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Jon Brennan @jonrbrennan.bsky.social · 8d

Reminder!! We are hiring in Linguistics at Michigan with a focus on "AI and Linguistics" (broooaaadly construed). This is part of a cluster of positions in Psychology and Philosophy in collaboration with the Cognitive Science program. Applications now open!

careers.umich.edu/job_detail/a...

Apply for AI and Linguistics (Assistant, Associate or full Professor) | U-M Careers

careers.umich.edu

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Jessy Li @jessyjli.bsky.social · 8d

All of us (@kanishka.bsky.social @kmahowald.bsky.social and me) are looking for PhD students this cycle! If computational linguistics/NLP is your passion, join us at UT Austin!

For my areas see jessyli.com

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Matt Goldrick @mattgoldrick.bsky.social · 8d

🚨Open immediately!! (rolling application review)🚨: Postdoc w/ the amazing Tamar Gollan, Uni. Cal. San Diego, bilingual speech production and cognitive control in aging and Alzheimer’s disease psychiatry.ucsd.edu/about/LAB_Go...

psychiatry.ucsd.edu

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Bodo Winter @bodowinter.bsky.social · 9d

I finally got the time to check our bird field guide corpus for this. Different authors use the onomatopoeias "wek", "wuck", "wuk wuk", "kuk", or "cuk cuk". One author describes the territorial call as "kuk kuk keekeekeekeekeekeekeekuk kuk"

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Bodo Winter @bodowinter.bsky.social · 9d

And I truly meant what I said!! It was a blast reading this again!

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Bodo Winter @bodowinter.bsky.social · 19d

I've also had BackBlaze before and then got annoyed. Recently switched to iDrive and liking it so far.

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Nora Duggan @noraduggan.bsky.social · 19d

Application for a PhD position at our department is now open! We are looking for applicants that are interested in areas of sign language linguistics, general sign language studies, or deaf bilingualism/multilingualism. Deadline is 15th Oct. Please share away! su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

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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Fernanda Ferreira @fernandaedi.bsky.social · Sep 8

UCDavis Psych is hiring an Assistant Professor in Human Cognition or Cognitive Neuroscience 🧠✨

Come join a vibrant, collaborative dept and live in a fun college town near Sacramento, San Francisco, Napa, and Lake Tahoe. Applications due Oct.21.

Please share widely!

recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07300

Assistant Professor of Psychology - Human Cognition or Cognitive Neuroscience

University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!

recruit.ucdavis.edu

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Bret Beheim @babeheim.bsky.social · 22d

How to quantify the impact of AI on long-run cultural evolution? Published today, I give it a go!

400+ years of strategic dynamics in the game of Go (Baduk/Weiqi), from feudalism to AlphaGo!

Miyagawa Shuntei's 1898 painting, "Playing Go (Japanese Chess)"

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Bodo Winter @bodowinter.bsky.social · 23d

Was fun working on this paper on negation in BSL led by Gab Hodge and w/ Kearsy Cormier and @adamcschembri.bsky.social!

Paper is open access and available here:

doi.org/10.1515/opli...

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Bodo Winter @bodowinter.bsky.social · 23d

Yay, thank you! So happy to hear they were useful :)

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William Matchin @wmatchin.bsky.social · 29d

University of South Carolina has *7* tenure-track faculty positions in Neurobiology of Language:

tinyurl.com/USC-Faculty-...

Positions in COMD, Psych, Linguistics, School of Medicine.

@snlmtg.bsky.social #SNL2025, we will have a booth.

w/@rutvikdesai.bsky.social @imb-uofsc.bsky.social

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Federica Bulgarelli @fedebulgarelli.bsky.social · Aug 18

Our department is hiring! We're looking for a cognitive/developmental psychologist who uses computational approaches to study human cognition and behavior to address learning, development, and education. Feel free to reach out with questions!

Micheal Dent @mdent.bsky.social · Aug 17

We are hiring!
Department of Psychology at the University at Buffalo is recruiting for a SUNY Empire Innovation faculty hire at the rank of Associate or Full Professor. The hire is focused on the study of human cognition and behavior to address gaps in learning, development, or education using AI.

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Lauren Hall-Lew @lhlew.bsky.social · 29d

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 · 29d

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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Darin Flynn @phono-logical.bsky.social · 29d

“Children are not the main agents of language change” by Limor Raviv, Damián Blasi and Vera Kempe (Sep. ’25) pure.mpg.de/rest/items/i...

