John Beavers
@jbeavers.bsky.social
Father, Professor and Chair of Linguistics at The University of Texas at Austin, Editor of Language, a journal of the Linguistic Society of America, syntactician, semanticist, guitarist, politics junkie (he/him/his)
We are hiring! Come join us at UT Austin!
UT Austin Linguistics is hiring in computational linguistics!
Asst or Assoc.
We have a thriving group sites.utexas.edu/compling/ and a long proud history in the space. (For instance, fun fact, Jeff Elman was a UT Austin Linguistics Ph.D.)
faculty.utexas.edu/career/170793
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Asst or Assoc.
We have a thriving group sites.utexas.edu/compling/ and a long proud history in the space. (For instance, fun fact, Jeff Elman was a UT Austin Linguistics Ph.D.)
faculty.utexas.edu/career/170793
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UT Austin Computational Linguistics Research Group – Humans processing computers processing humans processing language
sites.utexas.edu
October 8, 2025 at 2:57 AM
We are hiring! Come join us at UT Austin!
Slightly diminish a band: The Beetles
Slightly diminish a band: Metallic
Slightly diminish a band: The Comically Hip
August 13, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Slightly diminish a band: The Beetles
Congrats to @vshirazy.bsky.social for winning a NSF GRFP! Venus is writing a fascinating honors thesis on Farsi complex predicates, and has long been my editorial assistant at Language. She's amazing, and I know she'll excel at her next adventure in the Linguistics PhD program at U. of Chicago!
April 10, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Congrats to @vshirazy.bsky.social for winning a NSF GRFP! Venus is writing a fascinating honors thesis on Farsi complex predicates, and has long been my editorial assistant at Language. She's amazing, and I know she'll excel at her next adventure in the Linguistics PhD program at U. of Chicago!
All these people having a problem with the ADS word of the year being “rawdog”, wait till they get a load of the word “sucks”!
January 12, 2025 at 6:18 AM
All these people having a problem with the ADS word of the year being “rawdog”, wait till they get a load of the word “sucks”!
I have to do cybersecurity training again. I have an idea: UT should send everyone an email with the subject line "CHECK THIS OUT!!1!" and the body is a long, ugly-ass link. If you click it it takes you to the training module and it becomes mandatory. If you don't click it, you don't have to do it.
November 21, 2023 at 11:07 PM
I have to do cybersecurity training again. I have an idea: UT should send everyone an email with the subject line "CHECK THIS OUT!!1!" and the body is a long, ugly-ass link. If you click it it takes you to the training module and it becomes mandatory. If you don't click it, you don't have to do it.
Back at UT at last, but it was an honor to spend three weeks at Rochester as the first Ivan A. Sag Fellow! What a fantastic group of faculty and grad students they have! For anyone interested, here're handouts and recordings for the Sag Lectures. sas.rochester.edu/cls/sag/curr...
November 5, 2023 at 8:53 PM
Back at UT at last, but it was an honor to spend three weeks at Rochester as the first Ivan A. Sag Fellow! What a fantastic group of faculty and grad students they have! For anyone interested, here're handouts and recordings for the Sag Lectures. sas.rochester.edu/cls/sag/curr...
Come present your research at the Texas Linguistics Society 2024! It's gonna be lit!
Submit your abstracts to *TLS2024*!
With a special session on computational methods in linguistics
Speakers: @kmahowald.bsky.social Zoey Liu and yours truly
tls.ling.utexas.edu
Deadline for submission: November 24, 2023
With a special session on computational methods in linguistics
Speakers: @kmahowald.bsky.social Zoey Liu and yours truly
tls.ling.utexas.edu
Deadline for submission: November 24, 2023
October 17, 2023 at 3:31 PM
Come present your research at the Texas Linguistics Society 2024! It's gonna be lit!
Did not have “brain-eating amoebas” on my bingo card.
September 22, 2023 at 1:21 AM
Did not have “brain-eating amoebas” on my bingo card.
Reposted by John Beavers
Ohio State Linguistics seeks to hire an Assistant Professor in language variation & change or sociolinguistics w/ a specialization in language & race or marginalized languages particularly African American English & language varieties arising through contact.
academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/25772
academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/25772
September 19, 2023 at 4:59 PM
Ohio State Linguistics seeks to hire an Assistant Professor in language variation & change or sociolinguistics w/ a specialization in language & race or marginalized languages particularly African American English & language varieties arising through contact.
academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/25772
academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/25772
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Come and join my department! Penn Linguistics invites applications for a tenure-track position in Syntax at the rank of Assistant Professor. Follow the link for details.
apply.interfolio.com/131974
apply.interfolio.com/131974
September 14, 2023 at 1:41 PM
Come and join my department! Penn Linguistics invites applications for a tenure-track position in Syntax at the rank of Assistant Professor. Follow the link for details.
apply.interfolio.com/131974
apply.interfolio.com/131974
Being someone who works on language and who edits a journal called Language I really hate the fact that one word I consistently misspell is "language".
September 14, 2023 at 6:36 PM
Being someone who works on language and who edits a journal called Language I really hate the fact that one word I consistently misspell is "language".
Reposted by John Beavers
University of Kentucky Linguistics is hiring for a syntactician!
Assistant Professor in Syntax
The Department of Linguistics in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, Kentucky seeks to fill a tenure-eligible faculty position at the Assistant Professor level...
ukjobs.uky.edu
September 6, 2023 at 2:46 PM
University of Kentucky Linguistics is hiring for a syntactician!
The Department of Linguistics at The University of Texas at Austin is hiring! We are seeking an Assistant or Associate Professor in the Study of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America. Click the here for details: apply.interfolio.com/131710
September 11, 2023 at 10:20 PM
The Department of Linguistics at The University of Texas at Austin is hiring! We are seeking an Assistant or Associate Professor in the Study of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America. Click the here for details: apply.interfolio.com/131710
Tomorrow I start my term as Chair of Linguistics at UT Austin, and in preparation I spent this summer retraining myself on email to be faster and more efficient. I'm not perfect at it, but I've gotten a lot better. And tonight I'm proud to say I got my inbox down to 0 for the first time in years.
September 1, 2023 at 2:35 AM
Tomorrow I start my term as Chair of Linguistics at UT Austin, and in preparation I spent this summer retraining myself on email to be faster and more efficient. I'm not perfect at it, but I've gotten a lot better. And tonight I'm proud to say I got my inbox down to 0 for the first time in years.
This looks ... a lot like Twitter.
August 26, 2023 at 11:13 PM
This looks ... a lot like Twitter.