Blogs/Podcasts

This page collects linguistics/science/academia-related blogs/podcasts that I regularly read/listen to (although to be honest I’m really more of a podcast person). I will be adding more to the list as they come to my mind.

 

Blogs:

• All Things Linguistic: a daily blog about all things linguistic by Gretchen McCulloch
• Babies Learning Language: a blog about language learning, child development, and fatherhood; also covers topics related to experimental methods and open science
• Career Linguist: information about job seeking for (young) linguists
• Faculty of Language: a blog full of solid and interesting discussion about linguistics, moderated by Maryland Linguistics
• Language: a Feminist Guide: a feminist blog about language, written by Deborah Cameron
• Language Log: a blog run by University of Pennsylvania phonetician Mark Liberman, with multiple guest linguists
  • My article on Chinese Pinyin acronyms was mentioned in this post (October 2015)!
• Language of the World: a blog exploring the rich diversity of human languages, written by Asya Pereltsvaig
• LingAlert: a 24/7 deadline reminder for linguistics conferences……
• Superlinguo: short and interesting posts about language and linguistics, written by Lauren Gawne
• Talking Brains: news and views on the neural organization of language, moderated by Greg Hickok and David Poeppel

Podcasts:

• Black Goat, the: psychologists  Sanjay Srivastava, Alexa Tullett, and Simine Vazire talking about doing science
• Effort Report, the: an insider’s view on life in the academia
• Five Minute Linguist, the: short podcasts by Rick Rickerson
• Hidden Brain: science and storytelling, hosted by Shankar Vedantam
• Lexicon Valley: a podcast and blog about language, created by Mike Vuolo
• Lingthusiasm: a podcast for whoever is enthusiastic about linguistics, hosted by Lauren Gawne and Gretchen McCulloch
• Silly Linguistics: a podcast about language
• Speaking of Psychology: highlighting some of the latest psychological research being conducted today, produced by the APA
• Speculative Grammarian: “satirical linguistics”
• Talk the Talk: a weekly show about linguistics, the science of language
• That’s What They Say: a weekly podcast that explores our changing language
• World in Words, the: everything from bilingual education to the globalization of English to Icelandic insults

 

And if you are looking for “linguistics for fun“, well, there’s always The Great Language Game, Linguistics Llama, lolPhonology, and xkcd!