Matthew Hunt
@mchlinguistics.bsky.social
Lecturer in Sociolinguistics in Southampton, with special interests in perception, accent bias, socio-semantics, language and the police.
Bit late because I've not been on bluesky much recently, but this is my latest article in Journal of Sociolinguistics!
It's hopefully the first of many papers for me at the intersection of sociolinguistics and criminology/victimology, so stay tuned.
It's hopefully the first of many papers for me at the intersection of sociolinguistics and criminology/victimology, so stay tuned.
What does fear sound like? 👂
@mchlinguistics.bsky.social explores how pitch variation indexes femininity in domestic abuse victimisation. Those who don't fit the "expected" sound of fear are perceived as less scared and less rational in heteronormative relationships.
🔗 Read here:
@mchlinguistics.bsky.social explores how pitch variation indexes femininity in domestic abuse victimisation. Those who don't fit the "expected" sound of fear are perceived as less scared and less rational in heteronormative relationships.
🔗 Read here:
November 6, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Bit late because I've not been on bluesky much recently, but this is my latest article in Journal of Sociolinguistics!
It's hopefully the first of many papers for me at the intersection of sociolinguistics and criminology/victimology, so stay tuned.
It's hopefully the first of many papers for me at the intersection of sociolinguistics and criminology/victimology, so stay tuned.
I thought my brain was imploding today while marking a student essay in which the student claimed that Labov had collected some perception data using extracts of Jamaican English in Battersea Park in the 80s. I was convinced that the student had made it up, but after a quick search of the source...
February 4, 2025 at 3:14 PM
I thought my brain was imploding today while marking a student essay in which the student claimed that Labov had collected some perception data using extracts of Jamaican English in Battersea Park in the 80s. I was convinced that the student had made it up, but after a quick search of the source...
Reposted by Matthew Hunt
Concluded over Christmas you don’t like your job? Well we’ve got the perfect New Year, new you! Come and work with us at More in Common, we’re recruiting a couple of new roles at various levels; drop Ed a line if you’d like to find out more.
Last few days to apply to work with us as a Research Associate / Research Manager at MIC UK - Deadline Sunday evening! more-in-common.jobs.personio.com/job/1853035?...
Feel free to reach out if you have any questions about the role
Feel free to reach out if you have any questions about the role
UK Research Associate / Research Manager | Jobs at More in Common
More in Common is a research agency working across the US, UK, Germany, France, Poland, Spain and Brazil to tackle polarisation and division. More in Common leads and supports initiatives to build mor...
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January 2, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Concluded over Christmas you don’t like your job? Well we’ve got the perfect New Year, new you! Come and work with us at More in Common, we’re recruiting a couple of new roles at various levels; drop Ed a line if you’d like to find out more.
My father-in-law just sent me for my second trip of Christmas day down to the compost bin at the end of his garden, which can only mean I'm gaining his approval.
December 25, 2024 at 12:31 PM
My father-in-law just sent me for my second trip of Christmas day down to the compost bin at the end of his garden, which can only mean I'm gaining his approval.
I was just made aware of the UK Government Office for Science postdoc scheme: raeng.org.uk/ukicpostdoc
More specifically, people of a #linguistics persuasion might be interested in topic 14: Integrating multimodality and context to automatic language analysis.
Please share with relevant people!
More specifically, people of a #linguistics persuasion might be interested in topic 14: Integrating multimodality and context to automatic language analysis.
Please share with relevant people!
UK IC Postdoctoral Research Fellowships
raeng.org.uk
December 5, 2024 at 1:31 PM
I was just made aware of the UK Government Office for Science postdoc scheme: raeng.org.uk/ukicpostdoc
More specifically, people of a #linguistics persuasion might be interested in topic 14: Integrating multimodality and context to automatic language analysis.
Please share with relevant people!
More specifically, people of a #linguistics persuasion might be interested in topic 14: Integrating multimodality and context to automatic language analysis.
Please share with relevant people!
Reposted by Matthew Hunt
Computational Linguistics job (Assistant Prof level, permanent) at our lovely linguistics department in Queen Mary. We're starting a new MSc in Lings and AI. Deadline Jan 5th, interviews late February. linguistlist.org/issues/35-33... #linguistics please repost!
LINGUIST List 35.3363 Jobs: Lecturer in Computational Linguistics, Queen Mary University of London
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November 27, 2024 at 4:35 PM
Computational Linguistics job (Assistant Prof level, permanent) at our lovely linguistics department in Queen Mary. We're starting a new MSc in Lings and AI. Deadline Jan 5th, interviews late February. linguistlist.org/issues/35-33... #linguistics please repost!
So I recently saw a post doc advertised as being nearly 3 years, but at 0.9 FTE. My immediate reaction was that this felt like someone who'd got a chunk of grant money, and was trying to stretch it out by underpaying a postdoc, but is this normal in some countries?
