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Christian Ilbury @christianilbury.bsky.social · 1d

Please share!

We have a number of fully funded PhD studentships in "Designing Responsible Natural Language Processing". I'm a possible supervisor & I'd be keen to support projects on sociolinguistics-AI, e.g., accent bias in AI, language+gender/sexuality+AI.

www.responsiblenlp.org

Our CDT is based in the Edinburgh Futures Institute – the University of Edinburgh’s brand new hub for research, innovation and teaching focused on socially just artificial intelligence and data.

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Federica Formato (she/her) @genderedform.bsky.social · 3d

I've heard great news! LavLang is going to happen (the current climate meant there had to be some adjustments) and in a wonderful place: Edinburgh! Fabulous keynotes too! See you in Scotland in September 2026!

lavlang32.ppls.ed.ac.uk

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2-4 September 2026: Queer (dis)belonging

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Finn Arne Jørgensen @finnarne.me · 12h

My friend and former colleague Anna Foka is recruiting a PhD student in Information Studies, AI and Digital Humanities - she told me she would love someone with an #envhist background here.

PhD student in Information Studies, AI and Digital Humanities research

PhD student in Information Studies with a direction towards AI and Digital Humanities research At the Department of ALM (Archival Studies, Library and Information Studies, Museum and Cultural Herita

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Netzwerk Queerlinguistik @queerlinguistik.bsky.social · 22h

Another #ComingOutDay-related queer linguistic publication, @nounfraze.bsky.social's (2025) study—available #OpenAcces in the #JournalOfPragmatics—focuses on the coming out of transgender video game characters. Heritage connects Pragmatics, Ludolinguistics,...
doi.org/10.1016/j.pr...

Social identity and implicature: Exploring the pragmatics of transgender coming out narratives in videogames

Despite being one of the most popular forms of media, videogames are an under-researched text type within linguistics. This paper examines the languag…

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Netzwerk Queerlinguistik @queerlinguistik.bsky.social · 22h

Today is #ComingOutDay—and we have two queer linguistic literature tips to go with it! First off, Tyler Kibbey’s (2021) essay “Linguistics Out of the Closet” (#OpenAccess in @cadlin.bsky.social) calls for a “queering” of the discipline of linguistics altogether.
doi.org/10.25189/267... ...

Linguistics Out of the Closet | Cadernos de Linguística

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Timo B. Roettger @timoroettger.bsky.social · 1d

New paper led by Dara Etemady: Statistical reporting inconsistencies in experimental linguistics.

Almost half (49%) of all articles contained at least one inconsistent p-value. 12% contained an inconsistency that may have affected the statistical conclusion."

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Proportion of articles containing at least one inconsistency / decision inconsistency. (Applied Psycholinguistics (APS), Language and Brain (BAL), Bilingualism: Language and Cognition (BLC), Journal of Memory and Language (JML), Journal of Psycholinguistic Research (JPR), Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism (LAB), Language and Speech (LaS), Language Cognition and Neuroscience (LCN, formerly Language and Cognitive Processes), Language Learning and Technology (LLT), Journal of Language and Social Psychology (LSP), Journal of Child Language (JCL), and Studies in Second Language Acquisition (SLA), Journal Of Speech Language And Hearing Research (SLH)).

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Kathryn C-K @kathrynck.bsky.social · 2d

In which, as usual, prosody does almost all the indexical and semantic work at the same time and the lexical content is just along for the ride

chira 🎋 @artofchira.bsky.social · Jun 1

whenever i encounter people who say they can't understand shakespeare verses I always send them this clip from the 2019 Shakespeare in the Park production of Much Ado About Nothing

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Cronopia @cronopia.bsky.social · 4d

Si usas tus RRSS para denunciar un genocidio, que desde el sofá no se consigue nada. Si sales a manifestarte a la calle, que eres un perroflauta y un terrorista y que si tanto te gustan los palestinos, vete a Gaza. Si vas a Gaza, que para qué vas si ya sabes lo que hay ahí.

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Mikel López Iturriaga @mikeliturriaga.bsky.social · 4d

De lo que cuenta aquí Eva Güimil, destacaría esto: cómo en los resúmenes que salen en las galas se omite por sistema cualquier discurso mínimamente político que hagan los concursantes. Ejemplo: el alegato feminista de Salma, que fue de lejos lo más interesante de la semana elpais.com/television/2...

