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Natalia Levshina @natalialevshina.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

The proceedings of the Universal Dependencies workshop @LREC in Palma de Mallorca have been published! Looking forward to participating on May 16. Hard to believe this will already be my 4th time. A bit like Hotel California - once you join, you can never leave... universaldependencies.org/udw26/

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Universal Dependencies Workshop 2026 (UDW'26)

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Michael Dunn @evoling.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

JOB ANNOUNCEMENT in evolutionary #linguistics: There are currently an open postdoc and a PhD position available at the University of Turku, Finland in the Human Diversity consortium and Biological Evolution and Diversification of Languages group! Closing date 19-03-2026 sites.utu.fi/humandiversi...

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Postdoctoral researcher and Doctoral researcher positions open in Evolutionary Language Sciences | Human Diversity

The Faculty of Humanities at the University of Turku invites applications for a fixed term position as postdoctoral researcher and a fixed term position as ...

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Natalia Levshina @natalialevshina.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Curious about Bayesian regression and how to use it in your research? Join my course at the LOT summer school in Groningen (22-26 June): lotschool.nl/events/lot-s... It's open to PhD students worldwide and LOT research master students.

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LOT Summer School 2026 - LOT – Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics

The LOT Summer School 2026 is co-organised by the CLCG and will take place at the University of Groningen, from 15 to 26 June 2026.

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Natalia Levshina @natalialevshina.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

If long dependencies are cognitively costly @rferrericancho.bsky.social, why are SOV languages so widespread? In a new #Glottometrics paper, I argue that once you count the arguments actually used, long dependencies are far less problematic. Takeaway: don’t trust SOV/SVO labels—look at real usage!

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languagemit.bsky.social @languagemit.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

New book! I have written a book, called Syntax: A cognitive approach, published by MIT Press. This is open access; MIT Press will post a link soon, but until then, the book is available on my website: tedlab.mit.edu/tedlab_websi...

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Thom Scott-Phillips @thomscottphillips.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

I made a Starter Pack for Language Evolution. But I just added a small bunch of names that came to mind. (I don't know who's on Bluesky yet.) So please add a comment below if you're a language evolution person and I will add more names soon. go.bsky.app/87rRCf7

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Natalia Levshina @natalialevshina.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Really looking forward to the Academia Europaea Conference this week. It's a great chance to connect, share ideas, and build bridges across disciplines. These are challenging times for science: funding cuts, public distrust, AI disruption... It's more important than ever to stand together.

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Natalia Levshina @natalialevshina.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

As I show in my new preprint, #Bayesian statistics is no longer just a niche tool. It’s becoming mainstream in linguistics research. A survey of journal articles shows a rapid rise in Bayesian regression over the past five years. Why? #Bayes #Statistics #Linguistics doi.org/10.48550/arX...

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A Bayesian dawn in linguistics: Trends, benefits and good practices

In recent years, Bayesian statistics has gained traction across a wide range of scientific disciplines. This paper explores the growing application of Bayesian methods within the field of linguistics ...

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Natalia Levshina @natalialevshina.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

🚨 #SLE2026 Workshop alert! 🚨 How do Large Language Models reshape linguistics? 🧠🤖 Join the debate about LLMs' impact on linguistic theory, methods and human language! Osnabrück 26-29 August 2026. #LLM #linguistics Full text of our workshop proposal: societaslinguistica.eu/sle2026/wp-c...

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Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics @mpi-nl.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

We are seeking a #Postdoctoral #Researcher to join our Multimodal Language Department for the NWO funded project: 𝐆𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐆𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐱𝐭: 𝐎𝐛𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭- 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧-𝐀𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐀𝐈 𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐋𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐮𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐔𝐬𝐞 Start: ideally February 1, 2026 but negotiable. www.mpi.nl/career-educa...

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Katja Politt @lingucat.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Join us on Friday for a discussion on retraction 🔥👇

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Adele Goldberg @adelegoldberg.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

UPDATE: Abstract deadline: Nov 1, 25! Invited speakers: Corrine Occhino, Dagmar Divjak, Idan Blank, Randy Allen Harris, Gary Lupyan, Laura Michaelis, Kanishka Misra ! @dagmardivjak.bsky.social @randyallenharris.bsky.social @congramqueen.bsky.social @glupyan.bsky.social @kanishka.bsky.social

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Natalia Levshina @natalialevshina.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

Can't wait to visit this place next week with a merry bunch of fellow linguists! #SLE2025

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Adele Goldberg @adelegoldberg.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

A brilliant linguist and sociolinguist, RIP Gift article from NYT www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/u...

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Robin Lakoff, Expert on Language and Gender, Is Dead at 82

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Kilu von Prince @kilinguistics.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Hi #lingsky! I'll be on sabbatical during the summer of 2026 (March 1 to July 20). I won't travel by plane, so my radius is confined to Europe. If you'd like to hear me speak about Oceanic languages, modal semantics, language documentation, word units (or see other publications), drop me a line!

