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ISGS Catalonia Hub @isgscatalonia.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Job opportunity! Research Assistant Position – Multimodal Prosody as a Fundamental Component of Language Development and Learning (TRAD-PSR-2026-13). More info: www.upf.edu/web/traducci...

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Research Assistant Position – Multimodal Prosody as a Fundamental Component of Language Development and Learning (TRAD-PSR-2026-13)

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Bodo Winter @bodowinter.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

For several years now, @timoroettger.bsky.social and I have been working on an online course on how to effectively communicate data. It's shaping up nicely and we can't wait to share it soon. Sign up for our mailing list to not miss the launch: making-numbers-meaningful.github.io

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Making Numbers Meaningful

Get updates about when and where we launch our online course on data communication.

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David Orrego-Carmona @dorrego.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

We're hiring @warwick-smlc.bsky.social Assistant Prof in Translation and Multilingual Communication 3-year fixed-term, teaching-focused, Sept 2026 start. We want colleagues whose work engages with communication across languages, modes, and communities. Closing: 23 July www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSA855/a...

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Assistant Professor (Teaching Focussed - Translation and Multilingual Communication) (111755-0626) at University of Warwick

Discover an exciting academic career path as a Assistant Professor (Teaching Focussed - Translation and Multilingual Communication) (111755-0626) at jobs.ac.uk. Don't miss out on this job opportunity ...

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David Orrego-Carmona @dorrego.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

We're hiring @warwick-smlc.bsky.social Assistant Prof in Language Technologies and AI Governance Permanent post, Sept 2026 start. We want researchers working at the intersection of language, technology, and society. Languages as your home, take a look. Closing: 23 July www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRY964/a...

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Assistant Professor in Language Technologies and AI Governance (111754-0626) at University of Warwick

Searching for an academic job? Explore this Assistant Professor in Language Technologies and AI Governance (111754-0626) opening on jobs.ac.uk! Click to view more details and browse other academic job...

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Bodo Winter @bodowinter.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

New paper out. My favorite finding is the distributional semantic comparison of "hundred/thousand/million/billion etc." to indefinite hyperbolic numerals ("gazillion", "umpteen" etc.) ⬇️ And: Did you know that jigsaw puzzles are lying to you? 👀

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Bodo Winter @bodowinter.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

The first WoReLa was really exciting - second one coming up next year in Cologne, woohoo!

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Bodo Winter @bodowinter.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

This one is for comics lovers and language lovers alike! A fun and inspiring read at the forefront of the multimodal language curve. Even works as intro to linguistics course book as it teaches a lot of core linguistic concepts really well, and in a modality-general manner. I can highly recommend!

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Greg Woodin @gregwoodin.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Our paper (w/ @bodowinter.bsky.social and @mperlman.bsky.social) is finally out, officially 🥳. In it, we set ourselves the lofty goal of defining iconicity, focusing on its subjectivity, context-dependence, and gradability. Let us know if you agree with our definition? 🤔 doi.org/10.1093/oxfo...

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Bodo Winter @bodowinter.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

I think @seangroberts.bsky.social may have used DAGs as well, and see also the CHIELD project: correlation-machine.com/CHIELD/

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Timo B. Roettger @timoroettger.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

In our new tutorial, @meanwhileina.bsky.social and I walk you through meaningful hypothesis testing using a less known form of calculating Bayes Factor. osf.io/preprints/ps... People transitioning to Bayes often wonder how to decide if an effect is meaningful or not. Here you go... 1/🧵

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Bodo Winter @bodowinter.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Surgeon is God! Just saw him again two weeks ago here in Brum... was a killer set! He's SO good live :)

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Elaine Francis @ejfranci2.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Prospective graduate students: Purdue Linguistics is having a virtual open house on Friday, Nov 7 at 12:00pm EST. You can sign up here: lnkd.in/g8XimXcG Please note that I am not recruiting any new graduate students but several of my wonderful Purdue colleagues are.

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Bodo Winter @bodowinter.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

End of an era! You've done SO MUCH for our department - thank you for all the important things you've contributed throughout these many years, and good luck with your future journey! ❤️

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Timo B. Roettger @timoroettger.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

New paper led by Dara Etemady: Statistical reporting inconsistencies in experimental linguistics. Almost half (49%) of all articles contained at least one inconsistent p-value. 12% contained an inconsistency that may have affected the statistical conclusion." escholarship.org/uc/item/3736...

