What a cool idea! I’d love to try a similar event.

LingComm@lingcomm.org · yesterday

Language Exploration at the Library, a one-day pop-up event with a variety of exhibits to introduce people of all ages to linguistics and language use A new LingComm IRL post from a group of linguists @universityofkansas.bsky.social doing an event at a local library in Lawrence, Kansas, USA

Scoop: For nearly a year, NSF has struggled to make new grants. Now we know that it will not catch up. In fact, NSF will award just 6,100 new grants—a 30% y/o/y decline, itself down from a previous avg. of 11,000+. In fact, the last time NSF awarded so few grants was in the early '80s.

Exclusive: NSF set to issue lowest number of new grants in four decades

The US science-funding agency is withholding $1 billion of its budget so that the money can go to a special White House project.

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Log off. Find a muffin.

Temple U assigned my trans daughter to an all male dorm. They have no remaining gender inclusive single rooms - which we thought we had. We are heartbroken. Unloading the car back at home, kid in tears. Don’t even know what to say now, but you can bet I will soon. It won’t be pretty.

I’ve been in the research blahs this week But I got a citation alert that the contrast coding manifesto was cited in an urban planning paper, which is so affirming because I tried so so hard to aim for accessibility and this is objective proof of success on that aim.

Come be my colleague! I'm not in the committee, but can try to answer (or at least suggest routing for) questions! linguistlist.org/issues/37/27...

LINGUIST List 37.2706 Jobs: Syntax: Assistant Professor in Syntax, The University of Chicago

The LINGUIST List, International Linguistics Community Online.

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✨Excited to announce a new post-doctoral position in my lab, focussed on the neural capacity limits of language processing using magnetoencephalography! Apply here: wp.nyu.edu/neurolinglab...

If you missed the solar eclipse, this is what it looked like:

Here is a clunky but decently functional script to make a local copy of all your private and public OSF projects. You'll have to decide where to keep them. Maybe a flash drive under your mattress? levarilab.com/osf-backup-t...

The Metacheck team is busy building an improved version of the osf_download function (www.scienceverse.org/metacheck_bo... ). You will soon be able to use metacheck to download all files, wikis, and meta-data. You will also be able to upload everything to Zenodo.

36  Checking Local Files with repo_check and code_check – The Metacheck Manual

A guide to Metacheck, an R package providing a module based tool for checking scientific manuscripts and data repositories for best practices using text search, R code, and optional LLM queries.

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The USP #Linguistics webinar is on in 2 hours (4pm FJT - UTC-12). This month, the fantastic lineup of panellists will be discussing archives and archiving for Pacific languages and cultures. All welcome! Zoom link in alt text @paradisec.bsky.social #PacificLanguages

“With same tools used to study human data & whale song, we show that culturally transmitted Bengalese finch song has statistically coherent subsequences whose distribution follows a power law. Parallels between distant species suggest that core properties of language arise via convergent evolution”🧪

Language-like statistical structure arises in learned signaling: evidence from birdsong

Tools inspired by how human infants learn speech reveal language-like statistical structure in birdsong.

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Special issue at Psych Science on psychological science in the real world! Send us your best work looking at whether effects from the lab (or from theories) hold up in ecologically valid settings. Submission deadline: 15 January 2027 www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...

Special Issue Call for Submissions: “From Lab to Life: Psychological Science in the Real World”

Editors: Roni Porat and Vishnu SreekumarPsychological Science invites submissions presenting innovative research that brings psychological science “into the wild,” whether to strengthen its ecological...

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Every six months a writer goes on parental leave, is driven insane by watching 10,000 hours of Paw Patrol, and writes another one of these articles, and they're always great.

Jim Swift@jimswift.bsky.social · 2w ago

Friends! My lab is hiring a lab/project manager to start this academic year! This position is 1 year with a possibility to renew. Please share widely. This position is appropriate for recent undergraduates and will be in person in Chicago. uchicago.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/External/job...

Lab/Project Manager

Department AHD Staff: Linguistics Administration 2 About the Department The Speech Perception and Production Lab asks how people perceive and produce speech, with a particular focus on communication a...

