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Alan Wrench @awrench.bsky.social · 1d

Happy World Octopus Day. Here's a recent paper demonstrating octopuses have a sense of body ownership similar to mamals and rodents.
www.cell.com/current-biol...

Rubber arm illusion in octopus

The feeling of a body as belonging to oneself is called the sense of body ownership and the centerpiece of conscious experience. Kawashima and Ikeda investigated the sense of body ownership in an octo...

www.cell.com

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MODEL TRANSFER ERC Project @modeltransfer.bsky.social · 1d

The Leibniz Center for Science and Society (LCSS) at @unihannover.bsky.social invites international researchers in science studies & higher educ research to apply for the fellowship program “Disruptions in Science and Society” (research stays: 1–18 months).

www.lcss.uni-hannover.de/en/fellowshi...

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Linguistic Society of America @lingsocam.bsky.social · 3d

Big news! Starting in 2027, @cambup-linguistics.cambridge.org will publish the Journal of Black Language and Culture (JBLAC)—a new LSA journal highlighting the richness of Black language & culture across the globe.
Learn more: www.lsadc.org/content.asp?... @acharityhudley.bsky.social

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ILCB_France @ilcb.bsky.social · 6d

🎉 ILCB Annual Welcome Back Party – 10 October 2025

Join us at LPL Aix-en-Provence for a morning of science, networking, and celebration as we kick off the new academic year!

🔗 Confirm your attendance (mandatory): www.ilcb.fr/event/garden...

www.linkedin.com/posts/instit...

#ilcb #welcomeback2025 | Institut ILCB

🎉 ILCB Annual Welcome Back Party – 10 October 2025 Join us at Salle B 011, 5 avenue Pasteur, Aix-en-Provence for a morning of science, networking, and celebration as we kick off the new academic yea...

www.linkedin.com

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Susanne Fuchs @susfuchs.bsky.social · 6d

Wonderful and the video is just great. Thanks envisionbox team 🤩!!!!

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wimpouw @wimpouw.bsky.social · 7d

www.envisionbox.org has been shortlisted for the Leo Waaijers Open Science price: ukb.nl/en/news/shor...

@babajideowoyele.bsky.social @jamestrujillo.bsky.social @sarkadava.bsky.social @DavideAhmar @acwiek.bsky.social

Amazing Markus Küpper made an animated video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HduI...

EnvisionBOX overview2025

YouTube video by Wim Pouw

www.youtube.com

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Marianne de Heer Kloots @mdhk.net · 7d

Huge congrats to the envisionBOX team for the Open Science award nomination! 🎉

My tutorial on speech analysis tools in Python from the Unboxing Multimodality summer school (github.com/mdhk/unboxin...) is now also available at envisionbox.org

Thanks for the invitation & this great initiative! 👏

wimpouw @wimpouw.bsky.social · 7d

www.envisionbox.org has been shortlisted for the Leo Waaijers Open Science price: ukb.nl/en/news/shor...

@babajideowoyele.bsky.social @jamestrujillo.bsky.social @sarkadava.bsky.social @DavideAhmar @acwiek.bsky.social

Amazing Markus Küpper made an animated video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HduI...

EnvisionBOX overview2025

YouTube video by Wim Pouw

www.youtube.com

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Bat Krown 🦇 @katbrownwrites.com · 15d

“An emotional research team became tearful as they described how data shows the disease was slowed by 75% in patients.”

What an absolutely incredible, joyous achievement for everyone involved. Hurrah for science and scientists! www.bbc.com/news/article...

Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time

One of the most devastating diseases finally has a treatment that could transform lives, tearful doctors tell BBC

www.bbc.com

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Acoustical Society of America @asa-news.bsky.social · 15d

In JASA, a pair of researchers from the University of Minnesota analyzed years of Taylor Swift’s recorded interviews to track how her dialect has evolved. Read the @aip-publishing.bsky.social press release: publishing.aip.org/publications...

Tracking the Evolution of Taylor Swift’s Dialect - AIP Publishing LLC

WASHINGTON, Sept. 23, 2025 — Taylor Swift is one of the biggest pop singers in history, influencing millions of fans with her music. Thanks to years of […]

publishing.aip.org

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Susanne Fuchs @susfuchs.bsky.social · 18d

Lovely garden

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Darin Flynn @phono-logical.bsky.social · 26d

Good listen! History and Philosophy of the Language Sciences Podcast Ep. 14 (March ’21): James McElvenny interviews Michael Ashby about the emergence and development of phonetics in the 19th and early 20th century hiphilangsci.net/2021/03/31/p...

HiPhiLangSci @hiphilangsci.bsky.social · 27d

If you’re interested in the history of phonetics, have a listen to episode 14 of our podcast where James McElvenny (@jamesmcelvenny.bsky.social) talks with Michael Ashby!

