For London-area academics: our 3rd colloq in linguistics and philosophy.

Entrance to a private garden in Vienna (love this sign)

Cheers from the Old Danube, Vienna.

500 year anniversary of @christchurchoxford.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk

Promoted to Professor of Semantics and Pragmatics at @ox.ac.uk @jesusoxford.bsky.social @brasenoseoxford.bsky.social Thankful for all the support and mentorship along the way.

The start/end of the Old Danube in Vienna

Hanging out with the brilliant LOT instructors in Antwerp: Astrid de Wit, @adelegoldberg.bsky.social and Johan van der Auwera

Oxford -> Brussels (for LOT) -> Yerevan (for YALP) -> Glasgow (the Joint Session) -> Vienna (Sabbatical).

Spoiled by my mother in law with Ghapama, a traditional Armenian meal out of pumpkin

Pre-SALT Red Sox game

Seen on streets of Somerville, MA

Pigeons invading my office (with 💩)

Three linguistics jobs at Oxford!! Please spread the word. linguistlist.org/issues/36/14...

SF today

When your new shoes match your textbook. (Thanks to @gguitang.bsky.social for noticing my new fashion sense).

Spring vibes at Hinksey Park, Oxford

Spotted in Oxford. We are all here to serve.

Why Official English is a terrible idea for the United States, from @lingsocam.bsky.social. Like and share! www.lsadc.org/content.asp?...

🐦 #linguistics senior thesis project alert! 🐦 If you are ✅ 18+ ✅ native spkr of American English Please consider taking a ~5 min survey on "how people of different generations use emojis in text messages." Rep your generation & help undergrad research! 🔥 😭 😍 msu.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

No thanks! 🙂‍↔️

Linguistic examples should not just be translated but also be glossed. What makes a good gloss? In the ELSEA project we created a 10min knowledge clip explaining interlinear glossing: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VATS...

Just got this poster in the mail. Looking forward! red.uni-koeln.de/red-2025-mis...

There are now two weeks to finish your SCiL 2025 submission! Especially excited to see work submitted to the Special Symposium on Computational Pragmatics!

There’s still time to submit your abstract for LingO 2025! Submissions from undergraduates and postgraduates (Master’s, PhD) across all subfields of linguistics are warmly welcomed! Submit an abstract (up to 500 words) by 31 January 2025 via tinyurl.com/LingO2025

Feeling the love. Green light 🚦 in Josefstadt Vienna.

Two #WorldLogicDay events: @saraluckelman.bsky.social on the History of Logic: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_K1D... @saraluckelman.bsky.social on Why Logics Matter: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMSJ...

An Oxford philosopher sought to distill all morality into a formula. Was he right?

I convert languages into lambda terms.

Holiday spirit in Vienna

Can now pre-order the paperback version. www.cambridge.org/at/universit...

Today’s view of the lake at Worcester College, Oxford

New paper with @thebarnfell.bsky.social “Reanalysis in discourse comprehension: Evidence from reading times” to be presented at Amsterdam Colloquium. Link to paper below. Comments most welcome! ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/008...

Come work with me / us: two fully funded, 4-year PhD positions in sociophonetics. Starting 06/25. Let's go! 🚀⬇️ #sociophonetics #swissgerman #deutsch #schweizerdeutsch #soziolinguistik #soziophonetik

❄️ A snowy morning in Oxford ❄️

The Extinction Illusion: The left side and the right side have the same number of black dots journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Three linguists at the top of the Magdalen College Tower @schnitzafars.bsky.social

For anyone into semantics of fiction, temporal paradox & paradoxical statements more generally, check out a new paper w/ Dag Haug. It’s also a glimpse of a chapter in our forthcoming book "Literature as a formal language". Comments most welcome! lingbuzz.net/lingbuzz/008440

Just signed a contract with Vera Hohaus to edit the Routledge Handbook of Crosslinguistic Semantics. Stay tuned! #CrossLinguisticSemantics

Call for proposals for ESSLLI 2025, taking place in Bochum, Germany. tinyurl.com/yck67n9r

Come work with me next year! We're hiring into a 1-year teaching-only position in General Linguistics, teaching 5 courses; base salary should be around $49,000. Scroll to the bottom of the page for more info: www.queensu.ca/llcu/about-l...

New paper with Fangru Lin and Janet Pierrehumbert ‘Probing Large Language Models for Scalar Adjective Lexical Semantics and Scalar Diversity Pragmatics’ accepted by LREC-COLING 2024 arxiv.org/abs/2404.03301

Schedule for YALP 2024 is now online: sites.google.com/view/yalp201... Hope to see you in Yerevan this summer!

The Rolf Schock Prize in Logic and Philosophy, sometimes referred to as the “Nobel Prize” of philosophy, was jointly awarded this year to Hans Kamp and Irene Heim. dailynous.com/2024/03/15/t...

Call for Applications for Yerevan Academy of Linguistics and Philosophy (YALP) 2024 is now out! The summer institute will take place July 15-July 26, 2024. Please see the website below. Please share widely and spread the word! sites.google.com/view/yalp201...