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Emily M. Bender
about 17 hours ago
So a great thing about contracts is that they usually have and end date and/or means of ending them. If your university or other organization bent the knee to OpenAI or any of the other chatbot providers, when a contract is up, there is an opportunity for pressure:
forms.gle/ZGn5brEGU4t9...
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Open Letter: End the University of Edinburgh's Contract with OpenAI
Dear EDINA Leadership Team and those responsible for the University's contract with OpenAI, We are publicly writing to you as the University of Edinburgh's contract with OpenAI is coming to an end, a...
https://forms.gle/ZGn5brEGU4t9uL4Q8
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Alice Ross
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CFP REMINDER: you like linguistics? you like queer stuff? then get your LavLang abstracts in (please)! π³οΈβππ³οΈββ§οΈπͺ»π¬π£οΈ Submissions are due by 28 March, that's almost two weeks, you got this! See you in Edinburgh in September π
lavlang32.ppls.ed.ac.uk?page_id=231
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Call for Papers - Lavender Languages & Linguistics 32
Key dates Information Abstracts are invited for talks and topical panel sessions on original, unpublished research broadly related to the study of language, sexuality, queerness, and gender, particula...
https://lavlang32.ppls.ed.ac.uk/?page_id=231
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Nina Markl π³οΈββ§οΈπ³οΈβπ
9 days ago
π¨Save Languages at the University of Essex π¨
#langsky
#linguistics
UoE plans to cut German, Italian, Portuguese and Chinese + all evening classes and merge Language and Linguistics with a larger unit. Only 2 languages will remain next October. Please sign our letter:
tinyurl.com/SaveLingLang...
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Save Languages at Essex
To add your signature to this letter, please complete this form: Save Languages at Essex (Google Form) Dear Prof Bowen and members of the Executive Committee, We, the undersigned, urge you to reco...
https://tinyurl.com/SaveLingLangEssex
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π³οΈββ§οΈπ³οΈβπ Weβre hosting the Lavender Languages and Linguistics Conference in Edinburgh this year! If you work on queer linguistics topics, please submit an abstract, weβd love to see you there! Conference dates: 2nd-4th September Submission deadline: 28th March CfP:
lavlang32.ppls.ed.ac.uk?page_id=231
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about 1 month ago
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Interspeech 2026
about 1 month ago
'Queer and Trans Speech Science and Technology', an
#Interspeech2026
Special Session offering a space to build community and provide a foundation for future trans- and queer-driven speech research
sites.google.com/view/is-quee...
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π’ Call for papers: Interspeech special session on Queer and Trans Speech Science and Technology! Submit a 4- or 8-page paper to Interspeech by 25th February. More info about the session:
sites.google.com/view/is-quee...
Info about submitting to Interspeech:
interspeech2026.org/en-AU/pages/...
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Special Session
While interest in queer voices has long been present in linguistics and speech processing, there has been a glaring lack of trans and queer voices in research on queer speech science and technology, w...
https://sites.google.com/view/is-queer-trans/home
2 months ago
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Alice Ross
2 months ago
Do you work on language and sexuality, queerness, gender, or something related? If yes, please submit to LavLang! WIP and project launches are welcome along with completed work, and it's for all career stages, check out the CfP here:
lavlang32.ppls.ed.ac.uk?page_id=231
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Call for Papers - Lavender Languages & Linguistics 32
Key dates Information Abstracts are invited for talks and topical panel sessions on original, unpublished research broadly related to the study of language, ...
https://lavlang32.ppls.ed.ac.uk/?page_id=231
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Kathy Reid (she/her)
3 months ago
Queer and Trans Speech Science and Technology Website at:
sites.google.com/view/is-quee...
Brought to you by:
@netzorg.bsky.social
,
@ninamarkl.bsky.social
,
@greatlikecheese.bsky.social
, Juliana Francis, Francisca Pessanha.
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Special Session
While interest in queer voices has long been present in linguistics and speech processing, there has been a glaring lack of trans and queer voices in research on queer speech science and technology, w...
https://sites.google.com/view/is-queer-trans/home
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Interspeech 2026
4 months ago
An extraordinary response to the call for Special Sessions for
#Interspeech2026
! Consider submitting your paper to one of these accepted themed sessions π
interspeech2026.org/en-AU/pages/...
(and stay tuned for more details!)
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Alice Ross
4 months ago
Such an inspiring, powerful event! Huge thanks:
@naz-andalibi.bsky.social
@haimson.bsky.social
for their brilliant talks & sharing insights with me in the panel chat,
@aies-edinburgh.bsky.social
@kevinguyan.bsky.social
@sj-bennett.bsky.social
for putting it all together, & to everyone who attended!
