all my chickens have come home to roost (I have to fill in all the places that say "CITE" in a draft)

my schedule right now is something like pet white kitty, pet black kitty, eat curry probably, pet black and white doggies, pet black kitty, pet white kitty, repeat

This year on Bluesky I wrote 118 posts and apparently I love saying "linguistics" and 😬! www.madebyolof.com/bluesky-wrap...

so.. who's going to Evolang next year? #linguistics

Two scholarships are available to Palestinian applicants looking to start a postgraduate Masters degree in Sep 2026, including our Masters in Comparative Literature & Masters in Global Languages, Literatures, and & Cultures: www.st-andrews.ac.uk/modern-langu...

Please consider submitting your manuscript to our special issue in Scientific Reports (deadline March 5th, 2026) www.nature.com/collections/...

"The question of what makes writing "human" has become dangerously narrow... If humanity is now defined by the presence of casual errors, American-centric colloquialisms, and a certain informal, conversational rhythm, then where does that leave the rest of us?"

finally made it home after more than a year of being away

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...

Highly recommended for all mentors and advisers who work with deaf students in graduate programs: academic.oup.com/jdsde/advanc...

Yesterday I got to give a guest lecture in Dr. Hannah Lutzenberger's methods class at the Humboldt University of Berlin. It was great and I finally got to make use of this little figure from the methods chapter in my dissertation! I forgot I like explaining things #linguistics

SynTeach is going to #LSA2026! We're doing focus groups while we're there so if you're interested, fill in the form and tick the LSA box. We're looking for teachers and students, people who loved syntax and people who hated it... anyone with syntax Thoughts! #linguistics forms.gle/PiBYpVPr1yg2...

This might be for an extremely limited target group, but if you ever need to visualize landmarks/keypoints of Mediapipe or OpenFace computer vision models, I've created simple coordinate data files for plotting in a Github repo: github.com/borstell/com...

Linguistic Typology Vol. 29 features a debate on the critical need for rigorous replication and robust methods in language typology, with a thought-provoking target article and commentaries discussing empirical scientific methods (degruyterbrill.com/journal/key/lity/29/3/html). #OpenAccess

I was very displeased to learn today that fungal infections like athlete’s foot are called something like the equivalent of mushrooms in English in Swedish and Norwegian 🤢 #linguistics

We are pleased to announce the third Reframing Our Language Experience (ROLE) Symposium 🥳 This year, the conference will take place over two days, with an in-person workshop (UNAM) on 9 April and an online conference on 10 April. Call for proposals: www.rolecollective.org/events/3rd-r...

more than a year post PhD and it definitely is a lot easier to just write -- the world being in perfect equilibrium is no longer mandatory

everything I write that has to do with numbers I'm like, PLEASE UNDERSTAND THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS OBJECTIVITY

once again looking forward to "vacation", the time I can read all the academic papers I don't have time to do while working #AcademicSky

Aurélia Nanna Gassa Gonga will present at the Silc Seminars next week, Thursday Dec 11th, at 14:30 Norway time on her PhD research - "International Sign Interpreting: New Evidence for a Language-Like System" Find more information here: www.hvl.no/en/research/... #linguistics

somehow this Trinidadian, who should have a "sing song" accent in English, produces probably very flat Norwegian (a language that stereotypically has rising intonation over sentences) 🙃

I’m truing to make Norwegian prepositions make sense even though I know better

I love stumbling upon recently-published papers that I can cite in stuff I'm writing #linguistics

🚨NEW PUBLICATION ALERT!🚨 The 'Design Features' of Language Revisited (w/ @mperlman.bsky.social @glupyan.bsky.social Koen de Reus & @limorraviv.bsky.social) Feature Review out now in #OpenAccess in @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social! #language #linguistics Paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.ti...

People who use ELAN for research: What is your preferred way of analyzing annotated data? 1) Searching within ELAN 2) Exporting from ELAN and opening as spreadsheet 3) Exporting from ELAN and importing into R (or similar) 4) Other? #Linguistics

To all speech scientists: I would be grateful if you could take 5-10 mins of your time to fill in the following short online survey on effect sizes: forms.gle/huQeiPerZBHE... (apologies for cross-posting) #Phon-CompLing #Linguistics

hey #linguistics peeps! have you ever taken (or taught) a syntax class? we want to hear your opinions (good or bad) about it! We're doing focus group interviews (on zoom, or in person at select conferences) - if you're at all interested, you can fill out our interest form: forms.gle/nhBtz78hQXNA...

Clearapathra is just 🤌

I'm making plans to teach a sociolinguistics class next year at the LOT Summer School in Groningen -- pls let me know about any cool new stuff I should include! #linguistics

Check out our new Interview series 🌟 In conversation with @lhlew.bsky.social, John Rickford reflects on his career in Guyana and the U.S. Through personal and professional stories, he shows how the personal and political are entwined in a life in sociolinguistics. 🔗

love the boundary setting of participants who decline to do an experiment after doing the practice round 😅 #linguistics

#norge #norskforsk

Elementary, my dear Watson #TidyTuesday While the full phrase is never there (see also "Luke, I am your father" & "Play it again, Sam"), you can find "My dear Watson" multiple times across the Sherlock Holmes novels – but which lines? 🔎📖 Code: github.com/borstell/tid... #r4ds #DataViz #ggplot2

Trying to listen to podcasts while running to make running less horribly boring 🙏🏽

I will never not be surprised by how long all research things take

Hei! Jeg ser etter norsktalere som vil gjøre et eksperiment 🔎. Du vil se bilder og norske ord og si om de er like eller ikke. Eksperimentet tar 10 minutter og du må gjøre det på PC/nettbrett. Velg ett eksperiment og del med andre nordmenn! 🔎 1: tinyurl.com/forsk1 🔎 2: tinyurl.com/forsk2 #norsk

library(ggplot2) ggplot() + geom_density(data=data.frame(x=rnorm(1e5)),aes(x))+ geom_line(data=data.frame(x =-5:5,y=cos(-5:5)/100),aes(x,y))+ annotate("point",x=c(-.3,0,.3),y=c(.3,.25,.3),size=3) + ggtitle("Happy Halloween")+ theme_void(base_family="Rubik Wet Paint") #RStats #ggplot2

I'm Baby

some fonts really stress me out

The current government in Trinidad & Tobago is all in with the US on this

cleaning my code by breaking my code 😡

wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...

deadmau5 anonymisation is my fav

New paper with @ryanlepic.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1515/ling.... Our previous research showed that ✨️inherently plural meanings✨️ favor two-handed signs across sign languages, now we see that hearing non-signers also produce more two-handed forms when asked to gesture plural meanings! 👐🏼 #linguistics

🚀 My latest article, entitled "Discourse Markers in French Belgian Sign Language (LSFB) Dialogues and Their Translation into French: A Corpus-Based Study", has been recently published open access! 🌍 doi.org/10.3390/lang... 🧵 1/4

list of things that are fulfilling to me: lifting weights, looking at cats exist, bottle-feeding tiny baby puppies

I'm not learning important things in Norwegian class, like the vocabulary to respond to kind ladies who compliment my shoes (they're semi-chunky red patent square-toe loafers that deserve all the praise)

I feel like I should not apply to temporary positions that ask for way too many novel materials on principle

I'm just one year past my PhD and I already feel so tired when I think about applying for things