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Justin Lo
@justinjhlo.bsky.social
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Sociophonetician & forensic speech scientist @ Lancaster University. All about voice and identity.

I talk about trains a lot. You have been warned.

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Justin Lo @justinjhlo.bsky.social · Mar 13
Recently finished or soon finishing a PhD in forensic #linguistics, speech sci or lang & law?

Did you know the Int'l Journal of Speech, Language & Law has a section dedicated to PhD abstracts?

If you'd like to share your findings with the wider field & practitioners, do consider submitting to us.
justinjhlo.bsky.social
Reunited after having to abandon bike at the station 3 nights ago! But here we are facing points failure and more delays together!
A red bike at a bike rack in a train station
November 21, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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phkraemer.bsky.social
We will present preliminary findings from our project on cuts in language-related programmes in Europe next week in the SLE Online Autumn Lecture on
Thursday 27 November, 5pm CET.
Everyone is welcome to join without registration. Un grand merci to the colleagues from SLE für die Einladung!
Online Autumn lecture This year’s Autumn lecture will take place on Thursday 27 November at 5 pm CET. As announced in July, it will be a joint lecture by Leena Kolehmainen (University of Helsinki), Philipp Krämer (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) and Ulrike Vogl (Universiteit Gent). Please find their abstract below. Closing doors: Universities restructuring their language training programs Across Europe, universities have been scaling back or closing their language programmes. This trend has far-reaching consequences for students, researchers, societies and international collaboration. In our presentation, we will introduce our ongoing research project, which aims to map these developments, understand where and why they are happening and assess their impact on diversity in language education. In our talk, we will report the preliminary findings of our questionnaire survey. Through this survey, we gathered insights from staff at numerous European higher education institutions. Their responses provide valuable information about the reasons behind closures, the strategies universities use to cope with them, and their effect on language learning, teaching, and research. Zoom link not included in the ALT description to prevent spam, but please reach out to receive it in a personal message.
November 18, 2025 at 1:32 PM
justinjhlo.bsky.social
immunised to the point where broken rail, cancelled trains, a replacement bus so late I gave up, none of it even came close to stressing me out any more
#TheGreatBritishCommute
November 18, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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justinrleung.bsky.social
Hi friends, I'm looking for participants for my research! Please help me share this widely!
大家好，我嘅研究需要您嘅參與！請大家幫手分享出去！
Link to the registration form 報名表格: forms.office.com/r/sVQfiPYUhD

#Cantonese #廣東話 #Toronto #多倫多
Cantonese Speakers Needed! Participate in a linguistics experiment! How do Cantonese speakers in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) perceive sentences? Help us by participating in our experiment on your own computer! Who we are looking for: Group 1: Born in Hong Kong, immigrated to the GTA after the age of 18, lived in the GTA for over 20 years Group 2: Born in the GTA or came from Hong Kong to the GTA before the age of 6, your parents are from Hong Kong You will receive a gift card for participating ($15 CAD/hour)! Register @ https://forms.office.com/r/sVQfiPYUhD For enquiries, contact: justinr.leung@mail.utoronto.ca Linguistics, University of Toronto 誠邀講廣東話人士 參與語言學實驗！ 大多倫多地區講廣東話嘅人士 係點樣理解句子㗎呢？ 您可以用自己嘅電腦幫手參與實驗！ 招募對象： 第一組：香港出世，18歲後移民到大多地區，住大多地區已超過20年 第二組：大多地區出世，或6歲前由香港移民嚟大多地區，父母來自香港 參與者可以獲得禮品咭乙張（每小時加幣$15） 報名表格：https://forms.office.com/r/sVQfiPYUhD 查詢請電郵致： justinr.leung@mail.utoronto.ca Linguistics, University of Toronto 多倫多大學語言學系
November 14, 2025 at 12:26 AM
justinjhlo.bsky.social
my level of emotional investment in this project idea wasn't that high, but now that I came up with an acronym that impressed even myself there's no turning back
November 11, 2025 at 5:37 PM
justinjhlo.bsky.social
gotta admire Northern’s creativity for the things it tries to pass off as a restraining strap
A restraining strap for a bike on a Northern train. There is a receptacle for a buckle on one end of the strap, but no buckle on the other end.
November 7, 2025 at 8:25 PM
justinjhlo.bsky.social
amazing (read: extremely irritating) how the entirety of the university research directory can be down for 17 days and counting
November 6, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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jrkasstan.bsky.social
I am hearing that @uniofnottingham.bsky.social is suspending (i.e shutting down) *all modern language courses* in 2026-27. One of the largest departments in the UK. A shocking short sighted move that damages regional and national prospects @britishacademy.bsky.social @hetanshah.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 12:39 PM
justinjhlo.bsky.social
cycling through some parts of Lancaster at night really feels a lot like going through that first cave in Pokemon without HM05
October 31, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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christianilbury.bsky.social
Our CfP information for LavLang32 is now live:
📅 6 January 2026 - Abstract submission open
⏱️28 March 2026 - Abstract submission deadline
📣 8 May 2026 - Notification of decisions

