Things that make this photographer happy part two.. Creating pun photos on the London Underground.

Needed to take my daughter into work for a short time today so while there our amazing @phoneticslab.bsky.social let her ultrasound her tongue! She thought it was very, very cool.

In sunny news, praatpicture version 1.5.0 is now on CRAN 🌞🧨 and you can now finally overlay pitch and intensity on the waveform (thanks to @jannelorenzen.bsky.social for suggesting this)

Sorry for the self-promo (again), but I wanted to share this paper in English too, just in case hehe. revistas.uva.es/index.php/ma... If you're into voice modulation, vocal dysphoria, or trans voices in general, I'd love it if you took a look 🐦🐦 🌈🎓

Experimentology is out today!!! A group of us wrote a free online textbook for experimental methods, available at experimentology.io - the idea was to integrate open science into all aspects of the experimental workflow from planning to design, analysis, and writing.

FYI: Research Survey L1 English/L1 Japanese speakers

感情に関する研究のためにアンケート調査を実施しています！ 日本語の母語話者の方は、ぜひご協力いただけると嬉しいです（所要時間は10分未満です） アンケートは匿名で行われ、お礼に私の母のカルボナーラのレシピ🍝と、私のお気に入りのヴェネツィアの飲食スポット🍷をまとめたパンフレットを調査の終わりにダウンロードいただけます🙇‍♀️ 調査はこちらです forms.gle/U7kCWknfKLMS... 共有していただければとても嬉しいです！

Introducing the tidynorm package! It's got convenience functions for applying your favorite vowel normalization methods to point measures, formant tracks, and DCT coefficients in a tidyverse workflow, as well as a flexible framework for defining your own normalization methods!

Linguistics at Lancaster ranked 2nd in the UK and joint 1st for graduate prospects in the 2026 Complete University Guide. www.thecompleteuniversityguide.co.uk/league-table...

We have two papers accepted at #Interspeech2025! ✨ ➡️ Nosey: Open-source hardware for acoustic nasalance arxiv.org/abs/2505.23339 ➡️ Articulatory strategy in vowel production as a basis for speaker discrimination arxiv.org/abs/2505.20995 + I'll also be giving a survey talk! See you in Rotterdam! 🇳🇱

Very happy to share that I've accepted a position as associate professor of phonetics in Oxford starting September! Excited to be part of this vibrant phonetics and linguistics community for the foreseeable future!

As part of the #ViTraLiP transnational course, our virtual guest was @samkirkham.bsky.social from Lancaster University. During our exchange in #Paris, we were able to attend his talk at the #SRPP colloquium. Thanks to @lppparis.bsky.social for inviting us! Read more here: tinyurl.com/vitralip.

A fairly basic plot but feeling quite big a sense of achievement — audio recording, tongue tip and tongue dorsum vertical movement for the word “bead” recorded with electromagnetic articulography (EMA). Love the clear raising of then tongue tip towards /d/!

New exciting tongue contour modelling methods of ultrasound data! stefanocoretta.github.io/mv_uti/

Contact @rongruc.bsky.social 📣Participants Needed 🔍 A fun brain stimulation study using tDCS to explore how we process distorted speech. 👂 2 short lab visits (3h total) = £35 📍 UCL Chandler House (WC1N 1PF) See poster below! #UCL #BrainResearch #BrainStimulation #PaidStudy #tDCS #CognitiveScience

Four weeks left to apply! 🚨🚨🚨

✨Discovering dynamical laws for speech gestures ✨ ➡️ I’m delighted to announce my new article out today in Cognitive Science, where I discover simple mathematical laws that govern articulatory control in speech. 🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... @cogscisociety.bsky.social

Jobs: English, German; Phonetics, Phonology, Pragmatics: Post-doctoral researcher (Prosody/Gesture, Laboratory Phonology), University of Aberdeen / University of Cologne / University of Newcastle

📣Participants Needed 🔍 A fun brain stimulation study using tDCS to explore how we process distorted speech. 👂 2 short lab visits (3h total) = £35 📍 UCL Chandler House (WC1N 1PF) See poster below! #UCL #BrainResearch #BrainStimulation #PaidStudy #tDCS #CognitiveScience

超音波舌断層撮像（ultrasound tongue imaging）におけるデータ収集・分析手法の解説論文が、日本音声学会誌『音声研究』より本日出版されました！特集号「Instrumental Phonetics―非侵襲的ツールを使用して―」の一部として、自身の経験に基づき、典型的なデータ収集・分析のワークフローや、良質なデータを得るためのヒントをまとめています。少しでも参考になれば嬉しいです！ www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/onse...

