Bodo Winter
@bodowinter.bsky.social
Professor of Linguistics and UKRI Future Leaders Fellow at University of Birmingham, UK 🌈
❤️ Iconicity, R, open science, yoga, techno
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Prospective graduate students: Purdue Linguistics is having a virtual open house on Friday, Nov 7 at 12:00pm EST. You can sign up here: lnkd.in/g8XimXcG
Please note that I am not recruiting any new graduate students but several of my wonderful Purdue colleagues are.
Please note that I am not recruiting any new graduate students but several of my wonderful Purdue colleagues are.
October 17, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Prospective graduate students: Purdue Linguistics is having a virtual open house on Friday, Nov 7 at 12:00pm EST. You can sign up here: lnkd.in/g8XimXcG
Please note that I am not recruiting any new graduate students but several of my wonderful Purdue colleagues are.
Please note that I am not recruiting any new graduate students but several of my wonderful Purdue colleagues are.
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New paper led by Dara Etemady: Statistical reporting inconsistencies in experimental linguistics.
Almost half (49%) of all articles contained at least one inconsistent p-value. 12% contained an inconsistency that may have affected the statistical conclusion."
escholarship.org/uc/item/3736...
Almost half (49%) of all articles contained at least one inconsistent p-value. 12% contained an inconsistency that may have affected the statistical conclusion."
escholarship.org/uc/item/3736...
October 10, 2025 at 6:45 AM
New paper led by Dara Etemady: Statistical reporting inconsistencies in experimental linguistics.
Almost half (49%) of all articles contained at least one inconsistent p-value. 12% contained an inconsistency that may have affected the statistical conclusion."
escholarship.org/uc/item/3736...
Almost half (49%) of all articles contained at least one inconsistent p-value. 12% contained an inconsistency that may have affected the statistical conclusion."
escholarship.org/uc/item/3736...
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Reminder!! We are hiring in Linguistics at Michigan with a focus on "AI and Linguistics" (broooaaadly construed). This is part of a cluster of positions in Psychology and Philosophy in collaboration with the Cognitive Science program. Applications now open!
careers.umich.edu/job_detail/a...
careers.umich.edu/job_detail/a...
Apply for AI and Linguistics (Assistant, Associate or full Professor) | U-M Careers
careers.umich.edu
September 30, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Reminder!! We are hiring in Linguistics at Michigan with a focus on "AI and Linguistics" (broooaaadly construed). This is part of a cluster of positions in Psychology and Philosophy in collaboration with the Cognitive Science program. Applications now open!
careers.umich.edu/job_detail/a...
careers.umich.edu/job_detail/a...
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All of us (@kanishka.bsky.social @kmahowald.bsky.social and me) are looking for PhD students this cycle! If computational linguistics/NLP is your passion, join us at UT Austin!
For my areas see jessyli.com
For my areas see jessyli.com
September 30, 2025 at 7:30 PM
All of us (@kanishka.bsky.social @kmahowald.bsky.social and me) are looking for PhD students this cycle! If computational linguistics/NLP is your passion, join us at UT Austin!
For my areas see jessyli.com
For my areas see jessyli.com
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🚨Open immediately!! (rolling application review)🚨: Postdoc w/ the amazing Tamar Gollan, Uni. Cal. San Diego, bilingual speech production and cognitive control in aging and Alzheimer’s disease psychiatry.ucsd.edu/about/LAB_Go...
psychiatry.ucsd.edu
September 30, 2025 at 6:17 PM
🚨Open immediately!! (rolling application review)🚨: Postdoc w/ the amazing Tamar Gollan, Uni. Cal. San Diego, bilingual speech production and cognitive control in aging and Alzheimer’s disease psychiatry.ucsd.edu/about/LAB_Go...
