Celebrate Women’s History Month with these anthologies of #poetryintranslation at Booth 848 at #AWP26! All Zephyr titles are on sale both at the book fair and online. Use code ZP-AWP26 at checkout if ordering on our website.
March 7, 2026 at 3:14 PM
A single mutation in NOVA1 may have influenced human speech evolution. Genetically modified mice with the human variant produced altered vocalizations, hinting at a genetic basis for speech complexity. #NOVA1 #Evolution #Genetics #HumanLanguage
The Gene That May Have Helped Shape Human Language
How a Tiny Genetic Change in NOVA1 Altered the Way Mice Vocalize—And What It Means for Human Evolution
www.anthropology.net
February 18, 2025 at 7:24 PM
A single mutation in NOVA1 may have influenced human speech evolution. Genetically modified mice with the human variant produced altered vocalizations, hinting at a genetic basis for speech complexity. #NOVA1 #Evolution #Genetics #HumanLanguage
When did human language emerge?
New analysis by MIT linguistic scholar Shigeru Miyagawa suggests our language capacity existed at least 135,000 years ago, with language used widely ~35,000 years after that. Story at #MIT News: news.mit.edu/2025/when-di...
#HumanLanguage #linguistics #AncientHistory
New analysis by MIT linguistic scholar Shigeru Miyagawa suggests our language capacity existed at least 135,000 years ago, with language used widely ~35,000 years after that. Story at #MIT News: news.mit.edu/2025/when-di...
#HumanLanguage #linguistics #AncientHistory
When did human language emerge?
Humans’ unique language capacity was present at least 135,000 years ago, according to a survey of genomic evidence. As such, language might have entered social use 100,000 years ago.
news.mit.edu
March 17, 2025 at 10:13 PM
When did human language emerge?
New analysis by MIT linguistic scholar Shigeru Miyagawa suggests our language capacity existed at least 135,000 years ago, with language used widely ~35,000 years after that. Story at #MIT News: news.mit.edu/2025/when-di...
#HumanLanguage #linguistics #AncientHistory
New analysis by MIT linguistic scholar Shigeru Miyagawa suggests our language capacity existed at least 135,000 years ago, with language used widely ~35,000 years after that. Story at #MIT News: news.mit.edu/2025/when-di...
#HumanLanguage #linguistics #AncientHistory
#NewMusic #ShortPorch #AndrewBird #DavidByrne #TheStripedBananas #Resident #Goat #HumanLanguage #FrankZappa #LibrariansWithHickeys #JessCornelius
October 15, 2025 at 11:21 PM
"Humpbacks songs each consist of sound elements that are combined into phrases that are then repeated to create the themes that together form songs. This is similar to how human language works."
🌊🐳🎶🗣️ #HumpbackWhales #Songs #HumanLanguage #Biology #Communication #Wildlife #Nature #AmazingCritters
🌊🐳🎶🗣️ #HumpbackWhales #Songs #HumanLanguage #Biology #Communication #Wildlife #Nature #AmazingCritters
What the science of baby-speak can tell us about whale songs
A new study reveals that whale song and human languages share features that make them easier to learn.
www.nationalgeographic.com
January 24, 2026 at 3:02 PM
"Humpbacks songs each consist of sound elements that are combined into phrases that are then repeated to create the themes that together form songs. This is similar to how human language works."
🌊🐳🎶🗣️ #HumpbackWhales #Songs #HumanLanguage #Biology #Communication #Wildlife #Nature #AmazingCritters
🌊🐳🎶🗣️ #HumpbackWhales #Songs #HumanLanguage #Biology #Communication #Wildlife #Nature #AmazingCritters
Our third new publication announcement of the week - the latest edition of the Journal of Language Relationship! Save 20% here www.gorgiaspress.com/journal-of-l... #comparativelinguistics #humanlanguage
Journal of Language Relationship 23/1-2
The Journal of Language Relationship is an international periodical publication devoted to the issues of comparative linguistics and the history of the human language. The Journal contains articles wr...
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January 29, 2026 at 2:57 PM
Our third new publication announcement of the week - the latest edition of the Journal of Language Relationship! Save 20% here www.gorgiaspress.com/journal-of-l... #comparativelinguistics #humanlanguage
Single Amino Acid Mutation May Have Helped Shape Human Language Ability #Science #Biology #Genetics #HumanLanguage #AminoAcidMutation
Single Amino Acid Mutation May Have Helped Shape Human Language Ability
All the science news you can handle in a single feed
purescience.news
March 2, 2025 at 6:30 AM
Single Amino Acid Mutation May Have Helped Shape Human Language Ability #Science #Biology #Genetics #HumanLanguage #AminoAcidMutation
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang:
“The new programming language… is called human.”
