Greg Woodin
@gregwoodin.bsky.social
Research Fellow in Data Sciences at UCL 📖 💬
Multimodality, numbers, iconicity, metaphor, gesture 🤏 🔢
#rstats #python #datascience #openscience 💻 🔓
https://www.gregwoodin.co.uk/
https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=7x
Multimodality, numbers, iconicity, metaphor, gesture 🤏 🔢
#rstats #python #datascience #openscience 💻 🔓
https://www.gregwoodin.co.uk/
https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=7x
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Greg Woodin
@gregwoodin.bsky.social
· Nov 20
It's out—my new #openaccess paper with Bodo Winter in Cognitive Science (@cogscisociety.bsky.social) 🥳. Thread 👇 (1/11)
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Pleased to announce that I passed my PhD viva today!
November 12, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Pleased to announce that I passed my PhD viva today!
My research/conference visit to Marseille and Aix is coming to a close and it's been a real adventure. Feel very grateful to be able to do things like this as part of my job. Lots of interesting conversations, great food, sightseeing, and productive collaboration. Hope to see you again soon 👋🏻
October 2, 2025 at 1:38 PM
My research/conference visit to Marseille and Aix is coming to a close and it's been a real adventure. Feel very grateful to be able to do things like this as part of my job. Lots of interesting conversations, great food, sightseeing, and productive collaboration. Hope to see you again soon 👋🏻
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Very excited to announce that yesterday I submitted my PhD thesis: The Linguistic Life of the Kufr Qassem Deaf Community: Language Emergence, Variation, Change, and Persistence.
I dedicate this thesis to my people: the resilient Palestinian people
I dedicate this thesis to my people: the resilient Palestinian people
September 26, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Very excited to announce that yesterday I submitted my PhD thesis: The Linguistic Life of the Kufr Qassem Deaf Community: Language Emergence, Variation, Change, and Persistence.
I dedicate this thesis to my people: the resilient Palestinian people
I dedicate this thesis to my people: the resilient Palestinian people
Really enjoyed speaking at ESLP today! You can check out the slides for my presentation here: osf.io/nex2y
Pleased that my paper with @gabriellavigliocco.bsky.social, @fourtassi.bsky.social, Yan Gu, and Stefano James has been accepted as a talk at this year's Embodied and Situated Language Processing conference at Aix-Marseille University. Abstract below 👇
September 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Really enjoyed speaking at ESLP today! You can check out the slides for my presentation here: osf.io/nex2y
Who's coming to ESLP? 🇫🇷 ☺️
Pleased that my paper with @gabriellavigliocco.bsky.social, @fourtassi.bsky.social, Yan Gu, and Stefano James has been accepted as a talk at this year's Embodied and Situated Language Processing conference at Aix-Marseille University. Abstract below 👇
September 16, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Who's coming to ESLP? 🇫🇷 ☺️
Let me know if you don't have access via your institution and I can send you a copy personally ☺️
Pleased that my new chapter that will be published in the International Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics has now been published online: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
July 28, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Let me know if you don't have access via your institution and I can send you a copy personally ☺️
Pleased that my new chapter that will be published in the International Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics has now been published online: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
July 28, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Pleased that my new chapter that will be published in the International Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics has now been published online: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Pleased that my paper with @gabriellavigliocco.bsky.social, @fourtassi.bsky.social, Yan Gu, and Stefano James has been accepted as a talk at this year's Embodied and Situated Language Processing conference at Aix-Marseille University. Abstract below 👇
July 15, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Pleased that my paper with @gabriellavigliocco.bsky.social, @fourtassi.bsky.social, Yan Gu, and Stefano James has been accepted as a talk at this year's Embodied and Situated Language Processing conference at Aix-Marseille University. Abstract below 👇
Currently wrapping up work on a Statistical Consultancy project for @marahjaraisy.bsky.social's investigation into the Kufr Qassem deaf community, focusing on semiotic strategies used for tracking referents in signed narratives, part of @adamcschembri.bsky.social's ERC-funded SignMorph grant. (1/4)
June 1, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Currently wrapping up work on a Statistical Consultancy project for @marahjaraisy.bsky.social's investigation into the Kufr Qassem deaf community, focusing on semiotic strategies used for tracking referents in signed narratives, part of @adamcschembri.bsky.social's ERC-funded SignMorph grant. (1/4)
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"Human voice aligns with whole-body kinetics" is now published! royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/epdf/10....
Headline: Muscles that control arm movement affect the voice!
