PhD Position: Accented Speech Processing - Apply now! Come work with Mirjam Broersma, @davidpeeters.bsky.social, and me at the Centre for Language Studies, Radboud University in the Netherlands. Application deadline: 19 October 2025 For more information, see www.ru.nl/en/working-a...

In memoriam...

We're hosting Lavender Languages from 2-4 September 2026. Save the date! Plenaries and a formal announcement to be follow shortly...

IMO the public sympathy issue is partially due to the fact that a lot of academics *refuse* to do public engagement/outreach work because they think they're above it. politicalquarterly.org.uk/blog/where-n...

Jobs: General Linguistics: Assistant Professor, Hispanic Linguistics, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of California Berkeley

David Britain, Paul Foulkes, David Willis and I have been awarded 2.5M CHF by SNSF & AHRC for CURLEW – the first major survey of English dialects in England & Wales in 75+ years. Starts: 2026 – posts to come. Outputs: papers + a public dialect atlas 🗺️ 📸 Drafting the proposal, Bern, Jan 2025.

Jobs: English; Language Acquisition, Sociolinguistics: Assistant Professor - English Linguistics, Louisiana State University

A massive privilege to have worked with Grace over the past 3 years. Grace has co-led on the development and delivery of the accent bias training that we've introduced at the University of Edinburgh. I have no doubt she'll go on to do amazing things in her career 🙌

Privately educated people (7%) still dominate the UK's most influential roles. #edchat #HigherEd #school

Looking forward to talking all things digital comms and why it's difficult (or even possible!) to disentangle what is an 'offline' and 'online' identity.

**CALL FOR PAPERS** Upcoming workshop at QMUL in January, looking at autism, focused interests, and communication across diverse contexts. How can we centre autistic interests as a strength rather than a symptom? Contributions outside academia welcome. Please share widely!

🔔 My paper w/ @ninamarkl.bsky.social and @bjoernross.bsky.social is out: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... We surveyed TikTok users on motivations for using phrases like "le$bean". Primarily associated w/ topics that are moderated on SM, but also desire to express community + be playful.

Our @engmediacentre.bsky.social Eng Lang conference in London in November is now totally sold out. Thanks to everyone who has booked tickets - it will be a great day, I'm sure. We'll post further details soon about the waiting list. www.englishandmedia.co.uk/conferences/...

Please boost! #linguistics student here at Swarthmore is running a survey for English speakers (who don't know Mandarin / any other tone languages) about how we learn tones. Take a few minutes to help out with this student research! swarthmore.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Jobs: Phonetics: Professeure, Professeur substitut en phonétique / Visiting Assistant Professor in Phonetics, Université du Quebec à Montreal

IGALA is on Bluesky & Instagram (IGALA_insta) now! Help us grow online and off by following AND nominating yourself or a colleague for an executive board position 🙃

EMC CPD Face-to Face: Language Change, Digital Communication & Social Media A day of lectures, workshops and discussion to help you teach language change with a focus on digital texts and the latest research. Book by: 8am on 26th September buff.ly/2dn3wUH

📢Join us on the IGALA Executive Committee! 📢 Nominations are open NOW for President-Elect, Secretary, Comms Officer or Treasurer. Apply before the end of Sep to help inform the shape and direction of the International Gender and Language Association. Just let me know if you have any questions!

Are you teaching prescriptivism this year? If so, please consider introducing your students to YourWrong.co.uk. It could form part of a seminar activity or prep! I'd also be very happy to provide some corpus examples for a small analysis task. Just get in touch!

Applications are now open for the 7th Forensic #Linguistics Short Course #FLsc! Join us in Düsseldorf from 17 to 20 March 2026 for an international spring school on forensic linguistics, with a focus on digital methods and hands-on casework. Apply by 13 December 2025! div-ling.org/flsc

icymi, you can now preorder the crip linguistics reader

🚨 Open PhD position in sign language #linguistics 🚨 The focus should be on the structure of signed languages, or connect to other research profiles at the department (e.g. computational linguistics, acquisition, typology, multilingualism) su.varbi.com/en/what:job/... Deadline: 15 October 2025

The London I know and love:

‼️ Join #LSEPhilosophy! We are hiring an Assistant Professor of #Philosophy with focus on #Sustainability Application deadline: 3 November 2025 More information: jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/... #London #PartOfLSE #hiring #jobs

🧵 We all know that technology is changing the ways in which we use language. Linguists tend not to judge: they study, describe and explain the ways that language is being shaped by technology itself but also by its users. They point to the endless creativity of humans.

