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Yoïn van Spijk @yvanspijk.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

'Cello' comes from 'violoncello'. This Italian word has a funny literal meaning: "little big viola". That's because it's a double derivative of 'viola': viola > violone (big viola) > violoncello (little big viola). The part '-cello' is only a suffix. Here's more about it, 'violin', and 'fiddle':

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Michelle Sheehan @mishee54.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Male academics be like "Dear female scholar, here's a paper I wrote that you might be interested in (as you have worked on the topic) in which I do not cite any one of the many papers you have written on the topic."

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OASIS @oasis-ontology.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

OASIS 5 (Ontology As Structured by the Interfaces with Semantics 5) will take place at the University of Edinburgh, December 3-5, with a satellite workshop on nominals in non-referential use. Call deadline: August 15.

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Tom McCoy @rtommccoy.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

The word "laundry" contains both steps of the laundry process: 1. Undry 2. Dry

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Michelle Sheehan @mishee54.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Languages are even more fun when you learn a little bit about how they work!

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Martin Haspelmath @haspelmath.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

RIP linguist Haj Ross (1938-2025) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_R....

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John R. Ross - Wikipedia

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Emily Finn @esfinn.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Despite everything going on, I may have funds to hire a postdoc this year 😬🤞🧑‍🔬 Open to a wide variety of possible projects in social and cognitive neuroscience. Get in touch if you are interested! Reposts appreciated.

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Barbara Bleiman @barbarableiman.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Did you know this about English & Media Centre? It's not a commercial organisation - it's an educational charity, with a tiny staff, offering as much as it can for free, doing loads of advocacy for the subject & offering a very wide range of support for teachers!

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Modern Languages Open @modlangopen.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

'Rethinking the UK Languages Curriculum: Arguments for the Inclusion of Linguistics' by @mishee54.bsky.social, Alice Corr, Anna Havinga, @jrkasstan.bsky.social & Norma Schifano argues for linguistics in the UK Mod Langs curriculum. Read it #OA: bit.ly/MLO-linguisitics @ciol-linguists.bsky.social

The article title 'Rethinking the UK Languages Curriculum: Arguments for the Inclusion of Linguistics' on a blue background.

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Linguistics in MFL Project @inmfl.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

The @inmfl.bsky.social Project bagged its first award last night at Newcastle University in the category "Inclusive Education, Lifelong Learning & CPD"! This success goes in large part to many dedicated teachers who have co-created, piloted, and tested the materials developed on the project so far!

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Jonathan Kasstan @jrkasstan.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Lovely to see this recognition of our work on the @inmfl.bsky.social project! Language learning can be transformational, and we are proposing one way to realise that through the introduction of #linguistics in the school languages curriculum. #edusky #langsky

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LAGB @lagbling.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Just 10 days to go! The deadline to submit your abstracts for Papers and Posters is April 14 at 5PM GMT ⏳ Proposals for Special Interest Panels are also welcome! Submit your great research ideas: easychair.org/cfp/lagb2025 and share your work with the linguistics community. Be part of #LAGB2025!

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Jonathan Kasstan @jrkasstan.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

What does ‘good’ ethical conduct in #linguistics look like from the perspective of the communities with whom we work? What can we as linguists be doing better? When it comes to building funding bids here are some suggestions #langsky 👉 www.degruyter.com/document/doi...

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“I haven’t seen any results yet”: on ethical collaborative research in linguistics and the need for a standard protocol

What does ‘good’ ethical conduct in linguistics look like from the perspective of the communities with whom we work? We address this question by drawing on observations from a community-bridging and k...

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Linguistics in MFL Project @inmfl.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

📣 We’ve been shortlisted for a Newcastle University Engagement and Place Award in the Inclusive Education, Life Long Learning and CPD category! Thank you, @newcastleuni.bsky.social, for this recognition - we’re delighted!

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Michelle Sheehan @mishee54.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Follow our new BlueSky account if you are interested! #linguistics #education #MFLTwitterati #MFL

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Michelle Sheehan @mishee54.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Can we all please agree to stop using the word ‘seminal’?

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Michelle Sheehan @mishee54.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Very excited to speak at #OASIS4 next week in York. Interdisciplinary conferences are the best and here’s why…https://oasis-4.webflow.io/speaker/michelle-sheehan

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Michelle Sheehan @mishee54.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

If only they had gone with ‘Cartographer’! english.stackexchange.com/questions/48...

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Michelle Sheehan @mishee54.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Finally got to this today: www.britishmuseum.org/exhibitions/... it’s really good but (as usual) could have done with some linguistic input). There are lots of cool documents and scripts though! Worth a visit!

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Silk Roads

Go beyond sand and spices to discover how the journeys of people, objects and ideas across three continents shaped cultures and histories.

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Michelle Sheehan @mishee54.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Cambridge cafe reading for linguists

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Michelle Sheehan @mishee54.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Heard today: she’s duolingual in English and Spanish. Love it!

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Sverre Stausland @stausland.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

Available Ph.D. positions in linguistics (all subdisciplines) and philology (including historical linguistics) in our department at the University of Oslo. Application deadline February 28, 2025. www.hf.uio.no/iln/english/...

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Vacancies - Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies

Read this story on the University of Oslo's website.

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Michelle Sheehan @mishee54.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Yes, all I want for Christmas is a meaningless email from every company I gave every interacted with wishing me seasons greetings.

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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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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 18/12/2024

Sad news from the linguistics community: the great sociolinguist William Labov has died at age 97 languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=67399

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Bill Labov
December 17, 2024 @ 7:40 pm · Filed by Cynthia McLemore and Mark Liberman under Obituaries, Sociolinguistics

William Labov, known far and wide as one of the most influential linguists of the 20th and 21st centuries, passed away this morning at the age of 97, with his wife, Gillian Sankoff, by his side.

