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How an academic betrayal led me to change my authorship practices “Every cleaned data set, debugged script, and refined figure deserves acknowledgment,” this researcher writes

How an academic betrayal led me to change my authorship practices | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grants The BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grants are available to support primary research in the humanities and social sciences. These awards, up to £10,000 in value and tenable for up to 24 months, are provi...

Ooh we've opened our call for small research grants. £10k for any humanities or social sciences research. Open to independent scholars. We use partial randomisation to allocate the funding: random allocation between all that meet the quality threshold
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/ba-l...

Open Science round-up: The future of knowledge and who should control it  - International Science Council In this issue, we feature an editorial by Amy Brand, Director at MIT Press, who shares her insights on how the unchecked use of published research in AI may threaten the integrity, sustainability,…

"Not all openness is virtuous; not all resistance to openness is obstructionist."

MIT Press Director Amy Brand shares her insights on how the unchecked use of published research in AI may threaten the integrity, sustainability, and future of scientific publishing:

New research shows price is not a reliable guide to t-shirt durability A new study led by the University of Leeds Institute of Textiles and Colour (LITAC) has found that the price of a t-shirt is no reliable guide to how well it will wear over time.

How much did you pay for your oldest item of clothing? A £4 T-shirt can outperform a luxury £395 item, according to Leeds research. If you want clothes that last, or cherish second-hand bargains, find out how price doesn’t always reflect durability 👇

ahc.leeds.ac.uk/arts-humanit...

When Arguments Merge url:https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262549103/when-arguments-merge/

Merge url:https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262539869/?utm_content=150784494&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&hss_channel=tw-20774514

idk if this is a weird offer, but I’m really, really good at reading out linguistic experiment stimuli items, at an even pace, with no errors, with the prosody of your choice, in a very standard southern British English accent. If this would be useful to you let me know. #linguistics

love PGs

Calls: 4th International Conference on Formal Approaches to Meaning in Chinese The International Conference on Formal Approaches to Meaning in Chinese emphasizes the semantic analysis of the Chinese languages, as well as other languages in reference to Chinese, within the framework of formal semantics using logical tools such as first-order logic, Boolean algebra, lattice theory, etc. This conference series, with the first held in 2019, provides a platform for scholars to share their latest research findings on formal semantics of the Chinese languages. The conference a

Calls: 4th International Conference on Formal Approaches to Meaning in Chinese

Award-winning Canadian poet, prose writer, translator, and classicist Anne Carson (b. 1950) on translation.

From a 2001 discussion with Brighde Mullin for the Lannan Foundation. Full video 🔗: lannan.org/media/anne-c...

#WITMONTH #womenintranslation #WIT 📚💙

STAR's first issue is out! (STAR is an open-access journal publishing syntactic research from the same editorial team that brought us Syntax) #Linguistics

star-linguistics.org

Books: Mathematical Structure of Syntactic Merge: Marcolli, Chomsky and Berwick (2025) A mathematical formalization of Chomsky’s theory of Merge in generative linguistics. The Minimalist Program advanced by Noam Chomsky thirty years ago, focusing on the biological nature of human language, has played a central role in our modern understanding of syntax. One key to this program is the notion that the hierarchical structure of human language syntax consists of a single operation Merge. For the first time, Mathematical Structure of Syntactic Merge presents a complete and precise

Books: Mathematical Structure of Syntactic Merge: Marcolli, Chomsky and Berwick (2025)

We are excited to announce the publication of a recent outstanding MA dissertations in our Queen Mary Occasional Papers in Linguistics series. www.qmul.ac.uk/sllf/linguis...

LAGB 2025 Registration Closes – Monday 18 August!

Don’t miss your chance to join us in person for this year’s LAGB Conference!
Full details and booking options — including the summer school, programme, conference dinner, and more — are available here: lagb.org.uk/lagb2025

Reserve your place now.

The British Academy is running an informative webinar on the Wednesday 24 September for UK-based, humanities and social sciences researchers interested in applying for the ERC Starting Grants 2025 call.

Find out more on our website and register your interest: buff.ly/VHCnyaY

Join us on the 7th of August at 1630 UK time to learn about the PhD application process in the UK!

The Teams link will be made available on our website shortly before the session begins

I mean *regularly*, though impossible always

Just published "Empirical issues in syntax and semantics: Selected papers from CSSP 2023" edited by Gabriela Bîlbîie & Gerhard Schaden #eotms #openaccess langsci-press.org/catalog/book...

