Colin Phillips
@colinphillips.bsky.social
Language scientist. Aging runner. Oxford, UK & College Park, MD, USA.
Opportunity for early career researchers to spend 3 years working with us in Oxford. Cool surroundings, interesting people. Eligibility: need some UK academic connection. Get in touch if interested! Details: www.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/news/2025/11...
November 8, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Opportunity for early career researchers to spend 3 years working with us in Oxford. Cool surroundings, interesting people. Eligibility: need some UK academic connection. Get in touch if interested! Details: www.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/news/2025/11...
Looking forward to seeing this cool new building take shape, joining the wild architectural mash-up at the top of my street.
Somerville College’s proposed new Ratan Tata Building, in the Radcliffe Observatory Quarter, has been given planning permission by Oxford City Council. The building will be mostly teaching and learning space with tutor offices, study space and seminar rooms.
September 20, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Looking forward to seeing this cool new building take shape, joining the wild architectural mash-up at the top of my street.
More postdoc opportunities in Oxford! 3-year British Academy Fellowships, for start in 2026. For work in any area of linguistics. Expressions of Interest (brief!) for internal competition due July 28. www.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/news/2025/06...
July 4, 2025 at 7:17 AM
More postdoc opportunities in Oxford! 3-year British Academy Fellowships, for start in 2026. For work in any area of linguistics. Expressions of Interest (brief!) for internal competition due July 28. www.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/news/2025/06...
Yet another open-rank position in language in Oxford! This one is in Applied Linguistics. You get to join Oxford's excellent Dept of Education, and also be my colleague at the fabulous @somervillecollege.bsky.social , which I cannot recommend too highly. Details: my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
June 3, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Yet another open-rank position in language in Oxford! This one is in Applied Linguistics. You get to join Oxford's excellent Dept of Education, and also be my colleague at the fabulous @somervillecollege.bsky.social , which I cannot recommend too highly. Details: my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
Finally sharing this video of my inaugural lecture, 1 year ago today. Such a treat to get to tell the story about things and people that I care about, with many of them in the audience. ... If I sound a bit rattled, that was due to the loud protest right outside.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UM3-...
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Colin Phillips Inaugural Lecture, Oxford University
YouTube video by Colin Phillips
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June 3, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Finally sharing this video of my inaugural lecture, 1 year ago today. Such a treat to get to tell the story about things and people that I care about, with many of them in the audience. ... If I sound a bit rattled, that was due to the loud protest right outside.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UM3-...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UM3-...
Really excited that Devyani will soon be joining us in Oxford, strengthening connections between English and Linguistics.
www.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/news/2025/05...
www.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/news/2025/05...
May 22, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Really excited that Devyani will soon be joining us in Oxford, strengthening connections between English and Linguistics.
www.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/news/2025/05...
www.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/news/2025/05...
Interested in spending a couple of years in Oxford as a Marie Curie postdoc? It's a great environment to develop your research career (and a wonderful place to live). Expressions of interest due June 2nd. Contact potential mentors now. Details: www.humanities.ox.ac.uk/marie-sklodo...
May 5, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Interested in spending a couple of years in Oxford as a Marie Curie postdoc? It's a great environment to develop your research career (and a wonderful place to live). Expressions of interest due June 2nd. Contact potential mentors now. Details: www.humanities.ox.ac.uk/marie-sklodo...
Come join us in Oxford as we move into our new home in the Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities (opening Oct '25). We are looking to fill THREE fixed-term lecturer positions: in Semantics/Pragmatics, Psycholinguistics, and Linguistics with French. www.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/news/2025/05...
May 1, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Come join us in Oxford as we move into our new home in the Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities (opening Oct '25). We are looking to fill THREE fixed-term lecturer positions: in Semantics/Pragmatics, Psycholinguistics, and Linguistics with French. www.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/news/2025/05...
It’s no accident that so many UMD language scientists have won these awards over the years. As they say, culture eats policy for breakfast. Also, Rachel is the BEST. So well deserved.
LSC member @rachelromeo.bsky.social received the Graduate Mentor of the Year Award, awarded by the UMD Graduate School! Congratulations Rachel 🥳
April 24, 2025 at 10:29 PM
It’s no accident that so many UMD language scientists have won these awards over the years. As they say, culture eats policy for breakfast. Also, Rachel is the BEST. So well deserved.
I was sorry to miss this event at Planet Word Museum featuring Mark Seidenberg and Maryellen MacDonald. Great to see that it’s now available to watch online.
Video of a talk Mark Seidenberg & I gave to teachers+ at Planet Word Museum @planetworddc.bsky.social. We urged ⬆️ focus on child learning and sentence comprehension in reading instruction. Questions from teachers at the end are phenomenal! Please forward to educators! www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfeF...