Proportion of articles containing at least one inconsistency / decision inconsistency. (Applied Psycholinguistics (APS), Language and Brain (BAL), Bilingualism: Language and Cognition (BLC), Journal of Memory and Language (JML), Journal of Psycholinguistic Research (JPR), Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism (LAB), Language and Speech (LaS), Language Cognition and Neuroscience (LCN, formerly Language and Cognitive Processes), Language Learning and Technology (LLT), Journal of Language and Social Psychology (LSP), Journal of Child Language (JCL), and Studies in Second Language Acquisition (SLA), Journal Of Speech Language And Hearing Research (SLH)).

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Jon Brennan @jonrbrennan.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Reminder!! We are hiring in Linguistics at Michigan with a focus on "AI and Linguistics" (broooaaadly construed). This is part of a cluster of positions in Psychology and Philosophy in collaboration with the Cognitive Science program. Applications now open! careers.umich.edu/job_detail/a...

careers.umich.edu

Apply for AI and Linguistics (Assistant, Associate or full Professor) | U-M Careers

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Jessy Li @jessyjli.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

All of us (@kanishka.bsky.social @kmahowald.bsky.social and me) are looking for PhD students this cycle! If computational linguistics/NLP is your passion, join us at UT Austin! For my areas see jessyli.com

jessyli.com

Jessy Li

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Matt Goldrick @mattgoldrick.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

🚨Open immediately!! (rolling application review)🚨: Postdoc w/ the amazing Tamar Gollan, Uni. Cal. San Diego, bilingual speech production and cognitive control in aging and Alzheimer’s disease psychiatry.ucsd.edu/about/LAB_Go...

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Bodo Winter @bodowinter.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

I finally got the time to check our bird field guide corpus for this. Different authors use the onomatopoeias "wek", "wuck", "wuk wuk", "kuk", or "cuk cuk". One author describes the territorial call as "kuk kuk keekeekeekeekeekeekeekuk kuk"

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Bodo Winter @bodowinter.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

And I truly meant what I said!! It was a blast reading this again!

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Bodo Winter @bodowinter.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

I've also had BackBlaze before and then got annoyed. Recently switched to iDrive and liking it so far.

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Nora Duggan @noraduggan.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Application for a PhD position at our department is now open! We are looking for applicants that are interested in areas of sign language linguistics, general sign language studies, or deaf bilingualism/multilingualism. Deadline is 15th Oct. Please share away! su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

su.varbi.com

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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Fernanda Ferreira @fernandaedi.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

UCDavis Psych is hiring an Assistant Professor in Human Cognition or Cognitive Neuroscience 🧠✨ Come join a vibrant, collaborative dept and live in a fun college town near Sacramento, San Francisco, Napa, and Lake Tahoe. Applications due Oct.21. Please share widely! recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07300

recruit.ucdavis.edu

Assistant Professor of Psychology - Human Cognition or Cognitive Neuroscience

University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!

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Bret Beheim @babeheim.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

How to quantify the impact of AI on long-run cultural evolution? Published today, I give it a go! 400+ years of strategic dynamics in the game of Go (Baduk/Weiqi), from feudalism to AlphaGo!

Miyagawa Shuntei's 1898 painting, "Playing Go (Japanese Chess)"

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Bodo Winter @bodowinter.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Yay, thank you! So happy to hear they were useful :)

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William Matchin @wmatchin.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

University of South Carolina has *7* tenure-track faculty positions in Neurobiology of Language: tinyurl.com/USC-Faculty-... Positions in COMD, Psych, Linguistics, School of Medicine. @snlmtg.bsky.social #SNL2025, we will have a booth. w/@rutvikdesai.bsky.social @imb-uofsc.bsky.social

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Federica Bulgarelli @fedebulgarelli.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Our department is hiring! We're looking for a cognitive/developmental psychologist who uses computational approaches to study human cognition and behavior to address learning, development, and education. Feel free to reach out with questions!

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Lauren Hall-Lew (she/her) @lhlew.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

I find it endlessly frustrating that one of the biggest empirical findings from sociolinguistics is consistently ignored. Change doesn't come from children making mistakes. Change comes from adolescents incrementing existing probabilistic patterns. I haven't read this paper but hopefully it's good.

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Darin Flynn @phono-logical.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

“Children are not the main agents of language change” by Limor Raviv, Damián Blasi and Vera Kempe (Sep. ’25) pure.mpg.de/rest/items/i...

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Ayelet Landau @ayeletlandau.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

📣new and exciting paper alert! 📣 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Ever wonder what's the rhythm of speech -- across languages? 1/10 W/ Maya Inbar and Eitan Grossman, we analyzed over 650 recordings from 48 languages, focusing on intonation units—short prosodic phrases that structure speech in time.

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A universal of speech timing: Intonation units form low-frequency rhythms | PNAS

Intonation units (IUs) are a hypothesized universal building block of human speech [W. Chafe, Discourse, Consciousness and Time: The Flow and Displ...

