#Phonetician friends, if I had to get rugged, field oriented digital recorders, head-mounted microphones and headphones - what should I be looking at? If these could easily function in a lab setting that would be a plus...
Take #ecrs away from what could be truly impactful work. Working with frameworks such as #Manylanguages @manylanguagesc.bsky.social then seems like a deterrant to achieving professional goals.
In the classical frame, institutions in their desire to competitively indulge in this spurious one-upmanship are a major obstacle to progress in #bigteamscience and #science in general. Instead of nurturing the careers of #ecrs, what requirements such as "which author are you" tend to do is:
One of the major extrinsic hurdles to increasing outreach for @manylanguagesc.bsky.social has been structural and institutional requirements for potential collaborators to be `first authors' and/or 'last authors' for them to even be considered candidates for positions. <long rant coming>
The difficulty of measuring #intensity and the ease of measuring #duration perhaps is the reason why so many contrasts rely heavily on #duration, despite its infeasibility as a stable cue across contexts #unpopularopinion
It would be so much easier if our brains didn’t evolve to spin narratives out of unrelated events and just do matrix algebra #machinelearning #neuralnetworks
Happy World Linguistics day from Kolkata, India!
Headline from an article in Nature this week that states "Prizes must recognize machine contributions to discovery. The future of science will be written by humans and machines together. Awards should reflect that reality."
Lol the Nobels can't even acknowledge women's contribution to discovery. But sure let's acknowledge The Machines.
Come listen to my collaborator, the amazing - @chenzi.bsky.social at the bigteamscienceconference.github.io #BTScon2025 talk about our @manylanguagesc.bsky.social project on #ManyTones, starting in 10 minutes!
Register now (for free or pay-what-you-want) at bigteamscience.github.io to catch my Panel, "Include, scale and reach out - challenges ahead and learning from ManyX projects", and lots of other great big-team-science talks, hackathons, and more!
Join me at the Big Team Science Conference, where I'll be presenting live via Zoom on Monday, October 6 from 17:30-18:25 UTC (time converter).
Sign up for this pre-conference workshop - Fundamentals in Informed Elicitation and Language Documentation to be held before the 47th International Conference of the Linguistic Society of India. Date: 11th November. Last date for registration: 30th September 2025. Details: icolsi47.github.io/field/
Thanks so much for these references. Really helpful. Do you think it is plausible that this face = acoustics relationship could be gradient? Within caucasian faces, is it possible to think about difference in perceptibility if one is to create instances of faces that are kinda mixed?
#phonetician friends, what's the phenomenon when a speaker is not expected to speak a language and despite close to native pronunciation, native speakers mishear them? Or ask them to repeat themselves.
The unfounded fear that #AI would replace us, should be replaced by the grounded fear that #AI would toy with us...
Was the Canadian Prime Minister just accommodating to the perceived interlocutor being the US President? His 'out' was not what I would have expected youtu.be/l8gWyt4wZjc?...
Congratulations, Dr. Megh Krishnaswamy! So happy for you and so proud of you🎉🍾
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#Linguistics friends, just two more days to send us your expression of interests. We are super excited to read 'em, so keep 'em coming!
🚨 2nd Call for Proposals is NOW OPEN!
We're inviting submissions of a 2-page Expression of Interest by May 31, 2025 🗓️
👉 Get all the details here: many-languages.com/studies.html
lol😂 we did discover the zero
Does changing the country where the server is help?
In the midst of a mountain of work and commitments, exhibiting infinite stupidity, I have decided to update my #texlive to 2025. 🤦Wish me luck!
Congratulations! Great news!!! Good luck with the move.
Come to Glasgow on May 28 for Phon-UP 3 (Phonetics/Phonology Unconference on Pedagogy)!
Attendance is free. Please repost for reach!
blogs.ncl.ac.uk/phon-up/
The 47th International Conference of the Linguistic Society of India (ICOLSI47) will be held at #Jadavpur, 12th-14th Nov 2025. Please submit your abstracts. Kolkata is one of the most culturally and socially vibrant cities of India. Look forward to welcoming #linguistics friends. icolsi47.github.io
#linguistics folks, do submit your 2-page Expression of Interests by 31st May. This is an exciting opportunity! Be a part of impactful #bigteamscience in #linguistics.
Four weeks left to apply! 🚨🚨🚨
I am hiring a PhD student on the meaningful interpretation of effect sizes as part of my VICI funded project. This is a 4 year paid position in a welcoming and collaborative environment. Find out more or apply at www.tue.nl/werken-bij-t...
The Swedish Research Council is offering funding for an international researcher to spend a year in Sweden. Let me know if you're in NLP or linguistics and interested in visiting Gothenburg and/or CLASP www.vr.se/english/appl...