Reposted by Susanne FuchsKilu von Prince @kilinguistics.bsky.social · 15hDo you like having high-quality, peer-reviewed, Open Access Books on linguistics? Yes? Is your institution among those that have pledged support for the new funding period of Language Science Press (see thread)? No? Then talk to your librarian! We need you! langsci-press.org/knowledgeunl... 2812
Reposted by Susanne Fuchswimpouw @wimpouw.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Here we go! We can finally share what Sharjeel Shaikh @sharjeelshaikh has been leading the work on with us! Consider participating in our detection challenge 0137
Reposted by Susanne FuchsAnastasia Bauer @anastasia-bauer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026I am thrilled to be a co-author on the paper "Kinematics of Negative Headshake in Seven Sign Languages"! 🎉 A big thank you to my colleague Vadim Kimmelman for the fantastic collaboration! 🙌 doi.org/10.1162/OPMI... #SignLanguages #Linguistics #ComputerVision #Negation #Headshakedoi.orgKinematics of Negative Headshake in Seven Sign LanguagesAbstract. In sign languages, negative sentences are often accompanied by nonmanual markers of negation, including headshake. In some sign languages, nonmanual markers alone can express negation, witho... 0104
Reposted by Susanne FuchsIris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 15/09/2026📣 Scholarship programme for applications by graduates in the Netherlands with a non-Western migration background and/or a recent asylum background. If interested to do PhD research in Computational Cognitive Science, feel free to reach out! Info about research lines in our lab in thread below. 🧵nwo.nlFirst round of Mosaic 3.0 now open for applications | NWOThe first round of the updated Mosaic 3.0 PhD scholarship programme is now open for applications. Mosaic encourages the recruitment of graduates from under-represented groups into Dutch academia by fu... 14533
Reposted by Susanne FuchsThom Scott-Phillips @thomscottphillips.bsky.social · 13/09/2026"contemporary scientific systems... constrain high-risk and conceptually innovative research while being increasingly structured around... productivity-based evaluation criteria and risk-averse frameworks that favour predictable and non-transformative research" 100% www.nature.com/articles/s41...nature.comHow contemporary academic structures constrain scientific creativity and hold back early-career researchers - Nature Human BehaviourIn this Perspective, Haubrock et al. argue that today’s scientific structures constrain creativity and that strategic conformity is a rational response. They discuss how this holds back early-career r... 0131
Reposted by Susanne FuchsMatt Goldrick @mattgoldrick.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Deadline 16th September: Expressions of interest to MPI for Psycholinguistics + Radboud U., research group lead + permanent assistant prof. www.mpi.nl/career-educa...mpi.nlExpressions of interest sought re. Open topic Call for Max Planck Research Group Leaders and permanent Assistant Professor positions | Max Planck Institute 025
Reposted by Susanne FuchsRobert Hawkins @rdhawkins.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Stanford Linguistics is hiring an open-rank sociolinguist (Assistant, Associate, or Full). Materials due October 16 for full consideration; start date September 2027. Please share widely!facultypositions.stanford.eduSociolinguistics, Open Rank - Stanford University, California, United StatesThe Department of Linguistics at Stanford University seeks applicants for a junior or senior appointment at the rank of tenure-track Assistant Professor, tenured Associate Professor, or Full Professor... 01924
Susanne Fuchs @susfuchs.bsky.social · 31/08/2026In this paper with Lara S. Burchardt & Ludger Paschen, today published 🤩in #ANYAS we compare speech rhythms in 48 languages on a broad temporal scale (Inter-Onset-Interval) and find that it is consistent and actually comparable to various non-human animal rhythms. doi.org/10.1111/nyas...doi.orgNYAS PublicationsWe analyzed speech rhythms from 48 human languages using methods drawn from biology and linguistics. Interonset intervals across languages are surprisingly similar, with a median value of 2 seconds.,... 0154
Reposted by Susanne FuchsRasmus Puggaard-Rode @rpuggaardrode.bsky.social · 07/05/2026Very happy that this has now found a home! 082
Susanne Fuchs @susfuchs.bsky.social · 16/08/2026If I could ever do science as I grow vegetables, that would be colourful. Meantime vegetables 🤩 060
Reposted by Susanne FuchsThe MARCS Institute @marcsinstitute.bsky.social · 12/08/2026🐶 Why do we use ‘baby voice’ with our pets? Read the article by Dr Antonia Goetz and Dr Jenny Zeng to find out more: ➡️ theconversation.com/why-do-human...tinyurl.comWhy do humans use ‘baby voice’ when we speak to pets?‘Who’s a good boy? Yes, you are!’ 042
