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Research Fellow in Data Sciences at UCL 📖 💬 Multimodality, iconicity, metaphor, gesture, numbers 🤏 🔢 #rstats #python #datascience #openscience 💻 🔓 https://www.gregwoodin.co.uk/ https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=7x

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Greg Woodin @gregwoodin.bsky.social · Nov 20

It's out—my new #openaccess paper with Bodo Winter in Cognitive Science (@cogscisociety.bsky.social) 🥳. Thread 👇 (1/11)
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Greg Woodin @gregwoodin.bsky.social · 6d

Congrats! 🥳

Greg Woodin @gregwoodin.bsky.social · 6d

My research/conference visit to Marseille and Aix is coming to a close and it's been a real adventure. Feel very grateful to be able to do things like this as part of my job. Lots of interesting conversations, great food, sightseeing, and productive collaboration. Hope to see you again soon 👋🏻

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Marah Jaraisy @marahjaraisy.bsky.social · 12d

Very excited to announce that yesterday I submitted my PhD thesis: The Linguistic Life of the Kufr Qassem Deaf Community: Language Emergence, Variation, Change, and Persistence.

I dedicate this thesis to my people: the resilient Palestinian people

THE LINGUISTIC LIFE OF THE KUFR QASSEM DEAF COMMUNITY LANGUAGE EMERGENCE, VARIATION, CHANGE, AND PERSISTENCE by MARAH JARAISI A thesis submitted to the University of Birmingham for the degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY Supervised by Professor Adam Schembri and Dr. Marcus Perlman Department of Linguistics and Communication School of English, Drama, and Creative Studies College of Arts and Law University of Birmingham September 2025

Dedication This thesis is dedicated to the resilient Palestinian people.

(poem) Because I am not like match sticks, I light up once… and die. but I am like the fires of the Magi: I burn… from my cradle to my grave and from my predecessors to my descendants. Long as the horizon is my breath, and I have mastered the craft of ants, gently for history is written the way we dictate

By - Tawfiq Ziad -

Greg Woodin @gregwoodin.bsky.social · 13d

Some of the predictor-specific trends for word learning... The speaking rate finding continues to puzzle us!

Greg Woodin @gregwoodin.bsky.social · 13d

Some graphs to pique your interest... and also because converting to PDF corrupted the picture quality on the slides 😅

Greg Woodin @gregwoodin.bsky.social · 13d

Really enjoyed speaking at ESLP today! You can check out the slides for my presentation here: osf.io/nex2y

Greg Woodin @gregwoodin.bsky.social · Jul 15

Pleased that my paper with @gabriellavigliocco.bsky.social, @fourtassi.bsky.social, Yan Gu, and Stefano James has been accepted as a talk at this year's Embodied and Situated Language Processing conference at Aix-Marseille University. Abstract below 👇

Greg Woodin @gregwoodin.bsky.social · 22d

Who's coming to ESLP? 🇫🇷 ☺️

Greg Woodin @gregwoodin.bsky.social · Jul 15

Pleased that my paper with @gabriellavigliocco.bsky.social, @fourtassi.bsky.social, Yan Gu, and Stefano James has been accepted as a talk at this year's Embodied and Situated Language Processing conference at Aix-Marseille University. Abstract below 👇

Greg Woodin @gregwoodin.bsky.social · Jul 28

Sent! ☺️

Greg Woodin @gregwoodin.bsky.social · Jul 28

Let me know if you don't have access via your institution and I can send you a copy personally ☺️

Greg Woodin @gregwoodin.bsky.social · Jul 28

Pleased that my new chapter that will be published in the International Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics has now been published online: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Greg Woodin @gregwoodin.bsky.social · Jul 28

I hope you find it interesting!

