Sociolinguists - who has written about possible relationships between the time depth of a spoken language variety and the amount of regional sociophonetic variation? British Englishes show a great deal of regional accent variation whereas Australian Englishes have relatively little.

Just published "Negation in the worlds languages" (3 vols) edited by Matti Miestamo & Ljuba Veselinova with Héloïse Calame. #rcg #openaccess langsci-press.org/catalog/book...

Almost as good as my rule of thumb: has anyone you know ever written anything in it you want to cite? If not, then it’s not the Journal for you.

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_...

Our paper (w/ @bodowinter.bsky.social and @mperlman.bsky.social) is finally out, officially 🥳. In it, we set ourselves the lofty goal of defining iconicity, focusing on its subjectivity, context-dependence, and gradability. Let us know if you agree with our definition? 🤔 doi.org/10.1093/oxfo...

Four years(!) after the chapter was originally written, the official publication is now live (pre-print has been out for some time though): doi.org/10.1093/oxfo... How can plurality be expressed with iconic forms across different modalities of human languaging? #linguistics

'I have more impact outside of university' Google Translate appears to do a reasonable job translating this article from Dutch into English, so, if you don't read Dutch, you can still check out this interview with my friend and former academic Onno: www.nemokennislink.nl/publicaties/...

IGALA list: Deborah Cameron, one of the greatest feminist linguists ever, has passed away. Everybody interested in the relationship of #language and #gender, please go and read her witty and myth-busting blog: https:// debuk.wordpress.com/ . #linguistics #GenderLinguistics

Day 1 of #BooksAreMyJam! Blueberry Maple jam, with Linguaphile: A life of language love by Julie Sedivy. A classic Canadian flavour duo + this book about @juliesedivy.bsky.social's relationship with language through her childhood in Montreal, later research as a linguist, and more

This is awesome! I have been curating a list of #linguistics journals, with information on their publishing model (and also on whether they admit submissions created by LaTeX, a high-quality, professional Open Source way to produce scientific documents). uni-duesseldorf.sciebo.de/s/BvRY0u3rDY...

In the past decade or two, predatory publishers have built a parallel universe of publication opportunities preying on the least privileged & most vulnerable of our colleagues I got my hands on what passes for peer review at one such journal ideophone.org/on-plagiaris...

I appreciate that some of you are outraged about the White House absurdity of keeping ASL interpreters out of press briefings — but please don’t call us “hearing-impaired.” It’s a slur. Nothing wrong with using “deaf.” Saves you extra space too.

In their article "Signs of Deaf Ni-Vanuatu", Jacqueline Iseli and Rachel McKee describe the sociolinguistic context of deaf people in Vanuatu who have limited opportunities to socialise together, and document signs used by 19 deaf adults across the country nzlingsoc.org/journal_arti...

I've very much noticed this too so it's great to have some data-based infographics to back this up!

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

The University of Birmingham is hiring through its 125th Anniversary Fellowships and Chairs scheme! www.birmingham.ac.uk/jobs/125th-a...

The Linguistic Justice Foundation is looking for 60 people to make a $5 monthly donation to help support our work pursuing linguistic justice for everyone. Please donate if you can, shar eif you can't. www.zeffy.com/en-US/donati...

Happy to share the first version of my textbook "Quantitative Data Analysis for Linguists in R". stefanocoretta.github.io/qdal/ Comments and suggestions welcome! (on the GitHub repo: github.com/stefanocoret...) The textbook takes you from 0 to basic stat modelling with Bayesian regression.

Innovations in Linguistics Education is a new Diamond Open Access journal, is dedicated to the teaching of linguistics. journals.ed.ac.uk/innovations I'm really excited to see a new journal in this space!

"[L]inguistics is uniquely positioned to teach us both about what all humans share and what makes cultures and individuals distinct" @adamcschembri.bsky.social expressed it so nicely, read more here: www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/2025/ho...

This just in from #Cornwall on #Kernewek #linguistics

I'm making plans to teach a sociolinguistics class next year at the LOT Summer School in Groningen -- pls let me know about any cool new stuff I should include! #linguistics

Happy World #Linguistics Day! www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/2025/ho...

