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Ben Gibb-Reid

@bgr-phon.bsky.social
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Lecturer in Phonetics at University of York - Researches in forensic phonetics, acoustics, sociophon, discourse-pragmatic variation. Is a fan of breakfast and other such events. Website: bit.ly/Ben-Gibb-Reid

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Ben Gibb-Reid @bgr-phon.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Have a spare 15 mins? Another one of my fab students Amy Cope is looking for listeners to explore how people perceive deepfakes versus real human voices 🤖 💬 slic.shef.ac.uk/77ed8da9-063...
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Ben Gibb-Reid @bgr-phon.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Really excited to be leading this project on deepfake voice perception with a fantastic team at York - not everyday that I get to say my research has been supported by Sir Michael Caine www.york.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
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Sir Michael Caine lends his voice to AI deepfake research
Sir Michael Caine has lent his voice to a research project exploring how technology can help combat harmful deepfakes.
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Hadley Wickham @hadley.nz · 06/08/2026
This what pivot_wider() was born for
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Ben Gibb-Reid @bgr-phon.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
If you see this, quote the energy you bring to Bluesky
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Tired Wallace And Gromit GIF by Aardman Animations - Find & Share on GIPHY
GIPHY image by Aardman Animations
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Ben Gibb-Reid @bgr-phon.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Request for participants! One of my lovely students, Creta is looking for people to respond to her survey about accents in gaming - if you like accent research and can spare 30 mins then please take part 🎮 📜 #accents #sociolinguistics york.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
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Accents in Gaming
This is a Study on Accents in Gaming. 68 Pages, roughly, of questions for a Master's Dissertation.
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Janna Sophia 🏔️ @jannaphia.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Please help me finish my thesis so I can finally be free of academia 🫶✨ aidetectionsurvey.carrd.co
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Ben Gibb-Reid @bgr-phon.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Stop the presses, Praat has a third author! (the logo remains the same) praat.org/manual/What_... #phonetics
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What's new?
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Ben Gibb-Reid @bgr-phon.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... Very much this
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Henry Nowak was failed in the last moments of his life – and then again by Britain’s disgraceful political class | Jason Okundaye
There are vital lessons to be learned from Nowak’s death. Instead, it has been used to refuel a pervasive lie about ethnic minorities and ‘two-tier’ policing, says Guardian Opinion assistant editor Ja...
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Ben Gibb-Reid @bgr-phon.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Are you an English Language A-level teacher? Or do you know someone who is? Please see below for details of an amazing FREE CPD workshop featuring some top linguists presenting on their work 💬 👩‍🏫 spaces still available #linguistics #sociolinguistics #EnglishLanguage
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Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 17/05/2026
Immigration make Britain brilliant
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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 16/05/2026
Michael Caine hates this one #eurovision
Muppets Christmas carol
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Ben Gibb-Reid @bgr-phon.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Eurovision ready
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The York English Language Toolkit @yorktoolkit.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
📣 Save the date: Friday 10th July 2026! This year's FREE and fully hybrid York English Language Toolkit CPD workshop for teachers of English Language A level is on Friday 10th July 2026 10.30am-4.30pm, with talks on Multicultural London English and more. Registration from April. Pass the word!
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Ben Gibb-Reid @bgr-phon.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Absolutely delighted to get cranking with this - 30th birthday present of youthful joy @play.date
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Ben Gibb-Reid @bgr-phon.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Here at #baap2026 - you can see my poster via this link if you want to read about Forensic phonetic methods in authentic and synthetic sample comparison📈
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Gibb-Reid_Hughes_Wormald_BAAP_2026_V2.pdf
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Ben Gibb-Reid @bgr-phon.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Happy to see my article on the phonetic variation of "just"📄has just (heh) been published in English Language and Linguistics - it's open access so feel free to have a read #phonetics
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Just a way of saying something: phonetic variation in the word just | English Language & Linguistics | Cambridge Core
Just a way of saying something: phonetic variation in the word just
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Ben Gibb-Reid @bgr-phon.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Always thankful for the excellent vowel plotting resources and other tools by @joeystanley.com when I teach Data Science, plotting on the shoulders of giants joeystanley.com/blog/#catego... 🎧 #Rstats
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Blog – Joey Stanley
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Hanafuda Report @hanafuda.report · 27/02/2026
🎁 Win Pokémon Pokopia for Nintendo Switch 2! I'm giving away a digital copy to one lucky winner. ➡️ Enter free: hanafuda.report/competition/ Bonus entries for: - Hanafuda Club members - YouTube subscribers - Reposting this post Closes 4 March at 2PM GMT. Open worldwide. 🎉 Good luck!
