Well, that was a very nice pre-symposium dinner with a small group of very fine people! Very much looking forward to hearing about everyone’s research on the language of textbooks and other materials for foreign language teaching tomorrow! https://elenlefoll.quarto.pub/textbooklanguage2025/

Ein kleiner Einblick in die Baustelle am Hauptgebäude der @UniKoeln…

Darf man eigentlich noch Fruchtfleisch sagen?!? #vegan

The madrigal choir of the University of Cologne invites you to our Christmas concert. I promise it won’t be quite as gloomy as the poster suggests… #koeln #cologne #earlymusic

Join us next Wed 6 pm CET to talk about teaching linguistics, the creation of Open Educational Resources, and teaching innovations in higher education: https://uni-koeln.zoom.us/j/4799217418 #OpenEducation #oer #linguistics #highered

So this frozen yogurt kiosk opened on campus last semester and I never managed to test it because the queue was always huge on nice days, but today I spontaneously decided to treat myself to their winter special hot brownie with frozen yogurt and chocolate […] [Original post on fediscience.org]

Hivemind: Today in a beginner-level #DigitalHumanities course I did an introduction to relational databases. I think it should be possible to use the concepts of RDMSs (multiple tables, keys, relations, …) without diving into SQL. But I’m still struggling to find a versatile tool for this. What […]

Look at what just arrived by special courrier! 🤩 This edited volume (https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003434184) has been a long time in the making so I'm particularly pleased to finally see it in print! My chapter is about "Encouraging Pre-Service Teachers to […] [Original post on fediscience.org]

Awesome! Our new paper in #DHQ has just been published! It discusses three measures of #keyness (or #distinctiveness) when applied to #subgenres of the #French #novel. The twist is that we perform a #qualitative #evaluation of the measures by relating each list […] [Original post on fedihum.org]

Can I just say that some of my colleagues are an absolute joy to work with? Honestly, I feel like making today colleague-appreciation day! Not because anyone has done me a massive favour, but just because some collaborations just work out-of-the-box. Thank you! #academia #academicchatter

Try my new file format, OCSV: Oxford Comma Separated Values

What have you been up to this Sunday? Tag yourself!

Move fast and break academic traditions

Today is the first time that I've read a term paper that cites a host of fake references (six out of ten)... Such a shame because it was actually a very interesting topic, which I know that the student is genuinely passionate about... Anyway, I now urgently need to find something to cheer me so […]

I'm not going out tonight and frankly very much looking forward to a quiet evening at home, but I do hope that my feed will be full of photos of your (preferably geeky and homemade) #halloween costumes! 👻

Zum Glück habe ich Frühdienst, sonst könnte ich den Sonnaufgang gar nicht sehen 🫩

Lachen ist im Leben besonders wichtig. Deshalb habe ich mich gerade ein Papier-Abo für den @postillon gegönnt und freue mich schon sehr auf die erste Aufgabe!

Killer quote: “I’m going back to the Fediverse. Back to Mastodon. To the nerds, the hobbyists, the idealists. The people who don’t talk about reach, but about relevance. To those who understand that decentralization isn’t nostalgic, it’s the future. That digital sovereignty isn’t a gimmick […]

Just looking into this event - looks awesome: "Feÿtopia Open Science & Human Pyramids" https://feytopia.com/events/openscience-humanpyramids2 I've wanted to visit #Feÿtopia for a while (a seasonal commune in a French château...) and this seems like it might be the crossover for me […]

Fall 🍂

#fensterfreitag in Münster today for the third and last day of the “Making Replications Count” hackathon @forrt. #OpenScience #replication

Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory. An intensive international study was coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC […]

An early start for me and Dr. Brompton (my folding bike!) this morning as we head to Münster to take part in the “Making Replications Count” Hackathon: super excited to meet everyone and get cracking! #replication #OpenScience

Today has been endless emails, grant writing, organising things, and three (thankfully short) meetings. No time for any research or teaching… 😢 But at least I managed to go for a short walk in the woods and spotted this beauty! #fungi #MushroomMonday

This! AI Is hollowing out Higher Education! by @olivia Guest and @Iris van Rooij "In reality, AI erodes academic freedom, weakens critical reading, and subordinates the pursuit of knowledge to corporate interests." […]

#silentsunday goes #fungi.