The EMG, acoustic, ground-reaction force, kinematics dataset is also fully open and FAIR reviewed:
github.com/WimPouw/kine...
Headline: Muscles that control arm movement affect the voice!
The EMG, acoustic, ground-reaction force, kinematics dataset is also fully open and FAIR reviewed:
github.com/WimPouw/kine...
May 21, 2025 at 6:57 AM
"Human voice aligns with whole-body kinetics" is now published! royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/epdf/10....
Headline: Muscles that control arm movement affect the voice!
The EMG, acoustic, ground-reaction force, kinematics dataset is also fully open and FAIR reviewed:
github.com/WimPouw/kine...
Headline: Muscles that control arm movement affect the voice!
The EMG, acoustic, ground-reaction force, kinematics dataset is also fully open and FAIR reviewed:
github.com/WimPouw/kine...
Pleased to have my first solo publication, 'Iconicity in language and communication', accepted for print in the International Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 3rd Edition. 😌
May 14, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Pleased to have my first solo publication, 'Iconicity in language and communication', accepted for print in the International Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 3rd Edition. 😌
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As we look ahead to the upcoming Corpus Linguistics Summer School (#CCRSS25, 7–11 July), we’ll be spotlighting our fantastic instructors and the sessions they’ll be leading. There’s still time to register—don’t miss out!
www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edac...
www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edac...
Corpus Linguistics Summer School 2025
Our Corpus Linguistics summer school is open to undergraduate, postgraduate, and doctoral students, as well as researchers who want to improve their skills to apply corpus methods in their own researc...
www.birmingham.ac.uk
May 6, 2025 at 9:43 AM
As we look ahead to the upcoming Corpus Linguistics Summer School (#CCRSS25, 7–11 July), we’ll be spotlighting our fantastic instructors and the sessions they’ll be leading. There’s still time to register—don’t miss out!
www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edac...
www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edac...
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New preprint paper (to appear in Journal of Linguistics) with @fbisnath.bsky.social, Hannah Lutzenberger, @marahjaraisy.bsky.social, and Rehana Omardeen
'Deconstructing notions of morphological ‘complexity’: Lessons from creoles and sign languages'
Proud to be part of this team! osf.io/tmkrw
'Deconstructing notions of morphological ‘complexity’: Lessons from creoles and sign languages'
Proud to be part of this team! osf.io/tmkrw
OSF
osf.io
February 26, 2025 at 3:52 PM
New preprint paper (to appear in Journal of Linguistics) with @fbisnath.bsky.social, Hannah Lutzenberger, @marahjaraisy.bsky.social, and Rehana Omardeen
'Deconstructing notions of morphological ‘complexity’: Lessons from creoles and sign languages'
Proud to be part of this team! osf.io/tmkrw
'Deconstructing notions of morphological ‘complexity’: Lessons from creoles and sign languages'
Proud to be part of this team! osf.io/tmkrw
Anyone else get Solero vibes? Crazy how colours can trigger such strong associations/feelings.
March 25, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Anyone else get Solero vibes? Crazy how colours can trigger such strong associations/feelings.
Thanks for having me! If you couldn't make it, the slides can be downloaded at osf.io/p2h95.
March 19, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Thanks for having me! If you couldn't make it, the slides can be downloaded at osf.io/p2h95.
Today at 1pm GMT!
This Wednesday (19th March) at 1pm GMT, I'll be virtually presenting this work, co-authored with @bodowinter.bsky.social and @lordlorson.bsky.social, at the University of Edinburgh's Psycholinguistics Coffee meeting. DM me or email me at gawoodin@gmail.com for the URL! ☺️
March 19, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Today at 1pm GMT!
This Wednesday (19th March) at 1pm GMT, I'll be virtually presenting this work, co-authored with @bodowinter.bsky.social and @lordlorson.bsky.social, at the University of Edinburgh's Psycholinguistics Coffee meeting. DM me or email me at gawoodin@gmail.com for the URL! ☺️
March 17, 2025 at 9:11 AM
This Wednesday (19th March) at 1pm GMT, I'll be virtually presenting this work, co-authored with @bodowinter.bsky.social and @lordlorson.bsky.social, at the University of Edinburgh's Psycholinguistics Coffee meeting. DM me or email me at gawoodin@gmail.com for the URL! ☺️
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Inaugural post on bsky: The ECOLANG Multimodal Corpus, providing audiovisual recordings and annotations of multimodal communicative behaviours by English-speaking adults in dyadic interaction with a child or another adult is now available rdcu.be/eblMF
The ECOLANG Multimodal Corpus of adult-child and adult-adult Language
Scientific Data - The ECOLANG Multimodal Corpus of adult-child and adult-adult Language
rdcu.be
February 26, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Inaugural post on bsky: The ECOLANG Multimodal Corpus, providing audiovisual recordings and annotations of multimodal communicative behaviours by English-speaking adults in dyadic interaction with a child or another adult is now available rdcu.be/eblMF
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Our latest study, led by Chiara and Ben, investigates laughter mimicry and (acoustic) alignment in parent-child vs. adult conversations. Now published in the Journal of Nonverbal Behavior!