Pokemon Pokopia
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𝕵𝖔𝖗𝖉𝖆𝖓 𝕬𝖈𝖔𝖘𝖙𝖆 @jordanacosta.co · 25/02/2026
Resharing my free-to-use picture resource list👇
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Free-to-use Picture Resources for Writers
You have options other than Generative AI to illustrate your work The other day, I posted the following Substack Note: My opinion was challenged with two now-familiar rebuttals: 1. The vast majority o...
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Nina Markl 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @ninamarkl.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
good morning, #linguistics 🐦🐦 pals the University of Essex wants to cut 50% of our Language & Linguistics department, close our foundation programme & our Southend campus, + cut 400 jobs academic departments and professional services jobs across all depts join us in the fight against these cuts!
sign with lots of angry wugs protesting cuts
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Ben Gibb-Reid @bgr-phon.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
I am concerned that my data science students are gonna be too young for this reference... #Rstats #Rcoding
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Adrian Leemann @adrianleemann.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Come work with us! 🌟 3 Postdoc & 5 PhD positions – deadline for applications: 20 February. www.curlew.info/jobs
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Ben Gibb-Reid @bgr-phon.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
"Joe’s approach to food terminology is chaos" - I feel you Joe... linguistic variation can be a real BUN-mer www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
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You be the judge: should my husband stop calling all sweet things ‘buns’?
Parveen doesn’t know if she’s getting a sponge cake or a burger bap, but Joe thinks she needs to embrace his northern-isms. You decide who is sweet and who is sour
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Ben Gibb-Reid @bgr-phon.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
One last student project from this years' UG phonetics class - this ones just needs monolingual English speakers and will take 10 mins york.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
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Qualtrics Survey | Qualtrics Experience Management
The most powerful, simple and trusted way to gather experience data. Start your journey to experience management and try a free account today.
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Ben Gibb-Reid @bgr-phon.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Participants needed! One of my Phonetics students is looking for participants in her study - just requires listening to some voices in a short survey york.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... 🧪💬🎧
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Qualtrics Survey | Qualtrics Experience Management
The most powerful, simple and trusted way to gather experience data. Start your journey to experience management and try a free account today.
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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
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‘Teach kids internet bollocks, not my old rubbish,’ says Shakespeare: the Stephen Collins cartoon
Shakespeare’s ghost comes to the rescue of divided Britain
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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 27/08/2025
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Jaunty Art @jaunty.art · 25/07/2025
A horse is looking over its rear at the camera. It is holding a present in its mouth. Text reads “You looked.”
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Ben Gibb-Reid @bgr-phon.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Hello Internet people! One of my MSc students is looking for respondents to a short survey on the ability of deepfake audio to replicate speech. If you have 2 minutes, please fill it out: forms.gle/f3ufxis3wiZG...
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Perception of AI voices
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Ben Gibb-Reid @bgr-phon.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
It’s an absolute pleasure to be involved in organising this event
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Ben Gibb-Reid @bgr-phon.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Calling all Praat users! 👄👂 I've created a Praat scripting workshop with my good colleague Lauren Harrington. Feel free to see it at my website below! bit.ly/4eAHRnk #Praat #phonetics #coding
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Ben Gibb-Reid - Tools & Tutorials
Praat scripting tutorial Created by Lauren Harrington and myself for the York Early Careers Workshop (8 July 2025). All the scripts and handouts can be found in this folder. Also see below for the sl...
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Joe Saunders @joesaunders1.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Devastated that the Centre for Lifelong Learning @york.ac.uk is being closed after 40 years. What a loss to education in the region. Feel for students and staff. Being a tutor has been joy, doing what universities should be doing by sharing knowledge widely with our communities.
