Congratulations to all of our Faculty staff for their contributions to championing #sustainability - it was great to see all your efforts recognised at UCL’s annual Sustainability Awards! 🌿👏 Sustainable UCL UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology UCL Psych & Lang Sci Find out more ⬇️ bit.ly/3IrwONf

Congratulations to all our BA & BSc Linguistics graduates of 2022! It was great to watch many of you cross the stage and celebrate your achievement.

Enjoyed an inspiring speech from our Linguistics alumna (2005) and former Olympic and World 400m champion, Christine Ohuruogu, at the graduation ceremony - Thank you!

You can now sign up as a buddy for our very first Research Buddies Scheme! You will be put into a group based on your preferred research topic and together will carry out a research project from start to finish! See the form below!

Does the difference in modality influence the way hearing speakers and deaf signers look at the world? In this interview Dr. Francie Manhardt talks about her PhD research and why it is important to answer this question. Read more on the MPI TalkLing blog: mpi-talkling.mpi.nl/?p=1908&lang=en

Our graduations continue this week with plenty of celebrations in the Main Quad and on the Portico. #UCLGrad 🎉

We're celebrating #10kPALS (6/10) Meet CEO of Gorilla Experiment Builder, Jo Evershed Jo Evershed @evershedjo.bsky.social, a Psychology alumna! Favourite thing about PALS: “My time at PALS has landed me my dream job. For that, I am eternally grateful.” RT & Share your fav. tweet/tweeter/PaLS fact

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We know that many of our students are concerned about the rising cost of living and we are committed to supporting those in need. Today the Students’ Union UCL (Students' Union UCL) and UCL are announcing additional financial support for students who may need it. ucl.ac.uk/news/2022/sep/…

Congratulations to Giulia LiCalzi, who won a 2022 LAGB @lagbling.bsky.social prize for Outstanding Undergraduate Dissertation in Linguistics with her long essay on the effects of developmental language disorder on children's future narratives! 🎉

Some #LAGB2022 news! The winners of the Outstanding Undergrad Diss in #Linguistics were called! A *very* strong showing this year, with 4 winners: Giulia Li Calzi (UCL Linguistics); Cliodhna Hughes (@EdinUniLEL); Daniel Price (Linguistics@QMUL); Eve Whitaker (Language & Linguistics at Newcastle ) 🍻

BBC crowd science's most recent episode is on accents and explains a few basic facts about early child language acquisition. Check it out: bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3…

A recent study by Devyani Sharma from Linguistics@QMUL and colleagues found that sadly biases against working-class and regional accents has not gone away theguardian.com/inequality/202…

ULAB's Undergraduate Essay Competition is back for the 2022 edition! This year there will be 2 submission categories based on participants' level of university education (1st and 2nd year undergrad and 3rd year and above). There will be a winner and runner up for each category!

Finally! #Grambank is out! Grambank is a new database that documents patterns of grammatical variation in over 2400 of the world’s languages. All available here: grambank.clld.org Press Release: mpg.de/20186271/0418-…

Hi ling Twitter!👋👀 We are seeking volunteers for a ~15m survey of linguists re: methods for collecting/reporting sex & gender-related demographics. tinyurl.com/mtjyz339 Please retweet!🙏UCSB Linguistics

A group of Inuit middle schoolers invented a new number system that better fits their language (Iñupiaq), and now Unicode has adopted these symbols, meaning they can be used for typing, in apps, and on the web #Inuit #math #language #Indigenous #Native scientificamerican.com/article/a-numb…

Anyone looking for an experimental project might find this paper instructive. There is a lot of valuable work that can be done by replicating previous studies: Assessing the replication landscape in experimental linguistics escholarship.org/uc/item/09v2t2… via eScholarship

If you are curious what one can do with pretty simple string manipulation rules (and warm up your brain after a summer break), take a look at the puzzle here: theguardian.com/science/2023/s…

Interesting snip on BBC ideas on why being bilingual is good for your brain: bbc.co.uk/ideas/videos/w…