Western European, not UK.
Western European, not UK.
November 21, 2024 at 6:55 PM
So I recently saw a post doc advertised as being nearly 3 years, but at 0.9 FTE. My immediate reaction was that this felt like someone who'd got a chunk of grant money, and was trying to stretch it out by underpaying a postdoc, but is this normal in some countries?
Western European, not UK.
Western European, not UK.
Reposted by Matthew Hunt
The call for the ESRC-SCDTP Postdoctoral Fellowship funding is now open. It would be great to receive applications for the linguistics pathway at the University of Southampton. More details are here: southcoastdtp.ac.uk/funding/esrc... #postdoc #funding
ESRC SCDTP Postdoctoral Fellowship Scheme -
ESRC SCDTP is opening calls fot Discover the ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowship (PDF) scheme, designed to propel early career researchers to new heights. Explore opportunities for publication, network expan...
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November 20, 2024 at 5:18 PM
The call for the ESRC-SCDTP Postdoctoral Fellowship funding is now open. It would be great to receive applications for the linguistics pathway at the University of Southampton. More details are here: southcoastdtp.ac.uk/funding/esrc... #postdoc #funding
Lidl have started doing cronuts, so it's game over for me
November 20, 2024 at 7:17 PM
Lidl have started doing cronuts, so it's game over for me
Lidl have started doing cronuts, so it's game over for me
November 20, 2024 at 7:17 PM
Lidl have started doing cronuts, so it's game over for me
TW: racism, SA
Alcohol banned from France team gatherings - www.bbc.com/sport/rugby-...
If the only thing stopping you from saying racist things and/or r*ping someone is not consuming alcohol, then perhaps alcohol is not the problem...
Alcohol banned from France team gatherings - www.bbc.com/sport/rugby-...
If the only thing stopping you from saying racist things and/or r*ping someone is not consuming alcohol, then perhaps alcohol is not the problem...
France rugby chiefs ban alcohol at team gatherings
The French Rugby Federation bans players from drinking alcohol during national team gatherings to help improve off-field discipline.
www.bbc.com
November 20, 2024 at 7:17 PM
TW: racism, SA
Alcohol banned from France team gatherings - www.bbc.com/sport/rugby-...
If the only thing stopping you from saying racist things and/or r*ping someone is not consuming alcohol, then perhaps alcohol is not the problem...
Alcohol banned from France team gatherings - www.bbc.com/sport/rugby-...
If the only thing stopping you from saying racist things and/or r*ping someone is not consuming alcohol, then perhaps alcohol is not the problem...
TW: racism, SA
Alcohol banned from France team gatherings - www.bbc.com/sport/rugby-...
If the only thing stopping you from saying racist things and/or r*ping someone is not consuming alcohol, then perhaps alcohol is not the problem...
Alcohol banned from France team gatherings - www.bbc.com/sport/rugby-...
If the only thing stopping you from saying racist things and/or r*ping someone is not consuming alcohol, then perhaps alcohol is not the problem...
France rugby chiefs ban alcohol at team gatherings
The French Rugby Federation bans players from drinking alcohol during national team gatherings to help improve off-field discipline.
www.bbc.com
November 20, 2024 at 7:17 PM
TW: racism, SA
Alcohol banned from France team gatherings - www.bbc.com/sport/rugby-...
If the only thing stopping you from saying racist things and/or r*ping someone is not consuming alcohol, then perhaps alcohol is not the problem...
Alcohol banned from France team gatherings - www.bbc.com/sport/rugby-...
If the only thing stopping you from saying racist things and/or r*ping someone is not consuming alcohol, then perhaps alcohol is not the problem...
I had a great time today at a local sixth form colleague talking all things English Language & Linguistics, including one my favourite topics [pictured]: the amn't gap! (via a clip from The Traitors).
November 20, 2024 at 7:17 PM
I had a great time today at a local sixth form colleague talking all things English Language & Linguistics, including one my favourite topics [pictured]: the amn't gap! (via a clip from The Traitors).
I had a great time today at a local sixth form colleague talking all things English Language & Linguistics, including one my favourite topics [pictured]: the amn't gap! (via a clip from The Traitors).
November 20, 2024 at 7:17 PM
I had a great time today at a local sixth form colleague talking all things English Language & Linguistics, including one my favourite topics [pictured]: the amn't gap! (via a clip from The Traitors).
Agreed - Bluesky doesn't currently feel like an echo chamber, and frankly if it did, it'd still be preferable to what you get exposed to in the other place. I'd take echoes over overt racism and videos of murders every time.
