Sam Hellmuth
@samhellmuth.bsky.social
languages & linguistics, mostly Arabic & mostly phonology, views my own, Prof @UniofYork [sæm ˈhɛlmʌθ] (she/her)
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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
accentbias.ed.ac.uk
November 10, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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
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!
October 12, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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
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Source: BBC
search.app/8PnGp
'Why I speak with a Yorkshire accent despite being born deaf'
Gladiators star Jodie Ounsley says it is one of the questions she gets asked the most.
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October 8, 2025 at 8:16 AM
A nice one for #EnglishLanguage A level #accents and #diversity @englangblog.bsky.social
Source: BBC
search.app/8PnGp
Source: BBC
search.app/8PnGp
Today I made this plot (among other things)
August 6, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Today I made this plot (among other things)
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The UCI Phonotactic Calculator: An online tool for computing phonotactic metrics. New work by my colleague Connor Mayer. link.springer.com/article/10.3...
The UCI Phonotactic Calculator: An online tool for computing phonotactic metrics - Behavior Research Methods
This paper presents the UCI Phonotactic Calculator (UCIPC), a new online tool for quantifying the occurrence of segments and segment sequences in a corpus. This tool has several advantages compared to...
link.springer.com
July 18, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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
July 13, 2025 at 4:29 PM
@sustrans.bsky.social great trip this weekend 🌞 #BucketList
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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...
Friday 11th July 2025 10.00am-4.30pm englishlanguagetoolkit.york.ac.uk/workshops
Registration link: bit.ly/yelt2025work...
The York English Language Toolkit - Workshops
FREE annual CPD workshops for teachers of English Language A level
englishlanguagetoolkit.york.ac.uk
June 11, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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...
Friday 11th July 2025 10.00am-4.30pm englishlanguagetoolkit.york.ac.uk/workshops
Registration link: bit.ly/yelt2025work...
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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
The York English Language Toolkit - Workshops
FREE annual CPD workshops for teachers of English Language A level
englishlanguagetoolkit.york.ac.uk
June 6, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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
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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)
Abstracts due June 15. Visit us at nwav53.ling.lsa.umich.edu (also accessible via nwavconference dot org but BlueSky doesn't like redirects)
UM | NWAV53
nwav53.ling.lsa.umich.edu
May 19, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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)
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 !
May 12, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Yet another reason to use @ecosiasearch.bsky.social !
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“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
~Karol Balfe CEO ActionAid Ireland
Irish Examiner
May 3, 2025 at 6:49 AM
“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
~Karol Balfe CEO ActionAid Ireland
Irish Examiner
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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...
Linguistic research and the classroom: the University of York’s English Language Toolkit - National Association for the Teaching of English
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 sup...
www.nate.org.uk
May 1, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Would 100% recommend this.
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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...
Linguistic research and the classroom: the University of York’s English Language Toolkit - National Association for the Teaching of English
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 sup...
www.nate.org.uk
May 1, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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...
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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
The workshop is fully hybrid, so join us in York or online!
#linguistics #EnglishLanguage
The York English Language Toolkit - Workshops
FREE annual CPD workshops for teachers of English Language A level
englishlanguagetoolkit.york.ac.uk
April 28, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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
The workshop is fully hybrid, so join us in York or online!
#linguistics #EnglishLanguage
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
The workshop is fully hybrid, so join us in York or online!
#linguistics #EnglishLanguage
The York English Language Toolkit - Workshops
FREE annual CPD workshops for teachers of English Language A level
englishlanguagetoolkit.york.ac.uk
April 28, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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
The workshop is fully hybrid, so join us in York or online!
#linguistics #EnglishLanguage
The York English Language Toolkit - Workshops
FREE annual CPD workshops for teachers of English Language A level
englishlanguagetoolkit.york.ac.uk
April 28, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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
The workshop is fully hybrid, so join us in York or online!
#linguistics #EnglishLanguage
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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...
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...
Jobs - The University of York
jobs.york.ac.uk
April 25, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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...
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...
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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
Looking forward to welcoming you for three days of phonetics and interactional analysis.
york.ac.uk/phonetics-talk
Phonetics of Talk-in-Interaction
Dates: Monday 16th June - Wednesday 18th June 2025
Online
Course Leader: Marina Cantarutti
york.ac.uk
March 27, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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
Looking forward to welcoming you for three days of phonetics and interactional analysis.
york.ac.uk/phonetics-talk
Are you uncomfortable with the idea of your speech being evaluated by "AI"? You should be! It was my pleasure to speaker with the amazing @emilymbender.bsky.social & @alexhanna.bsky.social on Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000! www.buzzsprout.com/2126417/epis...
Linguists Versus 'AI' Speech Analysis (with Nicole Holliday), 2025.03.17 - Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000
Measuring your talk time? Counting your filler words? What about "analyzing" your "emotions"? Companies that push LLM technology to surveil and summarize video meetings are increasingly offering to (p...
www.buzzsprout.com
April 2, 2025 at 6:25 PM
@emilymbender.bsky.social will set the record straight w.r.t. today's chatbots, in this event that has been advertised as "the great chatbot debate."*
*We don't think its a debate.
⏰ Mar 25, 2025 @ 7pm.
✴️ Register to attend in person or online.
computerhistory.org/events/great...
*We don't think its a debate.
⏰ Mar 25, 2025 @ 7pm.
✴️ Register to attend in person or online.
computerhistory.org/events/great...
The Great Chatbot Debate
Chatbots based on large language models (LLMs), like ChatGPT, answer sophisticated questions, pass professional exams, analyze texts, generate everything from poems to computer programs, and more. But...
computerhistory.org
March 20, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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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
#linguistics #london #langsky
February 24, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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
#linguistics #london #langsky
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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...
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/welcome-to...
Welcome to the Fringe: Palestine 2025
Help us bring Palestinian artists to the Edinburgh Fringe!
www.crowdfunder.co.uk
February 8, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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...
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/welcome-to...
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📣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...
Vacancies
sfb1252.uni-koeln.de
December 19, 2024 at 9:05 AM
📣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...
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December 9, 2024 at 4:40 PM
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@englangblog.bsky.social some useful material here 👇
Good article on #ForensicLinguistics from the Law Society Journal (Australia).
From cold cases to criminal trials: the power of forensic linguistics - Law Society Journal
From solving cold cases to providing evidence in investigations and trials, it cannot be dismissed as a scholarly interest absent of real world application.
lsj.com.au
December 10, 2024 at 9:21 AM
@englangblog.bsky.social some useful material here 👇