06/12/2026
What would it take to communicate with an alien intelligence?
These are the kinds of fascinating questions that linguists explore when they study how language works, how meaning is created, and what communication might look like beyond human experience.
We are excited to share that our own Dr. Jeffrey Punske recently appeared on Scientific American's Science Quickly podcast to discuss interspecies communication, the search for language universals, and the challenges of communicating with non-human intelligences.
The conversation highlights how linguistic research helps us think about everything from human language diversity to the possibility of communicating with extraterrestrial life.
Congratulations to Dr. Punske on this exciting opportunity to share linguistic research with a national audience!
Listen to the episode here: https://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode/disclosure-day-and-interspecies-communication-alien-language-isnt-just-weird-noises/
A linguist lays out what communicating with aliens could actually involve—and what that tells us about human language
