We're hiring a Research Assistant (Dutch, 32h/wk) in Nijmegen! • Lab exp. (VR, EEG, Motion Capture) • Annotating multimodal speech & gesture data • Starts between 1 Nov 2026 and 31 Jan 2027 • Ideal for grads in Psych, Ling, CogSci & related fields Apply by 15 Sep: www.mpi.nl/career-educa...

A strong recommendation 👇🏻 German Research Foundation @dfg.de describes the MAGA/AfD threat to science, and how one may prepare the defenses. Both the quiet and the loud ones. (Not specific to Germany and available in 🇬🇧 and 🇩🇪.)

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft@dfg.de · 3w ago

How can we protect academic freedom against growing attacks? A new position paper issued by a DFG Senate working group outlines how the resilience of research and the research ecosystem can be strengthened – and how policymakers, industry and society at large can contribute: sohub.io/aziq

Do you (want to) work on linguistic creativity? The call for CRC 1646 fellowships for incoming visiting researchers for 2027 now published. Deadline is 31 August 2026. 💡 More info here 👉 www.uni-bielefeld.de/sfb/sfb1646/... #CRC1646 #linguistics #Sprachwissenschaft #creativity

RTG - Universität Bielefeld

Der SFB setzt sich für eine qualitativ hochwertige Ausbildung von Doktoranden und Postdoktoranden ein und bietet Nachwuchswissenschaftlern ein Umfeld, das es ihnen ermöglicht, ihr Potenzial voll zu en...

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Deadline Aug 3rd: Postdoc/lab manager, Phonetics, Oxford my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

It feels strange to share good news, but: I’m moving to UCSD in July!! 🥳 I'm very grateful for my time at Princeton and SO excited for what comes next. We're building multiplayer games to study how teams are shaped by the problems they solve. If that sounds fun to you, I'm accepting grad students!

Considering the whole body, including #postural stability affects acoustics of #speech, but not #fluency related measures, see new work in JASA. Thanks for this team effort with Mingtong, Eric & @suzanneaussems.bsky.social. The corpus is #OA on doi.org/10.5281/zeno... pubs.aip.org/asa/jasa/art...

Perturbing postural stability affects acoustic properties but not fluency of adult speech production during face-to-face interaction

Physical constraints, particularly those that challenge postural stability and control, may measurably influence speech production. This experimental study inve

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New #OA corpus doi.org/10.5281/zeno... by Mingtong Li, Jiahao Eric Yang, @suzanneaussems.bsky.social. In short: 60 adults (30 pairs) play an interactive word guessing game. What is special: The clue giver is in situations under postural (in)stability (standing on the ground or on a wobble board)!!

Read the historical article that inspired this month's Reflection: "Ultrasonic Doppler Method for the Inspection of Cardiac Functions" by Shigeo Satomura (https://doi.org/10.1121/1.1908737)

Two postdoc positions at the Messerli Research Institute in Vienna in the research area of human-animal interactions: www.vetmeduni.ac.at/fileadmin/v/...

"We learn to recognize other people as being like us through the way that they sound" www.theguardian.com/science/2026... #linguistics #language

Do we judge people by the way they sound? How accents shape our lives

A new book by linguistics professor Valerie Fridland, who was raised in Memphis by parents with French accents, explores the power behind the way we speak

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Deadline 30 June: Postdoc, Speech Perception, Sociolinguistics and Speech Technology w/ É. Székely, KTH Royal Inst. of Tech. Dept. of Speech, Music, and Hearing www.kth.se/lediga-jobb/...

If you are interested in carrying out a #multimodal experiments with more or less expertise - check this out (authors of the SPP #ViCom) “Data Collection in Multimodal Language and Communication Research: A Flexible Decision Framework” is now published and is available at doi.org/10.1177/2515...

Data Collection in Multimodal Language and Communication Research: A Flexible Decision Framework - Anastasia Bauer, Patrick C. Trettenbrein, Federica Amici, Aleksandra Ćwiek, Lisa-Marie Krause, Anna K...

Contemporary research on language and communication has expanded beyond its traditional focus on spoken and written forms to encompass signing, gestures, facial...

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Cool new study! Unexpected?

Laboratory Phonology Group at ZAS in Berlin@labphon-zas.bsky.social · 3mo ago

🎉 New paper out by a member of our group! Are speakers sensitive to lexical bias effects in their own auditory feedback? And do such effects shape speech production? 🚨 Spoiler in the title! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #phonetics #auditoryfeedback #lexicalbias

Familien mit kleinen Kindern in Berlin gesucht. Melden Sie sich gerne.

