Update from lingproof. "We are group of #ECR in #linguistics concerned with linguistic discrimination in #academic #publishing. We propose to develop a community-based solution to fight it." x.com/LProofreading/…

New paper! Does how far in advance you plan your speech depend on what language you speak? We explore this in Nungon, a language with ~1000 speakers in remote villages in Papua New Guinea 🧵 1/ doi.org/10.3758/s13421… #psycholinguistics #understudiedLanguages #nungon

Compartimos el proyecto LingProof: LingProof es una comunidad de lingüistas que están interesadxs en combatir la discriminación lingüística en las publicaciones de ciencias del lenguaje. Más info en lingproof #fairOA #linguistics #linguistica #multilinguismo #openaccess

This month we launched our pilot proofreading program in partnership w/ Glossa Psycholinguistics, and Times Higher Education published a piece on the initiative and its motivation 📰👇🏾 Thank you Pola Lem for the interesting chat!

Are you an Early Career Researcher interested in gesture/multimodal communication? Then join us for this awesome 2-day FREE online workshop, 7-8 April. 🙌🤟🙉 More info and registration at: ecrgestureworkshop.weebly.com Pls RT and share with your students/postdocs.

Looking forward to this amazing line-up of keynote speakers! If you work on #cooperation or #culturalEvolution, the call for abstracts for the Culture Conference 22 is still open until June 30 culture-conference.com/call-for-abstr…

Open Science in Developmental Science, a new submitted preprint with Catherine S. Tamis-LeMonda and Lisa A. Gennetian: psyarxiv.com/uqjf9 We argue for a broad view of open science that goes beyond any particular policy.

Announcements for Open Mind, an MIT Press Open Access journal for Cognitive Science 1. We are now “Diamond” access for the foreseeable future (at least 2 years at this point): this means there are NO CHARGES for publication (or submission, or anything) direct.mit.edu/opmi

so, Randall Munroe wrote a very nice book about absurd hypothetical questions sadly, only a few of them were about linguistics so we brought him onto our podcast to ask us a FULL EPISODE of delightful and silly linguistics questions you're welcome.

Stories last. This paper traces back fairy tales across languages & cultures to common ancestors, arguing that the oldest date back at least 6,000 years. One of the most ancient became the myth of Sisyphus & Thanatos in ancient Greece. The diagram is neat royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

We're hiring 30 tenure track fellowships focussed on innovative research. Can be in *any* area, but especially interested in applications related to digital, data & AI, so if you're a corpus linguist or computational linguist in particular: apply! ed.ac.uk/arts-humanitie…

I'm teaching "Language Learning: A Data Driven Approach" at the LOT winter school in Amsterdam this week. Students can learn how to play with data from Wordbank, childes-db, and Peekbank using R and the tidyverse! All slides and exercises available here: github.com/mcfrank/lot-la…

#phoneticians Have you tried to get OpenAI's Whisper transcriptions to force-align later in Praat? Does it work? Since we now have an API I am thinking if it could be worth the effort...

Happy to see this statement from the Academy of Europe (of which I am a proud member) urging the Spanish government to rethink its removal of linguistics as a distinct subject of study in Spain's university system. ae-info.org/ae/Acad_Main/N…

Linguistics is such an important discipline, it's disheartening to see such decisions being taken in the first place and indeed very good of the Academy of Europe to make this statement, which I as a member also fully subscribe to.

Btw I forgot to post about this but we (Adam Farris Sā́mapriyaḣ Suresh Kolichala) recently published a historical linguistic database for South Asian languages, incl. Indo-Aryan, Dravidian, Munda, and Nuristani. You can access it at neojambu.herokuapp.com

This is super helpful stuff!