we ran the numbers-- they are bad

The academic job market in linguistics: beyond vibes

the numbers are also bad

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The proceedings of the Universal Dependencies workshop @LREC in Palma de Mallorca have been published! Looking forward to participating on May 16. Hard to believe this will already be my 4th time. A bit like Hotel California - once you join, you can never leave... universaldependencies.org/udw26/

JOB ANNOUNCEMENT in evolutionary #linguistics: There are currently an open postdoc and a PhD position available at the University of Turku, Finland in the Human Diversity consortium and Biological Evolution and Diversification of Languages group! Closing date 19-03-2026 sites.utu.fi/humandiversi...

Postdoctoral researcher and Doctoral researcher positions open in Evolutionary Language Sciences | Human Diversity

The Faculty of Humanities at the University of Turku invites applications for a fixed term position as postdoctoral researcher and a fixed term position as ...

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Curious about Bayesian regression and how to use it in your research? Join my course at the LOT summer school in Groningen (22-26 June): lotschool.nl/events/lot-s... It's open to PhD students worldwide and LOT research master students.

If long dependencies are cognitively costly @rferrericancho.bsky.social, why are SOV languages so widespread? In a new #Glottometrics paper, I argue that once you count the arguments actually used, long dependencies are far less problematic. Takeaway: don’t trust SOV/SVO labels—look at real usage!

New book! I have written a book, called Syntax: A cognitive approach, published by MIT Press. This is open access; MIT Press will post a link soon, but until then, the book is available on my website: tedlab.mit.edu/tedlab_websi...

#Jobs #Blinguistik #linguistics

Judith Tonhauser@judithtonhauser.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Postdoc position in Stuttgart, Germany (TV-L 13, 100%) for 18 months, on authority presuppositions in AI systems with Dr. Agnieszka Faleńska and me. For more information and application info, see here: safety.https://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/documents/team/falensaa/aphic_postoc.pdf

I made a Starter Pack for Language Evolution. But I just added a small bunch of names that came to mind. (I don't know who's on Bluesky yet.) So please add a comment below if you're a language evolution person and I will add more names soon. go.bsky.app/87rRCf7

Really looking forward to the Academia Europaea Conference this week. It's a great chance to connect, share ideas, and build bridges across disciplines. These are challenging times for science: funding cuts, public distrust, AI disruption... It's more important than ever to stand together.

acad-euro.bsky.social@acad-euro.bsky.social · 12mo ago

This week we’re in #Barcelona for our annual conference #BuildingBridges2025! Over the next few days, Members of Academia Europaea will gather to connect, exchange ideas, and take part in a diverse programme featuring distinguished MAEs who will share insights and perspectives across disciplines.

As I show in my new preprint, #Bayesian statistics is no longer just a niche tool. It’s becoming mainstream in linguistics research. A survey of journal articles shows a rapid rise in Bayesian regression over the past five years. Why? #Bayes #Statistics #Linguistics doi.org/10.48550/arX...

🚨 #SLE2026 Workshop alert! 🚨 How do Large Language Models reshape linguistics? 🧠🤖 Join the debate about LLMs' impact on linguistic theory, methods and human language! Osnabrück 26-29 August 2026. #LLM #linguistics Full text of our workshop proposal: societaslinguistica.eu/sle2026/wp-c...

We are seeking a #Postdoctoral #Researcher to join our Multimodal Language Department for the NWO funded project: 𝐆𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐆𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐱𝐭: 𝐎𝐛𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭- 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧-𝐀𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐀𝐈 𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐋𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐮𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐔𝐬𝐞 Start: ideally February 1, 2026 but negotiable. www.mpi.nl/career-educa...

Join us on Friday for a discussion on retraction 🔥👇

ReproducibiliTea@reproducibilitea.org · last yr.

Bielefeld burst.pages.ub.uni-bielefeld.de/burst/ Friday, 5 Sept, 12:00 CEST Topic: Protzko et al. RETRACTED ARTICLE: High replicability of newly discovered social-behavioural findings is achievable. Nat Hum Behav 8, 311–319 (2024). doi.org/10.1038/s415... & Retraction Note: doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Link to the handbook zenodo.org/records/1569...

Association for Psychological Science@psychscience.bsky.social · last yr.

APS Fellow @lewan.bsky.social & colleagues have recently developed the Anti-Autocracy Handbook, which they describe as “a call to action, resilience, and collective defense of democracy, truth, and academic freedom in the face of mounting authoritarianism.”

UPDATE: Abstract deadline: Nov 1, 25! Invited speakers: Corrine Occhino, Dagmar Divjak, Idan Blank, Randy Allen Harris, Gary Lupyan, Laura Michaelis, Kanishka Misra ! @dagmardivjak.bsky.social @randyallenharris.bsky.social @congramqueen.bsky.social @glupyan.bsky.social @kanishka.bsky.social

Adele Goldberg@adelegoldberg.bsky.social · last yr.

