Over the summer the National Science Foundation (NSF) took several actions that appear to further the Administration’s plans to shut down the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences Directorate (SBE). Read more and act now ➡️ cossa.org/nsf-skips-sb...

NSF Skips SBE Funding Opportunity, Limits GRFP Eligibility | COSSA

Over the summer the National Science Foundation (NSF) took several actions that appear to further the Administration’s plans to shut down the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences Directorate…

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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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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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Open until filled (🚨🚨apply now!🚨🚨): Postdoc, speech acoustics and major depressive disorder, with me!, Northwestern Linguistics (working with folks in Psychology and Psychiatry). faculty.wcas.northwestern.edu/matt-goldric...

Matt Goldrick@mattgoldrick.bsky.social · 2mo ago

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...

If you’ve seen this article, you may be sitting with anger, pain, or just exhaustion at dealing with another helping of colonial nonsense. We feel a responsibility to speak back when these colonizing narratives show up, yet again, in such a prominent venue. endangeredlanguages.com/story/respon...

The New Yorker@newyorker.com · 2mo ago

The idea that we have a special duty to prevent the death of languages is instantly compelling to anyone who loves languages. But is it true? www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Ever wondered why "Where did you say that I was" sounds better than "??Where did you reiterate that I was"? In this paper I co-authored with Julie Legate and Charles Yang, we present a learning-based account of this lexically-conditioned "island" effect (and the lack thereof in Mandarin)!

Lu, Jiayi & Kim, Nayoun. 2026. Adjunct Island Effect on Wh-Scrambling in Korean. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 11(1), 1–21. DOI: doi.org/10.16995/glo... #linguistics #DiamondOpenAccess

Adjunct Island Effect on Wh-Scrambling in Korean

In this squib, we present experimental evidence that Korean wh-scrambling, unlike non-wh-scrambling or wh-in-situ, is constrained by the -ttay temporal adjunct island effect. We further show that this...

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Linguists: I recommend this great (if also discouraging) data collection and analysis by Amy Rose Deal and Barak Krakauer! profling.beehiiv.com/p/the-academ...

The academic job market in linguistics: beyond vibes

the numbers are also bad

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Standard RSA often assumes that speakers are certain about the meaning they intend to communicate, but this assumption need not always be true! In paper with @grushaprasad.bsky.social and @carolynanderson.bsky.social, we propose a method (um-RSA) to incorporate meaning uncertainty within RSA

Come join us! Northwestern Linguistics is hiring a lab manager -- perfect for a recent graduate who's interested in contributing to a vibrant interdisciplinary research community. Position is open immediately! careers.northwestern.edu/psp/hrnu_er/...

What is a psychological theory? Here's our take on this tricky and controversial question in this week's Experimentology chapter summary. Many things called "theories" in psychology aren't actually theories — they're frameworks. 🧵 experimentology.io

Postdoc opportunity with any of my Oxford colleagues funded by the British Academy. Expressions of interest due next week! www.humanities.ox.ac.uk/british-acad...