Eleanor Ridge

Deadline’s coming up in 2 weeks’ time! Don’t miss your chance for up to $800 to attend the ALS conference.

Rhotic Acquisition Is More Rapid in Biofeedback Than Motor-Based Treatment for Residual Speech Sound Disorder: Primary Outcome of a Randomized Controlled Trial Purpose: Residual speech sound disorder (RSSD) is a high-prevalence condition that can limit children's academic and social participation, with n...

🔐💰 @ashajournals.bsky.social McAllisterT PrestonJL BenwayNR HillJ LaraMP LeeceMC LiangW & HitchcockER 2025 Rhotic Acquisition Is >Rapid in Biofeedback Than Motor-Based Tx for Residual #ChildSpeechDis Primary Outcome of a RCT doi.org/10.1044/2025... @meiriongwril.bsky.social @jscobbie.bsky.social

A book cover. There is a photo of tree branches against the sky, and below that is a black background with white text. The white text reads The Routledge Handbook of Language and Mind Engineering.

Not only is this a real book, but the two editors, and a third collaborator (Weixiao Wei), have published 9 Routledge handbooks since 2017. Very confused about what is going on here. 1/x

Our paper is finally out online! Find it here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

#linguistics

Wikipedia editors trying to fend off the onslaught of AI crap have crowdsourced some telltale signs of LLM-generated writing; it might be handy for editors and proofreaders generally. Thanks to @ellenrykers.com for pointing me to it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...

Vowel formant track normalization using discrete cosine transform coefficients This paper provides an overview of the discrete cosine transform (DCT) as a method for smoothing vowel formant tracks, as well as a procedure to take any speaker normalization method that has been def...

My paper about normalizing vowel formant tracks is published online at Linguistics Vanguard. The approach to defining formant track normalization I describe in the paper is implemented in the tidynorm package jofrhwld.github.io/tidynorm/

lancasteruniversity: Corpus linguistics and new technologies: data, language and society | edX In an era of AI and big data, understanding language through data is essential. This hands-on course from Lancaster University—a global leader in corpus linguistics—teaches you to build, query, and an...

Learn to build your own corpus, query language patterns, and draw insights from real data.

This hands-on course is ideal for anyone interested in language, technology, or social research.

Join now: www.edx.org/learn/social...

Assistant Professor - Language Revitalization - Linguistics University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

Please help circulate widely!
Assistant Professor (T-T) UC Berkeley, Language Revitalization. aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05022
Seeking candidates with research specialization in language revitalization and a broad intellectual engagement in linguistics and related fields @soclinganth.bsky.social

SLCVC2025 Conference - Registration Registration The 'Sign Language Contact, Variation, and Change' Conference is free to attend, but we would like everyone who is coming to register please. We would like EVERYONE to register - both pr...

If you'd like to attend the Sign Language Contact Variation and Change conference on Thursday 21 and Friday 22 August (this week!) make sure you have registered here!
The Zoom link (including interpretation into English) will be sent to those who have registered.
sites.google.com/view/slcvc-w...

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

Auckland.Scoop » Statement On AI In Universities From Aotearoa Communication & Media Scholars Network

Important statement of concerns about the embrace of genAI by universities (mine? definitely! yours?) by Comms and Media scholars in Aotearoa NZ
auckland.scoop.co.nz/2025/08/stat...

The abstract submission deadline for the Linguistic Society of New Zealand conference has been extended to Friday 8th August, so you have a week to get your abstracts in! Hope to see lots of you in Wellington in November! nzlingsoc.org/conferences/...

YouTube video by CMAT CMAT - EURO-COUNTRY (Official Video)

Cad é an Ghaeilge ar "voice of a generation"?

Ar fheabhas.

youtu.be/_SVNTv44C4g?...

YouTube video by Recremac the windows taskbar is a UX nightmare...

This video sums everything up

youtu.be/wA_jroxKpao

‘Historic’ ruling on climate change by World Court: What to expect The ICJ is set to decide the future course of climate accountability in a landmark legal case brought by Vanuatu.

Not sure how this will go but either way it’s a big deal for climate accountability

Vanuatu’s Ralph Regenvanu should also probably get more recognition for the work he’s done on climate at the global level, including backing the law students on this case

www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/...

