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Calle Börstell @cborstell.bsky.social · 22d

🚨 Open PhD position in sign language #linguistics 🚨

The focus should be on the structure of signed languages, or connect to other research profiles at the department (e.g. computational linguistics, acquisition, typology, multilingualism)

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Deadline: 15 October 2025

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

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Robin Edds 🏳️‍🌈 @reddsreads.bsky.social · 23d

We all wrote to the BBC (a few times 😅), and were told it was to provide value-for-money for UK licence fee payers, then were directed to the poorly made BBC app

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Robin Edds 🏳️‍🌈 @reddsreads.bsky.social · 23d

It sounds stupid, but my family and I are all big BBC radio listeners, and it's been surprisingly hard to get used to it just not being there! Nothing's on demand, surprisingly few podcasts, no Proms etc... Even a VPN doesn't really work because they quickly work out which IP addresses to block

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Jason Okundaye @jaseokundaye.bsky.social · Aug 15

I wrote about the decision myself and other authors took to withdraw from the longlist of the Polari Book Prizes for LGBTQ+ writers www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Why I withdrew my book from an LGBTQ+ literary prize | Jason Okundaye

The Polari first book prize claims to promote trans rights and trans voices. But when I saw the longlist, I had to act, says Guardian writer Jason Okundaye

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Sachaaaargh Coward 👻 @sachacoward.bsky.social · Aug 15

I am one of the 14 authors who chose to leave the Polari Prize, and I find myself frustrated and saddened at the way this entire story has been represented. 1/

The Guardian @theguardian.com · Aug 14

John Boyne says LGBTQ+ fiction prize backlash brought him ‘close to the edge’

Gender critical novelist urges writers to reenter prize they boycotted and may ask judges not to shortlist his novella The gender critical Irish novelist John Boyne has said he has been brought “very close to the edge” by the backlash to his inclusion on the longlist for a literary prize for LGBTQ+ authors. Ten authors and two judges withdrew from the Polari prize and more than 800 writers and publishing industry workers signed a petition calling on Polari to remove Boyne’s novella Earth from its longlist. Continue reading...

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Crushed @silenttakedown.bsky.social · Jul 19

corporations on july 1st:

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Michael Franke @meanwhileina.bsky.social · Jul 2

Our large-scale interdisciplinary research initiative @unituebingen.bsky.social on "Common Ground" now has a website: uni-tuebingen.de/en/research/...

We are also hiring! Check out recent postings here and the continually added job ads here:
uni-tuebingen.de/en/universit...

#linguistics + friends

CRC Common Ground

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

Ah, amazing, thank you! Just what I was looking for

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

Couldn't find a post from any of the organisers to reskeet, but more than happy to if someone can point me in the direction of one

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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

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Michael Chesnut @michaelchesnut.bsky.social · Jun 29

'BRITISH PLATFORM'
'PUBLIC HOUSE COFFEE'
'Travelcard' and more here on this cold coffee brand which links Britain, subways, travel, and coffee in ways I find a bit surprising. All part of the coffee #LinguisticLandscape of Korea!

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Nicole Holliday @mixedlinguist.bsky.social · Nov 9

Wolfram: “the best studies are those that combine quantitative study and case studies, because we don’t want to lose the people who tell us what’s going on in their lives” ❤️ #NWAV52 #linguistics

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Kirby Conrod @kirbyconrod.bsky.social · Oct 20

In a move surprising Probably No One, I have written about syntax pedagogy! This time for COZIL's blog: here's my five quick tips on how to make your syntax #linguistics classroom more LGBTQ+ friendly!

lgbtqlinguistics.wordpress.com/2024/10/18/m...

Make your theoretical syntax classroom more LGBTQ-friendly with these 5 quick tips!

Theoretical linguistics is not necessarily a space that excludes queer linguists outright — hell, we named our LGBTQ Linguistics award after Arnold Zwicky, a prolific syntactician (among othe…

lgbtqlinguistics.wordpress.com

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Robin Edds 🏳️‍🌈 @reddsreads.bsky.social · Oct 17

Trying to explain to my partner why I find the sentence "In my opinion, can you really mess up sushi?" (uttered in a podcast by Saoirse-Monica Jackson) so interesting, and realising I'm making zero sense to him 😅

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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcc.bsky.social · Aug 22

Pius Akumbu, in the roundtable on decolonization in linguistics at #SLE2024:

"If funding agencies are funding an outsider PhD student to do work on a minoritized language, they could also be funding -- and linguists could be pushing for this -- training for a community member in linguistics."

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Robin Edds 🏳️‍🌈 @reddsreads.bsky.social · Aug 21

a picture of a man and a bird with the words tabora a repartir la magia por el mundo on the bottom

Alt: A gif of two puppets at the news desk in a television show. The subtitle says "Ahora repartir la magia por el mundo" (Translation: Now to spread the magic throughout the world)

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · Aug 19

I did some math last night and if @skypeascientist.bsky.social sells 5000 advent calendars, between our other fundraisers and patreon, we would fully fund our program for 2025.

It’s a lot…but I’m going to attempt to do it.

Get one here, tell your friends 👇🏻
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Frog Facts advent calendars, with rainbow iridescent stickers on them, being held up by Sarah. there are 6 species of frogs, including bullfrogs, poison dart frogs, leopard frogs, and two kinds of tree frogs and even a sneaky toad under the water

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Language on the Move @languageonthemove.bsky.social · Apr 16

New on Language on the Move: the communication challenges faced by autistic people and why they result in lower life expectancy, by @geraldroche.bsky.social
And why are applied linguists generally not interested in autism?
#AutismAcceptanceMonth
www.languageonthemove.com/im-dying-to-...

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Robin Edds 🏳️‍🌈 @reddsreads.bsky.social · Feb 11

Followed by waking up feeling refreshed with all your expendable resources fully replenished 😅

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Kirby Conrod @kirbyconrod.bsky.social · Feb 7

Hey, I'm finally recruiting for a paid study! This is for anyone over 18 and fluent in English who uses neopronouns (like "xe," "fae," "thon," etc) as their personal pronouns. If you're interested, you can sign up to receive more information at the link below! Please share far and wide!!

Neopronouns interview study interest form

This form is to express interest in participating in an interview study conducted by Professor Kirby Conrod at Swarthmore College. Completing this interest form is just to give us a way to contact ...

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Robin Edds 🏳️‍🌈 @reddsreads.bsky.social · Jan 28

No spoilers, but really fascinated by the density of logophoric reflexives that come up at the Round Table in The Traitors UK. Just in the last few minutes it's been:
-I'm voting for yourself
-I've had suspicions about yourself
-You've been spreading rumours about myself

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Lauren "Hope is Praxis" Lastname @verbingnouns.bsky.social · Dec 6

Hey Science feed! 🧪 I'm doing a #linguistics study that requires a *lot* of people, especially from places I don't normally have access to. It's volunteer (unpaid) only at this stage, but if you've got 10-30(ish) minutes, I'd really appreciate if you took the survey and told me about people's names!

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Robin Edds 🏳️‍🌈 @reddsreads.bsky.social · Nov 3

Continuing my habit of focusing on stuff in language classes that will absolutely not help with learning the language 😅

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Robin Edds 🏳️‍🌈 @reddsreads.bsky.social · Nov 3

Sitting in Spanish class, idly wondering what the agreement with the syntactic subject of the particple in passive constructions (but not active) tells us about the syntax of agreement, and what people have already written about it

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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · Oct 3

The missile knows where it is
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ML202662641 Reddish Egret Macaulay Library

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