Martin Haspelmath @haspelmath

professional linguist who studies patterns in the diversity of the world‘s languages eva.mpg.de/linguistic-and… Joined June 2010

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Many Minds podcast @ManyMindsPod

23 hours ago

Where are memories stored in the brain? The textbook answer is that memories live in the synaptic connections between neurons. But not everyone agrees. From the archive, our interview with @gershbrain! Listen: disi.org/of-molecules...

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UCL Press @UCLpress

3 weeks ago

'From the start, UCL Press was about breaking down barriers'. As the UK’s first fully #OpenAccess university press, we’ve challenged traditional publishing models to make research more accessible to all — from early career researchers to global readers. #AcademicPublishing

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LINGUIST List @linguistlist

a day ago

Confs: Workshop at SLE 2026: Subordination and Coordination in Language-contact Situations: Convenors: Jesús Olguín Martínez (University of Hong Kong), Thomas Stolz (University of Bremen), Nataliya Levkovych (University of Bremen), and Tom Bossuyt (Ghent… dlvr.it/TMshxZ

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A.Benítez-Burraco @abenitezburraco

5 days ago

Phonological systems first emerged (and are maintained) through an interplay between biology, physics, and culture = can be construed as cognitive tools onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/to…

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Carlota dBM @semevadlalengua

6 days ago

Pues… en Geoplaneta me han dejado escribir un libro sobre #lascosas de los dialectos del español. Y, por si fuera poco, he tenido la suerte de que lo corrigiera @tanirockk y lo prologara @Ruben_Amon. planetadelibros.com/libro-el-ingen…

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Martin Haspelmath @haspelmath

a week ago

„L’économiste grec Yánis Varoufákis y voit la version européenne du traité de Nankin de 1842.“

Thomas Fazi @battleforeurope

a week ago

„L’économiste grec Yánis Varoufákis y voit la version européenne du traité de Nankin de 1842.“

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@[email protected] @LangSciPress

a week ago

At the meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea in Bordeaux.

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Carlo Dallapiccola @CarloDallapicc1

2 weeks ago

@MurielBlaivePhD And another huge mistake was the idea of assessing COVID response well before the pandemic was even over! European countries with strict, brutal lockdowns at best just pushed inevitable waves to a few months down the road. And Italy had a strict lockdown, and still was 1/2

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Berliner Zeitung @berlinerzeitung

a week ago

Der EU-Abgeordnete @Thomas_Geisel lädt für diesen Mittwoch (19 Uhr) ein, um das Thema „35 Jahre Einheit in Europa“ mit dem Verleger der Berliner Zeitung und anderen Gästen zu diskutieren. Zu sehen im Livestream auf unserer Webseite. @aleksteske berliner-zeitung.de/politik-gesell…

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Lafargue @G_Platzdasch

2 weeks ago

„Die Kunstsammlung Jena zeigt zum ersten Mal seit 1989 in einer großen Ausstellung, was in ihrem Depot an DDR-Kunst lagert. Zu sehen sind rund 450 Werke – darunter viele Neuentdeckungen.“ mdr.de/nachrichten/th…

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Big Think @bigthink

2 weeks ago

@annakaharris @anilkseth @jonwrhan @MillerLabMIT @SteRoPo A conversation about intelligence and consciousness across species with philosopher Peter Godfrey-Smith. @philosophyminis @pgodfreysmith @anakova47

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Gašper Beguš @begusgasper

2 weeks ago

Honored to be featured in DIE ZEIT, Germany’s leading weekly. The piece explores the uniqueness (or not) of human language and spotlights our infant‑like, more realistic alternatives to LLMs as well as our work on metalinguistic abilities of LLMs.

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Martin Haspelmath @haspelmath

2 weeks ago

Defending human rights in Europe is getting harder and harder. humanrightsfirst.org/library/human-…

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LAGB @lagbling.bsky.social @lagbling

2 weeks ago

#LAGB2025 is nearly here! Henry Sweet Lecture – Miriam Butt Linguistics Association Lecture – Enoch Aboh Language Tutorial on Lak – Nina Radkevich Education Committee Session & careers workshops Themed sessions on Gesture, Literary Linguistics + a tribute to Andrew Radford

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Darin Flynn @phono_logical

2 weeks ago

UC Berkeley Linguistics tenure-track position in language revitalization aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05022

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Daniel Haake @haake_daniel

3 weeks ago

Man muss sich wirklich fragen, warum solche klar falschen Aussagen weder von vielen Medien noch von der Bevölkerung hinterfragt werden. Das ist auch in Bezug auf andere Fragestellungen, unabhängig der Pandemie, höchst problematisch.

TheRealTom™ - Trusted Flagger @tomdabassman

3 weeks ago

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Martin Haspelmath @haspelmath

3 weeks ago

An interesting thread

Dr Neil Alexander Walker (𐐙𐑏𐐽𐐲𐑉 𐐝𐐹𐐨𐐽𐐨) @neilalexanderw1

4 weeks ago

An interesting thread

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Titus von der Malsburg @tmalsburg

3 weeks ago

3+1-year fully funded PhD position in Experimental and/or Computational Psycholinguistics. Official application deadline today, but applications submitted by August 25 will receive full consideration. tmalsburg.github.io/job_ad_2025_ph…

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Prof. Feynman @ProfFeynman

3 weeks ago

The things that matter are honesty, independence, willingness to admit ignorance.

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Martin Haspelmath @haspelmath

3 weeks ago

Sorry, aber es kann nicht die Aufgabe von Wissenschaftsorganisationen sein, politische Forderungen zu stellen. Irgend jemand hat etwas falsch verstanden (vielleicht die Journalisten)?

Hirnschluckauf 🕊 @Hirnschluckauf

3 weeks ago

Sorry, aber es kann nicht die Aufgabe von Wissenschaftsorganisationen sein, politische Forderungen zu stellen. Irgend jemand hat etwas falsch verstanden (vielleicht die Journalisten)?