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Katja Politt @lingucat.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

📆 Reminder! Application deadline for incoming researchers (PhD students & postdocs) is August 31st! If you want to come work with us in Bielefeld, apply for one of our scholarships. We would love to have you! More infos here 👉 www.uni-bielefeld.de/sfb/sfb1646/... #BLinguistik #linguistics

uni-bielefeld.de

RTG - Universität Bielefeld

Der SFB setzt sich für eine qualitativ hochwertige Ausbildung von Doktoranden und Postdoktoranden ein und bietet Nachwuchswissenschaftlern ein Umfeld, das es ihnen ermöglicht, ihr Potenzial voll zu en...

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Neil Cohn @neilcohn.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

I got the proofs today for my upcoming graphic novel about language, cognition, and visual communication and I cannot contain myself with how excited I am for this book to finally come out after working on it for 7 years 😱 visuallanguagelab.com/sip

Speaking in Pictures by Neil Cohn, 300+ page graphic novel about language, cognition, and graphic communication

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Gasper Begus @begus.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Berkeley linguistics is hiring an Assistant Professor in language revitalization! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05022

aprecruit.berkeley.edu

Assistant Professor - Language Revitalization - Linguistics

University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

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Jon Brennan @jonrbrennan.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Another job here at Michigan - this one in Linguistics! Part of a cluster of hires with a focus on Cognitive Science and AI. Happy to chat to interested folks. apply.interfolio.com/171006

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Iraide Ibarretxe-Antuñano @iraideia.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

📢 New publication Interested in #iconicity? Fascinated by #ideophones? Craving for #fieldwork in this area? Check out this book and ideas will come... I explain how to conduct #psycholinguistic research in #minority languages such as #Basque @oxfordacademic.bsky.social @psylexlab.bsky.social

New book on ideophones
Williams, J. P (ed.). 2025. Capturing expressivity. Contents, methods, and techniques for linguistic research. OUP.
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/capturing-expressivity-9780192858931?cc=es&lang=en&

New book on ideophones: TOC
Williams, J. P (ed.). 2025. Capturing expressivity. Contents, methods, and techniques for linguistic research. OUP.
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/capturing-expressivity-9780192858931?cc=es&lang=en&

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Bodo Winter @bodowinter.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Hello Django 😍 I'm definitely in the wrong field

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Robin Edds 🏳️‍🌈 @reddsreads.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

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

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Daria Dayter @coocho.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

We are recruiting! An English linguistics professorship in Tampere (tenure track, open rank). Application deadline August 18 tuni.rekrytointi.com/paikat/?o=A_...

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Tenure track position in English linguistics (Assistant Professor, Associate Professor or Professor) / tenure track -tehtävä, englannin kielen tutkimus (Apulaisprofessori tai Professori)

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Bodo Winter @bodowinter.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Personal side note: Francesca and I share a love of Ullmann's work... ... and we had so much fun nerding out about this dataset together... for several years now! It's been a fantastic collaboration! Comments/critique/thoughts are welcome!

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Bodo Winter @bodowinter.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

But for now, I'm pretty happy how far Francesca and I got with the available data that was already published. ⬇️

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Bodo Winter @bodowinter.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

There's a lot of limitations which we discuss as well... this work clearly isn't perfect at all, and so much more could be done in the future, in particular, increasing cross-linguistic diversity! Like, we need more data from signed languages, and from non-"WEIRD" spoken languages. ⬇️

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Bodo Winter @bodowinter.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Since we also have a pretty exhaustive review of previous work with an extensive bibliography, we hope that this also serves as a great reference for people who want to get into this topic. ⬇️

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Bodo Winter @bodowinter.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

The paper also makes a lot of points about the interaction between theory/methods in this space. Besides linguists interested in metaphors, it should be interesting to perceptual psychologists and anybody interested in crossmodal correspondences more generally. ⬇️

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Bodo Winter @bodowinter.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

In other words: we argue for a shift in the theoretical target, the explanandum, and therefore, we need new explanans. We argue that like Ullmann, we should be more open-minded about explanations ... not straitjacketing things into a one-size-fits-all principle such as "embodiment". ⬇️

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Bodo Winter @bodowinter.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

... but really, the literature may have chased a linear phantom, and maybe the explanations were offered too soon. We say: the thing we seek to explain was actually something different all along, not a sensory cline, but pairwise patterns, and hence we now need different explanations. ⬇️

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Bodo Winter @bodowinter.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

We don't want to offer explanations for these patterns, and actually caution against jumping to conclusions. Previously, people tried to explain these tendencies in terms of senses differing in terms of linear differences in "embodiment", "concreteness", "accessibility" etc. ... ⬇️

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