Job opportunity! Research Assistant Position – Multimodal Prosody as a Fundamental Component of Language Development and Learning (TRAD-PSR-2026-13). More info: www.upf.edu/web/traducci...

Research Assistant Position – Multimodal Prosody as a Fundamental Component of Language Development and Learning (TRAD-PSR-2026-13)

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For several years now, @timoroettger.bsky.social and I have been working on an online course on how to effectively communicate data. It's shaping up nicely and we can't wait to share it soon. Sign up for our mailing list to not miss the launch: making-numbers-meaningful.github.io

Timo B. Roettger@timoroettger.bsky.social · 2w ago

What does Semmelweis's story mean for how we present data today? That's exactly what @bodowinter.bsky.social and I will discuss in our planned course on “Making Numbers Meaningful”. Get updates and be the first to know when the course launches 🧵5/5 making-numbers-meaningful.github.io

We're hiring @warwick-smlc.bsky.social Assistant Prof in Translation and Multilingual Communication 3-year fixed-term, teaching-focused, Sept 2026 start. We want colleagues whose work engages with communication across languages, modes, and communities. Closing: 23 July www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSA855/a...

Assistant Professor (Teaching Focussed - Translation and Multilingual Communication) (111755-0626) at University of Warwick

Discover an exciting academic career path as a Assistant Professor (Teaching Focussed - Translation and Multilingual Communication) (111755-0626) at jobs.ac.uk. Don't miss out on this job opportunity ...

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We're hiring @warwick-smlc.bsky.social Assistant Prof in Language Technologies and AI Governance Permanent post, Sept 2026 start. We want researchers working at the intersection of language, technology, and society. Languages as your home, take a look. Closing: 23 July www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRY964/a...

Assistant Professor in Language Technologies and AI Governance (111754-0626) at University of Warwick

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New paper out. My favorite finding is the distributional semantic comparison of "hundred/thousand/million/billion etc." to indefinite hyperbolic numerals ("gazillion", "umpteen" etc.) ⬇️ And: Did you know that jigsaw puzzles are lying to you? 👀

Greg Woodin@gregwoodin.bsky.social · 2mo ago

How precise are numbers? Our new article in Language and Cognition (with @bodowinter.bsky.social and @lordlorson.bsky.social) finds that round numbers are used more approximately at higher magnitudes. (1/5) 👇 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

The first WoReLa was really exciting - second one coming up next year in Cologne, woohoo!

Elen Le Foll 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 🇩🇪@elenlefoll.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 2mo ago

Right, enough complaining about academia, let's make things better! A small step, but my colleagues and I are organising the Second Workshop on Replication in the Language Sciences (WoReLa 2) in July 2027 in Cologne: https://sites.google.com/view/worela2. The call for abstract is now open […]

This one is for comics lovers and language lovers alike! A fun and inspiring read at the forefront of the multimodal language curve. Even works as intro to linguistics course book as it teaches a lot of core linguistic concepts really well, and in a modality-general manner. I can highly recommend!

Neil Cohn@neilcohn.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Happy Book Day! My graphic novel Speaking in Pictures is finally out in the world! I planned this book for over 20 years and spent 7 years writing and drawing it, so I hope everyone enjoys reading it as much as I did creating it 🥳 www.visuallanguagelab.com/sip

This new paper in Science is also accompanied by a cool perspective piece by @mperlman.bsky.social & @bodowinter.bsky.social! #language #linguistics www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

In search of meaning

The origins of language are not found in the bouba-kiki effect

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Simon Fisher@profsimonfisher.bsky.social · 6mo ago

“Humans across multiple languages spontaneously associate the nonwords kiki & bouba with spiky & round shapes, respectively...We tested the bouba-kiki effect in baby chickens. Similar to humans, they spontaneously chose a spiky shape when hearing a kiki sound & a round shape when hearing a bouba.”😲🧪

Our paper (w/ @bodowinter.bsky.social and @mperlman.bsky.social) is finally out, officially 🥳. In it, we set ourselves the lofty goal of defining iconicity, focusing on its subjectivity, context-dependence, and gradability. Let us know if you agree with our definition? 🤔 doi.org/10.1093/oxfo...

In our new tutorial, @meanwhileina.bsky.social and I walk you through meaningful hypothesis testing using a less known form of calculating Bayes Factor. osf.io/preprints/ps... People transitioning to Bayes often wonder how to decide if an effect is meaningful or not. Here you go... 1/🧵

Prospective graduate students: Purdue Linguistics is having a virtual open house on Friday, Nov 7 at 12:00pm EST. You can sign up here: lnkd.in/g8XimXcG Please note that I am not recruiting any new graduate students but several of my wonderful Purdue colleagues are.

New paper led by Dara Etemady: Statistical reporting inconsistencies in experimental linguistics. Almost half (49%) of all articles contained at least one inconsistent p-value. 12% contained an inconsistency that may have affected the statistical conclusion." escholarship.org/uc/item/3736...

Reminder!! We are hiring in Linguistics at Michigan with a focus on "AI and Linguistics" (broooaaadly construed). This is part of a cluster of positions in Psychology and Philosophy in collaboration with the Cognitive Science program. Applications now open! careers.umich.edu/job_detail/a...

All of us (@kanishka.bsky.social @kmahowald.bsky.social and me) are looking for PhD students this cycle! If computational linguistics/NLP is your passion, join us at UT Austin! For my areas see jessyli.com

Kanishka Misra@kanishka.bsky.social · 10mo ago

The compling group at UT Austin (sites.utexas.edu/compling/) is looking for PhD students! Come join me, @kmahowald.bsky.social, and @jessyjli.bsky.social as we tackle interesting research questions at the intersection of ling, cogsci, and ai! Some topics I am particularly interested in:

🚨Open immediately!! (rolling application review)🚨: Postdoc w/ the amazing Tamar Gollan, Uni. Cal. San Diego, bilingual speech production and cognitive control in aging and Alzheimer’s disease psychiatry.ucsd.edu/about/LAB_Go...

