Like most men my age, I'm becoming a podcast host 🥳 (here at @nccrlanguage.bsky.social ) ->

💬 Credits

Presented by Célia Lazzarotto, Giuachin Kreiliger, and Theophane Piette.

Produced by the PRN Evolving Language.

Original music and sound design by Mihel Kreiliger @extratoneaudio

Editing by Célia Lazzarotto. With thanks to Josias Agua Rosada and Mihel Kreiliger.

📣 The episodes, though they can be in English, French or German, will all be transcribed and translated, so you can follow everything! Find all transcripts and translations for the next episodes on our website.

www.evolvinglanguage.ch/polyvox-podcast/

Welcome to the Polyvox Podcast! - Trailer

🎙️Welcome to the Polyvox Podcast, a podcast where researchers from the ⁠NCCR Evolving Language⁠ talk about their discoveries and work in linguistics, neurosciences, animal cognition, and more.

🔗 open.spotify.com/episode/18x9...

🙋 Stay tuned for the first episode, next week, with Theophane Piette.

The Department of Basic Neurosciences of the Faculté de médecine - UNIGE and the NCCR Evolving Language are looking for an Assistant Professor with Tenure Track or Associate Professor in Computational Neuroscience.

Apply before May 26th! Full details here: jobs.unige.ch/www/wd_porta...

Student mental health is critical. Our new preprint (osf.io/preprints/ps...) shows how to strengthen it. We evaluated the effectiveness of the teaching module “Strengthening Mental Health Together”. The aim? Boost mental health literacy, insight orientation, study crafting and coping.

Our new paper is out in @intjprimatol.bsky.social!

Huge credit to Luca Wienand for an excellent bachelor's project on spatial and sociosexual behavior in common marmosets!

Read all about it here: shorturl.at/R5eju

@primatenzentrum.bsky.social @nccrlanguage.bsky.social @evocoggroup.bsky.social

The Department of Basic Neurosciences of UNIGE and the @nccrlanguage.bsky.social are looking for an Assistant Professor with Tenure Track or Associate Professor in Computational Neuroscience. Full details: jobs.unige.ch/www/wd_porta...
#neurojob #academicjob #compneuro

🐒 Second PhD chapter on sooty mangabeys out! The rule-based vocal sequences we first described? They might actually mean something! Females use specific combinations when handling others' infants, suggesting compositionality to signal benign intent 💞.

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Next month in Zurich for the workshop "Rivers" organized by the The Swiss School of Latin American Studies (SSLAS) and the Latin American Center Zurich - with a beautiful poster drawing! here the full program www.lzz.uzh.ch/dam/jcr:f5ea...

SAVE THE DATE!
SMBE Satellite Meeting on Gene–Culture Co-Evolution: Molecular Perspectives on Human History and Diversity
🌍 University of Cagliari, Italy
- Abstract submission and travel grants deadline: 30 April
- Registration opening soon
- Conference dates: 21-23 September 2026

🔬 We’re looking for a master's student for a thesis on "Nocturnal Vocalisations of Wild Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii)", starting around August 2026 in Neuchâtel.

More information: evolvinglanguage.ch/wp-content/u...

Supervision and contact: @noemiefreymond.bsky.social

I am looking for a MSc student to conduct their thesis within my PhD project on multimodal communication in common marmosets! 🐒🌞 You will be part of the Evolutionary Cognition Group at UZH (@nccrlanguage.bsky.social). Unpaid position (funding options would need to be applied for by the candidate).

What our brain hears beyond words - NCCR Evolving Language How do we know that a sentence was said by a woman? How do we know that what she told us was a question? Researchers from the University of Zurich and the NCCR Evolving Language described the complex ...

How do we know that a sentence was a question? Researchers from the UZH and our NCCR described the complex processes happening in our brain, that allow us to understand the information contained in pitch.

@fcbg-neuro.bsky.social @isle-uzh.bsky.social

evolvinglanguage.ch/what-our-bra...

Save the date: #SNL2026 in ✨Geneva Sept 29 – Oct 2✨ Don't miss a beat: renew your membership, draft up your abstract, start making travel plans, and keep an eye on this space and our website (2026.neurolang.org) for the latest updates!

Digging into the foundations of science with Sebastian Krapp - NCCR Evolving Language Sebastian Krapp likes to dig deep into the foundations of science. Now a newly appointed lecturer in the Mathematical Foundations of Language at the University of Zurich, and a member of the NCCR Evol...

📰 What does fundamental mathematics bring to the study of language evolution? Sebastian Krapp, lecturer in the Mathematical Foundations of Language at @isle-uzh.bsky.social and a member of the NCCR Evolving Language, throws light on the matter.

evolvinglanguage.ch/digging-into...

🛌 Chaque nuit, notre cerveau bascule dans un territoire singulier : celui des rêves.