I don't think of Bluesky as an echo chamber. I see different opinions here, and I've seen a few 'terrible accounts' jumping on certain topics just for angry engagement, but I don't think that type of angry engagement works well here, so I really don't see much of it.
www.ft.com/content/6596...
www.ft.com/content/6596...
With Bluesky, the social media echo chamber is back in vogue
The great migration from Elon Musk’s X has seen users, especially progressives, retreat into one particular silo
www.ft.com
November 20, 2024 at 7:17 PM
Agreed - Bluesky doesn't currently feel like an echo chamber, and frankly if it did, it'd still be preferable to what you get exposed to in the other place. I'd take echoes over overt racism and videos of murders every time.
Agreed - Bluesky doesn't currently feel like an echo chamber, and frankly if it did, it'd still be preferable to what you get exposed to in the other place. I'd take echoes over overt racism and videos of murders every time.
I don't think of Bluesky as an echo chamber. I see different opinions here, and I've seen a few 'terrible accounts' jumping on certain topics just for angry engagement, but I don't think that type of angry engagement works well here, so I really don't see much of it.
www.ft.com/content/6596...
www.ft.com/content/6596...
With Bluesky, the social media echo chamber is back in vogue
The great migration from Elon Musk’s X has seen users, especially progressives, retreat into one particular silo
www.ft.com
November 20, 2024 at 7:17 PM
Agreed - Bluesky doesn't currently feel like an echo chamber, and frankly if it did, it'd still be preferable to what you get exposed to in the other place. I'd take echoes over overt racism and videos of murders every time.
Because I'm weak, I occasionally flick back to the old place to see how things are doing, and it's more hellish every time
November 20, 2024 at 7:17 PM
Because I'm weak, I occasionally flick back to the old place to see how things are doing, and it's more hellish every time
Because I'm weak, I occasionally flick back to the old place to see how things are doing, and it's more hellish every time
November 20, 2024 at 7:17 PM
Because I'm weak, I occasionally flick back to the old place to see how things are doing, and it's more hellish every time
One day I will look back at a paper currently under review at a journal and I won't notice a glaring error in the abstract. But today is not that day.
November 20, 2024 at 7:17 PM
One day I will look back at a paper currently under review at a journal and I won't notice a glaring error in the abstract. But today is not that day.
I spent the last 3 days at the interdisciplinary social science conference In_Equality hosted in Konstanz. A super eye opening experience to see the work of economists, political scientists, sociologists, ecologists and more (alongside a few linguists). Lesson 1: my data is rather small...
November 20, 2024 at 7:17 PM
I spent the last 3 days at the interdisciplinary social science conference In_Equality hosted in Konstanz. A super eye opening experience to see the work of economists, political scientists, sociologists, ecologists and more (alongside a few linguists). Lesson 1: my data is rather small...
Just submitted my first manuscript on number 1) below - very happy to have it off my desk and onto someone else's for a bit!
1) To what extent is accentism an issue in domestic violence policing? (Using experimental methods), and 2) how do incels use scientific vocabulary to construct their identities?
Doing what I can to only look at the bleakest topics.
Doing what I can to only look at the bleakest topics.
Bluesky academics, let's get to know each other! Quote this & tell me: 1) a project you are working on & 2) an odd idea/theory you aren't working on but keep thinking about.
Here's mine:
- Whether we can have statehood without inhabitable land.
- The legal-philosophical symbolism in Wagner's Ring.
Here's mine:
- Whether we can have statehood without inhabitable land.
- The legal-philosophical symbolism in Wagner's Ring.
November 20, 2024 at 7:17 PM
Just submitted my first manuscript on number 1) below - very happy to have it off my desk and onto someone else's for a bit!
Oh pairwise comparisons, why do you undermine me so
November 20, 2024 at 7:17 PM
Oh pairwise comparisons, why do you undermine me so
I was minutes away from quitting my job because I was successfully fixing a uPVC door, but then I was defeated by my lack of the correct allen key. Fine, back to LaTeX I'll go.
November 20, 2024 at 7:17 PM
I was minutes away from quitting my job because I was successfully fixing a uPVC door, but then I was defeated by my lack of the correct allen key. Fine, back to LaTeX I'll go.
Mini Queen Mary Linguistics reunion in Brooklyn Heights!
November 20, 2024 at 7:17 PM
Mini Queen Mary Linguistics reunion in Brooklyn Heights!
Near miss with the visa waiver due to a holiday to Cuba in 2019. Had I gone there two years later I'd have been scuppered!
Several weeks too late for NWAV, I'm headed for NYC in early November for a week with an old school friend. Very excited for the stone I'll be putting on, as well as catching up with an old QMUL friend from my MA 😊
November 20, 2024 at 7:17 PM
Near miss with the visa waiver due to a holiday to Cuba in 2019. Had I gone there two years later I'd have been scuppered!