📦 My first #RStats package on CRAN: {readelan} A package dedicated to reading all files associated with ELAN: eaf, etf, ecv. Reads annotations, metadata, controlled vocabularies. Relevant for many in #linguistics perhaps? More info here: borstell.github.io/misc/readelan/

CRAN Updates@cranupdates.bsky.social · 4mo ago

New on CRAN: readelan (0.1.0). View at https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=readelan

It is very easy to become accustomed to Trump’s ravings, and laugh them off. That’s a dangerous thing to do. When Trump states: “A whole civilization will die tonight,” he is threatening to commit genocide. We can’t allow that to happen. Congress must end this war NOW.

I’m going to put this out there - I have some funds to run lab experiments involving prosody and segmental articulation. I’m happy to collaborate with people who want to do this work but don’t have much funding, especially given the federal funding catastrophe. #linguistics

Still cabbage and pumpkin from the garden last year 😋

The European Left Alliance has just now launched an ECI: A European Citizen's Initiative to demand #JusticeForPalestine. It's similar to a petition, and legally binding if the goal of 1.000.000 signatures is reached. The EU has to act if we share this enough! If you're a EU citizen, please sign!

European Citizens' Initiative

Give your support !

eci.ec.europa.eu

Wie cool ist das denn!! Toll.

Stabi Berlin@stabiberlin.bsky.social · 4mo ago

🎙️✨ Pssst… da kommt was auf die Ohren! Ab April 2026 gibt's in der Stabi ein #Podcaststudio 🎧🔥 Wir bieten: 🎙️ Mikrofone (für bis zu 4 Personen) 💻 Schnittplatz & Audio-Tools 📌 Ihr braucht: ✔️ Bibliotheksausweis ✔️ MikroSD-Karte ✔️ kurzen Einführungsworkshop Alle Infos 👉 blog.sbb.berlin/podcaststudio/

Thanks again to the New Horizons #DiamondOA conference for the invitation to speak. If you would like to see this presentation on the Strain, Drain, and "Stain" (PISS) papers, there is a recording here. Find the papers here: bit.ly/StrainQSS bit.ly/DrainPub bit.ly/PISSpaper

The strain on scientific publishing

Abstract. Scientists are increasingly overwhelmed by the volume of articles being published. The total number of articles indexed in Scopus and Web of Science has grown exponentially in recent years; ...

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wimpouw@wimpouw.bsky.social · 5mo ago

The keynote recordings of our conference on reform in scholarly publishing www.horizondiamond.nl are online and posted on the website. First up, Mark Hanson who kicked off the event in a fabulous way @markhanson.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy tilburguniversity.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Page...

New hotel for insects, hope they will like it 😃

Hi everyone! As Chair of the Local Planning Committee for ICPhS 2027, I am excited to share with you the ICPhS 2027 website, hot off the press! Between the website and social media, you should find all you need to plan your trip to beautiful Victoria BC! ➡️ icphs2027.ca

Everything is open-source: 🔬 BabAR: github.com/MarvinLvn/BabAR 📦 TinyVox: github.com/MarvinLvn/tinyvox 🔊 Samples: marvinlvn.github.io/projects/babar/ 📄 Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2603.05213 w/ @bergelsonlab.bsky.social and @rplevy.bsky.social Funded by the Simons Center for the Social Brain (MIT).

GitHub - MarvinLvn/BabAR: Automatic tool to transcribe children's utterances into the sounds they produce (using the International Phonetic Alphabet)

Automatic tool to transcribe children's utterances into the sounds they produce (using the International Phonetic Alphabet) - MarvinLvn/BabAR

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Open PhD/Postdoc position (start: Oct 2026). Topic: AI/LLMs and child language/communicative/cognitive development. The exact project will be shaped with the candidate. Join our team @univ-amu.fr at the intersection of computer and cognitive science (& right next to the Calanques!). Send me your CV!

The keynote recordings of our conference on reform in scholarly publishing www.horizondiamond.nl are online and posted on the website. First up, Mark Hanson who kicked off the event in a fabulous way @markhanson.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy tilburguniversity.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Page...

Mark A. Hanson - Problematization Open Access

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Congrads, Sarka to one part of your PhD! 👍 I like to read this chapter, it is reads well, explains some major physiological components of multimodal language even for the non-specialist. Also fun to read as an expert.

Šárka Kadavá@sarkadava.bsky.social · 6mo ago

You can read the preprint here 👉🏼 sarkadava.github.io/docs/Kadava_... [6/6]