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my kid correcting me about a dinosaur fact

Deadline Dec 1: Asst prof (tenure track), open area, ‼️NU Linguistics‼️ "an integrated approach to the scientific study of language, utilizing experimental, computational, and/or data-intensive approaches to inform linguistic theory and its applications" linguistics.northwestern.edu/about/open-p...

Deadline Oct 1: Postdoc, "experimental, computational, or theoretical methods to work across traditional disciplinary boundaries to investigate human cognition and explore human potential", Wu Tsai Institute, Yale wti.yale.edu/initiatives/...

I have funding for a 2027 PhD position at Hong Kong Polytechnic University to examine HK newspaper discourse. You will have experience of corpus linguistics and discourse analysis and be able to work with written Chinese. The closing date for applications is August 31. Contact me if interested.

Chicagoans Over 25 Urged To Shelter In Place Until Lollapalooza Over

My department is hiring 2 (TWO!) Tenure Track faculty in Developmental Psych and Biological Psych, to start Fall 2027. Deadlines 9/1 (Developmental) and 10/1 (Biological). More info here: www.carleton.edu/psychology/i.... Reach out with questions! carleton.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Carlet...

Assistant Professor in Developmental Psychology

The Carleton Psychology Department is seeking candidates for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Developmental Psychology (preferably with a focus on social, personality, and/or identity de...

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We already do this and companies who want them are happy to pay for PhD student interns. Why do precious and limited NSF funds need to be deployed for this? Most PhD student pursue industry jobs anyways - that has always been true. Use NSF funds to support basic science that industry wont support!

Jonathan Wosen@jonathanwosen.bsky.social · 3w ago

With academic jobs few and far between, the NSF is testing a new approach to graduate education: Giving Ph.D. students industry experience — and dollars — as part of their training. For more, see my latest for @statnews.com. www.statnews.com/2026/07/29/h...

Just out: Statistical Modeling for (Actual) Hypothesis Testing: Building Cumulative Knowledge in Corpus Linguistics (Larsson & Hancock, 2026) Download for free until August 11: doi.org/10.1017/9781... On methods for evaluating empirically informed hypotheses. @cambup-linguistics.cambridge.org

Statistical Modeling for (Actual) Hypothesis Testing

Cambridge Core - Research Methods in Linguistics - Statistical Modeling for (Actual) Hypothesis Testing

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📣‼️🔔Introducing VoxHumana: a "spiritual successor" to DARLA. 🎉 🗣💬 Upload an audio file to VxH and it'll transcribe it with Whisper, do forced alignment with MFA, and extract formants with new-fave. It's not live yet, but I hope to get it up and running soon. joeystanley.com/blog/voxhuma...

CAMP[9] announcement! November 6-9 at UCSB. camp9ucsb.github.io/conference/

The 2026 Big Team Science Conference #BTSCON2026 will be held October 6-8, live (and recorded) on Zoom. Submissions and registration are OPEN NOW! bigteamscienceconference.github.io

Big Team Science Conference

The goal of the Big Team Science Conference is to bring together a multidisciplinary group of researchers, funders, and stakeholders to discuss advancements, challenges, and future opportunities relat...

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It’s worth noting that Taco Bell identified the source before the FDA did, and promptly pulled it from their stores. The FDA didn’t even name the source until Taylor Farms outed themselves, and hasn’t issued a recall. Basically, Taco Bell is now a more reliable authority than the FDA.

Forbes@forbes.com · last mo.

Taylor Farms, which supplies major fast food and grocery chains, was identified as the possible source of the cyclosporiasis outbreak Thursday.

The FDA does not yet have a single positive product test result for Cyclospora as the outbreak continues to grow.

FDA Tests That Found Cyclospora In Taco Bell Supplier’s Lettuce Were A ‘False Positive’

The FDA does not yet have a single positive product test result for Cyclospora as the outbreak continues to grow.

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This night heron (wild, native species) who likes to hang out in the penguin enclosure is my favorite animal by far at the Santa Barbara zoo.