🎙️ hiphilangsci.net/2021/03/31/p...

#Histlx

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Sea-Watch @sea-watch.org · 27d

Die Regierungen, die Menschen im Meer ertrinken lassen, sind mitschuldig am Massaker in #Gaza. Die Drohnen, die eingesetzt werden, um Menschen zurück in die libyschen Folterlager zu drängen, werden an Palästinenser:innen getestet. Hände weg von der #Sumudflotilla.

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Catherine Laing @cathelaing.bsky.social · 28d

Happening now on Radio 4! 🤓

B&W Thornton of Stratford-upon-Avon @bwthornton.bsky.social · 29d

#Radio Crash Bang Wallop: The Sound of Words
Word of Mouth
Thur 15:30
BBC Radio 4
@michaelrosenyes.bsky.social and Dr Catherine Laing discuss onomatopoeia and other words that sound like their meanings. Produced by Becky Ripley.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Radio 4 - Word of Mouth, Crash Bang Wallop: The Sound of Words

Michael Rosen and Dr Catherine Laing discuss words that sound like their meanings.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Michael Pleyer @symbolicstorage.bsky.social · 28d

🚨 New Publication Alert! 🚨
Out now in #Language and #Linguistics Compass with
@stefanhartmann.bsky.social
& Antonio Benítez-Burraco:
"The role of play in language structure, acquisition and evolution" (this time with a working link)
compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The Role of Play in Language Structure, Acquisition and Evolution

compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Susanne Fuchs @susfuchs.bsky.social · Sep 7

Mein erstes selbstgemachtes Parika/chilipulver wird das. Bin gespannt

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Susanne Fuchs @susfuchs.bsky.social · Sep 7

Breakfast

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Gavin Lamb @gavinlamb.org · Sep 6

Assistant Professor - Language Revitalization - Linguistics, UC Berkeley: research interests or skills in "..language documentation, description, and analysis; sociolinguistics; anthropological linguistics; language acquisition; language education; areal and language-family expertise" (Oct 31)

Assistant Professor - Language Revitalization - Linguistics

University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

aprecruit.berkeley.edu

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Many Minds podcast @manymindspod.bsky.social · Sep 5

A new academic year is ramping up. Have you considered adding us to your syllabus?

Podcasts episodes are a great way to add variety & boost engagement, and they offer a launchpad for exploration. A number of instructors have used our episodes to good effect!

(Let us know if you're among them!)

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Susanne Fuchs @susfuchs.bsky.social · Sep 3

Cool!

Josef Fruehwald @jofrhwld.bsky.social · Sep 3

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Rense Corten 🟥 @rensec.bsky.social · Sep 1

WORK! The Sociology Department at Utrecht University is hiring a new assistant prof, with expertise on migration/integration/polarization/stratification. Come join us! www.uu.nl/organisatie/...

Universitair docent sociologie

Wil jij studenten inspireren en vernieuwend onderwijs geven? Versterk ons team als universitair docent met expertise in migratie en/of sociale stratificatie.

www.uu.nl

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Thomas Hueber @thueber.bsky.social · Sep 1

🚨 Open PhD Position – Grenoble, France 🚨

Join us at GIPSA-lab to explore how Speech Language Models can learn like children: through physical and social interaction. Think AI, robots, development 🧠🤖🎙️
Fully funded (3 yrs) • @cnrs.fr / @ugrenoblealpes.bsky.social
Details 👉 tinyurl.com/bde988b3

tinyurl.com

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Ricarda Lang @ricardalang.bsky.social · Aug 31

„Wir leben seit Jahren über unsere Verhältnisse."

Friedrich Merz und seine Frau Charlotte im Cockpit seines privaten Fliegers.

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Susanne Fuchs @susfuchs.bsky.social · Aug 30

New preprint, a review of infant #vocal and #motor #rhythm research, a suggestion to include #respiration in future research. It us work with Elina Rubertus, Aude Noiray and Laura Koenig www.researchgate.net/publication/...

(PDF) Towards a fuller integration of respiratory rhythms into research on infant vocal and motor development

PDF | Rhythm organizes many human motor activities from before birth and continues to shape development throughout infancy. In this review, we examine... | Find, read and cite all the research you nee...

www.researchgate.net

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Susanne Fuchs @susfuchs.bsky.social · Aug 30

Ich liebe Pflaumen aber die Dimensionen hier sind beachtlich

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Susanne Fuchs @susfuchs.bsky.social · Aug 25

Thanks for updating so quickly! 👍

Rasmus Puggaard-Rode @rpuggaardrode.bsky.social · Aug 25

Additionally, you can now control the range of the y-axis when plotting waveforms, fx to ensure that multiple channels share the same range for easier comparison. (Thanks to @susfuchs.bsky.social for suggesting this!)

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