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 Linguistics Llama, lolPhonology, and xkcd!
