/10.5...