language
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Cultural awareness in KM
Signal Regiment’s code talkers – then and now
The potential and impacts of the World War II Native American code talkers was never fully realized, but a new…
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Brain power
Language, knowledge, and intercultural communication
Interlangs are interesting because of what they expose about our assumptions around knowledge and how we share it.
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In the news
The role of African publishing in the knowledge production ecosystem: Celebrating Mkuki na Nyota, 2 December 2021
Addressing critical debates about what shapes which voices, forms of knowledge, languages, and research topics are published.
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Decolonising knowledge and KM
The English language dominates global conservation science – which leaves 1 in 3 research papers virtually ignored
To have the best chance of halting Earth’s extinction crisis, we must harness the knowledge of people from around the…
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2020’s top 100 journal articles
Disadvantages in preparing and publishing scientific papers caused by the dominance of the English language in science: The case of Colombian researchers in biological sciences [Top 100 research & commentary of 2020]
Multilinguistic alternatives to current English language biases in academic publishing are an important consideration in the decolonisation of knowledge.
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Brain power
Indigenous languages must feature more in science communication
Considering the language aspect of knowledge transfer.
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2016's top 100 journal articles
Natural speech used to map semantic system of cerebral cortex [2016’s top 100 journal articles]
Research subjects listened to narrative stories while brain responses were recorded by fMRI. Voxel-wise modelling was then used to estimate…
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Systems & complexity
The Emoji Evolution: The short and long of the emoji
Can emoji be defined as a language? Exploring the place of emoji in modern communication.
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In the news
For the first time ever, the Word of the Year is not actually a word
The Oxford Dictionaries Word of the Year 2015 is not a word. For the first time ever, it’s an emoji…
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Systems & complexity
Clarification techniques are universal in language
A fantastic linguistic study by Mark Dingemanse and Nick Enfield has shown that languages use three near-universal techniques to clarify potential…
