On my way to @tudelfteemcs.bsky.social for my inaugural address as full professor of Inclusive Speech Communication: "Diversity is a given. Inclusion should also be." As a young girl from the Achterhoek, I never believed this day was even possible. Life is full of surprises ❤️

"Twee mannen met spraakproblemen kloppen aan bij een hoogleraar uit Groenlo." klinkt als het begin van een grap, maar dat was het niet! Een crowd-funding actie was geboren. www.gelderlander.nl/oost-gelre/o...

“Van de 10 doelpunten van het NLds elftal werden er 9 door zwarte spelers gemaakt. Toch ontwaakten zij met een dubbele kater: van de gemiste strafschoppen én van bakken racisme en haat. Was hun kleur tijdens het succes goed genoeg om Oranje te dragen, nu waren ze het tenue opeens onwaardig.” 🎯

Why I love my job as a university professor? Getting to work work so many fun and intelligent people. Meet the Delft Inclusive Speech Communication Lab at @tudelfteemcs.bsky.social and our students 🥰

And that's a wrap on #GITT2026 Thanks to all the wonderful people for attending, our brilliant keynotes and presenters for sharing their insights, and our sponsors for making this happen. See you at the reception! 🥂 (and maybe next year? 😉)

Great fun to be at @gitt-workshop.bsky.social - thanks so much for having me! And lovely summary of my talk! Credits where credits are due: I came up with the banger "speech technology is not inclusive but can be used to make society more inclusive" due to the interesting talks in the morning 😀

"Please Use AI" I actually have never used genAI. This poem struck true in so many ways: shawnsmucker.substack.com/p/please-use...

Post-doctoral Research Associate in Computational Linguistics. King's College London. Salary: £45,031 to £47,379 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRU560/p...

Super proud of our crowd-funding campaign for a live captioning app for people with a speech impairment, which is now featured in a wonderful news article of our faculty EEMCS @tudelfteemcs.bsky.social at TU Delft www.tudelft.nl/en/2026/eemc...

Ik ben tegen fascisme. Sue me www.volkskrant.nl/columns-van-...

Built this little pond 3 weeks ago in our front garden. It already attracted frogs and dragonflies. Mission accomplished 🤩

Wat zou jij doen als een app je het mogelijk zou maken om eindelijk weer goed te kunnen communiceren? 🍺 www.gelderlander.nl/land-van-cui... Help mee aan onze crowd-funding actie om een app te maken voor live ondertiteling van mensen met een spraakstoornis! www.supporttudelft.nl/project/veel...

6 years ago, I started asking a question that political science had largely ignored: how & why do women get involved in PRR parties as grassroots members? Today, my 1st book proposes an answer. Grassroots Women in the Populist Radical Right is now out online with OUP: academic.oup.com/book/62754

Did you know that more than 400,000 people in NL alone have a speech impairment and have problems communicating? We started a crowdfunding campaign to build an app to help them! Donate & help people with a speech impairment to fully participate in society 😍 www.supporttudelft.nl/project/veel...

5 years after our 1st paper showing that speech recognition (ASR) performance disparities exist for different Dutch speaker groups, we show that this is still(!) the case for state-of-the-art company-developed ASR systems. ASR systems are still not inclusive! www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

hou me vast als ik loslaat 🤍 Nieuw in mijn webwinkel: - spiegelsticker (ook voor op je raam!) - een print op A5 💛 merelmorre.nl/aan-de-wand/

Laat iedereen vandaag even dit interview met @leoniedejonge.bsky.social herlezen om zich van de rol van de media te doordringen www.svdj.nl/nieuws/polit...

Will #GITT2026 be worth it? If our brilliant keynotes are anything to go by...😉 Introducing @odettes.bsky.social Full Professor of Inclusive Speech Communication at 🇳🇱 Delft University of Technology. Human & automatic speech, combining technical x ethical x societal, just how we like it! Excited yet?

📢 PhD position in the NeuroAI of Language Why can LLMs predict brain activity so well? We're hiring a PhD student to find out -- AI interpretability meets neuroimaging Deadline March 20 Please RT 🙏 👇 mpi.nl/career-education/vacancies/vacancy/fully-funded-4-year-phd-position-neuroai-language

The new single from my old-time favourite band U2 "American Obituary" playing on my favourite rock radio station @kinkpuntnl.bsky.social while working on a super fun paper for my favourite conference @interspeech.bsky.social Me: 🤩

Voor een artikel over ‘tweelingentaal’ zijn we op zoek naar (ouders van) tweelingen of meerlingen die daarover kunnen vertellen. Ben jij de helft van een tweeling en hadden jullie vroeger een eigen taaltje dat alleen jullie tweeën begrepen? We horen het graag: c.spotler.com/ct/m12/k1/K99...

🔬 Speech Science Sunday The Voder at the World's Fair A thread 🧵

The time line cleanser I didn't know I needed 😍

Is it the case that deadlines always clash with other urgent, time-consuming, last-minute tasks or am I simply more aware of those many urgent, time-consuming, last-minute tasks when I am also facing deadlines?