Reposted by Susanne FuchsMax Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics @mpi-nl.bsky.social · 23/07/2026We're hiring a Research Assistant (Dutch, 32h/wk) in Nijmegen! • Lab exp. (VR, EEG, Motion Capture) • Annotating multimodal speech & gesture data • Starts between 1 Nov 2026 and 31 Jan 2027 • Ideal for grads in Psych, Ling, CogSci & related fields Apply by 15 Sep: www.mpi.nl/career-educa... 0713
Reposted by Susanne FuchsGeorg Weizsäcker @georgweizsaecker.bsky.social · 23/07/2026A strong recommendation 👇🏻 German Research Foundation @dfg.de describes the MAGA/AfD threat to science, and how one may prepare the defenses. Both the quiet and the loud ones. (Not specific to Germany and available in 🇬🇧 and 🇩🇪.) 1168
Reposted by Susanne FuchsKatja Politt @lingucat.bsky.social · 03/07/2026Do you (want to) work on linguistic creativity? The call for CRC 1646 fellowships for incoming visiting researchers for 2027 now published. Deadline is 31 August 2026. 💡 More info here 👉 www.uni-bielefeld.de/sfb/sfb1646/... #CRC1646 #linguistics #Sprachwissenschaft #creativityuni-bielefeld.deRTG - Universität BielefeldDer SFB setzt sich für eine qualitativ hochwertige Ausbildung von Doktoranden und Postdoktoranden ein und bietet Nachwuchswissenschaftlern ein Umfeld, das es ihnen ermöglicht, ihr Potenzial voll zu en... 087
Reposted by Susanne FuchsMatt Goldrick @mattgoldrick.bsky.social · 18/07/2026Deadline Aug 3rd: Postdoc/lab manager, Phonetics, Oxford my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru... 015
Reposted by Susanne FuchsNatalia Vélez @natvelali.bsky.social · 24/06/2026It feels strange to share good news, but: I’m moving to UCSD in July!! 🥳 I'm very grateful for my time at Princeton and SO excited for what comes next. We're building multiplayer games to study how teams are shaped by the problems they solve. If that sounds fun to you, I'm accepting grad students! 312116
Susanne Fuchs @susfuchs.bsky.social · 21/06/2026Considering the whole body, including #postural stability affects acoustics of #speech, but not #fluency related measures, see new work in JASA. Thanks for this team effort with Mingtong, Eric & @suzanneaussems.bsky.social. The corpus is #OA on doi.org/10.5281/zeno... pubs.aip.org/asa/jasa/art...pubs.aip.orgPerturbing postural stability affects acoustic properties but not fluency of adult speech production during face-to-face interactionPhysical constraints, particularly those that challenge postural stability and control, may measurably influence speech production. This experimental study inve 0114
Susanne Fuchs @susfuchs.bsky.social · 12/06/2026New #OA corpus doi.org/10.5281/zeno... by Mingtong Li, Jiahao Eric Yang, @suzanneaussems.bsky.social. In short: 60 adults (30 pairs) play an interactive word guessing game. What is special: The clue giver is in situations under postural (in)stability (standing on the ground or on a wobble board)!!doi.org 175
Reposted by Susanne FuchsAcoustical Society of America @asa-news.bsky.social · 20/05/2026Read the historical article that inspired this month's Reflection: "Ultrasonic Doppler Method for the Inspection of Cardiac Functions" by Shigeo Satomura (doi.org/10.1121/1.1908737) 021
Reposted by Susanne FuchsChristoph Völter @christophvoelter.bsky.social · 20/05/2026Two postdoc positions at the Messerli Research Institute in Vienna in the research area of human-animal interactions: www.vetmeduni.ac.at/fileadmin/v/...vetmeduni.ac.at 0817
Reposted by Susanne FuchsSimon J. Greenhill @simongreenhill.bsky.social · 13/05/2026"We learn to recognize other people as being like us through the way that they sound" www.theguardian.com/science/2026... #linguistics #languagetheguardian.comDo we judge people by the way they sound? How accents shape our livesA new book by linguistics professor Valerie Fridland, who was raised in Memphis by parents with French accents, explores the power behind the way we speak 052
Reposted by Susanne FuchsMatt Goldrick @mattgoldrick.bsky.social · 13/05/2026Deadline 30 June: Postdoc, Speech Perception, Sociolinguistics and Speech Technology w/ É. Székely, KTH Royal Inst. of Tech. Dept. of Speech, Music, and Hearing www.kth.se/lediga-jobb/...kth.seKTH | Postdoc in Speech Perception, Sociolinguistics and Speech TechnologyKTH jobs is where you search for jobs at www.kth.se. 038
Susanne Fuchs @susfuchs.bsky.social · 07/05/2026If you are interested in carrying out a #multimodal experiments with more or less expertise - check this out (authors of the SPP #ViCom) “Data Collection in Multimodal Language and Communication Research: A Flexible Decision Framework” is now published and is available at doi.org/10.1177/2515...doi.orgData Collection in Multimodal Language and Communication Research: A Flexible Decision Framework - Anastasia Bauer, Patrick C. Trettenbrein, Federica Amici, Aleksandra Ćwiek, Lisa-Marie Krause, Anna K...Contemporary research on language and communication has expanded beyond its traditional focus on spoken and written forms to encompass signing, gestures, facial... 2197
