Miranda (Mandy) Dickerman

Linguistics PhD student at UZH; MSc EvoLang from Edinburgh; I like primates and language acquisition.

[Silvan Spiess @BabblingBirds]

Check out my first ever paper in @IntJPrimatology🐦
Does an Australian bird produce syntax-like structures? W/ @SimonWTownsend @cheekybabbler @HelephantMylne @JosephMine95
In case you were wondering what a bird paper is doing in a primate journal, its part of a special issue. 🧵

[NCCR Evolving Language @NCCR_Language]

Ready for #JCoLE2022 @JCoLE2022? Our NCCR community kicks off on Sunday already! Then Monday will be busy with a lot of talks, including a plenary w/our PI Judith Burkart @EvoCogGroup
👉 NCCR authors: https://t.co/hSROof7fbB
@DeptCompLangSci @ISLE_uzh @labgiraud @cog_comp_Neuch

[National Geographic @NatGeo]

Amid her own health crisis, a photographer sought to portray those most vulnerable to COVID-19—and understand how they’ve managed https://t.co/FG0lpNP7UG

[Evolutionary Cognition Group @EvoCogGroup]

⚡️JOB ALERT: 2 PhD positions available, starting Oct⚡️ Key-words: interdependence, synchronization, thermography, machine learning, endocrinology, biology, psychology. Apply now and join our growing research group, located on the vibrant & green campus of @UZH_en
RT appreciated!

[A.Benítez-Burraco @abenitezburraco]

A cross-cultural examination of young children’s everyday language experiences
✔️the speech quantity to children is stable across ages
✔️child-directed speech primarily comes from women
❌ no clear differences between WEIRD and non-WEIRD communities
https://t.co/QWXKeJAf9l

[ISLE @ISLE_uzh]

🚨3-5 ECR positions (PhD or Postdoc, 4yrs), Project:'The evolution of structural units in language', Focus: word-like units in phylogenies & ontogenies worldwide & in IE history, PIs @BalthasarBickel @PaulWidmer2 @sabine_stoll,📌@DeptCompLangSci @ISLE_uzh https://t.co/nmLR9zQMeM

[Miranda (Mandy) Dickerman @ohio_mandy]

@rfran22 congrats!!! 🥳

[Blue Dragon @BlueDragonVN]

Families in central #Vietnam are in need of #emergency food supplies. Rain has stopped in many areas but water levels remain high and there are fears of another storm on Saturday.
https://t.co/i65smhMZ67

[DeepLabCut 🦄 @DeepLabCut]

Who's ready to contribute to open science?! 👀

A more extended sneak peak, plus more, from #teamDLC ... Oct 14th 🤗

#DeepLabCutModelZoo

[Blue Dragon @BlueDragonVN]

Major floods have hit Hue province due to massive storms. Blue Dragon is getting ready to distribute emergency food packs to families who have been impacted. A $20 donation will provide basic items to get a family through. Please consider donating!
https://t.co/z4CAhCaTbp

[Cat Hobaiter @NakedPrimate]

There have been a lot of ‘this is the key to covid’ pieces out there - but this is brilliantly well written (& as someone who studies the behaviour of things that tend to vary widely I’m going to be borrowing bits of this for a long time!) https://t.co/yzBgBZtUEk

[ICIS @Infantstudies]

You want to try preregistering your next infant study, but not sure where to start and what to look out for? This new primer comes with a handy checklist and lots of examples. @NaomiHavron, @chbergma, @CogTalesTweet #infancypapers #infantstudies https://t.co/RTUerkRVy9

[Charlotte Wiltshire @Charlotte9080]

✨Thread on my current work with @NakedPrimate✨
I have been attempting to use #DeepLabCut for marker-less pose estimation of #Chimpanzee lip movement during lip smacking in a wild environment.

[National Geographic @NatGeo]

A new model underscores the importance of widespread use of masks and the risks of #COVID19 transmission in crowded rooms, poorly ventilated conditions https://t.co/C4I9lkHeUj

[Ed Yong is not here @edyong209]

🚨🚨Here’s the big piece I’ve been promising: an Atlantic cover story about the US’s catastrophic mishandling of the pandemic. It’s a full autopsy of what went wrong, every unattended weakness & unheeded warning, every festering wound & reopened scar. 1/

https://t.co/568JBktc7M

[awwHALEnaww @awwHALEnaww]

@bubbaprog @KevinMKruse Right-wing extremism is a far greater threat to Americans than "antifa" and yet Barr and Trump don't lift a finger to stop it because right-wing extremists are aligned with the president.
https://t.co/AsGkvdp36g

[Sharon Yam (任萃言) @sharonyamsy]

1/ The more I think about ICE's new policy on international students, the more enraged and sad I become. The policy asks students and faculty who care most about them to risk their health and the health of their community.