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Adele Goldberg @adelegoldberg.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

📌 👉 The 14th International Construction Grammar conference will be held at Princeton, June 4-7, 2026 Usage-based analyses and Empirical methods Stay tuned for updates!

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Titus von der Malsburg @tmalsburg.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

3+1-year fully funded PhD position in Experimental and/or Computational Psycholinguistics. Official application deadline today, but applications submitted by August 25 will receive full consideration. tmalsburg.github.io/job_ad_2025_...

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Fully Funded PhD Position in Experimental and/or Computational Psycholinguistics

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Adele Goldberg @adelegoldberg.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Princeton Psychology & Neuroscience are looking to hire a joint assistant professor doing computational, clinical, and/or neuroimaging research, w/ PhD in Psych, Neuro, CS or related. 👇

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Simon J. Greenhill @simongreenhill.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Paper in @pnas.org shows 'industrial scale' academic fraud: Fake papers are not rare & are generally not detected (only ~25% get retracted). Facilitated by 'brokers' - "22 editors accept articles that were retracted significantly more frequently than one would expect by chance".

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Olivier Morin @oliviermorin.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

I'd join the class action if I were US-based.

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Elaine Francis @ejfranci2.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

My PhD student Yue Li is looking for L1 speakers of Chinese and Spanish for her online English experiment! Please see below for details!

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Radek Šimík @radeksimik.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

If there’s a #Bambara speaker (or even better a linguist) around, could you confirm that the following word-by-word translation is correct? Duna ma yelema, bi ma de yelema la || world NEG change and NEG exist change DEF (it’s from Boubacar Traoré’s lyrics)

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Daniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

J. D. Bernal in 1939 discussing how graduate students (only a thing from 1917 in the UK) are evaluated based on number and bulk, the publication pressure stifling originality, and filling the literature with useless papers.

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evolangconf.bsky.social @evolangconf.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Call for papers for Evolang 2026 is now posted! evolang2026.org. Workshop proposals due Sept 22nd. Paper submissions October 26th. Evolang is interdisciplinarity at its best. We hope to see you in Plovdiv!!

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Sad to hear that Margaret Boden, pioneer in cognitive science and artificial intelligence, has passed away. Just a few days ago, someone reactivated the post below. I warmly recommend watching the video. Thank you Margaret for founding and shaping our field. www.sussex.ac.uk/broadcast/re...

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Obituary: Professor Maggie Boden

The University of Sussex mourns the loss of Professor Margaret (Maggie) Boden, a pioneering figure in cognitive science and artificial intelligence.

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Natalia Levshina @natalialevshina.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

I think we should stop using the label "null results". It's a misnomer that devalues the importance of research findings. Research is a competition of hypotheses. Any outcome of this competition advances science, no matter how strongly attached we are to our own theories. 1/3

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Natalia Levshina @natalialevshina.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Just arrived in Eugene for Session 2 of the #LSA summer institute! The bar is set very high after an excellent first session, but I'm excited to contribute to another great run!

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Balthasar Bickel @balthasarbickel.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Exciting new opening @nccrlanguage.bsky.social with the option of permanent extension. If you work in cutting-edge stats and are interested in joining a highly inter-disciplinary, vibrant community, don't hesitate to apply at tinyurl.com/3fxwjk8e

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UZH: Statistician

Within the National Center of Competence in Research (NCCR) Evolving Language and its 46 different research groups from a large variety of disciplines across Switzerland, and the University of Zurich ...

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anteangaeile.bsky.social @anteangaeile.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

The Call for Papers and Call for Workshops for ICAME47, May 26-30 2026 in Koblenz, Germany, now out Submission deadlines 31 October 2025. Calls and conference dates here: wp.uni-koblenz.de/icame47/ Conference email address: icame47@uni-koblenz.de

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CFP -

Call for Papers | Call for Workshops Below you’ll find the Call for Papers and Call for Workshops, along with Word templates for both. Abstracts for Full Papers, Work-in-Progress Reports, Software Dem...

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Fabienne Martin @fabiennemartin.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

I'm finishing an (overdue 🙈 ) short paper for the Cambridge handbook of natural language modality where i revisit modal causatives in phillips and kratzer's anchor semantics for modals. Anyone interested in reading it? I would love to hear your thoughts and suggestions!

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LSA 2025 summer institute @lsa2025uo.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Join us this summer — 80+ courses, 8 conferences, and linguists surrounded by Oregon’s nature. Don’t miss it! 📅 Sign up now: bit.ly/3CSbbHC 🔗 More info: center.uoregon.edu/LSA/2025 📧 Questions? LSAinstitute@uoregon.edu #LSA2025 #Linguistics #SummerInstitute #UOregon

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wimpouw @wimpouw.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

We are looking for Dutch participants in Nijmegen who would like to do a study. We are quite desperate so thought to reach out here too. Perhaps for those Dutchies who are visiting @isgs2025.bsky.social

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Natalia Levshina @natalialevshina.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

I'm in Leipzig, attending a workshop on #phylolinguistics 🌳🌳🌳 at the MPI EVA with an exciting mix of data & methods from linguistics, geography, biology and archaeology... This reminds me again that linguistics is a branch of the Science family, and not an isolate. www.eva.mpg.de/linguistic-a...