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Application for a PhD position at our department is now open! We are looking for applicants that are interested in areas of sign language linguistics, general sign language studies, or deaf bilingualism/multilingualism. Deadline is 15th Oct. Please share away! su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
PhD student in Linguistics, sign language
The Department of Linguistics at Stockholm University conducts research and offers education in a number of areas such as child language development, computational linguistics, general linguistics, ph
su.varbi.com
September 19, 2025 at 5:05 AM
Application for a PhD position at our department is now open! We are looking for applicants that are interested in areas of sign language linguistics, general sign language studies, or deaf bilingualism/multilingualism. Deadline is 15th Oct. Please share away! su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
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UCDavis Psych is hiring an Assistant Professor in Human Cognition or Cognitive Neuroscience 🧠✨
Come join a vibrant, collaborative dept and live in a fun college town near Sacramento, San Francisco, Napa, and Lake Tahoe. Applications due Oct.21.
Please share widely!
recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07300
Come join a vibrant, collaborative dept and live in a fun college town near Sacramento, San Francisco, Napa, and Lake Tahoe. Applications due Oct.21.
Please share widely!
recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07300
Assistant Professor of Psychology - Human Cognition or Cognitive Neuroscience
University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!
recruit.ucdavis.edu
September 8, 2025 at 8:57 PM
UCDavis Psych is hiring an Assistant Professor in Human Cognition or Cognitive Neuroscience 🧠✨
Come join a vibrant, collaborative dept and live in a fun college town near Sacramento, San Francisco, Napa, and Lake Tahoe. Applications due Oct.21.
Please share widely!
recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07300
Come join a vibrant, collaborative dept and live in a fun college town near Sacramento, San Francisco, Napa, and Lake Tahoe. Applications due Oct.21.
Please share widely!
recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07300
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How to quantify the impact of AI on long-run cultural evolution? Published today, I give it a go!
400+ years of strategic dynamics in the game of Go (Baduk/Weiqi), from feudalism to AlphaGo!
400+ years of strategic dynamics in the game of Go (Baduk/Weiqi), from feudalism to AlphaGo!
September 16, 2025 at 2:04 PM
How to quantify the impact of AI on long-run cultural evolution? Published today, I give it a go!
400+ years of strategic dynamics in the game of Go (Baduk/Weiqi), from feudalism to AlphaGo!
400+ years of strategic dynamics in the game of Go (Baduk/Weiqi), from feudalism to AlphaGo!
Was fun working on this paper on negation in BSL led by Gab Hodge and w/ Kearsy Cormier and @adamcschembri.bsky.social!
Paper is open access and available here:
doi.org/10.1515/opli...
Paper is open access and available here:
doi.org/10.1515/opli...
September 15, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Was fun working on this paper on negation in BSL led by Gab Hodge and w/ Kearsy Cormier and @adamcschembri.bsky.social!
Paper is open access and available here:
doi.org/10.1515/opli...
Paper is open access and available here:
doi.org/10.1515/opli...
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University of South Carolina has *7* tenure-track faculty positions in Neurobiology of Language:
tinyurl.com/USC-Faculty-...
Positions in COMD, Psych, Linguistics, School of Medicine.
@snlmtg.bsky.social #SNL2025, we will have a booth.
w/@rutvikdesai.bsky.social @imb-uofsc.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/USC-Faculty-...
Positions in COMD, Psych, Linguistics, School of Medicine.
@snlmtg.bsky.social #SNL2025, we will have a booth.
w/@rutvikdesai.bsky.social @imb-uofsc.bsky.social
September 9, 2025 at 2:49 PM
University of South Carolina has *7* tenure-track faculty positions in Neurobiology of Language:
tinyurl.com/USC-Faculty-...
Positions in COMD, Psych, Linguistics, School of Medicine.
@snlmtg.bsky.social #SNL2025, we will have a booth.
w/@rutvikdesai.bsky.social @imb-uofsc.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/USC-Faculty-...
Positions in COMD, Psych, Linguistics, School of Medicine.
