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-...

🚨 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

Pls help spread the word: We are hiring! 🌲☕✨ @ischool.uw.edu is recruiting two tenure-track assistant profs in AI. Areas include human-AI collaboration, AI & society, comp social science, NLP, and AI applications. Apply by Nov 15, 2025: apply.interfolio.com/171020 Happy to answer questions!

We are seeking a #Postdoctoral #Researcher to join our Multimodal Language Department for the NWO funded project: 𝐆𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐆𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐱𝐭: 𝐎𝐛𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭- 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧-𝐀𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐀𝐈 𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐋𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐮𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐔𝐬𝐞 Start: ideally February 1, 2026 but negotiable. www.mpi.nl/career-educa...

Zelden zag ik een motie die zó helder laat zien in wat voor zieke tijden we leven en wat er deze herfst op het spel staat

Delft University of Technology, the best place to be for scientists, students, and cats 😻

Party for 1st year students near my house. All r singing "Let it go" from the top of their lungs. First thought: oh that is cute, they are singing a children's song. Then realisation hit: the song came out in 2013 when most of them were 5/6 years old. It is their childhood song! Feeling my age now.

Many people are enjoying Alex Waibel's super interesting keynote at @interspeech.bsky.social: I have to sit on the stairs 😄

Great start of the day at #interspeech2025 with a survey talk on fair and inclusive speech tech by @odettes.bsky.social

Day 1 is a wrap! We had an amazing opening of @interspeech.bsky.social, followed by a well-attended General Assembly where I stepped down as ISCA President. The moment was a little emotional to me. Serving our amazing community for 8 years has been so rewarding.

Happy Caturday 🐈‍⬛🤍

⚠️Online registration closed⚠️ Interspeech 2025 is starting in less than two days! Are you attending Interspeech 2025 but haven’t registered yet? Online registration has closed but no worries! You can still register on-site in the conference center, from Sunday onwards. See you there!

3+1-year fully funded PhD position in Experimental and/or Computational Psycholinguistics. Official application deadline today, but applications submitted by August 25 will receive full consideration. tmalsburg.github.io/job_ad_2025_...

Achievement unlocked! Een full page interview met mij in de Groenlose Gids ter gelegenheid van mijn promotie naar hoogleraar in Delft 😊 www.groenlosegids.nl/nieuws/maats...

Everybody always talks about the upsides of working from home. I think it's time to discuss the downsides... "Gone again" on the inside of the empty chocolate 🍫 wrapper in my home office. Thank you, wife. Again.

Are you curious about language, technology, and science? 👄 Join us on Sunday, August 17 at the Speech Science Festival in Ahoy Rotterdam, NL! Admission is 🆓 - Lots of demos from scientists around the world! - Hackathon! - Fun! For more information and registration: festival.interspeech2025.org

Ingezonden brief @nrc.nl

Wanneer gaan we dit soort leiderschap eens zien in de Nederlandse verkiezingscampagne?

So how was your Sunday? Mine resulted in lots of blackberry, strawberry, and plum jams 😋

Full Professor of Virtual and Augmented Reality (all genders welcome) position available at @uniklagenfurt.bsky.social. Application deadline: September 28, 2025 multimediacommunication.blogspot.com/2025/07/full... #AcademicSky 🧪

When you want to take some chocolate from the bar on your desk, open the package and find this... (finished) Thank you, wife... 😂

Big THANK YOU to the amazing #Interspeech2025 Organizing Committee! 💙 🎤 Odette Scharenborg, Catharine Oertel, Khiet Truong 💰 Martijn Bartelds 🌐 Dragoș Bălan 🗂️ Saskia Peters 🤝 Ginny Ruiter, Marie Louise Verhagen, Natascha Voskuijl

We are looking for Dutch participants in Nijmegen who would like to do a study. We are quite desperate so thought to reach out here too. Perhaps for those Dutchies who are visiting @isgs2025.bsky.social

I'm very happy to share that TU Delft has appointed me as a Full Professor of Inclusive Speech Communication. I'm super excited to continue to add to, work in and improve both TU Delft and our amazing #speech field 🥰

Interested in a #PhD in Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences at Indiana University Bloomington? We'll be having some drop in, virtual sessions in the fall, but email me any time.

Seeking participants! An MA student I am supervising is looking for speakers of English to answer a few survery questions for her dissertation. You can find out more and participate at this link: mailchi.mp/6fcd7c955006... Please share and sign up if you can!

Reposting my call for participants for my PhD project! #Nonbinary, aged 15+ and live, or have lived, in the UK (any point between 1990-2020)? Does what you wear help create your identity? How do clothes matter to non-binary people? How do *you* dress 'authentically'? I want to hear from you!