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Ben Gibb-Reid @bgr-phon.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Day 2 is underway. Here’s a highlight from last night’s entertainment from the York Taiko Drummers 🥁 #UKIS2025 they were bangin’
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Ben Gibb-Reid @bgr-phon.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
And we’re off! #UKIS2025 buzzing for the next few days
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Ben Gibb-Reid @bgr-phon.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Excited to welcome everyone from 12:00! #UKIS2025 #UoY 🦆
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Ben Gibb-Reid @bgr-phon.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Last chance to come to UKIS 2025 - resgistration has been EXTENDED to this Friday (6 June)! Come join us in sunneh York 🦆 sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/u...
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UKIS2025 - Registration & Venue Info
Key Dates Registration opens registration is now open - see below Registration deadline extended to Friday 6 June
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Ben Gibb-Reid @bgr-phon.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
This is so good (bad)! Referencing it in my Linguistics as Data Science class under our 'really bad plots' discussion board #DataViz
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Ben Gibb-Reid @bgr-phon.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
📄 UKIS 2025 Call for Abstracts deadline has been extended to 29 April 📄 See our website for more details below and get submitting 📣 #UKIS2025 #UKIS #speech #UoY
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UKIS2025 - Call for Abstracts
Call for Abstracts
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Ben Gibb-Reid @bgr-phon.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
A reminder that the 2025 UKIS Workshop Call for Papers is open until 22nd April 2025. 📄📣💬 We are also delighted to announce our three keynote speakers – Mark Huckvale, Verena Riser, and Nadine Lavan. 1/2
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UKIS2025 - Call for Abstracts
Call for Abstracts
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Ben Gibb-Reid @bgr-phon.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Spotted my favourite disciple in Santuari de Sant Salvador… Simon pEATer
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Ben Gibb-Reid @bgr-phon.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Told my students that today's stats lecture would provide a good pun... hope I did not disappoint
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University of York Library @uoylibrary.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
This week we ran our #LibInspo competition. Five students, from across all three faculties, pitching ideas to improve the student experience in the library. We work with the winner to try and make their idea a reality, and they get £500 for themselves. And it was BRILLIANT. Read on: 🧵
Hand drawn picture of the library, with LibInspo: your library, your way written on
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Ben Gibb-Reid @bgr-phon.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
I've been checking how ChatGPT copes with R coding queries and thought I'd try something... what have I unleashed?! 😬
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Ben Gibb-Reid @bgr-phon.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
A team of us at York are hosting the UKIS 2025 Workshop 16-17 June. We've just launched the Call for Abstracts - check out the website for details 📒💬🖥️📅🦆
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UKIS2025
The UK and Ireland Speech (UKIS) workshop will take place at the University of York from 16th to 17th June 2025. We look forward to seeing you there!
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Ben Gibb-Reid @bgr-phon.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
My paper with Chloé Diskin-Holdaway is out! It's an investigation of the choices you have to make to mark the functions of a variable (featuring decision trees) 📈🌳🤓 See the author pre-print via the following link: pure.york.ac.uk/portal/en/pu...
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Yeah, but how? Operationalizing the functions of the discourse-pragmatic marker yeah
Discourse-pragmatic markers (DPMs) such as yeah are known for their multifunctionality, leading to challenges in coding for function in quantitative analyses. We provide an account of the incremental ...
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Ben Gibb-Reid @bgr-phon.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Amazing to see my fellow forensic speech science pal getting her work recognized in the media - it's a fab paper
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Betsy Sneller @betsysneller.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Okay, buckle up bsky, it's time for the Tale of the Bunny Paper. Here's the imported thread from twitter where the search all started: bsky.app/profile/bets... (1/n)
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Ben Gibb-Reid @bgr-phon.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Had the great pleasure of presenting my work to the Centre of Voice Studies at Aarhaus University last week - summarising my thesis in 20mins 📖 #phonetics #forensicphonetics
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Ben Gibb-Reid: "Interpreting the phonetic variation of discourse-pragmatic features in forensics"
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Ben Gibb-Reid @bgr-phon.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
On Friday I passed my viva 🎓🤓 Huge thanks to my supervisors @paulfoulkesyork.bsky.social n' Vince Hughes! Here's me submitting in August
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