@snlmtg.bsky.social #SNL2025, we will have a booth.
w/@rutvikdesai.bsky.social @imb-uofsc.bsky.social
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Our department is hiring! We're looking for a cognitive/developmental psychologist who uses computational approaches to study human cognition and behavior to address learning, development, and education. Feel free to reach out with questions!
We are hiring!
Department of Psychology at the University at Buffalo is recruiting for a SUNY Empire Innovation faculty hire at the rank of Associate or Full Professor. The hire is focused on the study of human cognition and behavior to address gaps in learning, development, or education using AI.
Department of Psychology at the University at Buffalo is recruiting for a SUNY Empire Innovation faculty hire at the rank of Associate or Full Professor. The hire is focused on the study of human cognition and behavior to address gaps in learning, development, or education using AI.
August 18, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Our department is hiring! We're looking for a cognitive/developmental psychologist who uses computational approaches to study human cognition and behavior to address learning, development, and education. Feel free to reach out with questions!
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I find it endlessly frustrating that one of the biggest empirical findings from sociolinguistics is consistently ignored. Change doesn't come from children making mistakes. Change comes from adolescents incrementing existing probabilistic patterns.
I haven't read this paper but hopefully it's good.
I haven't read this paper but hopefully it's good.
Children are not the main agents of language change. New paper by @limorraviv.bsky.social @damianblasi.bsky.social & @vkempe.bsky.social.
psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/...
www.mpi.nl/publications...
psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/...
www.mpi.nl/publications...
September 9, 2025 at 9:30 PM
I find it endlessly frustrating that one of the biggest empirical findings from sociolinguistics is consistently ignored. Change doesn't come from children making mistakes. Change comes from adolescents incrementing existing probabilistic patterns.
I haven't read this paper but hopefully it's good.
I haven't read this paper but hopefully it's good.
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“Children are not the main agents of language change” by Limor Raviv, Damián Blasi and Vera Kempe (Sep. ’25) pure.mpg.de/rest/items/i...
September 10, 2025 at 12:37 AM
“Children are not the main agents of language change” by Limor Raviv, Damián Blasi and Vera Kempe (Sep. ’25) pure.mpg.de/rest/items/i...
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📣new and exciting paper alert! 📣
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Ever wonder what's the rhythm of speech -- across languages?
1/10
W/ Maya Inbar and Eitan Grossman, we analyzed over 650 recordings from 48 languages, focusing on intonation units—short prosodic phrases that structure speech in time.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Ever wonder what's the rhythm of speech -- across languages?
1/10
W/ Maya Inbar and Eitan Grossman, we analyzed over 650 recordings from 48 languages, focusing on intonation units—short prosodic phrases that structure speech in time.
A universal of speech timing: Intonation units form low-frequency rhythms | PNAS
Intonation units (IUs) are a hypothesized universal building block of human speech
[W. Chafe, Discourse, Consciousness and Time: The Flow and Displ...
www.pnas.org
August 26, 2025 at 9:16 AM
📣new and exciting paper alert! 📣
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Ever wonder what's the rhythm of speech -- across languages?
1/10
W/ Maya Inbar and Eitan Grossman, we analyzed over 650 recordings from 48 languages, focusing on intonation units—short prosodic phrases that structure speech in time.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Ever wonder what's the rhythm of speech -- across languages?
1/10
W/ Maya Inbar and Eitan Grossman, we analyzed over 650 recordings from 48 languages, focusing on intonation units—short prosodic phrases that structure speech in time.
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📆 Reminder! Application deadline for incoming researchers (PhD students & postdocs) is August 31st!
If you want to come work with us in Bielefeld, apply for one of our scholarships. We would love to have you! More infos here 👉 www.uni-bielefeld.de/sfb/sfb1646/...
#BLinguistik #linguistics
If you want to come work with us in Bielefeld, apply for one of our scholarships. We would love to have you! More infos here 👉 www.uni-bielefeld.de/sfb/sfb1646/...
