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
🚶🚶♀ Te invitamos a consultar la plataforma Acción Migrante de la UNAM, en donde podrás encontrar recursos para la "contención, orientación y apoyo a personas migrantes mexicanas y de otras nacionalidades que viven en Estados Unidos o que ya se encuentran en México". 👇 accionmigrante.unam.mx
Analogy-Angle II 2025 - Second Call for Papers
Co-located at ACL 2025, Vienna, Austria, July 31 or August 1, 2025.
analogy-angle.github.io
NEW submission deadlines!
Confirmed Speakers
- @melaniemitchell.bsky.social
- Ekaterina Shutova
I'm re-upping this job opportunity for a 3-year PostDoc position. Start of the job is negotiable, and there is a possible extension. Please share liberally!
Are looking for a cool postdoc working on developing machine learning tools for historical linguistics? #linguistics #historicallinguistics
www.eva.mpg.de/linguistic-a...
Poster for the 2025 LSA Institute. Background is a hazy photo of Mt Ranier in the distance with pine trees in the foreground. Different shades of green and yellow graphics on the corners with a QR code in the bottom left and a LSA 2025 Institute "Language in Use" emblem on the top right. White colored text reads, 2025 LSA Institute Language In Use, Hale Professor: Marianne Mithun (University of California, Santa Barbara), Fillmore Professor: Laura Michaelis ( University of Colorado, Boulder), Collitz Professor: Sonia Cristofaro (Soronne University), Sapir Professor: Balthasar Bickel (University of Zurich), ADS Professor: Tracey Weldon (University of South Carolina).
🐦🐦 🚨 Come spend a month in lovely Oregon this summer, while learning cool linguistics stuff at the #LSAInstitute2025. The theme this year is "Language in Use" (my fav topic). I'm co-teaching an intro course on the linguistics of signed languages with @ryanlepic.bsky.social. Love to see you there!
La 𝑮𝒖𝒊́𝒂 𝒑𝒓𝒂́𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒄𝒂 𝒂 𝒍𝒐𝒔 𝒈𝒆́𝒏𝒆𝒓𝒐𝒔 𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒖̈𝒊́𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒄𝒐𝒔 𝒅𝒆 𝑴𝒆́𝒙𝒊𝒄𝒐 tiene el propósito de presentar en forma concisa una perspectiva general de las lenguas en los diversos grupos lingüísticos originarios de México.
🔗 Conócela aquí: bit.ly/4hTVXkz
Image of olfactory guide to Mexico City and a set of perfume strips
Such a fun perfume / scent workshop yesterday in CDMX organized and facilitated by Chimie Scent and Lula Curioca! Check out their olfactory guide of Mexico City which was launched this weekend
Me standing with my metal and race number
Fun run Sunday — Amigos de los Viveros 5K
The American Indian Language Development Institute: "Join us in celebration of International Mother Language Day. Stop by our tent on the Mall to learn more about Indigenous languages. AILDI and the West Regional Native American Language Resource Center (NALRC) will host a variety of activities on campus. 10am-2pm, central mall, February 21 2025.
anyone here in Tucson, at #UniversityOfArizona for #InternationalMotherLanguageDay today? Come say 'hi' (but in your #language).
Wherever you are, happy #IMLD2025 to you and yours
Charla este miércoles de Bety Cruz Lopez, “Lahui: el concepto de comunidad en documentos zapotecos del periodo colonial”. Presencial en el IIFL UNAM o virtualmente en sus canales YouTube o FB
Convocatoria para una plaza en el Colegio Mexiquense para profesor-investigador en el Seminario Académico de Estudios Interdisciplinarios sobre el Pasado Indígena
Would you like to work at Max Planck Society tenured? A new round of the Lise Meitner Excellence Program for #tenuretrack group leaders opened today - pls consider applying! The program aims to recruit and promote exceptionally qualified female scientists. mpg.de/lise-meitner-e… #LiseMeitnerGroups
Fully funded 4-year PhD with me at VU Amsterdam #emca workingat.vu.nl/vacancies/ph...
We're hiring! Are you a cultural evolutionary modeller who wants to understand how and why children's peer cultures evolve? Here's a postdoc position for you! @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social @durhampsych.bsky.social @ehbea.bsky.social @eslr.bsky.social
Apply here: durham.taleo.net/careersectio...
This looks awesome! Thank you for sharing. Do you mind sharing your 2025 paper on language, gender and indexicality? Thanks
This was waiting for me at my office today - The languages and linguistics of Mexico and Northern Central America. I have heard there are alternative ways to acquire it… www.degruyter.com/document/doi...
📢 4 permanent junior research positions at CNRS, France in #linguistics of which as a priority :
- 1 "Oral & Multimodal Corpora, NLP & Under-resourced Languages".
- 1 "Multilingualism, Psycholinguistics, Education"
One month left to apply!
carrieres.cnrs.fr/concours-ext...
#academicsky
The search for new (co-)editor of Language has started! Please circulate widely. And do reach out if you have questions and/or are interested in applying. I did this job for six years — it was hard work, but also very rewarding.
A very good article on smellscapes from Anthropological Linguistics
How Changing Lifestyles Impact Seri Smellscapes and Smell Language
Carolyn O'Meara, Asifa Majid
Anthropological Linguistics (2016)
Call for papers!
Displaced Arts: Creative Practices and Geographies of Asylum
24th June 2025 at @iashedinburgh.bsky.social, University of Edinburgh
CFP below and more details here:
www.iash.ed.ac.uk/news/call-pa...
Please share!
Do you mind sharing what you have proposed? I think it wasn’t clear that I am interested in individual examples of what you mention. Reviewers didn’t like my proposed amount, so wondering what others have proposed for a feasible goal per year
Linguists working on conversation data of understudied langs, what is a good goal of transcribed, translated and coded data per year for a (doc / desc) project? I made my own estimates based on a pilot case but project reviewers said it was not enough. Would love feedback from you all. #linguistics