Application for a PhD position at our department is now open! We are looking for applicants that are interested in areas of sign language linguistics, general sign language studies, or deaf bilingualism/multilingualism. Deadline is 15th Oct. Please share away! su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

UCDavis Psych is hiring an Assistant Professor in Human Cognition or Cognitive Neuroscience 🧠✨ Come join a vibrant, collaborative dept and live in a fun college town near Sacramento, San Francisco, Napa, and Lake Tahoe. Applications due Oct.21. Please share widely! recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07300

How to quantify the impact of AI on long-run cultural evolution? Published today, I give it a go! 400+ years of strategic dynamics in the game of Go (Baduk/Weiqi), from feudalism to AlphaGo!

Was fun working on this paper on negation in BSL led by Gab Hodge and w/ Kearsy Cormier and @adamcschembri.bsky.social! Paper is open access and available here: doi.org/10.1515/opli...

University of South Carolina has *7* tenure-track faculty positions in Neurobiology of Language: tinyurl.com/USC-Faculty-... Positions in COMD, Psych, Linguistics, School of Medicine. @snlmtg.bsky.social #SNL2025, we will have a booth. w/@rutvikdesai.bsky.social @imb-uofsc.bsky.social

Our department is hiring! We're looking for a cognitive/developmental psychologist who uses computational approaches to study human cognition and behavior to address learning, development, and education. Feel free to reach out with questions!

I find it endlessly frustrating that one of the biggest empirical findings from sociolinguistics is consistently ignored. Change doesn't come from children making mistakes. Change comes from adolescents incrementing existing probabilistic patterns. I haven't read this paper but hopefully it's good.

“Children are not the main agents of language change” by Limor Raviv, Damián Blasi and Vera Kempe (Sep. ’25) pure.mpg.de/rest/items/i...

📣new and exciting paper alert! 📣 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Ever wonder what's the rhythm of speech -- across languages? 1/10 W/ Maya Inbar and Eitan Grossman, we analyzed over 650 recordings from 48 languages, focusing on intonation units—short prosodic phrases that structure speech in time.

📆 Reminder! Application deadline for incoming researchers (PhD students & postdocs) is August 31st! If you want to come work with us in Bielefeld, apply for one of our scholarships. We would love to have you! More infos here 👉 www.uni-bielefeld.de/sfb/sfb1646/... #BLinguistik #linguistics

I got the proofs today for my upcoming graphic novel about language, cognition, and visual communication and I cannot contain myself with how excited I am for this book to finally come out after working on it for 7 years 😱 visuallanguagelab.com/sip

Berkeley linguistics is hiring an Assistant Professor in language revitalization! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05022

Super excited to share our new multimodal corpus analysis, "Iconic Words Are Associated With Iconic Gestures" 🥳 Project led by our PhD student Ell Wilding and in collab w/ @jeannettel.bsky.social & @mperlman.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1111/cogs...

Another job here at Michigan - this one in Linguistics! Part of a cluster of hires with a focus on Cognitive Science and AI. Happy to chat to interested folks. apply.interfolio.com/171006

📢 New publication Interested in #iconicity? Fascinated by #ideophones? Craving for #fieldwork in this area? Check out this book and ideas will come... I explain how to conduct #psycholinguistic research in #minority languages such as #Basque @oxfordacademic.bsky.social @psylexlab.bsky.social

There's a new Collaborative Research Center focusing on the common ground at the University of Tübingen (where I did my MA), with a variety of really cool looking PhD and postdoc opportunities in linguistics starting in October: uni-tuebingen.de/en/283575

We are recruiting! An English linguistics professorship in Tampere (tenure track, open rank). Application deadline August 18 tuni.rekrytointi.com/paikat/?o=A_...

Super proud of my first Cambridge Elements, joint work with my long-term collaborator Francesca Strik-Lievers: "Linguistic Synesthesia: A Meta-Analysis" www.cambridge.org/core/elements/abs/linguistic-synesthesia/C6B019926C53001D1D698CB0C46F80C6/ Quick summary of the take home message in thread ⬇️

Out now in @pnas.org! 🌹Is a rose by any other name still as roselike?🌹 We study the prevalence of iconicity (does a word look/sound like what it means?) and systematicity (are pronunciation/meaning relationships shared across multiple words?) in large datasets of ASL, English, and Spanish. 🧵1/N

And it comes together with a reply! It was an interesting and fruitful discussion about the iconicity of different type of r-sounds :) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New review/theory/argumentative paper is out: "The size and shape of sound: The role of articulation and acoustics in iconicity and crossmodal correspondences". The paper delves deeply into what phonetic and cognitive mechanisms underpin spoken language iconicity. Link: doi.org/10.1121/10.0...

I'm now searching for new PhD students who are interested in studying how people's brains understand sequences of images like in comics. So, a mix of comics, cogneuro (EEG), and psycholinguistics (especially syntax/semantics). Please circulate to all who might be interested! tiu.nu/22739

Exciting opportunity! We’re offering a fully funded four-year PhD position in the fields of sociolinguistics, experimental pragmatics and cognitive linguistics @unigroningen.bsky.social! Join Alexander Martin and me to investigate the social meaning of address forms: www.rug.nl/about-ug/wor...

So excited to be in Eugene this summer for the LSA Institute! ✨🌻

Fancy working in Taiwan? We're looking for a laboratory phonologist! Hsinchu is 30 mins away from Taipei by High Speed Railway, and the shuttle bus from our campus to the HSR station also takes around 30 mins. Questions are welcomed! fl.nycu.edu.tw/2025/03/20/%...

