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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

sites.utexas.edu

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Odette Scharenborg @odettes.bsky.social · 3d

13 PhD POSITIONS available in the framework of the HUM.AI.N-ACCENT MSCA Doctoral Network: ‘Bridging Communication Gaps in Human and Human-AI Interactions: The Role of Accented Speech on Neurocognitive mechanisms and Social Dynamics’

cordis.europa.eu/project/id/1...

HUM.AI.N-ACCENT is an interdisciplinary research project that explores the neurocognitive and social impacts of foreign-accented speech in human-human and human-AI interactions. With millions of new a...

cordis.europa.eu

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Susanne Brouwer @susannebrouwer.bsky.social · 6d

PhD Position: Accented Speech Processing - Apply now!

Come work with Mirjam Broersma, @davidpeeters.bsky.social, and me at the Centre for Language Studies, Radboud University in the Netherlands.

Application deadline: 19 October 2025

For more information, see
www.ru.nl/en/working-a...

PhD Position: Accented Speech Processing | Radboud University

Do you want to work as a PhD: Accented Speech Processing at the Faculty of Arts? Check our vacancy!

www.ru.nl

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Universität Konstanz @uni-konstanz.de · 8d

🏃‍♀️💨 Im Laufschritt um die #Universität! Am 15. Oktober 2025 um 17 Uhr startet der Campus Run – offen für alle Laufbegeisterten aus der #UniKonstanz und der Stadt Konstanz.
Ob schnell oder gemütlich: Hauptsache dabei! ✨Details: https://t1p.de/bi3tx

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Universität Konstanz @uni-konstanz.de · 9d

Universitäten @uni-freiburg.de, #UniKonstanz + @unituebingen.bsky.social schaffen mit Unterstützung des @mwk-bw.bsky.social 14 Stellen für Gastforschende: Das Global Fellowship-Programm des Institutes for Advanced Studies richtet sich an Nachwuchsforschende. t1p.de/3zbud @zukunftskolleg.bsky.social

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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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Prof Tamara Rathcke @tamarathcke.bsky.social · 12d

My new paper is out with SciReps! #OA rdcu.be/eInOJ

Musical aptitude moderates ease and vividness but not frequency of the speech-to-song illusion

Scientific Reports - Musical aptitude moderates ease and vividness but not frequency of the speech-to-song illusion

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Prof Tamara Rathcke @tamarathcke.bsky.social · 13d

Looks like an excellent special issue! Well done to the editors: www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

Brain Research | Origins of variability in acquiring and using linguistic knowledge | ScienceDirect.com by Elsevier

www.sciencedirect.com

Prof Tamara Rathcke @tamarathcke.bsky.social · 16d

My PhD student published a new paper! Very proud of her hard work. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Dissociation Between Attention and Phonological Processing in Developmental Dyslexia: New Evidence from Italian

Developmental dyslexia is a neurodevelopmental disorder marked by persistent literacy difficulties. Prevailing accounts attribute dyslexic issues to impaired phonological awareness, temporal proces...

www.tandfonline.com

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Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft @dfg.de · Sep 9

Funding Acknowledgements in Publikationen verweisen auf die jeweiligen Förderer - ein guter Nachweis für den #Fördererfolg und die #Mittelverwendung der DFG. Und die meisten Forscher*innen machen das, sogar via Social Media. 👍
FAQ und ein How To dazu haben wir jetzt hier:
fcld.ly/funding-ackn...

Neue Webseite zu Funding Acknowledgements

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Prof Tamara Rathcke @tamarathcke.bsky.social · Sep 6

PR for a new book by an excellent team of colleagues! Preorders available under the link global.oup.com/academic/pro...

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Susanne Fuchs @susfuchs.bsky.social · Aug 30

New preprint, a review of infant #vocal and #motor #rhythm research, a suggestion to include #respiration in future research. It us work with Elina Rubertus, Aude Noiray and Laura Koenig www.researchgate.net/publication/...

(PDF) Towards a fuller integration of respiratory rhythms into research on infant vocal and motor development

PDF | Rhythm organizes many human motor activities from before birth and continues to shape development throughout infancy. In this review, we examine... | Find, read and cite all the research you nee...

www.researchgate.net

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Christian Ilbury @christianilbury.bsky.social · Jul 22

Glasgow's looking for a temp phonetician/sociolinguist: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNZ288/t...

Tutor/Lecturer in Phonetics and Sociolinguistics (LTS) at University of Glasgow

Discover Tutor/Lecturer in Phonetics and Sociolinguistics (LTS) jobs and more in higher education on jobs.ac.uk. Apply for further details on the top job board.

www.jobs.ac.uk

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Psychonomic Society @psychonomicsociety.bsky.social · Jul 22

A researcher-friendly resource for studying phonological social networks. Spread the word to your networks! #psynomBRM paper by Alderete and colleagues #Psycholinguistics #NetworkAnalysis #OpenAccess post by Caballero

Can a “fish” be friends with a “dish” – a new open-access resource for phonological network research

A common trope in high school movies involves the protagonist being given a tour of the various student cliques, where distinctive groups like the rowdy football players, the fashionable mean girls…

wp.me

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Prof Tamara Rathcke @tamarathcke.bsky.social · Jul 19

Years in the making and finally out! #amplitude #risetime of #speechsignals is not meaningfully interpretable.

www.frontiersin.org/articles/10....