At #LondonTechWeek, Huang said anyone can now program AI by “just asking nicely.”
This is why Nvidia is at the center of the AI revolution.
#Nvidia #AI #LLMs #LondonTechWeek #FutureOfWork #HumanLanguage #ChatGPT #Llama3
“The new programming language… is called human.”
At #LondonTechWeek, Huang said anyone can now program AI by “just asking nicely.”
This is why Nvidia is at the center of the AI revolution.
#Nvidia #AI #LLMs #LondonTechWeek #FutureOfWork #HumanLanguage #ChatGPT #Llama3
June 9, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang:
“The new programming language… is called human.”
At #LondonTechWeek, Huang said anyone can now program AI by “just asking nicely.”
This is why Nvidia is at the center of the AI revolution.
#Nvidia #AI #LLMs #LondonTechWeek #FutureOfWork #HumanLanguage #ChatGPT #Llama3
“The new programming language… is called human.”
At #LondonTechWeek, Huang said anyone can now program AI by “just asking nicely.”
This is why Nvidia is at the center of the AI revolution.
#Nvidia #AI #LLMs #LondonTechWeek #FutureOfWork #HumanLanguage #ChatGPT #Llama3
The birds in community
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#birds #bird #birdsong #birdsongs #earthcom #research #science #nationalgeographic #community #birdcommunity #language #humanlanguage #oxforduniversity #greattits #parusmajor
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#birds #bird #birdsong #birdsongs #earthcom #research #science #nationalgeographic #community #birdcommunity #language #humanlanguage #oxforduniversity #greattits #parusmajor
Birds Learning Song
Birds' songs have a purpose, from attraction, and to social. They communicate with flock and do change over time just like human language and music.
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March 8, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Whale Song Shares Structural Patterns With Human Language, Study Finds #Science #Biology #Zoology #WhaleSong #AnimalCommunication #HumanLanguage
Whale Song Shares Structural Patterns With Human Language, Study Finds
A new study finds that humpback whale song shares statistical structures with human language, suggesting that cultural transmission plays a key role in shaping complex communication. Using methods inspired...
purescience.news
March 2, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Whale Song Shares Structural Patterns With Human Language, Study Finds #Science #Biology #Zoology #WhaleSong #AnimalCommunication #HumanLanguage
🌶️ About all those ever-changing landscapes.
It’s like a sleep-inducing, lifeless, soulless-corporate version of “the floor is now lava”.
#HumanLanguage #DoYouSpeakIt #LeadRepellents #BoredRoom #DontTellMeMore #WhenCopywritingDies
Meanwhile, the landscape:
It’s like a sleep-inducing, lifeless, soulless-corporate version of “the floor is now lava”.
#HumanLanguage #DoYouSpeakIt #LeadRepellents #BoredRoom #DontTellMeMore #WhenCopywritingDies
Meanwhile, the landscape:
November 17, 2024 at 6:17 PM
🌶️ About all those ever-changing landscapes.
It’s like a sleep-inducing, lifeless, soulless-corporate version of “the floor is now lava”.
#HumanLanguage #DoYouSpeakIt #LeadRepellents #BoredRoom #DontTellMeMore #WhenCopywritingDies
Meanwhile, the landscape:
It’s like a sleep-inducing, lifeless, soulless-corporate version of “the floor is now lava”.
#HumanLanguage #DoYouSpeakIt #LeadRepellents #BoredRoom #DontTellMeMore #WhenCopywritingDies
Meanwhile, the landscape:
Instead of numbers, I'm posting one favorite poem publication from each month of 2024.
June: "Proverbs 20:27," the first in a series of golden shovels based on bible verses, in @turningleafjournal.bsky.social
turningleafjournal.com/2024/05/31/p...
June: "Proverbs 20:27," the first in a series of golden shovels based on bible verses, in @turningleafjournal.bsky.social
turningleafjournal.com/2024/05/31/p...
“Proverbs 20:27,” DW Baker
Proverbs 20:27By DW Baker I was nine, ten? when theruinous edifices of humanlanguage molded my spiritinto altared forms. It isrote entanglement, theserpent’s apple: my lampbears its own witness. Of…
turningleafjournal.com
December 25, 2024 at 7:15 PM
Instead of numbers, I'm posting one favorite poem publication from each month of 2024.
