a man sits at a desk with a can of diet coke next to him ALT: a man sits at a desk with a can of diet coke next to him

TIL "There is little evidence that spicy food in hot countries is an adaptation to reducing infection risk"

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

You can read about our research at the Department for Linguistic and Cultural Evolution at @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social , our webpages have gotten an overhaul :)!

www.eva.mpg.de/linguistic-a...

Frozen Pizza Reviewed By Pizza Expert YouTube video by BuzzFeedVideo

the pizza one has a surprise ending!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAnK...

Cheap Coffee Reviewed By A Coffee Expert YouTube video by BuzzFeedVideo

here's coffee 😅😂☕

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cu-S...

Cheap Wine Reviewed By An Irish Brewmaster YouTube video by BuzzFeedVideo

say what you will about buzzfeed, but their series where they get food&drink experts to try cheap-ass versions of the product they've devoted their life to is chef's kiss 👌
here's the wine one
www.youtube.com/watch?v=840w...

Eine Grafik mit Bildern von SPD-Justizministerin Stefanie Hubig, CSU-Innenminister Alexander Dobrindt und Palantir-Gründer Peter Thiel. Darüber der Slogan: "Keine KI-Massenüberwachung durch die Hintertür. Lex Palantir stoppen!"

Während #Palantir ein Manifest voller rechtsextremer Talking Points veröffentlicht, droht die Bundesregierung KI-Massenüberwachung durch die Hintertür einzuführen.

Das darf nicht passieren.

Wir sollten unsere Grundrechte vor KI-Überwachung & Big Tech schützen – statt sie schleichend auszuhöhlen.

two images of the human body's circulatory system. One of them with good cable management

The human circulatory system, before and after proper cable management.

I can highly recommend drinking Earl/Lady Grey tea when eating mapo tofu. The bergamott really hypes up the sichuan pepper even more, because citrus I guess.

100%!!
I'm so glad @stadtleipzig.bsky.social has City Flitzer, it saves so much space and waste
cityflitzer.de

„The only remaining way to mitigate this situation is to reduce the number of applications.“

They’ve tried nothing and are all out of ideas? Whether this is good or bad, it is unjustified. There is no impact analysis, no engagement with research on funding procedures. Government by vibes

Does anyone know a German labour law expert?
I have a very specific question, and I'm struggling to get advice.

Reviving voices: A decade-long project preserves the Kam language in Taraba IN a quiet corner of northeastern Nigeria, a decade-long cultural effort has culminated in a landmark achievement for language preservation and community identity. On March 31, the village of Sarki…

Hurray for the Kam Documentation Project in Nigeria!
tribuneonlineng.com/reviving-voi...

Is there a length contrast for the same sounds, or is it just that some vowels have longer duration than others? It looks like the second, right?

If you use LLM services like ChatGPT, I think that you should donate to wikipedia. donate.wikimedia.org . It's a great project, a great step forward for humanity at large and it's also what a lot of LLM draws on when you ask it questions about the world around us.

why does honey & Glühwein behave like that
(wiping down everything somehow)

We have seen this before, with the kidnapping of Maduro or the mass protests against ICE raids – fake images of real events. While these synthetic images fictionalize reality, they are not necessarily meant as disinformation. Rather, they both illustrate and cater to wide-spread expectations
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For specifics on PhD candidates in the @maxplanck.de , here's the most recent survey from the Max Planck PhDNet. Looks pretty ok, all things considered
www.phdnet.mpg.de/233235/1_PhD...

Xkcd cartoon explaining that making fun of people for not knowing stuff is training them to not share their joy of discovery with you - so everyone loses.

The last week has been an absolute joy, watching so many folk get incredibly lit up by SCIENCE! 🎉🎉🎉

Yet, inevitably, some people asking well-meant & genuinely curious questions had "LOL u r SO DUMB" comments flung at them.

This is snobbish and self-defeating!

Here's a cartoon explaining why.

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The longer a man stays in a form not his own, the greater this peril.

also, for swedish: no spelling or auto complete tool seems to have understood compounding so it's usually bad anyway

cool to know!
here's our boy Sandy doing what he wants, which is to be squeezed between the love of his life (my husband) and the sofa

“There’s an idea that should be retired: chimpanzees as a model for who humans used to be.

We’ve evolved separately for millions of years. They’re not our ancestors, but a species to understand on their own terms.

🎥 Watch City of Science: Jane Goodall and Her Legacy youtu.be/gdA0HHdTF3s?...

Best Star Trek crew, wrong answers only:

exactly! this is the wild stuff that's part of the recruitment process now. I assume the senior staff at the places we're applying to often aren't aware of these questions are included.

a woman is sitting on a couch with her hands on her head and a mtv logo behind her ALT: a woman is sitting on a couch with her hands on her head and a mtv logo behind her

if you work at a university department and you're recruiting new people - get involved in the administrative recruitment procedure. the things they're getting us to do is destructive to the field and ourselves.
examples: list _declined_ positions and sum Impact Factor of publications

a man with long curly hair and a mustache is wearing a pink unicorn shirt . ALT: a man with long curly hair and a mustache is wearing a pink unicorn shirt .

Our most recent episode of @becauselanguage.com is a really nice chat about language trickery - what can these pranks tell us about how language works?
becauselanguage.com/135-linguist...

A two-panel chart titled "Uppsala emissions down" with the subtitle "Change in total and breakdown by sector." The upper panel is a line chart showing the percentage change in Uppsala's total greenhouse gas emissions relative to 1990, from 1990 to around 2023. Emissions rose slightly through the 2000s before falling sharply, reaching −44% by 2023. The lower panel is a stacked area chart showing absolute emissions in kilotons by sector over the same period. At its peak around 2010, total emissions were close to 1100 kt and almost halved by 2023 to 550 kt. Electricity and heat (orange) is the largest sector and has declined the most; Transport (indigo), Agriculture (grey), and Other (light grey) make up the rest. Source: Nationella emissionsdatabasen, SMHI.

#day7 of #30DayChartChallenge, Multiscale

code: github.com/gkaramanis/3...

#RStats #dataviz

📦 My first #RStats package on CRAN:

{readelan}

A package dedicated to reading all files associated with ELAN: eaf, etf, ecv. Reads annotations, metadata, controlled vocabularies. Relevant for many in #linguistics perhaps?

More info here:
borstell.github.io/misc/readelan/

Something I learned from Star Wars is that if a door is locked, you shoot the control panel to open it.

If a door is open and someone is chasing you, you also shoot the control panel to close it.

Just shoot control panels

👏🙏👏🙏👏🙏👏🙏👏🙏👏🙏