What do you like to #eat? What #meals do you struggle with?
We are looking for people (16 years and older) to tell us!
We especially want to know if you have #DLD (Developmental Language Disorder) or have always found talking and listening tricky.
cityunilondon.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
Yesterday I returned from @interspeech.bsky.social. I had an amazing time learning new things, meeting old and new friends 😍 But admittedly 1 of the major highlights was receiving the ISCA Fellow plaque - it means the world to me 🥰
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 👇
Nominations are open for the Jeffrey L. Elman Prize!
The prize honors mid-career cognitive scientists whose work shows scientific excellence and a real commitment to community building.
Deadline: Nov 18 🗓️
Details and how to nominate: cognitivesciencesociety.org/elman-prize/#CogSci#Award
#COLING2027 has joined forces with #EACL2027 and #NAACL2027 for the call for tutorials!
📢Joint Call for Tutorial Proposals (EACL/NAACL/COLING) 2027
🗓️Submission deadline: Friday, 2 October 2026
📝Submit via softconf: softconf.com/p/eacl-tutor...
🔗Full call here: 2027.coling-iccl.org/calls/tutori...
📢Call for Expressions of Interest: COLING 2027 Tutorials
Tutorial chairs @microth.bsky.social and I are inviting expressions of interest for tutorials to be held at #COLING2027 in Macau in all areas of CL, NLP and related disciplines, in the categories 🚀cutting-edge, 🌱introductory, and 🤝community.
On May 8, we started a crowdfunding campaign to develop an app to live caption people with speech impairment to improve their quality of life and participation in society.
Since then we have received many supportive msgs from potential users, their family&friends, clinicians, speech therapists.
This app clearly fills a large need.
I feel humble that already almost 350 people have donated their money to our project, totalling more than 16,000 euros. But we need more to help so many people both Dutch and internationally to regain their position in society. They have a right!
And you can help, and I hope you will. Through donating of course: www.supporttudelft.nl/project/veel...
but even more: through giving exposure to our campaign and help us spread the word so that more people with speech impairments can be reached and helped.
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De gasprijzen gaan door het dak en we hebben een watertekort. Toch stampen techmiljardairs als Elon Musk en Jeff Bezos stroomslurpende datacenters uit de grond.
⛔ We moeten nu de pauzeknop indrukken en de bouw van nieuwe datacenters stoppen!
Teken de petitie 👇 www.fossielvrij.nl/stop-datacenters
Elk incident met een moslim wordt direct opgeblazen als maatgevend voor 'de' moslim. Maar als een dronken Nederlandse jongere een dodelijke ravage aanricht, roept niemand dat 'de Nederlander' een probleem heeft. Meten met twee maten is een nationale sport geworden. #worldpride#amsterdam
On my way back from a live interview on Dutch national radio @omroepmax.bsky.social about our app for live captioning of people with a speech impairment and already seeing heart-warming reactions, support, and donations from people to our project www.supporttudelft.nl/project/veel... 😍
We're hiring a Research Assistant (Dutch, 32h/wk) in Nijmegen!
• Lab exp. (VR, EEG, Motion Capture)
• Annotating multimodal speech & gesture data
• Starts between 1 Nov 2026 and 31 Jan 2027
• Ideal for grads in Psych, Ling, CogSci & related fields
Apply by 15 Sep: www.mpi.nl/career-educa...
On my way to @tudelfteemcs.bsky.social for my inaugural address as full professor of Inclusive Speech Communication:
"Diversity is a given. Inclusion should also be."
As a young girl from the Achterhoek, I never believed this day was even possible. Life is full of surprises ❤️
"Twee mannen met spraakproblemen kloppen aan bij een hoogleraar uit Groenlo." klinkt als het begin van een grap, maar dat was het niet! Een crowd-funding actie was geboren.
www.gelderlander.nl/oost-gelre/o...
“Van de 10 doelpunten van het NLds elftal werden er 9 door zwarte spelers gemaakt. Toch ontwaakten zij met een dubbele kater: van de gemiste strafschoppen én van bakken racisme en haat.
Was hun kleur tijdens het succes goed genoeg om Oranje te dragen, nu waren ze het tenue opeens onwaardig.”
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Why I love my job as a university professor? Getting to work work so many fun and intelligent people. Meet the Delft Inclusive Speech Communication Lab at @tudelfteemcs.bsky.social and our students 🥰
And that's a wrap on #GITT2026 Thanks to all the wonderful people for attending, our brilliant keynotes and presenters for sharing their insights, and our sponsors for making this happen. See you at the reception! 🥂 (and maybe next year? 😉)
Great fun to be at @gitt-workshop.bsky.social - thanks so much for having me!
And lovely summary of my talk!
Credits where credits are due: I came up with the banger "speech technology is not inclusive but can be used to make society more inclusive" due to the interesting talks in the morning 😀
After a lovely lunch break with lively discussion, our second keynote of the day, @odettes.bsky.social now presenting on inclusive speech technology at #GITT2026 🤩
Super proud of our crowd-funding campaign for a live captioning app for people with a speech impairment, which is now featured in a wonderful news article of our faculty EEMCS @tudelfteemcs.bsky.social at TU Delft
www.tudelft.nl/en/2026/eemc...
Wat zou jij doen als een app je het mogelijk zou maken om eindelijk weer goed te kunnen communiceren? 🍺
www.gelderlander.nl/land-van-cui...
Help mee aan onze crowd-funding actie om een app te maken voor live ondertiteling van mensen met een spraakstoornis!
www.supporttudelft.nl/project/veel...
6 years ago, I started asking a question that political science had largely ignored: how & why do women get involved in PRR parties as grassroots members?
Today, my 1st book proposes an answer. Grassroots Women in the Populist Radical Right is now out online with OUP:
academic.oup.com/book/62754
Did you know that more than 400,000 people in NL alone have a speech impairment and have problems communicating?
We started a crowdfunding campaign to build an app to help them!
Donate & help people with a speech impairment to fully participate in society 😍
www.supporttudelft.nl/project/veel...
5 years after our 1st paper showing that speech recognition (ASR) performance disparities exist for different Dutch speaker groups, we show that this is still(!) the case for state-of-the-art company-developed ASR systems.
ASR systems are still not inclusive!
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
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?
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...
Yes! De dagen worden langer én de voorjaarsvakantie staat voor de deur! 😃 Bij OERRR vind je de allerleukste tips voor kinderactiviteiten (zoals lammetjes kijken!), DIY’s, voorjaarsroutes en nog veel meer inspiratie voor het hele gezin! 🌸 www.natuurmonumenten.nl/kinderen/voo...
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?
Academic publishing is broken due to for-profit actors. Time to explore alternatives as researchers → A Diamond Open Access conference, Feb 5-6, 2026 in Nijmegen NL.
Free registration (limited seats): horizondiamond.nl
Let's build a sustainable publishing infrastructure together.
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...
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"
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