Reposted by Robin Edds 🏳️🌈Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Spoke to a Lebanese friend today who was so confused because so many people here are carrying on as normal despite this stuff. ”I feel crazy”, they told me. Eritrean guy on the train struck up some small talk then said, I’m going to Egypt or Canada if things get worse. The mood here is grim. 112939
Reposted by Robin Edds 🏳️🌈Sylvia Sierra 🏔️ @sociolinguista.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Just submitted the proofs for "Gendered variation in Mexican slang Data from Twitter and speaker intuitions" co-authored with @thedansimonson.bsky.social over the past 13 years! It should be in the next issue of the journal Spanish in Context 1154
Reposted by Robin Edds 🏳️🌈Adam Schembri (ˈʃɛmbɹi/ˈʃkɛmbri) @adamcschembri.bsky.social · 10/07/2026It was published yesterday! I'm grateful to my co-authors for their patience as I was the main reason it has taken over a decade. I hope it's useful. Please don't forget to download the 500 video sign examples from the website. Now on to the Auslan linguistics second edition! 04914
Reposted by Robin Edds 🏳️🌈Laura Bailey @linguistlaura.bsky.social · 07/07/2026This is my semi-regular shout out to linguists: if you have/are a PhD student who'd write a great book review for the Journal of Linguistics, especially if it'd help increase our global diversity of authors, let me (reviews editor) know a couple of books they/you'd like to review. #linguistics 21313
Robin Edds 🏳️🌈 @reddsreads.bsky.social · 06/07/2026Upping this again: still 10 days or so until the deadline! 000
Reposted by Robin Edds 🏳️🌈Julie A. Hochgesang @jahochcam.bsky.social · 19/06/2026Pleased to share that “ASL Signbank” through Cambridge Elements (Sign Language Series) is out! It’s free for the next two weeks. You can find it here doi.org/10.1017/9781... Thanks to Erin Wilkinson and David Quinto-Pozos, editors of Sign Language Series, for their support! #ASLSignbank 13323
Reposted by Robin Edds 🏳️🌈Robin Edds 🏳️🌈 @reddsreads.bsky.social · 15/06/2026We're organising a workshop! It's on non-canonical questions! If you're working on NCQs and are looking for a venue to present in, please do consider submitting. Dates: March 2nd-5th, 2027, at DGfS49 in Jena, Germany Submission deadline: July 15th More details: uni-tuebingen.de/en/298455uni-tuebingen.deWorkshop: Non-Canonical Questions under the Microscope 132
Robin Edds 🏳️🌈 @reddsreads.bsky.social · 15/06/2026We're organising a workshop! It's on non-canonical questions! If you're working on NCQs and are looking for a venue to present in, please do consider submitting. Dates: March 2nd-5th, 2027, at DGfS49 in Jena, Germany Submission deadline: July 15th More details: uni-tuebingen.de/en/298455uni-tuebingen.deWorkshop: Non-Canonical Questions under the Microscope 132
Robin Edds 🏳️🌈 @reddsreads.bsky.social · 11/06/2026The UK has really been testing my commitment to delighting in language change this week... 163
Reposted by Robin Edds 🏳️🌈JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 09/06/2026I went from reading a few books a year to around one a week. I wanted to write down how I got there, how it involved rethinking my relationship to attention, and why I believe reading books can heal your brain. I hope this gives you something useful! johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/how-i-lear...johnpaulbrammer.substack.comHow I Learned to Read Way, Way MoreI had to rethink my relationship to attention 231274374
Robin Edds 🏳️🌈 @reddsreads.bsky.social · 06/06/2026Very cool to see a popular post about Old English on here. Kind of wish it wasn't a screenshot of that racist OE account still on X though 000
Reposted by Robin Edds 🏳️🌈Soulcié @soulcie.fr · 25/05/2026Dérèglement climatix Juillet 2022 pour @telerama.bsky.social 191717439
