G. Deniz Salali
@DenizSalali
Asst. Prof. Evolutionary Anthropology @UCL • Cultural evolution • Evolutionary medicine • Hunter-gatherers • Tweets🇬🇧🇹🇷
“Why We Love Suffixes: The Fascinating Cognitive Bias Shaping Language” by Inês C. Ferreira @Journal_EHS cambridge.org/core/blog/2025…
We often say “it takes a village to raise a child.” But it also takes a village to raise a parent. My two cents on motherhood, on @SAPIENS_org: sapiens.org/biology/to-rai…
🎧 🎙️ Tune in to our latest episode where Dr. Gul Deniz Salali discusses the Mbendjele BaYaka people - a community of hunter-gatherers whose way of life offers profound insights into human evolution, learning, and cooperation. Listen now: globio.org/deniz/ @DenizSalali
Had a wonderful time chatting with Gerry @globioapes. Hope you enjoy listening as much as we enjoyed the conversation!
From Turkish labs to the heart of the Congo — discover how one anthropologist is uncovering the roots of human culture, caregiving, and knowledge. Listen to this week’s episode of Talking Apes! ❤️ @DenizSalali 🎧 Listen now: globio.org/deniz #TalkingApesPodcast
Wanted to share a handy little resource with you all (especially those in dev psych) — my lab & I made a "journal submission cheat sheet" that summarizes article types, word limits & other requirements for the journals we typically submit to. Link below 👇🏼 docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…
Jesus was a shaman, and so were John the Baptist, Paul, and other early biblical figures. Or were they? Check out 👇 by @mnvrsngh :
My interview with the Swiss radio on childcare in hunter-gatherers is available (in French) here: rts.ch/audio-podcast/…
In the future soon, we will be able to communicate with many intelligent animal species - can't wait to better understand what my dog🐶is saying! Congrats to the DolphinGemma team building on our Gemma models - the most powerful single GPU/TPU open source models out there!
Introducing DolphinGemma, an LLM fine-tuned on many years of dolphin sound data 🐬 to help advance scientific discovery. We collaborated with @dolphinproject to train a model that learns vocal patterns to predict what sound they might make next. It’s small enough (~400M params)…
Biologists have built one of the most detailed pictures ever of the changes that occur in women’s bodies before and after pregnancy, by pooling and studying around 44 million physiological measurements from more than 300,000 births go.nature.com/4l3yVd5
As members of ecology and evolutionary biology society @ekoevoder, we strongly condemn anti-democratic attempts to undermine university autonomy in Turkey. We stand with students fighting for justice.
Curious about how children learn in a hunter-gatherer society? Our new mini-documentary is out! Watch here: youtu.be/fAXgXP9JRDA?si… via @YouTube
Tuesday Aiyana Willard @aiyanakoka Brunel @CCE_Brunel speaking on “The practice and function of witchcraft in Mauritius and in the UK” @UCLanthropology DFL 3.30-5pm
Our Evolutionary Anthropology research seminars (Tuesday afternoons) are listed here - come along ucl.ac.uk/anthropology/e…
Save the date 📢 EEBST2025 will be held from July 9 to 11 at Hacettepe University , Ankara. Looking forward!
Does twitter still exist? Just in case, I'm recruiting a PhD student to work on the evolution of human cognition and behavior @heclausanne. Begin fall 2025. Big lake, pretty mountains, Swiss largesse, and science to boot! tinyurl.com/yfkr2yzs
Our Evolutionary Anthropology research seminars (Tuesday afternoons) are listed here - come along ucl.ac.uk/anthropology/e…
last chance to put in an abstract for our cross-cultural anthropology workshop @UCL on Nov 7-8. All kinds of comparative anthropology (results, methods or discussion) welcome.
If you would like to give a short talk (7 min) at our workshop @UCL on Quantitative comparative Anthropology (broadly defined) Nov 7-8, or lead a discussion topic, please email an abstract to Gabriel Šaffa [email protected] by Sept 15 @evobias_erc
Do you work in Public Health within a Local Authority? Fancied doing a PhD but never found the right time to apply? Get in touch if you are interested in applying with support from UCL Anthropology - we have a great Medical + Biological Anthropology team🙂
The NIHR Doctoral Local Authority Fellowship Scheme is now inviting applications! This is your chance to pursue a fully funded PhD while continuing your work in a local authority setting. Open to staff and charities working with Local Authorities. Apply👇 nihr.ac.uk/funding/nihr-d…
If you would like to give a short talk (7 min) at our workshop @UCL on Quantitative comparative Anthropology (broadly defined) Nov 7-8, or lead a discussion topic, please email an abstract to Gabriel Šaffa [email protected] by Sept 15 @evobias_erc