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I’m excited to put this new book on my summer reading list! Congrats to @maryellenmacdonald.bsky.social!

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This might be the best Linguistic Institute (summer camp for linguists) ever! and I hosted one and have taught at half a dozen They're always great, but this one...😘 center.uoregon.edu/LSA/2025/pro...

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In informational interviews, I often get asked variations on the common theme of “what are the biggest differences between Academia and Industry”. In a new blog post, I try to summarize my answer: hkotek.com/blog/science...

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How we did it: Texas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We Did

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Are you a junior faculty member interested in spending 2-4 weeks at Princeton Psych? Please apply for our Microsabbatical program! It’s a fully funded visit for professional development and creating long-term collaborations. psych.princeton.edu/diversity/mi...

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If you are faculty (especially one with any degree of money or status), you must join AAUP. Members fund our lawsuits against Trump, access resources to learn how to fight, receive free legal consultations and referrals in case they're targeted, and return a portion of dues to their local.

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Dear federal scientists: If you have been affected by the probationary firings and would be willing to speak with Science, please reach out to me by email ([email protected]) or on Signal. We can guarantee annonymity.

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Applications for the ninth summer school on statistical methods for linguistics and psychology close on April 1, 2025. Every year people contact me saying they missed the call, so here it is again :) vasishth.github.io/smlp2025/

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Just a reminder to submit your abstracts for our special issue on gradience in syntax and semantics! Please email to express your interest. We can be flexible on the abstract deadline.

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Just a reminder to submit your abstracts for our special issue on gradience in syntax and semantics! Please email to express your interest. We can be flexible on the abstract deadline.

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Scientists and journalists need to figure out right quick how to explain to the average person how a massive change in research indirects will impact the medical care they and their children get (eg at the local children’s hospital), the education their children will get, the price of tuition, etc.

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Purdue Linguistics Symposium abstract deadline is extended until Feb 14! Purdue campus is beautiful in April! Please join us.

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A thread explaining our new discovery about humpback whale song published today in Science... We found key statistical properties that characterise all human languages in another species for the first time. We have more in common with whales than we previously thought! doi.org/10.1126/scie...

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Bilingualism: Language and Cognition is looking for a new Co-Editor-in-Chief! We are looking for someone with expertise in experimental linguistics and psycholinguistics and a focus on the linguistic side of bilingualism research. See www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Open rank search for an instructional professor in computational linguistics in our department!!

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Really useful resource: Know Your Rights from the National Immigrant Justice Center, which is a great organization. immigrantjustice.org/know-your-ri...

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Attention linguists! Our own student-run Purdue Linguistics Symposium is happening here on Purdue campus April 11-12. Abstracts are due Feb 7. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Not sure if anyone from the linguisticsy side of tiktok is trying out bluesky today, but in case there's anyone who could use it, here's one linguistics starter pack and feel free to add more in the comments!

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Another postdoc opportunity in Oxford. Any subfield of linguistics. Expressions of Interest for the British Academy International Fellowship due Feb 4. www.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/news/2025/01...

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We are doing an (open-rank) search for an instructional professor in computational linguistics! Come join us! linguistlist.org/issues/36/235/ #EOE/#Vet/#Disability

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Awesome linguist alert! Please welcome @tommie-juzek.bsky.social to Bluesky and check out his syntactic acceptability dataset project! aclanthology.org/2024.lrec-ma...

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Oxford University Press will be awarding as many as 10 ECRs the opportunity to publish their first book in fully open access as well as in hardback. Today the website was revised to make clear that independent/unaffiliated scholars are eligible. Deadline March 3. academic.oup.com/pages/early-...

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Linguists, speech scientists, cognitive scientists: Meghan Clayards and I are hiring a postdoc to work at McGill Linguistics, deadline February 16. Come work with us! mcgill.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/McGill_Caree...

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Hello, my dissertation, Attitudes to ASL-English Language Contact among Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Users of ASL in the United States, is now available! #linguistics deepblue.lib.umich.edu/handle/2027....

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Please welcome @natalialevshina.bsky.social to Bluesky and check out her excellent book!

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We are currently advertising for a permanent Lecturer in Developmental Psychology to join us here at Liverpool Hope University, UK. Further details can be found here: www.hope.ac.uk/aboutus/jobo... I would be very happy to speak with anyone who is interested in applying.

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The LSA is almost here and lsa2025.slack.com is up and running! #LSA2025

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This the most recent job posting data in the Linguist List. Data and code: github.com/RuiPChaves/L...

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📣 Vacancy for Assistant Professor of Cognitive Science at Department of Linguistics, Cognitive Science and Semiotics, Aarhus University, Denmark. (Deadline January 6) international.au.dk/about/profil...

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“There is no reason to believe that any nonstandard vernacular is in itself an obstacle to learning. The chief problem is ignorance of language on the part of all concerned. Our job as linguists is to remedy this ignorance.”-Labov, in 1972. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/24/u...

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Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah! My gift to you all is the updated preprint on our paper 'Same Sentences, Different Grammars, Different Brain Responses: An MEG study on Case and Agreement Encoding in Hindi and Nepali Split-Ergative Structures'! doi.org/10.1101/2024...

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A lovely obituary for Bill Labov in the Inquirer.

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Thank you, President Biden. Unequivocally, the death penalty is a human rights violation, and it should not exist in any system that purports to be about "justice".

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Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume? Syntactician: It's where the wh-phrase originated.

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Hey linguists: If you’re looking for any last minute additions to your spring syllabus, please consider Gradient Acceptability and Linguistic Theory. Your library might already have the online version (linked here) which is great for assigning selected chapters. academic.oup.com/book/38831

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Thanks to Marlyse Baptista and the Linguistic Society of America staff for pulling this event together so quickly. Another reason to be at the Annual Meeting in Philadelphia.

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Come work with me! We're hiring a 3-year Visiting Assistant Prof in Semantics, bonus if you can teach courses in other areas too. We're a small liberal arts college just outside Philly with a robust undergrad Ling dept. Full info at apply.interfolio.com/160957 Feel free to ping me with any Qs! 🐦🐦 🧪

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More opportunities to join us in Oxford! We have an open-rank position in Phonetics, to coincide with our move into the amazing Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities. The new Phonetics Lab sits above a concert hall - both acoustically shielded! www.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/news/2024/12...

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