I co-convene the Law and Linguistics Interdisciplinary Researchers' Network (LLIRN). In 2024, we started a series profiling network members' work across different themes. The first was on Language and Criminal Justice ft. @fferrazdealmeida.bsky.social @katesteel.bsky.social & @cornerbus.bsky.social

L’accélération de l’IA pose déjà des questions de pénuries d’eau et d’énergie next.ink/165467/lacce...

💣 praatpicture version 1.4.0 on CRAN! 💣 (1/3)

"A study of federally funded research projects in the United States estimated that principal investigators spend on average about 45% of their time on administrative activities related to applying for and managing projects rather than conducting active research" www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Le nombre de réactions suscitées par cette carte montre bien que la délimitation des langues est une entreprise hasardeuse (du reste pas dépourvue de considérations politiques). Voici quelques observations à propos des langues régionales de France identifiées sur la carte…

Anne H. Charity Hudley, Dan Villarreal, Aris Moreno Clemons; 14. (Socio)linguistics—What Is It Good For? A Case for Liberatory Linguistics. Publication of the American Dialect Society 1 December 2023; 108 (1): 268–288. doi: doi.org/10.1215/0003...

5. 'Your brain on language' w/ @evfedorenko.bsky.social disi.org/your-brain-o...

Great video from @mixedlinguist.bsky.social. I noticed the rise of the glottal stop in the past couple of years, though I didn’t know how to describe what I was hearing, figuring some people just don’t enunciate the same. Turns out it’s both regional and generational. Fascinating.

#1 by a large margin (with huge thanks to a @nytimes.com shout-out) Gorsh! We All Have Accents, with Drs Rusty Barrett, Jennifer Cramer, and @kbmcgowan.bsky.social: www.buzzsprout.com/1930383/epis...

Do you know a language activist doing amazing work to protect and promote their language? Nominate them for the 2025 Linguapax Award:

Un-fucking-believable. Might be time to leave Facebook completely. www.ft.com/content/9118...

Word of the day is a favourite for this time of year. To be ‘crambazzled’, in old Yorkshire dialect, is to be prematurely aged by excess drinking or partying.

A nice review of iconicity in langage by Barker & Colleagues journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Qui parmi les linguistes atterrées est sur Bluesky ? La réponse ici :

Les linguistes atterrées sont sur Bluesky 👇🏼 On a besoin - ici aussi - d’un recul scientifique et critique sur la langue.

Dans la série le français de France cette langue sans logique face au québécois : Mon prof dit « vous pouvez mettre un vernis mA dessus » Moi : ? Ah maT ! - tu dis le maT d’un bateau toi ? - non mais il y a un accent circonflexe spour ça ! -ah et tu dis un raT aussi ? - 🤓

I think this might be my favorite New Yorker comic of all time, 🤣. Artist Edward Steed

This might be self-serving or whatever, but I'm considering starting publish more tutorials on my website again (or lingmethodshub.github.io). Primarily sociophonetics methods broadly. What topics would be helpful for you or your students?

Twitter trains you to create more outrageous content. From 2018-2021 my team developed a tool to measure outrage on Twitter. Here's our paper showing that “likes” and “shares” teach people to express more outrage over time. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

J'étais ravi de participer à l'émission Aujourd'hui l'histoire pour parler des origines du R rrroulé, jadis marqueur de prestige et de culture. C'est première fois qu'on aborde l'histoire d'un trait de prononciation à l'émission! 🗣️ Pour réécouter l'épisode 👇 ici.radio-canada.ca/ohdio/premie...

🎉#NewPublication with M.Hutin on #rhotics in #QuebecFrench. We show how sociological (speakers' location, age and gender) and phonological information (phoneme's syllabic position) allows to explain the uses & choices of 9 different variants of /R/. www.mdpi.com/2226-471X/9/...