Definitely yeah nah for reflexive TA (and qual more widely). Gen AI discourse is productive. Be wary of what’s being produced as we discuss Gen AI (to support or resist) - but resist ✊🏼 #QMiP2025

Great thread by @ipanalysis.bsky.social on AI and qualitative analysis (and other things). I remain completely baffled about the enthusiasm for using AI to do qualitative analysis and (reflexive) TA specifically... not least because it is profoundly unethical, exploitative, eco disaster technology

Neural associations between fingerspelling, print, and signs: An ERP priming study with deaf readers Fingerspelling is a leading predictor of reading ability for deaf people who use a signed language, but few neuroimaging studies have examined how it …

New ERP study with Brittany Lee! Fingerspelled word primes elicit early N400 effects for printed word targets, similar to printed primes and unlike ASL sign primes. This results suggest shared orthographic representations for fingerspelling and print. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The call for papers for the Linguistic Society of New Zealand annual conference is open! nzlingsoc.org/conference/c...

In this BSL video summary, Kearsy Cormier revisits our highly cited 2015 paper on constructed action in British Sign Language (BSL), co-authored with Sandra Smith & @zedsehyr.bsky.social What is constructed action, you ask?

Pauline Harris: Looking to the stars | E-Tangata “I always had a picture of Matariki next to my bed when I was growing up. I found it in National Geographic . . . I ripped the page out and put it on my wall, not knowing it would become really import...

“I always had a picture of Matariki next to my bed when I was growing up. I found it in National Geographic . . . I ripped the page out and put it on my wall, not knowing it would become really important to me later in life.” — Dr Pauline Harris, astrophysicist and expert on Māori astronomy.

Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia

Our demands, see link

Hello & HAPPY FRIDAY, as promised an open letter by my lovely colleagues and myself. Everybody, feel free to sign this even if you are not NL-based and ‼️ share ‼️ (anonymous signature is poss):

Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia

openletter.earth/open-letter-...

Playful or harmful? David Seymour’s posts raise questions about what’s OK to say online The Deputy PM's "Victim of the Day" posts have now led to at least two official complaints to Cabinet.

This is the response (that I put together alongside the editorial staff of The Conversation) to David Seymour's defence of the "Victim of the Day" harassment campaign against experts in Aotearoa.

#nzpol #kikorangi

I got an email from the 'committee for academic freedom' asking me to sign a petition to say that I shouldn't have to voice beliefs I disagree with. I *love* a dogwhistle (academically speaking...) so I spent my coffee time reading their website.

The welcome session for #LancsSS25 is now underway!

Witi Ihimaera: Back at the beginning | E-Tangata “When I die, I want to make sure that when my ancestors say to me: ‘Kia ora, nau mai, haere mai,’ I won't say to them: ‘I’m sorry, but I can't speak te reo.’” — Witi Ihimaera, on learning te reo at 80...

“When I die, I want to make sure that when my ancestors say to me: ‘Kia ora, nau mai, haere mai,’ I won’t say to them: ‘I’m sorry, but I can’t speak te reo.’” — Witi Ihimaera, on learning te reo at 80.

Critical AI Literacy: Beyond hegemonic perspectives on sustainability How can universities resist being coopted and corrupted by the AI industries’ agendas?

The amazing @marentierra.bsky.social @irisvanrooij.bsky.social Barbara M. & I build towards (sadly not obv to all):

"Universities are not spokespersons for the AI industry. On the contrary, we need to resist being coopted and corrupted by the industries’ agendas."

rcsc.substack.com/p/critical-a...

INTRODUCTION

Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines?

Jevin West (@jevinwest.bsky.social) and I have spent the last eight months developing the course on large language models (LLMs) that we think every college freshman needs to take.

thebullshitmachines.com

Pūkaha Donate Pūkaha Donate : Make a donation today to support Pūkaha Donate

Hey team, this is important: the wonderful Pukaha/Mt. Bruce eco sanctuary needs our help to stay open due to having their funding slashed (looking at NACT 👀). Can you help? I’m going to be looking at what I can give this week at work. pukaha-donation-appeal.raiselysite.com?fbclid=IwQ0x...

West Papuan Indigenous people call for KitKat boycott over alleged ecocide Thousands of acres of rainforest is being cleared to produce palm oil, used in popular Nestlé and Mondelēz brands

West Papua’s Indigenous people have called for a boycott of KitKat, Smarties and Aero chocolate, Oreo biscuits and Ritz crackers, Pantene and Herbal Essences, over alleged ecocide in their territory