Familien mit kleinen Kindern in Berlin gesucht. Melden Sie sich gerne.

📦 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/

It 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.

I’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

Still cabbage and pumpkin from the garden last year 😋

European Citizens' Initiative Give your support !

The 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!

Wie cool ist das denn!! Toll.

Thanks 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/PISSpaper

New hotel for insects, hope they will like it 😃

Hi 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

GitHub - 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

Everything 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).

Open 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!

Mark A. Hanson - Problematization Open Access

The 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

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Congrads, 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.

So what would a truly holistic model of communication look like? One that takes breathing, posture, and biomechanics seriously. Difficult but necessary 🤓 [5/6]

Now 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]

Even your legs matter. 🦶 Leg movements affect speech intensity, your lower body anchors the posture that frees your upper body to gesture, and conversation partners subtly synchronize their postural sway with each other. [4/6]

The Scope and Limits of Iconic Prosody: Head Angle Predicts f0 Changes While Object Size Effects Are Absent Abstract. The relation between the fundamental frequency of the voice (f0) and vertical space has been shown in previous studies; however, the underlying mechanisms are less clear. This study investig...

Starting at the top: your head literally changes your voice. 🧠 Tilting your head up raises your pitch — because your laryngeal muscles are physically connected to the muscles that move your head. Check out the new paper from @acwiek.bsky.social and @susfuchs.bsky.social in Open Mind! [2/6]

3. Motor overflow might be an overseen precursor for gesture production
4. Looking into the adapation of vocal-respiratory-locomotor adaptation in infancy and how this changes may be a fascinating topic

Some knowledge that was new to me while writing this review with my colleagues:
1. The respiratory system, i.e. how thorax and abdomen work together is very different in young infants
2. Empirical data on the coordination between motion and breathing are very limited

Service categories | European Alternatives List of all categories on European Alternatives

Some EU alternatives to the big AI and tech companies: european-alternatives.eu/categories

Animal Consciousness (first paragraph of the article). First published Sat Dec 23, 1995; substantive revision Tue Jan 13, 2026. Is there something it’s like to be an octopus, a bee, a snail? For much of the twentieth century, research into animal cognition tended to avoid questions of consciousness, following the lead of human neuroscience, where such questions were also marginalized (see the entries on animal cognition, methods in comparative cognition). However, the growing profile of consciousness science since 2000 has brought the topic of consciousness back into the scientific mainstream (see the entry on the neuroscience of consciousness), and this has led to resurgent interest in studying conscious experience in other animals.

I've been working for ages on a comprehensive revamp of the Stanford Encyclopedia Entry on "Animal Consciousness", with new sections on non-Western perspectives, methodological challenges and evolutionary big pictures, and it's out today: plato.stanford.edu/entries/cons.... Hope you find it useful!

Reminder 📢 We are advertising a postdoctoral position in #philbio or #philphysics to work on an interdisciplinary project that adopts the lens of self-organization & active matter to explore the boundary between living and nonliving systems👇 www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo... #philjobs #philsci #evosky

AI slop published on your watch: very bad look for HSSComms and Springer/Nature  Dear editors, I have failed to locate contact information for most of the academic editors for Humanities and Social Sciences Communications; I trust that you will forward this message to them. I want to note that AI slop is being published on your watch in the journal you edit. This paper, out last week (Al-Jarrah 2026), is full of inaccurate claims and includes countless hallucinated references. Even a cursory look at the bibliography shows that at least 10 and probably many more references are bullshit pure and simple; the simplest explanation is that they are confabulated by generative AI, which sheds doubt on the quality of the manuscript as a whole and on the review and editorial processes at your journal. It is a great lapse of editorial judgement to let this kind of obvious drivel pass and I am warning my colleagues at MPI and Radboud to avoid your journal until clear and unambiguous action is taken. You may also want to take note that many people are finding out about this and the online discussion of this paper and of the journal's failing standards is something I hope that Springer Nature cares about. In my opinion the paper does not pass even the most minimal quality assurance checks and is fully against the COPE guidelines on publication ethics. You may want to hold the author accountable for this; I think the only reasonable course is retraction. But the scholarly community also holds the journal accountable. By letting AI slop through, your journal is polluting the information ecology of scientific publishing. Amidst a rising tide of synthetic text, scholarly publishing, with its tradition of human oversight and strong peer revidew, should be one of the last stalwarts to defend the integrity of our research. I look forward to your response and to find out what decisive action you are taking.

Re: the AI slop paper shared by @thomaspellard.bsky.social and @lameensouag.bsky.social, I wrote to the editors — will update when I get a reply, and will be following closely what they do.

Key point is that we should hold the *journal* accountable for this mess

I have a few predictions...

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Research position suitable for a PhD student (or beyond), keen to work with multimodal vocal performance data in beatboxing: jobportal.uni-koeln.de/ausschreibun...

Deadline: 12 January!

Apply here: jobportal.uni-koeln.de/bewerben/2429

Feel free to contact me with questions about the position

Job opportunity: Engagement Assistant, Birds of Poole Harbour (Dorset) The charity Birds of Poole Harbour (the fabulous team behind the Osprey Reintroduction Project, amongst many other things) is advertising for an Engagement Assistant to help them deliver a number o…

Part-time, permanent position.

Rare opportunity to work at one of the UK's premier wildlife/ecotourism sites (Ospreys, White-tailed Eagles, Peregrine, Marsh Harriers) with a fabulous team @harbourbirds.bsky.social

Closing date: 30 Jan.

#RaptorResearch

raptorpersecutionuk.org/2026/01/03/j...

CYCLING CITIES - Der Film YouTube video by Ingwar Perowanowitsch

Cycling cities: documentaries how to change cities in qualitative living areas (in German with English subtitles): www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5jQ...

This press conference is bananas, and the questions being asked are terrible. He's basically saying that anything he deems the US needs the US will just take regardless of where it is. "We're taking wealth out of the ground ..." like WTAF? Greenland and Canada next?

It’s not about drugs. If it was, Trump wouldn’t have pardoned one of the largest narco traffickers in the world last month.

It’s about oil and regime change.

And they need a trial now to pretend that it isn’t. Especially to distract from his sinking under Epstein and skyrocketing healthcare costs.