Niklas Erben Johansson

A linguist who likes cognitive biases and maps

[Theresa Matzinger @thematzing]

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: https://t.co/522vZdc8sG Looking forward to seeing you there! @protolang_conf

[Mikael Nilsson 🇺🇦 @ars_gravitatis]

’Only the NSDAP can save Germany!’ Musk comes out and announces that only fascists can save Germany. Unsurprising, or course, but the mask has really come off now.

[Johan Wicklén @johanwicklen]

I Sverige har vi ett lågt bruk av cannabis och det är det som är det viktiga. Att vi sen inte kan vara riktigt säkra på att vi faktiskt har ett lågt bruk av cannabis är en annan fråga. Och den frågan ska inte diskuteras.

[A.Benítez-Burraco @abenitezburraco]

Evidence of hierarchical organization and nonadjacent dependencies in the action sequences by chimpanzees during tool use
https://t.co/bYg5zkFG8g

[Alex Voronov @alexvoronov]

Händelser vi minns…

[New Liberals 🇺🇦🇹🇼🌐 @CNLiberalism]

Watching a cold-blooded assassination becoming normalized on the left isn’t actually surprising if you have been watching them for the past couple of years, but nonetheless is shocking to see play out in real-time

[A.Benítez-Burraco @abenitezburraco]

String figures might have a common origins, but have been also subject to cultural transmission, innovation, and convergent evolution 👈remarkable similarities to human languages
https://t.co/iHRdSvt5Ei

[Michael Pleyer @symbolicstorage]

Super honoured that my project proposal "Paths to Polysemy: Integrating Approaches to the Role of Polysemy in the Evolutionary Dynamics of Language" was selected for funding by the Polish National Science Center @NCN_PL in the #OPUS27 grant competition

[Christian Lindell🇸🇪🇺🇦 @lindellch]

What!!?

[Carl Bildt @carlbildt]

Good to be reminded of the referendum OTD 33 years ago on whether 🇺🇦 should seek independence. There was a clear YES majority in every single part of the country.

[Mira of Kyiv 🇺🇦 @reshetz]

Uh so here’s the candidate leading the presidential race in Romania chilling with dugin

[A.Benítez-Burraco @abenitezburraco]

Now we have easy access to small-scale typological databases thanks to CrossGram
https://t.co/6lhLSLKXrC
👇Superuseful description of CrossGram by @haspelmath here:
https://t.co/jA5zoMmE1m

[Martin Haspelmath @haspelmath]

Introducing the CrossGram collection of typological databases https://t.co/liAr8DKO3E

[A.Benítez-Burraco @abenitezburraco]

The shared genetic architecture and evolution of human language and musical rhythm
https://t.co/gedYhSfrfS

[Amanda Sokolnicki @A_Sokolnicki]

Av alla råd till @MuharremDemirok måste ändå ”gör som Liberalerna!” vara det överlägset sämsta. https://t.co/18pXvpmQoR

[Gabrielius Landsbergis🇱🇹 @GLandsbergis]

If I had a nickel for every time a Chinese ship was dragging its anchor on the bottom of the Baltic Sea in the vicinity of important cables I would have two nickels, which isn't much, but it's weird that it happened twice.

[MPI-EVA Leipzig @MPI_EVA_Leipzig]

Celebrating 50 years of Quantitative Cultural Evolution! 🥳 @PNASNews Special Feature explores origins, development & future of this multidisciplinary research field. @tice_lab @CreanzaLab @MPI_EVA_Leipzig @Stanford @VanderbiltU https://t.co/PGoFuVLTvZ & https://t.co/1x6na8ovft

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

This is Putin's response to Scholz's phone call. Words show weakness and invite escalation, as always.

[Mikael Nilsson 🇺🇦 @ars_gravitatis]

Musk and Trump are attacking exactly those things that Timothy Snyder warns us about in his “On Tyranny”. It is institutions that make up democratic government, and that is what fascism wants to destroy. In fact, it starts by attacking our trust and belief in those institutions