LingComm25 took place April 7-10, 2025. Online, in Gather.
Click here to skip directly to the schedule at-a-glance or here for a more detailed version of the programme.
For most timezones, LingComm25 ran April 7-10, 2025, in a four-hour block each day beginning at 6am PDT (San Francisco), 9am EDT (Washington DC), 2pm BST (London), 3pm CEST (Amsterdam), and 11pm AEST (Sydney).
Each day of the conference included four 50-minute timeslots, one beginning at the top of each hour. Some timeslots had multiple sessions running simultaneously. We had different types of events at LingComm25. Read on to find out more:
- Posters: Our version of the poster sessions you have seen at other academic events, but more accessible for the conference’s online format. LingComm25 attendees freely visited (virtual) posters and chatted with their presenters at sessions 1 and 2. Read all poster abstracts here.
- Panel Discussions: A moderated conversation where multiple experts share insights on a specific topic. The panelists offer different perspectives, engaging in dialogue with each other and sometimes the audience. Panels at LingComm25 included how to navigate difficult topics in lingcomm, lingcomm in social media, policy, and on the road, writing a popular book, and assessing how you’re making an impact with lingcomm.
- Plenaries: Keynote-style presentations on topics and themes relevant to all LingComm25 attendees. Thought-provoking talks from Ionica Smeets and Emily Bender connecting insights from lingcomm, scicomm, and navigating a changing world.
- Community-Led: Community-led timeslots offered a great platform to explore a certain type of lingcomm, find potential co-collaborators for future projects or multilingual chats, or share reflections and lingering questions sparked by earlier panel discussions—the timeslot was your oyster! LingComm25 attendees collaboratively scheduled these timeslots throughout the conference.
New in this edition of the conference:
- How-Tos: Practical advice and skill-sharing on different aspects of the lingcomm experience, led by lingcommers with firsthand insight. Hands-on instructions covering topics from how to take your lingcomm work to new audiences through podcasts and TikTok, to how to earn a living with lingcomm and leverage lingcomm clout within academia, and learning how to apply game design principles and strategically set goals for your work.
- Lightning Talks: A lineup of lingcommers shared the pearls or pitfalls of a particular lingcomm project or experience. In five-minute talks, they briefly talked about their project and imparted their wisdom about what those following in their footsteps should absolutely include or avoid when working on a similar project. Session 1 and 2 talks include experiences with lingcomm in popular media, with “new tools” like ChatGPT, innovative lingcomm in education contexts, and more!
You can read all Lightning Talks abstracts here. - Speed-Networking: These fast-paced structured sessions were all about connecting with fellow lingcommers! Timed interactions kept conversations focused and engaging, making these sessions a valuable way to grow your network without the awkwardness of traditional networking.
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Schedule at-a-Glance
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Tip! ⚡️ Click on any event title to see its details in the full conference programme! Click on a speaker’s name to visit them elsewhere on the internet.
| Day 1 Monday, April 7 | Day 2 Tuesday, April 8 | Day 3 Wednesday, April 9 | Day 4 Thursday, April 10 | |
| Hour 1 6am PDT (San Francisco) 9am EDT (Washington DC) 2pm BST (London) 3pm CEST (Amsterdam) 11pm AEST (Sydney) | LingComm25 Opening Remarks Lightning Talks (Session 1) | Plenary with Ionica Smeets | Posters (Session 2) | Panel Discussion: Talking About Hard Stuff: Ideology and Identity ––––––– How-To: Leverage Lingcomm Clout in Academia |
Hour 2 7am PDT (San Francisco) 10am EDT(Washington DC) 3pm BST (London) 4pm CEST (Amsterdam) 12am AEST (Sydney) | Panel Discussion: Lingcomm on the Road –––––––– How-To: Set Goals and Objectives for Your Lingcomm | Panel Discussion: Measuring Lingcomm Impact ––––––– How-To: A Beginner’s Guide to Audio | Panel Discussion: Lingcomm and Social Media ––––––– How-To: Earn a Living with Lingcomm | Community-Led |
Hour 3 8am PDT (San Francisco) 11am EDT(Washington DC) 4pm BST (London) 5pm CEST (Amsterdam) 1am AEST (Sydney) | Panel Discussion: Lingcomm and Policy –––––––– How-To: TikTok Your Lingcomm | Speed-Networking | Lightning Talks (Session 2) | Speed-Networking |
Hour 4 9am PDT (San Francisco) 12pm EDT(Washington DC) 5pm BST (London) 6pm CEST (Amsterdam) 2am AEST (Sydney) | Posters (Session 1) | Panel Discussion: Writing a Popular Book ––––––– How-To: Apply Game Design Principles to Your Lingcomm | Community-Led | Plenary with Emily Bender |
