Introducing: the Lingcomm Bibliography of research:
bit.ly/lingcomm-bib...
I've been tinkering on this project with Jess Kruk. Hoping we'll be able to keep adding existing work as well as new things coming out. #lingcomm
bit.ly/lingcomm-bib...
I've been tinkering on this project with Jess Kruk. Hoping we'll be able to keep adding existing work as well as new things coming out. #lingcomm
Lingcomm Bibliography
Lingcomm Bibliography bit.ly/lingcomm-biblio Maintained by: Lauren Gawne & Jess Kruk Last updated: Dec 2024 What is in this bibliography? For the purposes of this bibliography, ‘lingcomm’ is the cre...
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December 5, 2024 at 10:15 PM
Introducing: the Lingcomm Bibliography of research:
bit.ly/lingcomm-bib...
I've been tinkering on this project with Jess Kruk. Hoping we'll be able to keep adding existing work as well as new things coming out. #lingcomm
bit.ly/lingcomm-bib...
I've been tinkering on this project with Jess Kruk. Hoping we'll be able to keep adding existing work as well as new things coming out. #lingcomm
This blog post went up today in time to be cited in my Lingstitute talk, 101 ways to communicate linguistics with broader audiences, for which the slides are here 🐦🐦
bit.ly/LingComm-Lingstitute2025
bit.ly/LingComm-Lingstitute2025
July 9, 2025 at 9:03 PM
This blog post went up today in time to be cited in my Lingstitute talk, 101 ways to communicate linguistics with broader audiences, for which the slides are here 🐦🐦
bit.ly/LingComm-Lingstitute2025
bit.ly/LingComm-Lingstitute2025
I've posted the lingcomm bibliography at least twice in the #lingcomm25 chat, so here it is for you too.
bit.ly/lingcomm-bib...
a regularly updated chronological bibliography of research publications on the topic of lingcomm
bit.ly/lingcomm-bib...
a regularly updated chronological bibliography of research publications on the topic of lingcomm
Lingcomm Bibliography
Lingcomm Bibliography bit.ly/lingcomm-biblio Maintained by: Lauren Gawne & Jess Kruk Last updated: Dec 2024 What is in this bibliography? For the purposes of this bibliography, ‘lingcomm’ is the cre...
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April 8, 2025 at 2:28 PM
I've posted the lingcomm bibliography at least twice in the #lingcomm25 chat, so here it is for you too.
bit.ly/lingcomm-bib...
a regularly updated chronological bibliography of research publications on the topic of lingcomm
bit.ly/lingcomm-bib...
a regularly updated chronological bibliography of research publications on the topic of lingcomm
The LingComm Grants are back!
These grants started in 2020, as "hey let's help get lingcomm projects going during lockdown"
They've since run in 2022 and 2024, and thanks to generous folks we've always given out more than expected
But they only work if people apply!!! Please share this!!
These grants started in 2020, as "hey let's help get lingcomm projects going during lockdown"
They've since run in 2022 and 2024, and thanks to generous folks we've always given out more than expected
But they only work if people apply!!! Please share this!!
Working on a project bringing linguistics to broader audiences?
The 2026 LingComm Grants are $300 USD grants to help you with your project!
Please apply and/or share with any up and coming lingcommers you know!
Details:
lingcomm.org/grants
#linguistics #langsky #lingcomm
The 2026 LingComm Grants are $300 USD grants to help you with your project!
Please apply and/or share with any up and coming lingcommers you know!
Details:
lingcomm.org/grants
#linguistics #langsky #lingcomm
January 23, 2026 at 2:47 AM
The LingComm Grants are back!
These grants started in 2020, as "hey let's help get lingcomm projects going during lockdown"
They've since run in 2022 and 2024, and thanks to generous folks we've always given out more than expected
But they only work if people apply!!! Please share this!!
These grants started in 2020, as "hey let's help get lingcomm projects going during lockdown"
They've since run in 2022 and 2024, and thanks to generous folks we've always given out more than expected
But they only work if people apply!!! Please share this!!
Oh god how could I forget, the patrons also let us found the @lingcomm.org conference to help connect lingcommers with each other, as well as give out LingComm Grants to up and coming lingcommers, in alternating years
Grants are open till end of April! Please apply!
Grants are open till end of April! Please apply!
