The difficulty of measuring #intensity and the ease of measuring #duration perhaps is the reason why so many contrasts rely heavily on #duration, despite its infeasibility as a stable cue across contexts #unpopularopinion

It would be so much easier if our brains didn’t evolve to spin narratives out of unrelated events and just do matrix algebra #machinelearning #neuralnetworks

Lol the Nobels can't even acknowledge women's contribution to discovery. But sure let's acknowledge The Machines.

Come listen to my collaborator, the amazing - @chenzi.bsky.social at the bigteamscienceconference.github.io #BTScon2025 talk about our @manylanguagesc.bsky.social project on #ManyTones, starting in 10 minutes!

Join me at the Big Team Science Conference, where I'll be presenting live via Zoom on Monday, October 6 from 17:30-18:25 UTC (time converter).

Sign up for this pre-conference workshop - Fundamentals in Informed Elicitation and Language Documentation to be held before the 47th International Conference of the Linguistic Society of India. Date: 11th November. Last date for registration: 30th September 2025. Details: icolsi47.github.io/field/

#phonetician friends, what's the phenomenon when a speaker is not expected to speak a language and despite close to native pronunciation, native speakers mishear them? Or ask them to repeat themselves.

The unfounded fear that #AI would replace us, should be replaced by the grounded fear that #AI would toy with us...

Was the Canadian Prime Minister just accommodating to the perceived interlocutor being the US President? His 'out' was not what I would have expected youtu.be/l8gWyt4wZjc?...

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#Linguistics friends, just two more days to send us your expression of interests. We are super excited to read 'em, so keep 'em coming!

🚨 2nd Call for Proposals is NOW OPEN! We're inviting submissions of a 2-page Expression of Interest by May 31, 2025 🗓️ 👉 Get all the details here: many-languages.com/studies.html

In the midst of a mountain of work and commitments, exhibiting infinite stupidity, I have decided to update my #texlive to 2025. 🤦Wish me luck!

Come to Glasgow on May 28 for Phon-UP 3 (Phonetics/Phonology Unconference on Pedagogy)! Attendance is free. Please repost for reach! blogs.ncl.ac.uk/phon-up/

The 47th International Conference of the Linguistic Society of India (ICOLSI47) will be held at #Jadavpur, 12th-14th Nov 2025. Please submit your abstracts. Kolkata is one of the most culturally and socially vibrant cities of India. Look forward to welcoming #linguistics friends. icolsi47.github.io

#linguistics folks, do submit your 2-page Expression of Interests by 31st May. This is an exciting opportunity! Be a part of impactful #bigteamscience in #linguistics.

Four weeks left to apply! 🚨🚨🚨

I am hiring a PhD student on the meaningful interpretation of effect sizes as part of my VICI funded project. This is a 4 year paid position in a welcoming and collaborative environment. Find out more or apply at www.tue.nl/werken-bij-t...

The Swedish Research Council is offering funding for an international researcher to spend a year in Sweden. Let me know if you're in NLP or linguistics and interested in visiting Gothenburg and/or CLASP www.vr.se/english/appl...

I’m embarrassed that it has come to this but after 5 1/2 months of unemployment and underemployment I am struggling to pay my bills that will come due in April. If you are able and so inclined, I’d really appreciate any support you can send my way. ko-fi.com/rebekkap

#phonetics #speech #perception friends, are you aware of studies showing #ganong effect across lexicons among #bilinguals and #multilinguals?

All of this is largely possible due to the tenacious spirit of @timoroettger.bsky.social. Please join us in solving a long standing problem in #phonetics, #phonology and #speech #perception #bts #manylanguages @manylanguagesc.bsky.social #diversity #replication #generalizable #science

So excited to be working under the leadership of @chenzi.bsky.social and amazing team leads @xinbingluo.bsky.social @aggieerin.bsky.social @congzhang.bsky.social on the #ManyTones project chenchenzi.github.io/manytones/ #bts @manylanguagesc.bsky.social #diversity #replication #generalizable #science

This is the kind of opportunity that makes me wanna roll back the clock so I could apply for this amazing position. Please apply!