** This event schedule is subject to change. Details will be added as they are confirmed, so keep checking back!
Full Conference Programme
| MONDAY, APRIL 7 – Day 1 (begins at 14:00 BST) | |
| Hour 1 (14:00 BST) | Opening Remarks – Welcome to LingComm25! Lightning Talks (Session 1) Sophia Smith Galer, Gareth Roberts, Pascal Wagner, Heddwen Newton, Marina Beccard, Heike Pichler, Adam Schembri Read abstracts for all Lightning Talks here. |
| Hour 2 (15:00 BST) | (Parallel Sessions) Panel Discussion – Taking Lingcomm on the Road Thomas Tienkamp, Rosey Billington, Ross Perlin Moderator: Sharon Unsworth –––––––– How-To: Set Goals and Objectives for Your Lingcomm Charlotte Vaughn |
| Hour 3 (16:00 BST) | (Parallel Sessions) Panel Discussion – Lingcomm and Policy João Costa, Onno Crasborn, Krista Byers-Heinlein Moderator: Phillip Carter –––––––– How-To: TikTok Your Lingcomm Adam Aleksic [@etymologynerd] |
| Hour 4 (17:00 BST) | Posters (Session 1) – Read poster abstracts here. 1. Portia Washington & Hannah Mechtenberg, An Adaptable Model for Science Communication and Lab Outreach: The Lab Digest 3. Charlie Farrington & Tyler Kendall, Creating and Maintaining the Online Resources for African American Language 5. Malwina Gudowska, Mother Tongue Tied & Motherlingual 7. Suzanne Evans Wagner, Betsy Sneller, & Jack Rechsteiner, Branding your research 9. Ana Beatriz Arêas da Luz Fontes Bárbara Cardoso de Souza, & Lívia Leote Leite, How we have tried to make research findings on Psycholinguistics of Bilingualism more accessible: a report from @prolingue_gp 11. Misa Suzuki, Bonnie Barrett, & Deanna Gagne (Faculty Sponsor), In Your Hands: Empowering the Next Generation of Deaf Scientists with Cognitive Science and Linguistics Communication Outreach 13. Montreal Benesch, Pablo Cazares, Max Ongbongan, & Ray Perry, The trans*languaging Art Show 15. Kyler Laycock and Nikole D. Patson, Sparking early interest in language science with the Girl Scouts 17. Emmanuel Oladipupo Adegbuyi, Cultivating the Next Generation of Scholars: The Talklin NG Model 19. Edissa Dorita Queiroz Boechat, Stella Maria Palitot Dias, Márcio Martins Leitão, Carolina Gomes da Silva, & Juliana Novo Gomes, Linguisticamente Falando: Active Methodologies in the Teaching of Linguistics and Science Communication to Connect Science and Education 21. Sol Tovar, Class Zines as a SciComm tool in the Linguistics Classroom 23. Jill Hallett, Date my course: Constructing dating profiles to pique undergrad interest in Linguistics 25. Cooper Bedin & Montreal Benesch, “Representing everyone else outside these two boring genders”: The role of popular media in trans language activism |
| TUESDAY, APRIL 8 – Day 2 (begins at 14:00 BST) | |
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Hour 1 (14:00 BST) |
Plenary: Lessons Learned in Science Communication Ionica Smeets How do you set your goals in science communication? And how do you actually reach the audiences you want to reach? And how can you know if your work had any impact? Ionica Smeets will answer these and many more questions in her keynote… |
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Hour 2 (15:00 BST) | (Parallel Sessions) Panel Discussion – Measuring Lingcomm Impact Ward Peeters, Laura Wagner, Eva Knopp Moderator: Charlotte Vaughn –––––––– How-To: A Beginner’s Guide to Audio Daniel Midgley [Because Language podcast] |