📌 👉 The 14th International Construction Grammar conference will be held at Princeton, June 4-7, 2026 Usage-based analyses and Empirical methods Stay tuned for updates!

Can't wait to visit this place next week with a merry bunch of fellow linguists! #SLE2025

Guillaume Desagulier@gdlinguist.bsky.social · last yr.

Saint Émilion, Gironde, France

A brilliant linguist and sociolinguist, RIP Gift article from NYT www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/u...

Robin Lakoff, Expert on Language and Gender, Is Dead at 82

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Hi #lingsky! I'll be on sabbatical during the summer of 2026 (March 1 to July 20). I won't travel by plane, so my radius is confined to Europe. If you'd like to hear me speak about Oceanic languages, modal semantics, language documentation, word units (or see other publications), drop me a line!

📌 👉 The 14th International Construction Grammar conference will be held at Princeton, June 4-7, 2026 Usage-based analyses and Empirical methods Stay tuned for updates!

3+1-year fully funded PhD position in Experimental and/or Computational Psycholinguistics. Official application deadline today, but applications submitted by August 25 will receive full consideration. tmalsburg.github.io/job_ad_2025_...

Princeton Psychology & Neuroscience are looking to hire a joint assistant professor doing computational, clinical, and/or neuroimaging research, w/ PhD in Psych, Neuro, CS or related. 👇

Paper in @pnas.org shows 'industrial scale' academic fraud: Fake papers are not rare & are generally not detected (only ~25% get retracted). Facilitated by 'brokers' - "22 editors accept articles that were retracted significantly more frequently than one would expect by chance".

I'd join the class action if I were US-based.

Ruth EJ Booth (she/they) is at FantasyCon 2026@ruthejbooth.bsky.social · last yr.

"If your books were uploaded to LibGen/fed into the LLMs, add your name to the potential class action lawsuit by tomorrow." Details: LibDem database: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a... Attorney form: www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-au... (This information comes via a reliable Discord source.)

My PhD student Yue Li is looking for L1 speakers of Chinese and Spanish for her online English experiment! Please see below for details!

Yue Li@yueli-ling.bsky.social · last yr.

🎓 Call for Participants – Paid Online English Study We look for: native speaker of Spanish or Chinese who has an advanced level of English 💸 Compensation provided ✅ Check the flyer for eligibility 📲 Scan the QR code to get in touch. Feel free to share this news! #linguistics #paidstudy

If there’s a #Bambara speaker (or even better a linguist) around, could you confirm that the following word-by-word translation is correct? Duna ma yelema, bi ma de yelema la || world NEG change and NEG exist change DEF (it’s from Boubacar Traoré’s lyrics)

J. D. Bernal in 1939 discussing how graduate students (only a thing from 1917 in the UK) are evaluated based on number and bulk, the publication pressure stifling originality, and filling the literature with useless papers.

Call for papers for Evolang 2026 is now posted! evolang2026.org. Workshop proposals due Sept 22nd. Paper submissions October 26th. Evolang is interdisciplinarity at its best. We hope to see you in Plovdiv!!

Sad to hear that Margaret Boden, pioneer in cognitive science and artificial intelligence, has passed away. Just a few days ago, someone reactivated the post below. I warmly recommend watching the video. Thank you Margaret for founding and shaping our field. www.sussex.ac.uk/broadcast/re...

Obituary: Professor Maggie Boden

The University of Sussex mourns the loss of Professor Margaret (Maggie) Boden, a pioneering figure in cognitive science and artificial intelligence.

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Iris van Rooij 💭@irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 2y ago

Did you all know that Margaret Boden founded the first School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences in 1987. No? Well, now you do 😌 Btw, listen to this great talk by her. I'll be adding this to the resources from our 1st year students in Intro to AI. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPRA...

I think we should stop using the label "null results". It's a misnomer that devalues the importance of research findings. Research is a competition of hypotheses. Any outcome of this competition advances science, no matter how strongly attached we are to our own theories. 1/3

Nature@nature.com · last yr.

Scientists overwhelmingly recognize the value of sharing null results, but rarely publish them in the research literature go.nature.com/450KElr

Just arrived in Eugene for Session 2 of the #LSA summer institute! The bar is set very high after an excellent first session, but I'm excited to contribute to another great run!

LSA 2025 summer institute@lsa2025uo.bsky.social · last yr.

We’re interviewing instructors and attendees at the LSA Summer Institute! 🥹 Today’s spotlight features Adele E. Goldberg @adelegoldberg.bsky.social , who taught “A Constructionist Approach to Grammar” in Term 1. (more in the thread!) #LSA2025 #Linguistics