Sam Hellmuth

Monica Lethbridge, our first MSci Linguistics student, has secured a fully funded PhD with the SAINTS CDT @saints-cdt.bsky.social to research the safety of AI speech systems. She's the first linguist to join the programme. Learn more about SAINTS: www.york.ac.uk/study...

If you missed it yesterday, here is the new episode. Lots of new MLE research and more. bsky.app/profile/lexi...

100% of each sale goes straight to the Friends of the #LDV charity, or if you’d like to support their Corncrake fundraising campaign, books can be claimed as rewards – every penny counts with Aviva very generously matching each donation made 💰 communitiesfund.avivafoundation.org.uk/p/lower-derw...

🗣️"to believe that only STEM drives progress and economic growth reflects something wrong in education and our public culture, a remarkable degree of ignorance about how the world really works" #STEM #EconSky #AcademicSky

📣 Save the date: Friday 10th July 2026! This year's FREE and fully hybrid York English Language Toolkit CPD workshop for teachers of English Language A level is on Friday 10th July 2026 10.30am-4.30pm, with talks on Multicultural London English and more. Registration from April. Pass the word!

New postdoc position with the LEVANTE project! We're looking for someone with language development / reading knowledge to help work on our international adaptations of language assessments. Please forward to interested candidates

last few days to support Robyn if you would like to she has made a lot of effort doing this and we cannot thank her enough. her fundraising page is still open please give what you can. Thank you

Very happy to announce another article is out this week 🎉! This paper took some time to get from my PhD to here, but I'm so happy it has now found a home in SSLA: doi.org/10.1017/S027.... Special thanks to my supervisors and co-authors @samhellmuth.bsky.social and Leah Roberts.

First paper of 2026 with Rhys Sandow, @jwgrieve.bsky.social, and Rose Stamp! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

😯 Shuffalo, 0m 38s 🟡🟡🟡🟡 🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡 🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡 🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡 🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩 www.newyorker.com/puzzles-and-games-dept/shuffalo/2025/12/19

The new @lagbling.bsky.social website is looking very snazzy 👀 www.lagb.org.uk #linguistics

I’ve written a long blog here that comes out of various things that I’ve worked on with other people this term. It’s about accents... again! Sorry, not sorry. englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/pride-a...

Since January 2022, we (me, 93% Club & SS) have been working a project that tackles accent bias in Higher Education, focusing on the 'elite' institution where we're based. Today, we're launching the project website which brings together all our work: accentbias.ed.ac.uk

Hi @lner.co.uk - can you contact your rail replacement contractor asap and ask them to ensure the coaches parked along Knavesmire Road this morning do *not* leave their engines running while parked up please? There are kids and families at football matches having to breathe the fumes. Thanks!

A nice one for #EnglishLanguage A level #accents and #diversity @englangblog.bsky.social Source: BBC search.app/8PnGp

Today I made this plot (among other things)

The UCI Phonotactic Calculator: An online tool for computing phonotactic metrics. New work by my colleague Connor Mayer. link.springer.com/article/10.3...

@sustrans.bsky.social great trip this weekend 🌞 #BucketList

Only one month to go till York English Language Toolkit 2025! Friday 11th July 2025 10.00am-4.30pm englishlanguagetoolkit.york.ac.uk/workshops Registration link: bit.ly/yelt2025work...

We've just got a new episode in the can which will come out very soon. It's our annual preview of the @yorktoolkit.bsky.social teacher CPD event. Coming soon! Get signed up here if you haven't already: englishlanguagetoolkit.york.ac.uk/workshops

Please share widely: The dates for New Ways of Analyzing Variation 53 have changed to November 5-7, 2025, due to a late-breaking university calendar change. Abstracts due June 15. Visit us at nwav53.ling.lsa.umich.edu (also accessible via nwavconference dot org but BlueSky doesn't like redirects)

Yet another reason to use @ecosiasearch.bsky.social !