HEY SO I TO GET TO SHARE THIS NOW. REALLY EXCITED

Is it just me? Or do we all hate out-of-office (ooo) mails? Emails are impersonal, ooo mails are the epitome of that. It is saying, "I don't care who you are but hey, I am not here. I will be. At some point of time. But not now." Academics, be mindful that your ooo mail lands in students inbox also.

Or anywhere for that matter...

Super excited that our project is accepted and is officially launching 🎊 Stay tuned for more details!

ManyLanguages starts its first BigTeamScience project: ManyTones. Get in touch with the lead team if you want to be involved.

Friends in #Paris: I need a place to stay between Nov 1 and 15th. If any of you know anyone that can accommodate me, I would be very grateful. I will offer my cooking skills in return for a place to crash.

The most high tech solution to #MacBook Pro #M3 not connecting to #5G when connected to an external monitor with #hdmi. Yes, you saw it right. Aluminium foil. #Shitbook #apple

#phonetics friends, does anyone have a template for praatbook? I am writing a lab manual and felt it might be appropriate to use this method instead of .Rmd or any GitHub flavored markdown.

Applications are now open for a postbac to work with me. It's a 1 year position to do research on Australian languages and language change, especially phonetics and/or tech for language documentation. Applications due Jan 26, 2024: apply.interfolio.com/98070

#phonetics folks, is there a web-based version of #praat that I can suggest to students? A majority of our students do not have access to computers/laptops and our labs have no more than 1 or 2 working machines which too are very old.

#Speech people: 📢 Due to the current security situation in Israel and after consulting the ISCA board, the #Interspeech 2024 organizing committee decided to move the conference venue to Greece Details will follow. Keep an 👁️ on interspeech2024.org

@ BigTeamScience organizations: What do you think are your unique selling points? What do researchers gain from your organization (e.g. why do they need you)? @manybabies.org @psysciacc.bsky.social

The pandemic dealt a frontal assault on whatever progress #openscience had made in #speechsciences in widening the already existing gap btwn researchers in the global north and south. Predictably, due to availability of resources global north researchers adopted proprietary tools for recording data.

ס'איז דער חושך שוין אַזוי געדיכט the darkness is already so thick ס'באַהאַלטן זיך די שטערן and the stars have gone into hiding, ס'וועט זיך אָבער but it will happen, דורכברעכן דאָס ליכט the light breaking through, ווייט וועט נאָענט ווערן and what is far from us will come nearer. Yosef Kerler

This year's Annual Meeting on Phonology is fully online and free to attend! www.amp2023.info

Itʻs been a sad weekend around the world. But on this Indigenous Peopleʻs Day in the US, please consider taking a small step to recognize the holiday. Brighten someone's day (and maybe your own too!) by supporting K-2 education in 'Ōlelo Hawaiʻi at Donors Choose #Linguistics 🐦🐦

Just the most adorable and endearing doodles that #Darwin's children left on his manuscript of the Origin. Stunning how well they could draw www.themarginalian.org/2016/04/06/c...

#Phonetics #phonology #compling folks, I made a feed here. Feel free to join for anything and everything phonetics, phonology, speech processing, NLP related topics: bsky.app/profile/did:...

What an ambitious undertaking The Routledge Handbook of Sociophonetics has been! I'm very much looking forward to this finally being in print... just look at this powerhouse of authors! www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/1...

This resonates at so many levels.

This is exactly the paper I need right now as we are about to enter a large collaborative writing process. @onurunki.bsky.social @faytak.bsky.social Worth having a look maybe?

Such an amazing discovery. Yet another Indo-European language with the same antiquity as Hittite. www.uni-wuerzburg.de/en/news-and-...

Hi 🟦sky people, I'm looking for a PhD position where I can research biases in automatic speech recognition, especially from a phonetics/linguistics perspective (less from a programming one) Slightly willing to relocate for the perfect position Find my CV here shorturl.at/bvyJW Please share🙏

any blooskies got a PDF of the Nasálfest proceedings from back in the 70s? for how influential it is it's incredibly hard to find. #linguistics

Here's the Society in Computation in Linguistics proceedings download map from the Digital Commons. More than 85k downloads in total, almost 1.5k in the last month. Open access rocks, as do the UMass open access librarians.