Over 100 confirmed visitors to this conference, and there is still room to join for next week! Nijmegen, NL, 5-6 Feb

Yesterday it was cows using tools, today its penguins using satellite imagery.

Are you a PhD student or ECR in language, gender & sexuality? Join me (an ed. of Bloomsbury Studies in Queer Linguistics book series) and Lexi Webster (an ed. of Gender & Language journal) for a FREE @lgas-baal.bsky.social online seminar on publishing (2pm 18 Feb) docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

📣2 Feb: 4th Dutch Speech Tech Day! Theme: "Crossing the Lines: Academia, Industry, and the Future of Knowledge" 🌟Keynote: @davidvanleeuwen.nl Network with >100 likeminded people! 🌟Register by 26 Jan: www.eventbrite.com/e/4th-dutch-... More info: sites.google.com/view/dutchsp...

Anthropomorphizing language can be cute when applied to your favorite car, but it helps to muddy the discourse when applied to tech sold as "AI". New from me & @nannainie.bsky.social on @techpolicypress.bsky.social -- how to spot & revise away from anthropomorphizing language applied to "AI"

It's snowing in the Netherlands! So time to make a snow angel 😂❄️

The CfPs for LavLang32 at Edinburgh is now OPEN! A reminder of our stellar lineup: • Dr. Nikki Lane (Duke) • Dr. Kevin Guyan (UoE) • Prof. Erez Levon (Bern) • Dr. Stamatina Katsiveli (American College of Greece) • Dr. Eddie Ungless (UoE) Submit a paper here: lavlang32.ppls.ed.ac.uk?page_id=231

Participants needed! One of my Phonetics students is looking for participants in her study - just requires listening to some voices in a short survey york.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... 🧪💬🎧

En ook dit is ons Nederland 💞 In Son & Breugel, bij Eindhoven #omziennaarelkaar #zokanhetook #ookNederland

🚨Job Alert plz RT! Johns Hopkins Psych & Brain Sciences is looking for a new colleague using behavioral or computational approaches to study cognition! We are excited about many areas of (esp higher) cognition in human adults, children, or nonhuman animals Open-rank apply.interfolio.com/178146

Over neurodiversiteit... (IG @autismservicegroup / @ADHD_today) www.autismservices.group.

Goed e onderzoeksjournalistiek van @mareonline.nl. Daar kunnen landelijke media nog wat van leren. www.mareonline.nl/opinie/de-ba...

📢 Call for papers! Join us in Sydney for #Interspeech2026, 27 September – 1 October 2026. Paper submission portal opens 17 Jan and closes 25 Feb. See you there! interspeech2026.org/en-AU/pages/...

Please repost! I am looking for a PhD candidate in the area of Computational Cognitive Neuroscience to start in early 2026. The position is funded as part of the Excellence Cluster "The Adaptive Mind" at @jlugiessen.bsky.social. Please apply here until Nov 25: www.uni-giessen.de/de/ueber-uns...

Come join us for a 4-year PhD on effects of rare gene disruptions involved in speech disorder, investigated in human neuronal models (via gene-editing, tissue culture, brain organoids, high-res microscopy, transcriptomics, epigenomics). More info: www.mpi.nl/imprs-phd-fe... #AcademicJobs #PhDJobs 🧬🧪

Interested in doing a #PhD in #SpeechPerception and/or #LanguageLearning in a top research center? @bcbl.bsky.social If yes, there's still time to send me your materials!

Postdoc in #sociolinguistics jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...

“Hé Siri, wat voor weer wordt het?” Steeds meer mensen praten tegen hun telefoon. Maar spraakherkenning werkt niet voor iedereen. Werk van @odettes.bsky.social, @yuanyuanzhang.bsky.social en Matthijs Valkering lijkt daar nu voorzichtig verandering in te brengen.

Using speech technology to improve communication is super important and @yuanyuanzhang.bsky.social is taking the first important steps with Matthijs Valkering. Incidentally, she shows that a personalised ASR system beats humans in recognising dysarthric speech by a large margin 🤩 #proudpromotor

13 PhD POSITIONS available in the framework of the HUM.AI.N-ACCENT MSCA Doctoral Network: ‘Bridging Communication Gaps in Human and Human-AI Interactions: The Role of Accented Speech on Neurocognitive mechanisms and Social Dynamics’ cordis.europa.eu/project/id/1...

Post doc job alert 📢! Announcing a v exciting job on a Wellcome-funded project in my group at UCL, looking at auditory hallucinations... Advert here 👀: rb.gy/230w8l - deadline is end of Oct. Please apply! 1/5

Application for a PhD position at our department is now open! We are looking for applicants that are interested in areas of sign language linguistics, general sign language studies, or deaf bilingualism/multilingualism. Deadline is 15th Oct. Please share away! su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

Deadline Oct 15: Asst. prof. (tenure track), AI in Psych Science, @uoftpsychology.bsky.social jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...