#BLinguistik #linguistics
RTG - Universität Bielefeld
Der SFB setzt sich für eine qualitativ hochwertige Ausbildung von Doktoranden und Postdoktoranden ein und bietet Nachwuchswissenschaftlern ein Umfeld, das es ihnen ermöglicht, ihr Potenzial voll zu en...
www.uni-bielefeld.de
August 22, 2025 at 10:55 AM
📆 Reminder! Application deadline for incoming researchers (PhD students & postdocs) is August 31st!
If you want to come work with us in Bielefeld, apply for one of our scholarships. We would love to have you! More infos here 👉 www.uni-bielefeld.de/sfb/sfb1646/...
#BLinguistik #linguistics
If you want to come work with us in Bielefeld, apply for one of our scholarships. We would love to have you! More infos here 👉 www.uni-bielefeld.de/sfb/sfb1646/...
#BLinguistik #linguistics
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I got the proofs today for my upcoming graphic novel about language, cognition, and visual communication and I cannot contain myself with how excited I am for this book to finally come out after working on it for 7 years 😱 visuallanguagelab.com/sip
August 21, 2025 at 11:17 AM
I got the proofs today for my upcoming graphic novel about language, cognition, and visual communication and I cannot contain myself with how excited I am for this book to finally come out after working on it for 7 years 😱 visuallanguagelab.com/sip
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Berkeley linguistics is hiring an Assistant Professor in language revitalization!
aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05022
aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05022
Assistant Professor - Language Revitalization - Linguistics
University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!
aprecruit.berkeley.edu
August 20, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Berkeley linguistics is hiring an Assistant Professor in language revitalization!
aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05022
aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05022
Super excited to share our new multimodal corpus analysis, "Iconic Words Are Associated With Iconic Gestures" 🥳
Project led by our PhD student Ell Wilding and in collab w/ @jeannettel.bsky.social & @mperlman.bsky.social:
doi.org/10.1111/cogs...
Project led by our PhD student Ell Wilding and in collab w/ @jeannettel.bsky.social & @mperlman.bsky.social:
doi.org/10.1111/cogs...
Iconic Words Are Associated With Iconic Gestures
Iconicity ratings studies have established that there are many English words which native speakers judge as “iconic,” that is, as sounding like what they mean. Here, we explore whether these iconic E...
doi.org
August 15, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Super excited to share our new multimodal corpus analysis, "Iconic Words Are Associated With Iconic Gestures" 🥳
Project led by our PhD student Ell Wilding and in collab w/ @jeannettel.bsky.social & @mperlman.bsky.social:
doi.org/10.1111/cogs...
Project led by our PhD student Ell Wilding and in collab w/ @jeannettel.bsky.social & @mperlman.bsky.social:
doi.org/10.1111/cogs...
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Another job here at Michigan - this one in Linguistics! Part of a cluster of hires with a focus on Cognitive Science and AI. Happy to chat to interested folks. apply.interfolio.com/171006
Apply - Interfolio
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August 15, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Another job here at Michigan - this one in Linguistics! Part of a cluster of hires with a focus on Cognitive Science and AI. Happy to chat to interested folks. apply.interfolio.com/171006
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📢 New publication
Interested in #iconicity? Fascinated by #ideophones?
Craving for #fieldwork in this area?
Check out this book and ideas will come...
I explain how to conduct #psycholinguistic research in #minority languages such as #Basque
@oxfordacademic.bsky.social @psylexlab.bsky.social
Interested in #iconicity? Fascinated by #ideophones?
Craving for #fieldwork in this area?
Check out this book and ideas will come...
I explain how to conduct #psycholinguistic research in #minority languages such as #Basque
@oxfordacademic.bsky.social @psylexlab.bsky.social
July 14, 2025 at 11:47 AM
📢 New publication
Interested in #iconicity? Fascinated by #ideophones?
Craving for #fieldwork in this area?
Check out this book and ideas will come...
I explain how to conduct #psycholinguistic research in #minority languages such as #Basque
@oxfordacademic.bsky.social @psylexlab.bsky.social
Interested in #iconicity? Fascinated by #ideophones?