Susanne Fuchs @susfuchs.bsky.social · 10/04/2026Familien mit kleinen Kindern in Berlin gesucht. Melden Sie sich gerne. 001
Reposted by Susanne FuchsCalle Börstell @cborstell.bsky.social · 07/04/2026📦 My first #RStats package on CRAN: {readelan} A package dedicated to reading all files associated with ELAN: eaf, etf, ecv. Reads annotations, metadata, controlled vocabularies. Relevant for many in #linguistics perhaps? More info here: borstell.github.io/misc/readelan/ 55821
Reposted by Susanne FuchsSenator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 07/04/2026It is very easy to become accustomed to Trump’s ravings, and laugh them off. That’s a dangerous thing to do. When Trump states: “A whole civilization will die tonight,” he is threatening to commit genocide. We can’t allow that to happen. Congress must end this war NOW. 2404772998
Reposted by Susanne FuchsChristian DiCanio @cdicanio.bsky.social · 06/04/2026I’m going to put this out there - I have some funds to run lab experiments involving prosody and segmental articulation. I’m happy to collaborate with people who want to do this work but don’t have much funding, especially given the federal funding catastrophe. #linguistics 12612
Susanne Fuchs @susfuchs.bsky.social · 04/04/2026Still cabbage and pumpkin from the garden last year 😋 040
Reposted by Susanne Fuchsgrice pudding @evpok.love · 30/03/2026The European Left Alliance has just now launched an ECI: A European Citizen's Initiative to demand #JusticeForPalestine. It's similar to a petition, and legally binding if the goal of 1.000.000 signatures is reached. The EU has to act if we share this enough! If you're a EU citizen, please sign!eci.ec.europa.euEuropean Citizens' InitiativeGive your support ! 022
Reposted by Susanne FuchsMark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social · 24/03/2026Thanks again to the New Horizons #DiamondOA conference for the invitation to speak. If you would like to see this presentation on the Strain, Drain, and "Stain" (PISS) papers, there is a recording here. Find the papers here: bit.ly/StrainQSS bit.ly/DrainPub bit.ly/PISSpaperbit.lyThe strain on scientific publishingAbstract. Scientists are increasingly overwhelmed by the volume of articles being published. The total number of articles indexed in Scopus and Web of Science has grown exponentially in recent years; ... 096
Reposted by Susanne FuchsICPhS 2027 @icphs2027.bsky.social · 21/03/2026Hi 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 01911
Reposted by Susanne FuchsMarvin Lavechin @marvinlavechin.bsky.social · 09/03/2026Everything is open-source: 🔬 BabAR: github.com/MarvinLvn/BabAR 📦 TinyVox: github.com/MarvinLvn/tinyvox 🔊 Samples: marvinlvn.github.io/projects/babar/ 📄 Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2603.05213 w/ @bergelsonlab.bsky.social and @rplevy.bsky.social Funded by the Simons Center for the Social Brain (MIT).github.comGitHub - MarvinLvn/BabAR: Automatic tool to transcribe children's utterances into the sounds they produce (using the International Phonetic Alphabet)Automatic tool to transcribe children's utterances into the sounds they produce (using the International Phonetic Alphabet) - MarvinLvn/BabAR 0193
Reposted by Susanne FuchsAbdellah Fourtassi @fourtassi.bsky.social · 08/03/2026Open PhD/Postdoc position (start: Oct 2026). Topic: AI/LLMs and child language/communicative/cognitive development. The exact project will be shaped with the candidate. Join our team @univ-amu.fr at the intersection of computer and cognitive science (& right next to the Calanques!). Send me your CV! 045
Reposted by Susanne Fuchswimpouw @wimpouw.bsky.social · 03/03/2026The keynote recordings of our conference on reform in scholarly publishing www.horizondiamond.nl are online and posted on the website. First up, Mark Hanson who kicked off the event in a fabulous way @markhanson.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy tilburguniversity.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Page...tilburguniversity.cloud.panopto.euMark A. Hanson - Problematization Open Access 2166
Susanne Fuchs @susfuchs.bsky.social · 21/02/2026Congrads, Sarka to one part of your PhD! 👍 I like to read this chapter, it is reads well, explains some major physiological components of multimodal language even for the non-specialist. Also fun to read as an expert. 051
Reposted by Susanne FuchsŠárka Kadavá @sarkadava.bsky.social · 20/02/2026So what would a truly holistic model of communication look like? One that takes breathing, posture, and biomechanics seriously. Difficult but necessary 🤓 [5/6] 231
Reposted by Susanne FuchsŠárka Kadavá @sarkadava.bsky.social · 20/02/2026Now the arms and torso. 💪 Gestures are often seen as a byproduct of thinking — your brain computes, your hands follow. But arm movements physically pressure the respiratory system and change how your voice acoustics. The gesture shapes the utterance, not just the other way around. [3/6] 131