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Hour 3 (16:00 BST) | Speed-Networking |
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Hour 4 (17:00 BST) | (Parallel Sessions) Panel Discussion – Writing a Popular Book Hedde Zeijlstra, Evangelia Adamou, Valerie Fridland Moderator: Marten van der Meulen –––––––– How-To: Apply Game Design Principles to Your Lingcomm Kathryn Hymes [Thorny Games] |
| WEDNESDAY, APRIL 9 – Day 3 (begins at 14:00 BST) | |
| Hour 1 (14:00 BST) | Posters (Session 2) – Read poster abstracts here. 2. Luciana Sanchez Mendes & Vitor Hochsprung, Why (not) Indigenous Languages on Instagram? 4. Leslie C. Moore, Laura Wagner, Anna Babel, & Kathryn Campbell-Kibler, ¡Aquí se habla español! Public Outreach at COSI in Spanish 6. Claudia Borghetti, Caterina Mauri, Ludovica Pannitto, Eleonora Zucchini, & Gianluca Iacovantuono, Exploring and experiencing spoken Italian through the KIParla corpus 8. Charlotte Vaughn, Sarah Nam, Ashley Chau, Lyosha Genzel, Tzipi Harker, Isabel Harris, & Stacey Torbeso, The Language Science Station at Planet Word 10. Mary Kohn, Multilingual Midwest: Decolonial and Antiracist Pedagogies at Science Festivals 12. @sl2ngistik, Decoding teen lingo: experiences of running Slängistik 14. Marisa Brook, Proposing an online curated Q&A blog/repository for public questions 16. — Withdrawn.– 18. Naomi Peck, Filipe Figueiredo Cruz, Myriam Michalopoulou, Pramodya Sewwandi Perera, & Albert Tallai, Zur Sprache kommen: Making research on endangered languages visible 20. Romi Román & Emily Herman, Linguistic Diversity Across the Lifespan (LinDiv): Outreach and Science Communication 22. Colette Feehan, Articulatory and Acoustic Phonetics of Voice Acting 24. Sharon Unsworth, Pim Franssen, Imme Lammertink, & Fleur Vissers, The Language Stone: Escape game for kids 26. Logan Kearsley, The Linguistically Interesting Media Index |
| Hour 2 (15:00 BST) | (Parallel Sessions) Panel Discussion – Lingcomm and Social Media Danny Hieber, Jana Viscardi, Ingrid Piller Moderator: Daniel Midgley –––––––– How-To: Earn a Living with Lingcomm Grant Barrett |
| Hour 3 (16:00 BST) | Lightning Talks (Session 2) Laura Wagner & Cecile McKee, Dan Mirea, Malvina Nissim, Sharon Unsworth, Frances Blanchette, Marcela Ovando Tellez, Ricardo Joseh Lima, Gretchen McCulloch Read abstracts for all Lightning Talks here. |
| Hour 4 (17:00 BST) | Community-Led |
| THURSDAY, APRIL 10 – Day 4 (begins at 14:00 BST) | |
| Hour 1 (14:00 BST) | (Parallel Sessions) Panel Discussion – Talking About Hard Stuff: Language Ideology and Identity JPB Gerald, Mike Mena, Rianna Walcott Moderator: Jessi Grieser –––––––– How-To: Leverage Lingcomm Clout in Academia Lauren Gawne |
| Hour 2 (15:00 BST) | Community-Led |
| Hour 3 (16:00 BST) | Speed-Networking |
| Hour 4 (17:00 BST) | Plenary – Lingcomm in the Face of Well-Funded Nonsense Emily Bender Emily Bender is the Thomas L. and Margo G. Wyckoff Endowed Professor in the Department of Linguistics at University of Washington. She has spent a good portion of the last five years working to deflate and defuse the bubble of hype around large language models (and other so-called “AI”). This talk will be an experience report of speaking back to power, here in the form of Big Tech and venture capital. She’ll touch on what linguistics has to say about “AI” and also the importance of keeping the comm in lingcomm rooted in expertise. |
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