Immigration make Britain brilliant

Michael Caine hates this one #eurovision

Eurovision ready

📣 Save the date: Friday 10th July 2026! This year's FREE and fully hybrid York English Language Toolkit CPD workshop for teachers of English Language A level is on Friday 10th July 2026 10.30am-4.30pm, with talks on Multicultural London English and more. Registration from April. Pass the word!

Absolutely delighted to get cranking with this - 30th birthday present of youthful joy @play.date

Here at #baap2026 - you can see my poster via this link if you want to read about Forensic phonetic methods in authentic and synthetic sample comparison📈

Happy to see my article on the phonetic variation of "just"📄has just (heh) been published in English Language and Linguistics - it's open access so feel free to have a read #phonetics

Always thankful for the excellent vowel plotting resources and other tools by @joeystanley.com when I teach Data Science, plotting on the shoulders of giants joeystanley.com/blog/#catego... 🎧 #Rstats

🎁 Win Pokémon Pokopia for Nintendo Switch 2! I'm giving away a digital copy to one lucky winner. ➡️ Enter free: hanafuda.report/competition/ Bonus entries for: - Hanafuda Club members - YouTube subscribers - Reposting this post Closes 4 March at 2PM GMT. Open worldwide. 🎉 Good luck!

Resharing my free-to-use picture resource list👇

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!

I am concerned that my data science students are gonna be too young for this reference... #Rstats #Rcoding

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

"Joe’s approach to food terminology is chaos" - I feel you Joe... linguistic variation can be a real BUN-mer www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

One last student project from this years' UG phonetics class - this ones just needs monolingual English speakers and will take 10 mins york.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Participants needed! One of my Phonetics students is looking for participants in her study - just requires listening to some voices in a short survey york.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... 🧪💬🎧

Hello Internet people! One of my MSc students is looking for respondents to a short survey on the ability of deepfake audio to replicate speech. If you have 2 minutes, please fill it out: forms.gle/f3ufxis3wiZG...

It’s an absolute pleasure to be involved in organising this event

Calling all Praat users! 👄👂 I've created a Praat scripting workshop with my good colleague Lauren Harrington. Feel free to see it at my website below! bit.ly/4eAHRnk #Praat #phonetics #coding

Devastated that the Centre for Lifelong Learning @york.ac.uk is being closed after 40 years. What a loss to education in the region. Feel for students and staff. Being a tutor has been joy, doing what universities should be doing by sharing knowledge widely with our communities.

Day 2 is underway. Here’s a highlight from last night’s entertainment from the York Taiko Drummers 🥁 #UKIS2025 they were bangin’

And we’re off! #UKIS2025 buzzing for the next few days

Excited to welcome everyone from 12:00! #UKIS2025 #UoY 🦆

Last chance to come to UKIS 2025 - resgistration has been EXTENDED to this Friday (6 June)! Come join us in sunneh York 🦆 sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/u...

This is so good (bad)! Referencing it in my Linguistics as Data Science class under our 'really bad plots' discussion board #DataViz

📄 UKIS 2025 Call for Abstracts deadline has been extended to 29 April 📄 See our website for more details below and get submitting 📣 #UKIS2025 #UKIS #speech #UoY

A reminder that the 2025 UKIS Workshop Call for Papers is open until 22nd April 2025. 📄📣💬 We are also delighted to announce our three keynote speakers – Mark Huckvale, Verena Riser, and Nadine Lavan. 1/2

Spotted my favourite disciple in Santuari de Sant Salvador… Simon pEATer

Told my students that today's stats lecture would provide a good pun... hope I did not disappoint

This week we ran our #LibInspo competition. Five students, from across all three faculties, pitching ideas to improve the student experience in the library. We work with the winner to try and make their idea a reality, and they get £500 for themselves. And it was BRILLIANT. Read on: 🧵

I've been checking how ChatGPT copes with R coding queries and thought I'd try something... what have I unleashed?! 😬

A team of us at York are hosting the UKIS 2025 Workshop 16-17 June. We've just launched the Call for Abstracts - check out the website for details 📒💬🖥️📅🦆

My paper with Chloé Diskin-Holdaway is out! It's an investigation of the choices you have to make to mark the functions of a variable (featuring decision trees) 📈🌳🤓 See the author pre-print via the following link: pure.york.ac.uk/portal/en/pu...

Amazing to see my fellow forensic speech science pal getting her work recognized in the media - it's a fab paper

Okay, buckle up bsky, it's time for the Tale of the Bunny Paper. Here's the imported thread from twitter where the search all started: bsky.app/profile/bets... (1/n)

Had the great pleasure of presenting my work to the Centre of Voice Studies at Aarhaus University last week - summarising my thesis in 20mins 📖 #phonetics #forensicphonetics

On Friday I passed my viva 🎓🤓 Huge thanks to my supervisors @paulfoulkesyork.bsky.social n' Vince Hughes! Here's me submitting in August

Ey up BlueSky folks. I've shifted over - expect occasional phonetics memes, papers and talk links. Here's two of my finest