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_...

so are the #interspeeech2025 DOIs still not supposed to work yet or am I missing something?

📢 Call for papers 📢 22nd Conference Italian Association for Speech Sciences - Fieldwork experimental phonetics for language documentation 🗓️ 22-24 January 2026 📍 University of Milan 🇮🇹 🗓️ Abstract submission deadline: 30 September 2025 🧐 More info: sites.google.com/view/aisv202...

🚨 Open PhD position in sign language #linguistics 🚨 The focus should be on the structure of signed languages, or connect to other research profiles at the department (e.g. computational linguistics, acquisition, typology, multilingualism) su.varbi.com/en/what:job/... Deadline: 15 October 2025

Applications for the @cogscisociety.bsky.social X Gorilla #grant are open!📣 5 researchers will win a grant worth $1,980 each to power their next study. Winners receive full access to 🦍’s premium tools, $300 cash + a 1-1 support session with one of our experts. Apply today! 👉http://bit.ly/4pvRGrY

I am so pleased to announce that I have been awarded a @ukri.org Future Leaders Fellowship www.ukri.org/news/ukri-an... to undertake the project 'A Multi-Dimensional Understanding of the Digital Far Right'.

nobody told me to expect Rimini to have such enviable cycling culture and infrastructure?!

I find it endlessly frustrating that one of the biggest empirical findings from sociolinguistics is consistently ignored. Change doesn't come from children making mistakes. Change comes from adolescents incrementing existing probabilistic patterns. I haven't read this paper but hopefully it's good.

discovering the official pokemon game sound libraries on youtube is a definite highlight of the week

taking the bike, past those train doors with the big bike sign, only to find out that northern has simply done away with the bike space. love it. 10/10.

Pat Strycharczuk will be presenting our paper at #Interspeech2025 on Wednesday afternoon (A02-O6), where we applied forensic speaker comparison methods to ultrasound tongue imaging data to think about the individuality of articulatory strategy 📄 www.isca-archive.org/interspeech_...

😍 Check out the #Interspeech2025 Proceedings! www.interspeech2025.org/abstract-boo...

Very happy to have been awarded an APEX grant for a project on “Interpretable acoustic-articulatory relations in speech production” w/ co-investigators Anton Ragni & Aneta Stefanovska. The plan is to do some interesting speech research at the intersection of linguistics, physics & computer science!

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woohoo celebrating first major grant rejection 🥳 now my brain can obsess over something else

apparently after `if(file_exists($filepath))`, phpstorm AI auto fill likes to suggest `unlink` as the next line 😜

Research Ireland, on behalf of @deptoffhed.bsky.social, have today launched Global Talent Ireland - a new initiative to attract exceptional mid-career and established researchers from across the globe to Ireland. For more information visit: www.researchireland.ie/funding/glob...

Did this cat (not mine) make me miss the bus this morning? Yes. Do I love her? Yes. Will she one day end up tripping me down the stairs and breaking my bones? You betcha.