What’s your costume for World Book Day this year? I’m going as a Generative AI Subsidiary Content Aggregation Addendum to an already one-sided academic publishing contract
Katie Franich
@kfran.bsky.social
Assistant Prof. in Linguistics at Harvard. P-sider working on rhythm, tone, speech timing, conversation, and gesture, especially in African languages. O zi à?
📣📣📣Job alert Multimodal Language Department Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics MAX PLANCK RESEARCH GROUP LEADER POSITION (W2 BBESG) lnkd.in/eaq5MW9a
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Psyched for this #LabPhon workshop on language and music. And the deadline for submission has been extended to March 15th! labphon.org/labphon20/pi...
Pitch at the crossroads | Labphon
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CorpusPhon2 will take place on Monday 29/6/26 in Montréal, Québec, right after LabPhon20. Submissions are due on 3/13/26 and our website has been updated to reflect this. Please consider submitting to our workshop! sites.google.com/view/corpusp...
CorpusPhon 2
A one-day satellite workshop at LabPhon 20 to bring together researchers using corpus phonetic tools
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“It IS tricky to rock a rhyme that’s right on time. I made a list of some other words that rhyme with time: Crime, tim, crumb and time.” - Run-G.P.T.
Reminded that there are few more corrosive trends in higher education in recent years than the divide and conquer approach to undermining faculty solidarity by focusing on numbers of majors. Each degree pathway at an institution is strengthened by each other form of expertise available to students.
Stephen Colbert’s interview with James Talarico is super. youtu.be/oiTJ7Pz_59A?...
Rep. James Talarico On Confronting Christian Nationalism, And Strange Days In The Texas Legislature
YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
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Excited for my first AAAS! Come to our session and learn how linguistic diversity is not (currently) a strong suit of AI models. I'll be alternating between my AI-optimist and -pessimist hats. #AAASmtg #linguistics
The 8th African Linguistics School will be taking place in Tanzania! Apply before the 15th of March to be part of this exciting opportunity: sites.google.com/view/als6/ap... And share with your colleagues and students! For further information about the ALS, see sites.google.com/view/als6/home
ALS
African Linguistics School
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A nice piece in the Harvard Gazette about research my lab has been doing on the impact of political conflict and displacement on language endangerment in Cameroon 🌍 🇨🇲 news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...
‘Critical tipping point’ for Cameroon’s indigenous languages — Harvard Gazette
Displacement and forced migration trigger alarm about language attrition in Cameroon.
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Hopkins Cog Sci is hiring! We have two open faculty positions: one in vision, and one language. Please repost!
JHU Cognitive Science@jhucogsci.bsky.social · 8mo agoWe are seeking candidates for two tenured/tenure-track faculty positions: One in high-level vision, written language and/or conceptual representation apply.interfolio.com/178825 One in language apply.interfolio.com/178813 Please help us spread the word!
Open immediately -- postdoc, speech motor control and speech motor neuroscience w/ C. Niziolek + B. Parrell, U. Wisconsin Madison blab.wisc.edu/join-the-lab/ [see Postdoctoral researchers tab]
It's ✨ academic job application season ✨ & I hope you'll consider applying for and/or spreading the word about CityU's ongoing search for faculty in computational linguistics, psycho-/neurolinguistics, & experimental linguistics: open-rank and rolling! www.cityu.edu.hk/hro/en/job/c... #langsky 🐦🐦
Pomona College Ling and CogSci Dept is hiring an Assistant Professor with a specialization in phonetics! (Deadline Nov 1) linguistlist job ad is here: linguistlist.org/issues/36/27.... Any questions can be directed to Michael Diercks, chair of the search committee (michael.diercks@pomona.edu).
LINGUIST List 36.2713 Jobs: Phonetics: Assistant Professor of Linguistics, Pomona College
The LINGUIST List, International Linguistics Community Online.
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Friends, take action to prevent grant funding decisions at NIH and NSF from being made by political appointees, instead of experts in scientific fields themselves!
Jeremy Berg@jeremymberg.bsky.social · last yr.ACTION ITEM-----ACTION ITEM Implementation of Schedule F This is what a lot of us have been worried about. This allows for many civil service positions to replaced with political appointees. This could include NIH institute directors and even POs. BUT THERE IS A COMMENT PERIOD... 1/n
Just heard that Dianne Bianchi NICHD Director was fired and NIDCD has an ominous announcement on its home page. Every day is a worse nightmare than the day before
It's publication day for Gesture: A Slim Guide If you have been wanting to think about gesture in your own research, bring it into your teaching or connect with the field of Gesture Studies, this is for you. It's under 50k words and has a nifty glossary too.
This is horrible to post, but I may as well post it. We are essentially shutting down research operations in my group, which is focused on treatments for pediatric brain cancer. I’m a well funded investigator, and there’s no choice. Science can’t function without the stability of NIH
New paper alert! Co-speech gestures can influence the timing and magnitude of oral articulatory gestures 💁♀️ Co-authored with my awesome postdoc Karee Gavin and Eliana Spradling www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Co-speech gestures influence the magnitude and stability of articulatory movements: evidence for coupling-based enhancement - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Co-speech gestures influence the magnitude and stability of articulatory movements: evidence for coupling-based enhancement
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These Pew survey results on public opinions of American scientists can help us think about how to communicate our messages better this Friday. @standupforscience.bsky.social #standupforscience2025 www.pewresearch.org/science/2024...
Public Trust in Scientists and Views on Their Role in Policymaking
Americans’ trust in scientists is slightly higher than it was last year, but remains lower than before the COVID-19 pandemic.
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I have a new article out today with the homie @pereed.bsky.social in PLOS One, “Gender and Racial Bias Issues in a Commercial ‘Tone of Voice’ Analysis System”! In short, don’t believe devices that claim to tell you how you sound to other humans! journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
Gender and racial bias issues in a commercial “tone of voice” analysis system
Social Feedback Speech Technologies (SFST) are programs and devices, often “AI”-powered, that claim to provide users with feedback about how their speech sounds to other humans. To date, academic rese...
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