Katie Mudd

@2020_newsletter @Radboud_Uni @efsli @WASLI_tweets @SignProfConf @Linguistpd Congrats Aurélia!! ❤️

223 pages, 7 years of research and an 1-hour PhD defense at @Radboud_Uni See you on Monday 25 August at 2.30 PM (CEST) Any people interested in the room? @efsli @WASLI_tweets @SignProfConf @Linguistpd #PhD

Interactive repair in homesign as a proxy of (the Theory-of-Mind abilities underlying ) language evolution link.springer.com/article/10.100…

What a great feeling to be back at MPI and find this beauty waiting on my desk! My first chapter contribution, together with @ozyurek_a , is out in the Oxford Handbook of Approaches to Language Evolution, edited by fantastic @Limor_Raviv and @cedricboeckx academic.oup.com/edited-volume/…

Kicked off our new research group at @IACSComputes with a 3-day workshop on "Collective Creativity" last week! Incredibly inspiring to bring these folks together for a few days 🫶 @GemSchedel @katie__mudd

@Limor_Raviv @Radboud_Uni Wowowow amazing!!! You go friend 💪💙 So happy for you and for the world of research!!

Extremely honored to receive the NWO Vidi grant, which will be devoted to unpacking the origins of human language (and particularly, the evolution of compositionality and lying) using state-of-the-art virtual reality & swarm robotics tools at @Radboud_Uni 🙏🥹🎉 Watch this space!

Huge congrats to @peter_dekk for his great PhD thesis!👇 Identifying drivers of language change using agent-based models researchgate.net/profile/Peter-… 👆This 👉 mechanisms working on short timescales (e.g. conversation) can cause effects in the longer term, leading to language change

@camrobjones Yay congrats Cam!!! Hope to catch you very soon

And if you really have nothing better to do with your life you can read my dissertation ("Reading Minds: Social Intelligence and Large Language Models") here: escholarship.org/uc/item/2dk4p3…

A few (late) life updates - I defended my PhD! - I’ve started a postdoc (at UCSD) on persuasion and deception in LLMs. - I’ve (confusingly) moved to New York! Let me know if you’re here and want to hang out or know anyone who’s looking for a roommate.

SAVE THE DATE: The next International Conference on he Evolution of Language #Evolang will take place 7-10 April 2026 in Plovdiv, Bulgaria! The organizers have prepared a video to whet your appetite: tinyurl.com/evolang2026

Check this out, my PhD student Rosa Zaaijer will tell you all about our experiment @Rapid_Razor_Bob #LL24 folia.nl/nl/wetenschap/…

Looking for a (fully funded) PhD position? Like combining experiments and distributed semantic modelling? Apply, apply, apply! **Modelling word order and Cognitive Constraints** Deadline 31st May vacatures.uva.nl/UvA/job/PhD-Po…

The second day of #Evolang2024 starts with a plenary by Salikoko Mufwene: Language Vitality: Understudied in Evolutionary Linguistics #EvolangXV

Please consider signing this open letter if you are an UvA alumni. Police violence at universities is not only a matter of standing on the wrong side of history, but also an authoritarian attack on political liberties and the possibility of a genuinely democratic public sphere.

EvoLang submission deadline is approaching! Submit! It'll be a blast! evolang2024.github.io If you're not sure whether your work is sufficiently relevant, DM me! #evolang @cogsci_soc @CulturalEvolSoc @UoE_CLE @Durham_DCERC (photo @ovjphotography )

Was an excellent and inspiring inaugration by @raquel_dmg also emphasizing the embarisingly low numbers pf women professors in dutch academia

Great to be back on Victoria Embankment and walk past my old friend, and favourite example of how men vs women are depicted in statues: man, real historical figure, literally just a head because he’s so brainy; woman: mythical, fawning, forgot to get dressed

What did we find in our study of gender bias in video game character dialogue? A 🧵, summarising our 350 page report! royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

@anitaslonimska @signrr @pernipa @SabinaFontana6 @ErinWilkinson @LanguageMIT @DingemanseMark @ozyurek_a @olgacapirci Congrats Anita!!! 💜

Officially a doctor! Thank you to the doctoral examination board @signrr, @pernipa, @SabinaFontana6, @ErinWilkinson, @LanguageMIT, and @DingemanseMark for an inspiring discussion and to my fabulous supervisors @ozyurek_a and @olgacapirci for all the support. I'm immensely happy!

@hawkrobe @mariekewoe @ashleymicklos Ah this is amazing, thank you for sharing!!

I'm looking for tangram shapes for an interaction experiment, but it is somehow incredibly hard to find a good set! Does anyone know a good repository? 🙏🙏

@marlourasenberg @Limor_Raviv @hlutzenberger @mariekehoetjes @MacuchSilvaVini Thanks so much Marlou!!! Definitely need to have another chat about this soon :D

@Limor_Raviv @hlutzenberger @katie__mudd Other non-tangram stimuli for referential tasks that I know of: - Greebles (#FIG1" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">www-sciencedirect-com.ru.idm.oclc.org/science/articl…; used by @mariekehoetjes ) - patterns/shapes (#d3e958" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…; @MacuchSilvaVini et al)