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lucynoakes1.bsky.social @lucynoakes1.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Ongoing decimation of British universities part 252: Apx. 1000 academic staff at University of Essex just received formal ‘risk of redundancy’ letters via email. Please share @ucuessex.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk

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Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · 09/12/2025

Big new blogpost! My guide to data visualization, which includes a very long table of contents, tons of charts, and more. --> Why data visualization matters and how to make charts more effective, clear, transparent, and sometimes, beautiful. www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/salonis-gu...

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Ian Cushing @iancushing.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

lectureship in applied linguistics in my department. lovely city, lovely department, lovely colleagues 🌸 manmetjobs.mmu.ac.uk/jobs/vacancy...

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Stefano Coretta @scoretta.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Happy to share the first version of my textbook "Quantitative Data Analysis for Linguists in R". stefanocoretta.github.io/qdal/ Comments and suggestions welcome! (on the GitHub repo: github.com/stefanocoret...) The textbook takes you from 0 to basic stat modelling with Bayesian regression.

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Quantitative Data Analysis for Linguists in R

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Caitlin Halfacre @caitlin91.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

New nerdy game 😀 #Lingule #1314 "-ngxama": 1/6 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🏆 lingule.xyz

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Lingule

A fun little language game

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Timo B. Roettger @timoroettger.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

To all educators out there: We are trying to formulate a criterion for our exams that tackles the vagueness of LLM output and punishes it more strictly. If you recognize the issue, has anyone of you come up with a crisp operationalization of such a criterion. Also grateful for other pointers 🙏

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Caitlin Halfacre @caitlin91.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

You sir, have won the internet for today, possibly for this year #tidyverse #dplyr #genzplyr #rstats

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Limor Raviv 🐘🤗🦒🍄🦄 @limorraviv.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Our goal was therefore to engage with the classic & contemporary arguments given by folks in the child-innovator camp, specifically by reviewing (and crediting!) all those who worked hard to dispute their claims over the years. Hope that gives some clarity, alongside the obvious press release 'buzz'

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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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Adam Schembri (ˈʃɛmbɹi/ˈʃkɛmbri) @adamcschembri.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Sometimes it depresses me how little impact decades of the study of sociolinguistic variation and change has had on other areas of the language sciences (I get the same feeling about gesture studies), but I didn't even realise that this idea was prevalent in some areas of my own field!

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Bluesky @bsky.app · 08/09/2025

If you've been using a 📌 emoji to bookmark posts, @rafael.my and @samuel.bsky.team cooked up a special tool you can use to migrate them to your Saved Posts. Try it here: pin2saved.vercel.app

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pin2saved for Bluesky

Migrate your Bluesky 📌 replies to saved posts.

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Bluesky @bsky.app · 08/09/2025

v1.108 is rolling out today 🚚 Now live, at long last: Bookmarks, aka Saved Posts. For all those posts you'll definitely plan to come back to! Update the app and give it a try. The button is right down there 👇

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Caitlin Halfacre @caitlin91.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

#UKLVC15 you've been wonderful. Thank you to everyone who organised, presented, asked questions, had intelligent sensitive conversations...all the things. If that was my academic swansong (tbc), it was a pretty great one. @lancslinguistics.bsky.social @phoneticslab.bsky.social

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Caitlin Halfacre @caitlin91.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

#ManchesterVoices in the wild(ish). Maya Dewhurst is looking at nasal vowels in Blackpool and Manchester, based on folk and literature associations between nasal quality and Manchester accents. #UKLVC15

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bergelsonlab @bergelsonlab.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

hey #LingSky 🐦🐦, we have a great post-bacc summer intern interested in socio-phon types of questions. If anyone knows of RA types of opportunities in these areas of linguistics, plz lmk! tagging ppl at top of mind @jofrhwld.bsky.social @laurelmack.bsky.social @betsysneller.bsky.social

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Caitlin Halfacre @caitlin91.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

If anyone knows anyone who's successfully transitioned from academic Linguistics to data-type work in industry please could you put me in touch? I'd love some advice on what sort of jobs to look at and how to translate my skills and training in a way companies will understand

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Mark Dingemanse @markdingemanse.net · 07/07/2025

We're hiring! Join us to work at the intersection of social interaction and language technology. Postdoc and PhD positions in my Futures of Language research group, based at Radboud University in Nijmegen, NL Read more: markdingemanse.net/futures/news... #linguistics #interaction #sts #emca #hci

Aerial photograph of Radboud University campus with the Erasmus tower in the foreground: tallest building in Nijmegen & home to the Futures of Language project. Source: RU

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David Green, PhD @ecologistgreen.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

The biggest publishers pulled profit margins in 2023 that rival Big Tech. And they still charge you to publish and your library to read. When are we going to start seriously thinking of alternatives to reform #PeerReview? 🧪 #SciPub #AcademicPublishing

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Ron Pomper @ronpomper.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

The Langauge Learning Lab at MSU (my lab!) has an opening for a 1-year post-doc fellowship in language disorders. The position starts August 2025 and may be renewed for a 2nd year. Please share with anyone who may be interested. For full details and to apply go to: careers.msu.edu/jobs/researc...