Grants
2026 LingComm Grants – Small Grants for Communicating Linguistics to Wider Audiences We want to see more linguistics in the world! The 2026 LingComm Grants are $300 (USD) to support lin…
lingcomm.org
March 26, 2026 at 1:53 AM
Oh god how could I forget, the patrons also let us found the @lingcomm.org conference to help connect lingcommers with each other, as well as give out LingComm Grants to up and coming lingcommers, in alternating years
Grants are open till end of April! Please apply!
Grants are open till end of April! Please apply!
This article is so so good @superlinguo.bsky.social @gretchenmcc.bsky.social love the idea and the execution. Lingcomm as a true practice to develop. www.degruyter.com/document/doi...
Towards a theory of linguistic curiosity: applying linguistic frameworks to lingcomm and scicomm
Linguistics communication (lingcomm) is uniquely placed as a branch of science communication (scicomm), as lingcomm practitioners can reflexively draw on our own discipline of linguistics to further o...
www.degruyter.com
February 28, 2025 at 1:45 AM
This article is so so good @superlinguo.bsky.social @gretchenmcc.bsky.social love the idea and the execution. Lingcomm as a true practice to develop. www.degruyter.com/document/doi...
The lingcomm mailing list now has over 100 members!
If you're a #lingcomm practioner who wants to hear about lingcomm conferences, events, journal special issues, and so on, please feel free to subscribe!
If you're a #lingcomm practioner who wants to hear about lingcomm conferences, events, journal special issues, and so on, please feel free to subscribe!
There's now a @lingcomm.bsky.social mailing list!
This group is a space to share information about #lingcomm practice. This includes, but is not limited to, conferences, events, journal special issues and other information of interest to lingcomm practitioners.
lingcomm.org/2025/07/18/l...
This group is a space to share information about #lingcomm practice. This includes, but is not limited to, conferences, events, journal special issues and other information of interest to lingcomm practitioners.
lingcomm.org/2025/07/18/l...
LingComm mailing list
To help you stay connected to other people doing lingcomm, we’ve started a new mailing list especially for lingcomm. LingComm social media continues to exist, but the social landscape is incr…
lingcomm.org
July 25, 2025 at 12:38 AM
The lingcomm mailing list now has over 100 members!
If you're a #lingcomm practioner who wants to hear about lingcomm conferences, events, journal special issues, and so on, please feel free to subscribe!
If you're a #lingcomm practioner who wants to hear about lingcomm conferences, events, journal special issues, and so on, please feel free to subscribe!
I'm giving a talk about #linguistics communication with broader audiences at #lingstitute in a few weeks and I may have somewhat ambitiously titled it "101 ways to do lingcomm"
So far I have 84 types of projects... anyone have examples of unusual #lingcomm or #scicomm projects I might have missed?
So far I have 84 types of projects... anyone have examples of unusual #lingcomm or #scicomm projects I might have missed?
June 25, 2025 at 5:36 PM
I'm giving a talk about #linguistics communication with broader audiences at #lingstitute in a few weeks and I may have somewhat ambitiously titled it "101 ways to do lingcomm"
So far I have 84 types of projects... anyone have examples of unusual #lingcomm or #scicomm projects I might have missed?
So far I have 84 types of projects... anyone have examples of unusual #lingcomm or #scicomm projects I might have missed?
oh it's a lingcomm grant year and it's my birthday week! a couple years back i asked people to donate to the lingcomm grant fund, which is how the Kirby Conrod LGBT LingComm grant was funded! can we do that again this year?
lingcomm.gumroad.com/l/grants
lingcomm.gumroad.com/l/grants
Support the LingComm Grants
The 2024 LingComm Grants consist of one or more $500 (USD) LingComm Project Grant(s) to support linguistics communication projects that bring linguistics to new audiences in engaging ways, and are coo...
lingcomm.gumroad.com
February 4, 2024 at 4:11 PM
oh it's a lingcomm grant year and it's my birthday week! a couple years back i asked people to donate to the lingcomm grant fund, which is how the Kirby Conrod LGBT LingComm grant was funded! can we do that again this year?
lingcomm.gumroad.com/l/grants
lingcomm.gumroad.com/l/grants
Working on a project bringing linguistics to broader audiences?
The 2026 LingComm Grants are $300 USD grants to help you with your project!
Please apply and/or share with any up and coming lingcommers you know!
Details:
lingcomm.org/grants
#linguistics #langsky #lingcomm
The 2026 LingComm Grants are $300 USD grants to help you with your project!
Please apply and/or share with any up and coming lingcommers you know!
Details:
lingcomm.org/grants
#linguistics #langsky #lingcomm
January 23, 2026 at 2:35 AM
Working on a project bringing linguistics to broader audiences?