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2025 New Advances in Phylolinguistics - Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

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Limor Raviv 🐘🤗🦒🍄🦄 @limorraviv.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

New handbook alert on approaches to language evolution 🚩🚩 See thread below! Huge thank you to everyone who contributed to this fantastic endeavor, and most importantly to my amazing co-editor @cedricboeckx.bsky.social who made this all possible 👏👏

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Mark Dingemanse @markdingemanse.net · 27/05/2025

At our faculty we have guidelines on Generative AI and research integrity: osf.io/preprints/os... . Another example: ERA Living Guidelines european-research-area.ec.europa.eu/news/living-... I'm looking for other examples of guidelines like that, aimed at researchers. Hit me!

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Natalia Levshina @natalialevshina.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

As a teacher of AI-related courses, I also want to understand where the technological developments are leading us.That's why I thoroughly enjoyed reading Yanis Varoufakis' book Technofeudalism: What killed capitalism. Some thoughts about the book in my blog post: text-grinder.com/2025/05/04/w...

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Welcome to Technofeudalism!

Recently, I read Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism by Yanis Varoufakis. In this thought-provoking book, Varoufakis analyzes the profound shifts in the global economy and social rela…

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wimpouw @wimpouw.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Researchers, please consider filling in this Survey for the Diamond Open Access Expertise Center "exploring the motivations and challenges that early-career researchers face when engaging with DOA publishing." erasmusuniversity.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

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Qualtrics Survey | Diamond OA

The purpose of this questionnaire is to better understand the motivations and challenges that researchers face regarding open access publishing. Specifically, we are focusing on Diamond Open Access (D...

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John Mansfield @johnbasil.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

I'm hiring! 2 x PhDs and 1 x PostDoc, to work with me at Uni Zurich on a project investigating how semantic patterns differ by geographic region. Linguistic typology, data science, spatial analysis, phylogenetic methods, potential fieldwork... REPOST 🙏 www.comparativelinguistics.uzh.ch/en/jobs.html

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Natalia Levshina @natalialevshina.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

I'm proud to announce that the paperback edition of my book, "Communicative Efficiency: Language Structure and Use," is now available! www.cambridge.org/de/universit... Still with cute penguins 🐧, but lighter.

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Communicative Efficiency | Cognitive linguistics

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Natalia Levshina @natalialevshina.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

I'm very excited to share that all of our three abstracts have been accepted for presentation at this summer's meeting of the Linguistic Society of Europe (SLE) in Bordeaux! 1) A corpus-based study of preferences for implicit and explicit communication across cultures,

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Simon J. Greenhill @simongreenhill.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Two Fully-Funded PhD positions at Auckland Uni! Come help us understand the past and future of global cultural and linguistic diversity. #linguistics #evolution #academia #phd www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

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Mark Dingemanse @markdingemanse.net · 14/03/2025

We've frozen good old Opening up ChatGPT and continue the work at the European Open Source AI Index osai-index.eu — tripling our coverage (>125 models and counting) and including not only text-based LLMs, but also image, video, audio and code models (Still a soft launch, error reports welcome)

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European Open Source AI Index

A community-driven public resource on open-source generative AI systems in the European Union.

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Jacek Debiec, MD, PhD, DPhil 🌎 🧠 @drjacekdebiec.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

There was a lot of #AcademicFreedom, good scholarship, and independent thought in German universities before Hitler. After Hitler had risen to power, many academics fled the country. Some resisted the Nazi regime and were persecuted. Most adapted to a new situation. Here are some examples. 1/n

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Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics @mpi-nl.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Today is International Women's Day! This two-parter @natalialevshina.bsky.social wrote on our blog on the science of gender-inclusive language is still very relevant. What is male bias? And why is it a problem? You can read her articles here #IWD2025 www.mpi-talkling.mpi.nl?p=1685&lang=en

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Michael Pleyer @symbolicstorage.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

JOB ALERT in #language and #linguistics! Postdoc Position at the Center for Language Evolution Studies, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland. Job offer here: www.umk.pl/en/jobs/?tas... We are now looking at a broader candidate pool so do consider applying! Please repost & share widely!

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Impatient for THE AI CON to come out? So are we! If you want to be sure to have a copy at the first possible moment, pre-order from your favorite bookseller. thecon.ai w/ @alexhanna.bsky.social

Image of THE AI CON as a hardcover book. Cover has THE AI CON in large letterpress font, along with subtitle How To Fight Big Tech's Hype and Create the Future We Want and author names Emily M. Bender & Alex Hanna

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Martin Haspelmath @haspelmath.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Conference "Syntax of the World's Languages", Potsdam, September 2025. Deadline for abstracts: February 27th. sites.google.com/view/swl-x/h...

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Syntax of the World's Languages X September 8–12, 2025Potsdam, Germany

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