Chronological list of media coverage, focusing on international outlets (for the corresponding Dutch list, see here). For a selection, see press & public outreach.
2025
- 📱 📰 Interview on interjections syndicated in Scientific American, Smithsonian Magazine, Popular Science, Ars Technica, PBS News, Medscape, Sapiens (Mar 2025)
- 📱 Bielefeld University: Zwischen Technik-Faszination und produktiver Unfertigkeit (about my Digital Humanties 2025 keynote, Mar 2025)
- 📰 Die Welt: Wie oft sie “äh” sagen, das ist äh Ausweis ihrer Kompetenz (Mar 2025)
- 📰 Knowable Magazine: Huh? The valuable role of interjections (Feb 2025)
- 🎤 Knowable Podcast: Interjections aren’t throwaway lines (Feb 2025)
2024
- 📱 IFL Science: The Most Universally Understood Word In The World Appears In So Many Languages (Nov 2024)
- 📰 Scientific American: Linguistics Find Universal Language for Pain (Nov 2024)
- Zdnet: Can AI even be open source? It’s complicated (Aug 2024)
- ICT journal: Les LLM dits ouverts sont de l’open-washing selon des chercheurs (Jul 2024)
- 📱 Monde Informatique: GenAI et open source, attention méfiance (Jul 2024)
- 📰 Nature: Not all ‘open source’ AI models are actually open, here’s a ranking (Jun 2024)
- 📱 Radboud University: How Meta, Google and others feign openness (Jun 2024)
- 📱 DailyAI: The rise of “open source’ AI models: transparency and accountability in question (Jun 2024)
- 📱 Next.ink: IA générative : quels modèles sont vraiment ouverts (Jun 2024)
- 📰 The Atlantic: There was never such a thing as “open” AI (Jan 2024)
2023
- 📰 L’Express: IA: cette menace qui plane au-dessus de ChatGPT (Sep 2023)
- 📰 IEEE Spectrum: An assessment of openness among ostensibly open-source LLM models finds that few live up to the claim (July 2023)
- 📱Chip.de: Open Source Alternative zu ChatGPT: Sind sie wirklich so transparant? (July 2023)
- 📱TechXplore: ‘Open’ alternatives to ChatGPT are on the rise, but how open is AI really? (July 2023)
- 📰 CNBC: Asking for help? People are more likely to say yes than you might think (July 2023)
- 📰 Business Insider: Humans Are Wired for Cooperation (May 2023)
- 📰 Xinhua: Humans share universal tendency to help others despite cultural differences (Apr 2023)
- 🎤 6PR, Australia: Why kindness isn’t dead (Apr 2023)
- 📰 Sydney Morning Herald: Humans ask for help every couple of minutes, and we mainly say yes (Apr 2023)
2022
- 📰 Spektrum Magazine: Ein rollendes R is rau wie ein Reibeisen (Mar 2022)
- 📱 Vice: Why are letters shaped the way they are? (Feb 2022)
- 🎤 Por Coffeebreak Podcast: La consonante rótica r (erre) (Feb 2022)
- 🎤 GlobalNews, The Simi Sara show: Words and sounds that cross languages (Jan 2022)
- 📰 The Irish Examiner: What the Irish language has in common with Mongolian, Basque and Dutch (Jan 2022) — about our ‘/r/ for rough‘ paper
- 📱 National Geographic Hungary: A relation between word meaning and sounds across languages (Jan 2022)
- 🎤 Point Counterpoint: Onomatopoeia as the first words in language evolution? (Jan 2022)
2021
- 📱 The Week: The not-word you’re always saying (Dec 2021)
- 📰 BBC: What the sound of your name says about you (May 2021) — the answer is: nothing really; our research on sound symbolism briefly features
- 📰 Financial Times: The case for diving into another language (Apr 2021)
2020
- 📰 New Scientist: The hidden code that helped complex language evolve (or read this non-paywalled PDF) (Oct 2020)
- 📰 The Chronicle: School exam baffles students: Why ‘huh?’ is a universal word (Oct 2020)
- 📰 Herald Sun (AU): Test asks students ‘weird’ questions (Oct 2020)
- 🎤 News talk: The only word that’s used universally across the world [probably not the only one, but anyway] (Oct 2020)
- 📺 Heineken Prizes: Our Communication: Conversation with Robert Zatorre (Oct 2020)
- Heineken Prizes: Mark Dingemanse awarded Young Scientists Award in Humanities (Oct 2020)
- SciShow: Why do some words sound so… lumpy? (Aug 2020)