Greg Woodin @gregwoodin.bsky.social · Jul 28

Pleased that my new chapter that will be published in the International Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics has now been published online: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Greg Woodin @gregwoodin.bsky.social · Jul 15

As mentioned in the abstract, this is a preregistered study: osf.io/9z5qn

#openscience #reproducibility #phacking #preregistration #harking #replicability

Greg Woodin @gregwoodin.bsky.social · Jul 15

Pleased that my paper with @gabriellavigliocco.bsky.social, @fourtassi.bsky.social, Yan Gu, and Stefano James has been accepted as a talk at this year's Embodied and Situated Language Processing conference at Aix-Marseille University. Abstract below 👇

Greg Woodin @gregwoodin.bsky.social · Jun 1

Want to find out more? Download my CV: www.gregwoodin.co.uk/files/CV.pdf (4/4)

Greg Woodin @gregwoodin.bsky.social · Jun 1

If you're a researcher working with rich or complex data and need support with statistical analysis or visualisation, I’d love to help.

Services include:
• R- and Python-based data wrangling & visualisation
• Bayesian/frequentist modelling
• Clear reporting & tailored communication (3/4)

Greg Woodin @gregwoodin.bsky.social · Jun 1

On this project, I led the data analysis and visualisation in R, communicating with Marah to refine the coding scheme, clarify research questions, and tailor the analytical approach to the structure of her data. (2/3)

Greg Woodin @gregwoodin.bsky.social · Jun 1

Currently wrapping up work on a Statistical Consultancy project for @marahjaraisy.bsky.social's investigation into the Kufr Qassem deaf community, focusing on semiotic strategies used for tracking referents in signed narratives, part of @adamcschembri.bsky.social's ERC-funded SignMorph grant. (1/4)

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wimpouw @wimpouw.bsky.social · May 21

"Human voice aligns with whole-body kinetics" is now published! royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/epdf/10....

Headline: Muscles that control arm movement affect the voice!

The EMG, acoustic, ground-reaction force, kinematics dataset is also fully open and FAIR reviewed:
github.com/WimPouw/kine...

Greg Woodin @gregwoodin.bsky.social · May 14

Pleased to have my first solo publication, 'Iconicity in language and communication', accepted for print in the International Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 3rd Edition. 😌

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Akira Murakami @mrkm-a.bsky.social · May 6

As we look ahead to the upcoming Corpus Linguistics Summer School (#CCRSS25, 7–11 July), we’ll be spotlighting our fantastic instructors and the sessions they’ll be leading. There’s still time to register—don’t miss out!
www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edac...

Corpus Linguistics Summer School 2025

Our Corpus Linguistics summer school is open to undergraduate, postgraduate, and doctoral students, as well as researchers who want to improve their skills to apply corpus methods in their own researc...

www.birmingham.ac.uk

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Adam Schembri (ˈʃɛmbɹi/ˈʃkɛmbri) @adamcschembri.bsky.social · Feb 26

New preprint paper (to appear in Journal of Linguistics) with @fbisnath.bsky.social, Hannah Lutzenberger, @marahjaraisy.bsky.social, and Rehana Omardeen
'Deconstructing notions of morphological ‘complexity’: Lessons from creoles and sign languages'
Proud to be part of this team! osf.io/tmkrw

Greg Woodin @gregwoodin.bsky.social · Mar 25

Anyone else get Solero vibes? Crazy how colours can trigger such strong associations/feelings.

Greg Woodin @gregwoodin.bsky.social · Mar 19

Thanks for having me! If you couldn't make it, the slides can be downloaded at osf.io/p2h95.

Greg Woodin @gregwoodin.bsky.social · Mar 19

Today at 1pm GMT!

Greg Woodin @gregwoodin.bsky.social · Mar 17

This Wednesday (19th March) at 1pm GMT, I'll be virtually presenting this work, co-authored with @bodowinter.bsky.social and @lordlorson.bsky.social, at the University of Edinburgh's Psycholinguistics Coffee meeting. DM me or email me at [email protected] for the URL! ☺️

Greg Woodin @gregwoodin.bsky.social · Mar 17

This Wednesday (19th March) at 1pm GMT, I'll be virtually presenting this work, co-authored with @bodowinter.bsky.social and @lordlorson.bsky.social, at the University of Edinburgh's Psycholinguistics Coffee meeting. DM me or email me at [email protected] for the URL! ☺️