Happy to share the first version of my textbook "Quantitative Data Analysis for Linguists in R".
stefanocoretta.github.io/qdal/
Comments and suggestions welcome! (on the GitHub repo: github.com/stefanocoret...)
The textbook takes you from 0 to basic stat modelling with Bayesian regression.
🚨 New OA article!
What does it mean to have a "cute" voice?
In their new paper "Clip Voice", Zichuan Yu & Rebecca Lurie Starr’s explore how vocal styles reproduce stereotypes of infantilized femininity in Chinese online culture.
Read here: 👉
HI. It's me.
WE'RE READY TO LAUNCH. 2-4 Sept 2026. LavLang23.
Keynote Speakers
• Dr. Nikki Lane (Duke University)
• Dr. Kevin Guyan (UoE, School of Business)
• Prof. Erez Levon (Universität Bern)
• Dr. Stamatina Katsiveli (American College of Greece)
• Eddie Ungless (UoE, School of Informatics)
It has been really interesting to attend UNESCO's Digital Learning Week (though unfortunately I'm not able to stick around). My public lecture from yesterday can be found here:
www.youtube.com/live/l-OWi6V...
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Call for Papers: The Georgetown University Round Table on Languages & Linguistics (GURT), happening in March 2026 in DC. The theme is "FUTURING LINGUISTICS: Content, Curriculum & Careers"! Proposals for papers, posters, & colloquia due 11/17 #linguistics
Title: Gender Census 2025. Text: If you can't easily put yourself into just one of these two boxes, you are invited to take part. Illustration: Two boxes, each with photos of relevant dictionary pages.
The 12th annual international Gender Census 2025 is now open until at least 30th August 2025!
survey.gendercensus.com
It's for anyone whose gender (or lack thereof) isn't described by the M/F binary. It's short and easy, and results are useful in academia, business and self-advocacy.
New pub alert: How do Russian language learning materials (textbooks and a digital app) for verbs of motion align (or not) with principles of second language acquisition? Showcasing the thesis work of my first MA student, Elena Petrova. Part of a special issue on teaching Russian verbs of motion.
Three shelves of brightly coloured books
Are you neurodivergent & have done, or considered, a PhD? We’re researching how doctoral study works (or doesn’t) for neurodivergent people. Take our 30min survey & help make academia more inclusive forms.office.com/e/ft9jyWsPUW
Questions? Email lindsay.odell@open.ac.uk
#PhD #Neurodivergent
Image titled "Conference: Linguistic Intersections of Language and Gender," with "Registration now open" written in bold in the center of the image.
🎉 Registration now open!
Join us at LILG 2 – Linguistic Intersections of Language and Gender.
Date: 12-13 August 2025
Location: Düsseldorf @hhu.de & online
Register here: lilg.div-ling.org/registration/
We look forward to seeing you there!
Experimentology cover: title and curves for distributions.
Experimentology is out today!!! A group of us wrote a free online textbook for experimental methods, available at experimentology.io - the idea was to integrate open science into all aspects of the experimental workflow from planning to design, analysis, and writing.
LSA Members! Tomorrow is our inaugural Presidential Research forum: an hour of presentations on the convener’s proposed topic, followed by 30 minutes of discussion. Come and see! (And—consider submitting a proposal to convene your own! Easy-peasy proposal form!) #linguistics @lingsocam.bsky.social
Linguists! Abstracts for the LSA annual meeting in NOLA in January 2026 are due on July 7! Please submit! It’s going to be a great conference, and a chance to confer and strategize. Would love love love to see you there! #linguistics @lingsocam.bsky.social www.lsadc.org/abstracts
It's finally out! In this work, we centered positional expertise to interrogate how ChatGPT & Llama answer questions about trans identity. Beyond showing how LLMs treat trans identity, we contribute a unique method for evaluating LLMs and handling differing perspectives in coding
Introducing the tidynorm package! It's got convenience functions for applying your favorite vowel normalization methods to point measures, formant tracks, and DCT coefficients in a tidyverse workflow, as well as a flexible framework for defining your own normalization methods!