It's nearly Halloween and my mum's put a witch among her cat pictures in her #Etsy shop! 🧙‍♀️ These 3D tactile pictures are all hand-made by my mum in her kitchen using an unusual technique that involves fabrics but no stitching or glue […] [Original post on fediscience.org]

I taught a #corpuslinguistics workshop for colleagues and #phd students today and one participant turned up with a house plant, prominently placing it on the table among the laptops and coffee cups. It was a lovely sight and greatly improved the room ambiance! 🌱 #bringyourownplant

A new paper whose authors include Eric Schmidt, Gary Marcus and Yoshua Bengio not only defines AGI, but also has this nice figure. It shows us that GPT-5 has reached the maximum possible ability in math. I think they are trying to say that they are done […] [Original post on machteburch.social]

Registration to the online Graduate Learner Corpus Research Conference happening next week ends TODAY! Check out the awesome programme: https://www.tu-chemnitz.de/phil/english/sections/edling/conferences/lcrgrad.php#Programme #corpuslinguistics #ECR #sla #languageteaching #languagelearning

Today I had the pleasure of getting to know a new bunch of lovely B.A. students (studying linguistics and Romance languages) for the first session of a new seminar "Analysing Discourse with Quantitative and Qualitative Methods" that I am delighted to be co-teaching with Anna Bonifazi this winter […]

You are a very busy, very important professor publishing very important work. Do you a) just publish the code and data along with the paper because you know your work will survive close scrutiny and you have better things to do b) spend your time handling individual data requests, negotiating […]

A prime minister is a minister that is not the product of two smaller ministers and thus is only divisible by 1 and itself.

It's nearly Halloween and my mum's put a witch among her cat pictures in her #Etsy shop! 🧙‍♀️ These 3D tactile pictures are all hand-made by my mum in her kitchen using an unusual technique that involves fabrics but no stitching or glue […] [Original post on fediscience.org]

Next time I am asked whether I cook mostly English, French or German food, I will reply that I disapprove of national culinary boundaries and point to my latest personal contribution to culinary multiculturalism: Zwiebelkuchen with pomegranate. Delicious!

It's looking like I've got several projects that need language detection as part of the workflow. It's been a few years since I've used that and I assume there's been some (possibly vast?) improvements. Anyone have a favorite library / model / etc they'd recommend? #MultilingualDH

Wasn't there a calculator for academic grant writing where you put in amount of funds, chance of getting funded, and estimated hours of preparing the proposal to calculate whether it's worth applying at all? Or a formula? Please, I need it.

🔍 Im November veranstalten wir ein eintägiges Kolloquium zur Autorschaftsanalyse: https://staff.germanistik.rub.de/kolloquium-autorschaftsanalyse/ Die Anmeldung ist noch bis 30.10. möglich! Boost erwünscht 🙏 #linguistik #variation #autorschaft #nlproc

Is it nap-time yet?

A great online conference for all early-career researchers interested in #CorpusLinguistics, language teaching and learning and/or #SLA with fantastic keynote speakers! I'm looking forward to giving an informal "Getting started with #OpenScience" workshop on […] [Original post on fediscience.org]

We are delighted to announce that the new, multidisciplinary Diamond #OpenAccess journal **Replication Research (R2)** is now accepting submissions for replications and reproductions in a broad range of disciplines including #linguistics, #CogSci, and […] [Original post on fediscience.org]

All it took to download a single Lancet paper from 1988 was to connect to two different university networks via VPN, both with 2FA password protection and open eight browser tabs. Yay for #openaccess research!

A powerful and heartbreaking interactive article: https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2025/oct/08/young-lives-cut-short-on-an-unimaginable-scale-the-18457-children-on-gazas-list-of-war-dead. Thanks to the @guardian for putting it out there.

I am marking student term papers. For most of them, it was their first time learning about #rstats and it's wonderful to see their amazing progress in just one semester + the summer break! Sometimes the way they describe what they did makes me smile. For example, one wrote that they "build their […]

Uni Vienna is advertising three part-time (23h) lecturer positions with 8 teaching contact hours: "Foundations of Political Science", "'Quantitative Methods and the Political System of Austria", and "Qualitative Methods and Policy Studies". The positions are fixed-term (4y) but with tenure track […]

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I reviewed a paper and am now trying to fill out the publisher's reviewer form and the questions are honestly baffling: - Does the content of the manuscript justify a review given the status of the subject area? --> You've already asked me to complete the review so I'd like to think that I […]