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A community-based initiative to combat linguistic discrimination in publishing in the language sciences #FairOA #linguistics

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We are group of #ECR in #linguistics concerned with linguistic discrimination in #academic #publishing. We propose to develop a community-based solution to fight it: a pool of volunteer proofreaders who are confident in English and can help their peers! 🧵
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This is super helpful stuff!
Gavin Buckingham@DrGBuckingham8 Aug 2023
Are you on the job market for a UK lectureship? Then check out this new blog post, guest written by Dr. Rohan Kapitany gavinbuckingham.wordpress.co…

Applying for lectureships – an alternative perspective (guest post by Dr Rohan Kapitany)

Some time back, I wrote a blog post about applying for lectureships. But this sort of thing is a pretty complicated and ever-changing world. And I’ve never actually been involved in an interv…

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Btw I forgot to post about this but we (@adam_farris1 @avzaagzonunaada @SureshKolichala) recently published a historical linguistic database for South Asian languages, incl. Indo-Aryan, Dravidian, Munda, and Nuristani. You can access it at neojambu.herokuapp.com/
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Miriam Butt@xenamutt6 May 2023
Linguistics is such an important discipline, it's disheartening to see such decisions being taken in the first place and indeed very good of the Academy of Europe to make this statement, which I as a member also fully subscribe to.
Simon Kirby@SimonKirby4 May 2023
Happy to see this statement from the Academy of Europe (of which I am a proud member) urging the Spanish government to rethink its removal of linguistics as a distinct subject of study in Spain's university system. ae-info.org/ae/Acad_Main/New…
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Happy to see this statement from the Academy of Europe (of which I am a proud member) urging the Spanish government to rethink its removal of linguistics as a distinct subject of study in Spain's university system. ae-info.org/ae/Acad_Main/New…
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#phoneticians Have you tried to get OpenAI's Whisper transcriptions to force-align later in Praat? Does it work? Since we now have an API I am thinking if it could be worth the effort...
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I'm teaching "Language Learning: A Data Driven Approach" at the LOT winter school in Amsterdam this week. Students can learn how to play with data from Wordbank, childes-db, and Peekbank using R and the tidyverse! All slides and exercises available here: github.com/mcfrank/lot-langu…
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We're hiring 30 tenure track fellowships focussed on innovative research. Can be in *any* area, but especially interested in applications related to digital, data & AI, so if you're a corpus linguist or computational linguist in particular: apply! ed.ac.uk/arts-humanities-soc…
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Stories last. This paper traces back fairy tales across languages & cultures to common ancestors, arguing that the oldest date back at least 6,000 years. One of the most ancient became the myth of Sisyphus & Thanatos in ancient Greece. The diagram is neat royalsocietypublishing.org/d…
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so, @xkcd wrote a very nice book about absurd hypothetical questions sadly, only a few of them were about linguistics so we brought him onto our podcast to ask us a FULL EPISODE of delightful and silly linguistics questions you're welcome.
Lingthusiasm@lingthusiasm16 Sep 2022
What if...there were more absurd hypothetical questions about linguistics? In this episode, we're joined by @xkcd for a reverse interview: he asks us his weirdest linguistics questions in celebration of his new book, What If? 2 soundcloud.com/lingthusiasm/…

72: What If Linguistics - Absurd hypothetical questions with Randall...

What’s the “it’s” in “it’s three pm and hot”? How do you write a cough in the International Phonetic Alphabet? Who is the person most likely to speak similarly to a randomly-selected North American En

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Announcements for Open Mind, an MIT Press Open Access journal for Cognitive Science 1. We are now “Diamond” access for the foreseeable future (at least 2 years at this point): this means there are NO CHARGES for publication (or submission, or anything) direct.mit.edu/opmi

Open Mind | MIT Press

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Open Science in Developmental Science, a new submitted preprint with @TamisLeMondaNYU and @Gen_Pov: psyarxiv.com/uqjf9 We argue for a broad view of open science that goes beyond any particular policy.
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Looking forward to this amazing line-up of keynote speakers! If you work on #cooperation or #culturalEvolution, the call for abstracts for the @CultConf 22 is still open until June 30 culture-conference.com/call-…

Call for Abstracts 2021

ABSTRACT SUBMISSIONS HAVE CLOSED. If you submitted an abstract please check your emails for a decision about your presentation. Due to this being a virtual conference, the formatting of these vario…

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Culture Conference@CultConf20 May 2022
Very excited to announce our fabulous keynote speakers for this year's Culture Conference! - Dr. Barbara Klump @DrBarbaraKlump - Dr. Manuel Bohn @elManuBohn - Dr. Michael Franke @meanwhileina culture-conference.com/keyno…

Keynote speakers 2022

Dr. Barbara Klump Dr. Klump is a postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute  of Animal Behavior in Radolfzell with a varied history of ground-breaking work on the cultural transmissio…

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Are you an Early Career Researcher interested in gesture/multimodal communication? Then join us for this awesome 2-day FREE online workshop, 7-8 April. 🙌🤟🙉 More info and registration at: ecrgestureworkshop.weebly.co… Pls RT and share with your students/postdocs.
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This month we launched our pilot proofreading program in partnership w/ @glossapsycholx, and @timeshighered published a piece on the initiative and its motivation 📰👇🏾 Thank you @PolaLem for the interesting chat!
Chris Havergal@CHavergalTHE17 Mar 2022
Linguistics scholars offer free proofreading for academic papers written by colleagues who aren’t native English speakers timeshighereducation.com/new… via @PolaLem

Free proofreading squad targets academic language discrimination

Grassroots effort by linguists seeks to lift up non-native English speakers, many of whom cannot afford professional proofreaders

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Update from @LProofreading. "We are group of #ECR in #linguistics concerned with linguistic discrimination in #academic #publishing. We propose to develop a community-based solution to fight it." xitter.cf/LProofreading/status/1…
lingproof@LProofreading2 Feb 2022
We are group of #ECR in #linguistics concerned with linguistic discrimination in #academic #publishing. We propose to develop a community-based solution to fight it: a pool of volunteer proofreaders who are confident in English and can help their peers! 🧵
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Compartimos el proyecto LingProof: LingProof es una comunidad de lingüistas que están interesadxs en combatir la discriminación lingüística en las publicaciones de ciencias del lenguaje. Más info en @LProofreading #fairOA #linguistics #linguistica #multilinguismo #openaccess
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New paper! Does how far in advance you plan your speech depend on what language you speak? We explore this in Nungon, a language with ~1000 speakers in remote villages in Papua New Guinea 🧵 1/ doi.org/10.3758/s13421-021-0… #psycholinguistics #understudiedLanguages #nungon
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🚨We’re partnering w/ @glossapsycholx to pilot our proofreading program! 🚨 Looking for an int’l peer-reviewed #FairOA journal for your psycholinguistic work but not confident in your English? Consider submitting to @glossapsycholx and participating in our pilot program!👇
Glossa Psycholinguistics@glossapsycholx28 Feb 2022
We asked you to stay tuned for more, so here's more: Glossa Psycholinguistics has partnered with @lingproof to conduct a pilot of this program designed to enhance participation and diversity in publishing! For details, please visit escholarship.org/uc/glossaps….
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Why a pilot? 💁🏾‍♀️This pilot will help us figure out how to design the guidelines that proofreaders in the live program will need to adhere to to ensure fair and consistent treatment of manuscripts. (4/5)
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When? Now! We will be running this pilot program for 6 months! (5/5)
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