Laura Spinney
- Anyone in Hyderabad tomorrow, we’d love you to come join the discussion.
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- The horse cemetery at Tsarskoye Selo has been restored and is now open to visitors. If only there wasn't a war on we could all go and marvel at the ancient - and modern - Eurasian custom of burying your trusty steed shorturl.at/5uzHY #PROTO
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- Reposted by Laura SpinneyA curated global dataset of social contact between diverse language communities www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Thank you David Crystal and @newstatesman1913.bsky.social shorturl.at/JSTXw
- Thank you @wirobooks.bsky.social
- Fascinating topic aired, here, by real linguists @gretchenmcc.bsky.social @dannybate.bsky.social
- It's Black Friday and books are going cheap... 🤗 shorturl.at/uEJdj
- Thank you!
- We're beginning to see how disease shaped (pre)history. www.newscientist.com/article/2500...
- Profile of Nick Evans, who just won the British Academy's Neil and Saras Smith medal for lifetime achievement in linguistics @theobserveruk.bsky.social @britishacademy.bsky.social observer.co.uk/news/science...
- Protactile is one of the most exciting languages in the world right now. It was born in #Seattle in 2007, and linguists are watching it grow and grow #linguistics #deafblind #asl
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- Calling all New Yorkers, this Wednesday evening, come find out where your languages come from 🤗 shorturl.at/sWPtf
- China bolsters controversial claim to Pacific languages with new museum | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
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- My review of Peter Turchin's latest book. rdcu.be/eHxjD
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- PROTO and Emma Spurgin Hussey won a prize 🤗 shorturl.at/e05Zm
- My discovery of the weekend, thanks to film-maker Hana Vojáčková, the extraordinary Spartakiads - vast, synchronised sports events popular in eastern Europe in the Communist years. Her short film on the subject: vimeo.com/614731350
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- Fun discussion on the power of language and the stories that shape humanity with Matt Abrahams on his podcast Think Fast Talk Smart. #Language #Storytelling #ThinkFastTalkSmart #WordsMatter #SharedHumanity shorturl.at/EHK8G
- Hallo liebe Leser von DER URKNALL UNSERER SPRACHE! Die deutschsprachige Ausgabe von PROTO ist für das Wissensbuch des Jahres in der Kategorie "Überblick" nominiert. Noch bis zum 14. August könnt ihr hier abstimmen: www.konradin-service.de/umfrage/inde...
- Did language evolve to organise childcare? shorturl.at/6Knvr
- In prehistory, women ruled, fought, hunted and mediated with other worlds. www.newscientist.com/article/2488...
- Talking inflection points in (pre)history with the insatiably curious @BlomPhilipp youtu.be/SfGd3EKaMMs
- Love this. How to say 92 in different European languages. Note the outliers France and especially Denmark. With thanks to brilliantmaps.com and reddit. #linguistics
- At moderate doses, it might have fuelled the spread of languages too. Could that have contributed to the complexification, I wonder? @vaclavhrncir.bsky.social and @kirrallina.bsky.social
- With the suave John Maytham in Cape Town m.youtube.com/watch?v=qhJA...
- Uralic languages illuminated #ancientdna shorturl.at/JCw4g
- Coppola tried this to unearth new script-writing talent- he called it Zoetrope - all he got was regression to the mean. Should grant applicants judge competitors’ proposals? Unorthodox approach gets two real-world tests | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
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- Should babies vote? www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...
- Sleepless on (nearly) the shortest night, thinking about the Amesbury Archer who could also have worshipped at Stonehenge - built by others before him - around 2,300BCE. His people may have brought the first #indoeuropean language to Britain.
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- The 5 main tributaries of the great Indus River, which are at the origin of the name Punjab / Panjab - from Persian panj (five) and āb (water) - because named by the Mughals - and going further back to Proto-Indo-European *pénkʷe and *h₂ep- #linguistics #protoindoeuropean
- Dead Language Society www.deadlanguagesociety.com?utm_source=n...
- See Derborence by Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz (translated into English most recently by me) for a fictional precedent, itself based on real events. One man went missing there too... shorturl.at/YeYZW
- When Danish fishermen (two pictured) stepped ashore in Northumbrian ports in the 19th Century, I'm told, they and the locals could understand each other. Can any local historians confirm? #danelaw #linguistics #protoindoeuropean
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- Just discovered Nardi's ingenious word evolution videos. PIE to English in a few seconds. shorturl.at/sf87Y
- BBC Radio 4 today at 15h30 UK time, on my favourite hypothetical language #protoindoeuropean Repeated Sunday 20h shorturl.at/7UnAm
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- Galatasary means "palace of the Celts". The Galatians Paul wrote to were Celts too. Yes, there were once Celts in Turkey. Read PROTO for more... #linguistics #archaeology #genetics #protoindoeuropean
- shorturl.at/nztI3 Could English ever die? @haspelmath.bsky.social
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- On the untold crisis in forensic science. undark.org/2025/05/08/o...
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- Calling anyone in the vicinity of Bath, please come and interrogate @moudhy.bsky.social and me about archaic languages next Monday 7pm at the excellent Topping & Co booksellers. Tickets here: www.toppingbooks.co.uk/events/bath/...
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- Did he speak #protoindoeuropean? Yamnaya man who lived about 2,700BCE in what is now the Russian steppe, courtesy of archaeologist Natalia Shishlina. I watched her team excavate him in the summer of 2023. Read more in PROTO... #adna #linguistics #archaeology
