Scientists invented a fake disease. AI told people it was real www.nature.com/articles/d41...

It's going to take a while to sort out the AI slop and hallucinations.

Cognitive scientists and AI researchers make a forceful call to reject “uncritical adoption" of AI in academia A new paper calls on academia to repel rampant AI in university departments and classrooms.

With students heading back to the classroom, a group of cognitive scientists and AI researchers has published one of the most forceful and evidence-backed calls yet to reject the "uncritical adoption of AI" in academia:

Image shows just two example headlines from prominent media outlets earlier this week, heralding a newly published discovery that supposedly "rewrites human evolution". Left side, from the BBC: "Million-year-old skull rewrites human evolution, scientists claim"; right side, from the New York Post: "1M-year-old skull discovery could change everything we know about human evolution".

New analysis of a 1-million yr old fossil skull captured worldwide media attention this week, with many headlines saying it requires a complete rewrite/rethink of human evolution. This is an intriguing study & it's brilliant to see so much public enthusiasm for deciphering our origins, but....1/n 🧪

Hive mind: If you want to communicate “stop!” with an emoji, would you use 🤚, 🖐️, ✋, 🙅 or a different one? Can you give an example and in which situation?

Helen Lewis on The Genius Myth Yascha Mounk and Helen Lewis discuss why we look for the extraordinary.

Helen Lewis and Yasha Mounk on ‘the genius myth’ www.persuasion.community/p/helen-lewi...

Diabolus Ex Machina This Is Not An Essay

Amazing account of ChatGPT's sycophancy and confabulation on steroids.

amandaguinzburg.substack.com/p/diabolus-e...

Shared semantics: Exploring the interface between human and chimpanzee gestural communication Henderson et al. 2024 Mind and LanguageAbstractStriking similarities across ape gestural repertoires suggest shared phylogenetic origins that likely provided...

Dr Matt Henderson does an awesome job narrating his paper, "Shared semantics- Exploring the interface between human and chimpanzee gestural communication" 🐒 👩‍👦 .
Check it out here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqHB...

Patel-Grosz et al. 2023 Primate origins of discourse-managing gestures: the case of hand fling Read by Mathew HendersonThe last decades have seen major advances in the study of gestures both in humans and non-human primates. In this paper, we seriously...

Back with another audio paper 🎧! Interested in gestures humans share with chimpanzees? Dr Matt Henderson narrates Patel-Grosz et al’s paper, “Primate origins of discourse-managing gestures- the case of hand fling” 🦾
Listen: www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQRl...
#WildMindsLab #MondayMicDrop #STEM #science

Do chimpanzees have rhythm? Listen to their drumming. New research on the rhythmic drumming and complex calls of chimpanzees could point scientists to the origins of language.

One of my favorite articles I've worked on—as a drummer aspiring to be as good as these chimps one day!

@vestaeleuteri.bsky.social @nakedprimate.bsky.social and their team find chimpanzees drum rhythmically to communicate

Pritty Patel-Grosz - Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies Read this story on the University of Oslo's website.

Hi Emily! I’m a linguist working on meaning in the natural world, focusing on body movement in human and non-human primates. I’d be very grateful if you can add me to the list. Staff page: www.hf.uio.no/iln/english/...

Joint work with Ragnhild Solberg, Jonah Katz, Mai Ha Vu, Alexander Jensenius and Patrick Grosz. /4

a group of peanuts characters are dancing on a stage with yahoo written in the corner ALT: a group of peanuts characters are dancing on a stage with yahoo written in the corner

EDM syntax shows that similar cognitive principles are at play in two different modalities, audio (EDM) and visual (comics), allowing for one-to-one mappings between visual categories and EDM categories. /3

a woman playing music on a pioneer dj ALT: a woman playing music on a pioneer dj

We argue: EDM tracks exhibit a structural organization centered around the core sections—parts of tracks in which the main groove is maintained and the bass line and bass drum are present. Core sections are typically preceded by a buildup that culminates in the Drop. /2

EDM is produced electronically with the aim to encourage dancing. It is a type of music that encompasses a range of genres, such as house, techno, trance, garage, dubstep, hardstyle, or drum’n’bass. /1

A wave form of an EDM track on the bottom with the syntactic analysis above

Electronic dance music (EDM) exhibits a hierarchical structure also found in comics/cartoons! Out now in Musicae Scientiae🧪https://ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/008866 thread below:

🚨 Job opportunity 🚨
A 3-year post doc position is opening as part of my #APELANG project funded by the @agencerecherche.bsky.social

It’s about multimodal combinatorial communication in wild #chimpanzees 🐵

Job ad here: maelleroux-research.weebly.com/apelang.html
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The Emoji Workshop - Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies The project “Semantics and Pragmatics of Emojis in Digital Communication (EmDiCom)” (funded by the German Research Foundation, DFG) is hosting a one-day workshop on the linguistics of emojis at the Un...

Call for papers 👀 🧪
The Emoji Workshop🤩🫶🏽 to take place August 29 2025, University of Oslo

**Abstract submission deadline: May 16**

The workshop will be accompanied by a panel discussion on ‘Emoji meaning: stability and variation’

www.hf.uio.no/iln/english/...

A sad day for the world of great ape language research.

www.apeinitiative.org/remembering-...

Don't forget to submit your abstracts for #Protolang9 in Vienna in September 2025! Submission deadline for individual papers and workshops: February 14, 2025. More info: protolang9.univie.ac.at Looking forward to seeing you there!

Hi! Thanks a lot for compiling and sharing! Would be grateful to be added!

Thanks for compiling! Would love to be added, I work on cross cultural co-speech gesture use.

Oh no I’m sorry! I find day two to be the toughest, then pure energy after that - I hope you’ll feel this way too! ✨

What kind of childhood makes a top scientist? Is it enough to have all the right traits (brilliance, grit, etc) or do you need the right family too?

And why should we care? A 🧵 on our paper on the Nobel Laureates.

A teaser: the income distribution of the laureates' fathers.
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Thanks for compiling! I’m a linguist working with primatologists and zoologists on structure and meaning in gestures and dance in chimps, bonobos and gibbons, I’d be grateful to be added!

Thanks for compiling! I’d be grateful to be added. I’m a linguist, working on language evolution through dance and gesture cognition.

Woo hoo! 1K new followers, welcome to 💙🦋!

For science-minded folks, there are some very cool tricks 🚀…

If you use any of these emojis: 👩‍🔬|👩🏻‍🔬|👩🏼‍🔬|👩🏽‍🔬|👩🏾‍🔬|👩🏿‍🔬 your post will index on a Women in STEM feed

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Thanks for compiling! I’d love to be added. I’m a linguist collaborating with primatologists and zoologist on dance and gesture in human and non-human primates.

Thanks for compiling, I’d love to be added. I’m a linguist collaborating with primatologists and zoologist on dance and gesture in human and non-human primates.

Pritty Patel-Grosz/ Overview

Thanks a lot for compiling! Would love to be added, I’m a linguist collaborating with primatologists and zoologists on gesture and dance in human and non-human primates. Orcid no: 0000-0002-5560-6451

Site: sites.google.com/view/prittyp...