Just out in Language & Cognition! An exploration into the activation of both proper alternatives as well as antonyms in implicature derivation. We focus on how negation as an implicature-cancelling environment impacts what alternatives are activated! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

I just thought everyone should see this

A very nice piece of work! It's puzzled me for a long time why Russian shows attraction from "pluralless" genitives, especially since we didn't find the same effect in Czech. @utkuturk.com here provides a neat explanation!

"At the symbolic (and allegorical) level, /h/ is a reference to the creator who breathes into his creation." Damn, I've been doing linguistics wrong the whole time!

Hey, did you know that Greek lost the phoneme /h/ because of secularism? You see, /h/ intrinsically symbolises the Creator. And hydrogen. This journal is published by @springernature.com , and is hosted by @nature.com. How did this incoherent nonsense make it into print?

Short-term fellowships available for international PhD candidates at the University of Potsdam around "Limits of Variability in Language"! If you're a linguist interested in this opportunity, please contact me or one of the other PIs for more information! #linguistics #fellowship #funding #phd […]

Depending on how you count, this announcement has been two plus or 25 years in the making.

Sepsal recenzi na popularizační knihu The Language Game od Chatera a Christiansena @mh-christiansen.bsky.social. Je zdařilý úvod, který bere náhled evoluce a komunikace a kontrastuje s chomskyánským Jazykovým instinktem od Pinkera. Doporučuji pro výuku úvodů! digilib.phil.muni.cz/sites/defaul...

Psychologists use tons of questionnaires. The medium is unavoidably language, but until recently, their semantic and pragmatic side has not received much attention. Very happy to lead the linguistic side of Dr Hynek Cígler's new GAČR project on reverse-coded (negated or antonymic) items!

Termín odevzdání návrhů panelů už je za námi a návrhy už jsou v rukou Programového výboru na odborné posouzení 🔍. Těšíme se na jejich recenze a na to, až budeme moct oznámit, na jaká témata se na našem Bienále budete moct těšit!

A great opportunity to work on an exciting topic in picturesque Tübingen!

When people respond "two" to the question "How many animals did Moses take on the ark?" do they actually accommodate a false presupposition that Moses took animals on the ark? Apply for a Ph.D. position to work on presuppositions, deadline 20.12.2025. More info at linguistlist.org/issues/36-3553

This is a really great new resource! Happy to have helped (a very tiny bit) with stimuli selection!

Opportunity for early career researchers to spend 3 years working with us in Oxford. Cool surroundings, interesting people. Eligibility: need some UK academic connection. Get in touch if interested! Details: www.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/news/2025/11...

Prague is now the capital of a normal country – alas! My latest commentary… www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

My interview with @grammargirl.bsky.social was released yesterday, and I'm pretty chuffed that they created some snippets to share. Here's me retelling how the whole alphabet got started – in book terms, the first part of the first chapter (Chapter A) of 'Why Q Needs U'! pod.link/grammargirl/...

Brno, náměstí Svobody 12:50 několik málo dnů před volbami, u stánku nikde nikdo, všechny ostatní obsazeny. Už podruhé jsem se s Vámi chtěl jít pobavit a nebyli jste tu. Vy chcete ty volby prohrát? @piratskastrana.bsky.social

Today at #AMLaP2025: In 🇨🇿, sentential negation causes both NPI and NCI (negative concord) illusions, contrary to the predictions of active scope and scalar theories. This is me saying my money is on feature percolation. Check out the poster here: www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Melvyn Bragg has been one of the last standard-bearers for a really important, and unfashionable, idea: that good conversation, between people who really know their stuff, on complex or difficult subjects, can be fantastic radio - and that the national broadcaster should do this. I hope it endures.

Very excited to teach my first semester as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Czech Language 🇨🇿 at @masarykuniversity.bsky.social! Taking over Intro to Ling is a big responsibility, but I hope to inspire at least a few to start thinking about language scientifically 🧪

Brněnské Bienále už i oficiálně oznámeno v tisku, protože, co je psáno, to je dáno! Přečtěte si a šiřte oznámení o konání naší konference v nejnovějším čísle Slova a slovesnosti! asjournals.lib.cas.cz/slovoasloves...

Great news, but it can be difficult for some researchers to support these given the science evaluation criteria of their country. In 🇨🇿, nothing counts unless it's in WoS or Scopus. I want to publish in @glossapsycholx.bsky.social for instance, but I would be loosing my Department funding if I did.