Reposted by Robin Edds 🏳️🌈Melissa Baese-Berk @m2b2.bsky.social · 13/05/2026My student is looking for participants for her dissertation experiment (done online! Paid!). DM me if you're interested: Looking for native English speakers in the US between 18-35 years old learning Mandarin / Korean as their second language to participate in an online linguistics study! 133
Robin Edds 🏳️🌈 @reddsreads.bsky.social · 09/05/2026me, halfway through rewatching The Devil Wears Prada: ok, so the reason "Get me a table at the restaurant with the good review" does such a good job at conveying Miranda's egocentrism is that it suggests she constructs a "common ground" based only on what she herself knows 120
Reposted by Robin Edds 🏳️🌈James Butler @piercepenniless.bsky.social · 09/05/2026Wrote about the elections for the paper (which went to press last night): www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4... 18337161
Reposted by Robin Edds 🏳️🌈kobayashi ḫamṭu @mattboot.bsky.social · 08/05/2026thinking about that time my french coworker thought that Kyoto was just verlan for Tokyo 4424
Reposted by Robin Edds 🏳️🌈Bridget Copley PhD @moppety.bsky.social · 07/05/2026🐦🐦 Semanticists and the semantics-friendly: If you like thinking about what we mean when we write down a semantic variable, and if you like talking to (other) semantics-adjacent folks about it, join us for OASIS 6 in Lisbon! 092
Reposted by Robin Edds 🏳️🌈Plant Science Spotlight @plant-sci.bsky.social · 05/05/2026Don’t reach for ChatGPT Images or Nano Banana as your first option when creating scientific images There are multiple free and open-source images, icons, and tools for creating scientific illustrations. #plantscience @stephenturner.us blog.stephenturner.us/p/free-open-...blog.stephenturner.usFree and open-source images, icons, and tools for creating scientific illustrationsPhylopic, NIH Bioart, Bioicons, Scidraw, Open Science Art, Health Icons, Servier Medical Art, Biodiversity Heritage Library, the Noun Project, Segment Anything, Excalidraw, draw.io, Biographics 317980
Reposted by Robin Edds 🏳️🌈Kirby Conrod @kirbyconrod.bsky.social · 27/04/2026paper out, hope it's useful doi.org/10.1017/S009... #linguisticsdoi.orgEnhancing linguistic research through critical use of race and ethnicity information | Language | Cambridge CoreEnhancing linguistic research through critical use of race and ethnicity information 25420
Reposted by Robin Edds 🏳️🌈Natasha Walter @natashawalter.bsky.social · 24/04/2026I’ve been hearing so much anger and disappointment from frontline workers about the BBC investigation into fraudulent asylum claims. One of the most damning responses has come from one of the experts they interviewed, solicitor Ana Gonzalez. It’s really worth reading her response in full: 4520461181
Reposted by Robin Edds 🏳️🌈Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 15/04/2026Disgusting reporting by BBC using a tiny number of cases to suggest widespread abuse of a system which routinely denies LGBTQIA+ individuals asylum and forces them back into environments of persecution. This article massively distorts the reality of the situation. 1/ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukLegal advisers help migrants pose as gay to get asylum, undercover BBC investigation findsThe BBC exposes a shadow industry charging migrants thousands of pounds to help them cheat the asylum system. 1002011646
Reposted by Robin Edds 🏳️🌈Laura Bailey @linguistlaura.bsky.social · 05/04/2026Hey if you need something to do over this long weekend, have a go at my PhD student Anna-Merete’s survey. It’s sentences to rate, you just need to have any English variety as your first language, and it’ll take you 10–15 minutes. #linguistics docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...docs.google.comCan You Say That?The aim of this project is to investigate the (im)possibilities of sentence structure in English and Danish, and the differences between the two languages. By contributing, you help further our unders... 33835
