This one is for comics lovers and language lovers alike!
A fun and inspiring read at the forefront of the multimodal language curve. Even works as intro to linguistics course book as it teaches a lot of core linguistic concepts really well, and in a modality-general manner.
I can highly recommend!
This new paper in Science is also accompanied by a cool perspective piece by @mperlman.bsky.social & @bodowinter.bsky.social! #language #linguistics www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Our paper (w/ @bodowinter.bsky.social and @mperlman.bsky.social) is finally out, officially 🥳. In it, we set ourselves the lofty goal of defining iconicity, focusing on its subjectivity, context-dependence, and gradability. Let us know if you agree with our definition? 🤔
doi.org/10.1093/oxfo...
I think @seangroberts.bsky.social may have used DAGs as well, and see also the CHIELD project: correlation-machine.com/CHIELD/
In our new tutorial, @meanwhileina.bsky.social and I walk you through meaningful hypothesis testing using a less known form of calculating Bayes Factor.
osf.io/preprints/ps...
People transitioning to Bayes often wonder how to decide if an effect is meaningful or not. Here you go... 1/🧵
Surgeon is God! Just saw him again two weeks ago here in Brum... was a killer set! He's SO good live :)
Gorgeous!
Prospective graduate students: Purdue Linguistics is having a virtual open house on Friday, Nov 7 at 12:00pm EST. You can sign up here: lnkd.in/g8XimXcG
Please note that I am not recruiting any new graduate students but several of my wonderful Purdue colleagues are.
End of an era! You've done SO MUCH for our department - thank you for all the important things you've contributed throughout these many years, and good luck with your future journey! ❤️
Proportion of articles containing at least one inconsistency / decision inconsistency. (Applied Psycholinguistics (APS), Language and Brain (BAL), Bilingualism: Language and Cognition (BLC), Journal of Memory and Language (JML), Journal of Psycholinguistic Research (JPR), Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism (LAB), Language and Speech (LaS), Language Cognition and Neuroscience (LCN, formerly Language and Cognitive Processes), Language Learning and Technology (LLT), Journal of Language and Social Psychology (LSP), Journal of Child Language (JCL), and Studies in Second Language Acquisition (SLA), Journal Of Speech Language And Hearing Research (SLH)).
New paper led by Dara Etemady: Statistical reporting inconsistencies in experimental linguistics.
Almost half (49%) of all articles contained at least one inconsistent p-value. 12% contained an inconsistency that may have affected the statistical conclusion."
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Reminder!! We are hiring in Linguistics at Michigan with a focus on "AI and Linguistics" (broooaaadly construed). This is part of a cluster of positions in Psychology and Philosophy in collaboration with the Cognitive Science program. Applications now open!
careers.umich.edu/job_detail/a...
All of us (@kanishka.bsky.social @kmahowald.bsky.social and me) are looking for PhD students this cycle! If computational linguistics/NLP is your passion, join us at UT Austin!
For my areas see jessyli.com
🚨Open immediately!! (rolling application review)🚨: Postdoc w/ the amazing Tamar Gollan, Uni. Cal. San Diego, bilingual speech production and cognitive control in aging and Alzheimer’s disease psychiatry.ucsd.edu/about/LAB_Go...
I finally got the time to check our bird field guide corpus for this. Different authors use the onomatopoeias "wek", "wuck", "wuk wuk", "kuk", or "cuk cuk". One author describes the territorial call as "kuk kuk keekeekeekeekeekeekeekuk kuk"
And I truly meant what I said!! It was a blast reading this again!
I've also had BackBlaze before and then got annoyed. Recently switched to iDrive and liking it so far.
Application for a PhD position at our department is now open! We are looking for applicants that are interested in areas of sign language linguistics, general sign language studies, or deaf bilingualism/multilingualism. Deadline is 15th Oct. Please share away! su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
UCDavis Psych is hiring an Assistant Professor in Human Cognition or Cognitive Neuroscience 🧠✨
Come join a vibrant, collaborative dept and live in a fun college town near Sacramento, San Francisco, Napa, and Lake Tahoe. Applications due Oct.21.
Please share widely!
recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07300
Miyagawa Shuntei's 1898 painting, "Playing Go (Japanese Chess)"
How to quantify the impact of AI on long-run cultural evolution? Published today, I give it a go!
400+ years of strategic dynamics in the game of Go (Baduk/Weiqi), from feudalism to AlphaGo!
Was fun working on this paper on negation in BSL led by Gab Hodge and w/ Kearsy Cormier and @adamcschembri.bsky.social!
Paper is open access and available here:
doi.org/10.1515/opli...
Yay, thank you! So happy to hear they were useful :)
University of South Carolina has *7* tenure-track faculty positions in Neurobiology of Language:
tinyurl.com/USC-Faculty-...
Positions in COMD, Psych, Linguistics, School of Medicine.
@snlmtg.bsky.social #SNL2025, we will have a booth.
w/@rutvikdesai.bsky.social @imb-uofsc.bsky.social
Our department is hiring! We're looking for a cognitive/developmental psychologist who uses computational approaches to study human cognition and behavior to address learning, development, and education. Feel free to reach out with questions!
I find it endlessly frustrating that one of the biggest empirical findings from sociolinguistics is consistently ignored. Change doesn't come from children making mistakes. Change comes from adolescents incrementing existing probabilistic patterns.
I haven't read this paper but hopefully it's good.
“Children are not the main agents of language change” by Limor Raviv, Damián Blasi and Vera Kempe (Sep. ’25) pure.mpg.de/rest/items/i...
📣new and exciting paper alert! 📣
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Ever wonder what's the rhythm of speech -- across languages?
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W/ Maya Inbar and Eitan Grossman, we analyzed over 650 recordings from 48 languages, focusing on intonation units—short prosodic phrases that structure speech in time.
📆 Reminder! Application deadline for incoming researchers (PhD students & postdocs) is August 31st!
If you want to come work with us in Bielefeld, apply for one of our scholarships. We would love to have you! More infos here 👉 www.uni-bielefeld.de/sfb/sfb1646/...
#BLinguistik #linguistics
Speaking in Pictures by Neil Cohn, 300+ page graphic novel about language, cognition, and graphic communication
I got the proofs today for my upcoming graphic novel about language, cognition, and visual communication and I cannot contain myself with how excited I am for this book to finally come out after working on it for 7 years 😱 visuallanguagelab.com/sip