The 2026 LingComm Grants are $300 USD grants to help you with your project!
Please apply and/or share with any up and coming lingcommers you know!
Details:
lingcomm.org/grants
#linguistics #langsky #lingcomm
The 2026 LingComm Grants are $300 USD grants to help you with your project!
Please apply and/or share with any up and coming lingcommers you know!
Details:
lingcomm.org/grants
#linguistics #langsky #lingcomm
Just a reminder for anyone else who's involved in communicating linguistics to broader audiences, there's a low-traffic but high signal-to-noise ratio lingcomm mailing list here:
groups.google.com/g/lingcomm
groups.google.com/g/lingcomm
LingComm mailing list - Google Groups
groups.google.com
December 19, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Just a reminder for anyone else who's involved in communicating linguistics to broader audiences, there's a low-traffic but high signal-to-noise ratio lingcomm mailing list here:
groups.google.com/g/lingcomm
groups.google.com/g/lingcomm
It's Day One of #LingComm25! What are you looking forward to?
• Lightning Talks
• Panels: Taking Lingcomm on the Road & Lingcomm and Policy
• How-Tos: Set Goals and Objectives for Your Lingcomm & TikTok Your Lingcomm
• Posters
Check the schedule: lingcomm.org/lingcomm25/s...
• Lightning Talks
• Panels: Taking Lingcomm on the Road & Lingcomm and Policy
• How-Tos: Set Goals and Objectives for Your Lingcomm & TikTok Your Lingcomm
• Posters
Check the schedule: lingcomm.org/lingcomm25/s...
LingComm25 Conference Programme
For most timezones, LingComm25 will run April 7-10, 2025, in a four-hour block each day beginning at 13:00 UTC.
lingcomm.org
April 7, 2025 at 1:52 AM
It's Day One of #LingComm25! What are you looking forward to?
• Lightning Talks
• Panels: Taking Lingcomm on the Road & Lingcomm and Policy
• How-Tos: Set Goals and Objectives for Your Lingcomm & TikTok Your Lingcomm
• Posters
Check the schedule: lingcomm.org/lingcomm25/s...
• Lightning Talks
• Panels: Taking Lingcomm on the Road & Lingcomm and Policy
• How-Tos: Set Goals and Objectives for Your Lingcomm & TikTok Your Lingcomm
• Posters
Check the schedule: lingcomm.org/lingcomm25/s...
I'm going to send this article to anyone who asks me for advice on funding #lingcomm
That was the take-home message of a nice recent piece on two people who developed popular channels. One went big, the other stayed small, guess which one regretted their decison...
www.newyorker.com/culture/infi...
www.newyorker.com/culture/infi...
A Lesson in Creativity and Capitalism from Two Zany YouTubers
Some of the optimism of the early Internet seems to live on in the whimsical videos of James Hobson and Colin Furze.
www.newyorker.com
January 14, 2025 at 4:28 AM
I'm going to send this article to anyone who asks me for advice on funding #lingcomm
There's now a @lingcomm.bsky.social mailing list!
This group is a space to share information about #lingcomm practice. This includes, but is not limited to, conferences, events, journal special issues and other information of interest to lingcomm practitioners.
lingcomm.org/2025/07/18/l...
This group is a space to share information about #lingcomm practice. This includes, but is not limited to, conferences, events, journal special issues and other information of interest to lingcomm practitioners.
lingcomm.org/2025/07/18/l...
LingComm mailing list
To help you stay connected to other people doing lingcomm, we’ve started a new mailing list especially for lingcomm. LingComm social media continues to exist, but the social landscape is incr…
lingcomm.org
July 18, 2025 at 1:51 AM
There's now a @lingcomm.bsky.social mailing list!
This group is a space to share information about #lingcomm practice. This includes, but is not limited to, conferences, events, journal special issues and other information of interest to lingcomm practitioners.
lingcomm.org/2025/07/18/l...
This group is a space to share information about #lingcomm practice. This includes, but is not limited to, conferences, events, journal special issues and other information of interest to lingcomm practitioners.
lingcomm.org/2025/07/18/l...
Where to publish research on #lingcomm: www.superlinguo.com/post/8207037...
An annotated and non-definitive list of some suggestions. If you have other suggestions I'd love to add them!
An annotated and non-definitive list of some suggestions. If you have other suggestions I'd love to add them!
