Pääsin tiedekunnan videosarjaan puhumaan lyhyesti tutkimuksestani ja liikkumaan hidastettuna. Ei kai sitä voi muuta toivoa! youtu.be/qPKJ3V0GDlk

Next talk in the OSSO + DDI online talk series is on April 17, 14 - 15 EEST. Join us for Sanna-Kaisa Tanskanen's lecture "My bad: the metapragmatics of accountability on social media" Join the Zoom room: tinyurl.com/talkosso 🐦🐦

You are warmly welcome to attend guest lectures by Dr Réka Eszenyi & Franciska van Waarden (ELTE Department of Translation & Interpreting, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest) When: Wed 14 April 12:00-14:00 Where: interpreting studio Pinni B 2034 More details here: research.tuni.fi/plural-en/ev...

Next talk in the OSSO + DDI online talk series is on April 17, 14 - 15 EEST. Join us for Sanna-Kaisa Tanskanen's lecture "My bad: the metapragmatics of accountability on social media" Join the Zoom room: tinyurl.com/talkosso 🐦🐦

Kukkupuheet puntarissa aprillipäivän Sopii kysyä! -luennolla pääkirjasto Metsossa intra.tuni.fi/fi/content/n... Huhtikuun Sopii kysyä! -luento tarttuu harhaanjohtavaan kieleen ja viestintään. Alustajina ovat tutkija Anne Ketola ja pelitutkimuksen yliopistonlehtori Kati Alha.

You are cordially invited to participate in the "Reading The Faerie Queene – Narrative, Character, Form: Marathon Reading and Symposium" to be held at Tampere University on 22-26 May Deadline for submission of a 250-word abstract & bio: 10.04.26 More details here: research.tuni.fi/plural-en/ev...

The 2nd International Conference on Field Research on Translation and Interpreting (FIRE-TI 2) will be organised by Tampere University, in Tampere, Finland, 3–5 March 2027. events.tuni.fi/fireti2027/c...

Come to a marathon reading (Friday-Sunday 22-24 May) of and symposium (Tuesday 26 May) on Edmund Spenser’s epic poem The Faerie Queene (1590/1596)! For more information and to register, email [email protected]

We congratulate Frederike Schierl on the successful defense of her PhD project “Machine Translation Potential (Un)limited – Investigating the reception of machine-translated and human-translated subtitles in educational videos” on March 13!

IPRA 2027 is inviting you to Helsinki, Finland, in the summer 2027! Call for papers is open! Deadline fo panel proposals: June 5th 2026 Deadline for presentation and poster proposals: October 15th #IPRA2027 #linguistics #pragmatics

This week, Rachelle Vessey @rachellevessey.bsky.social will talk about "Gender ideologies in workplace surveys: The case of the Canadian military" Join us on March 13 at 16 EET (check the time zone!): tinyurl.com/talkosso @lulind.bsky.social @ylvabiri.bsky.social

Tomorrow, MA Frederike Schierl will defend her doctoral dissertation on mahcine translated subtitles. "They can serve well when it comes to sheer information transmission. However..."

Tampere Institute for Advanced Study is advertising paid postdoc and senior fellow positions (Society). You can be affiliated with Plural Research Centre if you work on a relevant topic - check out our website to find the research groups and projects! ⏱️2.03. tuni.rekrytointi.com/paikat/?o=A_...

In our new post about Plural's conference participation, Pluralist Mary Nurminen shares her impressions of presenting an academic paper at the 2025 Nordic Translation & Interpretation Forum. See here for more details: blogs.tuni.fi/plural/a-res...

You are welcome to join the webinar of the Nordic Speech Research Forum on Feb 10th, 11:00-12:00 (Helsinki Time) Join via the Forum's website www.jyu.fi/nsrf This week’s talk: Tensions around the teaching and testing of oral proficiency in English as a lingua franca By Sheryl Cooke (British Council)

"Professori Sanna Turoman mukaan Venäjä-tuntemus on keskeistä suomalaisen yhteiskunnan resilienssin ja turvallisuuden näkökulmasta. Samalla hän muistuttaa ukrainan kieleen ja Ukrainaan liittyvistä opinnoista, joita hän on pyrkinyt edistämään Tampereen yliopistossa."

