🤯 Phonetic Universal Uncovered! 🎤 We analyzed over 60,000 speakers across 75 languages and confirmed a universal phonetic bias: High vowels (like /i, u/) are consistently spoken with a slightly higher pitch (F0) than low vowels (/a/).

For everyone working on the intersections between linguistic and computational research, consider submitting to the upcoming SCiL! We're very excited that it will be co-located with ACL 2026 as a workshop, and we've also received NSF funding to help cover costs. sites.google.com/view/scil2026

Get ready to tackle one of the #Interspeech2026 Challenges! Check out the accepted Challenge Proposals 👉 interspeech2026.org/en-AU/pages/... – detailed information to come!

Deadline 4 Jan: Postdoc, variability and vowel harmony, metaphony (phonetic and psycholinguistic approaches), Potsdam (w/ A. Gafos) docs.google.com/document/d/1...

An extraordinary response to the call for Special Sessions for #Interspeech2026! Consider submitting your paper to one of these accepted themed sessions 👉 interspeech2026.org/en-AU/pages/... (and stay tuned for more details!)

The Spoken Language group @bcbl.bsky.social is currently recruiting for these positions: 👉PhD students (expressions of interest are welcome on a rolling basis) 👉Postdoctoral Researcher (start date: Nov '26 - Sep '27) tinyurl.com/3um3bjze 👉Research Assistant tinyurl.com/y5uebra6 Please share ☺️

Friendly PSA: we are currently in the purgatory period of continental daylight savings changes when Central Europe and North America (East Coast) are 5 hours apart instead of the usual 6.

Seeking applications from recent PhDs in neuro, psych, ling, philo, comp sci, or other cog sci discipline, for our MindCORE Fellowship. MindCORE is an interdisciplinary effort at Penn to understand human intelligence and behavior. Apply by Dec 1: mindcore.sas.upenn.edu/post-doctora...

Please join @mariamaly.bsky.social and me October 30th! We'll help you navigate the confusing world of peer review.

A memorial service, followed by a reception, will take place on Friday, 14 November at 5:00 PM in the Aula (KOL-G-201) of the main building of the University of Zurich (Rämistrasse 71, 8006 Zurich).

It is with deep sorrow that we bid farewell to Prof. Dr. Martin Volk, who passed away on 15 September 2025 at the age of 64 after a brief and sudden illness. www.cl.uzh.ch/en/about-us/...

Postdoc (flexible start): child language development across different populations and contexts, methods including behavioral studies, large-scale data analysis, and/or computational modeling. M. Cychosz, Linguistics, Stanford Univ. postdocs.stanford.edu/prospective/...

Excited to share our new preprint with @mzhang89.bsky.social : “A crosslinguistic corpus phonetic analysis of intrinsic vowel duration” 🎉 🔗 osf.io/preprints/ps...

📢PhD fellowships The Spoken Language group at #BCBL (Spain) offers sponsorship for the #INPhINIT Predoctoral Fellowships Potential PhD projects can be related to: 🗣️Speech perception 🧠Language learning ℹ️Info about the position and application process: tinyurl.com/2kcfsjr3 📆Deadline: October 30

Does anyone have a PDF of Klatt and Cooper (1975) "Perception of segment duration in sentence contexts" that goes beyond the first two pages? (link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...)

🗣️Mozilla Common Voice users!🗣️ Important notice: the client ID does not always correspond to a single speaker ID! Every so often, a single client ID contains more than one speaker’s voice. Our #Interspeech2025 paper examines the extent of this problem and proposes a solution

🚨Postdoctoral fellowship in corpus phonetics / data science for speech with me and Ann Bradlow. Position is open immediately. Apply now! 🚨 Details: faculty.wcas.northwestern.edu/matt-goldric...

Now that school is starting for lots of folks, it's time for a new release of Speech and Language Processing! Jim and I added all sorts of material for the August 2025 release! With slides to match! Check it out here: web.stanford.edu/~jurafsky/sl...

Had such a great time presenting our tutorial on Interpretability Techniques for Speech Models at #Interspeech2025! 🔍 For anyone looking for an introduction to the topic, we've now uploaded all materials to the website: interpretingdl.github.io/speech-inter...

Thank you the team at Leiden University for the opportunity to present on working with large-scale speech corpus. 🖥️Slides are available at: chenzixu.rbind.io/talk/corpus/. #Corpusphonetics #speechcorpus #linguistics

I’m happy to share that my paper with Jeff Heinz on “the blueprint model of production” is finally published online in Phonology: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Hey, if you know sociolinguistics and phonetics, there's a beer-money temporary part-time job available at Glasgow University: (don't be fooled by the salary range -- buried in the fine print is the specifics that it's a 0.4 FTE job). #linguistics #academicChatter.

Glasgow's looking for a temp phonetician/sociolinguist: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNZ288/t...

The conference website for #LabPhon20 is now live: labphon.org/labphon20/home #LabPhon 20 will happen in #Montréal, Québec, Canada, June 26–28, 2026, with additional pre-conference events on June 25. The call for papers and proposals for satellite workshops will be circulated in late August 2025.