Gala 3 de ‘Operación Triunfo’: La gran injusticia de la expulsión de Salma de Diego y el poder aterrador de las redes sociales

A pesar de su brillante actuación, Salma de Diego abandonó la Academia certificando una vez más que este es un concurso de popularidad y no de talento y dejando como legado un vibrante discurso en el ...

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emma machado @emmachados.bsky.social · 5d

(perdonad, ot me trastoca demasiado y salma mola)

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emma machado @emmachados.bsky.social · 5d

salma de diego si algún día lees esto que sepas que lo has hecho GENIAL, que deberías haberte quedado más tiempo en la academia y que las tías chulas queremos ser tu amiga

emma machado @emmachados.bsky.social · 5d

ahora más que nunca: SALVAR SALMA DE DIEGO

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emma machado @emmachados.bsky.social · 5d

robo histórico

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Juan Roures @juanroures.bsky.social · 5d

Con "Lo saben mis zapatos", Salma de Diego se ha marcado la primera actuación verdaderamente emocionante de esta edición de OT. #OTGala3

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emma machado @emmachados.bsky.social · 5d

ahora más que nunca: SALVAR SALMA DE DIEGO

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Dr Ellie Mackin Roberts @elliemackinroberts.net · 6d

The infantilisation of Greta Thunberg is ableist. AND people not accounting for her Autism is reductive and disingenuous.

What happened to her and others from the flotilla is atrocious, clearly illegal, demonstrative of Israel as a terrorist state.

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Meow Factor @meow-factor.bsky.social · 8d

Purrieties exist because people talk differently as their cats depending on the cat community and on the social media platform. Whether it’s Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, or Twitter, differences are out there waiting to be discovered and described.
meowfactor.hypotheses.org/7055
#linguistics 🧪

Purrieties of Language

It’s all about cat-inspired language varieties Purrieties exist because people talk differently as their cats depending on the cat community they are in and on the social media platform they are on. W...

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emma machado @emmachados.bsky.social · 8d

chiste malo, pero, victoria para Vitoria! increíble ajl 2025!!!

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Susanne Brouwer @susannebrouwer.bsky.social · 9d

PhD Position: Accented Speech Processing - Apply now!

Come work with Mirjam Broersma, @davidpeeters.bsky.social, and me at the Centre for Language Studies, Radboud University in the Netherlands.

Application deadline: 19 October 2025

For more information, see
www.ru.nl/en/working-a...

PhD Position: Accented Speech Processing | Radboud University

Do you want to work as a PhD: Accented Speech Processing at the Faculty of Arts? Check our vacancy!

www.ru.nl

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Sara @biendimia.bsky.social · 8d

¿alguien quiere entradas para el concierto de Jimena Amarillo el 8 de octubre en Madrid? no puedo ir y no sé qué hacer con ellas

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Association for Laboratory Phonology @labphon.bsky.social · 8d

Q: How does tonal coarticulation in disyllabic words of #Cantonese contribute to tone merging and inform research on #soundchange? A: The two interact dynamically, with carryover effects in extreme tonal contexts emerging as an important source of change. #LabPhon #openaccess doi.org/10.16995/lab...

The effects of contextual tonal variation on Cantonese tone merging

Previous studies on Cantonese tone merging have examined monosyllabic materials so far, yet disyllabic words are common in daily conversation. Sound change often originates from a pool of synchronic v...

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emma machado @emmachados.bsky.social · 9d

🥁🥁🥁 Ya podemos confirmar: en algo más de un añito, nos vemos en Salamanca. ¡AJL 2026, allá vamos!

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Wendy Elvira-García @wendyelvira.bsky.social · 9d

🔷 Oferta de feina: Es necessita informàtic per treballar al Laboratori de Fonètica 25h/set, 27.243,19 € bruts seu.ub.edu/ofertaPublic...

Universitat de Barcelona - seu electrònica

Seu electrònica

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Prof Rick Adams @drrickadams.bsky.social · 11d

Post doc job alert 📢! Announcing a v exciting job on a Wellcome-funded project in my group at UCL, looking at auditory hallucinations... Advert here 👀: rb.gy/230w8l - deadline is end of Oct. Please apply! 1/5

UCL – University College London

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

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emma machado @emmachados.bsky.social · 11d

por favor que el tiempo PARE YA

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emma machado @emmachados.bsky.social · 11d

no llevo bien ese concepto llamado paso del tiempo

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