Ben Gibb-Reid
Lecturer in Phonetics at University of York - Researches in forensic phonetics, acoustics, sociophon, discourse-pragmatic variation. Is a fan of breakfast and other such events.
Website: bit.ly/Ben-Gibb-Reid
- "Joe’s approach to food terminology is chaos" - I feel you Joe... linguistic variation can be a real BUN-mer www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
- One last student project from this years' UG phonetics class - this ones just needs monolingual English speakers and will take 10 mins york.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
- Participants needed! One of my Phonetics students is looking for participants in her study - just requires listening to some voices in a short survey york.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... 🧪💬🎧
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- 😮woah - narrative SHIFT
- Hello Internet people! One of my MSc students is looking for respondents to a short survey on the ability of deepfake audio to replicate speech. If you have 2 minutes, please fill it out: forms.gle/f3ufxis3wiZG...
- It’s an absolute pleasure to be involved in organising this event
- We're off - first up is @cathelaing.bsky.social on size sound symbolism (or the lack of it?) in infant directed speech! #YorkCPD2025
- Calling all Praat users! 👄👂 I've created a Praat scripting workshop with my good colleague Lauren Harrington. Feel free to see it at my website below! bit.ly/4eAHRnk #Praat #phonetics #coding
- Day 2 is underway. Here’s a highlight from last night’s entertainment from the York Taiko Drummers 🥁 #UKIS2025 they were bangin’
- And we’re off! #UKIS2025 buzzing for the next few days
- Last chance to come to UKIS 2025 - resgistration has been EXTENDED to this Friday (6 June)! Come join us in sunneh York 🦆 sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/u...
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- It was a great event, well done all!
- This is so good (bad)! Referencing it in my Linguistics as Data Science class under our 'really bad plots' discussion board #DataViz
- For the prompt of "Extraterrestrial" on Day29 of the #30DayChartChallenge, I decided to make a chart designed in the style of an extraterrestrial who has never heard of good data visualisation principles! 📊 How many chart crimes can you spot? 🕵️♂️ #DataViz #RStats #ggplot2 #Day29
- 📄 UKIS 2025 Call for Abstracts deadline has been extended to 29 April 📄 See our website for more details below and get submitting 📣 #UKIS2025 #UKIS #speech #UoY
- A reminder that the 2025 UKIS Workshop Call for Papers is open until 22nd April 2025. 📄📣💬 We are also delighted to announce our three keynote speakers – Mark Huckvale, Verena Riser, and Nadine Lavan. 1/2
- We also have lots accessibility information around the conference venues - please let us know if you have any questions via ukis2025@york.ac.uk. Registration will open later this month 📅💪 2/2
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- Yes yes yes! I almost went down a HUGE rabbit hole in my thesis’s discussion chapter using Grammarly as an example of why words like “just” are negatively perceived when they’re used to hedge
- Spotted my favourite disciple in Santuari de Sant Salvador… Simon pEATer
- Told my students that today's stats lecture would provide a good pun... hope I did not disappoint
- I've been checking how ChatGPT copes with R coding queries and thought I'd try something... what have I unleashed?! 😬
- For balance... (is this how the world sees me? 🍪)
- A team of us at York are hosting the UKIS 2025 Workshop 16-17 June. We've just launched the Call for Abstracts - check out the website for details 📒💬🖥️📅🦆
- My paper with Chloé Diskin-Holdaway is out! It's an investigation of the choices you have to make to mark the functions of a variable (featuring decision trees) 📈🌳🤓 See the author pre-print via the following link: pure.york.ac.uk/portal/en/pu...
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- Cheers! It should be in the post already - here's the link let me know if it's not there pure.york.ac.uk/portal/en/pu...
- Amazing to see my fellow forensic speech science pal getting her work recognized in the media - it's a fab paper
- Our paper on accent bias in forensic contexts is out: frontiersin.org/journals/com... It’s the first in a series of studies from the IVIP project bit.ly/ivipproject with @wrightdw.bsky.social, @nataliebraber.bsky.social & @nikolaspautz.bsky.social looking at what makes voices sound more guilty.
- Guardian coverage below
- Had the great pleasure of presenting my work to the Centre of Voice Studies at Aarhaus University last week - summarising my thesis in 20mins 📖 #phonetics #forensicphonetics
- On Friday I passed my viva 🎓🤓 Huge thanks to my supervisors @paulfoulkesyork.bsky.social n' Vince Hughes! Here's me submitting in August
- Ey up BlueSky folks. I've shifted over - expect occasional phonetics memes, papers and talk links. Here's two of my finest