Where to publish research on lingcomm
I love seeing linguistics communication work, and the wonderful ways people do lingcomm to bring linguistics to new audiences. I do lingcomm as part of my job as an academic, which means that I also l...
www.superlinguo.com
June 29, 2026 at 10:33 PM
Where to publish research on #lingcomm: www.superlinguo.com/post/8207037...
An annotated and non-definitive list of some suggestions. If you have other suggestions I'd love to add them!
An annotated and non-definitive list of some suggestions. If you have other suggestions I'd love to add them!
LingComm grants are live! Got a nacent LingComm project you need some additional funds to get off the ground? Apply before April 30. lingcomm.org/grants/
January 17, 2024 at 5:49 PM
LingComm grants are live! Got a nacent LingComm project you need some additional funds to get off the ground? Apply before April 30. lingcomm.org/grants/
Also very relevant for #lingcomm
Don't be one of those people who put a bunch of time and effort into a fancy broader impact thing and have it fall apart once the grant is over.
Not everything has to be permanent, but if it's supposed to last, then make sure it does.
🧪
Not everything has to be permanent, but if it's supposed to last, then make sure it does.
🧪
Designing broader impacts for durable influence
If you're going to put in the work, make sure it will last
open.substack.com
October 22, 2024 at 7:32 PM
Also very relevant for #lingcomm
This is not an article about epoxy river tables.
I mean, it is. But it's not. But it is.
Or maybe it isn't.
www.southernfriedscience.com/this-is-not-...
I mean, it is. But it's not. But it is.
Or maybe it isn't.
www.southernfriedscience.com/this-is-not-...
June 4, 2024 at 7:40 PM
Update: Wordnik has now sponsored an additional LingComm Grant! Thanks @emckean.bsky.social!
If you'd like to sponsor all or part of extra lingcomm grants, you can do that here: lingcomm.gumroad.com/l/grants
Also grants are only useful if people APPLY
Please forward to people of interest!
If you'd like to sponsor all or part of extra lingcomm grants, you can do that here: lingcomm.gumroad.com/l/grants
Also grants are only useful if people APPLY
Please forward to people of interest!
January 20, 2024 at 10:01 PM
Update: Wordnik has now sponsored an additional LingComm Grant! Thanks @emckean.bsky.social!
If you'd like to sponsor all or part of extra lingcomm grants, you can do that here: lingcomm.gumroad.com/l/grants
Also grants are only useful if people APPLY
Please forward to people of interest!
If you'd like to sponsor all or part of extra lingcomm grants, you can do that here: lingcomm.gumroad.com/l/grants
Also grants are only useful if people APPLY
Please forward to people of interest!
LingComm IRL is a new interview series on the LingComm blog where people can share their face-to-face #lingcomm projects.
The first post was about doing linguistics with Girl Scouts in the US, the second is about a a high school linguistics club in Estonia:
lingcomm.org/2025/08/27/l...
The first post was about doing linguistics with Girl Scouts in the US, the second is about a a high school linguistics club in Estonia:
lingcomm.org/2025/08/27/l...
LingComm IRL with Young Linguists Language Club in Estonia – Interview with Mari-Liis Korkus
Mari-Liis Korkus is a PhD student in Estonian and Finno-Ugric Linguistics at the University of Tartu, who’s been organizing a linguistics club with high school students in Tartu, Estonia sinc…
lingcomm.org
August 31, 2025 at 10:59 PM
LingComm IRL is a new interview series on the LingComm blog where people can share their face-to-face #lingcomm projects.
The first post was about doing linguistics with Girl Scouts in the US, the second is about a a high school linguistics club in Estonia:
lingcomm.org/2025/08/27/l...
The first post was about doing linguistics with Girl Scouts in the US, the second is about a a high school linguistics club in Estonia:
lingcomm.org/2025/08/27/l...
SIX WEEKS until LingComm Grant applications are due! Send us your linguistics communication projects!
Now 4 grants thanks to the generosity of @emckean.bsky.social and friends of @kirbyconrod.bsky.social (especially send us LGBTQ+ lingcomm projects for this last one)
Now 4 grants thanks to the generosity of @emckean.bsky.social and friends of @kirbyconrod.bsky.social (especially send us LGBTQ+ lingcomm projects for this last one)
The 2024 LingComm Grants are here!
Please help us share this with people who may have a linguistics communication project that needs a boost!
@superlinguo.bsky.social and I make these happen with the support of @lingthusiasm.bsky.social patrons and other generous people
Please help us share this with people who may have a linguistics communication project that needs a boost!
