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Justin Lo

@justinjhlo.bsky.social

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Sociophonetician & forensic speech scientist @ Lancaster University. All about voice and identity. I talk about trains a lot. You have been warned. justinjhlo.github.io

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Justin Lo @justinjhlo.bsky.social · Mar 13

Recently finished or soon finishing a PhD in forensic #linguistics, speech sci or lang & law?

Did you know the Int'l Journal of Speech, Language & Law has a section dedicated to PhD abstracts?

If you'd like to share your findings with the wider field & practitioners, do consider submitting to us.

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Christian Ilbury @christianilbury.bsky.social · 23h

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.

www.responsiblenlp.org

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Justin Lo @justinjhlo.bsky.social · 1d

On the train (as you do) someone just stopped and stared at my mcnuggets and very emphatically said “I’m so jealous”.

Does make me feel a lot less sad for myself when macca’s bought at the station in between trains was my only dinner option.

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Louise Rolland @lrollandmulti.bsky.social · 4d

🗓️ Voiced: The Festival for Endangered Languages @barbicancentre.bsky.social, events exploring literature in minoritised languages & dialects, celebrating multilingual identities! (16-18 Oct, London) Book here👇🏻 www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/202...
#langsky #london #poetry #literature #multilingualism

Live Literature Programme | Barbican

Whether you're joining us for a day or the entire festival, come together to celebrate artists working in endangered languages and dialects.

www.barbican.org.uk

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Justin Lo @justinjhlo.bsky.social · 7d

I can't say I've ever heard it said out loud, but I never knew Timbuktu came with a /ʌ/

Justin Lo @justinjhlo.bsky.social · 7d

I’m ticking off flooding on the line already so what do you mean term hasn’t actually started yet

Justin Lo @justinjhlo.bsky.social · Jan 12

It’s a (very belated) new year, so here’s a reminder that you can play along #TheGreatBritishCommute bingo to alleviate your train travails, I mean, travels.

A 5x5 bingo sheet titled #TheGreatBritishCommute, from top to bottom, left to right:
Running behind a late-running service; Trespasser on the railway; Lineside fire; Shortage of train crew; Line flooded;
Obstruction on the track; Short-notice change to the timetable; Fallen tree; Points failure; Landslip;
Faulty/Broken down train; More trains needing repair than usual; FREE: Just the way it is; Speed restriction due to high winds; Fault with the signalling system;
Cable theft; Congestion; Broken rail; Late from depot; Overrun engineering works;
Failure of electricity supply; Speed restriction due to high track temperature; Damage to overhead electric wire; Animal on the track; Road vehicle colliding with a bridge

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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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Justin Lo @justinjhlo.bsky.social · 9d

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Justin Lo @justinjhlo.bsky.social · 9d

it wouldn't just be the one institution whose reputation would suffer though, or would it?

Justin Lo @justinjhlo.bsky.social · 16d

wait what

Justin Lo @justinjhlo.bsky.social · 17d

also fellow commuting cyclists in Leeds very noticeably out in full force today, we love to see it!

Justin Lo @justinjhlo.bsky.social · 17d

by which I mean not even remotely fit for purpose

Justin Lo @justinjhlo.bsky.social · 17d

hello Northern Trains, love that there's no time restriction to bring bikes on your trains, but wow the pretend cycle space on some of your class 150 and 158 trains truly sucks

Justin Lo @justinjhlo.bsky.social · 18d

Ah! Thanks for that.

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Kirby Conrod @kirbyconrod.bsky.social · 18d

Please boost! #linguistics student here at Swarthmore is running a survey for English speakers (who don't know Mandarin / any other tone languages) about how we learn tones. Take a few minutes to help out with this student research!
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Justin Lo @justinjhlo.bsky.social · 18d

so are the #interspeeech2025 DOIs still not supposed to work yet or am I missing something?

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Yuka Naito @yuka-naito.bsky.social · 22d

📢 Call for papers 📢

22nd Conference Italian Association for Speech Sciences - Fieldwork experimental phonetics for language documentation

🗓️ 22-24 January 2026
📍 University of Milan 🇮🇹

🗓️ Abstract submission deadline:
30 September 2025

🧐 More info: sites.google.com/view/aisv202...

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Calle Börstell @cborstell.bsky.social · 24d

🚨 Open PhD position in sign language #linguistics 🚨

The focus should be on the structure of signed languages, or connect to other research profiles at the department (e.g. computational linguistics, acquisition, typology, multilingualism)

su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

Deadline: 15 October 2025

PhD student in Linguistics, sign language

The Department of Linguistics at Stockholm University conducts research and offers education in a number of areas such as child language development, computational linguistics, general linguistics, ph

su.varbi.com

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Gorilla Experiment Builder @gorillapsych.bsky.social · 25d

Applications for the @cogscisociety.bsky.social X Gorilla #grant are open!📣

5 researchers will win a grant worth $1,980 each to power their next study.

Winners receive full access to 🦍’s premium tools, $300 cash + a 1-1 support session with one of our experts.

Apply today! 👉http://bit.ly/4pvRGrY

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Isobelle Clarke @issyclarke.bsky.social · 25d

I am so pleased to announce that I have been awarded a @ukri.org Future Leaders Fellowship www.ukri.org/news/ukri-an... to undertake the project 'A Multi-Dimensional Understanding of the Digital Far Right'.

UKRI announces winners of £120 million Future Leaders Fellowships

Research into the causes of lung cancer and Alzheimer’s disease are among 77 projects to be funded by UKRI’s Future Leaders Fellowships.

www.ukri.org

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Justin Lo @justinjhlo.bsky.social · 26d

nobody told me to expect Rimini to have such enviable cycling culture and infrastructure?!

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Lauren Hall-Lew @lhlew.bsky.social · Sep 9

I find it endlessly frustrating that one of the biggest empirical findings from sociolinguistics is consistently ignored. Change doesn't come from children making mistakes. Change comes from adolescents incrementing existing probabilistic patterns.

I haven't read this paper but hopefully it's good.

Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics @mpi-nl.bsky.social · Sep 9

Children are not the main agents of language change. New paper by @limorraviv.bsky.social @damianblasi.bsky.social & @vkempe.bsky.social.
psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/...
www.mpi.nl/publications...

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Justin Lo @justinjhlo.bsky.social · Aug 22

discovering the official pokemon game sound libraries on youtube is a definite highlight of the week

Justin Lo @justinjhlo.bsky.social · Aug 21

taking the bike, past those train doors with the big bike sign, only to find out that northern has simply done away with the bike space. love it. 10/10.

Justin Lo @justinjhlo.bsky.social · Aug 17

And you can hear all about Nosey, nasalance and 3D printing (and mysterious bonus content??) from @samkirkham.bsky.social on Tuesday afternoon (A02-O3)!

📄 www.isca-archive.org/interspeech_...

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Justin Lo @justinjhlo.bsky.social · Aug 17

Pat Strycharczuk will be presenting our paper at #Interspeech2025 on Wednesday afternoon (A02-O6), where we applied forensic speaker comparison methods to ultrasound tongue imaging data to think about the individuality of articulatory strategy

📄 www.isca-archive.org/interspeech_...

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