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Katie Franich @kfran.bsky.social · 4d

Tenure-track phonology position at UChicago!

Linguist List @linguistlist.bsky.social · 6d

Jobs: English; Phonetics, Phonology, Semantics: Assistant Professor in Phonology, The University of Chicago

Description: Position Title: Assistant Professor in Phonology Location: Chicago, IL Position Type: Faculty - Tenure Track/Tenured Position URL: apply.interfolio.com/174988 Position Description: The Department of Linguistics invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Phonology with an expected start date of July 1, 2026, or as soon as possible thereafter. The selected candidate will pursue their own research agenda, collaborate with faculty in the Department

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Charles B. Chang @cbchang.bsky.social · 10d

It's ✨ academic job application season ✨ & I hope you'll consider applying for and/or spreading the word about CityU's ongoing search for faculty in computational linguistics, psycho-/neurolinguistics, & experimental linguistics: open-rank and rolling!

www.cityu.edu.hk/hro/en/job/c...

#langsky 🐦🐦

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Katie Franich @kfran.bsky.social · 9d

Girls do it all the time when texting each other, signals EXTRA non-threatening

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Katie Franich @kfran.bsky.social · 10d

Pomona College Ling and CogSci Dept is hiring an Assistant Professor with a specialization in phonetics! (Deadline Nov 1)

linguistlist job ad is here: linguistlist.org/issues/36/27....

Any questions can be directed to Michael Diercks, chair of the search committee ([email protected]).

LINGUIST List 36.2713 Jobs: Phonetics: Assistant Professor of Linguistics, Pomona College

The LINGUIST List, International Linguistics Community Online.

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Katie Franich @kfran.bsky.social · 25d

@phono-logical.bsky.social cool data! I don’t hear the second one as an implosive, but definitely looks/sounds weaker than the first one. Wondering if lower pitch/vowel quality following the second one is contributing to an implosive percept?

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Katie Franich @kfran.bsky.social · Apr 26

Friends, take action to prevent grant funding decisions at NIH and NSF from being made by political appointees, instead of experts in scientific fields themselves!

Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · Apr 23

ACTION ITEM-----ACTION ITEM

Implementation of Schedule F

This is what a lot of us have been worried about.

This allows for many civil service positions to replaced with political appointees. This could include NIH institute directors and even POs.

BUT THERE IS A COMMENT PERIOD...

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Helen Tager-Flusberg @htagerf.bsky.social · Apr 3

Just heard that Dianne Bianchi NICHD Director was fired and NIDCD has an ominous announcement on its home page. Every day is a worse nightmare than the day before

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Lauren Gawne @superlinguo.bsky.social · Mar 24

It's publication day for Gesture: A Slim Guide

If you have been wanting to think about gesture in your own research, bring it into your teaching or connect with the field of Gesture Studies, this is for you. It's under 50k words and has a nifty glossary too.

A bookshelf filled with various books about gesture, with a prominent book in the center titled 'Gesture: A Slim Guide' by Lauren Gawne. The book cover features a black line illustration of a person with abstract representation of eight different hands doing gestures.

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Rachael Sirianni, PhD @docsirianni.bsky.social · Mar 15

This is horrible to post, but I may as well post it. We are essentially shutting down research operations in my group, which is focused on treatments for pediatric brain cancer. I’m a well funded investigator, and there’s no choice. Science can’t function without the stability of NIH

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Katie Franich @kfran.bsky.social · Mar 6

New paper alert! Co-speech gestures can influence the timing and magnitude of oral articulatory gestures 💁‍♀️ Co-authored with my awesome postdoc Karee Gavin and Eliana Spradling

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Co-speech gestures influence the magnitude and stability of articulatory movements: evidence for coupling-based enhancement - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - Co-speech gestures influence the magnitude and stability of articulatory movements: evidence for coupling-based enhancement

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Katie Franich @kfran.bsky.social · Mar 6

Proud to be a Bostonian today! @wutrain.bsky.social

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Mayor Michelle Wu's Opening Statement to the United States House Committee on Oversight

YouTube video by City of Boston

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Zhenghan Qi @qzhever.bsky.social · Mar 5

These Pew survey results on public opinions of American scientists can help us think about how to communicate our messages better this Friday. @standupforscience.bsky.social #standupforscience2025

www.pewresearch.org/science/2024...

Public Trust in Scientists and Views on Their Role in Policymaking

Americans’ trust in scientists is slightly higher than it was last year, but remains lower than before the COVID-19 pandemic.

www.pewresearch.org

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Nicole Holliday @mixedlinguist.bsky.social · Mar 3

I have a new article out today with the homie @pereed.bsky.social in PLOS One, “Gender and Racial Bias Issues in a Commercial ‘Tone of Voice’ Analysis System”! In short, don’t believe devices that claim to tell you how you sound to other humans!

journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Gender and racial bias issues in a commercial “tone of voice” analysis system

Social Feedback Speech Technologies (SFST) are programs and devices, often “AI”-powered, that claim to provide users with feedback about how their speech sounds to other humans. To date, academic rese...

journals.plos.org

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Katie Franich @kfran.bsky.social · Mar 3

At least a shred of good news!

David Malakoff @davidmalakoff.bsky.social · Mar 3

NEW: NIH announces some key grant-review meetings will restart in late March | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

NIH announces some key grant-review meetings will restart in late March

Trump policy blocking required notices has frozen reviews of thousands of grants

www.science.org

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