Heartbroken to learn that my friend, godfather of Canadian sociolinguistics, and Miles Davis biographer, Jack Chambers has moved on.
06.03.2026 01:01
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Heartbroken to learn that my friend, godfather of Canadian sociolinguistics, and Miles Davis biographer, Jack Chambers has moved on.
which is particularly relieving because the state of current Justin is "writing 2025 on my to-do lists over the last 3 weeks"
started making a mental list of all the things I should be adding to this lecture and then opened up my slides from two years ago only to find that past me had already done them all
See you there! They've migrated to the uni website so I don't know if they'll keep updating both: warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/al/r...
the term "step change" gets me every time, do all those steps have a stride above the 90th percentile or something
I’ve had lots of conversations about AI and skills and knowledge today and in recent weeks, which I’m very much relating to, but equally it’s the moments of joy when I iron out each kink
people have written superb tutorials that got me 99% of the way, it’s just they all predate the world with the 1% I want
coding today was spending a couple hours finding the right search terms to describe my specific issue so I could find the github issue that describes the fix and directs me back to the documentation I'd read multiple times but just not grasped the significance of
there was a time, not even a year ago, when I didn’t have coding in javascript as part of my life, and now I’m not quite sure what thought process led to me being committed to doing js for at least another year
final push for a few more participants for Emilia, thank you to any anonymous yous who've already done it! 👇🏻
*you do need to be on a computer not mobile
sign with lots of angry wugs protesting cuts
good morning, #linguistics 🐦🐦 pals
the University of Essex wants to cut 50% of our Language & Linguistics department, close our foundation programme & our Southend campus, + cut 400 jobs academic departments and professional services jobs across all depts
join us in the fight against these cuts!
I was five (5) seconds away from a tree falling on top of me just now so maybe the dream was trying to tell me something
that puncture two weeks ago was stressful enough, now I’m getting punctures in the front wheel in my dreams? shut up, brain
calling L1 speakers of British English, please help out my student Emilia on her dissertation study! 🐦🐦
it's a short (<20 min) and fun one on voice recognition, please share! lancasteruni.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
calling L1 speakers of British English, please help out my student Emilia on her dissertation study! 🐦🐦
it's a short (<20 min) and fun one on voice recognition, please share! lancasteruni.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
four weeks into this year’s phonetics module and I’m very excited to learn who the swifties and pokemon nerds are among the students
can you really own the final work though
The BSL announcements at Newcastle station don’t provide an equivalent experience at all. Wrong or missing info for at least 4 trains at a time.
they need a talent show
oh that looks pretty. when it says 'randomised', are the symbols supposed to come up in different random orders every time?
400 jobs at risk. A campus set to close.
This film explains what’s happening at the University of Essex and why staff, students and the local community are organising to stop it.
📍 Southend rally | 5 February
New @phoneticslab.bsky.social paper from @clrnance.bsky.social!
doesn't sound fun hanging out with him
I feel like verbs are doing alright on their own? Adverbs, though, I can lend a hand.
I’m right with your students there 😛 [nods sagely]
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see that’s why I ask if they recognise rather than remember things
bringing back pokemon to teach phonology this year and I just realised castform is older than most of my students
(linguistics) pals, a student of mine is conducting a short (<10 minutes) perception study on Child Directed Speech -- open to all L1 speakers of English who have grown up in & live in the UK! 🐦🐦
please share and/or complete: essex.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
Come work with us! 🌟 3 Postdoc & 5 PhD positions – deadline for applications: 20 February.
www.curlew.info/jobs
PhD funding at York in Forensic Speech Science
A PhD scholarship is available as part of the CURLEW project (Census of Urban and Rural Language in England and Wales), funded by SNSF. Deadline for applications is 12.00 (GMT), 13.00 (CET) on 20 Feb 2026.
curlew.info/jobs/york-ph...
