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Rethinking Hate Speech Detection in the Age of AI

19 January 2026

Report from the symposium “Critical Frontiers in Hate Speech and AI Research" By Petre Breazu and Napoleon Katsos (University of Cambridge) Why is hate speech so widespread on social media, yet so rarely flagged or removed by platform moderation systems? This question framed the one-day symposium Critical Frontiers in Hate...

Workshop Fund: Call for AI-Focused Proposals Supporting Language Equity and Inclusion – Deadline Extended!

26 November 2025

Language Sciences Workshop Fund, 27 November 2025 The Language Sciences Workshop Fund offers funding for the organisation and delivery of interdisciplinary workshops on any relevant topic to researchers in language sciences. However, this round, which is funded by our AI@Cam project “Improving Language Equity and Inclusion...

Language Sciences Incubator Fund opens 27 November 2025

26 November 2025

Language Sciences Incubator Fund, 27 November 2025 Cambridge Language Sciences invites applications for the Language Sciences Incubator Fund , offering seed funding of up to £5,000 per project to support interdisciplinary research in the language sciences. Applications are now closed. We have the following funding...

Annual Symposium speaker profile: Professor Matt Lambon-Ralph

21 November 2025

Matt Lambon Ralph is the Professor of Cognitive Brain Sciences. He is also the Unit Director of MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit at the University of Cambridge. You can read his detailed biography and publications here . His research interests include semantic cognition and its disorders, aphasia, recovery...

Annual Symposium speaker profile: Professor Tim Rogers

19 November 2025

Professor Timothy T. Rogers is the principal investigator of the Knowledge and Concepts Laboratory currently in the Department of Psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and moving to the Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience at University College London in summer 2026. His research areas include Biology of Brain...

Annual Symposium speaker profile: Dr Fatemeh Geranmayeh

1 October 2025

Dr Fatemeh Geranmayeh is an MRC funded Clinician Scientist at the Department of Brain Sciences, Imperial College London, where she leads the Clinical Language and Cognition (CLC) group. She is also an Honorary Consultant Neurologist at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust. She obtained a First Class Honours BSc degree in...

Cambridge Speech Decoding Workshop

23 September 2025

On Friday 16 May 2025, Dr Alexis Deighton MacIntyre and Dr Jérémy Giroud led a Cambridge Language Sciences-funded workshop on the neural decoding of speech and language at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit. This analytical approach seeks systematic correspondences over time between a stimulus and the brain. More...

Annual Symposium speaker profile: Guy Emerson

8 September 2025

Dr Guy Emerson is an Academic Fellow in the Department of Computer Science and Technology at the University of Cambridge, and Executive Director of Cambridge Language Sciences. He also teaches as a College Lecturer at Gonville & Caius College. Guy was in conversation with Shrankhla Pandey, a PhD student at the...

Language Sciences Workshop Fund projects announced July 2025

22 July 2025

We are pleased to announce that five workshops have been awarded funding in the latest round of the Workshop Fund. More details will be available on the Language Sciences website closer to the workshop dates. The following two workshops are funded directly through the Language Science budget: Sociolinguistic Variation in...

Workshop Fund: Call for AI-Focused Proposals Supporting Language Equity and Inclusion – Apply Now!

1 April 2025

New Call for Language Sciences Workshop Fund, 18 July 2025 The Language Sciences Workshop Fund offers funding for the organisation and delivery of interdisciplinary workshops on any relevant topic to researchers in language sciences. However, this round, which is funded by our AI@Cam project “Improving Language Equity and...

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