Reposted by Katie FranichDr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social · 05/03/2026What’s your costume for World Book Day this year? I’m going as a Generative AI Subsidiary Content Aggregation Addendum to an already one-sided academic publishing contract 310012
Reposted by Katie FranichProf. Dr. Asli Ozyurek @asliozyurek.bsky.social · 26/02/2026📣📣📣Job alert Multimodal Language Department Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics MAX PLANCK RESEARCH GROUP LEADER POSITION (W2 BBESG) lnkd.in/eaq5MW9alnkd.inLinkedInThis link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn 11619
Katie Franich @kfran.bsky.social · 27/02/2026Psyched for this #LabPhon workshop on language and music. And the deadline for submission has been extended to March 15th! labphon.org/labphon20/pi...labphon.orgPitch at the crossroads | Labphon 030
Reposted by Katie FranichChristian DiCanio @cdicanio.bsky.social · 21/02/2026CorpusPhon2 will take place on Monday 29/6/26 in Montréal, Québec, right after LabPhon20. Submissions are due on 3/13/26 and our website has been updated to reflect this. Please consider submitting to our workshop! sites.google.com/view/corpusp...sites.google.comCorpusPhon 2A one-day satellite workshop at LabPhon 20 to bring together researchers using corpus phonetic tools 1106
Reposted by Katie FranichJosh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 20/02/2026“It IS tricky to rock a rhyme that’s right on time. I made a list of some other words that rhyme with time: Crime, tim, crumb and time.” - Run-G.P.T. 1141570
Reposted by Katie FranichTobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 19/02/2026Reminded that there are few more corrosive trends in higher education in recent years than the divide and conquer approach to undermining faculty solidarity by focusing on numbers of majors. Each degree pathway at an institution is strengthened by each other form of expertise available to students. 312630
Reposted by Katie FranichMyq Kaplan @myqkaplan.bsky.social · 17/02/2026Stephen Colbert’s interview with James Talarico is super. youtu.be/oiTJ7Pz_59A?...youtu.beRep. James Talarico On Confronting Christian Nationalism, And Strange Days In The Texas LegislatureYouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert 0122
Katie Franich @kfran.bsky.social · 13/02/2026Excited for my first AAAS! Come to our session and learn how linguistic diversity is not (currently) a strong suit of AI models. I'll be alternating between my AI-optimist and -pessimist hats. #AAASmtg #linguistics 141
Reposted by Katie FranichJenneke van der Wal @jennekevanderwal.bsky.social · 03/02/2026The 8th African Linguistics School will be taking place in Tanzania! Apply before the 15th of March to be part of this exciting opportunity: sites.google.com/view/als6/ap... And share with your colleagues and students! For further information about the ALS, see sites.google.com/view/als6/homesites.google.comALSAfrican Linguistics School 0106
Katie Franich @kfran.bsky.social · 18/12/2025A nice piece in the Harvard Gazette about research my lab has been doing on the impact of political conflict and displacement on language endangerment in Cameroon 🌍 🇨🇲 news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...news.harvard.edu‘Critical tipping point’ for Cameroon’s indigenous languages — Harvard GazetteDisplacement and forced migration trigger alarm about language attrition in Cameroon. 0144
Reposted by Katie FranichMick Bonner @mickbonner.bsky.social · 12/12/2025Hopkins Cog Sci is hiring! We have two open faculty positions: one in vision, and one language. Please repost! 03134
Reposted by Katie FranichMatt Goldrick @mattgoldrick.bsky.social · 14/10/2025Open immediately -- postdoc, speech motor control and speech motor neuroscience w/ C. Niziolek + B. Parrell, U. Wisconsin Madison blab.wisc.edu/join-the-lab/ [see Postdoctoral researchers tab] 1910
Reposted by Katie FranichCharles B. Chang @cbchang.bsky.social · 28/09/2025It'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 🐦🐦 11312
Katie Franich @kfran.bsky.social · 28/09/2025Pomona College Ling and CogSci Dept is hiring an Assistant Professor with a specialization in phonetics! (Deadline Nov 1) linguistlist job ad is here: linguistlist.org/issues/36/27.... Any questions can be directed to Michael Diercks, chair of the search committee (michael.diercks@pomona.edu).linguistlist.org LINGUIST List 36.2713 Jobs: Phonetics: Assistant Professor of Linguistics, Pomona College The LINGUIST List, International Linguistics Community Online. 063
Katie Franich @kfran.bsky.social · 26/04/2025Friends, take action to prevent grant funding decisions at NIH and NSF from being made by political appointees, instead of experts in scientific fields themselves! 041
Reposted by Katie FranichHelen Tager-Flusberg @htagerf.bsky.social · 03/04/2025Just heard that Dianne Bianchi NICHD Director was fired and NIDCD has an ominous announcement on its home page. Every day is a worse nightmare than the day before 022
Reposted by Katie FranichLauren Gawne @superlinguo.bsky.social · 24/03/2025It's publication day for Gesture: A Slim Guide If you have been wanting to think about gesture in your own research, bring it into your teaching or connect with the field of Gesture Studies, this is for you. It's under 50k words and has a nifty glossary too. 1123048
Reposted by Katie FranichRachael Sirianni, PhD @docsirianni.bsky.social · 15/03/2025This is horrible to post, but I may as well post it. We are essentially shutting down research operations in my group, which is focused on treatments for pediatric brain cancer. I’m a well funded investigator, and there’s no choice. Science can’t function without the stability of NIH 7072655010664
Katie Franich @kfran.bsky.social · 06/03/2025New paper alert! Co-speech gestures can influence the timing and magnitude of oral articulatory gestures 💁♀️ Co-authored with my awesome postdoc Karee Gavin and Eliana Spradling www.nature.com/articles/s41...nature.comCo-speech gestures influence the magnitude and stability of articulatory movements: evidence for coupling-based enhancement - Scientific ReportsScientific Reports - Co-speech gestures influence the magnitude and stability of articulatory movements: evidence for coupling-based enhancement 0152
Katie Franich @kfran.bsky.social · 06/03/2025Proud to be a Bostonian today! @wutrain.bsky.social youtu.be/0i21cliuoXo?...youtu.beMayor Michelle Wu's Opening Statement to the United States House Committee on OversightYouTube video by City of Boston 000
Reposted by Katie FranichZhenghan Qi @qzhever.bsky.social · 05/03/2025These Pew survey results on public opinions of American scientists can help us think about how to communicate our messages better this Friday. @standupforscience.bsky.social #standupforscience2025 www.pewresearch.org/science/2024...pewresearch.orgPublic Trust in Scientists and Views on Their Role in PolicymakingAmericans’ trust in scientists is slightly higher than it was last year, but remains lower than before the COVID-19 pandemic. 021
Reposted by Katie FranichProf. Nicole Holliday @mixedlinguist.bsky.social · 03/03/2025I have a new article out today with the homie @pereed.bsky.social in PLOS One, “Gender and Racial Bias Issues in a Commercial ‘Tone of Voice’ Analysis System”! In short, don’t believe devices that claim to tell you how you sound to other humans! journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...journals.plos.orgGender and racial bias issues in a commercial “tone of voice” analysis systemSocial Feedback Speech Technologies (SFST) are programs and devices, often “AI”-powered, that claim to provide users with feedback about how their speech sounds to other humans. To date, academic rese... 28028