What is common knowledge in your field but shocks outsiders?
I’ve played this game a lot but there’s never too many times to remind folx that there’s no such thing as bad grammar. Your judgements of native speakers’ words and sentences structure reflect your social biases, not linguistic fact.
It's frankly embarrassing that @blumenthal.senate.gov can't have a substantive debate about his legislation and instead keeps falsely smearing our coalition of dozens of LGBTQ, human rights, and racial justice organizations as "pawns of Big Tech." www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2025-06...
Hey graduate student esp in #linguistics but also everywhere: The third edition of Monica Macaulay’s guide to surviving graduate school is out! www.cascadilla.com/surviving.html
I will NOT be falling for the heroin chic baggy knee length jort propaganda this pride month and neither should you
Book cover by Simon Kirby
Delighted to announce the publication of a collaborative effort, co-led by @limorraviv.bsky.social @mpi-nl.bsky.social, showcasing the ways in which researchers have made language evolution an empirical issue: A handbook of experimental approaches to the fascinating problem of language evolution 🧪
One step closer to a full R workflow!
Sometimes a world literature/translation angle is a cool way to bring in linguistics concepts like syntax/phonetics through poetry analysis. I loved using 19 Ways of Reading Wang Wei for my CC ling course.
Do you study or want to study linguistics? Here are a few books written specifically for linguistics students:
www.amazon.com/shop/linguis...
This collection of really excellent stylistics, in memory of Peter Verdonk, is now available at
benjamins.com/catalog/lal.44
The bill wouldn't just cause millions to lose their health insurance, it would also:
*ban Medicaid coverage of non-abortion care at Planned Parenthood
*ban Medicaid coverage of ANY gender-affirming care (yes, adults)
*block marketplace insurance plans from covering abortion or gender-affirming care
In a news release, the Department of Homeland Security sent a stark message to Harvard’s international students: “This means Harvard can no longer enroll foreign students, and existing foreign students must transfer or lose their legal status.”
This is fucking insane
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/u...
4 12x18 inch posters on a brick and concrete wall. The top left is pink and says funding science saves lives, written in microbes, next to a microscope. The one on the right says Biology is bigger than binaries, with a fish, a lily, and a bee. The bottom left says Protecting wildlife starts wtih you, with a bunch of adiorable woodland creatues in yellow, white and black, including an owl, fungi, a... um. weasel? salamanders, butterflies, slugs, and a rotting log. The bottom right says Will our oceans thrive or nosedive the choice is yours, with the ocean represented in a circle, half of which is dead and half of which is alive, including kelp and a mackerel
🚨 Cool new project alert 🚨
WE- you, me, everyone- need to work together to get important science messages out to people.
4 artists & 3 scientists collab'd on these posters. We hope YOU will put them out in your community. Each poster comes w/info about each topic.
Get 'em Squidfacts.bigcartel.com
A collection of circular hard enamel pins which say "It's Dr, Actually". The backgrounds of the pins are in the style of the nonbinary, trans, agender, genderqueer, genderfluid, bigender, intersex, lesbian, and progress pride flags. There are also flagless backgrounds in black, white, hot pink, pearlescent purple, pearlescent dark green, pearlescent pink, pearlescent light blue, and pearlescent light green. A handwritted URL directs you to look up CanopyRobin.Etsy.Com
They're finally here! The full range of "It's Dr, Actually" pins is now available, thanks to your support!
Please share them as much as possible so that they reach the people who'll love them: canopyrobin.etsy.com/listing/1841...
2/3 So why do we think other people speak with an accent when we meet them in person? The answer may have more to do with cultural stereotypes than any real phonetic detail. Read more here:
scienmag.com/unraveling-t...
Harry Potter $ helped pay for this ruling #boycott
