My post-doc at Uni of Surrey with Prof Sastry has come to an end, so I'm looking for work 👀 Seeking interdisciplinary projects looking at the harms of AI to marginalised people. I have a strong publication record and v. broad range of skills. Ideally hybrid/ remote positions in UK. Please share 🩷

🎉Publication day🎉 for our #CHI2026 extended abstract! I wanted to find out whose voices are commonly reproduced (and whose aren't) in a popular commercial TTS system. Read all about it! w @ninamarkl.bsky.social @lhlew.bsky.social @catlai.bsky.social @chi.acm.org alice-ross.github.io/publication/...

We have a fully funded PhD scholarship for students working in the area of English Language! We’re a big and friendly bunch working in all sorts of areas ppls.ed.ac.uk/linguistics-...

Kathleen Meek PhD Scholarship | Linguistics and English Language | School of Philosophy, Psychology and language sciences

The Kathleen Meek PhD Scholarship scheme is designed to attract high-quality students applying for PhD research in English.

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So a great thing about contracts is that they usually have and end date and/or means of ending them. If your university or other organization bent the knee to OpenAI or any of the other chatbot providers, when a contract is up, there is an opportunity for pressure: forms.gle/ZGn5brEGU4t9...

Open Letter: End the University of Edinburgh's Contract with OpenAI

Dear EDINA Leadership Team and those responsible for the University's contract with OpenAI, We are publicly writing to you as the University of Edinburgh's contract with OpenAI is coming to an end, a...

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CFP REMINDER: you like linguistics? you like queer stuff? then get your LavLang abstracts in (please)! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🪻💬🗣️ Submissions are due by 28 March, that's almost two weeks, you got this! See you in Edinburgh in September 💜 lavlang32.ppls.ed.ac.uk?page_id=231

🚨Save Languages at the University of Essex 🚨 #langsky #linguistics UoE plans to cut German, Italian, Portuguese and Chinese + all evening classes and merge Language and Linguistics with a larger unit. Only 2 languages will remain next October. Please sign our letter: tinyurl.com/SaveLingLang...

Save Languages at Essex

To add your signature to this letter, please complete this form: Save Languages at Essex (Google Form) Dear Prof Bowen and members of the Executive Committee, We, the undersigned, urge you to reco...

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🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 We’re hosting the Lavender Languages and Linguistics Conference in Edinburgh this year! If you work on queer linguistics topics, please submit an abstract, we’d love to see you there! Conference dates: 2nd-4th September Submission deadline: 28th March CfP: lavlang32.ppls.ed.ac.uk?page_id=231

Christian Ilbury@christianilbury.bsky.social · 7mo ago

The CfPs for LavLang32 at Edinburgh is now OPEN! A reminder of our stellar lineup: • Dr. Nikki Lane (Duke) • Dr. Kevin Guyan (UoE) • Prof. Erez Levon (Bern) • Dr. Stamatina Katsiveli (American College of Greece) • Dr. Eddie Ungless (UoE) Submit a paper here: lavlang32.ppls.ed.ac.uk?page_id=231

'Queer and Trans Speech Science and Technology', an #Interspeech2026 Special Session offering a space to build community and provide a foundation for future trans- and queer-driven speech research sites.google.com/view/is-quee...

📢 Call for papers: Interspeech special session on Queer and Trans Speech Science and Technology! Submit a 4- or 8-page paper to Interspeech by 25th February. More info about the session: sites.google.com/view/is-quee... Info about submitting to Interspeech: interspeech2026.org/en-AU/pages/...

Do you work on language and sexuality, queerness, gender, or something related? If yes, please submit to LavLang! WIP and project launches are welcome along with completed work, and it's for all career stages, check out the CfP here: lavlang32.ppls.ed.ac.uk?page_id=231

Queer and Trans Speech Science and Technology Website at: sites.google.com/view/is-quee... Brought to you by: @netzorg.bsky.social , @ninamarkl.bsky.social, @greatlikecheese.bsky.social , Juliana Francis, Francisca Pessanha.

An extraordinary response to the call for Special Sessions for #Interspeech2026! Consider submitting your paper to one of these accepted themed sessions 👉 interspeech2026.org/en-AU/pages/... (and stay tuned for more details!)

Such an inspiring, powerful event! Huge thanks: @naz-andalibi.bsky.social @haimson.bsky.social for their brilliant talks & sharing insights with me in the panel chat, @aies-edinburgh.bsky.social @kevinguyan.bsky.social @sj-bennett.bsky.social for putting it all together, & to everyone who attended!