Two Fully-Funded PhD positions at Auckland Uni! Come help us understand the past and future of global cultural and linguistic diversity. #linguistics #evolution #academia #phd www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Our PhD student @joannemccuaig.bsky.social is presenting online next Tuesday @baal-health-sig.bsky.social, woohoo! Talk is called: "Seems like everyone has trauma these days": A positive discourse analysis of mental trauma

JOB ALERT in #language and #linguistics! Postdoc Position at the Center for Language Evolution Studies, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland. Job offer here: www.umk.pl/en/jobs/?tas... We are now looking at a broader candidate pool so do consider applying! Please repost & share widely!

🚨🚨🚨 I'm hiring a Postdoc for a 3-year position to come work with me at the University of Oslo using iterative learning experiments to understand the evolution of sound symbolism. Please share widely. 🔴 Deadline is May 31st '25 ⏲️ Desired starting date is Fall '25 shorturl.at/vSTZx

Super excited to be giving a course on iconicity at the LSA Summer Institute this year... and wow, what a line-up they have in terms of courses and speakers: looks like it will be a fun time! More info and registration is open here: center.uoregon.edu/LSA/2025/

New paper out! Was fun to collaborate with Gab Hodge, Kearsy Cormier, and Elizabeth Manrique on this corpus analysis of how polar/content questions are marked in BSL. Link to paper: doi.org/10.1515/ling...

📢 ABSTRACTION presents: A workshop with brilliant speakers who will discuss language, conversations, and social interaction! 🗓️ April 3rd | 9-18 (Rome time) 📍 In person: Bologna, IT 💻 From remote: shorturl.at/oEM7S 🔴 Limited in-person seats–Register by March 21st (see the flyer) Don’t miss it!

New #OpenAccess paper! Thanks to @bodowinter.bsky.social Glenn De Muynck @annaborghi.bsky.social Luisa Lugli 📌 Spatial gestures, actually attested in numerical discourse, impact random number generation. However, the effect is small, with no strong evidence for cultural or individual differences!

This Friday 4pm is my professorial inaugural "From Birds to Words: Onomatopoeia, Metaphor, and the Language of Birdsong" (w/ BSL interpretation). There'll be a lot of iconicity in it! If you're interested, you can register for the webinar under this link: www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edac...

New tutorial paper published today with PhD student @danaroemling.bsky.social and @bodowinter.bsky.social Visualizing map data for linguistics using ggplot2: A tutorial with examples from dialectology and typology doi.org/10.1017/jlg.... I hope people find it useful!

My paper with @bodowinter.bsky.social and @jwgrieve.bsky.social was published in the Journal of Linguistic Geography today. 🎉 It’s a tutorial on how to use R & ggplot2 to visualise linguistic map data. doi.org/10.1017/jlg....

Excited to be Invited Speaker next to @angeladebruin.bsky.social and @timoroettger.bsky.social for the 1st Workshop on Replication in the Language Sciences (WoReLa 1) in Frankfurt a. M. on 3-4th of July 2025 Should be a fun event! Abstract submission open till Feb 28: sites.google.com/view/worela1

Phase Transition xkcd.com/3025

👩‍🎓👨‍🎓Fully funded PhD position available to come work with me at @unioslo.bsky.social using iterative learning experiments to understand the evolution of sound symbolism. 🔴 Deadline is 12. Jan '24 ⏲️ Desired starting date is Mar/April '24 shorturl.at/7hLH0

Deadline December 16: Asst prof (tenure track), "phonology, literacy, or related fields", Comm. Sci. + Disorders, McGill University mcgill.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/McGill_Caree...

New paper led by Vini Macuch-Silva: "Strategic use of English quantifiers in the reporting of quantitative information". In our experiments, participants used the approximate nature of quantifiers strategically to make exam results appear as good/bad as possible: doi.org/10.1080/0163...

New paper led by @acwiek.bsky.social shows trilled [r] is matched to jagged shapes in 20+ different languages. Effect stronger than bouba/kiki + weaker for languages where trill is primary variant. We also discuss implications for acoustics vis-a-vis articulation in iconicity/sound symbolism.

Going to be plenary speaker at #RaAM17 in Detroit, woohoo!

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The HCAS Symposium Theoretical Foundations for Interdisciplinarity is in full swing - @bodowinter.bsky.social (University of Birmingham) giving his talk "Interdisciplinarity, the Replication Crisis, and Statistical Rituals" Symposium program: blogs.helsinki.fi/interdiscipl...

We've made a major update to the causal diagrams chapter of Causal Inference in R! Check it out to learn about DAGs! I think there's a lot in this chapter that is undercovered in other sources. #rstats #causalinference @lucystats.bsky.social @travisgerke.bsky.social www.r-causal.org/chapters/05-...

New preprint of our chapter "Defining iconicity for the cognitive sciences" is out! osf.io/5e3rc This is for the the upcoming Oxford Handbook of Iconicity in Language.... was a blast to write with Greg Woodin and Marcus Perlman!

Me and my friends went full variationist at Firefly for this article😌 doi.org/10.1515/ling...

Please repost: Assistant or Associate Professor of Psychology at Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. apply.interfolio.com/132419

Job advert is out! 2-year postdoc with me on analysis of social media from a cultural evolution perspective. Deadline 15 November. #CulturalEvolution cssky lavoraconnoi.unitn.it/assegni-di-r...