1. We welcomed Sam Passmore and Simon Bishop as new PhD students in the lab. Sam will be working on the Varikin-Evolution project and Simon on cultural adjustment in overseas students at the University of Bristol.
2. We are excited to host Joshua Birchall from the Museu Goeldi in Belém, Brazil, for three weeks as part of a British Academy grant. Josh works on Amazonian languages, and we’re working toward establishing a comparative database of South American language and kinship.
3. We are holding a one-day interdisciplinary workshop on “Quantitative Comparative Approaches to Language and Culture” (QCALC).