the term "step change" gets me every time, do all those steps have a stride above the 90th percentile or something

I’ve had lots of conversations about AI and skills and knowledge today and in recent weeks, which I’m very much relating to, but equally it’s the moments of joy when I iron out each kink

coding today was spending a couple hours finding the right search terms to describe my specific issue so I could find the github issue that describes the fix and directs me back to the documentation I'd read multiple times but just not grasped the significance of

there was a time, not even a year ago, when I didn’t have coding in javascript as part of my life, and now I’m not quite sure what thought process led to me being committed to doing js for at least another year

final push for a few more participants for Emilia, thank you to any anonymous yous who've already done it! 👇🏻 *you do need to be on a computer not mobile

good morning, #linguistics 🐦🐦 pals the University of Essex wants to cut 50% of our Language & Linguistics department, close our foundation programme & our Southend campus, + cut 400 jobs academic departments and professional services jobs across all depts join us in the fight against these cuts!

that puncture two weeks ago was stressful enough, now I’m getting punctures in the front wheel in my dreams? shut up, brain

calling L1 speakers of British English, please help out my student Emilia on her dissertation study! 🐦🐦 it's a short (<20 min) and fun one on voice recognition, please share! lancasteruni.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

calling L1 speakers of British English, please help out my student Emilia on her dissertation study! 🐦🐦 it's a short (<20 min) and fun one on voice recognition, please share! lancasteruni.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

four weeks into this year’s phonetics module and I’m very excited to learn who the swifties and pokemon nerds are among the students

The BSL announcements at Newcastle station don’t provide an equivalent experience at all. Wrong or missing info for at least 4 trains at a time.

400 jobs at risk. A campus set to close. This film explains what’s happening at the University of Essex and why staff, students and the local community are organising to stop it. 📍 Southend rally | 5 February

New @phoneticslab.bsky.social paper from @clrnance.bsky.social!

bringing back pokemon to teach phonology this year and I just realised castform is older than most of my students

(linguistics) pals, a student of mine is conducting a short (<10 minutes) perception study on Child Directed Speech -- open to all L1 speakers of English who have grown up in & live in the UK! 🐦🐦 please share and/or complete: essex.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Come work with us! 🌟 3 Postdoc & 5 PhD positions – deadline for applications: 20 February. www.curlew.info/jobs

PhD funding at York in Forensic Speech Science A PhD scholarship is available as part of the CURLEW project (Census of Urban and Rural Language in England and Wales), funded by SNSF. Deadline for applications is 12.00 (GMT), 13.00 (CET) on 20 Feb 2026. curlew.info/jobs/york-ph...

bike retrieved and serviced, aaah so smooth the gear shifts

you will never guess what just happened on my first day of #TheGreatBritishCommute 2026

First paper of 2026 with Rhys Sandow, @jwgrieve.bsky.social, and Rose Stamp! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

ah yes, last-minute platform changes, can’t ask for a better welcome back to England. good to know nothing’s changed.

Delighted to announce this book is finally being published! Over 3 years in the production. I've written Chapter 3 - Ethics and Professional Conduct Oversight in Forensic Linguistic Expert Evidence. #ForensicLinguistics #Ethics #ExpertEvidence

if my bank app is going to force me to go through their unwrapped, the least it can do is not crash in the middle??

they’re coming for everyone but hitting the parts with the most positive social impact hardest: campus in Southend that was part of regeneration plans which trains nurses & social workers our foundation programme which does incredible work none of the rest of us *can* do

tried writing in cursive again and I don't think I can read anything I wrote in the first half an hour...

another #TheGreatBritishCommute achievement unlocked: got locked on an emptied train (preceding cycling was too slow)

can I please have one day working with microsoft where it does not end with me being driven up the wall

HAPPY LINGUISTICS DAY!🥳🎉🗣️ @lagbling.bsky.social @baal-linguistics.bsky.social @universitypress.cambridge.org and the University of Birmingham are running two competitions in linguistics for ALL UG/PGT/PGR students and ECRs to enter! find details on both competitions below 👇🏽 Good luck! 💸

Reunited after having to abandon bike at the station 3 nights ago! But here we are facing points failure and more delays together!

We will present preliminary findings from our project on cuts in language-related programmes in Europe next week in the SLE Online Autumn Lecture on Thursday 27 November, 5pm CET. Everyone is welcome to join without registration. Un grand merci to the colleagues from SLE für die Einladung!

immunised to the point where broken rail, cancelled trains, a replacement bus so late I gave up, none of it even came close to stressing me out any more #TheGreatBritishCommute

Hi friends, I'm looking for participants for my research! Please help me share this widely! 大家好，我嘅研究需要您嘅參與！請大家幫手分享出去！ Link to the registration form 報名表格: forms.office.com/r/sVQfiPYUhD #Cantonese #廣東話 #Toronto #多倫多

my level of emotional investment in this project idea wasn't that high, but now that I came up with an acronym that impressed even myself there's no turning back

gotta admire Northern’s creativity for the things it tries to pass off as a restraining strap

amazing (read: extremely irritating) how the entirety of the university research directory can be down for 17 days and counting

I am hearing that @uniofnottingham.bsky.social is suspending (i.e shutting down) *all modern language courses* in 2026-27. One of the largest departments in the UK. A shocking short sighted move that damages regional and national prospects @britishacademy.bsky.social @hetanshah.bsky.social

cycling through some parts of Lancaster at night really feels a lot like going through that first cave in Pokemon without HM05

Our CfP information for LavLang32 is now live: 📅 6 January 2026 - Abstract submission open ⏱️28 March 2026 - Abstract submission deadline 📣 8 May 2026 - Notification of decisions lavlang32.ppls.ed.ac.uk

moral of the story tonight is I should just keep my waterproof overtrousers on at all times through the winter when I'm cycling in Lancaster, because one way or another it'll start tipping down halfway

not having to set off for work in complete darkness this week makes such a huge difference!!

Anyone wanna come and hang out with us at NZILBB? We're advertising a fun postdoc position on a project looking at the representation of part of speech in te reo Māori. Do get in touch if you have questions. jobs.canterbury.ac.nz/jobdetails/a...

Postdoc in #sociolinguistics jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...

I might’ve just read my book of the year

Please share! We have a number of fully funded PhD studentships in "Designing Responsible Natural Language Processing". I'm a possible supervisor & I'd be keen to support projects on sociolinguistics-AI, e.g., accent bias in AI, language+gender/sexuality+AI. www.responsiblenlp.org

On the train (as you do) someone just stopped and stared at my mcnuggets and very emphatically said “I’m so jealous”. Does make me feel a lot less sad for myself when macca’s bought at the station in between trains was my only dinner option.

🗓️ Voiced: The Festival for Endangered Languages @barbicancentre.bsky.social, events exploring literature in minoritised languages & dialects, celebrating multilingual identities! (16-18 Oct, London) Book here👇🏻 www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/202... #langsky #london #poetry #literature #multilingualism

I’m ticking off flooding on the line already so what do you mean term hasn’t actually started yet

PhD Position: Accented Speech Processing - Apply now! Come work with Mirjam Broersma, @davidpeeters.bsky.social, and me at the Centre for Language Studies, Radboud University in the Netherlands. Application deadline: 19 October 2025 For more information, see www.ru.nl/en/working-a...

hello Northern Trains, love that there's no time restriction to bring bikes on your trains, but wow the pretend cycle space on some of your class 150 and 158 trains truly sucks

Please boost! #linguistics student here at Swarthmore is running a survey for English speakers (who don't know Mandarin / any other tone languages) about how we learn tones. Take a few minutes to help out with this student research! swarthmore.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...