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Michaela (Micky) Watkins

@michaelaw.bsky.social
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PhD candidate in phonetics/phonology at the University of Amsterdam Looking at tone, pitch tracking, and applying computational methods in phonetics

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Michaela (Micky) Watkins @michaelaw.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Early morning start to travel to my final conference as a PhD candidate, off to LabPhon/CorpusPhon in Montréal 😍 #linguistics
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Language on the Move @languageonthemove.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Cool job opportunity for a speech scientist in the Linguistics Department at Macquarie University in Sydney mq.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Career...
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Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor in Linguistics
PRIMARY DETAIL We are seeking an outstanding teaching & research academic with expertise in Speech Science to join our growing Speech and Hearing Sciences discipline within the Department of Lingu...
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Michaela (Micky) Watkins @michaelaw.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Stopped in Hangzhou for a few days before onwards to Seoul for a conference, found the Praat manual on my way (I had to get it) #linguistics
Blue book that appears to be a photocopied version of the praat manual
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Lauren Hall-Lew (she/her) @lhlew.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Please sign 👇
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Michaela (Micky) Watkins @michaelaw.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Travel cards for the first part of this summer are matching 🦆
Chinese metro card with colourful ducks on called 'bean ducks'Korean metro t-money card with a yellow duck on blue background
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Michaela (Micky) Watkins @michaelaw.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Me looking at LLMs (I attempted to probe a model and I crashed my computer) #linguistics
Meme from several years ago of an older man looking at computer
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Michaela (Micky) Watkins @michaelaw.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Got into CorpusPhon this year! I will also attend LabPhon to check out the programme 😊 More details on my talk on Korean Corpus analysis to come~ #linguistics
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Michaela (Micky) Watkins @michaelaw.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Busy learning physics for an analysis (help) and the realisation that they also argue a lot about basic definitions comforts but also concerns
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ICPhS 2027 @icphs2027.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Hi everyone! As Chair of the Local Planning Committee for ICPhS 2027, I am excited to share with you the ICPhS 2027 website, hot off the press! Between the website and social media, you should find all you need to plan your trip to beautiful Victoria BC! ➡️ icphs2027.ca
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Michaela (Micky) Watkins @michaelaw.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Accepted to HisPhonCog 2026 ✨ Hope to see others in Seoul this May! #linguistics
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Michaela (Micky) Watkins @michaelaw.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Saw these little guys in Paris, big fan. (Japan, Edo period)
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Michaela (Micky) Watkins @michaelaw.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
OK who are these spicy reviewers for labphon and is it appropriate to ask why they think it's ok to dismiss an abstract as "unprofessional" and "careless" just for using "etc."? Uhhh well I won't be seeing anyone in Montreal... #linguistics
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Language and Linguistic Science @ UoY @uoylangling.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
The Department is hosting an African Linguistics Workshop featuring new research from staff and students. Special guest Prof Enoch Aboh (Uni of Amsterdam) joins the session following his Robert Le Page Lecture. 13 March at 09:30 in AEW/106. Read the programme: www.york.ac.uk/langu...
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Michaela (Micky) Watkins @michaelaw.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
I still think about this tweet every now and then, reminds me of growing up in rural east Anglia 🫠 #linguistics
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Michaela (Micky) Watkins @michaelaw.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Resorting to LinkedIn to find participants, times are tough #linguistics
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Prof. Nicole Holliday @mixedlinguist.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
Anyone here going to Interspeech and wants to do a student a big favor? He was accepted & paid, but ultimately cannot leave the U.S. due to ongoing fascism (he’s on a visa). They will pull his paper if he can’t find anyone to present it for him. DM if you’re attending & may be able to help!
