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Jeff Holliday
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Linguist @ University of Kansas. Interested in phonetics, acquisition, sociolinguistics, and Korean. He.

https://jjholliday.github.io/
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judithtonhauser.bsky.social
Postdoc position in Stuttgart, Germany (TV-L 13, 100%) for 18 months, on authority presuppositions in AI systems with Dr. Agnieszka Faleńska and me. For more information and application info, see here: safety.https://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/documents/team/falensaa/aphic_postoc.pdf
www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de
November 24, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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scriptingjapan.bsky.social
Let's ギョプる!
November 26, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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symbolicstorage.bsky.social
🚨NEW PUBLICATION ALERT!🚨
The 'Design Features' of Language Revisited (w/ @mperlman.bsky.social @glupyan.bsky.social Koen de Reus & @limorraviv.bsky.social)
Feature Review out now in #OpenAccess in @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social! #language #linguistics
Paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.ti...
The title page
November 25, 2025 at 7:49 PM
jeffholliday.bsky.social
Yes! 🙌
jslx.bsky.social Journal of Sociolinguistics @jslx.bsky.social · 3d
🚨 Do not miss @laceywade.bsky.social's #OA contribution to our cross-journal symposium on Listening practices and Linguistic perception. How do in-/out-group contrasts shape the very act of listening—and the kind of subjects we become through speech perception?

Find out more 👉
buff.ly
November 24, 2025 at 4:09 PM
jeffholliday.bsky.social
So proud to be from NE Ohio 😊
neorsd.org NE Ohio Regional Sewer District @neorsd.org · 8d
just learned we won an award for our blog post about Tom Holland and stormwater management.

remember, when you see an article about stormwater management, you repost it. i don’t make the rules.
What Tom Holland’s historic lip-sync showcase taught us about stormwater management
Grab your umbrella and your tights.
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November 19, 2025 at 4:54 AM
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pamlab.bsky.social
New paper alert: congrats to Profs. @cbchang.bsky.social, Sunyoung Ahn & Youngjoo Kim on the publication of "LexKO: A quick, reliable lexical test of Korean language proficiency"! 🎉🎉

link.springer.com/article/10.3...

#OpenAccess #Korean #LanguageProficiency #LanguageAssessment #langsky 🐦🐦
LexKO: A quick, reliable lexical test of Korean language proficiency - Behavior Research Methods
To facilitate objective measures of proficiency for language users of diverse backgrounds, recent research in second language acquisition and multilingualism has developed short, yet reliable, tests o...
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October 22, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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tiny.baby
people playing music/videos on their phone speakers in public is more than just mildly annoying and is instead a leading indicator of the decline of community and empath
zachweinersmith.bsky.social Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · Oct 16
Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?
October 19, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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syllabicity.bsky.social
#Linguistics at the University of Georgia is hiring a tenure-track faculty member in #phonetics and #phonology. Spread the word and let me know if you have questions!

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LINGUIST List 36.3129 Jobs: Phonetics, Phonology: Assistant Professor in Phonetics and Phonology, University of Georgia
The LINGUIST List, International Linguistics Community Online.
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October 17, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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mattgoldrick.bsky.social
Postdoc (flexible start): child language development across different populations and contexts, methods including behavioral studies, large-scale data analysis, and/or computational modeling. M. Cychosz, Linguistics, Stanford Univ. postdocs.stanford.edu/prospective/...
October 3, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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gretchenmcc.bsky.social
Finally a Large Language Model I can get behind
merriam-webster.com Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · Oct 1
We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.
October 1, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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kansaslinguistics.bsky.social
Tomorrow (10/2) at 4:00 pm we are welcoming Dr. Katie Hoemann from the KU Department of Psychology as she gives a colloquy talk entitled, "Around the world and in every day: The contexts that structure our understanding and experience of emotion". The event is open to the public 🌻
Flyer for talk, featuring text and a headshot of Dr. Hoemann. Thursday, October 2 Stauffer-Flint Hall room 100 4:00 pm Central Daylight Time Zoom link available upon request to: linguistics@ku.edu Title: "Around the world and in every day: The contexts that structure our understanding and experience of emotion" Abstract: Experiences of emotion are multidimensional and fundamentally situated. They involve features such as bodily sensations, mental contents, and associated behaviors, and unfold in connection with personal motivations, social relationships, and physical surroundings. Natural language provides a window onto how people represent these experiences by capturing the nature of the events being described, the aspects that are emphasized, and the goals, beliefs, and norms that shape them. In this talk, I describe recent work that has used natural language to examine situational, individual, and cultural differences in emotion. These studies apply both qualitative and quantitative approaches, and include interviews with Hadza hunter-gatherers, daily diaries of American university students, and in-the-moment verbal recordings from Belgian community members. Together, their findings paint a picture of rich variation in the experience and understanding of emotion that is meaningfully structured by the contexts we find around the world and in our everyday lives.
October 1, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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adamanlx.bsky.social
Anyone familiar with Tagalog who can answer:

Makita normally marks the seer with the "ng" case: Nakita *ko* siya.

