🚨I am in the most delightful position of having a postdoc land a faculty job! Which means I will be looking to hire at least one new postdoc this cycle! More to come soon but if you're interested feel free to email me or come say hi at @isdp.org in a week or two!

14 years ago today, I took the TOEFL exam in Istanbul to apply for grad school in Canada. I spoke French throughout my teens and had a degree in French–Turkish interpreting. I knew very little English and barely passed TOEFL.

While the first year of life is crucial for language development, our team found that sound categorization continues to develop throughout the early school years. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Huge thanks to @psychopy.org and especially @hirstrj.bsky.social ! After spending thousands on other tools with little support, Dr. Hirst solved all my technical problems within days. If you are using behavioral, eyetracking, and EEG systems in your lab, I recommend checking out PsychoPy.

Coming soon! gazeR will support @pupil-labs.bsky.social!

The Speech, Sign, and Systems Lab (formerly VoiceLab) is seeking motivated PhD students to join us in Fall 2026! We are part of the University of Iowa’s Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, consistently ranked among the top 5 programs in speech sciences nationwide.

Thank you @languageinsociety.bsky.social! What a great honor!

The discussion will include different perspectives as panelists are at different career stages with different experiences. We want to thank them all for being keen to participate! @parafitacouto.bsky.social @lshepperd.bsky.social @ethankutlu.bsky.social Suhail Matar & Judith Kroll

I'll also be a grad student rep (along with @reycabreraperez.bsky.social) at the *sold out* ISB "Reframing Our Language Experience" panel convened by @ethankutlu.bsky.social and @alicialuque.bsky.social on the 10th. Super excited to connect w/ folks who care abt making positive change in this area!

MAY MOST READ ARTICLES 2. "Evaluative reactions to minority languages and their varieties: Evidence from new speakers of West Frisian" by Ruth Kircher, @ethankutlu.bsky.social & @mirjamvellinga.bsky.social doi.org/10.1017/S004... #LgAttitudes#LgIdeologies#MinorityLgs #LgPlanning #LgRevitalisation

I’m collecting peer-reviewed articles that have significantly impacted #psycholinguistic theories, methodologies, or models through inclusive research practices (e.g., minoritized language users, lesser-studied languages, different modalities). What are your favorite papers from the last 15 years?

Please share with your networks that the 2nd ROLE Symposium will be held online on May 19th. More information is coming soon www.rolecollective.org/events/2nd-r... You can submit your abstracts by April 14th through this link docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Thank you @savithry.bsky.social and Sarah Phillips for all your hard work for CEDL!

Life goals (not the first inspired by @emilymyers.bsky.social).

I am thrilled to share our new paper which investigates the role of continuous measures in linguistic diversity research. We found that children who are exposed to more linguistic diversity (e.g., language, dialect, accent) are perceptually more flexible. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

UW-Madison Psychology is hiring a new assistant professor in the area of computational approaches to language (broadly construed). Please share with interested parties! jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...

Visualize and download school segregation data for every state, county, metro area, commuting zone, geo school district, and local educational agency in the US since 1991. edopportunity.org/segregation

If you have the means, please help my friend help their parents gofund.me/48a9d7ae

A #COSMIN review of content validity of measures in early #numeracy in children, published in PLoS ONE journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

bout to do a spot on CBS news Detroit about language change in Michigan! Fingers crossed that everything goes well and that my water doesn't break while on TV lmao

Postdoc position! Come work with us at Western University studying EEG and speech perception in children with/without reading and language disorders. Our CIHR-funded team includes L. Batterink, @blakebutler.bsky.social @christinavbdn.bsky.social & J. Oram: grad.uwo.ca/doc/postdoc/...

Please Share! 📢 I'm recruiting a PhD student for Fall 2025 at UC Berkeley! I'm particularly interested in students interested in early math learning (kindergarten - 3rd grade), working memory, and inequities in early childhood using quantitative methods. Deadline is Dec 3rd!