Someone asked me today how to get better at scientific writing. I'm not the best person to ask because I find my own writing very inadequate! But the tips I thought of were: 1. Practice, and practice with co-authors who are better writers than you. Observe how they make edits and copy them. (1/n)

📢PhD fellowships in the Basque Country (Spain) The Spoken Language group at BCBL (Spain) aims to sponsor a Basque Govt. predoctoral fellow in the upcoming call Info about the group: www.bcbl.eu/en/research/... Info about the position and application process: shorturl.at/i3lhi

Listen. The only way you can become a good writer is by being a shitty writer and doing it anyways. You can’t magically become a good writer by having a machine do some of the work for you. That just makes you a fraud.

Email #5 with 2 admin teams cc'd has just passed through my inbox as a student at not-my university tries to get reimbursed. The latest involves a reprimand for not using the 2 (!) systems to make the booking and the response "can someone plz send instructions because this site is not user friendly"

Recently been accumulating some solid evidence that I regularly do not read past the first line of an email. Please be warned, apologies in advance, will try to do better 🤦‍♀️

my lab (lacns.github.io) at @mpi-nl.bsky.social and @dondersinst.bsky.social is recruiting for two PhD and two postdoctoral positions funded by an @erc.europa.eu Consolidator - come join us! PhD: www.mpi.nl/career-educa... Postdoc: www.mpi.nl/career-educa... (please share widely)

Want to know what kind of jobs people go on to do after a linguistics degree? Join us on Patreon for a bonus episode about all the cool things people have done with their linguistics training www.patreon.com/posts/83814530

🚨 New WP! 📄 "Publish or Procreate: The Effect of Motherhood on Research Performance" (w/ @valentinatartari.bsky.social 👩‍🔬👨‍🔬 We investigate how parenthood affects scientific productivity and impact — and find that the impact is far from equal for mothers and fathers.

youtu.be/cE3bK5XXbDc?... I recently gave a brief MFA tutorial.

I’m thrilled to announce that our paper, Quantifying and Reducing Speaker Heterogeneity within the Common Voice Corpus for Phonetic Analysis, coauthored with @echodroff.bsky.social, Aref Farhadipour, Jiachen Ma, Annie Baker and Bogdan Pricop from @cl-uzh.bsky.social was accepted for INTERSPEECH2025.

The Department of Linguistics at Yale University is seeking to hire a one-year lecturer with expertise in Computational Linguistics and/or Syntax for the 2025-2026 school year. See the job ad for more info: linguistlist.org/issues/36/11... Please send to any who might be interested!

I'm hiring! 2 x PhDs and 1 x PostDoc, to work with me at Uni Zurich on a project investigating how semantic patterns differ by geographic region. Linguistic typology, data science, spatial analysis, phylogenetic methods, potential fieldwork... REPOST 🙏 www.comparativelinguistics.uzh.ch/en/jobs.html

If I could give any advice to PhD students these days, it is to be serious about statistics. So many jobs require statistics knowledge.

Please repost - the position is part of an SNF-funded project (equivalent of an ERC starting grant) jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancie...

📣 #Job alert! The Technology Platform LiRI at the University of Zurich is looking for Data Science Consultant specialized in #statistics, in collaboration with the NCCR Evolving Language! More details here: jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancie...

POST-DOC CALL! 2-year post-doctoral position to work in Marseille on any topic in the field of language, communication and the brain. Deadline May, 20, 2025 www.ilcb.fr/ilcb-postdoc...

Introduction \ updates post (better late than never): - I recently graduated from ELSC @hebrewuniversity.bsky.social 🎉 - Moved to NYC 🗽 (view from our balcony below 👇) - And started a postdoc in @columbiauniversity.bsky.social Pls PM if you are in the NYC area and want to talk (or have a beer 🍻)

"Writing. Is. Thinking." and "writing is an iterative process" -- Probably the most important lessons I had to learn in grad school. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

An open letter to graduate students and other procrastinators: it’s time to write #AcademicSky www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🔊#PhDOpportunity| Join the VoCS Doctoral Program! 📢 The Marie Curie-funded VoCS project is recruiting 19 PhDs in voice communication sciences across 12 countries! 🌍 📅 Deadline: March 15, 2025 🔗Apply: www.vocs.eu.com/index.php/da... More info ➡️ www.vocs.eu.com #VoCS #Neuroscience #PhD

We have to PhD positions in Voice Communication Sciences (VoCS) vailble right now. Deadline for applications is mid March. Contact me if you want to discuss your application.

We're delighted to announce that #LabPhon20 will be held in Montréal, Québec, Canada, in the (North American) summer of 2026, with the theme “Looking back and looking forward.” Dates, thematic sessions, invited speakers and further information will be announced by the organizing committee. #LabPhon

Looking for a PhD student to come work with me on the ethical implications of NLP from September! Please share widely and point any interesting students my way! 😊

Executive wants to frame the NIH indirects cut as $4B in savings. But given that NIH returns $2.5 on every $1 investment, this would actually cost US economy a net $6 BILLION (per year!). Not to mention the human costs of wrecking education and research sectors and the communities they serve.

🎺 #Job #postdoc in #Phonetics and #Phonology 🍁 McGill University, Canada is looking for someone to work on sound change in #diachrony, #computerlinguistics and #psycholinguistics ⏰ Application #deadline Feb. 16, 2025 🔗 linguistlist.org/issues/36/236/

I’m an NSF panel reviewer that was scheduled to meet today. Just got notice that all NSF panels were canceled today. I reviewed some innovative proposals in support of students. Devastating if these scholars don’t get to do this work. For the love of science & students I hope this is just a delay.💔