Off to #SLE today in #Bordeaux to give not one but two talks. societaslinguistica.eu/sle2025/ @inmfl.bsky.social will be represented in the #linguistics outreach session with @mishee54.bsky.social

'Cello' comes from 'violoncello'. This Italian word has a funny literal meaning: "little big viola". That's because it's a double derivative of 'viola': viola > violone (big viola) > violoncello (little big viola). The part '-cello' is only a suffix. Here's more about it, 'violin', and 'fiddle':

Male academics be like "Dear female scholar, here's a paper I wrote that you might be interested in (as you have worked on the topic) in which I do not cite any one of the many papers you have written on the topic."

OASIS 5 (Ontology As Structured by the Interfaces with Semantics 5) will take place at the University of Edinburgh, December 3-5, with a satellite workshop on nominals in non-referential use. Call deadline: August 15.

The word "laundry" contains both steps of the laundry process: 1. Undry 2. Dry

Languages are even more fun when you learn a little bit about how they work!

RIP linguist Haj Ross (1938-2025) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_R....

The UK is not a single-language state. A powerful argument by @owswills.bsky.social for understanding and valuing multiculturalism. nation.cymru/opinion/the-...

Despite everything going on, I may have funds to hire a postdoc this year 😬🤞🧑‍🔬 Open to a wide variety of possible projects in social and cognitive neuroscience. Get in touch if you are interested! Reposts appreciated.

Did you know this about English & Media Centre? It's not a commercial organisation - it's an educational charity, with a tiny staff, offering as much as it can for free, doing loads of advocacy for the subject & offering a very wide range of support for teachers!

'Rethinking the UK Languages Curriculum: Arguments for the Inclusion of Linguistics' by @mishee54.bsky.social, Alice Corr, Anna Havinga, @jrkasstan.bsky.social & Norma Schifano argues for linguistics in the UK Mod Langs curriculum. Read it #OA: bit.ly/MLO-linguisitics @ciol-linguists.bsky.social

The @inmfl.bsky.social Project bagged its first award last night at Newcastle University in the category "Inclusive Education, Lifelong Learning & CPD"! This success goes in large part to many dedicated teachers who have co-created, piloted, and tested the materials developed on the project so far!

Lovely to see this recognition of our work on the @inmfl.bsky.social project! Language learning can be transformational, and we are proposing one way to realise that through the introduction of #linguistics in the school languages curriculum. #edusky #langsky

Just 10 days to go! The deadline to submit your abstracts for Papers and Posters is April 14 at 5PM GMT ⏳ Proposals for Special Interest Panels are also welcome! Submit your great research ideas: easychair.org/cfp/lagb2025 and share your work with the linguistics community. Be part of #LAGB2025!

What does ‘good’ ethical conduct in #linguistics look like from the perspective of the communities with whom we work? What can we as linguists be doing better? When it comes to building funding bids here are some suggestions #langsky 👉 www.degruyter.com/document/doi...

📣 We’ve been shortlisted for a Newcastle University Engagement and Place Award in the Inclusive Education, Life Long Learning and CPD category! Thank you, @newcastleuni.bsky.social, for this recognition - we’re delighted!

Follow our new BlueSky account if you are interested! #linguistics #education #MFLTwitterati #MFL

Follow our new BlueSky account if you are interested! #linguistics #education #MFLTwitterati #MFL

That there #linguistics bloke @davidadger.bsky.social talks conlangs with @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social for BBC Word of Mouth! www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Can we all please agree to stop using the word ‘seminal’?

REFUSE. (lexical stress)

Very excited to speak at #OASIS4 next week in York. Interdisciplinary conferences are the best and here’s why…https://oasis-4.webflow.io/speaker/michelle-sheehan

Just found out about this exciting Primary Languages conference just around the corner in Abingdon! #mflbluesky #langchat europaschooluk.org/making-the-c...

If only they had gone with ‘Cartographer’! english.stackexchange.com/questions/48...