Assistez à la leçon d'ouverture du semestre de printemps avec Prof. Sophie Schwartz!

👉 Le mystère des rêves - entre neurosciences et psychiatrie
📍 Mardi 17 février, 18h30 | Uni Dufour

www.unige.ch/cite/eveneme...

📣 We’re pleased to announce that our department will co-organize the 11th edition of the SwissText conference!
#SwissText2026 will take place on 10 June 2026, hosted at the University of Zurich (Campus Oerlikon). Save the date!

www.swisstext.org/current/

#NLProc #UZHai #CompLing

New PhD and post-doc job openings!

Join me and Prof. Nina Kazanina @ Uni Geneva, Switzerland, to take part in an exciting project on relations and binding in language and vision, explored with cutting-edge neurophysiology (#iEEG and MEG).

Full details in the job offer below.

Acknowledging the skills of local experts - NCCR Evolving Language Scientific expertise of local specialists is critical in animal behaviour research, but often under-recognized and under-appreciated. Based on research conducted at the Budongo Conservation Field Stat...

📰 The scientific expertise of local field assistants is immensely valuable in animal behaviour research, surpassing visiting international researchers, but it is often under-recognized. Researcher @adriansoldati.bsky.social explores this topic in a new article.

evolvinglanguage.ch/acknowledgin...

New paper out👂📢🐒! We highlight the remarkable expertise of local field assistants at BCFS (Uganda) in interpreting chimpanzee pant-hoot calls—identifying who is calling, their age, sex, and context—revealing scientific knowledge built through years of experience. doi.org/10.1098/rspb...

UZH: Machine Learning Expert (all genders) We seek to hire an expert in machine learning at the National Center of Competence in Research (NCCR) Evolving Language and its 46 different research groups from a large variety of disciplines across ...

📣 We are looking for a Machine Learning Expert! #jobad

Join the NCCR's team of data scientists, affiliated with the University of Zurich's Technology Platform LiRI. Help us advance our understanding of language using machine learning solutions 🖥️💬

👉 Apply here: jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancie...

Full room for the first day of #ABIM2026! A big shout-out to our sponsors @snsf.ch UNIGE @nccrlanguage.bsky.social @ant-neuro.com Lemanic Neuroscience Doctoral School (LNDS) @cibm.bsky.social Nordic NeuroLab @nirx-nirs.bsky.social ALLHERE @fcbg-neuro.bsky.social Commune de Champéry 🙏🏼

LINGUIST List 36.3752 Jobs: Computational Linguistics: Professor of Computational Linguistics, University of Geneva, Switzerland The LINGUIST List, International Linguistics Community Online.

Tenure-track Assistant Professor position in computational linguistics at UNIGE / @nccrlanguage.bsky.social The application deadline is around the corner (Jan 15)- don't miss it! linguistlist.org/issues/36/37...

‼️ Nous recherchons toujours des personnes bilingues français-allemand pour une importante étude sur le multilinguisme ! N'hésitez pas à partager et à participer si vous le pouvez ! Merci ! @nocelab.bsky.social @nccrlanguage.bsky.social

Great calendar with photos from many different aspects of research on language and its evolution!

The February photo is from our EEG 🧠 study on processing the Äiwoo language (Solomon Islands). We found an interesting pull btw language experience & universal heuristics: dx.doi.org/10.1111/cogs.13340

🎊 If you haven't found your calendar for 2026 yet, the NCCR is here to help! Made with amazing pictures from some of our collaborators, you can download and print at home the NCCR Evolving Language 2026 Calendar, available here: evolvinglanguage.ch/wp-content/u...

Wishing you a Happy New Year!

I'm very grateful to have been awarded grant funding from the European Research Council @erc.europa.eu . I like that this grant scheme allows for untried methods.

Studying the Evolution of Abstract Thought - NCCR Evolving Language In the new ERC-funded project, “Conceptual Diversity and the Evolution of Abstract Thought” (CONCEVO), Mansfield will lead a team of researchers to develop a method for reconstructing the evolution of...

@johnbasil.bsky.social has received an ERC grant for the project “Conceptual Diversity and the Evolution of Abstract Thought”, to develop a method for reconstructing the evolution of abstract concepts, especially spirituality, ethics, and social relations.

evolvinglanguage.ch/studying-the...

Anne-Lise Giraud : parlons chiens Natalité en berne : la France doit-elle refaire des bébés à tout prix ? Dès ses débuts, la voiture électrique avait son avenir plombé Un poulpe qui joue du piano ?

🐕 Anne-Lise Giraud : parlons chiens

🍼 Natalité en berne : la France doit-elle refaire des bébés à tout prix ?

🚙 Dès ses débuts, la voiture électrique avait son avenir plombé

🐙 Un poulpe qui joue du piano ?