Mason Youngblood
@MasYoungblood
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@IACSComputes fellow researching cultural evolution - @ESLRSociety committee member - Electronic music as Callosum ✨🐦🏳️🌈
Brooklyn, New York
Joined July 2013
Do whales optimize their vocalizations for efficiency, just like human language? 🐋🎶 My latest study in @ScienceAdvances suggests they do—following linguistic laws seen in human speech. 🧵
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5-yr position in computational humanities with @OliverWithAnI and Jean-Baptiste Camps in Paris! Original deadline has passed but search is ongoing. Details here:
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RT @therfer: Entrevistas a @inbalarnon @MasYoungblood @ivangtorre y @rferrericancho en @el_pais @materia_ciencia sobre los artículo de…
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RT @timvernimmen: My latest story for @NatGeo, about the similarities between whale song and human language, featuring @inbalarnon, @SimonK…
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Notably, humpback whales exhibit both laws across two levels of analysis—notes within phrases and phrases within songs. Overall, the results of this study suggest that the vocalizations of many whale species have undergone compression for increased efficiency in time!
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RT @ProjectCETI: AI decodes the calls of the wild..🐘🐒🐋🐦⬛ Thank you @Nature and @neilsavagewrite for this extensive piece on how AI is bein…
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RT @mindismoving: So proud to see the hard work of @rianaminocher come out in PNAS Nuanced analysis of 20 years of…
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Lovely blog post about our recent paper in Ornithology (@AmOrnith)! We applied agent-based models and machine learning to 36 yrs of mourning warbler song, and found evidence that males have a learning bias for more complex syllables:
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RT @RMaevatiana: Our latest paper is out in Proceedings of the Royal Society B 📄! We investigated the behavioral context of social calls in…
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RT @DivIntelligence: We aren't the only primates who appreciate a good joke. New piece on the origins of humor by DISI Director Erica Cartm…
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@psl_univ's new research network CultureLab is hiring two 5-year postdocs to develop computational methods to analyze cultural, historical, and social data! Research budget included - Deadline on 12-15-24, details below ⬇️
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Back on Callshop Radio today at noon EST (6 PM CET)! Playing some of my favorite tracks of the year—spanning ambient, shoegaze, and trip hop. This is my last show before a hiatus, but Ecstatic Origins will be back sometime in 2025 🫶 Art by @m_l_e_co 🐠
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