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This is Enheduanna, who lived 4,300 years ago. She is the first named writer in history. So here is the story of humanity's first poet — and how her work influences us even in the 21st century...

Preprint alert! 📢 The appearance of symbolic material culture is often linked to the evolution of complex, 'modern' human minds. In a new article for BBS, I reconsider this link, and argue that modern humans needn't leave any such evidence. A thread. cambridge.org/core/journals/…

New version release of Vanuatu Voices! (and a new logo 😊) vanuatuvoices.clld.org Max Planck Society MPI-EVA Leipzig Vanuatu Cultural Centre Comparative Oceanic Linguistics

🚨Publication Alert🚨 Very glad to see this paper where @Anna_Bloxam , Chris Stevens, Marc Vander Linden, and I explored new approaches for statistically modelling diffusion of innovation (DOI) curves in archaeology using 14C dates: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Lots of people in CS are (almost surely) GPT-ing their peer reviews arxiv.org/abs/2403.07183

Wow!!!! tlacuilolli.com/2024/03/21/new…

You want to work on construction grammar, but you’re missing systematically annotated corpus data? Introducing✨UCxn✨, a new layer in Universal Dependencies, with construction annotations for 5 constructions and 10 languages! 📄arxiv.org/abs/2403.17748 💻github.com/LeonieWeisswei…

New preprint w/ Michael C. Frank: bit.ly/3VMdl2u How can we ascribe cognitive abilities to language models? We evaluate them! But evals impose challenges separate from the underlying ability of interest. These "task demands" affect LM performance, esp. for smaller models! 1/8

At Harvard, the Lab for Culture, Cognition and Coevolution in the Dep of Human Evo Bio is seeking a new Lab Manager. Great gig for anyone thinking about grad school in cultural evolution and related fields, including psych, anthro and econ. Contact me tinyurl.com/3kzy5fpd

Our new piece in Psychological Review is out: A collaboration with my former post-docs, Ivan Groupin (LSE, dev psych) and @Helen_E_Davis (ASU, anthro) psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/2024-… Steven Heine Thomas Talhelm Edward Slingerland

Episodio 2 de #LenguaLarga: Damián Blasi analiza similitudes y diferencias entre las lenguas del mundo. ¿Hablamos cada vez peor? Descubrilo con un experto en evolución lingüística. #Desafio3x30 #Neurociencia #Lenguaje Universidad de San Andrés Adolfo García Damian Blasi

Very thankful for this award by HBES along with friends and people whose work I admire -see you all next year in Atlantic City!

Check out our new perspective preprint! with Joe Henrich and Jonathan Schulz

This is a great opportunity for students in the Global South. Deadline coming up in a few days -please share!

New manuscript, led by the dev psychologist Ivan Kroupin (@Helen_E_Davis & TC Zeng). Nearly all research on cognitive development (IQ, executive function, memory, etc.) is done in schooled worlds--in communities in which children are raised by people who attended formal schools.

Thrilled to announce that my book SHAMANISM: THE TIMELESS RELIGION will be out on May 20, 2025! Shamanism characterized the earliest religions, echoes in often unappreciated ways in the world around us, and will long outlive us. Pre-order it here: penguinrandomhouse.com/books/730339/s…

I am excited to announce that Asifa Majid is the 2024 recipient of the international #VigdísPrize, an award conferred for outstanding contributions to world languages and cultures. Congratulations Asifa Majid ! english.hi.is/news/asifa_maj…

35 years of studies argue that kids assume word meanings are mutually exclusive. In Association for Psychological Science, Gabor Brody, Athulya Aravind, and I argue kids aren't making an assumption. We show 2y.o. only think words are mutually exclusive when they're told so. 1/ osf.io/awtch