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Ayelet Landau @ayeletlandau.bsky.social · Aug 26

📣new and exciting paper alert! 📣
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Ever wonder what's the rhythm of speech -- across languages?

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W/ Maya Inbar and Eitan Grossman, we analyzed over 650 recordings from 48 languages, focusing on intonation units—short prosodic phrases that structure speech in time.

A universal of speech timing: Intonation units form low-frequency rhythms | PNAS

Intonation units (IUs) are a hypothesized universal building block of human speech [W. Chafe, Discourse, Consciousness and Time: The Flow and Displ...

www.pnas.org

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Katja Politt @lingucat.bsky.social · Aug 22

📆 Reminder! Application deadline for incoming researchers (PhD students & postdocs) is August 31st!

If you want to come work with us in Bielefeld, apply for one of our scholarships. We would love to have you! More infos here 👉 www.uni-bielefeld.de/sfb/sfb1646/...

#BLinguistik #linguistics

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...

www.uni-bielefeld.de

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Neil Cohn @neilcohn.bsky.social · Aug 21

I got the proofs today for my upcoming graphic novel about language, cognition, and visual communication and I cannot contain myself with how excited I am for this book to finally come out after working on it for 7 years 😱 visuallanguagelab.com/sip

Speaking in Pictures by Neil Cohn, 300+ page graphic novel about language, cognition, and graphic communication

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Gasper Begus @begus.bsky.social · Aug 20

Berkeley linguistics is hiring an Assistant Professor in language revitalization!

aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05022

Assistant Professor - Language Revitalization - Linguistics

University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

aprecruit.berkeley.edu

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Bodo Winter @bodowinter.bsky.social · Aug 15

Super excited to share our new multimodal corpus analysis, "Iconic Words Are Associated With Iconic Gestures" 🥳

Project led by our PhD student Ell Wilding and in collab w/ @jeannettel.bsky.social & @mperlman.bsky.social:

doi.org/10.1111/cogs...

Iconic Words Are Associated With Iconic Gestures

Iconicity ratings studies have established that there are many English words which native speakers judge as “iconic,” that is, as sounding like what they mean. Here, we explore whether these iconic E...

doi.org

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Jon Brennan @jonrbrennan.bsky.social · Aug 15

Another job here at Michigan - this one in Linguistics! Part of a cluster of hires with a focus on Cognitive Science and AI. Happy to chat to interested folks. apply.interfolio.com/171006

Apply - Interfolio {{$ctrl.$state.data.pageTitle}} - Apply - Interfolio

apply.interfolio.com

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Iraide Ibarretxe-Antuñano @iraideia.bsky.social · Jul 14

📢 New publication
Interested in #iconicity? Fascinated by #ideophones?
Craving for #fieldwork in this area?
Check out this book and ideas will come...
I explain how to conduct #psycholinguistic research in #minority languages such as #Basque
@oxfordacademic.bsky.social @psylexlab.bsky.social

New book on ideophones
Williams, J. P (ed.). 2025. Capturing expressivity. Contents, methods, and techniques for linguistic research. OUP.
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/capturing-expressivity-9780192858931?cc=es&lang=en&

New book on ideophones: TOC
Williams, J. P (ed.). 2025. Capturing expressivity. Contents, methods, and techniques for linguistic research. OUP.
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/capturing-expressivity-9780192858931?cc=es&lang=en&

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Bodo Winter @bodowinter.bsky.social · Jul 15

Hello Django 😍

I'm definitely in the wrong field

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Robin Edds 🏳️‍🌈 @reddsreads.bsky.social · Jul 5

There's a new Collaborative Research Center focusing on the common ground at the University of Tübingen (where I did my MA), with a variety of really cool looking PhD and postdoc opportunities in linguistics starting in October: uni-tuebingen.de/en/283575

Job advertisements

uni-tuebingen.de

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Daria Dayter @coocho.bsky.social · Jun 19

We are recruiting! An English linguistics professorship in Tampere (tenure track, open rank). Application deadline August 18
tuni.rekrytointi.com/paikat/?o=A_...

Tenure track position in English linguistics (Assistant Professor, Associate Professor or Professor) / tenure track -tehtävä, englannin kielen tutkimus (Apulaisprofessori tai Professori)

tuni.rekrytointi.com

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