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Kyle Mahowald (COLM 2025) @kmahowald.bsky.social · 1d

UT Austin Linguistics is hiring in computational linguistics!

Asst or Assoc.

We have a thriving group sites.utexas.edu/compling/ and a long proud history in the space. (For instance, fun fact, Jeff Elman was a UT Austin Linguistics Ph.D.)

faculty.utexas.edu/career/170793

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UT Austin Computational Linguistics Research Group – Humans processing computers processing humans processing language

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Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics @mpi-nl.bsky.social · 5d

We're seeking the next Director of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics! Lead cutting-edge research in language & cognition. Nominations (incl. self) due 19 Dec 2025.
mpi.nl/career-education/vacancies/vacancy/nominations-and-self-nominations-sought-position-director-max

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Caroline Rowland @carorowland.bsky.social · 5d

Nominate yourself to come run your own research dept in lovely MPI-PL in the woods. Or nominate someone amazing - your colleague, supervisor, former student.... Deadline for nominations 19th December

Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics @mpi-nl.bsky.social · 5d

We're seeking the next Director of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics! Lead cutting-edge research in language & cognition. Nominations (incl. self) due 19 Dec 2025.
mpi.nl/career-education/vacancies/vacancy/nominations-and-self-nominations-sought-position-director-max

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Fernanda Ferreira @fernandaedi.bsky.social · 8d

Posting on behalf of Tamar Gollan, who is not on Bluesky:

A postdoc position is open and available immediately in Dr. Tamar Gollan’s Laboratory of Aging Bilingualism at the University of California, San Diego, funded by NIH & NSF. See link for details!

psychiatry.ucsd.edu/about/LAB_Go...

psychiatry.ucsd.edu

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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcc.bsky.social · 11d

Hey. The fragmentation of the social media landscape has been hard on indie #scicomm 🧪 projects

So if you'd like to follow a podcast that's enthusiastic about #linguistics, could you check out @lingthusiasm.bsky.social?

And if you think your followers might like to, could you give this a repost?

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Tiffany Ito @tiffanyito.bsky.social · 16d

University of Colorado Boulder Psychology & Neuroscience is searching for TWO tenure track assistant professors!!

jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...

#socialpsychology #cogpsyc #PsychSciSky #PsychJob
#psycjobs #psychology

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Assistant Professor

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Fernanda Ferreira @fernandaedi.bsky.social · 16d

New paper: We argue that linearization in language production is a foraging process, with speakers navigating semantic and spatial clusters. Lead author: Karina Tachihara, former UC Davis postdoc, now faculty at UIUC!

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Planning to be incremental: Scene descriptions reveal meaningful clustering in language production

How do speakers plan complex descriptions and then execute those plans? In this work, we attempt to answer this question by asking subjects to describ…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Kirby Conrod @kirbyconrod.bsky.social · 16d

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!
swarthmore.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Online Survey Software | Qualtrics Survey Solutions

Qualtrics sophisticated online survey software solutions make creating online surveys easy. Learn more about Research Suite and get a free account today.

swarthmore.az1.qualtrics.com

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Stefan Hartmann @stefanhartmann.bsky.social · 20d

The first of the three corpora of German-English bilingual children's early speech that we've been working on for the last few years is finally publicly available! 🥳 🎉 talkbank.org/childes/acce...

CHILDES English-German MPI-EVA-Leipzig Corpus

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aaron bornstein @aaronbornstein.bsky.social · 27d

Come work with us! UC Irvine Cognitive Sciences is looking for a new Assistant Professor to join our team: recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09896

I'm not on the committee, but happy to talk if you're interested.

Assistant Professor - Cognitive Sciences

University of California, Irvine is hiring. Apply now!

recruit.ap.uci.edu

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Elaine Francis @ejfranci2.bsky.social · 29d

This is not really helping lol

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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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Elaine Francis @ejfranci2.bsky.social · 29d

I'm so sorry. Hugs.

