Angela Chira

PostDoc at @MPI_EVA_Leipzig. Big questions, human culture, birds, and code! Part of the wonderful @CoOL_MPI

[Angela Chira @ChiraAngela]

Read GGS in 2018, before actually started working with cultural data. Strong pull! Some years (and grey hairs) later, thrilled to see our paper out in the world: Geography is not destiny - A quantitative test of Diamond's axis of orientation hypothesis https://t.co/gJ93VXfCSI

[Václav Hrnčíř @VaclavHrncir]

My and @ChiraAngela's cross-cultural study on alcohol and its role in the rise of political complexity is finally published 🍻🎉 (1/5)

#Alcohol #Science #CulturalEvolution

https://t.co/Irt4NWq5qb

[Evolutionary Human Sciences @Journal_EHS]

Our most downloaded article in Evolutionary Human Science is now available! This groundbreaking piece of research has captured the attention of readers worldwide. Discover the latest insights and innovations from the top minds in the field. Read #1 now>https://t.co/r8wVYMvvbU

[Annika Tjuka @annikatjuka.bsky.social @AnnikaTjuka]

🎥All video recordings of the talks at our workshop are now available online. You can watch them on YouTube and catch up on the knowledge and inspiration shared!
https://t.co/WCLRUrslwJ

[MPI-EVA Leipzig @MPI_EVA_Leipzig]

Animals can live alongside humans if they are risk-analysis experts. This is according to a new study in @eLife by @alexisjbreen @MPI_EVA_Leipzig & @dominik_deffner @mpib_berlin. More: https://t.co/tB1xrycaY6 & https://t.co/EDlre80U7S

[Mason Youngblood @MasYoungblood]

New paper from @oleg_sobchuk and @artjomshl about different algorithms for clustering genres in literary fiction! https://t.co/a92sMzJ7Fl

[MPI-EVA Leipzig @MPI_EVA_Leipzig]

Geography is not destiny: New research by @ChiraAngela, Russell Gray & Carlos Botero shows that environmental barriers have influenced the spread of cultural innovations but do not consistently favour Eurasia. https://t.co/EblIRlEUgz & https://t.co/YwWrJ7KgLX

[Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rlmcelreath]

Likert scores are not integers and they cannot be subdued by pretense. Stop pretending and meet me in the warm 3rd circle of stats hell and learn about ordered categorical models. Lecture: https://t.co/n8QZ1e46hv

[Prof. Anjali Goswami FRS @anjgoswami]

We got the whole gang together (actually a few gangs) for a 9 hour power session to finish off our new team-written review paper on #AI for evolutionary morphology. 50 pages and 6 case studies later, the preprint is out! https://t.co/OqOTpNDXpm. Website w/ links to tools up soon!

[Angela Chira @ChiraAngela]

@FBabarovic Heeeey! That’s so lovely she’s still with you! 💙💙

[Václav Hrnčíř @VaclavHrncir]

Looking for a student assistant interested in cultural diversity and evolution to help me with the digitization of the cross-cultural database.

Deadline: August 15.

https://t.co/XshBaboeTI

[Angela Chira @ChiraAngela]

@Laserhedvig how is he so cute? 💛🧡

[MaxPlanck-Psycholinguistics @MPI_NL]

What shapes the structure of languages? The Grambank database, initiated by the MPI for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen and the MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig contains a third of the world’s 7000 languages—and their grammatical structure.

https://t.co/oAeFjFPaXm

[Aymeric Hermann @aymerichermann]

Here is a paper out now in @ScienceAdvances where we used geochemical fingerprinting of stone artefacts to highlight long-distance voyaging in the western Pacific during the last millenium.
https://t.co/9Kod9aYEe2
@umr8068 @CNRS @MPI_EVA_Leipzig 🧵 1/9

[Alison Wright @alielw]

Interested in the #evolution and #genomics of exaggerated sexual ornaments?

@ACCE_DTP #PhD to work with me, @Jon_Slate, @scottishwormboy & @andrew_pom

More info here: https://t.co/jLZGK0a0Ib

Deadline: 8th May
📢Please RT!📢

@EEB_Sheffield
#stalkeyedflies #singlecellRNAseq

[MPI-EVA Leipzig @MPI_EVA_Leipzig]

"The Use of Wooden Clubs and Throwing Sticks among Recent Foragers" - New study by @MPI_EVA_Leipzig researcher @VaclavHrncir now out in the journal Human Nature: https://t.co/hSvldBtyin See also, via @SAPIENS_org https://t.co/5yuaKZte9O

[Angela Chira @ChiraAngela]

Excited to see our cross-cultural analysis on dog-human relationships out there and ready to read!
What predicts how we treat our dogs? https://t.co/2pOSIrAsDT

[MPI-EVA Leipzig @MPI_EVA_Leipzig]

Intl. research team has sequenced the #genome of #Beethoven using five genetically matching locks of his hair. It offers clues to the composer's health & family history. Johannes Krause @MPI_EVA_Leipzig contributed to the study. https://t.co/8OX0pLqHVV & https://t.co/2Js6IU19We

[Maarten Larmuseau @MHDLarmuseau]

Today we finally published the genomic analyses of hair locks from world-famous music composer Ludwig van #Beethoven. The #genome offers clues to his health and family history! 🧬💇‍♂️ @CurrentBiology https://t.co/aI9J4cNoL0 (credits: Beethoven-Haus Bonn; T. Begg)
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