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Research Associate-Fixed Term - East Lansing, Michigan, United States

Position Summary The Language Learning Lab in the Department of Communicative Sciences and Disorders at Michigan State University (directed by Ron Pomper, Ph.D.) has an opening for a 1-year post-docto...

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Timo B. Roettger @timoroettger.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Norway considers hiring US researchers that would associate with running projects like my ICONIC project. Specifics are not defined yet, but if you are a postdoctoral researcher working on iconicity and would like to come to Oslo and work with me, shoot me a PM. shorturl.at/4Zxzz

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Slik skal Norge tiltrekke seg internasjonale toppforskere

Forskere som vil vekk fra Trumps USA, kan nå få muligheten i Norge. 30-40 forskere kan få komme hit. Slik blir den nye ordningen.

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Christina Bergmann @chbergma.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Wanted: Lecturer in Quantitative Methods at Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences Happy to chat about procedural aspects of the job and connect with our welcome center, who are amazingly helpful in getting settled in Osnabrück #JobSky www.hs-osnabrueck.de/wir/jobs-und...

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Lecturer in the field of "Quantitative Methods" (WiSo 34-2025)

Welcome to Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences, the largest university of applied sciences in Lower Saxony! At three locations, we offer around 100 degree coruses with practical relevance, an imp...

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Frazer Heritage @nounfraze.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Caitlin Halfarce talking to us about the Manchester Voices Project at the MCRL symposium today :-) great work!

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Manchester Centre for Research in Linguistics @mcrlinguistics.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Age of speakers in Wigan & Bolton correlates with their attitude towards Greater Manchester (as opposed to Lancashire), which correspondingly affects their accent, specifically the vowel in words like MOUTH, SOUND, ROUND, HOUSE @caitlin91.bsky.social

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Linguistics in MFL Project @inmfl.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

🚨Following the Curriculum and Assessment Review Interim Report, we share thoughts on how a languages curriculum enriched with #linguistics can address challenges for languages study in schools theconversation.com/linguistics-... #edusky #langsky @languageonthemove.bsky.social @ucflangs.bsky.social

theconversation.com

Linguistics could make language learning more relevant – and attractive – for school pupils

A languages curriculum enriched with linguistics is appealing to students and teachers.

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Caitlin Halfacre @caitlin91.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

There have been better years to be on the academic job market... that's 15 UK universities in dispute over job cuts

Screen shot of an email showing UCU disputes over job cuts at University of Plymouth, Liverpool Hope University, University of Greenwich, University of Derby, University of Edinburgh, Bournemouth University, University of Dundee, University of Bradford, University of Liverpool, University of Lincoln, Kingston University, University of Nottingham, Newcastle University, University of Bristol Centre for Academic Language and Development

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Timo B. Roettger @timoroettger.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Okay #rstats folks and Bayesian enthusiasts. I want to fit monotonic splines in brms. I found forum posts from 2019-2021. You can fit them with scam, but the package doesn’t play well with the standard post-processing of mgcv. Has anyone figured out a way to get this done by now?

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Sandra Jansen @sj2915.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

The only uni ranking I will share: bantshire.github.io/rankings.htm...

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The University of Bantshire | RANKINGS

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Babel: The Language Magazine @babelzine.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

👩‍🏫 Free Babels for teachers! 🎁 Fancy a set of Babels for your school, college or library? Get in touch at babelthelanguagemagazine@gmail.com

Free Babel issues for your school, college or library

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Caitlin Halfacre @caitlin91.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Sharing the academic highs and lows... Hey look - that's me! Delighted to have been invited to speak to the Manchester Forum in #Linguistics this week I did my first ever conference presentation here in 2019 so it's a wonderful full circle to be back as a plenary #MFiL2025

Screenshot of part of a document reading:
PLENARY TALK 2: Caitlin Halfacre
Title: “RP or more? A way forwards for understanding social stratification and English accent variation”
Conference Room: [redacted]
Chair: Patrycja Strycharczuk

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Caitlin Halfacre @caitlin91.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Sharing the academic highs and lows...this week I was rejected without interview from the only job commutable from where I live that's come up in the last yr. I partially met criteria for subject expertise; didn't meet criteria for demonstrating ability to identify/make applications for grant income

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Betsy Sneller @betsysneller.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

✨ ATTN Education and Sociolinguistics friends! ✨ I'm hiring a postdoc, to work with the MI Diaries Project! This position is renewable for up to 3 years total. Please share widely! careers.msu.edu/jobs/researc...

