NCCR Evolving Language

Exploring the past, present, and future of language 💬|🐵|🧠|📱 @unige_en @uzh_en @UniNeuchatel. Funded by @snsf_ch.

[NCCR Evolving Language @NCCR_Language]

Dear network,
This is our last post on the Twitter/X platform. To stay connected, you can find us on Linkedin (NCCR Evolving Language), Bluesky (https://t.co/XJHqidCO10) and Instagram (nccr_language)!
We hope to see you there and thank you for your support over the years! 💬🐵🧠

[Pierre Mégevand @pierre_vanmedge]

New PhD and post-doc job openings! Join me and Prof. Nina Kazanina @unige_en 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: job offer below

[NCCR Evolving Language @NCCR_Language]

📣#Job alert! The Technology Platform LiRI at @UZH_en is looking for Data Science Consultant specialized in #statistics, in collaboration with the NCCR Evolving Language!

More details here: https://t.co/v63IDkWvTh

[Dr. Lekhnath S Pathak (PhD in Cognitive Science) @LekhnathPathak]

Discussion with Prof. Bickel, Director @NCCR_Language Prof. Stoll, Dr. Jung and Sonja on language acquisition and evolution in relation to newly started research on Gurung language acquisition. @UZH_en @snsf_ch
https://t.co/vqRwxwkMcq

[Université de Genève @UNIGEnews]

🐉 Jeudi 3 avril, apprenez-en plus sur l'histoire des #chimères, ces créatures hybrides imaginaires, lors d'une table ronde organisée par le @NCCR_Language

🐈 Vendredi 4 avril, le prof. Eric Baratay parlera de nos amis les #chats
Les chats, devenus compagnons privilégiés en Occident, ont traversé une histoire mouvementée, s'adaptant aux changements d'attitudes humaines, au point de devenir aujourd’hui des «chatchiens».

📅 Du 31 mars au 6 avril
Programme complet👉https://t.co/a9sBlR1fMF

[NCCR Evolving Language @NCCR_Language]

📍 Retrouvez le PRN Evolving Language et ses expert-es "sur les traces des chimères" au Festival Histoire et Cité @HistoireCite, entre le 31 mars et le 6 avril !

Programme : https://t.co/ZY2ttRyvjK

[NCCR Evolving Language @NCCR_Language]

Vous êtes francophone et avez une bonne connaissance de l'allemand ? Participez à une étude scientifique en ligne sur le langage par @NoCeLab et aidez-les à comprendre l'influence du langage sur la cognition.

https://t.co/r4gIPGOh17

[NCCR Evolving Language @NCCR_Language]

Sind Sie deutschsprachig mit wenigen Französischkenntnisse? Dann nehmen Sie an einer wissenschaftlichen Online-Studie über Sprache von @NoCeLab teil und helfen Sie dabei, den Einfluss der Sprache auf die Kognition zu verstehen.

https://t.co/PmGNiXIAn6

[Simon W. Townsend @SimonWTownsend]

New paper @RSocPublishing investigating the representations underlying bonobo food and alarm calls w/Nicole Lahiff @zannaclay Amanda Epping, Jared Taglialatela and Katie Slocombe. @snsf_ch @UZH_Science @NCCR_Language

https://t.co/TBNAFozRS1

[NoCe Lab @NoCeLab]

Check out this nice teaser of one of the @NCCR_Language work packages we're involved in. Would like to know more? Reach out!

[NCCR Evolving Language @NCCR_Language]

@unige_en @FCBG_Neuro @CampusBiotech @snsf_ch

[NCCR Evolving Language @NCCR_Language]

🎞️How are words organised inside our head? The WP Information Integration studies the #networks of #words, and how they evolve during our lives. Dive into their #research in this video!

https://t.co/X6BXL9o9kq

[NCCR Evolving Language @NCCR_Language]

@uoregon @UOLinguistics @lsa2025_uo

[NCCR Evolving Language @NCCR_Language]

📢This summer, Sapir Professor Balthasar Bickel and Professor Sabine Stoll will teach a course at the Linguistics Society of America (LSA) Summer Institute on "Language in Use" hosted by the Uni. of Oregon Dep. of Linguistics.

Registrations are now open: https://t.co/qgRWDRljPi

[Valentina Borghesani @vborghesani]

@pierafilippi, the @NCCR_Language and I would like to ask the big questions: why do we even have language and how did it came about?

[Valentina Borghesani @vborghesani]

What do we need, in good as in bad times? A community. Today is as good a day as any to:
✨renew your @SNLmtg membership
✨submit an abstract or symposium to #SNL2025
✨ register for one of the many member-initiated virtual activities https://t.co/QjDEHFZnTc

[Silvia Marchesotti @sissymarche]

📣 IMAGINED SPEECH-BCI PAPER OUT! 📣
We trained healthy volunteers to control a Brain-Computer Interface by imagining pronouncing one of two syllables over 5 consecutive days. We found :
🧠 People indeed learn to control the system
https://t.co/vkOxMRB48x

[Valentina Borghesani @vborghesani]

I consider this part of my job duties, but to be honest it is among the aspect of the trade that I adore! Also, a lovely mention to @PenneAmiche which keeps my science dissemination efforts & stereotypes fights alive and well all through the school year since 2018 💙

[NCCR Evolving Language @NCCR_Language]

📰🔬Professors @PaolaMerlo20 and @vborghesani, and NCCR Outreach Officer Coralie Debracque, visited primary school classes of Geneva. The aim: present their daily lives as researchers - and as women scientists.

@CERN @unige_en

https://t.co/K030DuBVRj

[Valentina Borghesani @vborghesani]

(bragging rights earned) The upcoming talks of the Neuro-connect seminar series @FCBG_Neuro are absolutely ✨terrific✨! A real dive into #BrainScience and #Neuroscience thanks to @unige_en, @NCCR_Language, @CISA_UNIGE, @CIBM_ch, @Neuro_X_EPFL, @hug_ge, @Wysscenter. DM for info