Happy World Linguistics Day! ⭐🎉🎊

🚨NEW PUBLICATION ALERT!🚨 The 'Design Features' of Language Revisited (w/ @mperlman.bsky.social @glupyan.bsky.social Koen de Reus & @limorraviv.bsky.social) Feature Review out now in #OpenAccess in @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social! #language #linguistics Paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.ti...

My L1 is Australian English. I have basic conversational French. I can sign comfortably in Auslan and British Sign Language (closely related varieties) on a range of topics. I have some conversational American Sign Language and I can give basic presentations on my research in International Sign.

$2400 a year to subscribe to Ethnologue. Scandalous.

Accent perception is wild. In the same evening, I meet two new people, both native speakers of British English and from Birmingham (UK): one asks me if I was born and raised in the city, while the other asked which part of Australia I was from!

I remember being at an HIV workshop years ago where there was discussion about replacing the term 'promiscuous' with 'popular and affectionate'. Why didn't this make it into 'Word of the Year'?🤣

Happy International Day of LGBTQIA+ People In STEM! How are you celebrating it? #LGBTQSTEMDay #PrideInSTEM

It’s National #Linguistics Day next week: what are you doing to celebrate it?

I’m excited to see Ofqual officially set out the rules for the brand new GCSE in British Sign Language. It’s inspiring to see a qualification that recognises the linguistic, cultural, & social importance of BSL finally taking shape. 🔗 tinyurl.com/5y33p6re 🧵👇 #langsky #linguistics #GCSE #BSL

We're excited to re-launch the journal "Innovations in Linguistics Education", a forum for evidence-based research in the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) in linguistics! We open for submissions in January 2026. journals.ed.ac.uk/innovations/

So looking forward to teaching an introductory course on sign language linguistics to MA and PhD students in linguistics at the LOT Summer School at the University of Groningen 15-19 June 2026! Now to decide what to include, and what to exclude, in just 10 hours of classes. . .🤔

AI sign language projects are definitely unintentional language planning projects.

I guess ADHD means completely forgetting that you got invited to teach on a summer school in 2026 and then getting a delightful surprise when you get an email reminding you of it. 😂

This 👇🏻 sometimes I talk to PhDs whose whole project needed as much data processing as I did for just one subsection

PhD students - please don't compare yourselves to other PhD students. Some topics really are more challenging than others! If, for example, you're working on an under-described and under-documented language, never compare your work with people working on English. It's almost not the same discipline!

Let's talk about why "just spell it how it sounds" is actually not straightforward, especially for a large language like English. The big questions are: "How it sounds" when spoken*by whom*? And who gets to choose? #linguistics

Pleased to announce that I passed my PhD viva today!

early career scholar and their first publication

At this year's @lingcomm.bsky.social conference, we learned that the UK has been celebrating National Linguistics Day on November 26th, and everyone immediately went, hey, can't we make that World Linguistics Day? Well, now it's only 20 days away, so time to get your celebration plans in order!

Abstracts with colleagues submitted for Evolang and ICLaVE 2026 conferences. Looking forward to both (haven't been to an ICLaVE for years!)

Ten more days to check out The Barbican's Voiced: The Festival for #EndangeredLanguages 🗣💬 #langsky www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/202...

Congratulations to my @unibirmingham.bsky.social colleague @heidiproctor.bsky.social who passed her PhD viva at @dcal-ucl.bsky.social and is now Dr Heidi Proctor! Heidi's PhD is on noun phrases in British Sign Language.

France’s Sorbonne University about to leave Times Higher Education (THE) Rankings: "These rankings are...black boxes that operate in a closed system” sciencebusiness.net/news/univers...

New paper with @ryanlepic.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1515/ling.... Our previous research showed that ✨️inherently plural meanings✨️ favor two-handed signs across sign languages, now we see that hearing non-signers also produce more two-handed forms when asked to gesture plural meanings! 👐🏼 #linguistics

Should #LingComm accounts with lots of followers on social media be called 'lingfluencers'? 😂

Congratulations Nick Evans: the first Australian linguist to get this award, I believe. www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/prizes-medal...

wow.