'eliminate the departments of Religious Studies, Judaic Studies, Arabic Studies, Holocaust Studies, Classics, German and Scandinavian, and Russian...[and] firing of tenured faculty from...Women’s and Gender Studies, Indigenous, Race and Ethnic Studies, history, creative writing, math, physics'

A researcher-friendly resource for studying phonological social networks. Spread the word to your networks! #psynomBRM paper by Alderete and colleagues #Psycholinguistics #NetworkAnalysis #OpenAccess post by Caballero

Glasgow's looking for a temp phonetician/sociolinguist: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNZ288/t...

I am thrilled to announce that I will be joining the Berkeley Linguistics Department this coming fall. I've had an incredible 22 years in Chicago, working with exceptional colleagues and students. I am deeply grateful for all the support and memories we've shared.

The Oxford Handbook of Language & Prejudice, edited by Jane Setter, Sender Dovchin, and yours truly, rearticulates and expands upon the connections between language and prejudice. It is available for pre-order, so please ask your university or local library to order a copy: shorturl.at/gDhJA

We're delighted to announce that #LabPhon20 will be held in Montréal, Québec, Canada, in the (North American) summer of 2026, with the theme “Looking back and looking forward.” Dates, thematic sessions, invited speakers and further information will be announced by the organizing committee. #LabPhon

www.nwo.nl/en/news/fund... What a great opportunity!

Ian was such an inspirational mentor to me, both academically and athletically. He was always so sweet and so English. He will be greatly missed.

I am very sad to learn of the death of Ian Maddieson (on Sunday, Feb. 2). He was a creative thinker, an inspiring linguist, and a wonderful colleague who made a big difference to me intellectually and personally.

I guess the whole DEL program will be scratched. 🤬

How is pharyngealization realized in across linguistic contexts? In #Tashlhiyt, it's signaled in #coronals by a lowered tongue body & lowered F2 in nearby vowels, which can extend into larger phonetic domains. doi.org/10.16995/lab... #openaccess #LabPhon @phbuech.bsky.social @annehermes.bsky.social

What is the state of trust in scientists around the world? A study in Nature Human Behaviour reports on a survey of 71,922 respondents in 68 countries and finds that trust in scientists is moderately high. https://go.nature.com/3PLgKKU 🧪

Some last minute tips from me published by @poynterinstitute.bsky.social on how journalists can prepare for the next four years www.poynter.org/commentary/2...

We are doing an (open-rank) search for an instructional professor in computational linguistics! Come join us! linguistlist.org/issues/36/235/ #EOE/#Vet/#Disability

Chinese map of Canada in 1902

Happy New Year everyone! Jim and I just put up our January 2025 release of Speech and Language Processing! Check it out here: web.stanford.edu/~jurafsky/sl...

Most models of #word recognition assume the input is faithful to #phonological specifications in the #lexicon, but it's not always the case. Results from #lenition in #Mawng & #Iwaidja explore how recognition occurs in such scenarios. @bjbaker.bsky.social #LabPhon #openaccess doi.org/10.16995/lab...

Excited to share our newest article , now in Scientific Reports @natureportfolio.bsky.social . Here we look at interactions between neural coding of temporal cues and pupil-indexed listening effort, and their combined effects on speech in noise intelligibility. - www.nature.com/articles/s41...

On the opportunity cost of failing – radically failing – to recognise what we can and what we need to do in arts and humanities to develop a national capability that genuinely supports this country’s future agenda. anatomiesofpower.wordpress.com/2024/12/31/f...

I can’t wait to read this new edition! What an awesome team of authors!

ATTENTION ALL! This is my full academic review of the 3rd edition: “FUCK YES. Finally, something ACTUALLY badass!!!!” You can quote me. 👍🏽

“am not arguing that the humanities should adopt scientific norms, but that they should have the financial means to complement, contest, or rival science in explaining people, societies, and cultures. To do this properly today, they need a step-function increase in funding.”

Evolution journal editors resign en masse to protest Elsevier changes The mass resignation is the 20th such episode since early 2023, according to our records.

The human auditory cortex concurrently tracks syllabic and phonemic timescales via acoustic spectral flux www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... iEEG. 1. syllabic & phonemic timescales both reflected in the acoustic spectral flux 2. cortex tracks syllabic timescale: theta range, phonemic via alpha-beta

In word shadowing tasks, do participants imitate formant frequencies or vowel shifts? Given the Northern Cities Vowel Shift, talkers imitate normalized phonetic properties of NCVS vowels, not the overall high F1,F2 frequencies of the model talker. #openaccess #LabPhon doi.org/10.16995/lab...

Hello, Bluesky! This is the account for the Association for Laboratory Phonology, #LabPhon. Follow here to learn about new publications in our journal, and other Association news. #linguistics #phonetics #phonology

Thanks to Marlyse Baptista and the Linguistic Society of America staff for pulling this event together so quickly. Another reason to be at the Annual Meeting in Philadelphia.

My team is hiring at Nature Communications! If you're at #AGU24 and would like to chat about what my (great) job is like, please DM me! Associate editor (US) - $74k/yr Senior editor (US) - $91k/yr www.nature.com/naturecareer... @natureportfolio.bsky.social @naturecomms.bsky.social #academicsky

Practice of neurosurgery on Saturn. Received 31 July 2024, Accepted 7 August 2024, Available online 10 August 2024, Version of Record 16 August 2024. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

New article in our special issue 'Cognitive Technologies and their Histories': Ottaviano et al., "Metaphors and the invention of writing" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

An eloquent description of what it was like to experience the one-child policy as a child. The grief of parents who wanted more children and the grief of being told that someone can have another child - their living child will not live long. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

The next chapter of journalism demands more than reactive reporting. JSK alum @aglantz.bsky.social highlights how journalists can reshape the narrative by digging deeper into the issues that affect communities.

This is really quite awesome! More work like this please!

Shocker www.theguardian.com/education/20...

May I lie and say I'm passionate about linguistics? A question for the NY Times Ethicist. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/15/m...?

youtu.be/Oq5fFjqBWSA?... Lives ruined by not knowing phonetics.

First we have our first registered report! “Listeners’ convergence towards an artificial agent in a joint phoneme categorization task”, by Nguyen, Lancia, Hunter, Schwartz, & Diard: escholarship.org/uc/item/0dg0...

Very cool!

A very timely workshop! newhorizonsinlanguagescience.github.io

"It’s Not Your Fault That Academic Life is Getting Harder" by Glen O’Hara voicesofacademia.com/2024/04/05/i...

Don’t ever use “delve” again! pshapira.net/2024/03/31/d...

I think this is a really important article. Read it if you're interested in cultural heritage archives. publications.archivists.org.au/index.php/as...

We are very excited that the first ROLE Symposium will take place on April 12th and April 19th (online). Please register if you would like to participate in this event. We will have live-captioning and ASL interpreters.

“Who does language belong to? A fight over the Lakota language.” Great episode, definitely worth listening. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...

I had not been aware of the significant legal constraints that discourage international students from majoring in the humanities at US universities.

“Protected group bias and stereotypes in Large Language Models”. Very important topic! arxiv.org/abs/2403.147...