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Michaela (Micky) Watkins @michaelaw.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Our paper "Robustness of F0 Ratio as a Diagnostic: Comparing Creaky Voice in Danish and Seoul Korean" has been accepted into Interspeech 2025 #langsky #linguistics
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Michaela (Micky) Watkins @michaelaw.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
I always forget how crazy Amsterdam is during tourist season 😭 the small suitcase army
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Michaela (Micky) Watkins @michaelaw.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
The interactive kid's dancepad in Utrecht Centraal is playing lacrimosa, and you bet the kids are going wild dancing to it
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Ingrid Robeyns @ingridrobeyns.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Dutch universities go on strike - for the first time since anyone can remember. We protest the treatment and budget cuts of our extreme-right government. The strikers take turns - and Leiden university kicks off tomorrow. ✊🏼
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Prof. Nicole Holliday @mixedlinguist.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
“If we lose all of our funding, our academic support staff — who are disproportionately women and people of color — lose their jobs,” said Nicole Holliday, a UC Berkeley linguistics professor who will speak at the rally. “So do our janitors.” #StandUpforScience2025 sfstandard.com/2025/03/07/b...
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Local scientists are pushing back against Trump's federal funding cuts
Stand Up for Science rallies will sweep major cities all across the country today, including in San Francisco's Civic Center.
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Michaela (Micky) Watkins @michaelaw.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Ugh I'd love to go but it's sooo expensive and our travel grants don't even cover half 😭
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Michaela (Micky) Watkins @michaelaw.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
If you even feel like Python is difficult I encourage you to spend a day just doing Praat scripting, Python will be a dream afterwards... #linguistics
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Philipp Krämer @phkraemer.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Universities all over Europe are cutting language programs and closing the doors to the world. We want to get a more complete picture: where, when, why? If you know of any such cases, please tell us (and share the link with your language and linguistics contacts)! elomake.helsinki.fi/lomakkeet/13...
Door of a subway seen from the inside closing automatically with a flashing red light
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Michaela (Micky) Watkins @michaelaw.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
9am phonology class on a Friday, with snow and ice everywhere. I think out of a class of 30 I'll get...12. 🫠 and that's optimistic
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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
🛑 the cutbacks on research and higher education. Powerful full page ad in national papers and online, signed by 511 members 🙋 of the (young) Dutch Royal Academy of Sciences. “Government, don’t ruin what makes our country successful”
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Ingrid Robeyns @ingridrobeyns.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
This afternoon, I learnt that our demonstration, planned for tomorrow, was cancelled. We had expected at least 5000 students, teachers and scholars to protest against the budget cuts. It's an absolute clusterfuck, and I have many questions. Here's what I shared with our local group::
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Marianne de Heer Kloots @mdhk.net · 29/10/2024
The Dutch government has planned severely destructive budget cuts to higher education and research funding. Please protest with us! Consider signing this petition to show support from abroad: www.change.org/p/stop-cuts-...
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Marc van Oostendorp @fonolog.bsky.social · 26/10/2024
Dear colleagues around the world, As you may know, the Netherlands has, since this summer, been governed by a radical right-wing administration with an agenda reminiscent of Orbán's Hungary.
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Michaela (Micky) Watkins @michaelaw.bsky.social · 24/10/2024
Even more budget cuts... NWO is especially targeted here 🫠 the future of #linguistics departments here is in serious trouble. #langsky
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Ministerie bezuinigt op subsidies voor cultuur, onderzoek en gymnastiekles
Minister Bruins en staatssecretaris Paul noemen sommige ingrepen "pijnlijk".
