Simon J. Greenhill

@simongreenhill.bsky.social

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I study how languages and cultures evolve. Primarily with phylogenies and other assorted computational methods. Based at @Biology_UoA. Never met a language phylogeny or a cultural phylogeny I didn't like. #phylolinguistics .. more

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Simon James Greenhill is a New Zealand scientist who works on the application of quantitative methods to the study of cultural evolution and human prehistory. He is well known for creating and building various linguistics databases, including the Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database, TransNewGuinea.org, Pulotu, and many others. In addition to Austronesian, he has contributed to the study of the phylogeny of many language families, including Dravidian and Sino-Tibetan. .. more

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Stella Hurtley @smhsci.bsky.social · 10h

Missed highlighting my choice in @science.org whilst I was on vacation
Spatiotemporal regulation of DNA repair proteins between Golgi and nucleus maintains genome stability
rupress.org/jcb/article/...

Simon J. Greenhill @simongreenhill.bsky.social · 16h

"The challenge for all of us in this room is to come together, get it gripped up, sorted and joined up with one plan and then execute and execute.".

So, no.

Simon J. Greenhill @simongreenhill.bsky.social · 17h

You've definitely "strategically thrusted" the New Zealand Science and Research community. Thanks Luxon. #nzpol

www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3610...

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Prof. Gillian Brown @gillianrbrown1.bsky.social · 1d

🚨Call open for manuscripts on 'Metascience of the evolutionary human sciences' for a Special Collection in EHS, co-edited by @louisbachaud.bsky.social, @hclarkbarrett.bsky.social and myself.

@ehbea.bsky.social @humbehevosoc.bsky.social @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social

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Call for papers

Welcome to Cambridge Core

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Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 1d

Dear Aus journalists, politicians and policy wonks.... several years ago some colleagues and i made this book on myths about migration based on 300,000 years of human history. The text is for the public! It's fully illustrated! You can download it for FREE!

Migrants make us stronger!