“Desperation has reached unspeakable levels. Mothers are boiling grass to feed their families. Children are suffering unbearable hunger, trauma, violence, and abandonment.” ~Karol Balfe CEO ActionAid Ireland Irish Examiner

Would 100% recommend this.

The University of York’s English Language Toolkit brings cutting-edge linguistic research into the sixth-form classroom, offering free resources, case studies, and CPD opportunities to inspire and support A-level English Language teachers. #NATE www.nate.org.uk/2025/05/01/l...

FREE registration for the 2025 York English English Language Toolkit is now open! Outline programme and registration link are at: englishlanguagetoolkit.york.ac.uk/workshops The workshop is fully hybrid, so join us in York or online! #linguistics #EnglishLanguage

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FREE registration for the 2025 York English English Language Toolkit is now open! Outline programme and registration link are at: englishlanguagetoolkit.york.ac.uk/workshops The workshop is fully hybrid, so join us in York or online! #linguistics #EnglishLanguage

We're hiring, so come join me in the number 1 Norwegian Study Centre in the WHOLE WORLD. We're looking broadly for an enthusiastic teacher in Contemporary British History (1750 - present), Sociology or The Arts and Creative Technologies. Link here - jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/asso...

The early bird fees for our online course on the Phonetics of Talk-in-Interaction are now available until May 2nd. The course is now half full and places are going fast! Looking forward to welcoming you for three days of phonetics and interactional analysis. york.ac.uk/phonetics-talk

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Want to know how language has changed in London? Devyani Sharma's Generations of London English Project, run at @qmullinguistics.bsky.social with the University of York at generationsoflondonenglish.org @samhellmuth.bsky.social @qmulhss.bsky.social @qmul.ac.uk #linguistics #london #langsky

We want to raise £30,000 towards a ‘Welcome To The Fringe: Palestine’ project, bringing artists from Palestine to Edinburgh to perform and participate in the biggest arts festival in the world. www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/welcome-to...

📣The CRC 1252 "Prominence in Language" is now advertising 12 PhD positions (2025-2028) in multiple different projects. The application deadline is January 17. Find more information below: sfb1252.uni-koeln.de/en/about-the...

I have undergrad sociolinguistics students who need survey participants for final projects. Please consider taking one or more of the following! 🧵 1. byu.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... 2. byu.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... 3. forms.gle/EHeodV1utDhX...

@englangblog.bsky.social some useful material here 👇

Christmas holiday reading sorted... @mythicalbritain.bsky.social

I wish someone had told me this before now! #rstats #linguistics

Call for Papers! Please spread the word. The next #englishsharedfutures will be in York, from July 3rd-5th. We've got lots of great events and special sessions planned, and warmly welcome submissions. englishsharedfutures.org/cfp #cfp

In just under 2 hours, tickets for this excellent conference - which no one in their right mind would call 'Ling in the North' - go on sale. Get 'em while you can!

👩‍🎓👨‍🎓Fully funded PhD position available to come work with me at @unioslo.bsky.social using iterative learning experiments to understand the evolution of sound symbolism. 🔴 Deadline is 12. Jan '24 ⏲️ Desired starting date is Mar/April '24 shorturl.at/7hLH0

Anika Gerfer (University of Münster) is looking for people with contacts to secondary schools in England for a study on accent perception. Her contact info is on the flyer, feel free to share! #Linguistics

Come work with me / us: two fully funded, 4-year PhD positions in sociophonetics. Starting 06/25. Let's go! 🚀⬇️ #sociophonetics #swissgerman #deutsch #schweizerdeutsch #soziolinguistik #soziophonetik

💥New: How to get started with academic Bluesky 👨‍💻 @nedpotter.bsky.social #AcademicSky #PhDSky

1) little by little: a comparative grammar of the intonation patterns of spoken Arabic dialects (I may be here a while) 2) I've promised myself I'll get to Brummie intonation before I retire (but it might be when I do..) #ProudBrummie

So, who all is here then?