🚨 BREAKING: OpenAI's new voice assistant acts as a translator. Impressive range of emotion and fluency throughout.

Universities face serious existential threats, such as an overreliance on international student fees. I believe overhauling research commercialisation may address these threats to different extents - a case I make in a paper published today. tandfonline.com/eprint/E4KSPMQ…

Linguists! >> have your research area represented in our study on linguistics in the UK. Survey link (takes 15 minutes): forms.office.com/e/syH3f7pj6a #lingtwt

New paper alert! First reported case of a CODA in awake craniotomy testing English and BSL abilities. Really interesting findings for the organisation of sign and speech in the brain! link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Congratulations to everyone who got accepted! I'm delighted to announce that the reviews I completed were extremely timely and I definitely didn't forget for a month

Academic talks, visitors from Duolingo, UnlikelyAI, Moderna, and a skills workshop?! What more could you ask for??? Sign up now <3

A truly exceptional representation of undergraduate research in linguistics. Well done to the authors and all those at JoULAB!

swag

We need a Gordon Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares for science. Gordon going into struggling labs, revealing the horrors lurking in fridges and file drawers, calling a postdoc a donkey.

Can't relate enough to this. So much about the PhD system needs to change and nobody seems to be doing anything about it. Can think of 10 things at least, but even then I'd be worried about saying in case any future employer took offense. The whole system's inadequate.

Having already done hundreds of hours of gesture coding, and with like hundreds to go, I'm just convinced there're loads of gestures with conventional semantics we're not aware of because we've not formally codified them like we have by tying words' 'wordhood' to a concept.

🚨 Call for membership 🚨 The LAGBPSC is looking for a new Master Student Liaison! To apply, fill in the form at docs.google.com/forms/d/16c-LQ… 🗓️Deadline: 25th of October

It's that time of the year 😎 We are opening the call for student conference sponsorship! If you are part of a student-led committee who is organising a UK-based conference in Linguistics, reach out to us!

Tom Williamson in Brisbane 🇦🇺at the Society for the Neurobiology of Language 2024!

Had a delightful time at SNL Annual Meeting last week in Brisbane! Some really fascinating work going on, especially with intracranial recordings and brain-computer interfaces. Especially grateful for all those who came to speak to me about my work! Looking forward to next year in DC...!

I'm delighted to have become a member of the LAGB @lagbling.bsky.social Committee! 🙂

The LAGB Postgraduate Student Committee have launched a virtual talk series aimed at promoting the employability of #linguistics PhD students 👉First session: Anna Marie Trester (author of Bringing Linguistics to Work and Employing Linguistics) - 14th Nov, 16.30 👉Full details: lagbpsc.co.uk/careers-for-li…

The Insider class *did this to themselves* because of their extreme delusions & uselessness. Trump 16 (like Brexit) was impossible without this & so is his sequel. Their response to 2016 was to DOUBLE DOWN on delusions. Putin! Cambridge Analytica! Facebook ads! Over and over the

It turns out that linguistics postgrads actually... want jobs?!? First careers session for LAGB @lagbling.bsky.social and LAGB Postgraduate Student Committee was so popular it broke capacity in our Zoom account!! Big thanks to Anna Marie Trester Linguistic Society of America in the first of our monthly series. See: lagbpsc.co.uk/careers-for-li…

Made the leap bsky.app/profile/trwill…