Craving for #fieldwork in this area?
Check out this book and ideas will come...
I explain how to conduct #psycholinguistic research in #minority languages such as #Basque
@oxfordacademic.bsky.social @psylexlab.bsky.social
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There's a new Collaborative Research Center focusing on the common ground at the University of Tübingen (where I did my MA), with a variety of really cool looking PhD and postdoc opportunities in linguistics starting in October: uni-tuebingen.de/en/283575
Job advertisements
uni-tuebingen.de
July 5, 2025 at 10:32 AM
There's a new Collaborative Research Center focusing on the common ground at the University of Tübingen (where I did my MA), with a variety of really cool looking PhD and postdoc opportunities in linguistics starting in October: uni-tuebingen.de/en/283575
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We are recruiting! An English linguistics professorship in Tampere (tenure track, open rank). Application deadline August 18
tuni.rekrytointi.com/paikat/?o=A_...
tuni.rekrytointi.com/paikat/?o=A_...
Tenure track position in English linguistics (Assistant Professor, Associate Professor or Professor) / tenure track -tehtävä, englannin kielen tutkimus (Apulaisprofessori tai Professori)
tuni.rekrytointi.com
June 19, 2025 at 8:32 PM
We are recruiting! An English linguistics professorship in Tampere (tenure track, open rank). Application deadline August 18
tuni.rekrytointi.com/paikat/?o=A_...
tuni.rekrytointi.com/paikat/?o=A_...
Super proud of my first Cambridge Elements, joint work with my long-term collaborator Francesca Strik-Lievers: "Linguistic Synesthesia: A Meta-Analysis"
www.cambridge.org/core/elements/abs/linguistic-synesthesia/C6B019926C53001D1D698CB0C46F80C6/
Quick summary of the take home message in thread ⬇️
www.cambridge.org/core/elements/abs/linguistic-synesthesia/C6B019926C53001D1D698CB0C46F80C6/
Quick summary of the take home message in thread ⬇️
Linguistic Synesthesia
Cambridge Core - Cognition - Linguistic Synesthesia
www.cambridge.org
June 17, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Super proud of my first Cambridge Elements, joint work with my long-term collaborator Francesca Strik-Lievers: "Linguistic Synesthesia: A Meta-Analysis"
www.cambridge.org/core/elements/abs/linguistic-synesthesia/C6B019926C53001D1D698CB0C46F80C6/
Quick summary of the take home message in thread ⬇️
www.cambridge.org/core/elements/abs/linguistic-synesthesia/C6B019926C53001D1D698CB0C46F80C6/
Quick summary of the take home message in thread ⬇️
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Out now in @pnas.org! 🌹Is a rose by any other name still as roselike?🌹
We study the prevalence of iconicity (does a word look/sound like what it means?) and systematicity (are pronunciation/meaning relationships shared across multiple words?) in large datasets of ASL, English, and Spanish.
🧵1/N
We study the prevalence of iconicity (does a word look/sound like what it means?) and systematicity (are pronunciation/meaning relationships shared across multiple words?) in large datasets of ASL, English, and Spanish.
🧵1/N
April 23, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Out now in @pnas.org! 🌹Is a rose by any other name still as roselike?🌹
We study the prevalence of iconicity (does a word look/sound like what it means?) and systematicity (are pronunciation/meaning relationships shared across multiple words?) in large datasets of ASL, English, and Spanish.
🧵1/N
We study the prevalence of iconicity (does a word look/sound like what it means?) and systematicity (are pronunciation/meaning relationships shared across multiple words?) in large datasets of ASL, English, and Spanish.
🧵1/N
And it comes together with a reply! It was an interesting and fruitful discussion about the iconicity of different type of r-sounds :)
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
April 15, 2025 at 5:39 PM
And it comes together with a reply! It was an interesting and fruitful discussion about the iconicity of different type of r-sounds :)
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...