I still think about this tweet every now and then, reminds me of growing up in rural east Anglia 🫠 #linguistics

Resorting to LinkedIn to find participants, times are tough #linguistics

Anyone here going to Interspeech and wants to do a student a big favor? He was accepted & paid, but ultimately cannot leave the U.S. due to ongoing fascism (he’s on a visa). They will pull his paper if he can’t find anyone to present it for him. DM if you’re attending & may be able to help!

Our paper "Robustness of F0 Ratio as a Diagnostic: Comparing Creaky Voice in Danish and Seoul Korean" has been accepted into Interspeech 2025 #langsky #linguistics

I always forget how crazy Amsterdam is during tourist season 😭 the small suitcase army

The interactive kid's dancepad in Utrecht Centraal is playing lacrimosa, and you bet the kids are going wild dancing to it

Dutch universities go on strike - for the first time since anyone can remember. We protest the treatment and budget cuts of our extreme-right government. The strikers take turns - and Leiden university kicks off tomorrow. ✊🏼

“If we lose all of our funding, our academic support staff — who are disproportionately women and people of color — lose their jobs,” said Nicole Holliday, a UC Berkeley linguistics professor who will speak at the rally. “So do our janitors.” #StandUpforScience2025 sfstandard.com/2025/03/07/b...

Ugh I'd love to go but it's sooo expensive and our travel grants don't even cover half 😭

If you even feel like Python is difficult I encourage you to spend a day just doing Praat scripting, Python will be a dream afterwards... #linguistics

Universities all over Europe are cutting language programs and closing the doors to the world. We want to get a more complete picture: where, when, why? If you know of any such cases, please tell us (and share the link with your language and linguistics contacts)! elomake.helsinki.fi/lomakkeet/13...

9am phonology class on a Friday, with snow and ice everywhere. I think out of a class of 30 I'll get...12. 🫠 and that's optimistic

🛑 the cutbacks on research and higher education. Powerful full page ad in national papers and online, signed by 511 members 🙋 of the (young) Dutch Royal Academy of Sciences. “Government, don’t ruin what makes our country successful”

This afternoon, I learnt that our demonstration, planned for tomorrow, was cancelled. We had expected at least 5000 students, teachers and scholars to protest against the budget cuts. It's an absolute clusterfuck, and I have many questions. Here's what I shared with our local group::

The Dutch government has planned severely destructive budget cuts to higher education and research funding. Please protest with us! Consider signing this petition to show support from abroad: www.change.org/p/stop-cuts-...

Dear colleagues around the world, As you may know, the Netherlands has, since this summer, been governed by a radical right-wing administration with an agenda reminiscent of Orbán's Hungary.

Even more budget cuts... NWO is especially targeted here 🫠 the future of #linguistics departments here is in serious trouble. #langsky

The UK doesn't have the money to fund their own elections, let alone someone else's 👀

So sad about what is happening at Leiden University, a whole heap of unique programs just gone... Not to mention this is before the cuts even really kick in 👀 #langsky #linguistics

"Our Arabic program is half a millennium old but couldn't withstand the corporatization of the contemporary university because it isn't nuclear engineering"

Getting my presentation ready on the beautiful island of Kos for Interspeech 2024, come join me on Wednesday in acesso to talk about pitch jumps! #linguistics

It wouldn't be a Dutch conference if it didn't have music playing that totally doesn't match the vibe

If you're at NAACL2024 come join us for our talk in the 11:00 session on tone encoding in self-supervised language models in Don Alberto 2! #MLSky #Linguistics

Together with Paul Boersma and Silke Hamann, our paper on pitch jumps was accepted into Interspeech 2024. See you in Kos! (camera ready to follow soon). #langsky #linguistics

Still can't wrap my head around what a mora actually is #langsky #linguistics

Police break up pro-Palestinian camp at Amsterdam university as campus protests spread to Europe

Old World Conference in Phonology (OCP) 2025 will be in Amsterdam next year sometime in February! Watch this space for calls coming out in the next couple of months 👀 #langsky #linguistics

Our paper, "Encoding of lexical tone in self-supervised models of spoken language" was accepted into NAACL2024! arxiv.org/abs/2403.16865 #MLsky #linguistics

Reading the Praat manual, what a day 👀 #linguistics

Does anyone know why a paper might be deleted from EasyChair? Trying to read the reviewer's comments but the submission is just... gone? None of the authors removed it 🤔 #linguistics #langsky

Our paper got into NAACL2024! At least one of us will be in Mexico this summer... ⛱️ #MLSky #lingsky

Another conference submission done, master's student supervision started, discussions on fieldwork annnd poster in the works... It's only Wednesday 😳

Dutch Speech Tech day was good! Always great to step outside of my field a little and see new developments elsewhere. #linguistics #MLSky

I think the best compliment you can get as a teacher is when they excitedly ask if you're teaching the next class as well 😭 😭 transcription was intense but I enjoyed it so much #linguistics

"it's giving alveolar fricative" teaching the IPA in 2024 is wonderful #linguistics

Last week of teaching IPA transcription and sound change already?? Super proud of the students though, they've managed better than I would've done 😅 #linguistics #langsky

First class done! 11 more to go for transcription and sound change #linguistics

Preparing to teach the Bachelor's transcription course in 2 weeks! First time teaching linguistics at a university, looking forward to it 😊

Spending Christmas in this kind of weather definitely beats the huge amount of rain back home 👀

Up and running on here finally, lots of #phonetics stuff happening this year!