Eyes on Reading: What’s Next in the Science of Reading? with Mark Seidenberg and Maryellen MacDonald
YouTube video by Planet Word
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April 10, 2025 at 11:55 PM
I was sorry to miss this event at Planet Word Museum featuring Mark Seidenberg and Maryellen MacDonald. Great to see that it’s now available to watch online.
Looking to get away for a while? The Leverhulme Visiting Professorships scheme could fund a senior academic to spend 3-12 months in Oxford doing research, teaching, and more. Get in touch if interested! www.leverhulme.ac.uk/visiting-pro...
March 22, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Looking to get away for a while? The Leverhulme Visiting Professorships scheme could fund a senior academic to spend 3-12 months in Oxford doing research, teaching, and more. Get in touch if interested! www.leverhulme.ac.uk/visiting-pro...
Another postdoc opportunity in Oxford. Any subfield of linguistics. Expressions of Interest for the British Academy International Fellowship due Feb 4. www.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/news/2025/01...
January 19, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Another postdoc opportunity in Oxford. Any subfield of linguistics. Expressions of Interest for the British Academy International Fellowship due Feb 4. www.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/news/2025/01...
Amen to that!
One of the best things about LSAs: old friends #lsa2025
January 12, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Amen to that!
More opportunities to join us in Oxford! We have an open-rank position in Phonetics, to coincide with our move into the amazing Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities. The new Phonetics Lab sits above a concert hall - both acoustically shielded! www.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/news/2024/12...
December 16, 2024 at 3:51 PM
More opportunities to join us in Oxford! We have an open-rank position in Phonetics, to coincide with our move into the amazing Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities. The new Phonetics Lab sits above a concert hall - both acoustically shielded! www.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/news/2024/12...
New paper out now in Cognitive Science, led by Masato Nakamura, with Shota Momma and Hiromi Sakai. Evidence for a striking production >> comprehension advantage in sensitivity to verb argument roles. This one took a while, but the end result is worth it.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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December 4, 2024 at 9:57 AM
New paper out now in Cognitive Science, led by Masato Nakamura, with Shota Momma and Hiromi Sakai. Evidence for a striking production >> comprehension advantage in sensitivity to verb argument roles. This one took a while, but the end result is worth it.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
New paper! Led by Maggie Kandel. Speakers getting singular/plural number wrong on pronouns ... even when directly looking at the thing that they're referring to. One of those "boring control conditions" that turned out to be anything but.
direct.mit.edu/opmi/article...
direct.mit.edu/opmi/article...
Number Attraction in Pronoun Production
Abstract. Pronoun production involves at least two processes: (i) deciding to refer to a referent with a pronoun instead of a full NP and (ii) determining the pronoun’s form. In the present study, we ...
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November 12, 2024 at 10:41 PM
New paper! Led by Maggie Kandel. Speakers getting singular/plural number wrong on pronouns ... even when directly looking at the thing that they're referring to. One of those "boring control conditions" that turned out to be anything but.
direct.mit.edu/opmi/article...
direct.mit.edu/opmi/article...
Come join us in Oxford! Or encourage your friends to apply, so you can visit them here! We are looking to fill the Professorship in Language and Communication, a senior professor position. my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
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November 12, 2024 at 10:21 PM
Come join us in Oxford! Or encourage your friends to apply, so you can visit them here! We are looking to fill the Professorship in Language and Communication, a senior professor position. my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
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Interested in applying for postdoc funding via the British Academy fellowship scheme? Pre-applications to Oxford internal competition due July 29th. Reach out to potential mentors. This scheme is for those with UK/EAA connections. www.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/news/2024/06...
July 2, 2024 at 3:52 PM
Interested in applying for postdoc funding via the British Academy fellowship scheme? Pre-applications to Oxford internal competition due July 29th. Reach out to potential mentors. This scheme is for those with UK/EAA connections. www.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/news/2024/06...
Come do syntax and semantics with us in Oxford! This is another open rank position, so early career and senior scholars are encouraged to apply. SynSem people like trees - and Magdalen College has lots of them! Get in touch if curious.
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
December 19, 2023 at 6:04 PM
Come do syntax and semantics with us in Oxford! This is another open rank position, so early career and senior scholars are encouraged to apply. SynSem people like trees - and Magdalen College has lots of them! Get in touch if curious.
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
Come be our colleague in Oxford! New position in "Phonology and Language Processing". Advertised as "Associate Professor", but it amounts to an open rank search, i.e., early career through senior. Get in touch if curious.
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
December 15, 2023 at 7:17 PM
Come be our colleague in Oxford! New position in "Phonology and Language Processing". Advertised as "Associate Professor", but it amounts to an open rank search, i.e., early career through senior. Get in touch if curious.
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...