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Well, this is just utterly extraordinary. youtu.be/uTQKCt-1T6k?si…

How do learners figure out what a word is in their language? In this paper with Jennifer Culbertson & I, @ecpankratz looks at internal immutability and free mobility as cues and finds that both conspire to make word discovery possible. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/IA5WGGNN…

At Rahoy, The Early Light Simon Kirby (2023) Label: Expert Sleepers Ltd. Full album buff.ly/43RUwgn #ambient #ambientmusic

This is a fab interview with the brilliant @kennysmithed by the equally brilliant Maisy Hallam. Have a listen to see how lucky I am to get to work with these people! pca.st/episode/6b0b66…

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Great video from Mary Spender on the worrying state of grassroots music venues. Please support local live music, and lobby for a small tax on stadium gigs if you don't want to end up in a purely AI generated musical future. youtu.be/zwCs5GD-_8M?si…

Really enjoyed doing this interview for the wonderful Multiverses podcast. Check it out here: multiverses.xyz/podcast/langua…

Thrilled to share a review on THE LANGUAGE NETWORK AS A NATURAL KIND—a culmination of ~20 yrs of thinking about+studying language from linguistic, psycholinguistic, and cog neuro perspectives. Nature Rev Neurosci rdcu.be/dEylV With the amazing Anna Ivanova Tamar Regev 🥳 🧵1/n

New drawing using two ballpoint pens, a flatbed scanner, and 36 hours of time with an @emsl drawing robot. This is Usnea, based on a sample of beard lichen I collected in western Scotland. One off drawing available in my shop: simonkirby.net/shop

Lovely to be featured on the blog of an artist I very much admire. Worth a read of the blog post which is a treasure trove of information about the field of plotter artworks: barbegenerativediary.com/en/artworks/ge…

We have full videos from our second event featuring Simon Kirby, Os , Darkroom, Elif Yalvaç, and #dirkserries. Subscribe to our YT channel to enjoy the performances! youtube.com/@HeartOfNoiseC…

My brilliant colleague @gab_hodge has an exciting event later this year - a Thinking Lab for the deaf community in Australia. It will be a space for deaf people to come together to figure what and how they think. A wonderful example of her outreach work! facebook.com/DeafAustraliaI…

The videos from April's gig are now up. First, it's The Shell (Os, Simon Kirby, Leigh Chorlton): youtube.com/watch?v=WGx2DL…

It's world curlew day today! The curlew's call is one of my favourite sounds, so was happy to use it to open my set with The Shell, featuring Os and Leigh Chorlton this week: youtu.be/WGx2DLzXSX4?si…

Super excited to be heading down to Melbourne to give this talk! (Fun fact: it was while we were visiting Melbourne together 24 years ago that Morten Christiansen and I hatched an idea to edit a book together called "Language Evolution".)

A good while back I co-created an autonomous neurotic orchestrion called cybraphon with Simon Kirby and Tommy Perman  It googles itself every 15 seconds, has social media accounts and wins BAFTAs. Here's Simon's TED Talks youtube.com/watch?v=uw5zX0…

"What allows human language? a multidisciplinary perspective" organised by Nicolas Claidière and with talks by Simon Fisher, Inbal Arnon, Simon Kirby, Tecumseh Fitch, 岡ノ谷一夫 & more and featuring Dr. Limor Raviv 🦄🤗🐘🦒 as a discussant! docs.google.com/document/d/11y…

Damn right, KT! Culture is too important to be turned into mere algorithm food. It's time for an age of discontent in the arts.