Caitlin Halfacre

You sir, have won the internet for today, possibly for this year #tidyverse #dplyr #genzplyr #rstats

Our goal was therefore to engage with the classic & contemporary arguments given by folks in the child-innovator camp, specifically by reviewing (and crediting!) all those who worked hard to dispute their claims over the years. Hope that gives some clarity, alongside the obvious press release 'buzz'

I find it endlessly frustrating that one of the biggest empirical findings from sociolinguistics is consistently ignored. Change doesn't come from children making mistakes. Change comes from adolescents incrementing existing probabilistic patterns.

I haven't read this paper but hopefully it's good.

Sometimes it depresses me how little impact decades of the study of sociolinguistic variation and change has had on other areas of the language sciences (I get the same feeling about gesture studies), but I didn't even realise that this idea was prevalent in some areas of my own field!

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#UKLVC15 you've been wonderful. Thank you to everyone who organised, presented, asked questions, had intelligent sensitive conversations...all the things. If that was my academic swansong (tbc), it was a pretty great one.
@lancslinguistics.bsky.social @phoneticslab.bsky.social

#ManchesterVoices in the wild(ish). Maya Dewhurst is looking at nasal vowels in Blackpool and Manchester, based on folk and literature associations between nasal quality and Manchester accents. #UKLVC15

As a reader I appreciate a sentence like "A says X, but haven't taken into account Y, which means we can only rely on this as far as Z..." - having trained formally and phonetically quite separately it's really helpful actually having someone think through the crossover

Also because people will take your figures out and use them for teaching - so there'll be a whole load of students for whom that's their first (and often only) exposure to the paper

hey #LingSky 🐦🐦, we have a great post-bacc summer intern interested in socio-phon types of questions. If anyone knows of RA types of opportunities in these areas of linguistics, plz lmk! tagging ppl at top of mind @jofrhwld.bsky.social @laurelmack.bsky.social @betsysneller.bsky.social

This is an exit by necessity, I'd love to keep doing Linguistics research, and I am still looking at individual funding routes but I've had 4-5 jobs in less than 4 years...there are just no jobs in UKHE, and I've built a community and a home here in Newcastle and I just need a bit of stability

If anyone knows anyone who's successfully transitioned from academic Linguistics to data-type work in industry please could you put me in touch? I'd love some advice on what sort of jobs to look at and how to translate my skills and training in a way companies will understand

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We're hiring! Join us to work at the intersection of social interaction and language technology. Postdoc and PhD positions in my Futures of Language research group, based at Radboud University in Nijmegen, NL

Read more: markdingemanse.net/futures/news...

#linguistics #interaction #sts #emca #hci

The biggest publishers pulled profit margins in 2023 that rival Big Tech.

And they still charge you to publish and your library to read.

When are we going to start seriously thinking of alternatives to reform #PeerReview?

🧪 #SciPub #AcademicPublishing

Said agency has also been known to not have any process for knowing if they've received confirmation back from their booking and so leaving a PhD student without a hotel room when they arrive in San Jose at 9pm at night...👀

Research Associate-Fixed Term - East Lansing, Michigan, United States Position Summary The Language Learning Lab in the Department of Communicative Sciences and Disorders at Michigan State University (directed by Ron Pomper, Ph.D.) has an opening for a 1-year post-docto...

The Langauge Learning Lab at MSU (my lab!) has an opening for a 1-year post-doc fellowship in language disorders. The position starts August 2025 and may be renewed for a 2nd year.

Please share with anyone who may be interested. For full details and to apply go to: careers.msu.edu/jobs/researc...

Slik skal Norge tiltrekke seg internasjonale toppforskere Forskere som vil vekk fra Trumps USA, kan nå få muligheten i Norge. 30-40 forskere kan få komme hit. Slik blir den nye ordningen.

Norway considers hiring US researchers that would associate with running projects like my ICONIC project. Specifics are not defined yet, but if you are a postdoctoral researcher working on iconicity and would like to come to Oslo and work with me, shoot me a PM.

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Wanted: Lecturer in Quantitative Methods at Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences

Happy to chat about procedural aspects of the job and connect with our welcome center, who are amazingly helpful in getting settled in Osnabrück

#JobSky

www.hs-osnabrueck.de/wir/jobs-und...

*Halfacre (you are not the first and will not be the last)😅

Caitlin Halfarce talking to us about the Manchester Voices Project at the MCRL symposium today :-) great work!

Age of speakers in Wigan & Bolton correlates with their attitude towards Greater Manchester (as opposed to Lancashire), which correspondingly affects their accent, specifically the vowel in words like MOUTH, SOUND, ROUND, HOUSE
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#linguistics

Linguistics could make language learning more relevant – and attractive – for school pupils A languages curriculum enriched with linguistics is appealing to students and teachers.

🚨Following the Curriculum and Assessment Review Interim Report, we share thoughts on how a languages curriculum enriched with #linguistics can address challenges for languages study in schools theconversation.com/linguistics-... #edusky #langsky @languageonthemove.bsky.social @ucflangs.bsky.social

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There have been better years to be on the academic job market...
that's 15 UK universities in dispute over job cuts

Okay #rstats folks and Bayesian enthusiasts. I want to fit monotonic splines in brms. I found forum posts from 2019-2021. You can fit them with scam, but the package doesn’t play well with the standard post-processing of mgcv. Has anyone figured out a way to get this done by now?

#linguistics

could you add our research centre account @mcrlinguistics.bsky.social

The only uni ranking I will share: bantshire.github.io/rankings.htm...

I can't find the other meaning...