🎉Publication day🎉 for our #CHI2026 extended abstract! I wanted to find out whose voices are commonly reproduced (and whose aren't) in a popular commercial TTS system. Read all about it! w @ninamarkl.bsky.social @lhlew.bsky.social @catlai.bsky.social @chi.acm.org
alice-ross.github.io/publication/...
We have a fully funded PhD scholarship for students working in the area of English Language! We’re a big and friendly bunch working in all sorts of areas
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So a great thing about contracts is that they usually have and end date and/or means of ending them. If your university or other organization bent the knee to OpenAI or any of the other chatbot providers, when a contract is up, there is an opportunity for pressure:
forms.gle/ZGn5brEGU4t9...
CFP REMINDER: you like linguistics? you like queer stuff? then get your LavLang abstracts in (please)! 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🪻💬🗣️
Submissions are due by 28 March, that's almost two weeks, you got this! See you in Edinburgh in September 💜
lavlang32.ppls.ed.ac.uk?page_id=231
🚨Save Languages at the University of Essex 🚨 #langsky #linguistics
UoE plans to cut German, Italian, Portuguese and Chinese + all evening classes and merge Language and Linguistics with a larger unit. Only 2 languages will remain next October. Please sign our letter:
tinyurl.com/SaveLingLang...
🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 We’re hosting the Lavender Languages and Linguistics Conference in Edinburgh this year!
If you work on queer linguistics topics, please submit an abstract, we’d love to see you there!
Conference dates: 2nd-4th September
Submission deadline: 28th March
CfP: lavlang32.ppls.ed.ac.uk?page_id=231
To the right, a microphone resting on a small Pride flag. To the left, dark blue background with white text 'Queer and Trans Speech Science and Technology', with Interspeech 2026 logo above, and website interspeech2026.org below.
'Queer and Trans Speech Science and Technology', an #Interspeech2026 Special Session offering a space to build community and provide a foundation for future trans- and queer-driven speech research sites.google.com/view/is-quee...
If your work relates to queer and trans speech science or technology, please consider submitting!
The conference will take place between 27th September and 1st October, in Sydney, Australia.
Research on all topics relating to the theme are welcomed, including (but not limited to) queer and trans linguistics or speech processing, ethical considerations around queer and trans speech research, and queer and trans voice training and modification.
We hope to incorporate a broad range of perspectives across formal and informal communities interested in queer and trans voices, including speech technology researchers, linguists and gender-affirming voice coaches.
📢 Call for papers: Interspeech special session on Queer and Trans Speech Science and Technology!
Submit a 4- or 8-page paper to Interspeech by 25th February.
More info about the session: sites.google.com/view/is-quee...
Info about submitting to Interspeech: interspeech2026.org/en-AU/pages/...
Do you work on language and sexuality, queerness, gender, or something related? If yes, please submit to LavLang!
WIP and project launches are welcome along with completed work, and it's for all career stages, check out the CfP here:
lavlang32.ppls.ed.ac.uk?page_id=231
Queer and Trans Speech Science and Technology
Website at: sites.google.com/view/is-quee...
Brought to you by: @netzorg.bsky.social , @ninamarkl.bsky.social, @greatlikecheese.bsky.social , Juliana Francis, Francisca Pessanha.
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An extraordinary response to the call for Special Sessions for #Interspeech2026! Consider submitting your paper to one of these accepted themed sessions 👉 interspeech2026.org/en-AU/pages/... (and stay tuned for more details!)
Three smiling people (l-r: Dr. Nazanin Andalibi, Alice Ross (me!) and Dr. Oliver Haimson) standing in front of a colourful screen displaying the title 'Panel Discussion'
A photo of buildings at George Square, The University of Edinburgh, with text overlaid on a bright green background. The text is the title of last week's event, Gender and the Machine: Trans Tech, Emotion and AI
Such an inspiring, powerful event! Huge thanks: @naz-andalibi.bsky.social @haimson.bsky.social for their brilliant talks & sharing insights with me in the panel chat, @aies-edinburgh.bsky.social @kevinguyan.bsky.social @sj-bennett.bsky.social for putting it all together, & to everyone who attended!
🔔new paper alert🔔
I argue that language technologies are usefully understood as a type of language management (i.e., ways of changing how people use and think about language) -- especially in the workplace -- connecting critical work on AI with language policy
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Really looking forward to this upcoming @aies-edinburgh.bsky.social event, where the great @naz-andalibi.bsky.social and @haimson.bsky.social will be talking about emotion, gender, marginalisation and AI 🤩
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gender-and...
hear me talk about how AI is *really* ruining your job, not by taking it but by undermining your autonomy, enabling (nay, encouraging) your boss to monitor and assess you all the time, and removing everything that sparks joy in your working day
Edinburgh (🥰), 28/11!
Our CfP information for LavLang32 is now live:
📅 6 January 2026 - Abstract submission open
⏱️28 March 2026 - Abstract submission deadline
📣 8 May 2026 - Notification of decisions
lavlang32.ppls.ed.ac.uk
So good to see #LavLang32 being shared so widely! Join us for the annual Queer Linguistics conference, which in 2026 travels to Scotland for the first time thanks to @christianilbury.bsky.social and University of Edinburgh lavlang32.ppls.ed.ac.uk
🔔 My paper w/ @ninamarkl.bsky.social and @bjoernross.bsky.social is out: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
We surveyed TikTok users on motivations for using phrases like "le$bean". Primarily associated w/ topics that are moderated on SM, but also desire to express community + be playful.
These are so good! Remind me what you call them? They’re not Krapfen, right?
In a move surprising Probably No One, I have written about syntax pedagogy! This time for COZIL's blog: here's my five quick tips on how to make your syntax #linguistics classroom more LGBTQ+ friendly!
lgbtqlinguistics.wordpress.com/2024/10/18/m...
My favourite design of yours was the “this is a mug” mug
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It was from before my time!
Four well-dressed people, one speaking, stand on a stage in front of a large screen displaying the text "Queer and Trans Speech Science and Technology: Interspeech Special Session 2025"
Catching my breath after two wonderful conferences last week! This @interspeech.bsky.social Special Session on Queer & Trans Speech Science & Technology was a real highlight, honoured to be part of it - huge thanks to @greatlikecheese.bsky.social, @ninamarkl.bsky.social and the other organisers! 💜
in honour of interspeech this week, i’d like to issue a reminder that everyone has an accent, and that’s beautiful, actually: www.isca-archive.org/interspeech_...
www.isca-archive.org/interspeech_...
