Tom O'Rourke

[Tom O'Rourke @Thomas_ORourke]

The starvation of Gaza is shameful. Crippling sanctions on Israel are needed | Letters https://t.co/Ad9YsRwwqt

[Tom O'Rourke @Thomas_ORourke]

@ImRachelWolf @JoeTruzman @FoxNews Please pause and reconsider your multiple propagandistic reports supporting mass starvation as a weapon (your Fox News report of July 22nd is another example). May your shame motivate you to change course. You have an important duty to tell the truth of what’s happening in Gaza.

[CAB @associacionsbcn]

Gaza es troba en fase 5 de fam.
Ja és hora de prendre mesures!
📢CASSOLADA dimecres 23 · 20h Pl. St Jaume

[Tom O'Rourke @Thomas_ORourke]

@bita137 @chet_sherwood @cipetkov Thank you Bita!

[Tom O'Rourke @Thomas_ORourke]

After a day to let it sink in, thank you to everyone who attended my PhD defense and for all your kind messages. Special thanks to @bita137 @chet_sherwood @cipetkov for being on my defense committee, for your thoughtful, challenging questions, and for a very enjoyable discussion

[Tom O'Rourke @Thomas_ORourke]

@chet_sherwood @bita137 @cipetkov Many thanks Chet!

[Tom O'Rourke @Thomas_ORourke]

@AlmrimSaleh @bita137 @chet_sherwood @cipetkov Thank you Saleh

[Tom O'Rourke @Thomas_ORourke]

Thank you @michdelao for your love and support, and for listening to my practice runs. Thanks Jenny, Ken, and Alma for your invaluable advice. Finally, thank you to my parents, who, unbeknown to me, had logged on from Ireland. It was special to be able to share the day with them.

[Tom O'Rourke @Thomas_ORourke]

Thanks also to Terry Deacon for his interesting and insightful contributions, and to the many other researchers in attendance for their interest in my work. Thank you to all my colleagues past and present @cbl_bcn for your support on the day, and for your help in getting there.

[Tom O'Rourke @Thomas_ORourke]

@howbrainsevolve @cedricboeckx Many thanks Robert!

[Tom O'Rourke @Thomas_ORourke]

@ptsgmartins Thank you Pedro. Looking forward to it!

[Tom O'Rourke @Thomas_ORourke]

@juanandres_mp Thank you for your support Juan! It’s been a pleasure working with you.

[Tom O'Rourke @Thomas_ORourke]

@bridgetds @cedricboeckx Thanks you Bridget. I am grateful for your help on the ‘glutamate’ article, which helped set me on my way!

[Tom O'Rourke @Thomas_ORourke]

@asano_rie @cedricboeckx Thanks Rie!

[Tom O'Rourke @Thomas_ORourke]

@cedricboeckx Thank you Cedric!

[Universitat de Barcelona @UniBarcelona]

#RecercaUB | Investigadors del grup de recerca @cbl_bcn vinculen l’evolució del llenguatge humà i del cant de les aus amb la disminució de l'agressivitat. 👉 https://t.co/MecnBtYCsB

[Rie Asano @asano_rie]

🎺"The #evolution of hierarchical structure building capacity for #language and #music: a bottom-up perspective" is out in #Primates @SpringerNature in the special issue "Evolutionary origins of human language" organized by M. Hayashi and @evolinguistics! https://t.co/u6b2AI4iFC

[morgan wirthlin @morganneuro]

Amazing new read on the the effects of domestication on the striatum and how this could help explain domestication's effects on complex behaviors like vocal learning. Highly recommended read!

[Tom O'Rourke @Thomas_ORourke]

I'm very grateful for the opportunity to defend and discuss these ideas in the coming weeks. Many thanks Cedric and Ruth and my coauthors who helped so much in getting these papers out there @ptsgmartins @asano_rie @ro_tachi and Kazuo Okanoya

[Tom O'Rourke @Thomas_ORourke]

Glad to see our paper on domestication and vocal learning come out in TiCS last week. Have a look at Cedric Boeckx's thread👇. I'll be discussing this mechanistic proposal in my thesis defense (online) on April 27th. Anyone who'd like a link to attend, please do message me 1/4

[cedric boeckx @cedricboeckx]

Does #domestication (reduced reactive aggression) potentiate vocal learning? If so, how exactly does this happen?
@Thomas_ORourke @ptsgmartins @asano_rie @ro_tachi @okanoyalab & I look into this question in this new @TrendsCognSci paper 🧵
https://t.co/wL8nFHuih9

[Tom O'Rourke @Thomas_ORourke]

And finally, a separate mechanistic proposal on another very human ability: naming a unique entity with a proper name, written with @Ruth_d_Balaguer.

https://t.co/qXv74ZdaRi