📣 I'm recruiting a new grad student at Cornell for F27, so please share the word with possible candidates interested in conversation as it intersects with language processing, evolution, and/or statistical learning, approached using computational and/or behavioral methods. 👉 Email me if interested

Deadline 16th September: Expressions of interest to MPI for Psycholinguistics + Radboud U., research group lead + permanent assistant prof. www.mpi.nl/career-educa...

Help spread the word about the fully funded 4-yr PhD places available at the Max Planck School of Cognition. Pursue a passion for research & advance the understanding of cognition, mentored by a network of world renowned scientists. @maxplanck.de @mps-cognition.bsky.social More info & how to apply:

Application

Application; application procedure; FAQs; handbook

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Stanford Linguistics is hiring an open-rank sociolinguist (Assistant, Associate, or Full). Materials due October 16 for full consideration; start date September 2027. Please share widely!

Sociolinguistics, Open Rank - Stanford University, California, United States

The Department of Linguistics at Stanford University seeks applicants for a junior or senior appointment at the rank of tenure-track Assistant Professor, tenured Associate Professor, or Full Professor...

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Rakow deserves rich credit for helping reveal this error in framing. I thank him for this work. I owe him a sincere debt of gratitude for helping bring to light a substantive and meaningful inference change. I hope everyone interested in replication rate research reads this new paper. 11/

Eclipse through a tree.

Attention early career methodologists and quantitative psychologists: Berkeley Psychology is hiring! This is an assistant teaching professor position with potential for security of employment (equivalent to tenure). Please share widely! Thank you! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05480

Assistant Teaching Professor Quantitative Methods-Psychology

University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

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Linguistics and English Studies at Lancaster is an amazing place to be.

Veronika Koller@veronikakoller.bsky.social · last mo.

I'm really happy that there is now a job opening for a Lecturer in Discourse Studies at @lancslinguistics.bsky.social. Closing date 4 September, interviews 21 September. This is a great opportunity for an early-career researcher, so get your application ready! hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

We are hiring!! Indefinite lectureship in Discourse Studies in Linguistics & English Language at Lancaster University. Apply by 4th September @lancslinguistics.bsky.social hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

Job Opportunity at Lancaster University: Lecturer in Discourse Studies

Linguistics and English Language, School of Social Sciences, Lancaster University (Full-time, indefinite post) Linguistics and English Language within the School of Social Sciences at Lancaster Univer...

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In The Meadow. 26°C and a warm Westerly. Field Mice.

Considering a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship? If you've completed (or will complete) your viva between 1 April 2024 and 31 March 2027 and are interested in joining Oxford's Department of Education, I'd be pleased to hear from you to discuss a potential application. EOI by 16 July.

British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowships: Call for Expression of Interest

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Interested in a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship at Oxford's Department of Education? If your research aligns with my work and you're looking for a supervisor, please get in touch. EOI deadline: 17 June 2026. #Postdoc www.education.ox.ac.uk/news/marie-s...

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships: Call for Expressions of Interest

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Oxford is seeking an exceptional candidate for an Assoc/Full Prof in Sociolinguistics, in association with Worcester College (a strong contender for the title of prettiest college in Oxford). A fantastic opportunity to join a thriving and growing community of language scholars. tinyurl.com/53rhewe2

Associate Professorship of Sociolinguistics at University of Oxford

Looking for a new job opportunity in academia? Check out this job opening for a Associate Professorship of Sociolinguistics on jobs.ac.uk!

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BAAL Vocabulary Studies SIG Annual Conference 2026 One final reminder about registration for our conference which this year takes place at Bangor University, 28-29 May 2026 Please use the following link to sign up: shop.bangor.ac.uk/product-cata... I am also sharing our provisional programme 😀

Teachers and educators are invited to join us for a full-day workshop exploring the evidence around teaching children for whom English is an Additional Language (EAL). 📅 10 July ⌚ 9am - 5.15pm 📍 Department of Education Sign up now and secure an early bird ticket 👉 bit.ly/4cvov2w

Francesca Woodward of the Cambridge University Press and Assessment in the FT warning of the inadvisability of the Home Office permitting remote English language testing www.ft.com/content/6cdc...