Application for a PhD position at our department is now open! We are looking for applicants that are interested in areas of sign language linguistics, general sign language studies, or deaf bilingualism/multilingualism. Deadline is 15th Oct. Please share away! su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

PhD student in Linguistics, sign language

The Department of Linguistics at Stockholm University conducts research and offers education in a number of areas such as child language development, computational linguistics, general linguistics, ph

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UCDavis Psych is hiring an Assistant Professor in Human Cognition or Cognitive Neuroscience 🧠✨ Come join a vibrant, collaborative dept and live in a fun college town near Sacramento, San Francisco, Napa, and Lake Tahoe. Applications due Oct.21. Please share widely! recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07300

Assistant Professor of Psychology - Human Cognition or Cognitive Neuroscience

University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!

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How to quantify the impact of AI on long-run cultural evolution? Published today, I give it a go! 400+ years of strategic dynamics in the game of Go (Baduk/Weiqi), from feudalism to AlphaGo!

Was fun working on this paper on negation in BSL led by Gab Hodge and w/ Kearsy Cormier and @adamcschembri.bsky.social! Paper is open access and available here: doi.org/10.1515/opli...

BSL signers combine different semiotic strategies to negate clauses

Signers of Deaf community signed languages negate clauses via manual negating signs and/or non-manual movements such as headshakes. Several claims about the dominance of manual versus non-manual negat...

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Adam Schembri (ˈʃɛmbɹi/ˈʃkɛmbri)@adamcschembri.bsky.social · 11mo ago

New paper with Gab Hodge, Bodo Winter, and Kearsy Cormier on negation in British Sign Language in England: we find the most common strategy is a manual negator, headshake, and mouthing an English negator, with relatively few clauses only marked by headshake 1/2 www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

University of South Carolina has *7* tenure-track faculty positions in Neurobiology of Language: tinyurl.com/USC-Faculty-... Positions in COMD, Psych, Linguistics, School of Medicine. @snlmtg.bsky.social #SNL2025, we will have a booth. w/@rutvikdesai.bsky.social @imb-uofsc.bsky.social

Our department is hiring! We're looking for a cognitive/developmental psychologist who uses computational approaches to study human cognition and behavior to address learning, development, and education. Feel free to reach out with questions!

Micheal Dent@mdent.bsky.social · 12mo ago

We are hiring! Department of Psychology at the University at Buffalo is recruiting for a SUNY Empire Innovation faculty hire at the rank of Associate or Full Professor. The hire is focused on the study of human cognition and behavior to address gaps in learning, development, or education using AI.

I find it endlessly frustrating that one of the biggest empirical findings from sociolinguistics is consistently ignored. Change doesn't come from children making mistakes. Change comes from adolescents incrementing existing probabilistic patterns. I haven't read this paper but hopefully it's good.

Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics@mpi-nl.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Children are not the main agents of language change. New paper by @limorraviv.bsky.social @damianblasi.bsky.social & @vkempe.bsky.social. psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/... www.mpi.nl/publications...

“Children are not the main agents of language change” by Limor Raviv, Damián Blasi and Vera Kempe (Sep. ’25) pure.mpg.de/rest/items/i...

📣new and exciting paper alert! 📣 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Ever wonder what's the rhythm of speech -- across languages? 1/10 W/ Maya Inbar and Eitan Grossman, we analyzed over 650 recordings from 48 languages, focusing on intonation units—short prosodic phrases that structure speech in time.

A universal of speech timing: Intonation units form low-frequency rhythms | PNAS

Intonation units (IUs) are a hypothesized universal building block of human speech [W. Chafe, Discourse, Consciousness and Time: The Flow and Displ...

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📆 Reminder! Application deadline for incoming researchers (PhD students & postdocs) is August 31st! If you want to come work with us in Bielefeld, apply for one of our scholarships. We would love to have you! More infos here 👉 www.uni-bielefeld.de/sfb/sfb1646/... #BLinguistik #linguistics

RTG - Universität Bielefeld

Der SFB setzt sich für eine qualitativ hochwertige Ausbildung von Doktoranden und Postdoktoranden ein und bietet Nachwuchswissenschaftlern ein Umfeld, das es ihnen ermöglicht, ihr Potenzial voll zu en...

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I got the proofs today for my upcoming graphic novel about language, cognition, and visual communication and I cannot contain myself with how excited I am for this book to finally come out after working on it for 7 years 😱 visuallanguagelab.com/sip

Berkeley linguistics is hiring an Assistant Professor in language revitalization! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05022

Assistant Professor - Language Revitalization - Linguistics

University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

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Super excited to share our new multimodal corpus analysis, "Iconic Words Are Associated With Iconic Gestures" 🥳 Project led by our PhD student Ell Wilding and in collab w/ @jeannettel.bsky.social & @mperlman.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1111/cogs...

Iconic Words Are Associated With Iconic Gestures

Iconicity ratings studies have established that there are many English words which native speakers judge as “iconic,” that is, as sounding like what they mean. Here, we explore whether these iconic E...

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Another job here at Michigan - this one in Linguistics! Part of a cluster of hires with a focus on Cognitive Science and AI. Happy to chat to interested folks. apply.interfolio.com/171006

📢 New publication Interested in #iconicity? Fascinated by #ideophones? Craving for #fieldwork in this area? Check out this book and ideas will come... I explain how to conduct #psycholinguistic research in #minority languages such as #Basque @oxfordacademic.bsky.social @psylexlab.bsky.social