EMC CPD Face-to Face: Language Change, Digital Communication & Social Media A day of lectures, workshops and discussion to help you teach language change with a focus on digital texts and the latest research. Book by: 8am on 26th September buff.ly/9lPoiXC

LSE's Department of Methodogy is searching for an Assistant Professor in Computational Social Science. Applicants from across the social sciences are very welcome! Please reach out if you would like any more details.

Some big news: the University of Birmingham is launching a new MA in Gender & Sexuality. It's interdisciplinary, with a focus on combining theory & practice. It's going to be amazing. I'm convening it: message or email with questions. www.birmingham.ac.uk/study/postgr... @unibirmingham.bsky.social

La Journée d'études « Mutations du discours : discours numériques » aura lieu le 17 octobre à l'UPJV (Amiens Citadelle) et à distance (lien sur l'affiche). Nous aurons le plaisir d'accueillir @christianilbury.bsky.social, Catherine Ruchon et @jessaiston.bsky.social. #linguistique

Andreea and Christian will be presenting at EMC CPD Face-to Face: Language Change, Digital Communication & Social Media – an EMC Teacher Conference-with-CPD (30.9.25) Get signed up here and come and join us! Book by 8am on 26th Sept buff.ly/xQmMHMg

EMC CPD Face-to Face: Language Change, Digital Communication & Social Media – an EMC Teacher Conference-with-CPD A day of lectures, workshops and discussion to help you teach language change with a focus on digital texts and the latest research. Book by: 8am on 26th September buff.ly/9lPoiXC

Support: Cognitive Science, Phonetics, Sociolinguistics: PhD, University of Bern (Switzerland)

Giving a plenary lecture on "social media and sociolinguistic change" at #UKLVC15 tomorrow. If you're there, say hey 👋🏻

🚨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...

Open rank job in language and interaction at Rutgers. Relevant for #linguistics #EMCA jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/258...

Exciting new post-doc fellow post just announced at University of Edinburgh - working alongside The Love Tank on the new Medicine Without Doctors collaboration. Closing date 02 Oct 2025. elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

🚨 Job opportunity 🚨 @braiduk.bsky.social is seeking a Communications & Impact Officer who will play a pivotal role in enhancing BRAID’s visibility, engagement, and overall impact. The post is full-time & fixed-term until Nov 2028. Applications close on 1 Sep 2025📝. More: edin.ac/4fSpAmf

Jobs: English; General Linguistics: Open rank tenure-track faculty position in Language, Interaction, and Interpersonal Communication, Rutgers University School of Communication and Information

We're pleased to host the next LASS networking event on 'language and AI'. Registration etc. will follow shortly but for now, save the date!

Take a look at the A Level English Language courses we've got coming up in the Autumn term! Book your CPD now while places are available: buff.ly/Fo5I3Sc

This year there were more than 1.5 million entries to English Lang or English Lit GCSEs: nearly 25% of all entries. We note Jill Duffy’s (CEO, OCR) reported comments on need for ‘fundamental reform to maths & English sec. education to support those who fall behind in these crucial subjects’. ⬇️

Come be my colleague! UC Berkeley Linguistics has a tenure-track position in language revitalization. aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05022

📣Job alert! We're hiring a Policy Researcher. Join us to work on projects looking at how AI governance, including regulations, assurance and standards, helps ensure that AI works for people and society. Closing: 9:30am BST, Monday 15 September. www.adalovelaceinstitute.org/job/policy-r...

I'm on BBC News Now shortly talking about the 'new' words that have been added to the Cambridge Dictionary [and why we need to be careful calling them 'new']. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...

Another job here at Michigan - this one in Linguistics! Part of a cluster of hires with a focus on Cognitive Science and AI. Happy to chat to interested folks. apply.interfolio.com/171006

Jobs: Applied Linguistics, Discipline of Linguistics, Language Documentation, Ling & Literature, Linguistic Theories: Lecturer in Russian Language, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Congratulations on all receiving A-level English Language, Lang & Lit, Literature results! 💫 And to all their teachers ! We commend the fantastic opportunities that study of these subjects offer 🥳. Find out what English studies brings ! englishassociation.ac.uk/case-studies/

V proud to say I'll be presenting our work on trans men's vocal style-shifting and metalinguistic awareness next month at LavLang 31 @lavlang.bsky.social!🪻🌈💬 If you like LGBTQ things, linguistics, or Manchester, you should come too! lavlang2025.wordpress.com