Katie Franich

ALS African Linguistics School

The 8th African Linguistics School will be taking place in Tanzania!

Apply before the 15th of March to be part of this exciting opportunity: sites.google.com/view/als6/ap... And share with your colleagues and students!

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‘Critical tipping point’ for Cameroon’s indigenous languages — Harvard Gazette Displacement and forced migration trigger alarm about language attrition in Cameroon.

A nice piece in the Harvard Gazette about research my lab has been doing on the impact of political conflict and displacement on language endangerment in Cameroon 🌍 🇨🇲 news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

Hopkins Cog Sci is hiring! We have two open faculty positions: one in vision, and one language. Please repost!

Open immediately -- postdoc, speech motor control and speech motor neuroscience w/ C. Niziolek + B. Parrell, U. Wisconsin Madison blab.wisc.edu/join-the-lab/ [see Postdoctoral researchers tab]

Tenure-track phonology position at UChicago!

CityU's logo with tagline: "Innovating into the Future"

It's ✨ academic job application season ✨ & I hope you'll consider applying for and/or spreading the word about CityU's ongoing search for faculty in computational linguistics, psycho-/neurolinguistics, & experimental linguistics: open-rank and rolling!

www.cityu.edu.hk/hro/en/job/c...

#langsky 🐦🐦

Girls do it all the time when texting each other, signals EXTRA non-threatening

LINGUIST List 36.2713 Jobs: Phonetics: Assistant Professor of Linguistics, Pomona College The LINGUIST List, International Linguistics Community Online.

Pomona College Ling and CogSci Dept is hiring an Assistant Professor with a specialization in phonetics! (Deadline Nov 1)

linguistlist job ad is here: linguistlist.org/issues/36/27....

Any questions can be directed to Michael Diercks, chair of the search committee (michael.diercks@pomona.edu).

@phono-logical.bsky.social cool data! I don’t hear the second one as an implosive, but definitely looks/sounds weaker than the first one. Wondering if lower pitch/vowel quality following the second one is contributing to an implosive percept?

Friends, take action to prevent grant funding decisions at NIH and NSF from being made by political appointees, instead of experts in scientific fields themselves!

Just heard that Dianne Bianchi NICHD Director was fired and NIDCD has an ominous announcement on its home page. Every day is a worse nightmare than the day before

A bookshelf filled with various books about gesture, with a prominent book in the center titled 'Gesture: A Slim Guide' by Lauren Gawne. The book cover features a black line illustration of a person with abstract representation of eight different hands doing gestures.

It's publication day for Gesture: A Slim Guide

If you have been wanting to think about gesture in your own research, bring it into your teaching or connect with the field of Gesture Studies, this is for you. It's under 50k words and has a nifty glossary too.

This is horrible to post, but I may as well post it. We are essentially shutting down research operations in my group, which is focused on treatments for pediatric brain cancer. I’m a well funded investigator, and there’s no choice. Science can’t function without the stability of NIH

Co-speech gestures influence the magnitude and stability of articulatory movements: evidence for coupling-based enhancement - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - Co-speech gestures influence the magnitude and stability of articulatory movements: evidence for coupling-based enhancement

New paper alert! Co-speech gestures can influence the timing and magnitude of oral articulatory gestures 💁‍♀️ Co-authored with my awesome postdoc Karee Gavin and Eliana Spradling

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

YouTube video by City of Boston Mayor Michelle Wu's Opening Statement to the United States House Committee on Oversight

Proud to be a Bostonian today! @wutrain.bsky.social

youtu.be/0i21cliuoXo?...

Public Trust in Scientists and Views on Their Role in Policymaking Americans’ trust in scientists is slightly higher than it was last year, but remains lower than before the COVID-19 pandemic.

These Pew survey results on public opinions of American scientists can help us think about how to communicate our messages better this Friday. @standupforscience.bsky.social #standupforscience2025

www.pewresearch.org/science/2024...

Gender and racial bias issues in a commercial “tone of voice” analysis system Social Feedback Speech Technologies (SFST) are programs and devices, often “AI”-powered, that claim to provide users with feedback about how their speech sounds to other humans. To date, academic rese...

I have a new article out today with the homie @pereed.bsky.social in PLOS One, “Gender and Racial Bias Issues in a Commercial ‘Tone of Voice’ Analysis System”! In short, don’t believe devices that claim to tell you how you sound to other humans!

journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

At least a shred of good news!