🚀 Exciting news for doctoral researchers & research teams! The UKRI Digital Research Skills Catalyst is now live — making high-quality digital training easier to access. Discover: 🔎 50+ training resources 💬 Free 1:1 expert help 🛠️ Events and networking Explore: www.digitalskillscatalyst.ac.uk

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We are looking to fill an open-rank position in Sociolinguistics in Oxford, in conjunction with Worcester College. Come be a part of the exciting developments in language and linguistics in Oxford! www.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/news/2026/05...

Are you interested in how adults learn new words and concepts? Are you based in London? Sign up for our fun experiment with your friend. You’ll get to chat with your friend and learn some new things

Things are moving faster than we can document them - after a first round of analysis, we're now continuing the collection: we'd like to hear about recent cases in the UK or the Netherlands, but also get a better picture of the situation in Central and Eastern Europe. All input is welcome. 1/2

🔎The ELL programme at the University of Hertfordshire is under review. 🫂Linguistics plays a critical role across humanities and social sciences contributing to areas such as education, communication, social justice and interdisciplinary research. ✍️Sign the petition: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

It's exam season, which means it is time to revise. Can AI help your revision process? Possibly. But definitely not if you let it do the important work for you. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DQS...

Some background on Psych-DS and why you should use it to organize your data: bsky.app/profile/mekl... tl;dr: if it comes in rows & columns we have a system for it, and if it's in the behavioral/social sciences we also have sensible default conventions and lots of example datasets!

Psych-DS is spellcheck for your datasets, and it has an R package now! Available in beta now, made by the excellent Brian Leonard, instructions here: psych-ds.github.io/psychds-r/

My current position will be coming to a close at the end of 2026, so I’m beginning to explore next steps. I’m a postdoctoral researcher at UCL working at the intersection of language, cognition, and multimodal communication. 1/4 👇

Just released & free to download for two weeks: "Constructions, Networks and Linguistic Change" by Graeme Trousdale and Elizabeth Closs Traugott in the Cambridge Elements Construction Grammar Series #language #linguistics doi.org/10.1017/9781...

Last chance to apply for our virtual summer workshop on R Programming for Psychology and Neuroscience. Funded by NSF, this FREE workshop provides direct training in using R to analyze data from psychological experiments. Open to students from any university. Apps due May 15! rworkshop.missouri.edu

Ode to the original language model, or: Give me literally Anything* instead of Large Language Models (LLMs) *(no predictive coding either!) By Lady Byronadrea LLMartin 1/n

Elen Le Foll published an interesting study on how (applied) linguists understand Open Science. I was involved in a collaborative and transparent peer review process for the article, with a reviewer report available here: works.hcommons.org/records/tfj1...

One week left to apply… Feel free to drop an email for more details, whether to the project lead (Kate Button), me, or other team members (@denolmo.bsky.social, @davidaellis.bsky.social, Marjan Bakker) #postdoc #AcademicJobs #metasci

How to join zillions of lexical norms to each word in your language sample the easy way: a quick tutorial and demo reilly-lab.github.io/Jamie_JoinLe...

Sir Albert Sloman envisioned languages at the heart of the University of Essex. ❗ Now, his legacy is in danger. Sign the petition: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

📣 New paper out in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B in which we investigated whether conversational alignment — the tendency to reuse each other's words, syntactic constructions, topics, sounds and gestures — can be used as a reliable individual trait. It cannot! 🧵 1/4 doi.org/10.1098/rspb...

The special issue "Second language fluency across contexts” (editors Pauliina Peltonen @utu.fi & Clare Wright @universityofleeds.bsky.social) is now out in IRAL www.degruyterbrill.com/journal/key/...! Warm thanks to all the contributors & to IRAL editors for support 🙏 @dgb-linguistics.bsky.social

We have three lectureships available at York Psychology (@yorkpsychology.bsky.social) with a broad remit for research/teaching areas. Home and overseas applications are welcome. Deadline for applications is early April - enquiries welcome. Come and join us! jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...

Unions are by no means perfect (anyone who's ever been in one can tell you). But I would rather be part of one and push for change than be trying to go it alone.

