😢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

„Wir leben seit Jahren über unsere Verhältnisse."

New preprint, a review of infant #vocal and #motor #rhythm research, a suggestion to include #respiration in future research. It us work with Elina Rubertus, Aude Noiray and Laura Koenig www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Ich liebe Pflaumen aber die Dimensionen hier sind beachtlich

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🚨 !New Deadline! 🚨 Submit your abstracts until 1 September 2025! #linguistics #CfP #linguistik #sprachwissenschaft

💡 Watch this unique short doc featuring 8 celebrated philosophers for free - they sharing candid, thoughtful insights to illuminate your day! 🏺 🗃️ #philosophy #philsky #academicsky #ancientbluesky #academicsky #academicChatter @anitaleirfall.bsky.social ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/thinking-l...

Berkeley linguistics is hiring an Assistant Professor in language revitalization! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05022

Are lifetime changes in mean f0 (high or low pitched voice) of female speakers due to hormonal changes or age? It's not hormones, according to a study presented at #interspeech2025 by Melanie Weirich and Adrian Simpson from Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena. www.isca-archive.org/interspeech_...

lnk.pmlta-etaa-0.ovh/yDSQV8NQwCeG... Application for IMéRA chairs

A note in the Monash Sustainable Development Institute newsletter drawing attention to our recent @thelancet.com article, Bioethics for the Planet: #ethics #planetaryhealth

I wrote an op-ed on the world-class STEM research ecosystem in the United States, and how this ecosystem is now under attack on multiple fronts by the current administration: newsletter.ofthebrave.org/p/im-an-awar...

I’m super happy to be featured in an article written by @evamurasov.bsky.social in the @tagesspiegel.de about our studies on R/L and bouba/kiki 💭🗯️ please look also at the great illustration that comes with it! 💥✨ www.tagesspiegel.de/wissen/rrrrr...

Best food is at home, fresh from the garden

I never thought I can something so beautiful but it happened

Brandneue Studie von heute, die genau das zeigt: Rechtsextreme einladen hilft immer Rechtsextreme zu normalisieren www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Ein toller Podcast über einen Berufsweg einer Wissenschaftlerlin in der Psycholinguistik und Mutter von Elina Rubertus, jetzt in @labphon-zas.bsky.social . Hört rein!! creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/...

If you are new but curious about #iconicity and #sound #symbolism, or you want to have an update on some new papers in this domain, or simply enjoy listening to some research published in #JASA, listen here! Thank you Kat Setzer, @asa-news.bsky.social and @acwiek.bsky.social !

Very happy for you! Congradulations! 👏. Enjoy the moment

Her personal webpage has more information about her research, lab, and team members: suzanneaussems.githu... . 2/2

Did not plant roses but beans and pumpkin here 😃

In 2014 thecostofknowledge.com was launched, amassing nearly 30k signatures of folks opposing the shameless profiteering of Elsevier. Journals began to flip to OA and many boycotted Elsevier. But: Is there a rise in new Lingua and Language Sciences pubs unaware of this history? #linguistics

There's a lot of hype in animal cognition today. In this @royalsocietypublishing.org paper we go back to basics & look at sequential aspects of animal intelligence. This makes evolutionary sense & has consequences for how we interpret animal behavior. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....

2. Biomechanics uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet...

Call for papers for Evolang 2026 is now out! evolang2026.org. @cogscisociety.bsky.social @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social

Parents trying to get vaccines as allowably early as possible, as access and funding are threatened. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...