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In academic research, statistics show that women are underrepresented. On June 14, we support women in their fight for equality, including our aspiring, junior and senior female researchers.
A picture is worth a thousand words… even if generated by artificial intelligence (AI)? This is what researchers from the National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) Evolving Language tried to find out with the project “My work pictured by AI”. The results are out!
How do today’s indigenous communities of South America trace back to the history of human migration and contact in the continent? An international team including NCCR members from the UZH has worked to reconstruct the legacy of Chile’s largest indigenous community, the Mapuche, thanks to genetics and linguistics.
The silver award was given to NCCR members Stuart Watson (psychologist and neuroscientist at the University of Zürich) and Piera Filippi (philosopher at the University of Zurich), as well as Luca Gasparri (philosopher at the University of Lille). Their work on the evolution of arbitrariness in linguistics convinced the jury thanks to its interdisciplinary approach and its great potential for application.
Similar to humans, chimpanzees combine vocalizations into larger communicatively meaningful structures. NCCR Evolving Language researchers based in UZH suggest that this ability might be evolutionarily more ancient than previously thought.
The Pint of Science global science festival is back in multiple locations in Switzerland, from May 22nd to 24th 2023. A couple of our NCCR Evolving Language collaborators are participating in Geneva, St. Gallen, Lugano and Sion.
From April to June, a series of events on Open Research Data (ORD) are co-organized by NCCRs. With talks from experts in the field and workshops, participants will explore the different stages of the Data Life Cycle. The events are aimed at students and researchers, but all are welcome to register!
From March 27th to 30th 2023, 8 PhD candidates and Post-docs participated in the NCCR writing retreat, assisted by Prof. Hervé Bourlard from Idiap. The retreat was successful and helpful according to participants!
Innosuisse in partnership with Innovate UK are announcing a bilateral call for joint R&D project outlines, accessible to all scientific disciplines. If you have an innovative idea or applied research that could fit in, don’t hesitate to apply!