Grading and googling hallucinated citations, as one does nowadays, and now that LLMs have been around for a while, I've discovered new horrors: hallucinated journals are now appearing in Google Scholar with dozens of citations bc so many people are citing these fake things

Women were the pioneers of computer programming and until the software started to gain dominance in the 60s the majority of computer programmers were women.

Last day to vote for the Because Language WotWotY! And watch this space for a link to the patron-only live show where we reveal the winners.

The German international state-funded broadcaster @news.dw.com are doing a podcast series on decay in Germany, starting of course with the trains - @deutschebahn.com! The episodes are on YouTube as videos, but also on regular podcasting RSS aggregators www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCzR...

If you use #rstats regularly to wrangle data, here are two good things to know about subsetting with dplyr::filter and an aspect of how tibbles work that can cause hiccups in your data flow if you're not careful hedvigsr.tumblr.com/post/7904205... hedvigsr.tumblr.com/post/8026716... #tidyverse

Big new blogpost! My guide to data visualization, which includes a very long table of contents, tons of charts, and more. --> Why data visualization matters and how to make charts more effective, clear, transparent, and sometimes, beautiful. www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/salonis-gu...

New paper on lexical variation in Swedish Sign Language with Swedish colleagues. Using a combo of elicitation (in-person), survey (online) & corpus data, we look at some changes in lexical choices over time & discuss methods for measuring variation of variation #linguistics doi.org/10.16995/glo...

Very low dependency management for support repos in CHR papers! Also accompanying code was available in only ~40% of papers. Insightful talk reflecting on our community practices. #chr25

The voting for our #WordOfTheWeekOfTheYear2025 is going apace. You can vote, but you can also come to the live show if you're a patron — even a free one. Just follow this link to find out when it is, and sign up. Thanks to all our patrons for your support. www.patreon.com/posts/145354...

A book containing puzzling drawings and a strange writing system has intrigued cryptographers, historians, linguists, and more for centuries... In our latest bonus episode we get enthusiastic about the mysterious Voynich Manuscript with @chirila.bsky.social!

I have applied for four grants/jobs so far this year, and will apparently spend the holidays applying for three more. Was is it with people and setting deadlines in mid January? Does the Grinch run these HR departments?

I think I recognise some of the names in this! phys.org/news/2025-11...

Who wants to be the new professor for general #linguistics in Cologne? 👀 ifl.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/sites/lingui...

Fun #linguistic fact for World Linguistics Day: If North America had the same linguistic diversity as New Guinea we’d expect Indigenous Americans to speak ~28,000 languages.

Innovations in Linguistics Education is a new Diamond Open Access journal, is dedicated to the teaching of linguistics. journals.ed.ac.uk/innovations I'm really excited to see a new journal in this space!

Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪

Am 27 weeks pregnant and have the actual real-life flu and it is *horrendous*. Nurse just told me it would be so much worse if I hadn't got the flu booster a few months ago. 😱 Get vaccinated folks.💪💉

If you're thinking of a career in #academia, in any field, you should take some time to learn about the practical landscape of it as a workplace. One way of doing that is to read survey reports of employee well-being etc, here is one of postdocs in @maxplanck.de www.postdocnet.mpg.de/214512/2024-...

Today, we published a paper on the strength of language universals (if language has X, it also has Y) given spatial & phylogenetic autocorrelation in @nathumbehav.nature.com ! It is a cool research project, led by the brilliant Annemarie Verkerk at @uni-saarland.de www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A really interesting online talk in our research colloquium on eye-tracking experiments with Northern Khanty speakers!

Sometimes scientific papers surprise you. Info on new papers will appear below :) We have identified that non-hum animals struggle with remembering and using sequential information, in general. (See e.g. this TiCS paper and references therein: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...) 1/n

Highlighting a nice paper on interdisciplinary methods exchange. We should always scrutinise the assumptions of the methods, even internally within the same discipline. Leino, U., Syrjänen, K., & Vesakoski, O. (2020). Linguistic change and biological evolution. cris.tuni.fi/ws/portalfil...

Cool new paper (and a thread about it) by @babeheim.bsky.social on the cultural evolution of Go games! Check out these colourful decision trees 🔥 doi.org/10.1017/ehs....

Postdoc in #sociolinguistics jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...

