Google scholar is now broken for good because people use AI-generated, non-existent references. As someone who will go to great lengths to hunt down the original 19th century grammar to cross-check an example cited in later literature, this just adds to my general disappointment in humankind, tbh

For those in town

Ever thought there can be word internal pauses??? Yes, it is possible. Work by Ludger Paschen

One of our librarians sat down with a medical student and helped them find and create a list of citations. All they had to do was copy and paste it into their assignment. They submitted a list of AI generated citatons instead. They were ALL fake.

New paper in @openmindjournal.bsky.social "Scope and limits of iconic prosody." It all started in 2018. First results at CogSci 2019, then for my PhD. This is a complete re-analysis! doi.org/10.1162/OPMI... Thanks to @susfuchs.bsky.social Manfred Krifka, and Cornelia Ebert 💛 + editors + reviewers

Westcoast dance is just so amazing: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ih0...

A couple years (!) in the making: we’re releasing a new corpus of embodied, collaborative problem solving dialogues. We paid 36 people to play Portal 2’s co-op mode and collected their speech + game recordings. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2512.03381 Website: berkeley-nlp.github.io/portal-dialo... 1/n

innn.it/boellerverbot Berlin an Sylvester ist ein Ort, den man verlassen sollte. Um das zu verändern, unterschreibt diese Petition.

Wir suchen wieder Verstärkung im Team – diesmal in der Redaktion! Wenn es für dich in Frage kommt, guck gerne rein! Oder du jemanden kennst, für den das was wäre, teile das gern und helft uns, weiter zu wachsen, um gegen Hass & Desinformation zu kämpfen :) www.volksverpetzer.de/stellenaussc...

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

Did you know the heart imprints onto the voice? New preprint spearheaded by Marijn Hafkamp, confirming (seemingly forgotten) research from the 80's and testing for the first time possible biomechanical mechanisms (evidence points to heart-lung-voice interactions). wimpouw.com/files/Hafkam...

New perspective paper (w/ @sedaakbiyik.bsky.social, Joseph Outa, & @minjaek.bsky.social ) in @natrevpsychol.nature.com ⚽💭🧠👶 : www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Academic publishing is broken due to for-profit actors. Time to explore alternatives as researchers → A Diamond Open Access conference, Feb 5-6, 2026 in Nijmegen NL. Free registration (limited seats): horizondiamond.nl Let's build a sustainable publishing infrastructure together.

Acoustics Lay Language Paper Hearing loss in old age isn’t normal aging. It’s the result of cumulative excessive lifetime noise exposure. https://acoustics.org/hearing-loss-in-old-age-isnt-due-to-normal-aging/ #ASA189 #ASA_ASJ2025

Wenn man wirklich die Universitäten nachhaltig schützen will vor politischen Einflussnahmen, dann braucht es dringend sehr viel mehr Dauerstellen. Das ist der beste Schutz der Wissenschaftsfreiheit und auch der Uni als kritischem Ort. Ich denke, genau deshalb gibt es diese Dauerstellen kaum

A richly annotated dataset of co-speech hand gestures across diverse speaker contexts www.nature.com/articles/s41... Dataset comprising 2373 annotated gestures, 9 speakers across 3 distinct categories: University lecturers, Politicians, and Psychotherapists can be accessed at doi.org/10.17605/OSF...

EXCELLENT graphic on the drain of scientific publishing! zenodo.org/records/1759...

New amazing open Postdoc position, w/t opportunities to 1) get closely involved in our next @themanybirds.bsky.social study on innovation and problem-solving; 2) work with @ecobird.bsky.social on avian innovation, cognition & invasiveness. Advert: www.ugent.be/en/work/scie...

Our paper on improving statistical reporting in psychology is now online 🎉 As a part of this paper, we also created the Transparent Statistical Reporting in Psychology checklist, which researchers can use to improve their statistical reporting practices www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Letzte Ernte aus dem Gewächshaus, es könnte ja bald frostig werden und grüne Tomaten rot werden lassen.

Schimpansen können offenbar rational denken – das zeigt eine neue Studie der Universität Utrecht, die im Fachjournal "Science" veröffentlicht wurde. Damit stellen die Forscher die lange geltende Annahme infrage, dass nur Menschen zu solchem Denken fähig sind. www.focus.de/wissen/forsc...

Our paper @sarabogels.bsky.social covering our pre-registered multi-year research is now finally out in Cognition. We show that in conversations people reduce their multimodal signals non-linearly; the steeper this non-linear drop-off the more communicative success. www.wimpouw.com/files/Bogels...

Always shocking to see these kinds of data collected together. "[publishers made]US$12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024" - That's $12 billion diverted away from actual research or materially supporting the community - these are disgusting numbers.