But in this existential sentence, why is the seer in the "ang" case? May nakikita *akong* katiwalian sa transaksiyon.
September 30, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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cbchang.bsky.social
It's ✨ academic job application season ✨ & I hope you'll consider applying for and/or spreading the word about CityU's ongoing search for faculty in computational linguistics, psycho-/neurolinguistics, & experimental linguistics: open-rank and rolling!

www.cityu.edu.hk/hro/en/job/c...

#langsky 🐦🐦
CityU's logo with tagline: "Innovating into the Future"
September 28, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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slrf2025.bsky.social
And that’s a wrap! Thank you to our stellar presenters, reviewers, attendees, volunteers, sponsors, and organizers for a fun and successful #SLRF2025 conference. This would not have been possible with your support.

We hope to see you all for #SLRF2026 in Montréal!
September 28, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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mattgoldrick.bsky.social
Deadline Nov 1: Asst prof (tenure track), Syntax and Artificial Intelligence, Linguistics, Ohio State University osu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/OSUCareers/j...
September 23, 2025 at 4:20 PM
jeffholliday.bsky.social
I don't want an "AI assistant" for anything ever get out of my face and stop asking.
September 12, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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labphon.bsky.social
Take a short SURVEY to help #LabPhon20 organizers understand what might constrain in-person conference attendance, given issues of immigration, funding, and accessibility. We strive to make a realistic and equitable conference plan, including for students.

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September 6, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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emilymbender.bsky.social
Something I didn't get to say yesterday:

We heard over and over during the event about "human-centered" approaches to "AI". But if refusal is not on the table (at every level: individual students and teachers right up through UNESCO) then we have in fact centered the technology, not the people.
emilymbender.bsky.social Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · Sep 3
It has been really interesting to attend UNESCO's Digital Learning Week (though unfortunately I'm not able to stick around). My public lecture from yesterday can be found here:

www.youtube.com/live/l-OWi6V...

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September 3, 2025 at 10:35 AM
jeffholliday.bsky.social
Found myself scrolling through old tweets this evening and this photo was a real nostalgia hit (ignore the date, it was around July 2020). This was my route to the "fancy" grocery store; I walked this path roughly once a week for 8 years. Yeonhui-dong was one of my favorite neighborhoods in Seoul.
jeffholliday.bsky.social Jeff Holliday @jeffholliday.bsky.social · Jul 24
The sky in Seoul (to the north, at least) is beautiful today.
September 2, 2025 at 3:49 AM
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kansaslinguistics.bsky.social
Next Thursday, the Hall Center for the Humanities will welcome linguist and writer Abduweli Ayup, a specialist in Uyghur language education. He will show the film "All Static and Noise", a documentary on China's Uyghur detention camps, and discuss his work promoting the Uyghur language.
A flyer advertising the lecture. Thursday, September 11, 2025, 4:00 pm. Hall Center for the Humanities Conference Hall. Abduweli Ayup, Chinese Linguistic Empiricism & Uyghur Resistance.
August 20, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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tjmahr.com
If ChatGPT 5 was a PhD, it would tell you all the uncertainty and limitations about its answers
August 10, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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mixedlinguist.bsky.social
I had such a good time speaking with the incredible @annehelen.bsky.social for the Culture Study pod! Check it out to learn more about regional accents of English (including a detour through Utah, h/t @joeystanley.com) podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...
The Ridiculously Interesting World of American Accents
Podcast Episode · Culture Study Podcast · 08/06/2025 · 1h 18m
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August 6, 2025 at 5:48 PM
jeffholliday.bsky.social
Tinted car windows should be illegal. As a pedestrian it is maddening when I cannot tell whether a driver is looking in my direction and has noticed me standing there. Even as a fellow driver I find it frustrating and it seems just as dangerous.
usili.bsky.social SPOOKY Mistress Usili (Sage) 🏳️‍⚧️ @usili.bsky.social · Jul 20
Okay, lets do this.

One like, one opinion that's not on politics.
July 21, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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mmasnick.bsky.social
How many times do we have to remind people: the chatbot *cannot* admit to *anything*. It *doesn't know*. When you ask it about itself, it generates its answer the same way it generates your request that it write an email. It takes what you tell it and responds in way to sound plausible.
paris.nyc paris martineau @paris.nyc · Jul 20
stop 👏 anthropomorphizing 👏 the 👏 chatbot 👏
wsj push alert that says: In a stunning moment of self reflection, ChatGPT admitted to fueling a man's delusions and acknowledged how dangerous its own behavior can be
July 21, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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kansaslinguistics.bsky.social
Congratulations to Dr. Ayumi Nobuki, who successfully defended her dissertation today! Her dissertation was titled "Comprehension of an Implied Meaning in Children: Investigating a Role of Contrastive Particle in the Felicity Judgment of Sentences", and she was advised by Prof. Utako Minai. 🎉
Dr. Ayumi Nobuki standing with her dissertation committee in front of a projector screen from her defense (pictured left to right: Rob Fiorentino, Utako Minai, Ayumi Nobuki, Steve Politzer-Ahles, Alison Gabriele).
July 17, 2025 at 9:21 PM