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Research Associate-Fixed Term - East Lansing, Michigan, United States

Working/Functional Title Linguistics; Postdoctoral Research Associate Position Summary The successful applicant will join the MI Diaries project, which is collecting sociolinguistic data from Michigan...

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Daniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

I am hiring a PhD student on the meaningful interpretation of effect sizes as part of my VICI funded project. This is a 4 year paid position in a welcoming and collaborative environment. Find out more or apply at www.tue.nl/werken-bij-t...

tue.nl

PhD on Metascience

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Caitlin Halfacre @caitlin91.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

I've spent so much time recently reformatting a paper for Word that was originally part of my thesis written in LaTeX that the availability of LaTeX templates might become a major factor in my next journal decision So which #Linguistics journals do these except Journal of Linguistics?

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Rebecca Starr @rlslinguistics.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Can ChatGPT reflect upon its own sociolinguistic behavior? Nope. For the past few days, ChatGPT has been responding to me in Singlish (based on a prompt from months ago that it has mysteriously decided to recall). But today, I asked it to analyze some rap lyrics, and something changed. 1/?

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Caitlin Halfacre @caitlin91.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Job market friends (or ppl at the other end of the process), how do you answer 'why this university' when the answer often is...it's the only job that's come up in the last year

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Rob Drummond @robdrummond.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Officially out today! The paperback edition of 'You're All Talk: Why we are what we speak'. Available in all the usual places. scribepublications.co.uk/books-author... With some kind words from @susiedent.com, @simonmayo.bsky.social, David Crystal, Chris Mason, Ian McMillan, and Gyles Brandreth😁

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Megan Figueroa @meganfigueroa.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

If I could give any advice to PhD students these days, it is to be serious about statistics. So many jobs require statistics knowledge.

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Robin Meyer @rbnmyr.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

🚨 We are recruiting! 5-year post-doc in Computational Humanities at the University of Lausanne Working language: French Details: www.unil.ch/news/1743431... Deadline: 22 April 2025 I'm happy to (informally) answer any questions. Please share widely! 🙂

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Corran @corranmac.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Just wanted to share the small project I'm working on, aiming to provide an open workspace to hone literature searches with a visual interface. This will allow for searches to be shared in an interpretable and easy to rerun form with their own UID and hosting.

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Caitlin Halfacre @caitlin91.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Have we actually found a sensible usage case for a pie chart? #DataViz (context, my dislike for pie charts has become such a running joke that my friends now send me examples whenever they come across them)

three stacked pie charts showing distribution of water with one flowing into another:
top: Oceans 97.5%, freshwater flows into >
middle: ice caps and glaciers 79% groundwater 20%, water in lakes flows into>
bottom: water in lakes 52%, water in soil 38%, small segments of water vapour in atmosphere, water in living organisms, water in rivers

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Timo B. Roettger @timoroettger.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

We are looking for someone who has experience in running non-profit initiatives / companies, ideally with a language science or background. Any pointers?

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Timo B. Roettger @timoroettger.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

The first ManyLanguages project is under way. If you want to get in involved and share your expertise, please get in touch with the leadership team. I will be the analysis lead and would love to get a few quant people together to think about how to tackle the analysis. Get in touch with me!

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Timo B. Roettger @timoroettger.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

🚨🚨🚨 I'm hiring a Postdoc for a 3-year position to come work with me at the University of Oslo using iterative learning experiments to understand the evolution of sound symbolism. Please share widely. 🔴 Deadline is May 31st '25 ⏲️ Desired starting date is Fall '25 shorturl.at/vSTZx

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Postdoctoral Research Fellow connected to "ICONIC" (277523) | University of Oslo

Job title: Postdoctoral Research Fellow connected to "ICONIC" (277523), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Saturday, May 31, 2025

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Hellina Hailu Nigatu @hellinanigatu.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

#Linguistics friends, is there a term to describe the following phenomenon: Characters in an alphabet that have the same sound in one language but distinct sounds in another language due to language evolution. In Amharic ኣ and ዓ are the same sound but in Tigrinya they are distinct.

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