Thanks to everyone who joined our virtual open house for the PhD program in CSD at NYU! A special thank you to our current doctoral students for hosting an engaging and informative discussion panel. If you couldn't make it, check out the recording here: bit.ly/4gYVIEO Please share!

Reminder - the virtual open house for the PhD program in communicative sciences and disorders at NYU is coming up next Wednesday 10/9. Please share (and refer me your students interested in speech technology or gender-affirming voice training)!

My lab (BITS Lab @ NYU) is looking to admit a new student in the coming cycle. Please share with anyone interested in sensorimotor control of speech in children and adults / technology development for speech applications / biofeedback for speech sound disorders and gender-affirming voice training!

Considering a PhD in communication sciences and disorders? Join me for a virtual info session on our fully funded 5-year program! Learn about our curriculum, hear tips for a successful application, and meet our faculty/students in breakout sessions. steinhardt.nyu.edu/events/commu...

BITS lab is seeking NYC-area English-speaking trans women aged 18-65 for a study exploring how computer-based manipulations can affect how gender is perceived in speakers’ voices. Commitment is one in-person 1-hour session, $20/hr. For more info, see sites.google.com/nyu.edu/spee...

New one on me…Meta’s LLM responds to a post on a parenting Facebook group reporting its own experience as a parent. Then apologizes for being mistaken about whether or not it has children/life experiences!

Something different! My piece for Slate magazine: When parents make a decision to raise a child bilingual, it should be about expanding opportunities for human connection, not based on claims of “bilingual cognitive advantage." slate.com/human-intere...

Our project “Improving the Accessibility of Transgender Voice Training with Visual Biofeedback" is eligible for an NIH Supplement to Promote Diversity in Health Research-know anyone from an underrepresented background who might be interested? Please share! wp.nyu.edu/byunlab/2024...

Three trophies for the chort!

Parents of NYC are WILD.

Reading NYC news briefs in French never ceases to amuse me. "Voices have been raised against the celebration of Groundhog Day, which would inflict on said groundhog a treatment unfitting for so timid an animal." (Open to suggestions to improve my translation!)

DYING over this news item where a sociolinguist reports on the increasing prevalence of affrication in French and some right-wingers jump on it and go “Affrication? We TOLD you the Africans were ruining our language!” www.radiofrance.fr/franceinter/...

Bilingual 4-year-old's blend of the day: "I'm clinking my eyes!" (French 'cligner' + English 'blink')

I'm working on a social media post about a grant and I just need the rest of the world to know that this is what Adobe Express suggested as a stock photo. Why did you go into academia? For the SACKS OF CASH.

When you go to dinner with a bunch of phonologists, clearly you choose the wine with the best consonant cluster… #LSA2024

Am I the only one who gets mad at toy manufacturers for including penguins in their ‘Arctic animals’ sets? Especially for supposedly STEM toys! I get that kids want to play with penguins, but can you at least call it ‘polar animals’ for the pedantic parents out here?

Proud mentor alert: In 2 consecutive years, BITS Lab undergrads have received the Acoustical Society of America's highly selective Robert W. Young award for excellence in acoustics. Congrats to 2022 recipient Jennifer Yang (who just successfully completed her thesis) and 2023 recipient Marcela Lara!

GOOD MORNING BLUESKY! Very excited about this new paper: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2300671120 Key Q: what predicts how much young kids (👶)talk? How much 🗣 kids heard predicted how much 👶talked, but other factors, e.g. mom’s education, didn’t. #PsychSci #DevPsy 🗣💬 INCOMING SUMMARY🧵ALERT 1/14

The 4-year-old was watching a show in French and told me in English, ‘Those are wheel foxes.’ Huh? Finally figured out she had interpreted ‘renard roux’ (= red fox) as ‘renard roue’ (=wheel fox) 🦊🛞

Updating the code supplement for a manuscript R&R and had to sanitize out comments reading "#test of normality for cranky reviewer" added by my very eminent stats colleague 🤣

So long, initial /ʒ/ in English, we hardly knew ye...

Do you work in gender-affirming voice training? As part of a software development project, my team is looking to connect with both SLPs and trans/gender-diverse people to better understand how resonance is targeted in the GAVT context. More info at forms.gle/VbCK3PHovZQs... Please share!

Working on my laptop in the 4-year-old's room and she informed me that the Slack notification sound says "fish tockadock" - now I can't unhear it

somebody set up us the bomb #rstats @daphna.bsky.social

Is Microsoft Word autocorrect now sponsored by Taco Bell? 🤔

Congrats to Sarah Bellavance for advancing the discourse on creaky voice with their QP1 paper defended today! Pull quote: "The use of creaky voice does not impact young women's hirability." The tongue dress is awesome; the rainbow slide is a happy artifact of the conference room lighting.

Hello world! For my first post, I'm thrilled to announce a new project (w/@daphna.bsky.social & many others) to extend visual-acoustic biofeedback to support resonance training in the context of gender-affirming voice work. Thanks to NYU for funding this effort 🏳️‍🌈 steinhardt.nyu.edu/news/nyu-ste...