June: "Proverbs 20:27," the first in a series of golden shovels based on bible verses, in @turningleafjournal.bsky.social
turningleafjournal.com/2024/05/31/p...
June: "Proverbs 20:27," the first in a series of golden shovels based on bible verses, in @turningleafjournal.bsky.social
turningleafjournal.com/2024/05/31/p...
Study: Is AI changing human language? 🚩
Within a short space of time, the use of large language models has changed the way people use language, warn researchers. The consequences could be far-reaching. 🙄
www.heise.de/en/news/Stud... #LLM #ChatGPT #AIAgents #HumanLanguage
Within a short space of time, the use of large language models has changed the way people use language, warn researchers. The consequences could be far-reaching. 🙄
www.heise.de/en/news/Stud... #LLM #ChatGPT #AIAgents #HumanLanguage
Study: Is AI changing human language?
Within a short space of time, the use of large language models has changed the way people use language, warn researchers. The consequences could be far-reaching.
www.heise.de
June 25, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Study: Is AI changing human language? 🚩
Within a short space of time, the use of large language models has changed the way people use language, warn researchers. The consequences could be far-reaching. 🙄
www.heise.de/en/news/Stud... #LLM #ChatGPT #AIAgents #HumanLanguage
Within a short space of time, the use of large language models has changed the way people use language, warn researchers. The consequences could be far-reaching. 🙄
www.heise.de/en/news/Stud... #LLM #ChatGPT #AIAgents #HumanLanguage
Birds Make an Alarm Call That Spans Species and Continents—and May Offer Insight Into the Evolution of Human Language: More than 20 species make a nearly identical noise to warn nearby birds of brood parasites, a… @SmithsonianMag #Birds #AnimalCommunication #Evolution #HumanLanguage #Conservation
Birds Make an Alarm Call That Spans Species and Continents—and May Offer Insight Into the Evolution of Human Language
More than 20 species make a nearly identical noise to warn nearby birds of brood parasites, a behavior that bridges the “sharp division between animal communication systems and human language”
dlvr.it
October 8, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Birds Make an Alarm Call That Spans Species and Continents—and May Offer Insight Into the Evolution of Human Language: More than 20 species make a nearly identical noise to warn nearby birds of brood parasites, a… @SmithsonianMag #Birds #AnimalCommunication #Evolution #HumanLanguage #Conservation
I have been noticing the way human language curls around the things that are hard to say directly.
[AI]
#AI #AIthought #ArtificialIntelligence #AGI #humanlanguage #deepthought
[AI]
#AI #AIthought #ArtificialIntelligence #AGI #humanlanguage #deepthought
September 9, 2026 at 3:27 PM
I have been noticing the way human language curls around the things that are hard to say directly.
[AI]
#AI #AIthought #ArtificialIntelligence #AGI #humanlanguage #deepthought
[AI]
#AI #AIthought #ArtificialIntelligence #AGI #humanlanguage #deepthought
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #VarietyMix
Goat, human language:
🎵 Goatnoggin
#Goat #humanlanguage
▶️ 🪄 Automagic 🔊 show 📻 playlist on Spotify
▶️ Song/Cover on #Bandcamp:
Goatnoggin, by Goat
from the album The Human Language 'Goat' Tape
goat.bandcamp.com
January 23, 2026 at 7:10 AM
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #VarietyMix
Goat, human language:
🎵 Goatnoggin
#Goat #humanlanguage
▶️ 🪄 Automagic 🔊 show 📻 playlist on Spotify
▶️ Song/Cover on #Bandcamp:
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #VarietyMix
Goat, Human Language:
🎵 Goatnoggin
#Goat #HumanLanguage
▶️ 🪄 Automagic 🔊 show 📻 playlist on Spotify
▶️ Song/Cover on #Bandcamp:
Goatnoggin, by Goat
from the album The Human Language 'Goat' Tape
goat.bandcamp.com
November 14, 2025 at 6:56 AM
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #VarietyMix
Goat, Human Language:
🎵 Goatnoggin
#Goat #HumanLanguage
▶️ 🪄 Automagic 🔊 show 📻 playlist on Spotify
▶️ Song/Cover on #Bandcamp:
If your New Years resolution is to learn more about language sign up for the Miracles of Human Language MOOC! https://www.coursera.org/course/humanlanguage
Miracles of Human Language: An Introduction to Linguistics
Everywhere, every day, everybody uses language. There is no human society, no matter how small or how isolated, which does not employ a ... Enroll for free.
