lingproof

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

[lingproof @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: a pool of volunteer proofreaders who are confident in English and can help their peers! 🧵

[Stuart K Watson @ChimpsAhoi]

This is super helpful stuff!

[Aryaman Arora @aryaman2020]

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 https://t.co/no3TweuD0h

[Miriam Butt @xenamutt]

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 @SimonKirby]

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. https://t.co/ORkPWpBZmi

[Wendy Elvira-García @wendy_elvira]

#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...

[Michael C. Frank @mcxfrank]

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: https://t.co/PE61fbQiND

[Simon Kirby @SimonKirby]

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!
https://t.co/l3BnFcuawM

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

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 https://t.co/MoHUVohqQ8

[Gretchen McCulloch now at @gretchenmcc.bsky.social @GretchenAMcC]

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.

[Ted Gibson, Language Lab MIT @LanguageMIT]

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)

https://t.co/LrUMGJ5fFK

[Michael C. Frank @mcxfrank]

Open Science in Developmental Science, a new submitted preprint with @TamisLeMondaNYU and @Gen_Pov: https://t.co/LlNO2gHG0e

We argue for a broad view of open science that goes beyond any particular policy.

[Carmen Saldana @Hatorada]

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 https://t.co/aO3UH0D7Xj

[Jonas Nölle @[email protected] @jonasnoelle]

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: https://t.co/t7feCmNJbb
Pls RT and share with your students/postdocs.

[lingproof @LProofreading]

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 @CHavergalTHE]

Linguistics scholars offer free proofreading for academic papers written by colleagues who aren’t native English speakers https://t.co/b0LeUZecgt via @PolaLem

[Peter Suber (@[email protected]) @petersuber]

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."
https://t.co/b9aTEfEJVI

[Instituto de Lingüística @ILinguistica]

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

[adam morgan (same handle at oo-blay eye-skay) @adumbmoron]

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/
https://t.co/03hfNAohbO

#psycholinguistics #understudiedLanguages #nungon

[lingproof @LProofreading]

When? Now! We will be running this pilot program for 6 months! (5/5)

[lingproof @LProofreading]

🚨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 @glossapsycholx]

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 https://t.co/7sNAZmGXee.

[lingproof @LProofreading]

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)