New paper out in the Journal of Language Evolution, with @bonniemclean.bsky.social and Chieh-Hsi Wu: “Combined lexical and phonotactic data resolves uncertainties in the evolutionary diversification of the Japonic language family” doi.org/10.1093/jole... Summary below🧵1/8

is there an "evolutionary linguistics" feed on Bluesky? I was thinking like a mix of linguistic typology, historical linguistics, data science and such.

The #MaxPlanckPostdocProgram offers a guaranteed contract of at least 3 years, targeted mentoring, and career workshops. The call for applications is open now! 🚀 Take advantage of this opportunity and browse the job vacancies. www.mpg.de/en/max-planc...

Any student heading out to do fieldwork on an endangered language should read this first (by Lise M. Dobrin and Don Kulick) - a good vaccination against saviour complexes. linguisticanthropology.org/blog/2025/08...

TL;DR: AI is so much dumber than you think, aka it is not actually „intelligent“ at all, it can‘t remotely do what most people seem to think it already can, it‘s just good at faking human „thinking“. There is no ghost in the machine. Please stop falling for the grift.

Over 100,000 people are marching through The Hague against Israel's war on Gaza. Wearing red clothing and forming a line, they are demanding the government draw a red line in its stance against Israel. It's the largest protest in the Netherlands in 20 years.

@hahauenstein.bsky.social hi! do you have an RSS url foe your podcast nullpunkt? I'm struggling to find it

there's a saying "if something is broken, let it break". It's a shame sometimes that you can't let that happen, because it'd be breaking ON you

Hi Australian Researchers. I have a plan. Let's thank the amazing @arc-tracker.bsky.social for a decade of selfless work by nominating them for a Eureka Prize (Leadership in science). Are you with me? If so, repost this. Please also reply and state your support for this quest. We can do this people.

Our current system is deeply unfair, a Vice-Chancellor’s remuneration is nearly 15 times larger than the pay for an average worker and more than 84 times more than Youth Allowance, it’s time to fix it.

Reannouncing this, having got our New Investigator Petr's affilliation wrong in the first post! 😣 @ehbea2025.bsky.social #EHBEA2025

Fully funded 4-year PhD with me at VU Amsterdam #emca workingat.vu.nl/vacancies/ph...

spotted in Asian grocery store in Germany today. what fun! and not that weird if you consider that kimchi is a popular noodle flavour

Our new paper w/ @masonyoungblood.bsky.social & @oliviermorin.bsky.social. Are early members of music genres more popular than late adopters? Or: Is there first-mover advantage in music? We tested this question using ~1 mil songs from Spotify 🧵/1 epjdatascience.springeropen.com/articles/10....

We loved contributing to this 100th episode of @lingthusiasm.bsky.social. (Both me and @laserhedvig.bsky.social got a fun fact in. YES! 😄) Congratulations @gretchenmcc.bsky.social and @superlinguo.bsky.social on 100 great episodes, and here's to more 🥂

What's a paper published in the last five years that you really like? I really like: Leino, Syrjänen& Vesakoski (2020). Linguistic change and biological evolution. it makes the point that language & biology needn't be the same for the same methods to be useful to both

We're hiring! Are you a cultural evolutionary modeller who wants to understand how and why children's peer cultures evolve? Here's a postdoc position for you! @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social @durhampsych.bsky.social @ehbea.bsky.social @eslr.bsky.social Apply here: durham.taleo.net/careersectio...

if we want researchers to engage in peer-review, there's gotta be infrastructure that values it. reality is: for every paper you submit, you ought to be reviewing two. therefore, your peer-review activity should be important when you're assessed by a hiring or grant committee.

reproducibility with the programming language #Rstats can be tricky. regardless if you use renv, docker, groundhogr, something else - can we make it the norm to also just print out a table of package versions in plain text? you can use my function if you want hedvigsr.tumblr.com/post/7703030...

we've been running the linguistic typology project Grambank for a while, with over 2,000 languages and over 50 coders. we've learned a lot, and I've assembled some of that into advice here. if you're running a large database project, it may be useful to you #linguistics github.com/grambank/gra...

5/ The takeaway? 💡 Efficiency isn’t necessary or sufficient to explain the law of abbreviation. Instead, a general brevity bias is sufficient to account for it.

This or genuinely we should overhaul peer review maybe remove it and redesign it

I love figures in old papers. This one from Guy (1980) "Experimental glottochronology: Basic methods and results". #linguistics

bird watching ekekek eee

if you like lofi music, but don't want to listen to AI made stuff - here's a good playlist. open.spotify.com/playlist/1jI...