Happy Winter Solstice from the #pagantibet team!

Last chance to apply! Deadline on Monday 15 Dec. #postdoc #linguistics #vacancy

Great to discover the Computational Humanitirs Research conference: excellent computational work on meaningful humanities research questions!

Great to share our work on HTR, Normalisation & Text Classification at the Cambridge Language Science Symposium 2026. Our poster is now available online: www.cambridge.org/.../6924621f...

📜 🔍 Paper Alert ‼️ Our first Handwritten Text Recognition article about our collaborative workflow is now out in the Journal of Open Humanities Data openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com/articles/10.... More about our project on our brand new website: www.pagantibet.com

Working on Tibetan Buddhism? Please apply! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOH270/u...

‼️New paper alert for the PaganTibet project on developing Automatic Speech Recognition for no-resource tonal and especially endangered languages like Baima: aclanthology.org/2025.compute...

Can we just pause for a moment an appreciate what great LingComm Gretchen is showcasing here? Correcting a misconception elegantly, respectfully and with humour. #Lingcomm #linguistics @gretchenmcc.bsky.social

Come work with us in Cambridge! www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50879/

Great to present our work on the emergence of egophoricity in Tibetan and Newar at the CHAMP3 workshop in Barcelona. Thanks to all organisers and presenters!

euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/323369 Looking for a fully-funded PhD in Tibetan studies? Come join the PaganTibet team! Deadline 21 March 2025. #academicjobs #phdpositions #tibetanstudies

We aim to enhance uptake and results in languages by introducing students to the study of #linguistics. We think this will attract more students to languages in schools, better preparing them for advanced study and employability. Check out our manifesto here > linguisticsinmfl.co.uk/wp-content/u...

Curious about information structure in linguistics but slightly confused how topic and focus work? Here is my 10min introduction to the field: www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwfI...

Come work with us - deadline 31 January! www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49015/ #linguistics #lingjobs

[reminder as the deadline is coming up 31 Jan!] www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49011/ Come work with us in Cambridge - first of three ads for permanent posts: Italian & Linguistics (especially morpho-syntax)! #linguistics #lingjobs

You maybe haven't thought about the similarities between Irish rap group Kneecap and Tibetan former political prisoner Tashi Wangchuk, so I wrote an article about that. www.transformingsociety.co.uk/2025/01/06/f...

A Christmas gift from me to my fellow word nerds: Nine Christmas-related words with interesting etymologies, one for each of the nine letters of 'Christmas'! It was written with much linguistic love in an armchair beside a roaring fire. dannybate.com/2024/12/23/a...

Bill Labov died this morning. I'm not coherent enough to talk about how important and influential and brilliant he was. I am very sad. I was so lucky to know him, and I am grateful every day that he (and Gillian, and Walt, etc) built an academic field where kindness is expected.

Dear French friends and colleagues, my student is looking for native French speakers who know some English (but aren't fluent/bilingual) for her online experiment. If you know anyone, please share 🙏

Sixteenth-century Breton graffiti discovered in Tower of London! #earlymodern #france

Computational Linguistics job (Assistant Prof level, permanent) at our lovely linguistics department in Queen Mary. We're starting a new MSc in Lings and AI. Deadline Jan 5th, interviews late February. linguistlist.org/issues/35-33... #linguistics please repost!

Applications open for this course for East African linguists, convened by UNA Europa colleagues in Edinburgh, Helsinki, Kampala and Leiden: www.una-europa.eu/calendar/onl...

Introducing the CrossGram collection of typological databases: dlc.hypotheses.org/3690

Hey. The fragmentation of the social media landscape has been hard on indie #scicomm 🧪 projects So if you'd like to follow a podcast that's enthusiastic about #linguistics, could you check out @lingthusiasm.bsky.social? And if you think your followers might like to, could you give this a repost?

A great day at Trinity Hall learning to use Handwritten Text Recognition to boost my research. Many thanks to Rachael Griffiths and @mariekem.bsky.social for organising the workshop, and to the librarian for giving us a tour of their beautiful 16th-century library.

Cambridge Language Science Symposium today on "How can learning a second language be made effortless?" #camlangsci #linguistics www.languagesciences.cam.ac.uk/events/langu...

Third permanent job alert in Cambridge: come work with us! www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49015/ #linguistics #lingjobs

Second (of 3) permanent posts at Cambridge (UK): looking for a Sociolinguist with a strong formal linguistics background (phonology, morphology, syntax) www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49148/ #linguistics #lingjobs

www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49011/ Come work with us in Cambridge - first of three ads for permanent posts: Italian & Linguistics (especially morpho-syntax)! #linguistics #lingjobs