Reposted by Robin Edds 🏳️🌈Lieven Vandelanotte @lieven.bsky.social · 11/03/2026PhD and teaching job in English anyone? 🐦🐦 In Namur, with ME 🥹🥹 and wonderful colleagues 😊 (Working knowledge of French 🥖 is required, though.) Six-year contract (2 x 3). Details here: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/417075 or in French here: jobs.unamur.be/emploi.2026-... 21115
Reposted by Robin Edds 🏳️🌈Michael Prinzing @mprinzing.bsky.social · 31/03/2026Philosophy was mostly "armchair" in the mid-20th century—but it's not anymore! Philosophers have increasingly cited empirical sources and discussed empirical data and evidence. In fact, as of the 2020s, non-empirical philosophy has become the minority. 34015
Robin Edds 🏳️🌈 @reddsreads.bsky.social · 09/03/2026Proofreading, or How many times can one PhD student misspell "felicitous" as "felictious"? 030
Reposted by Robin Edds 🏳️🌈Theresa Heyd @theresaheyd.bsky.social · 04/03/2026Promotionsstelle (100%, E13) am Sprachlabor der Universität zu Köln bei Axel Bohmann, in den Bereichen Mehrsprachigkeit, English as a Medium of Instruction und Digital Literacy:jobportal.uni-koeln.de 11613
Reposted by Robin Edds 🏳️🌈Susannah Walker @susannahwalker.bsky.social · 04/03/2026This needs to be done because Sylvia Townsend Warner deserves all the remembering we can manage 29538
Reposted by Robin Edds 🏳️🌈Omar Rafael Regalado Fernández @mathchaos.bsky.social · 22/02/2026Thank you Kit Marie for the invite and thank you for the chat! I really enjoyed the topics we discussed and the questions people asked! 163
Reposted by Robin Edds 🏳️🌈Prof. Nicole Holliday @mixedlinguist.bsky.social · 17/02/2026This is disgusting, and dehumanizing, and unfortunately coming to damn near every platform you can think of. Multilingualism isn’t an inconvenience to be “solved” by technology. We have to push back. 10873303
Reposted by Robin Edds 🏳️🌈tits andronicus @tambourine.bsky.social · 11/02/2026my copy of Ragged Band of Travellers: writing from the threshold of dungeons & dragons is here! I have a poem in this one about that mysterious figure, a fantasy of long, long life twice over — an elfin vampire. 1238
Reposted by Robin Edds 🏳️🌈Kilu von Prince @kilinguistics.bsky.social · 24/01/2026My own ideas around this topic are shaped by my personal experiences with colonial history, settle in for a bit of story time if you want to follow along this tale of three parts. 1. How to say “tired” in Bislama Bislama is the national language of Vanuatu. 1/x 13618
Reposted by Robin Edds 🏳️🌈Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com · 23/01/2026The LingComm Grants are back! These grants started in 2020, as "hey let's help get lingcomm projects going during lockdown" They've since run in 2022 and 2024, and thanks to generous folks we've always given out more than expected But they only work if people apply!!! Please share this!! 04435
Reposted by Robin Edds 🏳️🌈Nina Markl 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 @ninamarkl.bsky.social · 20/01/2026(linguistics) pals, a student of mine is conducting a short (<10 minutes) perception study on Child Directed Speech -- open to all L1 speakers of English who have grown up in & live in the UK! 🐦🐦 please share and/or complete: essex.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... 2514
Reposted by Robin Edds 🏳️🌈weird medieval guys @weirdmedieval.bsky.social · 12/11/2025hey i wrote an article about folk names for birds and you should check it out!!! open.substack.com/pub/weirdmed... 19496104
Reposted by Robin Edds 🏳️🌈Adrian Leemann @adrianleemann.bsky.social · 18/01/2026Come work with us! 🌟 3 Postdoc & 5 PhD positions – deadline for applications: 20 February. www.curlew.info/jobs 02416