🔔new paper alert🔔 I argue that language technologies are usefully understood as a type of language management (i.e., ways of changing how people use and think about language) -- especially in the workplace -- connecting critical work on AI with language policy www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Defining language and managing its use: Language technology as language management

Language technologies such as voice user interfaces, large language models and machine translation tools are embedded in an ever-growing range of digi…

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Really looking forward to this upcoming @aies-edinburgh.bsky.social event, where the great @naz-andalibi.bsky.social and @haimson.bsky.social will be talking about emotion, gender, marginalisation and AI 🤩 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gender-and...

Gender and the Machine: Trans Tech, Emotion and AI

Join us for this afternoon of events discussing gender, marginalisation and emotion in AI and digital technologies

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hear me talk about how AI is *really* ruining your job, not by taking it but by undermining your autonomy, enabling (nay, encouraging) your boss to monitor and assess you all the time, and removing everything that sparks joy in your working day Edinburgh (🥰), 28/11!

Christian Ilbury@christianilbury.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Less than a month to go until our Language and Society Scotland (LASS) event on Language and AI. Sign up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/language-a...

Our CfP information for LavLang32 is now live: 📅 6 January 2026 - Abstract submission open ⏱️28 March 2026 - Abstract submission deadline 📣 8 May 2026 - Notification of decisions lavlang32.ppls.ed.ac.uk

So good to see #LavLang32 being shared so widely! Join us for the annual Queer Linguistics conference, which in 2026 travels to Scotland for the first time thanks to @christianilbury.bsky.social and University of Edinburgh lavlang32.ppls.ed.ac.uk

🔔 My paper w/ @ninamarkl.bsky.social and @bjoernross.bsky.social is out: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... We surveyed TikTok users on motivations for using phrases like "le$bean". Primarily associated w/ topics that are moderated on SM, but also desire to express community + be playful.

In a move surprising Probably No One, I have written about syntax pedagogy! This time for COZIL's blog: here's my five quick tips on how to make your syntax #linguistics classroom more LGBTQ+ friendly! lgbtqlinguistics.wordpress.com/2024/10/18/m...

Make your theoretical syntax classroom more LGBTQ-friendly with these 5 quick tips!

Theoretical linguistics is not necessarily a space that excludes queer linguists outright — hell, we named our LGBTQ Linguistics award after Arnold Zwicky, a prolific syntactician (among othe…

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Catching my breath after two wonderful conferences last week! This @interspeech.bsky.social Special Session on Queer & Trans Speech Science & Technology was a real highlight, honoured to be part of it - huge thanks to @greatlikecheese.bsky.social, @ninamarkl.bsky.social and the other organisers! 💜

in honour of interspeech this week, i’d like to issue a reminder that everyone has an accent, and that’s beautiful, actually: www.isca-archive.org/interspeech_... www.isca-archive.org/interspeech_...

V proud to say I'll be presenting our work on trans men's vocal style-shifting and metalinguistic awareness next month at LavLang 31 @lavlang.bsky.social!🪻🌈💬 If you like LGBTQ things, linguistics, or Manchester, you should come too! lavlang2025.wordpress.com

Lavender Languages and Linguistics Conference, 20th-22nd August, 2025

Manchester Metropolitan University, UK

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I think this is the biggest screen my work's ever been shown on (...so far?!) #UKIS2025 at University of York last week. It was wonderful hearing about the varied and inspiring work everyone's been doing - especially on York's own YorVoice project 💬💜

Excited (and also nervous) to present our project on trans men's vocal style-shifting at UK and Ireland Speech next week 🥳 I'll be in Oral Session A, on Monday afternoon, please be nice if you're there 🙂‍↕️ sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/u...

... and to all the interviewees, who were a delight! The paper presents a mixed-methods study exploring phonetic features of trans men's speech in different contexts, along with qualitative interviews about their voices, experiences and metalinguistic awareness. I'm really proud of it!

Super excited about this paper!

Alice Ross@alice-ross.bsky.social · last yr.

Delighted to say I'll be presenting my work on 'Conveying gender through speech: insights from trans men' at @interspeech.bsky.social 2025! Huge thanks to my excellent coauthors @greatlikecheese.bsky.social, @mxeddie.bsky.social and @catlai.bsky.social 🏳️‍⚧️🗣️💜

Thanks Simon, I had the best time working on this!

Simon Kirby@simonkirby.bsky.social · last yr.

Very proud of this new paper w/ Cliodhna Hughes & Jenny Culbertson. We show people generalise silent gesture orders from the verb phrase to the prepositional phrase harmonically. This was Cliodhna’s undergraduate disseration (!) An extraordinary achievement. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...