Bill is still very alive to us, so many of us, here at Penn. His voice reverberates. Mark is working on a longer, more detailed appreciation.

For now, a warm memory. One night over dinner Bill said that when he wrote he liked to imagine a scholar in the library, perhaps in some faraway place or distant future, opening one of his books and finding a useful insight, just as he had from scholars before him. We got to see him receive news about such an occurrence one evening at that same table: a guest hand-delivered, from the hills of Sindhi-speaking Pakistan, a sociolinguistic book inscribed with thanks for his insight, inspiration, and example.

Here’s a favorite picture of Bill turning to say goodbye one Thanksgiving afternoon. Farewell, dear friend.

Photo from Language Log of William Labov, dressed in sneakers, a blue nylon-and-fleece jacket, and a distinctive fur hat

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Michelle Sheehan @mishee54.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Fantastic North East Syntax Seminar today in Newcastle! If you are a linguist interested in syntax and working in the NE of the UK then sign up for our email list. The next meeting will be in beautiful York! www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/weba...

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JISCMail - NESS List at WWW.JISCMAIL.AC.UK

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Calle Börstell @cborstell.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Stockholm University 🇸🇪 looking for an Associate Professor of General #Linguistics. Typology and neurolinguistics are current themes in their group; dept also works in phonetics, lang acquisition and sign language. Application deadline: January 2025 su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

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Senior Lecturer in General Linguistics

The Department of Linguistics offers courses and programmes in two main areas: linguistics and sign language. Our researchers are active in areas such as child language development, computational ling

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David Adger @davidadger.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Permanent computational linguistics job @ QM. Deadline 5th January. We're looking for a linguist w/ computational focus, to teach on new MSc Linguistics&AI who fits our research (phon, syn, sem, socio, neuro, exper). linguistlist.org/issues/35.33... (salary on scale w/ annual increases) #linguistics

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LINGUIST List 35.3363 Jobs: Lecturer in Computational Linguistics, Queen Mary University of London

The LINGUIST List, International Linguistics Community Online.

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Michelle Sheehan @mishee54.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Excited to see that our #SLE workshop on the Syntax and Semantics of Perception has been accepted. See you in Bordeaux!

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

“Few people realize that cognitive science is crucial for evaluating claims about AI capabilities. We often overestimate what computers are capable of, while vastly underestimating what human cognition is capable of.” www.ru.nl/en/research/...

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Don’t believe the hype: AGI is far from inevitable | Radboud University

Will AI soon surpass the human brain? If you ask employees at OpenAI, Google DeepMind and other large tech companies, it is inevitable. However, researchers at Radboud University and other institutes ...

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Dominic @dmncschmtz.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

He's also putting the glamour back into grammar on YouTube now! 🎶 #linguistics www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSOl...

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Meet Christian Uffmann! #phonology

YouTube video by HHU

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Alexander Jabbari @ajab.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Spanish #etymology of the day: mochila "backpack", from mochil "errand boy", from Basque motxil, diminutive of motil "boy", itself from Latin putillus "little boy".

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Lisa Davidson @lisabdavidson.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Admit it, when you first saw the word “Glicked”, you pronounced it in your head as if it rhymes with “picked”. And why wouldn’t you? As far as I can tell, there’s no other word that’s a perfect rhyme with “wicked”.

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Michelle Sheehan @mishee54.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

The website for our Leverhulme Research Project is up! Take a look if you are interested in causation, perception and/or Romance languages! www.caurpe.org

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Jonathan Kasstan @jrkasstan.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

The decline in #language learning in UK schools calls for urgent curriculum reform. In this policy paper we offer a feasible path based on interventions that we have been conducting on the #linguistics in MFL project (linguisticsinmfl.co.uk) #langsky #edusky 👉 www.lspjournal.com/post/address...

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Michelle Sheehan @mishee54.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Is it just me or do all academics at graduation love the loved ones whooping in the audience? I say that sincerely.

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Jo Ran🥑 @drjo.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

El paisaje lingüístico importa y mucho. Ver lenguas históricamente minorizadas en el espacio público y a la par de las lenguas homogenicas es una pequeña acción que abre la puerta a otras. No es un fin en sí, es una herramienta

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Bronwyn @bron.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

This has come up before, but I'm curious about other people's defaults: if you're emailing an academic who you don't know, do you address them by their first name, or by title + last name? Does it matter if they're in your field? Does it matter if you're contacting them as a chair/dean?

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Michelle Sheehan @mishee54.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

I did this and had a really good experience with the editorial team! Would highly recommend it!

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David Adger @davidadger.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Computational Linguistics job (Assistant Prof level, permanent) at our lovely linguistics department in Queen Mary. We're starting a new MSc in Lings and AI. Deadline Jan 5th, interviews late February. linguistlist.org/issues/35-33... #linguistics please repost!

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LINGUIST List 35.3363 Jobs: Lecturer in Computational Linguistics, Queen Mary University of London

The LINGUIST List, International Linguistics Community Online.

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Prof. Nicole Holliday @mixedlinguist.bsky.social · 05/09/2024

Grammar is not the “rules” you were taught in school. It’s what your brain does to make sense of the linguistic input it’s exposed to. The “rules” you were taught are a hidden curriculum designed to maintain a social hierarchy. Before you learned them, you were already an expert at your language.

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Michelle Sheehan @mishee54.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Snow day today! Sledging and a movie. Never gets old.

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María Méndez Santos @mariaparrula.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Post doc Grant in Linguistics portal.sede.uva.es/detalle-tabl...

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