@superlinguo.bsky.social and I make these happen with the support of @lingthusiasm.bsky.social patrons and other generous people
Grants
2024 LingComm Grants - Small Grants for Communicating Linguistics to Wider Audiences We want to see more linguistics in the world! The 2024 LingComm Grants are $500 (USD) to support linguistics comm...
lingcomm.org
March 14, 2024 at 9:37 PM
SIX WEEKS until LingComm Grant applications are due! Send us your linguistics communication projects!
Now 4 grants thanks to the generosity of @emckean.bsky.social and friends of @kirbyconrod.bsky.social (especially send us LGBTQ+ lingcomm projects for this last one)
Now 4 grants thanks to the generosity of @emckean.bsky.social and friends of @kirbyconrod.bsky.social (especially send us LGBTQ+ lingcomm projects for this last one)
Starting a new series of interviews on the @lingcomm.bsky.social blog with people who are doing neat community collaboration linguistics projects that don't otherwise have much of a web presence
Starting with Linguistics + Girl Scouts!
lingcomm.org/2025/07/09/l...
Starting with Linguistics + Girl Scouts!
lingcomm.org/2025/07/09/l...
LingComm IRL with Girl Scouts – Interview with Nikole Patson
Nikole Patson is a psycholinguistics professor at the Ohio State University, who’s been doing lingcomm with Girl Scouts in Columbus, Ohio, USA. Dr Patson kindly answered our questions for thi…
lingcomm.org
July 9, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Starting a new series of interviews on the @lingcomm.bsky.social blog with people who are doing neat community collaboration linguistics projects that don't otherwise have much of a web presence
Starting with Linguistics + Girl Scouts!
lingcomm.org/2025/07/09/l...
Starting with Linguistics + Girl Scouts!
lingcomm.org/2025/07/09/l...
When we started @lingthusiasm.com, we benefitted from grad school funding that let us cover a few startup costs, and we recognize that not everyone has those resources
That's why in 2020, @superlinguo.bsky.social and I started the LingComm Grants, to help up-and-coming linguistics communicators
That's why in 2020, @superlinguo.bsky.social and I started the LingComm Grants, to help up-and-coming linguistics communicators
Working on a project bringing linguistics to broader audiences?
The 2026 LingComm Grants are $300 USD grants to help you with your project!
Please apply and/or share with any up and coming lingcommers you know!
Details:
lingcomm.org/grants
#linguistics #langsky #lingcomm
The 2026 LingComm Grants are $300 USD grants to help you with your project!
Please apply and/or share with any up and coming lingcommers you know!
Details:
lingcomm.org/grants
#linguistics #langsky #lingcomm
February 19, 2026 at 12:56 AM
When we started @lingthusiasm.com, we benefitted from grad school funding that let us cover a few startup costs, and we recognize that not everyone has those resources
That's why in 2020, @superlinguo.bsky.social and I started the LingComm Grants, to help up-and-coming linguistics communicators
That's why in 2020, @superlinguo.bsky.social and I started the LingComm Grants, to help up-and-coming linguistics communicators
The surprisingly connected origins of "hippopotamus" and "appetite". #etymology #wordnerd #linguistics #HistoricalLinguistics #language #words #lingcomm #hippo #hippopotamus #appetite
youtube.com/shorts/1S6B5...
youtube.com/shorts/1S6B5...
Hippopotamus/Appetite #Etymology
YouTube video by Alliterative
youtube.com
September 23, 2026 at 9:29 PM
The surprisingly connected origins of "hippopotamus" and "appetite". #etymology #wordnerd #linguistics #HistoricalLinguistics #language #words #lingcomm #hippo #hippopotamus #appetite
youtube.com/shorts/1S6B5...
youtube.com/shorts/1S6B5...
I've been thinking about this article ever since I read it a few hours ago and it's already affected how I watch online videos in particular, definitely recommend reading it
#lingcomm
#lingcomm
Post election, I've been trying to report more on the decline of trust in institutions. Obviously the media's crisis is part of this. Last week, I came across a paper from @juliaangwin.com that looks at how creators build trust w/ their audiences & I called her up. Lots of good lessons here, imo
‘A Terrible Irony’: How the Media Lost Trust
And a template for rebuilding it
www.theatlantic.com
December 24, 2024 at 6:40 AM
I've been thinking about this article ever since I read it a few hours ago and it's already affected how I watch online videos in particular, definitely recommend reading it
#lingcomm
#lingcomm