What is #linguistics? A thread 🧵

Survey for linguists, all about Open Science! Please participate! The Linguistics Data Interest Group of the Research Data Alliance invites linguists to participate in a survey on Open Science, the management and sharing of research data in our discipline: nettskjema.no/a/openlingui... #lingdata

Publisher: Do you want to put an LLM clause in the copyright statement? Me: Definitely. How specific can we get? Publisher: As specific as you like.

The Bluesky Swear Word Visualizer is absolutely amazing (and is that Matt Berry's voice?) swearsky.bagpuss.org

Navajo woman makes children's books to preserve her people's language www.fox13now.com/new...

Normalize asking your colleagues for IPA transcriptions of their names. #linguistics

Come work with me / us: two fully funded, 4-year PhD positions in sociophonetics. Starting 06/25. Let's go! 🚀⬇️ #sociophonetics #swissgerman #deutsch #schweizerdeutsch #soziolinguistik #soziophonetik

#Motchus sur Bluesky : un pitchoun tuto ! Vous aimez jouer avec les mots ? Nous aussi. En janvier 2022, avec @armavi.bsky.social on a créé le jeu en ligne (et gratuit) Motchus. Un jeu simple : chaque jour un mot du parler marseillais et provençal à trouver en 6 tentatives... Ici : motchus.fr 1/4

New in PNAS by Hewlett et al. on cultural transmission in Congo Basin hunter gatherers: extends theoretical concepts; kids learn not just from parents but peers & non-relatives; egalitarianism fosters innovation & conservation, with group learning playing a big role. 🧪 #culturalevolution #ehbea

The fact that it required a 70% increase to get a PhD stipend to $45k in one of the most expensive cities on the East Coast tells you a lot.

The longest Etruscan text we have was preserved because the linen it was written on was recycled to wrap a mummy in the 3rd century BC. It may be the oldest surviving book in Europe and we still can’t really translate it.

📣 Call for Papers: #Interspeech2025! 🌟 Submit your groundbreaking research on speech science & technology by Feb 12, 2025. This year's theme: "Fair & Inclusive Speech Science and Technology" 🌐. Don't miss out! Details: interspeech2025.org 🎤

“We’ve closed all the arts and humanities departments, but those depts are low cost and actually run operational surplus on tuition fee income alone. We now have to close other more expensive depts. The ones cross-subsidized by the arts, humanities and social science depts we’ve now closed”

My inaugural lecture is now online 🥰 media.ed.ac.uk/media/Profes... #sociophonetics #sociolinguistics #linguistics #phonetics #semiotics #Peirce #indexicality #social #meaning #research #academic #academia #lecture #Arizona #SanFrancisco #Gaelic #Gàidhlig #Scots #English #professor #babyphotos

My website contains a jumble of posts and articles, glossaries and links relating to new language, slang, etymology, folklore and festivals, language controversies, etc. language-and-innovation.com/2024/07/25/t...

La sortie du dernier tome de la 9e édition du Dictionnaire de l'Académie française est l'occasion d'une importante présence médiatique du collectif. Compilation évolutive ici : www.tract-linguistes.org/neuvieme-edi...

Join us for an accent & work conderence at the #Atilf @Univ_Lorraine Cast in the Prosophon project

My lab is hiring a postdoc!!! More info is here: www.speechperceptionproductionlab.com/postdoctoral... I'm happy to answer any questions that aren't covered in the ad itself!

If you live (and work/study) in an English-speaking country, please spare a few minutes to fill in my Masters' student's survey on the effects of language prescriptions on racialised speakers. And please share extensively for maximum reach and relevance! forms.gle/Lrmdz8brXcAa...

Want to do a PhD in Linguistics in the wonderful Oslo? We are looking for ambitious students to join us. Deadline is the 31st of January: shorturl.at/bgiGL

Hi #NLP people ! Question for you : do you have recommendations on papers about the way #speech technology adapts to #disabled / speech or hearing impaired people ? For teaching. Thanks 🙏🏼

Hi #NLP people ! Question for you : do you have recommendations on papers about the way #speech technology adapts to #disabled / speech or hearing impaired people ? For teaching. Thanks 🙏🏼