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Do Children Laugh Like Their Parents? Conversational Laughter Mimicry Occurrence and Acoustic Alignment in Middle-Childhood - Journal of Nonverbal Behavior
Laughter is ubiquitous and crucial in social interactions. In addition to conveying meaning, it is a valuable means for monitoring interlocutor mental states and mutual cognitive alignment. Laughter h...
link.springer.com
February 26, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Our latest study, led by Chiara and Ben, investigates laughter mimicry and (acoustic) alignment in parent-child vs. adult conversations. Now published in the Journal of Nonverbal Behavior!
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Does anyone know of a regular expression or some other method of identifying questions in utterances? Not all the utterances I'm looking at are transcribed with question marks, and question-indicating words like 'what', 'why' etc. aren't always the first words in the utterance (e.g., 'and why...'.
February 19, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Does anyone know of a regular expression or some other method of identifying questions in utterances? Not all the utterances I'm looking at are transcribed with question marks, and question-indicating words like 'what', 'why' etc. aren't always the first words in the utterance (e.g., 'and why...'.
Today!
I will be presenting this work at @davidmsidhu.bsky.social's Cognition, Language, Sound Symbolism, Iconicity (CLaSSI) Lab this Thursday (6th) at 17:00 GMT. Feel free to send either of us a DM or email and we'll get back to you with the Zoom link ☺️
February 6, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Today!
I will be presenting this work at @davidmsidhu.bsky.social's Cognition, Language, Sound Symbolism, Iconicity (CLaSSI) Lab this Thursday (6th) at 17:00 GMT. Feel free to send either of us a DM or email and we'll get back to you with the Zoom link ☺️
February 3, 2025 at 3:11 PM
I will be presenting this work at @davidmsidhu.bsky.social's Cognition, Language, Sound Symbolism, Iconicity (CLaSSI) Lab this Thursday (6th) at 17:00 GMT. Feel free to send either of us a DM or email and we'll get back to you with the Zoom link ☺️
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Sign Language Contact, Variation, and Change 2025 conference at the University of Birmingham, UK: we are now inviting abstracts on any topic related to language contact/translanguaging, sociolinguistic variation, and language change in signing communities. sites.google.com/view/slcvc-w...
SLCVC2025 Conference - Call for papers
Call for papers
We are inviting abstracts on original research on any topic related to language contact/translanguaging, sociolinguistic variation, and language change in signing communities.
All su...
sites.google.com
January 27, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Sign Language Contact, Variation, and Change 2025 conference at the University of Birmingham, UK: we are now inviting abstracts on any topic related to language contact/translanguaging, sociolinguistic variation, and language change in signing communities. sites.google.com/view/slcvc-w...
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I think my new book Language, Image, Gesture: The Cognitive Semiotics of Politics might (finally!) have been published. Currently only in digital format with print copies available from Feb. www.cambridge.org/core/books/l...
Language, Image, Gesture
Cambridge Core - Cognitive Linguistics - Language, Image, Gesture
www.cambridge.org
January 22, 2025 at 2:59 PM
I think my new book Language, Image, Gesture: The Cognitive Semiotics of Politics might (finally!) have been published. Currently only in digital format with print copies available from Feb. www.cambridge.org/core/books/l...
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Our new paper just got published at Nature Human Behavior! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
We study trust in science in 68 countries and how it relates to other variables.
It was wild to be part of this project 👌✨
We study trust in science in 68 countries and how it relates to other variables.
It was wild to be part of this project 👌✨
Trust in scientists and their role in society across 68 countries - Nature Human Behaviour
What is the state of trust in scientists around the world? To answer this question, the authors surveyed 71,922 respondents in 68 countries and found that trust in scientists is moderately high.
www.nature.com
January 23, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Our new paper just got published at Nature Human Behavior! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
We study trust in science in 68 countries and how it relates to other variables.
It was wild to be part of this project 👌✨
We study trust in science in 68 countries and how it relates to other variables.
It was wild to be part of this project 👌✨