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Michaela (Micky) Watkins @michaelaw.bsky.social · 23/10/2024
The UK doesn't have the money to fund their own elections, let alone someone else's 👀
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Trump files extraordinary complaint claiming election meddling by UK Labour party
Allegation references LinkedIn post saying 100 party staffers were headed to US to campaign for Harris
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Michaela (Micky) Watkins @michaelaw.bsky.social · 19/10/2024
So sad about what is happening at Leiden University, a whole heap of unique programs just gone... Not to mention this is before the cuts even really kick in 👀 #langsky #linguistics
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Dr. Rachel Schine @rachelschine.bsky.social · 19/10/2024
"Our Arabic program is half a millennium old but couldn't withstand the corporatization of the contemporary university because it isn't nuclear engineering"
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Michaela (Micky) Watkins @michaelaw.bsky.social · 02/09/2024
Getting my presentation ready on the beautiful island of Kos for Interspeech 2024, come join me on Wednesday in acesso to talk about pitch jumps! #linguistics
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Michaela (Micky) Watkins @michaelaw.bsky.social · 04/07/2024
It wouldn't be a Dutch conference if it didn't have music playing that totally doesn't match the vibe
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Michaela (Micky) Watkins @michaelaw.bsky.social · 19/06/2024
If you're at NAACL2024 come join us for our talk in the 11:00 session on tone encoding in self-supervised language models in Don Alberto 2! #MLSky #Linguistics
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Michaela (Micky) Watkins @michaelaw.bsky.social · 04/06/2024
Together with Paul Boersma and Silke Hamann, our paper on pitch jumps was accepted into Interspeech 2024. See you in Kos! (camera ready to follow soon). #langsky #linguistics
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Michaela (Micky) Watkins @michaelaw.bsky.social · 20/05/2024
Still can't wrap my head around what a mora actually is #langsky #linguistics
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Please Follow the Official AP News Account @apnews-world-rss.bsky.social · 07/05/2024
Police break up pro-Palestinian camp at Amsterdam university as campus protests spread to Europe
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Police break up pro-Palestinian camp at Amsterdam university as campus protests spread to Europe
Police have arrested some 125 activists as they broke up a pro-Palestinian demonstration camp at the University of Amsterdam.
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Michaela (Micky) Watkins @michaelaw.bsky.social · 19/04/2024
Old World Conference in Phonology (OCP) 2025 will be in Amsterdam next year sometime in February! Watch this space for calls coming out in the next couple of months 👀 #langsky #linguistics
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Michaela (Micky) Watkins @michaelaw.bsky.social · 18/04/2024
Our paper, "Encoding of lexical tone in self-supervised models of spoken language" was accepted into NAACL2024! arxiv.org/abs/2403.16865 #MLsky #linguistics
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Encoding of lexical tone in self-supervised models of spoken language
Interpretability research has shown that self-supervised Spoken Language Models (SLMs) encode a wide variety of features in human speech from the acoustic, phonetic, phonological, syntactic and...
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Michaela (Micky) Watkins @michaelaw.bsky.social · 18/04/2024
Reading the Praat manual, what a day 👀 #linguistics
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Michaela (Micky) Watkins @michaelaw.bsky.social · 20/03/2024
Does anyone know why a paper might be deleted from EasyChair? Trying to read the reviewer's comments but the submission is just... gone? None of the authors removed it 🤔 #linguistics #langsky
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Michaela (Micky) Watkins @michaelaw.bsky.social · 13/03/2024
Our paper got into NAACL2024! At least one of us will be in Mexico this summer... ⛱️ #MLSky #lingsky
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Michaela (Micky) Watkins @michaelaw.bsky.social · 06/03/2024
Another conference submission done, master's student supervision started, discussions on fieldwork annnd poster in the works... It's only Wednesday 😳
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Michaela (Micky) Watkins @michaelaw.bsky.social · 19/02/2024
Dutch Speech Tech day was good! Always great to step outside of my field a little and see new developments elsewhere. #linguistics #MLSky
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Michaela (Micky) Watkins @michaelaw.bsky.social · 01/02/2024
I think the best compliment you can get as a teacher is when they excitedly ask if you're teaching the next class as well 😭 😭 transcription was intense but I enjoyed it so much #linguistics
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Michaela (Micky) Watkins @michaelaw.bsky.social · 26/01/2024
"it's giving alveolar fricative" teaching the IPA in 2024 is wonderful #linguistics
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Michaela (Micky) Watkins @michaelaw.bsky.social · 23/01/2024
Last week of teaching IPA transcription and sound change already?? Super proud of the students though, they've managed better than I would've done 😅 #linguistics #langsky
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Michaela (Micky) Watkins @michaelaw.bsky.social · 09/01/2024
First class done! 11 more to go for transcription and sound change #linguistics
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