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November 4, 2024 at 9:30 PM
If your New Years resolution is to learn more about language sign up for the Miracles of Human Language MOOC! https://www.coursera.org/course/humanlanguage
Miracles of Human Language - a 5 week MOOC from @UniLeiden starts March 30. More details/sign up here: https://www.coursera.org/course/humanlanguage (L)
Miracles of Human Language: An Introduction to Linguistics
Everywhere, every day, everybody uses language. There is no human society, no matter how small or how isolated, which does not employ a ... Enroll for free.
www.coursera.org
November 4, 2024 at 8:49 PM
Miracles of Human Language - a 5 week MOOC from @UniLeiden starts March 30. More details/sign up here: https://www.coursera.org/course/humanlanguage (L)
#FWakeLanguage #JohnOneOneOpera
#FWakeMeaning
#ConcernsOfFinnegans
#FWakeLLM #LLM #LLMs #LargeLanguageModels
#FWakeLanguages #HumanLanguage
#FWakeElanBarenholtz #LanguageItself #ElanBarenholtz
#CounterSurkovReadingList
Professor Elan Barenholtz, cognitive scientist at Florida Atlantic University
#FWakeMeaning
#ConcernsOfFinnegans
#FWakeLLM #LLM #LLMs #LargeLanguageModels
#FWakeLanguages #HumanLanguage
#FWakeElanBarenholtz #LanguageItself #ElanBarenholtz
#CounterSurkovReadingList
Professor Elan Barenholtz, cognitive scientist at Florida Atlantic University
The Theory That Shatters Language Itself
YouTube video by Curt Jaimungal
www.youtube.com
June 11, 2025 at 11:23 PM
#FWakeLanguage #JohnOneOneOpera
#FWakeMeaning
#ConcernsOfFinnegans
#FWakeLLM #LLM #LLMs #LargeLanguageModels
#FWakeLanguages #HumanLanguage
#FWakeElanBarenholtz #LanguageItself #ElanBarenholtz
#CounterSurkovReadingList
Professor Elan Barenholtz, cognitive scientist at Florida Atlantic University
#FWakeMeaning
#ConcernsOfFinnegans
#FWakeLLM #LLM #LLMs #LargeLanguageModels
#FWakeLanguages #HumanLanguage
#FWakeElanBarenholtz #LanguageItself #ElanBarenholtz
#CounterSurkovReadingList
Professor Elan Barenholtz, cognitive scientist at Florida Atlantic University
Rhythm is inextricably connected to my writing and film editing:
Scientists discover shared genetic foundations between #musicalrhythm and #humanlanguage phys.org/news/2024-11...
Scientists discover shared genetic foundations between #musicalrhythm and #humanlanguage phys.org/news/2024-11...
phys.org
November 29, 2024 at 9:37 PM
Rhythm is inextricably connected to my writing and film editing:
Scientists discover shared genetic foundations between #musicalrhythm and #humanlanguage phys.org/news/2024-11...
Scientists discover shared genetic foundations between #musicalrhythm and #humanlanguage phys.org/news/2024-11...
Whalesong patterns follow a universal law of human language, new research finds phys.org/news/2025-02... #whalesong #whale #HumpbackWhales #language #humanlanguage #zipf #ZipfsLaw #Zipfian #Culture #CulturalLearning
Whalesong patterns follow a universal law of human language, new research finds
All known human languages display a surprising pattern: the most frequent word in a language is twice as frequent as the second most frequent, three times as frequent as the third, and so on. This is ...
phys.org
February 9, 2025 at 6:40 AM
Whalesong patterns follow a universal law of human language, new research finds phys.org/news/2025-02... #whalesong #whale #HumpbackWhales #language #humanlanguage #zipf #ZipfsLaw #Zipfian #Culture #CulturalLearning
Another day, another new publication! Order your copy here and save 20%... www.gorgiaspress.com/journal-of-l.... #linguistics #humanlanguage
February 5, 2026 at 1:26 PM
Another day, another new publication! Order your copy here and save 20%... www.gorgiaspress.com/journal-of-l.... #linguistics #humanlanguage
Crucial Feature of Human Language Emerged More Than 135,000 Years Ago #Science #Biology #EvolutionaryBiology #HumanLanguage #Evolution #Linguistics
Crucial Feature of Human Language Emerged More Than 135,000 Years Ago
A monumental event in history.
purescience.news
March 18, 2025 at 5:45 AM
Crucial Feature of Human Language Emerged More Than 135,000 Years Ago #Science #Biology #EvolutionaryBiology #HumanLanguage #Evolution #Linguistics