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Calvin Lai @calvinklai.bsky.social · 29d

🚨We're hiring!🚨 The Dept of Psychology at Rutgers is hiring an Assistant Professor in Social Psychology. Review of applications begin on Oct 18. Details here: jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/259...

I'm chairing the search committee and am happy to field questions about the position. 🧵

Assistant Professor in Social Psychology, Tenure-Track

The Department of Psychology at Rutgers University-New Brunswick, NJ, plans to hire a tenure-track Assistant Professor in SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY, with a start date of September 1, 2026. We seek a candidate...

jobs.rutgers.edu

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Alex Browman @alexbrowman.bsky.social · Aug 20

The College of the Holy Cross is hiring for 2 tenure-track psychology positions: 1 in Cognitive Psychology (specifically, higher-order cognition) and 1 in Developmental Psychology. Please share widely!

Developmental job ad: apply.interfolio.com/171704

Cognitive job ad: apply.interfolio.com/171698

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Nelson Flores @nelsonlflores.bsky.social · Sep 6

Kudos to the Philly Inquirer for actually centering the voices of trans youth and their families.

"It's not about protecting the kids. It's about taking away the rights of people who you don't want to exist."

share.inquirer.com/TE1hNg

Transgender kids’ lives are on the line as CHOP fights Trump over patient medical records, parents say

Trump’s justice department wants CHOP to hand over medical records for transgender children receiving gender-affirming care. Many parents support CHOP’s fight to protect their private information.

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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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Jonathan Kasstan @jrkasstan.bsky.social · Sep 5

Haverford College is looking for a tenure-track Assistant Professor of #Linguistics, with a primary specialization in #Sociolinguistics, secondary specialization(s) open -> www.haverford.edu/provost/news...

Tenure-track Assistant Professor of Sociolinguistics

Haverford College seeks a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Linguistics.

www.haverford.edu

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alexbergs.bsky.social @alexbergs.bsky.social · Aug 29

And... here's another brilliant Element! Congrats to Elisabeth! Come and get it while it's hot (and free). (Waves Hands Enthusiastically)

www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Multimodal Construction Grammar

Cambridge Core - Semantics and Pragmatics - Multimodal Construction Grammar

www.cambridge.org

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Elaine Francis @ejfranci2.bsky.social · Sep 3

Great example! Readers are going to slow way down at “who”.

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AAUP IU Bloomington Chapter @iubaaup.bsky.social · Aug 30

📰hot off the press, a piece by English professor and IUB AAUP Exec member Purnima Bose, outlining the ways in which recent legislation in Indiana has been deployed as a direct assault on the autonomy and academic freedom of the state's public universities againstthecurrent.org/atc238/india...

Indiana’s Assault on Public Education

Godfather of Trump University, Trump is insisting on his rules for private and public U.S. universities. RIGHT-WING AUTHORITARIANS such as Donald Trump and his MAGA minions drive their ideological …

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Elaine Francis @ejfranci2.bsky.social · Aug 31

Your book on grammatical theory is an amazing resource! I use it all the time. Thanks for publishing it open access.

Elaine Francis @ejfranci2.bsky.social · Aug 30

I wish I had this power. I’m GenX (54) but pathologically avoid any kind of unscheduled phone calls. Even realizing it’s so much more efficient in some cases.

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Dan Jurafsky @jurafsky.bsky.social · Aug 24

Now that school is starting for lots of folks, it's time for a new release of Speech and Language Processing! Jim and I added all sorts of material for the August 2025 release! With slides to match! Check it out here: web.stanford.edu/~jurafsky/sl...

Speech and Language Processing

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · Aug 24

French and Canadian researchers have shown that faulty mitochondria directly drive memory loss in dementia. Using a new tool to boost mitochondrial activity in mice, they restored memory performance, proving cause and effect for the first time. buff.ly/2REM0fd
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Scientists reversed memory loss by powering the brain’s tiny engines

Scientists have discovered a direct cause-and-effect link between faulty mitochondria and the memory loss seen in neurodegenerative diseases. By creating a novel tool to boost mitochondrial activity…

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