Simon Kirby
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Prof Language Evolution FBA FRSE MAE. Head of Dept, Linguistics & English Language, Uni Edinburgh. With my students & collaborators I do science & art. he/him. simonkirby.net
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Special thanks to @simonkirby.bsky.social for designing a superb cover for the handbook. Simon’s work has inspired Limor and me a great deal, and it meant a lot to us to involve him in this volume
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🙌 Hot off the presses @natcomms.nature.com! We created a custom #Minecraft environment to study a long-standing puzzle in cognitive science: How do humans flexibly adapt their individual and social learning strategies in dynamic, realistic situations? Check it out 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧵👇
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The proudest moment of my academic career to date. I was honoured to receive this Teaching award last night for my course, Sociolinguistics. @schoolofppls.bsky.social
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A dinky little marble statue of geologist Hugh Miller by Amelia Paton Hill in National Museum Scotland. He’d no doubt be pleased that just outside there are his favourite fossils - Devonian Old Red Sandstone fish - to be seen in the Caithness Flags of the pavement (aka sidewalk).
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"Funk was a genre of sonic color, a genre that crossed oceans, a genre rooted in radical joy and inclusivity. We Want The Funk! makes clear that Black art is not just expression — it’s liberation." -Black Enterprise review. The full documentary is online:
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