Happening online today at 2:30 Berlin time: Learn more about what meta-analyses and large scale replications can tell us, at the #LoveReplicationsWeek forrt.org/LoveReplicat... Thanks, @forrt.bsky.social

We have funding for a PhD position on word learning of a third language! The position is part of a research group on the psychology of language control (bilingualism), so that there will be a cohort of PhD students with related topics. Please distribute with anyone who might be interested. :)

"Oops, Git! How to recover from common mistakes" 🙈 Come learn some Git with me and {saperlipopette} at Workshops for Ukraine! Thursday, March 19th, 14:00 - 16:00 CET (Rome, Berlin, Paris timezone) sites.google.com/view/dariia-... Organized by @dariia.bsky.social 🙏 #RStats

:loudspeaker: Job opportunity to work on safeguarding at-risk data & culture :tada: Technische Informatzionsbibliothek (TIB, Germany's national library of science & technology) are recruiting a software engineer to work on developing the https://sciop.net platform for safeguarding at-risk data […]

Postdoctoral Researcher - BILINGUAL LENS - Infant Language and Cognition Research Group, BCBL, Basque Center on Cognition, Brain & Language Application deadline: 20 March 2026

Final call for papers!📢 Deadline extended to 14 February 2026! Join us in Lisbon next year for the International Word Processing Conference, on 6–8 July 2026. We welcome contributions on all aspects of word processing. www.woproc2026.com

2026 big update to the psycholinguistic database page! If you know of corpora, lexical databases, or other resources that I've missed, please LMK. Trying to keep this thing relatively current and could use the help www.reilly-coglab.com/data

Open Science in Linguistics Free EuroSLA webinar 27 February 2026 www.eurosla.org/open-science...

📣 Calling first-time authors! To mark the 10th anniversary of JESLA, we’re offering 3 prizes for papers accepted in 2026 🏆 Details & submissions: www.euroslajournal.org Open to EuroSLA members in good standing (for co-authored papers, at least one author must be eligible).

The call for posters for the EuroSLA workshop on Multimodal Processing in SLA is now open. The submission deadline is 30 January. www.arts.kuleuven.be/conferences/...

There is an absolute banger of a case study on modeling a linguistic experiment on Michael's patreon, thinking carefully through the whole data generating process and I am so looking forward to the video run through. Absolutely worth supporting him (do that and we'll get more :-))!

fellow linguistics pals, in case you missed it, this is where we’re at right now at Essex if you are a student or alumni, please please please make your concerns known to the university

Whole body sigh … congratulations to Prof Dyas

Call for papers!📢 Join us in Lisbon next year for the International Word Processing Conference, on 6–8 July 2026! We welcome contributions on all aspects of word processing. Submit by 6 Feb 2026! www.woproc2026.com

It is not "attribution and sourcing" to generate post-hoc citations that have not been read and did not inform the student's writing. Those should be regarded as fraudulent: artifacts testifying to human actions and thought that did not occur. www.theverge.com/news/760508/...

I cannot readily imagine a relative advantage of sampling survey/experiment data from an LLM to sampling known models/distributions if we cannot meaningfully define a population LLMs sample or formalize the sampling scheme. Idk what we can learn abt a model/method without clarity abt what we put in.

For avoidance of confusion, that’s just about all academic staff, excluding Heads of Dept and- of course - Senior Management Team.

HESA put the academic staff numbers in 23-24 in Essex at 1560, and given voluntary severence schemes it's likely to be lower now, so this is at least 2/3rds of all academic staff in Essex receiving risk of redundancy letters.

This is the right move.

Projects like this & applying integrative analysis methods are very exciting. I bet there's more to do with all the data we collect & curation and good use of metadata is currently underappreciated

Welcome to the 12 Days of White Rose University Press! 🎉 Throughout December, we’ll be sharing facts, stories, and insights about WRUP — our books, people, and our mission to make research open and accessible. Join us as we celebrate another fantastic year of open research and publishing.

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To all speech scientists: I would be grateful if you could take 5-10 mins of your time to fill in the following short online survey on effect sizes: forms.gle/huQeiPerZBHE... (apologies for cross-posting) #Phon-CompLing #Linguistics

The Multilingual Minds & Machines Meetings call for abstracts is now open! Everything you need to know is here -> mmmm2026.github.io

BREAKING: In AAUP et al v. Trump (wall-to-wall union lawsuit challenging the administration’s unlawful use of TItle VI to reshape the University of California system), the faculty and staff of the UC system WON!!! We were granted our preliminary injunction! @aaup.org

In the face of deal cancellations, rights retention provides a valuable tool for universities to make their research outputs immediately #OpenAccess through the green route, from a repository like White Rose Research Online 👇

📚 Celebrating 6 years since Voices and Practices in Applied Linguistics (2019) — a landmark collection exploring the diversity of Applied Linguistics in research, policy & practice. Read it here: universitypress.whiterose.ac.uk/books/e/10.2... #AppliedLinguistics #LanguageResearch #Linguistics

If you are local to York, please help us preserve The Crescent, an indie DIY venue that supports gigs and community events. thecrescentyork.com/we-need-your...

Please help us, #MetaScience community! It's time to decide on a forever name for papercheck (scienceverse.github.io/papercheck/). We don't want it to be confused with papercheck.ai, and we plan to check other research artifacts like repo contents, data, code, and prereg. Any suggestions?