Ludovica Serratrice

The Centre for Literacy and Multilingualism (CeLM) at the University of Reading, UK, is delighted to announce that the 6th International Symposium on Bilingual and L2 Processing in Adults and Children (ISBPAC 2026) will be held from June 18th-19th, 2026 at the University of Reading, UK isbpac.info

Organising Committee

@christoslab.bsky.social hristoslab
Ian Cunnings
@ludoserratrice.bsky.social
@drhollyjoseph.bsky.social
@georgepontikas.bsky.social eorgePontikas
Fraibet Aveledo
Xinyu Liu

Only just over a week to submit your abstract to the #ChildLanguageSymposium2025 @celm-uor.bsky.social in Reading this September.

The deadline is Friday 28th February. Quick!!

research.reading.ac.uk/cls2025/

How should the advancement of large language models affect the practice of science? | PNAS Large language models (LLMs) are being increasingly incorporated into scientific workflows. However, we have yet to fully grasp the implications of...

Very interesting read about the role or not of LLMs in science. www.pnas.org/doi/full/10..... I am firmly in the Bender, Bergstrom & West camp. And at the risk of credentialism, I'm a language scientist who has worked on language models in the past.

paywall :-(

International Mother Language Day 2025 - Centre for Literacy and Multilingualism

If you live in Reading there is still time to register for our event celebrating #InternationalMotherLanguageDay. Join us on 21st February. Link below

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Reading's language use investigated in university study University researchers are investigating the town's language use through an online survey.

Our director @drhollyjoseph.bsky.social is on the @bbcnews-uk-rss.bsky.social advertising our language survey in Reading. Link in the article. If you live in the Reading area please consider completing the survey, it only takes a minute! Thanks.
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How strong is the relationship between caregiver speech and language development? A meta-analysis (Coffey & Snedeker) - important attempt to try and estimate input-uptake relationships across studies

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The Child Language Symposium 2025 will be hosted by the University of Reading on September 8th-10th.

Our call for papers is now open and will close on 28th February. Submit your abstract for a poster, an oral presentation, a symposium, or a lightening talk. Pls RT

research.reading.ac.uk/cls2025/

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Happy New Year BlueSky!
Do you live in #Reading, UK? If so, we want to know what languages YOU speak. Please help us by filling in this super-quick survey (less than a minute). Open to everyone in Reading, even if you only speak English! forms.office.com/e/zZp5TLT4PN

Great NY resolution from @ludoserratrice.bsky.social Our University of Reading course has fab reviews :) #multilingualism #teachers #SLTs

Our protocol for a Meta-Narrative Review of #GestaltLanguageProcessing & #NaturalLanguageAcquisition

Registered on PROSPERO
www.crd.york.ac.uk/prospero/dis...

“What are the features and outcomes of GLP/NLA related therapies for minimally or non-speaking individuals?”

Broad inclusion criteria.

Congrats @asliozyurek.bsky.social !!

New year, new resolutions! Why not complete @celm-uor.bsky.social three-week course on Understanding Multilingual Children's Language Development on #FutureLearn?

It is endorsed by #NALDIC and the #RCSLT and accredited by the CPD Certification Service: www.futurelearn.com/courses/unde...

We have a new MSc in Linguistics and AI starting next September at Queen Mary, aimed at giving relevant skills to people from non-STEM backgrounds who are keen to work in the tech sector, integrating humanities/social science #linguistics with #ai. www.qmul.ac.uk/postgraduate...

Doctoral research fellowships in linguistics and verbal communication (272418) | University of Oslo Job title: Doctoral research fellowships in linguistics and verbal communication (272418), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Friday, February 28, 2025

Interested in doing a PhD on language acquisition in Oslo?

Check application process: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... and feel free to reach out for more information!

PS. We have a nice growing community including Natalia Kartushina, Luca Onnis, @audunrosslund.bsky.social, and many more!

We have just opened recruitment for the REF 2029 panels. There is no nomination process and we invite you to put yourself forward 2029.ref.ac.uk/news/ref-202...

Looking to grow on Bluesky?

I am too! Running a bootcamp in January. It's free. Four emails with lessons and exercises.

Register here: fierce-experimenter-3293.ck.page/1f1426cfe8

When i got interested in sociolinguistics, one of the first things i did was listen to this lecture by William Labov. It was astonishing: creative, rigorous, humane, and like all of his work, rich with insights about the everyday world.

vimeo.com/70455840

YouTube video by Abralin William Labov

Yesterday, we lost William Labov, a foundational figure in sociolinguistics. In his Abralin Talk, Labov reflected on a lifetime of scholarship that has mentored generations and advanced the pursuit of social equity through linguistics.

Is there any alternative to the gamification of academic metrics? Drawing on discussions with academics who have oriented their work around public engagement and social impact, Daniel Pearson suggests these academics present an opportunity to rethink the existing…

"It is far easier to quantify a researcher’s output than it is the actual outcome of their work."

Dan K. Pearson discusses the gamification of #academic metrics and alternative ways for assessing and valuing researchers. Check out the post on the @lseimpactblog.bsky.social 👇

#ScholComm

How sad! He was my lecturer on the MA in Language Acquisition at the University of Essex way back in 1994. He was a truly formidable person! I decided to become a child language researcher because of him. x

Hey, 🦋 #bskySPEECHIES, on the #Babylonia site, @ludoserratrice.bsky.social answers a question that's frequently asked by #parents and #teachers: "How does screen time affect language development?" 💻 <ping> @srvach.bsky.social @susanebbels.bsky.social @suze-freogirl.bsky.social @deevybee.bsky.social

check out the table of contents
babylonia.online/index.php/ba...
from language development milestones, to baby sign and learning to read in two languages.

Very proud to have contributed to fantastic issue of Babylonia dedicated to answering parents' questions about #child #language. 14 short, accessible pieces with research-evidenced answers.

My contribution is on how #screen time affects #language #development:

babylonia.online/index.php/ba...

Job Vacancy at the University of Greenwich: Research Fellow The School of Human Sciences, University of Greenwich, is seeking a postdoctoral research associate to work on a 31-month UKRI funded project to investigate multilingual primary school children’s unde...

Come work with Alessandra Valentini at the University of Greenwich and me on a @ukri.org project on #multilingual children's understanding of #inferences in spoken and written English. Full time postdoctoral position, 31 months!

Deadline: 10th December.

jobs.gre.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

Thank you! I need to get into the habit again. Like most I got a bit fed up with "the other place" ;-)

Hello Blueskyy! I will need to re-build a community here :-)