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Current projects

Founder                                                                                    2024 - present

Chronically Ill, Crip, and Disabled Association of Scientists (CICADAS)​

Head of the Advisory Board                                         2024 - present

Journal of the Undergraduate Linguistics Association of Britain

  • Leading a board of academics working in the field and maintain relationships between the Journal and the academic world

Host                                                                                               2023 - present

ANNOTATED podcast

  • Created a podcast to interview authors previously published in JoULAB to increase transparency in academia by openly discussing the publishing process

Archivist                                                                                    2019 - present

Muriel Spark Biography Project  ​

  • Working with Dr Dan Gunn to transcribe, digitise, and catalogue hundreds of letters to and from Scottish author Muriel Spark, her loved ones, and her contemporaries

Previous positions

Linguistics Intern                                               Aug. 2023 - Jan. 2024

Wikitongues

  • ​Researched for, wrote, and expanded Wikipedia pages for six Jewish diaspora languages; worked with scholar Dr. Habib Borijan (Columbia University) as part of the Jewish Languages Project​

 

Speech Data Annotator                                           Aug. - Sept. 2023

Speech Graphics

  • Created usable data to train AI for automatic speech alignment by segmenting and annotating ~150 minutes of English and French speech data using Speech Graphics’ unique Praat-like software

Journal Editor                                                      April 2022 - July 2024

Undergraduate Linguistics Association of Britain (ULAB)

 

National Chair                                                                   Feb. - May 2024

ULAB

  • ​Headed a global organisation for undergraduate linguists

  • Helped organise ULAB’s 2024 conference, with worldwide attendance

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Neurolinguistics research

group leader                                                        Aug. 2022 - April 2023

ULAB

  • Mentored undergraduates in neurolinguistics, cognitive linguistics, and study design

  • Co-developed a project on higher-order approaches to grapheme colour synaesthesia and presented it at ULAB 2023

© 2024 Lydia Wiernik

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