Finally got to this today: www.britishmuseum.org/exhibitions/... it’s really good but (as usual) could have done with some linguistic input). There are lots of cool documents and scripts though! Worth a visit!

Cambridge cafe reading for linguists

Heard today: she’s duolingual in English and Spanish. Love it!

Available Ph.D. positions in linguistics (all subdisciplines) and philology (including historical linguistics) in our department at the University of Oslo. Application deadline February 28, 2025. www.hf.uio.no/iln/english/...

This is fun!

Yes, all I want for Christmas is a meaningless email from every company I gave every interacted with wishing me seasons greetings.

Universities all over Europe are cutting language programs and closing the doors to the world. We want to get a more complete picture: where, when, why? If you know of any such cases, please tell us (and share the link with your language and linguistics contacts)! elomake.helsinki.fi/lomakkeet/13...

Sad news from the linguistics community: the great sociolinguist William Labov has died at age 97 languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=67399

Fantastic North East Syntax Seminar today in Newcastle! If you are a linguist interested in syntax and working in the NE of the UK then sign up for our email list. The next meeting will be in beautiful York! www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/weba...

Stockholm University 🇸🇪 looking for an Associate Professor of General #Linguistics. Typology and neurolinguistics are current themes in their group; dept also works in phonetics, lang acquisition and sign language. Application deadline: January 2025 su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

Permanent computational linguistics job @ QM. Deadline 5th January. We're looking for a linguist w/ computational focus, to teach on new MSc Linguistics&AI who fits our research (phon, syn, sem, socio, neuro, exper). linguistlist.org/issues/35.33... (salary on scale w/ annual increases) #linguistics

Excited to see that our #SLE workshop on the Syntax and Semantics of Perception has been accepted. See you in Bordeaux!

“Few people realize that cognitive science is crucial for evaluating claims about AI capabilities. We often overestimate what computers are capable of, while vastly underestimating what human cognition is capable of.” www.ru.nl/en/research/...

He's also putting the glamour back into grammar on YouTube now! 🎶 #linguistics www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSOl...

Spanish #etymology of the day: mochila "backpack", from mochil "errand boy", from Basque motxil, diminutive of motil "boy", itself from Latin putillus "little boy".

Admit it, when you first saw the word “Glicked”, you pronounced it in your head as if it rhymes with “picked”. And why wouldn’t you? As far as I can tell, there’s no other word that’s a perfect rhyme with “wicked”.

The website for our Leverhulme Research Project is up! Take a look if you are interested in causation, perception and/or Romance languages! www.caurpe.org

The decline in #language learning in UK schools calls for urgent curriculum reform. In this policy paper we offer a feasible path based on interventions that we have been conducting on the #linguistics in MFL project (linguisticsinmfl.co.uk) #langsky #edusky 👉 www.lspjournal.com/post/address...

Is it just me or do all academics at graduation love the loved ones whooping in the audience? I say that sincerely.

El paisaje lingüístico importa y mucho. Ver lenguas históricamente minorizadas en el espacio público y a la par de las lenguas homogenicas es una pequeña acción que abre la puerta a otras. No es un fin en sí, es una herramienta

This has come up before, but I'm curious about other people's defaults: if you're emailing an academic who you don't know, do you address them by their first name, or by title + last name? Does it matter if they're in your field? Does it matter if you're contacting them as a chair/dean?

I did this and had a really good experience with the editorial team! Would highly recommend it!

Computational Linguistics job (Assistant Prof level, permanent) at our lovely linguistics department in Queen Mary. We're starting a new MSc in Lings and AI. Deadline Jan 5th, interviews late February. linguistlist.org/issues/35-33... #linguistics please repost!

Grammar is not the “rules” you were taught in school. It’s what your brain does to make sense of the linguistic input it’s exposed to. The “rules” you were taught are a hidden curriculum designed to maintain a social hierarchy. Before you learned them, you were already an expert at your language.

Snow day today! Sledging and a movie. Never gets old.

Post doc Grant in Linguistics portal.sede.uva.es/detalle-tabl...