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Matthew Hunt @mchlinguistics.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

🗣️ I'm hiring! To support my ESRC-funded project 'Accent Bias and Domestic Abuse Victimisation (ABDAVic)', I'm hiring a 12-month fixed-term research fellow.

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Jen Hay @jbhay.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

NZILBB postdoc position! Please distribute to anyone who might be interested. jobs.canterbury.ac.nz/jobdetails/a...

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Postdoctoral Fellow - University of Canterbury | Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha

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James Grama @dalaigrama.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

JOB ALERT! Come work with me and Isabelle Buchstaller in Essen, Germany on lifespan change! Whoever's interested can contact Isa (see ad) or, if you prefer, me! linguistlist.org/issues/37/27...

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LINGUIST List 37.2723 Jobs: Sociolinguistics: Postdoctoral Fellow With Expertise in Variationist Sociolinguistics, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Sociolinguistics Lab

The LINGUIST List, International Linguistics Community Online.

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Justin Lo @justinjhlo.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Got 3 minutes? 🐦🐦 We're working on building tools to visualise both linguistic and vocal variation and could really use your help! We're looking for people who grew up in the UK and speak English as a main language. Interested? All the details + sign-up: bit.ly/MindViss Please share!

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Justin Lo @justinjhlo.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I would argue that today the much bigger deal that shouldn’t be eclipsed is I finally have a pannier rack to go with the pannier bag that I recently acquired from Hema

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Justin Lo @justinjhlo.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I’ve never been on the Heart of Wales line, but that’s exactly my first thought getting on the line up from Trier to Cologne?

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Justin Lo @justinjhlo.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

the grass isn’t always greener on the other side (really quite yellow here tbh). hard to argue with free public transport and great cycling infrastructure though

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Matt Goldrick @mattgoldrick.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Review underway! Postdoc, speech intelligibility, adaptation and interlocutor feedback, U. Grenoble Alpes w/ M. Garnier cloud.univ-grenoble-alpes.fr/s/3GRPWkM29M...

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Matt Goldrick @mattgoldrick.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Deadline Aug 3rd: Postdoc/lab manager, Phonetics, Oxford my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

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Justin Lo @justinjhlo.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

building a web app is really fun and satisfying for the most part, until I get to the part where I have to battle with CSS and constantly lose

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Justin Lo @justinjhlo.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

New paper out now in JPhon! 🐦🐦 Do listeners make use of coarticulatory information as early as it becomes available in speech? We used eyetracking to test the perception of long-distance anticipatory nasality in American English, German and French. Link: authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

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The perception of anticipatory nasality in English, French, and German

The goal of the current paper is to study the perception of long-distance anticipatory nasality in three languages – American English, Northern Metrop…

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Justin Lo @justinjhlo.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

note to self: always definitely check the projection of the geojson before going on a wild good chase for why it's not showing up 🤦‍♂️

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Justin Lo @justinjhlo.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

"we have a cow right in front of us therefore we cannot moo-ve"

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Justin Lo @justinjhlo.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

there's a typo in my abstract and of course I only clocked it the night before I'm presenting 🤦‍♂️ in any case, looking forward to being at EPS in Colchester tomorrow!

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

I have been working on societal impacts of language technology since late 2016, and my nightmare example since pretty early on has been using automatic transcription in emergency services systems. And today I learn it's happening *in my own city* www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news... Short 🧵>>

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Seattle uses AI to help triage, divert 911 medical calls

The Seattle Fire Department started using AI technology during live 911 calls in 2023. There hasn't been any public review process.

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Justin Lo @justinjhlo.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

outlook holding my emails hostage in the outbox on a day I'm actually sending quite a few is [muffled scream]

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Justin Lo @justinjhlo.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

hilarious how I couldn’t take an earlier delayed, faulty train because of advance ticketing, and then my train is now *also* faulty

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Justin Lo @justinjhlo.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

One week to go - still time to sign up!

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Justin Lo @justinjhlo.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

it's one of those days when everything seemed fine and then, two-thirds of the day in, the tube and the rail network conspired to make it possibly the most stressful 3 hours of my life

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Justin Lo @justinjhlo.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

yes I will be doing some time travelling tomorrow because the gmail summary card says so

Screenshot of Gmail summary card showing a departure time of 16:58, arrival time of 17:29 and a duration of -29 minutes.

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Justin Lo @justinjhlo.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

New paper out w/ Pat Strycharczuk & @samkirkham.bsky.social! Does the individuality of formant dynamics have a basis in articulatory strategy? Forensic phonetics says yes, we went looking for evidence in English I-diphthongs. Link: doi.org/10.1121/10.0... PDF: justinjhlo.github.io/publication/...

Title and abstract page from JASA article "Articulatory strategy as a source of variation in acoustic vowel dynamics" by Patrycja Strcharczuk, Justin J. H. Lo, and Sam Kirkham. Full text of abstract linked in post.