If you are interested in f0, have a look at the new paper from our lab on f0 across generations in 717 German speakers. pubs.aip.org/asa/jel/arti...

😢Friedemann Pulvermueller passed away. www.geisteswissenschaften.fu-berlin.de/en/dcl/veran...

www.openaccess.nl/en/netherlan... A hub primarily for librarians and research support professionals in the Netherlands to exchange knowledge, resources and developments in open access book publishing. Date: October 28, 2025 Time: 12:00-13:30 Location: Online

Diesen Mittwoch steht im Bundestag ein Mandatsentwurf zur Abstimmung, bei dem - anders als früher - nicht mehr ausgeschlossen wird, dass Deutschland die libyschen Küstenwache unterstützt. Obwohl diese systematisch Menschrechtsverletzungen begeht. Wir fordern eine klare Ablehnung des Mandats. [1/2]

Happy World Octopus Day. Here's a recent paper demonstrating octopuses have a sense of body ownership similar to mamals and rodents. www.cell.com/current-biol...

The Leibniz Center for Science and Society (LCSS) at @unihannover.bsky.social invites international researchers in science studies & higher educ research to apply for the fellowship program “Disruptions in Science and Society” (research stays: 1–18 months). www.lcss.uni-hannover.de/en/fellowshi...

Big news! Starting in 2027, @cambup-linguistics.cambridge.org will publish the Journal of Black Language and Culture (JBLAC)—a new LSA journal highlighting the richness of Black language & culture across the globe. Learn more: www.lsadc.org/content.asp?... @acharityhudley.bsky.social

🎉 ILCB Annual Welcome Back Party – 10 October 2025 Join us at LPL Aix-en-Provence for a morning of science, networking, and celebration as we kick off the new academic year! 🔗 Confirm your attendance (mandatory): www.ilcb.fr/event/garden... www.linkedin.com/posts/instit...

www.envisionbox.org has been shortlisted for the Leo Waaijers Open Science price: ukb.nl/en/news/shor... @babajideowoyele.bsky.social @jamestrujillo.bsky.social @sarkadava.bsky.social @DavideAhmar @acwiek.bsky.social Amazing Markus Küpper made an animated video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=HduI...

Huge congrats to the envisionBOX team for the Open Science award nomination! 🎉 My tutorial on speech analysis tools in Python from the Unboxing Multimodality summer school (github.com/mdhk/unboxin...) is now also available at envisionbox.org Thanks for the invitation & this great initiative! 👏

“An emotional research team became tearful as they described how data shows the disease was slowed by 75% in patients.” What an absolutely incredible, joyous achievement for everyone involved. Hurrah for science and scientists! www.bbc.com/news/article...

In JASA, a pair of researchers from the University of Minnesota analyzed years of Taylor Swift’s recorded interviews to track how her dialect has evolved. Read the @aip-publishing.bsky.social press release: publishing.aip.org/publications...

Lovely garden

Good listen! History and Philosophy of the Language Sciences Podcast Ep. 14 (March ’21): James McElvenny interviews Michael Ashby about the emergence and development of phonetics in the 19th and early 20th century hiphilangsci.net/2021/03/31/p...

Die Regierungen, die Menschen im Meer ertrinken lassen, sind mitschuldig am Massaker in #Gaza. Die Drohnen, die eingesetzt werden, um Menschen zurück in die libyschen Folterlager zu drängen, werden an Palästinenser:innen getestet. Hände weg von der #Sumudflotilla.

Happening now on Radio 4! 🤓

🚨 New Publication Alert! 🚨 Out now in #Language and #Linguistics Compass with @stefanhartmann.bsky.social & Antonio Benítez-Burraco: "The role of play in language structure, acquisition and evolution" (this time with a working link) compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Mein erstes selbstgemachtes Parika/chilipulver wird das. Bin gespannt

Breakfast

Assistant Professor - Language Revitalization - Linguistics, UC Berkeley: research interests or skills in "..language documentation, description, and analysis; sociolinguistics; anthropological linguistics; language acquisition; language education; areal and language-family expertise" (Oct 31)

A new academic year is ramping up. Have you considered adding us to your syllabus? Podcasts episodes are a great way to add variety & boost engagement, and they offer a launchpad for exploration. A number of instructors have used our episodes to good effect! (Let us know if you're among them!)

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WORK! The Sociology Department at Utrecht University is hiring a new assistant prof, with expertise on migration/integration/polarization/stratification. Come join us! www.uu.nl/organisatie/...

🚨 Open PhD Position – Grenoble, France 🚨 Join us at GIPSA-lab to explore how Speech Language Models can learn like children: through physical and social interaction. Think AI, robots, development 🧠🤖🎙️ Fully funded (3 yrs) • @cnrs.fr / @ugrenoblealpes.bsky.social Details 👉 tinyurl.com/bde988b3