Let’s give STAR all the support we can. Let’s move away from a subscription based to a diamond open access science—free, independent science. Journals backed by research institutions must lead the way—and so are they doing.

I wrote about these 'illusion illusions' previously here: arxiv.org/abs/2412.18613

Elsevier creates factually wrong AI slop and communicating with them is maddening corporate buzzword slop, hu-effing-rray!

Since search is dead, how soon do you think Google Scholar is headed for the Google Graveyard? I'm betting it's soon, and academia is NOT prepared

Rodilí mluvčí češtiny, assemble! @slovcem.bsky.social a já vás potřebujeme na jeden kraťoučký pilot výzkumu o tom, jak zpracováváte jazyk (víc opět neprozradím, ale DMs jsou vám po vyplnění otevřené)! Díky moc předem 🇨🇿 farm.pcibex.net/p/zdkMYw/

0% CGI, 100% genius! Karel Zeman’s legendary Journey to the Beginning of Time (Cesta do pravěku) turns 70 today 🦖

Hello, I'm a linguist in a film. I speak a dozen languages fluently and can decode an ancient/alien script in minutes of encountering it because "it's just like Egyptian hieroglyphs".

S radostí oznamujeme, že stejně jako nad prvním ročníkem BČL je i nad naším brněnským převzalo záštitu Jazykovědné sdružení České republiky 🇨🇿! Děkujeme za podporu! www.jazykovednesdruzeni.cz

I'm offering a 3-year PhD position with benefits (1-year extension possible). Research topic open but broadly in incremental sentence comprehension. If you're into eye-tracking, even better! No teaching until Summer 2027, light teaching after that (English). Official ad soon. Please share 🙏

My dissertation got published today with Uni Osnabrück! You can check it out here: osnadocs.ub.uni-osnabrueck.de/handle/ds-20...

Knížečka je na světě. Jakoby mohla jsem psát habilitační spis, ale tohle dostalo přednost. 👩‍💻Práce to bylo moc a naučilo mě to nejvíc! Nejen jak komunikovat vědu atraktivně (snad) a furt pravdivě. Díky všem, co se podíleli: akademicky recenzentky Míša a Šárka👯‍♀️ a editor🕴🏻 @ondrejdufek.bsky.social

While it's called the Biennial of "Czech" linguistics, you don't need to be 🇨🇿 or work on the language to submit! We're very much interested in having people come from all over to come and exchange their ideas and research! Consider sending in your stuff!

Druhý ročník Bienále české lingvistiky je tady a má účet na Bsky! Sledujte informace, šiřte dál a pošlete svoje panely!

Po veleúspěšném prvním Bienále 2024 v Praze přichází na řadu Brno 🐊 v roce 2026! Právě jsme zveřejnili naše stránky, kde najdete výzvu k zaslání návrhů na tematické panely, které se na konferenci objeví. Těšíme se na Vaše návrhy! sites.google.com/mail.muni.cz...

The German understanding of the phrase 'publishing a PhD dissertation online'

I'm hiring at least one post-doc! We're interested in creating language models that process language more like humans than mainstream LLMs do, through architectural modifications and interpretability-style steering. Express interest here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

@katquita.bsky.social mluví v Rozhlase o tom, že už novorozená miminka rozeznávají mateřštinu, tedy řeč matky, a o tom, že bychom se cizí jazyky měli učit tak přirozeně jako ta miminka. Obklopit se jimi. dvojka.rozhlas.cz/miminka-rozu...

What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders? Academic publishers make vast profits, but don’t pay royalties to academics. Instead, universities pay publishers to make the research that the universities have funded widely available, and then pay them again to access other research.

"Married pending minor revisions"

What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders? There are no individual "languages" scientifically speaking. The commonly used divisions into national languages are arbitrary from a linguistics point of view and are almost entirely based on socio-historical factors.

Excited to have my first "Oxford-style" tutorial as the final part of my psycholinguistics class this semester!

New attraction paper alert 🚨 Czech very much lacks strong number attraction effects, so what happens when these speakers process attraction sentences in their L2 English? They show the effect! Joint work with @janchromy.bsky.social, Norbert Vanek and James Brand

We look at how negation in Czech requests interacts with epistemic speaker bias and lowers perceived politeness!