Laurel Brehm

Milk Duds: a candy so gross that even the mouse raiding your office candy supply will decide it's just not worth it.

Deadline Nov 2: Asst prof (tenure track), cognitive psych, dept psych, Colorado state univ csusystem.wd12.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/fortco...

Significant news in the ongoing dismantling of NSF. Fewer and fewer left to direct an agency whose decisions on what to fund (or even whether to use their budget at all) increasingly reflect the administration's political priorities rather than the prioritization of investigator-initiated research.

The phonological crystalline entity is back, this time in typst, and parameterized, so you can mess with the angles if you want: typst.app/project/rP23...

The 3yo, frustratedly: ‘I have too many thoughts in my mouth’

Wordbank, my lab's open database of children's vocabulary development, has a new home. There's a new website, a new data release, and wordbankr is back on CRAN. A few details 🧵 wordbank.stanford.edu/

hey linguists: what resources do you wish existed to make syntax pedagogy better?

The Stanford Black Academic Development Lab invites applications for a one-year Academic Staff Research position for a PhD-level scholar specializing in Afrocentric education, Elementary English Language Arts curriculum design, and Black liberation pedagogy. careersearch.stanford.edu/hcmUI/Candid...

This hits too close to home!

Review starts today for our assistant professor position in developmental psychology! Get those apps in 🐊

Which lexical set item do you most want to eat/drink. SQUARE for me. @adamanlx.bsky.social ?

Coming up in 2.5 hours: how can language revitalization continue when folks are away from their traditional territories? Come hear from Tamara Aisake about Rotuman language circles from the diaspora! Today, October 13, 10am Pacific - free and online: bit.ly/stories-from...

Our Speech and Hearing Sciences department is hiring a tenure-track assistant professor. Come work with me! careers-usu.icims.com/jobs/10775/j...

We are hiring! University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Linguistics is looking for a sociolinguist (Assistant Professor rank) specializing in variation and language contact. More info here: go.hawaii.edu/D7R

@heidilorimor.bsky.social a good one for you

Speech error otd (me speaking): How much heterogeneity in the scan paths are there?

Prop. 38 in California is a scam claiming to be about funding science/medical research on major disease but is really designed to funnel billions of $$ of taxpayer money into one unnamed institution. VOTE NO ON PROP. 38. See votenoonprop38.org for more. (reposted with typo corrected)

www.cell.com/trends/neuro...

Just got word an amazing contract is going away in the new year because google’s pivot to AI has nerfed the organization’s income. Anyone need a professional fact-checker for, well, anything? Looking to fill gaps in availability at the end of the year and over the holidays.

Still can’t quite believe they blew up mathematics as a PR stunt to distract from a 40% revenue miss

Deadline Nov 30: Asst prof, socioling and/or phonology, English, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo www.higheredjobs.com/faculty/deta...

Is it “torment nexuses” or “torment nexi”?

I don’t know that we have made it clear enough to the general public/international community how the NSF is just…not funding social and behavioral science research anymore? Like?

🚨 TT Job Alert 🚨 Florida is hiring a new TT asst prof in developmental psychology! Area/age open, early/middle childhood preferred. Come for the gators, stay for the awesome colleagues 🐊 Apply here (deadline 10/15): explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/54...

Soon

me looking at the same data with someone who does elicitation a lot them: we should ask about this! me: we should do a follow-up experiment! #linguistics

We’re hiring! Join my group at BCBL in San Sebastián for a funded 4-year PhD on how the brain learns and processes an additional language. MEG · speech modelling · Python · LLMs Deadline: 8 November 2026 www.bcbl.eu/eu/phd-posit...

This group doesn’t seem to have included sociolinguists or phoneticians, but relevant to both 🐦🐦

🖐️'Seeing hand gestures’ early beginnings improves predictions of upcoming utterance meaning' From Marlijn ter Bekke, Lina van Otterdijk, Linda Drijvers & @judithholler.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #PsychSciSky

the main tradeoff of going to grad school isn't money or prestige. that would be laughable. the main reason to do it is so you can ruthlessly pick apart movies that touch on your area of subject expertise

The IceCube neutrino detector has won the 2026 Nobel Prize in physics. The Trump administration has proposed slashing its budget in half in 2027.

what kind of linguistics research will we be doing? come find my lab in the UCSB library plaza and drop in to do a study then and there! (the ducks are the participant prizes). Mondays 2-4:30, Tuesdays 10-4:45, and Fridays 10-3:00.

(knocks on door) "have you heard that a family of three random raccoons has endorsed Chancleta in his campaign for something?" (aggressively hands homeowner a flyer) "Do you have a plan to vote? TELL ME THE PLAN"

but he can't win whatever he's trying to win without your help. Chancleta's opponents, whoever they may be, have -- or may have -- the support of Wicked Special Interests who probably put their seats back on airplanes whenever they want. Donate here and stand with Chancleta for something or other

🚨 ENDORSEMENT ALERT 🚨 Chancleta has been endorsed by a family of three random raccoons who saw him from outside. One of them even stood on our patio chair on two legs, like a person. This is incredible news for Sandal's campaign to represent whatever it is he is running for.

Are you a student, new graduate, or early in your career? Under the LSA's new income-based dues, if you make less than $100K, your membership just got more affordable, so you can stay connected to your field without the financial strain. Join or renew today! www.lsadc.org/membership  #Linguistics

What’s role of fun in linguistics? Do you do linguistics/language research where you collect data from people? Looking for language researchers across subfields to do a short survey about how they think about the role of fun in collecting data! Survey here: ucsb.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Many strong Elman Prize candidates are never nominated simply because no one thought to do it. Please repost! Your share might reach the colleague who writes the letter. Deadline: Nov 18 👇

Attention everyone I know! Perfectly accurate, no notes. (Forwarded to me; ultimate source unclear.)