Don’t miss the 2024 Penn State workshops in #ResearchMethods, taking place this fall semester! Topics include #replication, #social network analysis, #data #visualisation, interaction. All workshops are free, taking place on Zoom #appliedlinguistics #LangSky sites.psu.edu/researchmeth...

How does bilingualism modulate attention? In a new paper with Rachel Barr, @joscelinrocha.bsky.social, Kate Freda, Paul Quinn, Marina Kalashnikova, & Dean D'Souza, we present a novel framework linking diversifying experiences to attention, perception, and learning psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...

I'm hiring a one-year postdoc in sociolinguistics/phonetics for next year (at Berkeley, with me)! Please share with your networks and students! linguistlist.org/issues/35-13...

Hey all! If you didn't get a chance to take this volunteer survey on personal/given names before, now's your chance! The survey has changed slightly (now takes ~30 min). Please repost for broader coverage! #linguistics Science 🧪 research.sc/participant/...

NEW: Update on Perspectives on Psychological Science. Includes link to newly published editorial and a request for proposals for the next editorial structure and editor of the journal bit.ly/3wfBlk5

Reviewer Zero will be at SIOP this year! Members @mattgoldrick.bsky.social, @frankikung.bsky.social, & Shahana Ansari will conduct hands-on activities to help attendees cultivate concrete strategies for "How to be the Reviewer You Always Wanted." We hope to see you on 4/20/24, 12pm in Hyatt Hall 1!

Amazing as always @linasigns.bsky.social !!

Our final keynote presenter, Dr. Evan Kidd, will start at 17:30 CST (~10 minutes).

We are continuing with our wonderful short presentations.

We will continue with Dr. Wesley Leonard's keynote presentation starting at 14:30 (CST).

The amazing Dr. Hou will present at 13:05 (CST) @linasigns.bsky.social

Our symposium is continuing with the amazing Dr. Vijay Ramjattan's presentation on aestheticization of language users.

Dr. Rachel Hayes-Harb is presenting replicability and reproducibility and their relation to the linguistic ideologies in our research.

Dr. Holt's talk is AMAZING. omg.

Next is the amazing Dr. Rachel Hayes-Harb @speechlabuofu.bsky.social starting at 11 AM CST.

Dr. Yolanda Holt is giving a powerful presentation on why native speakerism is limited and why it is a choice we need to move away from.

First presentation by the amazing Dr. Kamran Khan who helped us understand the intersection of language ideologies and citizenship.

In Turkish, instead of writing "et al." which corresponds to "and others," they write "ve ark." which corresponds to "and friends." I love it. #AcademicSky #PsychSciSky

We are very excited that the first ROLE Symposium will take place on April 12th and April 19th (online). Please register if you would like to participate in this event. We will have live-captioning and ASL interpreters.

I hope what Turkey witnessed yesterday provides all of us the strength we need to stand up for our future. www.bbc.com/news/world-e... This was the best news I had for a very long time.

We are very excited that the first ROLE Symposium will take place on April 12th and April 19th (online). Please register if you would like to participate in this event. We will have live-captioning and ASL interpreters.

The Global Coalition for Language Rights has created a useful new resource for #langdoc work A Human Rights Based Elicitation Tool for Linguists www.coalitionforlanguagerights.org/post/a-human...

The deadline to submit an abstract for the first ROLE Symposium is coming up (March 15th). Please use the f following link to register: uiowa.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Feeling 🥳 First year of my TT position and my lab. We are already making progress. Two of my students secured grants for their research, and 7 of my students' presentations were accepted to the Acoustical Society of America. One graduate student's paper was published earlier this year.

We are excited to share a new initiative we have started in late 2022. The Reframing Our Language Experience (ROLE) Collective was co-founded by me and [email protected] with the purpose of addressing the ideological issues in our scholarly work. For more info: rolecollective.github.io

Review of applications for our postdoc on speech and motor symptoms of major depression coming up fast (March 1)! Note: if your possible start date is a bit later than what we ask for, please apply and we can have a discussion. Details: faculty.wcas.northwestern.edu/matt-goldric...