„CSU—US’s largest public uni system—went all-in with a $17mill partnership with OpenAI. . .CSU unveiled its grand technological gesture just as it proposed slashing $375mill from its budget. While admin cut ribbons on AI, they were cutting faculty positions, academic programs, student services.“

Conference alert! Queer Identities in East & Southeast Asia, 6-7 April 2026, Edinburgh 💜 Abstracts are due by 18 Jan! queeresea.wordpress.com

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!

www.technomoralfutures.uk/news-databas... Happy Monday! Here's me thinking about speech tech, voices, and death thanks to the lovely @technomoralfutures.bsky.social content notes: discussion of death, grief, online abuse

PLEASE JOIN @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social rally Weds 19 Nov! We are fighting to save @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social. Senior management are threatening staff with up to 1800 compulsory redundancies on top of the many recent redundancies and cuts that have already damaged our working and learning conditions.

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 🤩 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gender-and...

In unrelated news one of my undergraduate tutees told me I was a "very nice tutor" today and I maybe got more job satisfaction from that moment than in the entire rest of my career to date? 🥹😭 tutoring is brilliant, marking not so much

Good to see a decent turnout today in support of the 30 employees laid off by @rockstargames.com (my former employer!🍵) for union organising - bring back shame for those who still work there, didn't join the union and didn't join the rally honestly

Mask off union busting from my former employer? Disappointed but unfortunately not surprised 😒😒😒

University of Edinburgh has est. £3bn in assets, pays our principal >£418,000/year on top of his mansion + tens of thousands in expenses, but is threatening compulsory staff redundancies and... reducing the availability of period products in one of the busiest student buildings? Embarrassing tbh

"Liberalism is fun the way VHS tapes are fun: the flaws of an obsolete tool become a nostalgic aesthetic." 🔥 from @theabigailthorn.bsky.social on performing trans womanhood as palatable within the cisnormative hellscape

LAVLANG! IN! EDINBURGH! 2026! 💜🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🪻🦩💬✨

Excited to talk to the Language Variation and Change research group on Monday about my ongoing work on style shifting and authenticity in trans speech! Join if you're around, UofE friends! ppls.ed.ac.uk/linguistics-...

THRILLED to be visiting the lovely Speech, Music & Hearing folks at KTH Royal Institute of Technology this week! So much cool work happens here (voice quality, gender-ambiguous TTS, gesture and interaction...) and what's more they have this GORGEOUS vowel formant synthesis machine from 1953, Ove 🤩

Always antifascist. The crisis is capitalism. Scottish Parliament today.

And @lavlang.bsky.social was a delight throughout - amazing keynotes and talks, wonderful people, great venue, genuinely inspiring work. I don't have a photo of me presenting (but promise I did) so it's represented by this corner of Manchester's Queer Lit bookshop which I visited, also lovely! 🏳️‍🌈🪻💜

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! 💜

Heading to Rotterdam today for @interspeech.bsky.social 🤩 and the paper is out! 🎉 Thanks again to my coauthors @greatlikecheese.bsky.social, @mxeddie.bsky.social, @catlai.bsky.social, and to all the participants! The special session on queer + trans speech is on Monday afternoon. See you there?

Super grateful to be visiting the Forschungsbereich Mensch und Maschine / Center for Humans and Machines this week in their incredibly cool home @mpib-berlin.bsky.social 🤩 huge thanks for all the good thoughts and questions at the lab meeting today!

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!🪻🌈💬 If you like LGBTQ things, linguistics, or Manchester, you should come too! lavlang2025.wordpress.com

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 💬💜

Excited (and also nervous) to present our project on trans men's vocal style-shifting at UK and Ireland Speech next week 🥳 I'll be in Oral Session A, on Monday afternoon, please be nice if you're there 🙂‍↕️ sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/u...

"classifications do not just describe people’s experiences of the world but normatively construct the world they claim to describe": the great @kevinguyan.bsky.social writes about 'inclusion' and what gets flattened, miscategorised, made incomprehensible or just left out

“In the Colony of Blooded Eyes: A Trilogy on Working Conditions as a Content Moderator in Germany” is a raw and honest account by Sakine Mohamadi Bozorg on the realities faced by migrant content moderators in Germany.

Delighted to say I'll be presenting my work on 'Conveying gender through speech: insights from trans men' at @interspeech.bsky.social 2025! Huge thanks to my excellent coauthors @greatlikecheese.bsky.social, @mxeddie.bsky.social and @catlai.bsky.social 🏳️‍⚧️🗣️💜

"There is an island of strangers in Westminster. Most of them have never known the bonds that strangers can form." Richard Lighten's beautifully written response to Starmer rjaylighten.substack.com/p/an-island-...

i am so weary of this discourse

Hanif Abdurraqib (over on ig in this instance), consistently making me nod and think and cry in a good way.

if you're in Edinburgh and not stuck in a training session all day you should go see what my extremely cool colleagues have been up to at @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social tomorrow! (11 April) (can we guess who is stuck in a training session all day) 😘

raise your hand if you have ever been personally victimised by Reviewer 2 ✋✋✋✋✋🖖✋✋✋✋✋✋✋✋✋✋✋✋✋✋✋✋✋✋✋✋✋✋🤟✋✋✋✋🖐️

something that I'm proud of! I co-wrote this with Ari Sanchez and @ninamarkl.bsky.social because I got mad at the start of my PhD when I started reading up-to-date papers on speech science/technology and they said things like "the two genders" 😂🥲🫠 doi.org/10.1109/SLT6...

some good news! 🍉

"My view is that AI cannot be ethical if it’s trained immorally, by exploiting people in economically difficult areas, like people in the global south." Mophat Okinyi of Techworker Community Africa on AI labour practices in @superrrnetwork.bsky.social's Ding magazine dingdingding.org/issue-7/inte...

GenAI devalues teaching and learning: just two of the brilliant @ninamarkl.bsky.social's top 10 reasons to keep GenAI out of our university work languagemechanics.neocities.org/no-gen-ai

"Longtermism posits an ever-growing omelet that recedes perpetually into the future while demanding a potentially infinite number of broken eggs": Alex Gendler's incisive take on TESCREAL fallacies, the concept of history and its discontents thepointmag.com/politics/hom...