Reposted by Robin Edds 🏳️🌈tits andronicus @tambourine.bsky.social · 05/01/2025it's twelfth night, time to celebrate by finding a loyal sea captain to save you from drowning and fall hopelessly in love with you, then abandon him to rot in jail so you can marry your sister's star-crossed girlfriend 925282
Reposted by Robin Edds 🏳️🌈J. R. Carpenter @jrcarpenter.bsky.social · 15/12/2025Caedmon’s Cross, erected in honour of the earliest English poet whose name is known, in the graveyard of St Mary’s Church in Whitby in 1898. Cædmon (657–684) cared for the animals at the double monastery of Streonæshalch (now known as Whitby Abbey) during the abbacy of St. Hilda (657–680). 1278
Reposted by Robin Edds 🏳️🌈Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 01/12/2025Last week I checked in on a friend, someone who I thought would be one of the very last immigrants (who have any other options) to leave Germany, only to find that they and their family are already in the process of leaving. Their explicit reason: the rise of fascism. Very, very disturbing times. 7306118
Reposted by Robin Edds 🏳️🌈Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 25/11/2025one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible. 238228646522
Reposted by Robin Edds 🏳️🌈HiPhiLangSci @hiphilangsci.bsky.social · 10/11/2025The next Henry Sweet Society (@henrysweetsoc.bsky.social) Colloquium will be held on 2-4 September 2026 at the University of Nottingham (@uniofnottingham.bsky.social). Thematic focus: (Non-)Native Speakers in the History of Linguistic Ideas CfP: hiphilangsci.net/2025/11/08/c... #Histlxhiphilangsci.netCfp: Henry Sweet Society Colloquium 2026The 2026 annual colloquium of the Henry Sweet Society for the History of Linguistic Ideas will be held on 2–4 September 2026 at the University of Nottingham, UK. Confirmed plenary speaker: Cécile V… 086
Reposted by Robin Edds 🏳️🌈Michael Franke @meanwhileina.bsky.social · 16/10/2025Opening for PhD position (3.5 years) on Language Evolution | Computational Modeling | Primate Communication Joint project with @marlenfroehlich.bsky.social & @elmanubohn.bsky.social at @unituebingen.bsky.social in CRC "Common Ground". Share, apply, or reach out for details! tinyurl.com/y2av9hhdtinyurl.comPhD Researcher (m/f/d, E13 TV-L, 75%) 01516
Reposted by Robin Edds 🏳️🌈jay Dragon is unstoppable @jdragsky.bsky.social · 11/10/2025has anyone written about the process of conversational repair in analog games? specifically thinking about stuff like: - "i move my meeple 5 spaces" "i think it's 6 spaces" - "oh, last turn i should've given you an extra 3 tokens. do you want them now?" - "it's too late now, but for next time..." 1917620
Reposted by Robin Edds 🏳️🌈Calle Börstell @cborstell.bsky.social · 17/09/2025🚨 Open PhD position in sign language #linguistics 🚨 The focus should be on the structure of signed languages, or connect to other research profiles at the department (e.g. computational linguistics, acquisition, typology, multilingualism) su.varbi.com/en/what:job/... Deadline: 15 October 2025su.varbi.comPhD student in Linguistics, sign languageThe Department of Linguistics at Stockholm University conducts research and offers education in a number of areas such as child language development, computational linguistics, general linguistics, ph 13437
Reposted by Robin Edds 🏳️🌈Jason Okundaye @jaseokundaye.bsky.social · 15/08/2025I wrote about the decision myself and other authors took to withdraw from the longlist of the Polari Book Prizes for LGBTQ+ writers www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comWhy I withdrew my book from an LGBTQ+ literary prize | Jason OkundayeThe Polari first book prize claims to promote trans rights and trans voices. But when I saw the longlist, I had to act, says Guardian writer Jason Okundaye 15496163
Reposted by Robin Edds 🏳️🌈Sacha Coward @sachacoward.bsky.social · 15/08/2025I am one of the 14 authors who chose to leave the Polari Prize, and I find myself frustrated and saddened at the way this entire story has been represented. 1/ 11361802350