Ben Gibb-Reid

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 am concerned that my data science students are gonna be too young for this reference... #Rstats #Rcoding

Come work with us! 🌟 3 Postdoc & 5 PhD positions – deadline for applications: 20 February.

www.curlew.info/jobs

You be the judge: should my husband stop calling all sweet things ‘buns’? Parveen doesn’t know if she’s getting a sponge cake or a burger bap, but Joe thinks she needs to embrace his northern-isms. You decide who is sweet and who is sour

"Joe’s approach to food terminology is chaos" - I feel you Joe... linguistic variation can be a real BUN-mer
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

One last student project from this years' UG phonetics class - this ones just needs monolingual English speakers and will take 10 mins york.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Participants needed! One of my Phonetics students is looking for participants in her study - just requires listening to some voices in a short survey york.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
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😮woah - narrative SHIFT

‘Teach kids internet bollocks, not my old rubbish,’ says Shakespeare: the Stephen Collins cartoon Shakespeare’s ghost comes to the rescue of divided Britain

www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

A horse is looking over its rear at the camera. It is holding a present in its mouth. Text reads “You looked.”

Perception of AI voices

Hello Internet people!
One of my MSc students is looking for respondents to a short survey on the ability of deepfake audio to replicate speech. If you have 2 minutes, please fill it out: forms.gle/f3ufxis3wiZG...

It’s an absolute pleasure to be involved in organising this event

Ben Gibb-Reid - Tools & Tutorials Praat scripting tutorial Created by Lauren Harrington and myself for the York Early Careers Workshop (8 July 2025). All the scripts and handouts can be found in this folder. Also see below for the sl...

Calling all Praat users! 👄👂
I've created a Praat scripting workshop with my good colleague Lauren Harrington. Feel free to see it at my website below! bit.ly/4eAHRnk
#Praat #phonetics #coding

Devastated that the Centre for Lifelong Learning @york.ac.uk is being closed after 40 years. What a loss to education in the region. Feel for students and staff. Being a tutor has been joy, doing what universities should be doing by sharing knowledge widely with our communities.

Day 2 is underway. Here’s a highlight from last night’s entertainment from the York Taiko Drummers 🥁 #UKIS2025 they were bangin’

And we’re off! #UKIS2025 buzzing for the next few days

Excited to welcome everyone from 12:00! #UKIS2025 #UoY 🦆

UKIS2025 - Registration & Venue Info Key Dates Registration opens registration is now open - see below Registration deadline extended to Friday 6 June

Last chance to come to UKIS 2025 - resgistration has been EXTENDED to this Friday (6 June)! Come join us in sunneh York 🦆 sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/u...

It was a great event, well done all!

This is so good (bad)! Referencing it in my Linguistics as Data Science class under our 'really bad plots' discussion board #DataViz

📄 UKIS 2025 Call for Abstracts deadline has been extended to 29 April 📄
See our website for more details below and get submitting 📣 #UKIS2025 #UKIS #speech #UoY

UKIS2025 - Accessibility We will do our best to be proactively inclusive and ensure that all attendees are able to participate on an equal footing. You can indicate your accessibility needs via the registration form. Essen...

We also have lots accessibility information around the conference venues - please let us know if you have any questions via ukis2025@york.ac.uk.

Registration will open later this month 📅💪
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UKIS2025 - Call for Abstracts Call for Abstracts

A reminder that the 2025 UKIS Workshop Call for Papers is open until 22nd April 2025. 📄📣💬
We are also delighted to announce our three keynote speakers – Mark Huckvale, Verena Riser, and Nadine Lavan.

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Yes yes yes! I almost went down a HUGE rabbit hole in my thesis’s discussion chapter using Grammarly as an example of why words like “just” are negatively perceived when they’re used to hedge

Spotted my favourite disciple in Santuari de Sant Salvador… Simon pEATer

Told my students that today's stats lecture would provide a good pun... hope I did not disappoint

Hand drawn picture of the library, with LibInspo: your library, your way written on

This week we ran our #LibInspo competition.

Five students, from across all three faculties, pitching ideas to improve the student experience in the library.

We work with the winner to try and make their idea a reality, and they get £500 for themselves.

And it was BRILLIANT.

Read on: 🧵

For balance... (is this how the world sees me? 🍪)

I've been checking how ChatGPT copes with R coding queries and thought I'd try something... what have I unleashed?! 😬