Plural in the news: Sanna Turoma, the professor for Russian language and culture, talks to Moreenimedia about the importance of studying and researching Russian in the current times moreenimedia.fi/2026/02/05/k...

Don't let the octopus swim (crawl?) by, submit an abstract for our persuasion conference #OctoConf CFP ends July 1, conference 19-20 November events.tuni.fi/persuasion20...

Join us in reading some of the funniest and wittiest plays ever written! TIME: 17:00 PLACE: Pinni B 1028-29 You can sign up for the events by sending an e-mail to Kevin McGinley ([email protected]) or Johnny Riquet ([email protected]).

The Nordic Speech Research Form webinars continue in 2026. Organisers: Riikka Ullakonoja (University of Jyväskylä) and Elina Vasu (Tampere University) You are warmly invited to join the webinar via the website www.jyu.fi/nsrf

Come to Tampere 19-20 November for the 3d iteration of the international conference on persuasive language! We hope to be in a snow wonderland by then ❄️ Call for Papers open until July 1 Organisers: @coocho.bsky.social @domini.bsky.social @sofiaruediger.bsky.social events.tuni.fi/persuasion20...

We continue our series of blog posts about academic events in which Plural members participate. In the latest blog post titled "Dwarf Greetings from Breslau", Dr Dieter Hermann Schmitz tells about a German studies conference in Poland. Click here for the full post: blogs.tuni.fi/plural/a-res...

We are delighted to announce that Plural's and DPLA's virtual writing group resumes its sessions as of Friday 6th February, 9:00-10:30. More information on our website: FIN: research.tuni.fi/plural/uutin... ENG: research.tuni.fi/plural-en/ne... #academicwriting #writinggroup #research

Studia Generalia "Sopii kysyä!", joint event with TARU Research Centre, opens tomorrow! What: "On the Threshold of Consensus" by Leena Mikkola and Taina Pitkänen Where: Lehmus-hall, Metso library When: 14.1.26 5-6:30pm Events are free & open for everyone! More info: research.tuni.fi/plural-en/ev...

New podcast episode by @jvaattovaara.bsky.social is out: open.spotify.com/episode/4XqB... 🐦🐦

Join the Empty Spaces symposium this Friday

Lääkärissä käyminen, verkkokeskusteluun osallistuminen, generatiivisen tekoälyn kanssa asioiminen, sopimustekstit ja lemmikille lepertely – kieli ja viestintä liittyvät kaikkeen. Muun muassa näistä aiheista puhutaan Sopii kysyä! -luentosarjassa pääkirjasto Metsossa. www.tuni.fi/fi/ajankohta...

Today is Linguistics Day! CLiE, LAGB, BAAL & CUP are launching the “Why Linguistics” video competition. UG, PG, and ECR linguists can submit a 1-minute video on what linguistics is and why it matters by 1 Feb 2026 for a chance to win cash prizes and a CUP book voucher.

Railway Poetry evening will take place today from 6:00-7:30 pm in Pinni B 1028-29. You are cordially welcome to join us this evening! Glögi will be served in the break. 😊

Have you been to the Plural Blog recently? We have a series of blog posts about Plural's researchers travelling to conferences this year! blogs.tuni.fi/plural/

Tervetuloa kuulemaan ja keskustelemaan omaishoitosopimuksen kehittämisestä! Webinaariin ovat tervetulleita kaikki omaishoidon parissa työskentelevät ja siitä kiinnostuneet. sites.utu.fi/soho/tapahtu... Päivittyvä ohjelma ja ilmoittautumislinkki löytyy SoHo-hankkeen verkkosivuilta.

In 2026, together with the TARU Research Centre, we are participating in the Studia Generalia public lecture series "Sopii kysyä!". The lectures are free and open for everyone! Venue: Lehmus-hall, Metso library, Tampere Time: 5-6:30pm See here for the full programme: research.tuni.fi/plural/tapah...