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Justin Lo @justinjhlo.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Recently finished or soon finishing a PhD in forensic #linguistics, speech sci or lang & law? Did you know the Int'l Journal of Speech, Language & Law has a section dedicated to PhD abstracts? If you'd like to share your findings with the wider field & practitioners, do consider submitting to us.

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Matt Goldrick @mattgoldrick.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Deadline 30 June: Postdoc, Speech Perception, Sociolinguistics and Speech Technology w/ É. Székely, KTH Royal Inst. of Tech. Dept. of Speech, Music, and Hearing www.kth.se/lediga-jobb/...

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KTH | Postdoc in Speech Perception, Sociolinguistics and Speech Technology

KTH jobs is where you search for jobs at www.kth.se.

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Philipp Krämer @phkraemer.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Things are moving faster than we can document them - after a first round of analysis, we're now continuing the collection: we'd like to hear about recent cases in the UK or the Netherlands, but also get a better picture of the situation in Central and Eastern Europe. All input is welcome. 1/2

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Justin Lo @justinjhlo.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

really miss the days when early may in hong kong is not 30ºC

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Justin Lo @justinjhlo.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

was going to have ice cream before lunch but accidentally ended up having ice cream for lunch oops

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Crystal Lewis @cghlewis.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

I was asked to speak with a graduate class today about research data management. I was asked, "How do people become convinced that beginning data management early on in a project is worth it?" Me: "Suffering. They usual have to suffer first." 😅

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Justin Lo @justinjhlo.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

will bsky ever fix the bug where leaving a picture bounces me back to the top of the feed pleeeeeeease

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Justin Lo @justinjhlo.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Fault with the signalling system. Missed connection. Get on another line. Guess what, fault on a train. Going to miss another connection or two. #TheGreatBritishCommute

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Justin Lo @justinjhlo.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

why yes komoot of course I cycled like a bullet train

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Lancaster University Phonetics Lab @phoneticslab.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Congratulations, Dr Fairclough! Lois passed her viva with minor revisions earlier this week. Lois’ thesis is on “Evaluating sources of variability in formant-based speaker discrimination”. Her examiners were Kirsty McDougall (Cambridge) and @justinjhlo.bsky.social.

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

"The term “AI” resists definition because it is continually reappropriated by people to mean different things. This, in turn, means that discussions of AI that do not provide working definitions for the purposes at hand risk incoherence. [...]" >>

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Lauren Hall-Lew (she/her) @lhlew.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Sarah Wang & Claire Nance: /l/-/n/ merger in Chinese. For Chongqing Mandarin L1 speakers, with Standard Mandarin L2, English L3, they didn’t distinguish /l/ and /n/ in their L1, but did in L2 and (even more) in L3. Proficiency modulates how much a speaker extends an L2 contrast to the L3. #BAAP2026

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Lauren Hall-Lew (she/her) @lhlew.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Starting off Day 2 of #BAAP2026: "Articulatory strategy as a source of variation in acoustic vowel dynamics" by Patrycja Strycharczuk, Justin Lo, & Sam Kirkham. Individual differences in palate result in individual differences in /i/ production that aren't reflected in acoustics. #phonetics

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Justin Lo @justinjhlo.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

The FACTOR Forensic Linguistics and Speech Science Summer School (@factor-lu.bsky.social) is back on June 11th & 12th, and we're going online this year! Two days of language, speech, and AI, all on the theme of protection, privacy, and proactive synthesis: wp.lancs.ac.uk/factor/summe...

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Language, Speech, and AI: An Online Forensics Summer School Welcome to the annual FACTOR Summer School, running 0930-1445 on both Thu 11th and Fri 12th June 2026. Each even year (2026, 2028, etc.) …

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Justin Lo @justinjhlo.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

train dispatchers creeping up behind me and sounding their whistle right by my ear are who will end my career as phonetician one day

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Justin Lo @justinjhlo.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

when I submit my conference abstract, I want to see my submission number. don't cheat me out of that thrill!

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Nina Markl 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @ninamarkl.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

ICYMI, please take a moment this weekend to read, sign and share this letter if you have a stake in languages and/or linguistics in the UK. (Sign by filling in the form linked on top) #langsky #linguistics #🐦🐦

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Nina Markl 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @ninamarkl.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

🚨Save Languages at the University of Essex 🚨 #langsky #linguistics UoE plans to cut German, Italian, Portuguese and Chinese + all evening classes and merge Language and Linguistics with a larger unit. Only 2 languages will remain next October. Please sign our letter: tinyurl.com/SaveLingLang...

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Save Languages at Essex

To add your signature to this letter, please complete this form: Save Languages at Essex (Google Form) Dear Prof Bowen and members of the Executive Committee, We, the undersigned, urge you to reco...

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