Frontiers | Acoustic and linguistic influences on rise-time modulations in natural English speech: evidence from a sensorimotor synchronization paradigm

Modulations of amplitude rise-time are considered fundamental to speech rhythm. However, rise-time is a holistic measure of the waveform shape and, as such, ...

www.frontiersin.org

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Laura Bailey @linguistlaura.bsky.social · May 2

What's everyone's favourite textbook for language acquisition (undergrad), and why? (Modern, inclusive outlook please!) #linguistics

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Emma Holmes @emmaholmes90.bsky.social · Mar 31

New *Funded PhD opportunity* for UK students to work with me at UCL (London), researching auditory training interventions to improve speech understanding in noisy environments. Deadline 28th April. Full details and job description: bit.ly/4ccbbzj @uclpals.bsky.social [please share]

Divisional Vacancies

Job Vacancies in the Division of Psychology and Language Sciences

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Prof Tamara Rathcke @tamarathcke.bsky.social · Apr 10

A new paper out by my PhD student Marina Rossi who has also just submitted her thesis!

I couldn’t be more proud of her.

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Testing the dyslexic rhythm deficit in Italian: evidence from sensorimotor synchronization with connected speech

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Benjamin Morillon @bnmorillon.bsky.social · Mar 21

POST-DOC CALL!
2-year post-doctoral position to work in Marseille on any topic in the field of language, communication and the brain.
Deadline May, 20, 2025
www.ilcb.fr/ilcb-postdoc...

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NCCR Evolving Language @nccrlanguage.bsky.social · Mar 25

📣 #Job alert! The Technology Platform LiRI at the University of Zurich is looking for Data Science Consultant specialized in #statistics, in collaboration with the NCCR Evolving Language!

More details here: jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancie...

UZH: Data Science Consultant (specialized in statistics)

Within the National Center of Competence in Research (NCCR) Evolving Language, which involves nearly 40 different research groups from a large variety of disciplines across Switzerland, and the Univer...

jobs.uzh.ch

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Balthasar Bickel @balthasarbickel.bsky.social · Mar 26

Fantastic job opportunity: Join our community of researchers spanning the natural, social, and cognitive sciences in studying the evolution of language in all its dimensions!

NCCR Evolving Language @nccrlanguage.bsky.social · Mar 25

📣 #Job alert! The Technology Platform LiRI at the University of Zurich is looking for Data Science Consultant specialized in #statistics, in collaboration with the NCCR Evolving Language!

More details here: jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancie...

UZH: Data Science Consultant (specialized in statistics)

Within the National Center of Competence in Research (NCCR) Evolving Language, which involves nearly 40 different research groups from a large variety of disciplines across Switzerland, and the Univer...

jobs.uzh.ch

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Michael Pleyer @symbolicstorage.bsky.social · Mar 27

10 more days to apply for this postdoc position in our lab!
Reposting & Sharing Appreciated!

Michael Pleyer @symbolicstorage.bsky.social · Mar 8

JOB ALERT in #language and #linguistics!
Postdoc Position at the Center for Language Evolution Studies, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland.
Job offer here: www.umk.pl/en/jobs/?tas...
We are now looking at a broader candidate pool so do consider applying!
Please repost & share widely!

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Falk Huettig @falkhuettig.bsky.social · Mar 27

In the journal Brain Research we introduce
The virtual hand paradigm: A new method for studying prediction and language-vision interactions.
Joint work with O. Jubran and T. Lachmann. Open access at www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The virtual hand paradigm: A new method for studying prediction and language-vision interactions

We introduce a new method for measuring prediction and language-vision interactions: tracking the trajectories of hand-reaching movements in Virtual R…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Simon J. Greenhill @simongreenhill.bsky.social · Mar 24

Two Fully-Funded PhD positions at Auckland Uni!

Come help us understand the past and future of global cultural and linguistic diversity.

#linguistics #evolution #academia #phd

www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

An AI generated colorful image, trying to catch the eye of potential PhD students.

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Tsung-Lun Alan Wan @tsunglunone.bsky.social · Mar 23

Fancy working in Taiwan? We're looking for a laboratory phonologist!

Hsinchu is 30 mins away from Taipei by High Speed Railway, and the shuttle bus from our campus to the HSR station also takes around 30 mins.

Questions are welcomed!

fl.nycu.edu.tw/2025/03/20/%...

【徵聘專任老師】Tenure-Track Faculty Position in Laboratory Phonology/Phonetics – National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University – 外國語文學系外國文學與語言學碩士班

We are particularly interested in candidates with research expertise in cognitive linguistics, computational modeling, corpus linguistics, and/or neurolinguistics. The successful applicant will receive an independent lab space, startup funds, and housing accommodation support for three years.

fl.nycu.edu.tw

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