Alexandru Craevschi

PhD candidate @DeptCompLangSci, interested in historical linguistics and typology. Working on models of analogical change

[NCCR Evolving Language @NCCR_Language]

📣The @brain_lang_lab has published their #openscience #language #dataset by Alessandra Rampinini, Irene Balboni, Olga Kepinska, Raphael Berthele and Narly Golestani in Springer Nature.

https://t.co/D2Lpjcg1Ne

[Daniel Jeffries @Dan_Jeffries1]

Here's a rundown of my favorite books of 2024. Links at the end of the thread.

I start with my favorite book of the year by far:

A Brief History of Intelligence.

It's an exquisite masterclass in writing and research. At one point I realized I'd highlighted nearly every page. By the end I'd made a big list from the bibliography to follow up on dozens of threads from its pages.

I love books by authors who become positively obsessed with an idea and follow it with the single minded focus of a maniac. That's what happened with author Max Bennett who traces the evolution of our minds from simple clusters of neurons to complex thinking wetware, all while tying it into our all-out quest to create artificial thinking machines.

The result is a hauntingly beautiful masterpiece filled with deep insights into how our brains came to be.

[Lisa Koßmann @lisa_kossmann]

Proud to introduce the QIP-Machine!

It can can be used to easily and transparently compute a wide range of quantitative image properties for digital images 📸
📄 Preprint: https://t.co/kuDwMmcmyY

Links and more in the comments 👇
#QIPmachine #OpenScience #OpenAccess #Preprint

[Eva Vivalt @evavivalt]

We are happy to release the first results of a RCT of a US program that provided $1,000/month unconditionally for 3 years to 1,000 individuals in the treatment group, with a group of 2,000 people receiving $50/month serving as the control.

These are sizable transfers. 1/ 🧵

[Science News @SciencNews]

Ten simple rules for developing good reading habits during graduate school and beyond (1/4)

@PLOSCompBiol #paperwriting #PhD #PhDlife #academics #AcademicChatter #AcademicTwitter

[Gerd Carling @CarlingGerd]

My new text book "Linguistic Archaeology" will soon be out! The book deals with methods of reconstructing language in prehistory, from the comparative method to typology and phylogenetics. https://t.co/k9SxVBoWDI

[ManyLanguages @ManyLanguagesC]

We are pleased to launch ManyLanguages, a globally distributed network of laboratories that helps coordinating #BigTeamScience data collection for studies on human language 🎉🥳

https://t.co/ByhgzH0AlQ

[John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch]

NEW: an ideological divide is emerging between young men and women in many countries around the world.

I think this one of the most important social trends unfolding today, and provides the answer to several puzzles.

[NCCR Evolving Language @NCCR_Language]

👨‍💻Many #job #offers (#PhD, #postdoc and #labmanager) in the fields of #Linguistics, #DataScience, #Cognitive #Neurosciences and more, are available on our website. Join us on our quest to elucidate the mysteries of language evolution!

https://t.co/QiP3nmoSEV

[Liam Revell @phytools_liam]

It's official -- I've now published the world's longest software note* on #phytools 2.0 with @PeerJLife: https://t.co/0r5QBdMh4v. (*I'm barely joking, people. It's 75 pages long!) 1/6

[Henry Shevlin @dioscuri]

Quick lesson in the dangers of data contamination. Years ago, I came up with an acronym for remembering the periods of the Paleozoic era — “Catastrophic Overthrow Started Different Colder Period”. I was curious if ChatGPT could guess what it stood for. 1/4

[NCCR Evolving Language @NCCR_Language]

👨‍💻Many #job #offers (#PhD and #postdoc) in the fields of #Linguistics, #DataScience, #Cognitive #Neurosciences and more, are available on our website. Join us on our quest to elucidate the mysteries of language evolution!

@UniNeuchatel @UZH_ch @snsf_ch
https://t.co/QiP3nmoSEV

[Martin Haspelmath @haspelmath]

The "Oxford handbook of word classes" (ed. by Eva van Lier) is now published (2023). My paper ("Word class universals... https://t.co/hdi32DSZhg

[John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch]

NEW: Does the American Dream foster inequality?

Let’s start with a shocking stat:

These two things are simultaneously true:
• The richest Americans are the richest in the world
• Food poverty is more severe in America than in any other developed country

[Open Text Collections @OpenTextColl]

We are happy and proud to officially launch our website https://t.co/Se5KmHMdL1. We have 30+ text collections in the pipeline, the first of which will be published in 2024.

[George Wⓐlkden @gwalkden]

A new paper by me and my team has just appeared, in full Open Access. It’s about the project STARFISH, which looks at what happens in the history of languages when people learn those languages as adults. https://t.co/DLbIPyN576 (1/2)

[Alberto Acerbi @acerbialberto]

Job offer! 2-year postdoc @UniTrento on analysis of social media from a cultural evolution perspective. More details at the link.
Contact me if interested - please RT!
https://t.co/LvFUVTTaL4

[John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch]

NEW: we need to talk about UK graduate wages, and the idea that Britain sends too many people to university.

American readers should stick around for the UK/US comparisons 👀

Let’s start with this: the UK graduate wage premium has fallen substantially over the last 25 years

[Joseph Mine @JosephMine95]

Killer whales can teach us a thing or two about communication complexity... but only if we rise up to the challenge! #killerwhales @lets_experiment

We are crowdfunding in order to support the participation of motivated students in our expedition 🙏

--> https://t.co/g3EpyClJ7T

[Adam Ozimek @ModeledBehavior]

Thanks to immigrants, the US won 75% of Nobel prizes in 2023. Without them, we only would have won 25%.

High skilled immigration is a policy lever for more innovation unlike anything else. Oh and its free.