Damian Blasi
@blasi_lang
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Languages, cultures, and minds, their evolution and diversity. ICREA Research Professor. Latinoamericano y oriundo de las Pampas y el Paraná.
Barcelona, Spain
Joined June 2017
It is my joy and absolute honor to be among this year’s @schmidtsciences Polymaths! I feel a mix of relief — a temporary break from the mono-disciplinary grind of academia — and child-like wonder for the science this award will unlock. (1/3) https://t.co/6ER54ffMW4
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Schmidt Sciences announces next cohort of early-to mid- career scientists to each receive up to $2.5 million to pursue novel research. Media Contact: Carlie Wiener, [email protected] NEW...
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LLMs are injective and invertible. In our new paper, we show that different prompts always map to different embeddings, and this property can be used to recover input tokens from individual embeddings in latent space. (1/6)
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Over the next year I’ll be planning, reading, and thinking, with the goal of doing something bold and meaningful with this unique opportunity. Kudos to the @schmidtsciences team and @ericschmidt and Wendy Schmidt for this once-in-a-lifetime shot at making a difference! (3/3)
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Above all, I’m deeply grateful to allthose who supported my unusual path without expecting anything in return: I will do my best to honor your selflessness. (2/3)
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Very elegant study in @ScienceMagazine by @LukeFannin05 @DominyNathaniel @vivek_vasi @ChalachewMS and others demonstrating behavioral changes preceded morphological ones in primate feeding on graminoid plants
Behavior drives morphological change during human evolution Our new article is out in @ScienceMagazine today https://t.co/20no7rEX7y
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advancing my research on the past, present, and future of linguistic diversity. If this wasn’t enough - I get to be part of an amazing cohort of giants I’m already learning from. Check out their world-class work here: https://t.co/ZmTrhjEGY4 (2/2)
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Celebrating 15 Explorers transforming how we understand nature, culture and the future of our planet
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It’s an incredible honor to receive this year’s National Geographic Society's Wayfinder Award presented by Kia. I grew up feeding my imagination and wanderlust with the work by National Geographic Explorers, and it feels a true responsibility being among their ranks now (1/2)
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35 years of studies argue that kids assume word meanings are mutually exclusive. In @PsychScience, @gaborbrody, Athulya Aravind, and I argue kids aren't making an assumption. We show 2y.o. only think words are mutually exclusive when they're told so. 1/ https://t.co/pdrSe2pPKw
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I am excited to announce that Asifa Majid is the 2024 recipient of the international #VigdísPrize, an award conferred for outstanding contributions to world languages and cultures. Congratulations @asifa_majid ! https://t.co/KGhIsuLIfn
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Thrilled to announce that my book SHAMANISM: THE TIMELESS RELIGION will be out on May 20, 2025! Shamanism characterized the earliest religions, echoes in often unappreciated ways in the world around us, and will long outlive us. Pre-order it here: https://t.co/CaIDuIIjGN
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New manuscript, led by the dev psychologist Ivan Kroupin (@Helen_E_Davis & TC Zeng). Nearly all research on cognitive development (IQ, executive function, memory, etc.) is done in schooled worlds--in communities in which children are raised by people who attended formal schools.
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This is a great opportunity for students in the Global South. Deadline coming up in a few days -please share!
We are extremely excited to announce the 3rd edition of the EvoBio Crash Course! 🥳 We focus on providing a thorough course on the basics of #EvoBio and tips to build a career in the field directed to students from the Global South 💚 Register here: https://t.co/W4XVimzTKM
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Check out our new perspective preprint! with @JoHenrich and @JF_Schulz
I really enjoyed this piece by @MohammadAtari90 that integrates two trends in social psych in the last decade: thinking of psych processes at the collective level (which has deeply influenced my thinking) and thinking of psych in historical perspectives. https://t.co/plgLXTn1HR
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Very thankful for this award by @HumBehEvoSoc along with friends and people whose work I admire -see you all next year in Atlantic City!
#HBES2024 Society Awards summary: Rising Stars: Damian Blasi, Zach Garfield, Anastasia Makhanova, Anne Pisor Fellows: Coren Apicella, Bernhard Fink, David Lewis, Dario Maestripieri, Jon Maner, Chris Von Rueden Early Career Award: Laith Al-Shawaf Congratulations to all!
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Episodio 2 de #LenguaLarga: Damián Blasi analiza similitudes y diferencias entre las lenguas del mundo. ¿Hablamos cada vez peor? Descubrilo con un experto en evolución lingüística. #Desafio3x30 #Neurociencia #Lenguaje @UdeSA @AdolfoMGarcia @blasi_lang
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Our new piece in Psychological Review is out: A collaboration with my former post-docs, Ivan Groupin (LSE, dev psych) and @Helen_E_Davis (ASU, anthro) https://t.co/G6l9vzv0P9
@StevenHeine4 @ThomasTalhelm @slingerland20
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New preprint w/ @mcxfrank: https://t.co/04MOkpoUOI How can we ascribe cognitive abilities to language models? We evaluate them! But evals impose challenges separate from the underlying ability of interest. These "task demands" affect LM performance, esp. for smaller models! 1/8
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At Harvard, the Lab for Culture, Cognition and Coevolution in the Dep of Human Evo Bio is seeking a new Lab Manager. Great gig for anyone thinking about grad school in cultural evolution and related fields, including psych, anthro and econ. Contact me
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You want to work on construction grammar, but you’re missing systematically annotated corpus data? Introducing✨UCxn✨, a new layer in Universal Dependencies, with construction annotations for 5 constructions and 10 languages! 📄 https://t.co/MWZ3sQCGW9 💻 https://t.co/qRVXUPdnIT
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