Please help share what must be one of the best jobs ever. We are looking for a writer to join @ourworldindata.org to work with our fantastic team including @maxroser.bsky.social and @hannahritchie.bsky.social. £80k - £120k / ideally full time / location flexible ourworldindata.org/hiring-write...

We’re looking for a writer

We’re hiring a writer who can make the world’s largest problems understandable to our large Our World in Data audience.

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Reduce Your UCU Subscription Cost by Claiming Tax Relief As we’ve entered a new tax year, it’s a great time to remind #UCU members that you may be able to reduce the cost of your union subscription by claiming tax relief from HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC). Click the link for more details.

These "discover something" journals from Springer Nature are here to steal your research money, as those from MDPI and Frontiers (and many others). ⚒️ 🧪 Learn more here: the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io/website/post... 2/2

Springer Nature Discovers MDPI – The Strain on Scientific Publishing

Home page for the paper ‘The Strain on Scientific Publishing’ by Mark A Hanson, Dan Brockington, Paolo Crosetto and Pablo Gomez Barreiro

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“In 2023, UK universities spent a total of £500m on education agents – but there is very little oversight of how these agents operate.” Important read from The Guardian. www.theguardian.com/education/ng...

‘I see it as trafficking’: the brutal reality of life as a foreign student in the UK

The long read: Universities in Britain rely on overseas applicants paying full fees, which has given rise to some unscrupulous recruiters and left many hopefuls and their families deep in debt

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Nana Sofija & deda Jova’s home, the morning after the air raid of 5 April 1999 on our hometown of Aleksinac. Their bodies would later be pulled from the rubble still holding cards from their last game of tablići. These images still haunt me. My heart is with everyone enduring such horrors now.

This is a good move. The APC system has not worked and alternatives should be tried. Other funders and major institutions should also be considering alternatives

Richard Sever@richardsever.bsky.social · 5mo ago

CRUK goes green [OA] news.cancerresearchuk.org/2026/04/01/w...

Ready for egg pocking tomorrow 🐣

Interested in spending 3-12 months with us in Oxford as a senior visiting academic? The Leverhulme Trust has a scheme to help. Get in touch with an Oxford colleague soon, as the internal deadline for interest is on Apr 17. www.leverhulme.ac.uk/visiting-pro...

It’s all just jam! Justice for quinces (marmelo) remains unrestored.

If you are a practitioner, researcher or student who is interested in finding out more about play-based pedagogies, join my wonderful colleague @faidra.bsky.social in Oxford’s Department of @education.ox.ac.uk on 25/03/2026!

Dr Faidra Faitaki@faidra.bsky.social · 6mo ago

You will unpack the research on playful learning with Prof Kathy Sylva OBE, and get involved in workshops led by me (🎭), @cateh.bsky.social (🎶), @sararatner.bsky.social (🎮) and Jasen Booton (🧸). Find out more about the event here ➡️ bit.ly/3MZdH3V Grab the last few tickets here ➡️ shorturl.at/CEdgT

We study history to know and understand what happened. We don’t have to justify it by saying we can ‘learn from the past’. We study philosophy to understand the nature of things. Not just to teach ethics to AI. Society should spend some resource on this kind of research. Understanding is an outcome!

Registration for EuroSLA 35 (Lisbon, 24-27 June 2026) is now open 📢 eurosla35.fcsh.unl.pt/registration/

Looking forward to Devyani Sharma’s inaugural lecture.

Applications are open for doctoral and postdoctoral roles with the Census of Urban and Rural Language in England and Wales (CURLEW). Work with Prof Paul Foulkes and colleagues to map language change across the UK. Positions available in York, Bern and Oxford. www.curlew.info/jobs #langsky