- Radboud University: Heineken Young Scientists Award in Humanities awarded to Mark Dingemanse (Jun 2020)
- 📰 BBC: What happens when words don’t translate between languages (Jan 2020)
2019
- Forbes: Pause and Say Thank You (Nov 2019)
- Neurologica: The color of vowels (Apr 2019)
- IFL Science: It turns out most of us have this mild form of synesthesia (Apr 2019)
- 📰 Daily Mail: Scientists find we link vowels with certain colours (Apr 2019)
- Vice: People associate certain colors to vowels (Apr 2019)
- BBC: How your language reflects the senses you use (Feb 2019)
- 📰 Aeon: In the beginning was the word, and the word was embodied (interview, Jan 2019)
2018
- Quartz: How well you can identify colors, sounds, and tastes depends on where you come from (Nov 2018)
- ScienceBeta: Sense perception hierarchy differs across cultures (Nov 2018)
- Wissenschaft.de: Die Hierarchie der Sinne (Nov 2018)
- Scientific American: You can’t say Happy Thanksgiving in Dothraki (Nov 2018)
- 📰 New York Times: Think you always say thank you? Oh, please (May 2018)
- Inc.com: No, you don’t have to say thank you all the time (May 2018)
- 📰 The Guardian: Terribly sorry — but Britain’s famed politeness may be a myth (May 2018)
- Yahoo! News: When should I say thank you? A field guide (May 2018)
- 📰 Financial Review: People rarely say thank you when others help them, say scientists (May 2018)
- 📰 The Times: Britons really do say thank you more than anyone else (May 2018)
- Nature: ‘Thank you’ has little currency worldwide (May 2018)
- 📰 The Guardian: People rarely say thank you when others help them out (May 2018)
- 📰 Daily Mail: Sorry, but we may not be as polite as we think! (May 2018)
- 📰 New York Times: How Language Came to Be — and How We Use it Today (Mar 2018)
2016
- 📰 SZ Magazin: Häh? Über die Weltkarriere eines Wörtchens (Oct 2016)
- 📰 Neue Zürcher Zeitung: Warum wir beim Reden so viele Fehler machen (Jun 2016)
- 🎤 Sveriges Radio: Vetenskapsradio (Mar 2016)
- MentalFloss: Words that sound like what they mean are easier to learn (Feb 2016)
- Bustle: Words That Sound Like Their Meaning Are Easier To Learn, Study Finds (Feb 2016)
- ScienceBeta: Sound Symbolism Boosts Learning New Words (Feb 2016)
- MedicalXpress: It’s easier to learn words that sound like what they mean (Feb 2016)
- ScienceLine: Why dogs growl and light flickers: Iconicity plays a surprisingly large role in language (Jan 2016)
2015
- The Conversation: From Huh? to Who? — the universal utterances that keep us talking (Nov 2015)
- 🎤 Talk the Talk podcast: Not so arbitrary (Oct 2015)
- 📰 Corriere Della Sera: In difesa del premio igNobel: «Prima fa ridere e poi pensare» (Sep 2015)
- 📰 The Atlantic: What did you say? (Sep 2015)
- NY Mag: The Universality of the Word ‘Huh?’ (Sep 2015)
- NPR: A whole other kind of linguistic universal (Sep 2015)
- Spektrum: Hä? Oder wie wird unsere Sprache gesteuert? (Sep 2015)
- 📰 Neue Zürcher Zeitung: Häh? Ein Wort von Welt (Apr 2015)
2014
- 📰 Scientific American: Let’s Talk: Universal social rules underlie languages (Sep 2014)
- Scientific American: The Great Wide World of Huh? (Oct 2014)
- 📰 Rheinpfalz am Sonntag: Holterdipolter (Apr 2014)
- Smithsonian Magazine: “Huh”? What makes this utterance the universal word? (Mar 2014)
2013
- 📰 Die Welt: „Häh?“ – Die kürzeste Form für „Versteh ich nicht“ (Dec 2013)
- 📺 Seeker: The One Universal Word (Nov 2013)
- 📰 New Statesman: What’s the one world that’s the same in every language? (Nov 2013)
- Jezebel: Literally everyone in the world knows what you mean when you say ‘Huh?’ (Nov 2013)
- 🎤 Talk the Talk: Huh? (from 15:00 onwards) (Nov 2013)
- 📰 Süddeutsche Zeitung: ‘Hä?’ — Das wichtigste Wort der Welt (Nov 2013)
- 📰 New York Times: The Syllable Everyone Recognises (Nov 2013)
For coverage pre-2013 see here. Also RIP ImpactStory, which used to do a fantastic job keeping track of media coverage for any ORCID but which stopped updating in 2021.