lavlang32.ppls.ed.ac.uk
LavLang32 - Lavender Languages & Linguistics 32
2-4 September 2026: Queer (dis)belonging
lavlang32.ppls.ed.ac.uk
October 28, 2025 at 9:21 AM
justinjhlo.bsky.social
moral of the story tonight is I should just keep my waterproof overtrousers on at all times through the winter when I'm cycling in Lancaster, because one way or another it'll start tipping down halfway
October 27, 2025 at 8:20 PM
justinjhlo.bsky.social
not having to set off for work in complete darkness this week makes such a huge difference!!
October 27, 2025 at 7:25 AM
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jbhay.bsky.social
Anyone wanna come and hang out with us at NZILBB? We're advertising a fun postdoc position on a project looking at the representation of part of speech in te reo Māori. Do get in touch if you have questions.
jobs.canterbury.ac.nz/jobdetails/a...
Post-Doctoral Fellow - University of Canterbury | Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha
jobs.canterbury.ac.nz
October 26, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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jrkasstan.bsky.social
Postdoc in #sociolinguistics jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...
Postdoctoral position in Sociolinguistics at TRANSITION – Center for Changing Urban and Rural Lives (Center of Excellence), University of Copenhagen
jobportal.ku.dk
October 15, 2025 at 8:07 PM
justinjhlo.bsky.social
I might’ve just read my book of the year
A paperback copy of Andrew McMillan’s Pity with a black cover and an off-centre pink circle
October 14, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Reposted by Justin Lo
christianilbury.bsky.social
Please share!

We have a number of fully funded PhD studentships in "Designing Responsible Natural Language Processing". I'm a possible supervisor & I'd be keen to support projects on sociolinguistics-AI, e.g., accent bias in AI, language+gender/sexuality+AI.

www.responsiblenlp.org
Our CDT is based in the Edinburgh Futures Institute – the University of Edinburgh’s brand new hub for research, innovation and teaching focused on socially just artificial intelligence and data.
www.responsiblenlp.org
October 10, 2025 at 3:03 PM
justinjhlo.bsky.social
On the train (as you do) someone just stopped and stared at my mcnuggets and very emphatically said “I’m so jealous”.

Does make me feel a lot less sad for myself when macca’s bought at the station in between trains was my only dinner option.
October 9, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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lrollandmulti.bsky.social
🗓️ Voiced: The Festival for Endangered Languages @barbicancentre.bsky.social, events exploring literature in minoritised languages & dialects, celebrating multilingual identities! (16-18 Oct, London) Book here👇🏻 www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/202...
#langsky #london #poetry #literature #multilingualism
Live Literature Programme | Barbican
Whether you're joining us for a day or the entire festival, come together to celebrate artists working in endangered languages and dialects.
www.barbican.org.uk
October 7, 2025 at 8:44 AM
justinjhlo.bsky.social
I’m ticking off flooding on the line already so what do you mean term hasn’t actually started yet
justinjhlo.bsky.social Justin Lo @justinjhlo.bsky.social · Jan 12
It’s a (very belated) new year, so here’s a reminder that you can play along #TheGreatBritishCommute bingo to alleviate your train travails, I mean, travels.
A 5x5 bingo sheet titled #TheGreatBritishCommute, from top to bottom, left to right: Running behind a late-running service; Trespasser on the railway; Lineside fire; Shortage of train crew; Line flooded; Obstruction on the track; Short-notice change to the timetable; Fallen tree; Points failure; Landslip; Faulty/Broken down train; More trains needing repair than usual; FREE: Just the way it is; Speed restriction due to high winds; Fault with the signalling system; Cable theft; Congestion; Broken rail; Late from depot; Overrun engineering works; Failure of electricity supply; Speed restriction due to high track temperature; Damage to overhead electric wire; Animal on the track; Road vehicle colliding with a bridge
October 3, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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susannebrouwer.bsky.social
PhD Position: Accented Speech Processing - Apply now!

Come work with Mirjam Broersma, @davidpeeters.bsky.social, and me at the Centre for Language Studies, Radboud University in the Netherlands.

Application deadline: 19 October 2025

For more information, see
www.ru.nl/en/working-a...
PhD Position: Accented Speech Processing | Radboud University
Do you want to work as a PhD: Accented Speech Processing at the Faculty of Arts? Check our vacancy!
www.ru.nl
October 2, 2025 at 2:35 PM
justinjhlo.bsky.social
hello Northern Trains, love that there's no time restriction to bring bikes on your trains, but wow the pretend cycle space on some of your class 150 and 158 trains truly sucks
September 24, 2025 at 7:31 AM
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kirbyconrod.bsky.social
Please boost! #linguistics student here at Swarthmore is running a survey for English speakers (who don't know Mandarin / any other tone languages) about how we learn tones. Take a few minutes to help out with this student research!
swarthmore.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
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September 22, 2025 at 6:54 PM
justinjhlo.bsky.social
so are the #interspeeech2025 DOIs still not supposed to work yet or am I missing something?
September 22, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Reposted by Justin Lo
yuka-naito.bsky.social
📢 Call for papers 📢

22nd Conference Italian Association for Speech Sciences - Fieldwork experimental phonetics for language documentation

🗓️ 22-24 January 2026
📍 University of Milan 🇮🇹

🗓️ Abstract submission deadline:
30 September 2025

🧐 More info: sites.google.com/view/aisv202...
September 19, 2025 at 6:05 AM
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cborstell.bsky.social
🚨 Open PhD position in sign language #linguistics 🚨

The focus should be on the structure of signed languages, or connect to other research profiles at the department (e.g. computational linguistics, acquisition, typology, multilingualism)

su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

Deadline: 15 October 2025
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 17, 2025 at 8:47 AM