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Nina Markl π³οΈββ§οΈπ³οΈβπ
4 months ago
πnew paper alertπ I argue that language technologies are usefully understood as a type of language management (i.e., ways of changing how people use and think about language) -- especially in the workplace -- connecting critical work on AI with language policy
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Defining language and managing its use: Language technology as language management
Language technologies such as voice user interfaces, large language models and machine translation tools are embedded in an ever-growing range of digiβ¦
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0271530925000989
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Alice Ross
4 months ago
Really looking forward to this upcoming
@aies-edinburgh.bsky.social
event, where the great
@naz-andalibi.bsky.social
and
@haimson.bsky.social
will be talking about emotion, gender, marginalisation and AI π€©
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gender-and...
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Gender and the Machine: Trans Tech, Emotion and AI
Join us for this afternoon of events discussing gender, marginalisation and emotion in AI and digital technologies
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gender-and-the-machine-trans-tech-emotion-and-ai-tickets-1952651676729
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Nina Markl π³οΈββ§οΈπ³οΈβπ
5 months ago
hear me talk about how AI is *really* ruining your job, not by taking it but by undermining your autonomy, enabling (nay, encouraging) your boss to monitor and assess you all the time, and removing everything that sparks joy in your working day Edinburgh (π₯°), 28/11!
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Christian Ilbury
5 months ago
Our CfP information for LavLang32 is now live: π 6 January 2026 - Abstract submission open β±οΈ28 March 2026 - Abstract submission deadline π£ 8 May 2026 - Notification of decisions
lavlang32.ppls.ed.ac.uk
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LavLang32 - Lavender Languages & Linguistics 32
2-4 September 2026: Queer (dis)belonging
https://lavlang32.ppls.ed.ac.uk/
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Lucy Jones
5 months ago
So good to see
#LavLang32
being shared so widely! Join us for the annual Queer Linguistics conference, which in 2026 travels to Scotland for the first time thanks to
@christianilbury.bsky.social
and University of Edinburgh
lavlang32.ppls.ed.ac.uk
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LavLang32 - Lavender Languages & Linguistics 32
2-4 September 2026: Queer (dis)belonging
https://lavlang32.ppls.ed.ac.uk/
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Dr Eddie Ungless
6 months ago
π My paper w/
@ninamarkl.bsky.social
and
@bjoernross.bsky.social
is out:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
We surveyed TikTok users on motivations for using phrases like "le$bean". Primarily associated w/ topics that are moderated on SM, but also desire to express community + be playful.
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Kirby Conrod
over 1 year ago
In a move surprising Probably No One, I have written about syntax pedagogy! This time for COZIL's blog: here's my five quick tips on how to make your syntax
#linguistics
classroom more LGBTQ+ friendly!
lgbtqlinguistics.wordpress.com/2024/10/18/m...
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Make your theoretical syntax classroom more LGBTQ-friendly with these 5 quick tips!
Theoretical linguistics is not necessarily a space that excludes queer linguists outright β hell, we named our LGBTQ Linguistics award after Arnold Zwicky, a prolific syntactician (among otheβ¦
https://lgbtqlinguistics.wordpress.com/2024/10/18/make-your-theoretical-syntax-classroom-more-lgbtq-friendly-with-these-5-quick-tips/
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Alice Ross
7 months ago
Catching my breath after two wonderful conferences last week! This
@interspeech.bsky.social
Special Session on Queer & Trans Speech Science & Technology was a real highlight, honoured to be part of it - huge thanks to
@greatlikecheese.bsky.social
,
@ninamarkl.bsky.social
and the other organisers! π
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Nina Markl π³οΈββ§οΈπ³οΈβπ
7 months ago
in honour of interspeech this week, iβd like to issue a reminder that everyone has an accent, and thatβs beautiful, actually:
www.isca-archive.org/interspeech_...
www.isca-archive.org/interspeech_...
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Alice Ross
8 months ago
V proud to say I'll be presenting our work on trans men's vocal style-shifting and metalinguistic awareness next month at LavLang 31
@lavlang.bsky.social
!πͺ»ππ¬ If you like LGBTQ things, linguistics, or Manchester, you should come too!
lavlang2025.wordpress.com
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Lavender Languages and Linguistics Conference, 20th-22nd August, 2025
Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
https://lavlang2025.wordpress.com/
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Cliodhna Hughes
Alice Ross
9 months ago
I think this is the biggest screen my work's ever been shown on (...so far?!)
#UKIS2025
at University of York last week. It was wonderful hearing about the varied and inspiring work everyone's been doing - especially on York's own YorVoice project π¬π
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Alice Ross
9 months ago
Excited (and also nervous) to present our project on trans men's vocal style-shifting at UK and Ireland Speech next week π₯³ I'll be in Oral Session A, on Monday afternoon, please be nice if you're there πββοΈ
sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/u...
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Alice Ross
10 months ago
... and to all the interviewees, who were a delight! The paper presents a mixed-methods study exploring phonetic features of trans men's speech in different contexts, along with qualitative interviews about their voices, experiences and metalinguistic awareness. I'm really proud of it!
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Thanks Simon, I had the best time working on this!
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about 1 year ago
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