In the new series of blog posts about the conferences the pluralists have attended this year, we focus on the experiences of Professors Kaisa Koskinen and Mikhail Mikhailov (Translation Studies). Please read more here: blogs.tuni.fi/plural/a-res... blogs.tuni.fi/plural/a-res...

Somewhat sleepy (Saturday morning panel the day after the conference dinner) but successful convenors of Digital Discourse & Interaction at #AFinLa2025 @lulind.bsky.social @ylvabiri.bsky.social Thank you, Joensuu & @uniuef.bsky.social!

If you're a Plural researcher attending #AFinLa2025 at @uniuef.bsky.social, tag us!

Today, #AFinLa25 is kicking off at @uniuef.bsky.social, and Plural is well represented as usual! In the morning panel, Kaarina Hippi and @jvaattovaara.bsky.social both talk about variation. Later on, Heini Kallio and Henna Heinonen present on Finnish Swedish as L2. 🧵

The next OSSO & DDI online talk is on Wednesday! November 5 | 16.00-17.00 EET Pilar Garcés-Conejos Blitvich (UNC Charlotte) Forgiveness? in Post-Digital Societies: A Technosocial and Metapragmatic Perspective Join the Zoom room: tinyurl.com/talkddi @ylvabiri.bsky.social @lulind.bsky.social

You are warmly welcome to join the webinar "Technology-enhanced language learning interventions in children" held by the Nordic Speech Research Forum on Nov 4th, 13:00 - 14:00 EET/UCT+2. The talk given by Sari Ylinen of Tampere University can be accessed via the Forum’s website here: www.jyu.fi/nsrf

Plural is representing at the ITC research afternoon today. Even robodogs want to hear about our projects!

We are delighted to announce the next OSSO lecture. At 12:00-13:00 CET on Wednesday 29.10.25, Veronika Laippala of the University of Turku will be presenting the talk on Mining Digital Discourse(s) from the Multilingual Web. Visit our website for details & links: research.tuni.fi/plural-en/ev...

On 30.10.25, Plural Research Centre is taking part in the ITC Research Afternoon – the annual event aimed at showcasing the research conducted at the faculty. Join us at 1-5pm in the Hervanta campus Päärakennus/Main building Lobby! More details on our website here: research.tuni.fi/plural-en/ev...

Some very interesting talks yesterday This one was fascinating 👇 Does language create the impression that time exists? Or is it people's psychology, who then use language to describe this cognitive error? #Sky2025 #Linguistics

Here at Tampere University waiting for the SKY Symposium to begin. So many interesting abstracts. A beautiful autumn day. #Linguistics #Language&Meaning #Sky2025

Today is Tampere's 246th birthday! From Wikipedia: "Tampere was officially founded as a market town in 1775 by Gustav III of Sweden and four years later on 1 October 1779 Tampere was granted full town rights." Tampere welcomes all the #SKYSymposium2025 guests and others to join the celebration! 🌞

An evening shift at the academia. Three nights until the #SKYSymposium2025 🙂 #linguistics

The #SKYSymposium2025 is around the corner, and I am also presenting there! So, this is our title, we will talk about our psycholinguistic experimental study on how the people use linguistic elements and other knowledge/reasoning in forming a (more or less) coherent interpretation of what was said.

Head of Russian Department Olga Nenonen shares her impressions of presenting the fascinating project “Language Portrait by Means of Spoken Word Choreography: Reflexive Perspective on Multilingual Identity" in Tallinn. Read her multilingual post on the Plural blog page: blogs.tuni.fi/plural/a-res...

We are continuing the series of blog posts about the exciting and important academic conferences the pluralists have attended this calendar year. New posts have just been published on our blog here: blogs.tuni.fi/plural/ Visit our blog to find out more!

We are happy to announce the presentation of two latest publications by Daniil Zhaivoronok of the 'FEMCORUS: mediated feminism(s) in contemporary Russia' project Zoom 15:00-16:30 Wed 29.10.25 You can access the event here: tuni.zoom.us/j/6299427006... For more info email [email protected]

Letting my students to use all AI tools they can find to explain correctly, when to use and when not to use partitive case in subject marking in Finnish. So far - nothing. Still waiting.