It feels strange to share good news, but: I’m moving to UCSD in July!! 🥳 I'm very grateful for my time at Princeton and SO excited for what comes next. We're building multiplayer games to study how teams are shaped by the problems they solve. If that sounds fun to you, I'm accepting grad students!

Considering the whole body, including #postural stability affects acoustics of #speech, but not #fluency related measures, see new work in JASA. Thanks for this team effort with Mingtong, Eric & @suzanneaussems.bsky.social. The corpus is #OA on doi.org/10.5281/zeno... pubs.aip.org/asa/jasa/art...

New #OA corpus doi.org/10.5281/zeno... by Mingtong Li, Jiahao Eric Yang, @suzanneaussems.bsky.social. In short: 60 adults (30 pairs) play an interactive word guessing game. What is special: The clue giver is in situations under postural (in)stability (standing on the ground or on a wobble board)!!

Read the historical article that inspired this month's Reflection: "Ultrasonic Doppler Method for the Inspection of Cardiac Functions" by Shigeo Satomura (https://doi.org/10.1121/1.1908737)

Two postdoc positions at the Messerli Research Institute in Vienna in the research area of human-animal interactions: www.vetmeduni.ac.at/fileadmin/v/...

"We learn to recognize other people as being like us through the way that they sound" www.theguardian.com/science/2026... #linguistics #language

Deadline 30 June: Postdoc, Speech Perception, Sociolinguistics and Speech Technology w/ É. Székely, KTH Royal Inst. of Tech. Dept. of Speech, Music, and Hearing www.kth.se/lediga-jobb/...

If you are interested in carrying out a #multimodal experiments with more or less expertise - check this out (authors of the SPP #ViCom) “Data Collection in Multimodal Language and Communication Research: A Flexible Decision Framework” is now published and is available at doi.org/10.1177/2515...

Cool new study! Unexpected?

Familien mit kleinen Kindern in Berlin gesucht. Melden Sie sich gerne.

📦 My first #RStats package on CRAN: {readelan} A package dedicated to reading all files associated with ELAN: eaf, etf, ecv. Reads annotations, metadata, controlled vocabularies. Relevant for many in #linguistics perhaps? More info here: borstell.github.io/misc/readelan/

It is very easy to become accustomed to Trump’s ravings, and laugh them off. That’s a dangerous thing to do. When Trump states: “A whole civilization will die tonight,” he is threatening to commit genocide. We can’t allow that to happen. Congress must end this war NOW.

I’m going to put this out there - I have some funds to run lab experiments involving prosody and segmental articulation. I’m happy to collaborate with people who want to do this work but don’t have much funding, especially given the federal funding catastrophe. #linguistics

Still cabbage and pumpkin from the garden last year 😋

The European Left Alliance has just now launched an ECI: A European Citizen's Initiative to demand #JusticeForPalestine. It's similar to a petition, and legally binding if the goal of 1.000.000 signatures is reached. The EU has to act if we share this enough! If you're a EU citizen, please sign!

Wie cool ist das denn!! Toll.

Thanks again to the New Horizons #DiamondOA conference for the invitation to speak. If you would like to see this presentation on the Strain, Drain, and "Stain" (PISS) papers, there is a recording here. Find the papers here: bit.ly/StrainQSS bit.ly/DrainPub bit.ly/PISSpaper

New hotel for insects, hope they will like it 😃

Hi everyone! As Chair of the Local Planning Committee for ICPhS 2027, I am excited to share with you the ICPhS 2027 website, hot off the press! Between the website and social media, you should find all you need to plan your trip to beautiful Victoria BC! ➡️ icphs2027.ca

Everything is open-source: 🔬 BabAR: github.com/MarvinLvn/BabAR 📦 TinyVox: github.com/MarvinLvn/tinyvox 🔊 Samples: marvinlvn.github.io/projects/babar/ 📄 Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2603.05213 w/ @bergelsonlab.bsky.social and @rplevy.bsky.social Funded by the Simons Center for the Social Brain (MIT).

Open PhD/Postdoc position (start: Oct 2026). Topic: AI/LLMs and child language/communicative/cognitive development. The exact project will be shaped with the candidate. Join our team @univ-amu.fr at the intersection of computer and cognitive science (& right next to the Calanques!). Send me your CV!

The keynote recordings of our conference on reform in scholarly publishing www.horizondiamond.nl are online and posted on the website. First up, Mark Hanson who kicked off the event in a fabulous way @markhanson.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy tilburguniversity.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Page...