I just encountered this article on a website popular among Chinese researchers on the importance of doing single-authored research both at the pre-faculty and post-faculty stage of our career, by C. Wu in Chinese: news.sciencenet.cn/sbhtmlnews/2...

The article title 'Rethinking the UK Languages Curriculum: Arguments for the Inclusion of Linguistics' on a blue background.

'Rethinking the UK Languages Curriculum: Arguments for the Inclusion of Linguistics' by @mishee54.bsky.social, Alice Corr, Anna Havinga, @jrkasstan.bsky.social & Norma Schifano argues for linguistics in the UK Mod Langs curriculum. Read it #OA: bit.ly/MLO-linguisitics @ciol-linguists.bsky.social

Celebration time 🎉🎈💐 We have been awarded AHC School of the Year 2025 in the partnership awards! Many congratulations to our winners @gisetomelourido.bsky.social for Equality and Inclusion @henryhbclarke.bsky.social for Feedback & Assesment and our Language Centre for Global Impact! 🥳 🎉 🎈

LLS alumni event poster. Speakers: Chris Dixon, Hannah Land, Jacob Watson. Their pictures appear on the poster. Read more york.ac.uk/language/news/events

Our exciting LLS Alumni Event 2025 will be held on May 15th at 4pm in BS/104 (Treehouse)

Come and hear about the many different career paths that are open to language and linguistics graduates through the experience of three of our graduates.

Register your interest:
tiny.cc/LLSalumni

Hopefully, I will share papers related to my research interests here. I have broad research experience in linguistics but some of them need to be carried out in collaboration in future! :)

3 new #DiamondOpenAccess papers published in @glossa-linguistics.bsky.social. See glossa-journal.org/articles/ Powered by the @janewayolh.bsky.social platform, copy-edited & typeset by @siliconchipsuk, & financially supported by the scholar-owned consortial library model of @openlibhums.bsky.social

Duration as a prosodic cue in TİD: Focus realization in the extended domain Prosodic prominence of focused units reflected through a variety of cues, is well documented in all modalities. Yet, the effect of focus in the extended domain is understudied in sign languages. This ...

We found that focus in TID is not only realized as duration increase in focused signs, but also as duration decrease in the extended domain. Sign languages use different domains (manual and nonmanual) to mark focus yielding crosslinguistic patterns.

www.glossa-journal.org/article/id/1...

Calls: 2nd International Workshop on the Syntax of Predication and Modification Call for Papers: As a sequel to the successful International Workshop on the Syntax of Predication and Modification 2024, the HUN-REN Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics will host the 2nd International Workshop on the Syntax of Predication and Modification (IWSPM2025) in Budapest, Hungary, on 1–2 September 2025. IWSPM2025 will be an in-person-only event. Like its predecessor, this workshop seeks to foster fruitful dialogue between researchers through syntactic analyses of construction t

Calls: 2nd International Workshop on the Syntax of Predication and Modification

Calls: Computational Psycholinguistics Meeting 2025 We are pleased to announce that the abstract submission for the first Computational Psycholinguistics Meeting 2025 is now open! The meeting will take place on December 18–19, 2025, in Utrecht, the Netherlands. It aims to connect researchers using (neuro-)symbolic, Bayesian, deep-learning, connectionist, and mechanistic models (e.g., ACT-R) in studying human language production, perception, and processing. Keynote Speakers: Stefan Frank (Radboud University), Vera Demberg (Saarland Universit

Calls: Computational Psycholinguistics Meeting 2025: We are pleased to announce that the abstract submission for the first Computational Psycholinguistics Meeting 2025 is now open!

The meeting will take place on December 18–19, 2025, in Utrecht, the Netherlands. It aims to connect researchers…

Bookshop with winding staircase and customers browsing the shelves.

📚 6 books to read for International Women’s Day at SOAS Library.

Our librarians at @soaslibrary.bsky.social have handpicked a reading list featuring women from countries across Asia, Africa, and the Middle East.

Explore the list: bit.ly/4kqYbtj

#InternationalWomensDay

OK, every year I try to explain to my students how LLMs work, and every year I have to do a big trawl for good resources and activities. Here's this year's haul of *introductory* materials. (In-class activities + visualizations, not so much readings.)