Hot off the press! My tutorial on ultrasound data collection & analysis is now out. Open Access. Part of a special issue in the Journal of the Phonetic Society of Japan, with lots of other cool studies. Articulatory phonetics is going strong in Japan! www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/onse...

A surprising number of data sets in linguistics do not converge with lmer() when you include random slopes in the model. I don’t think this is about the failure to use an optimizer (btw, it shouldn’t be necessary *all the time*). What works and what doesn’t? An example… 1/n

❗️❗️ We are organising the first edition of the “Bayes in Bayonne: Methods Workshop for Linguistics and Cognitive Sciences” on the 17th June, at the Iker lab of the CNRS in Bayonne!!! All the relevant information and link to registration can be found here: bayes-bayonne-workshop.gitlab.io

Sun, J., Kitamura, T., & Hayashi, R. (2025). Extraction of Speech Organ Contours from Ultrasound and real-time MRI Data using DeepLabCut. Acoustical Science and Technology, e24-128. doi.org/10.1250/ast....

We had a brilliant time at Lancaster University's public engagement festival, Campus in the City, yesterday! We engaged with 260 people in Morecambe with ultrasound, nasalance, accent quizzes, gender and language, and a grammar escape room! @lancslinguistics.bsky.social @phoneticslab.bsky.social

I wrote some software that visualises real-time nasalance for our @phoneticslab.bsky.social public engagement event this week! We use two microphones to capture oral and nasal signals, separated by a baffle, and map each signal's amplitude to a visual representation of the face!

There's a PhD studentship opportunity available at the Birkbeck School of Psychological Sciences! 4 years, funded by working as a graduate teaching assistant. Feel free to get in touch if you have questions. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMD691/p...

New *Funded PhD opportunity* for UK students to work with me at UCL (London), researching auditory training interventions to improve speech understanding in noisy environments. Deadline 28th April. Full details and job description: bit.ly/4ccbbzj @uclpals.bsky.social [please share]

📣 #Job alert! The Technology Platform LiRI at the University of Zurich is looking for Data Science Consultant specialized in #statistics, in collaboration with the NCCR Evolving Language! More details here: jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancie...

Our new paper on "Dimensionality Reduction in Lingual Articulation of Vowels" is now out in Language & Speech! How should we quantify tongue shape in vowel production? We evaluate various measures and identify multi-dimensional measures for vowel analysis. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Summer Schools: Summer School “Methods in Language Sciences”

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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/%...

POST-DOC CALL! 2-year post-doctoral position to work in Marseille on any topic in the field of language, communication and the brain. Deadline May, 20, 2025 www.ilcb.fr/ilcb-postdoc...

Congratulations to Dr Hannah Wilt for passing her PhD viva last week with NO CORRECTIONS. Thanks also to the examiners @salonikrishnan.bsky.social and @gambichiara.bsky.social for making this a great day!

We are delighted to have been ranked 3rd in the world for Linguistics by the QS World Subject Rankings 2025! 🔗 www.topuniversities.com/university-s... 🔗 www.lancaster.ac.uk/news/lancast...

Really enjoyed sharing my PhD work at Westminster Forum for Languages and Linguistics! Thank you for inviting me!

We have to PhD positions in Voice Communication Sciences (VoCS) vailble right now. Deadline for applications is mid March. Contact me if you want to discuss your application.

New open access paper in Speech Communication on “nasal coarticulation in Lombard speech”: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... I argue that, in Lombard speech, coarticulatory vowel nasality falls amid a compressed range of nasalisation, but coarticulation is maintained @phoneticslab.bsky.social

I suggest everyone visits our webpage and looks at how beautiful we all are thanks to @carignan.bsky.social 's amazing photography skills ;-) www.ucl.ac.uk/pals/researc...

Great SRPP (@lppparis.bsky.social) talk on speech modelling by @samkirkham.bsky.social (@phoneticslab.bsky.social) 👅 A very clear overview of why we should care about modelling and the considerations that need to be made when creating new models. 🧠

Question: if you were to do a research stay to deepen your knowledge in trans linguistics and/or sociophonetics, where would you go? (Ideally, somewhere other than the US, given the situation)

Another day, another 'AI' generated submission. Ho hum. A reminder: we believe that critical analysis requires critical thinking, and that does not (cannot) occur when the task of 'thinking' is conferred to a slop generator.

Hierarchical encoding of natural sounds mixtures in ferret auditory cortex https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.15.637892v1

Applications for the ninth summer school on statistical methods for linguistics and psychology close on April 1, 2025. Every year people contact me saying they missed the call, so here it is again :) vasishth.github.io/smlp2025/