Congrads, Sarka to one part of your PhD! 👍 I like to read this chapter, it is reads well, explains some major physiological components of multimodal language even for the non-specialist. Also fun to read as an expert.

So what would a truly holistic model of communication look like? One that takes breathing, posture, and biomechanics seriously. Difficult but necessary 🤓 [5/6]

Now the arms and torso. 💪 Gestures are often seen as a byproduct of thinking — your brain computes, your hands follow. But arm movements physically pressure the respiratory system and change how your voice acoustics. The gesture shapes the utterance, not just the other way around. [3/6]

Even your legs matter. 🦶 Leg movements affect speech intensity, your lower body anchors the posture that frees your upper body to gesture, and conversation partners subtly synchronize their postural sway with each other. [4/6]

Starting at the top: your head literally changes your voice. 🧠 Tilting your head up raises your pitch — because your laryngeal muscles are physically connected to the muscles that move your head. Check out the new paper from @acwiek.bsky.social and @susfuchs.bsky.social in Open Mind! [2/6]

3. Motor overflow might be an overseen precursor for gesture production 4. Looking into the adapation of vocal-respiratory-locomotor adaptation in infancy and how this changes may be a fascinating topic

Some knowledge that was new to me while writing this review with my colleagues: 1. The respiratory system, i.e. how thorax and abdomen work together is very different in young infants 2. Empirical data on the coordination between motion and breathing are very limited

Some EU alternatives to the big AI and tech companies: european-alternatives.eu/categories

I've been working for ages on a comprehensive revamp of the Stanford Encyclopedia Entry on "Animal Consciousness", with new sections on non-Western perspectives, methodological challenges and evolutionary big pictures, and it's out today: plato.stanford.edu/entries/cons.... Hope you find it useful!

Reminder 📢 We are advertising a postdoctoral position in #philbio or #philphysics to work on an interdisciplinary project that adopts the lens of self-organization & active matter to explore the boundary between living and nonliving systems👇 www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo... #philjobs #philsci #evosky

Re: the AI slop paper shared by @thomaspellard.bsky.social and @lameensouag.bsky.social, I wrote to the editors — will update when I get a reply, and will be following closely what they do. Key point is that we should hold the *journal* accountable for this mess I have a few predictions... 1/n

Research position suitable for a PhD student (or beyond), keen to work with multimodal vocal performance data in beatboxing: jobportal.uni-koeln.de/ausschreibun... Deadline: 12 January! Apply here: jobportal.uni-koeln.de/bewerben/2429 Feel free to contact me with questions about the position

Part-time, permanent position. Rare opportunity to work at one of the UK's premier wildlife/ecotourism sites (Ospreys, White-tailed Eagles, Peregrine, Marsh Harriers) with a fabulous team @harbourbirds.bsky.social Closing date: 30 Jan. #RaptorResearch raptorpersecutionuk.org/2026/01/03/j...

Cycling cities: documentaries how to change cities in qualitative living areas (in German with English subtitles): www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5jQ...

This press conference is bananas, and the questions being asked are terrible. He's basically saying that anything he deems the US needs the US will just take regardless of where it is. "We're taking wealth out of the ground ..." like WTAF? Greenland and Canada next?

It’s not about drugs. If it was, Trump wouldn’t have pardoned one of the largest narco traffickers in the world last month. It’s about oil and regime change. And they need a trial now to pretend that it isn’t. Especially to distract from his sinking under Epstein and skyrocketing healthcare costs.

Trump and Hegseth should be tried at The Hague

Chavez in 2009, while being labelled as paranoid, outlines exactly what is happening today.

Time is running out to submit to to the 190th ASA in Philadelphia! Abstracts are due 12 January 2026. Complete details at https://acousticalsociety.org/philadelphia-abstract-submission-2 Come celebrate the 250th anniversary of the United States with the ASA #ASA190 #Philadelphia250

🌱🌾🌲🌍🌿🍄🌺🌳🌴🌷Welcome to 2026 - and another team registered for Botanical University Challenge 2026 - University of Plymouth. Their team first competed in 2022, and were the runner-up in 2025! #BUC2026

Reminder.

Salad survived the frost, amazing (sort: Zuckerhut). The rest is bought

Almost poetic my way today

Dieses Thema liegt mir am Herzen. Bitte hier unterzeichnen: weact.campact.de/petitions/so...

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