Will #GITT2026 be worth it? If our brilliant keynotes are anything to go by...😉 Introducing @odettes.bsky.social Full Professor of Inclusive Speech Communication at 🇳🇱 Delft University of Technology. Human & automatic speech, combining technical x ethical x societal, just how we like it! Excited yet?
📢 PhD position in the NeuroAI of Language
Why can LLMs predict brain activity so well? We're hiring a PhD student to find out -- AI interpretability meets neuroimaging
Deadline March 20
Please RT 🙏
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mpi.nl/career-education/vacancies/vacancy/fully-funded-4-year-phd-position-neuroai-language
Congratulations, Dr. Patrick!!
Illustration of a small black cat with large white eyes sitting on a grassy field. The background is a textured sky blending bluish-gray tones with abstract warm orange shapes layered across it. The text above reads: “It’s almost never about being fully ready. It’s mostly about being brave enough to try and choose courage anyway.”
The new single from my old-time favourite band U2 "American Obituary" playing on my favourite rock radio station @kinkpuntnl.bsky.social while working on a super fun paper for my favourite conference @interspeech.bsky.social
Me: 🤩
Voor een artikel over ‘tweelingentaal’ zijn we op zoek naar (ouders van) tweelingen of meerlingen die daarover kunnen vertellen. Ben jij de helft van een tweeling en hadden jullie vroeger een eigen taaltje dat alleen jullie tweeën begrepen? We horen het graag: c.spotler.com/ct/m12/k1/K99...
🔬 Speech Science Sunday
The Voder at the World's Fair
A thread 🧵
Cartoon. Person says to other person „We invented a robot that answers questions.“, adding, „we just have to feed it 10 baby giraffes a day“. The other person asks „But it answers the questions correctly?“ Person responds „Oh my goodness, no. No no no no no.“ By Aram J. French Appropriated due to missing alt text
The time line cleanser I didn't know I needed 😍
Is it the case that deadlines always clash with other urgent, time-consuming, last-minute tasks or am I simply more aware of those many urgent, time-consuming, last-minute tasks when I am also facing deadlines?
Over 100 confirmed visitors to this conference, and there is still room to join for next week! Nijmegen, NL, 5-6 Feb
Headline: "Scientists discover emperor penguin colony in Antarctica using satellite images"
Yesterday it was cows using tools, today its penguins using satellite imagery.
Are you a PhD student or ECR in language, gender & sexuality? Join me (an ed. of Bloomsbury Studies in Queer Linguistics book series) and Lexi Webster (an ed. of Gender & Language journal) for a FREE @lgas-baal.bsky.social online seminar on publishing (2pm 18 Feb) docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
📣2 Feb: 4th Dutch Speech Tech Day!
Theme: "Crossing the Lines: Academia, Industry, and the Future of Knowledge"
🌟Keynote: @davidvanleeuwen.nl
Network with >100 likeminded people!
🌟Register by 26 Jan:
www.eventbrite.com/e/4th-dutch-...
More info: sites.google.com/view/dutchsp...
Anthropomorphizing language can be cute when applied to your favorite car, but it helps to muddy the discourse when applied to tech sold as "AI". New from me & @nannainie.bsky.social on @techpolicypress.bsky.social -- how to spot & revise away from anthropomorphizing language applied to "AI"
It's snowing in the Netherlands! So time to make a snow angel 😂❄️
The CfPs for LavLang32 at Edinburgh is now OPEN! A reminder of our stellar lineup:
• Dr. Nikki Lane (Duke)
• Dr. Kevin Guyan (UoE)
• Prof. Erez Levon (Bern)
• Dr. Stamatina Katsiveli (American College of Greece)
• Dr. Eddie Ungless (UoE)
Submit a paper here: lavlang32.ppls.ed.ac.uk?page_id=231
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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En ook dit is ons Nederland 💞
In Son & Breugel, bij Eindhoven
#omziennaarelkaar #zokanhetook #ookNederland
🚨Job Alert plz RT!
Johns Hopkins Psych & Brain Sciences is looking for a new colleague using behavioral or computational approaches to study cognition!
We are excited about many areas of (esp higher) cognition in human adults, children, or nonhuman animals
Open-rank
apply.interfolio.com/178146
Over neurodiversiteit...
(IG @autismservicegroup / @ADHD_today)
www.autismservices.group.
Goed e onderzoeksjournalistiek van @mareonline.nl. Daar kunnen landelijke media nog wat van leren. www.mareonline.nl/opinie/de-ba...
On the right, a kangaroo standing in grassland drinking a cup of tea. On the left, text on navy background saying 'Call for Papers', with Interspeech 2026 logo above and website interspeech2026.org below.
📢 Call for papers! Join us in Sydney for #Interspeech2026, 27 September – 1 October 2026. Paper submission portal opens 17 Jan and closes 25 Feb. See you there! interspeech2026.org/en-AU/pages/...
Wow.... this is so enlightening! Thank you!
View from your office onto Giessen and surrounding villages.
Please repost! I am looking for a PhD candidate in the area of Computational Cognitive Neuroscience to start in early 2026.
The position is funded as part of the Excellence Cluster "The Adaptive Mind" at @jlugiessen.bsky.social.
Please apply here until Nov 25:
www.uni-giessen.de/de/ueber-uns...
Oh my, that is absolutely amazing. My mom was a great knitter. This would have been an absolutely amazing job for her!
Photograph of researchers at their benches in the custom-built molecular biology labs of the Max Planck Institute in Nijmegen, with green trees of the forest outside visible through large windows in the background.
Come join us for a 4-year PhD on effects of rare gene disruptions involved in speech disorder, investigated in human neuronal models (via gene-editing, tissue culture, brain organoids, high-res microscopy, transcriptomics, epigenomics).
More info: www.mpi.nl/imprs-phd-fe...
#AcademicJobs #PhDJobs
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Interested in doing a #PhD in #SpeechPerception and/or #LanguageLearning in a top research center? @bcbl.bsky.social
If yes, there's still time to send me your materials!
